March 2013 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] opensuse-user not on gmane any more?
by Jim Henderson 19 Nov '14

19 Nov '14

I just noticed today that the gmane.linux.suse.opensuse.user group is missing from gmane.org - did the project request the list be removed from gmane? Just wondering if it was intentional or if something went wrong somewhere. Thanks, Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] download.opensuse.org IPV6 address breaks updates
by Gerald Pfeifer 15 Nov '13

15 Nov '13

I am seeing this with an openSUSE 12.1 system at home, and also a Factory system at work: % host download.opensuse.org download.opensuse.org has address 195.135.221.134 download.opensuse.org has IPv6 address 2001:67c:2178:8::13 And then, when running zypper patch or zypper up, I see Retrieving: repomd.xml [error] Download (curl) error for 'http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.1/repodata/repomd.xml': Error code: Connection failed Error message: Failed to connect to 2001:67c:2178:8::13: Network is unreachable Alas, my provider nor that network at work support IPv6. Still, my system has IPv6 enabled since roaming around on different networks, IPv6 may be present, or even necessary there. (This does not happen all the time, sometimes if I retry a bit later the system uses IPv4 and everything works.) Now, is this just a setup problem and I should simply and unconditionally disable IPv6? Or are some parts of our update or network stack in need of some adjustments? For the time being, unless this is just me running into this, should we disable IPv6 on download.opensuse.org? Gerald -- Dr. Gerald Pfeifer <gp(a)suse.com> || SUSE || Director Product Management -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Board meeting minutes - Board call 2013-03-25
by Robert Schweikert 29 Mar '13

29 Mar '13

Hi, Here are the meeting minutes from the board call this past Monday. As always you can find the minutes in the wiki (https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_meeting#Meeting_2013-03-25) and if you have questions, or concerns you may raise them on this list or contact the board directly on the board list. Regrads, Your openSUSE Board Board Meeting 2013-25-03 Present: Richard, Andrew, Robert Excused: Raymond - Company Meeting Vincent - Customer call Will - MIA 1.) Review Action Items - No board report :( - CLT issues followed up 2.) Face to Face Meeting Agenda - Items collected, ready to post first draft of the agenda to the wiki 3.) Accessibility issue - The proposal raised on the board list is to add a new category to our Bugzilla to clearly mark accessibility issues as such. There are two main concerns, one is that this is a technical issue and thus the board should keep its fingers out of this issue. The second concern is that creating a specific category may make it easier for people to "pass the buck" by expecting someone in the non existent accessibility team to fix the problem. Having a separate category for accessibility (a11y) on the other hand will send a clear message that we as the openSUSE community care about people with disabilities. While we have no specific resources to address a11y issues it is important to acknowledge that an a11y issues can easily make the system unusable for a handicapped person. While adding to the bug category list is definitely a technical issue, the a11y topic has a very large community component and thus the board thinks it is appropriate to act in this area. We can certainly not dictate any action, however a message will be sent to the -factory mailing list asking for consideration of the topic by the developers. The argument was made that a11y bugs should fit into the categories we already have and that we might easier fall into a "pass the buck" situation with a new category. It is the consensus that we should be able to address the "pass the buck" issue with a policy/procedure. As far as using existing categories is concerned the problem might be that we get into a priority flip flop situation if we do not have a separate category. A person with a disability might mark a bug as Critical, but a developer not fully understanding the consequences might relabel it as category 2 or 3. Having an a11y category would address such priority flip/flop issues. The board will, after additional discussion on the board list, send a proposal to the -factory list for consideration by the developer community. The proposal will recommend the addition of an a11y category to Bugzilla and a proposal on how to handle the bugs. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] GSoC Application Submitted
by Manu Gupta 29 Mar '13

29 Mar '13

Hey all Thanks to Saurabh, we have submitted our application for GSoC 2013 . -- Regards Manu Gupta -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] LinuxTag - Call for Volenteers
by Richard Brown 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

Hi all, Thanks to the response of my urgent call for volunteers, we've been able to go ahead and arrange a booth for LinuxTag, which this year is happening May 22-25. We could still do with more volunteers to help with the booth. Anyone who volunteers to commit a significant amount of their time helping at our booth is eligible for a FREE pass to the conference (a saving of €50 for a 4 day ticket) I have to be the one to book the Exhibitor pass for you, so please *email me* if you're able to attend and in need of an Exhibitor pass. I intend to book the first round of tickets for volunteers on Friday 12th April - if you do not volunteer by this date, I cant be sure if I'll be able to arrange an Exhibitors pass. Once you've let me know you're volunteering please update the wiki page here https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:LinuxTag This page is where we're keeping all the event information together so everyone can be sure what's going on. For those community members who might need additional financial support in order to attend, I suggest you consider applying to the Travel Support Programme: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Travel_Support_Program Please make sure you get an answer from the team before booking any travel or hotel, but don't delay in letting me know you're willing to help :) Many thanks, and here's hoping for a typically great openSUSE presence at LinuxTag in just under 2 months! :) - Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Re: MOSSCon in Louisville in May! Submit your proposal this week!
by Bryen M Yunashko 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

Anybody in the Louisville, Kentucky area? I won't be able to make it, but I was in Louisville last year. A fun city to visit, and since this is a new event, a great opportunity to evangelize openSUSE awesomeness to a new audience. Bryen M Yunashko On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 04:21 -0400, John List wrote: > You are invited to be a speaker/presenter at MOSSCon. > > Preparations are in full swing for the very first Midwest Open Source > Software Conference (MOSSCon), to be held in Louisville on May 18-19. > Your help in spreading the word and helping us fill out our schedule of > presentations and workshops would be appreciated. > > This is going to be a great networking event for the whole region! > Louisville is in such a central location, it can draw from a very wide area. > > We have a great venue: the University of Louisville's Student Activities > Center, with several large halls, a number of smaller meeting rooms, and > plenty of exhibit space available for groups and businesses to make > their presence known. > > We are working on a broadly based "Open" theme, that can include open > source hardware, open data, etc., as well as the full gamut of open > source software. > > We already have some super presentations lined up. But there are still > plenty of pieces that need to come together. Right now we are > concentrating on filling out our schedule with more presentations and > workshops. And soliciting sponsors. > > If you're involved with Open Source (or open anything) you definitely > want to be a part of this. I encourage you to consider speaking or doing > a presentation or workshop on a subject in your area of interest and/or > expertise. > > Check out the conference website at http://mosscon.org/. Click on "Be a > Speaker" for details on submitting your proposal. > > But get to it! The deadline for submitting your preliminary proposal is > this Friday, March 29! > > http://mosscon.org/ > > Spread the word and submit your proposal! > > Thanks, > > John Hicks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] GSoC projects on Ideas page
by Saurabh Sood 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

Hi, We are close to the deadline for submitting our applications for GSoC. We have till March 29th. We have prepared our application, and will be submitting it day after. Also, we have many projects on the Ideas page which dont have a mentor, but have interested students. Those who are willing to mentor these projects, please add your name to the list by tomorrow, as we would be cleaning up the wiki, and removing the unmentored projects by 27th March. -- Regards,. Saurabh Sood Have a lot of fun! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] was: XBMC Tutorial - Kiosk Mode + openSUSE 12.3
by Nelson Marques 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

A few things: 1) I've put effort in using Portuguese that would be easy to translate; if you pass through Google translate you will notice that it's easily translated to english in a clear way, except in one sentence. Sure some minor fixes are needed, but for the most, it works fairly nice. Do the same with other pages and see the differences. Now I understand why I had to learn the language for 12 years. 2) I have also a few scripts that I use for some tasks (ex: scanning directories for media files and create NFO files for with 'mediainfo' (already on the distro) for easy library and artwork downloads on XBMC). I have also a few other scripts for cron to integrate with transmission-daemon, but those are custom made for my own use case... but I can share. I've submitted a few time ago an update to run transmission-daemon as system service. So it's just a matter of editing the script and changing one or two path's. 3) I haven't mentioned on the article, but people can also enable the HTTP server on XBMC and use the an Android App as remote control for the laptop. 4) I have the xml files to make a bootable iso with XBMC, I can share those if needed, but in that case a few packages need to go to OBS since I create the iso based on a local repo with a few packages I made (ex: XBMC plymouth theme, which integrates nice) and a few addons I've built RPM packages. If any of this is wanted, let me know I can share them. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] XBMC Tutorial - Kiosk Mode + openSUSE 12.3
by Nelson Marques 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

In recent discussions on a foreign forum I participate there were some references for running XBMC in Kiosk Mode; I've written a tutorial (very minimalist) to run XBMC in Kiosk mode using openSUSE 12.3 in an old laptop (as discussed in the original thread in the foreign forum). The tutorial is here: https://pt.opensuse.org/SDB:Tutorial_XBMC Any translators willing to translate it to other languages, feel free to do it; it's currently written in European Portuguese (the language spoken in Portugal and all former colonies except Brazil). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE Summit and Android Application
by Ilias R.(Zoumpis) 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

Hello Geekos, As the oSC13 is gonna take place in 4 months , we started (the Android Team for oSC13) working on the Android Application for the Conference [1]. Inside the application there is the option to choose conference (oSC , openSUSE Summit) and download the conference schedule. I would like to ask , this year openSUSE Summit is gonna take place? If yes , would you like to include the openSUSE Summit in the Android application for this year as well? Furthermore likewise the last two years we will organize the "openSUSE Collaboration Summer Camp" [2] , so we will include it inside the current Android Application. Let us what is going on, Thanks a lot, Geekings , Ilias R. [1] https://github.com/athanrous/suseconferenceclient [2] http://news.opensuse.org/2011/08/03/1st-greek-opensuse-collaboration-camp-t… -- Ilias R. (Zoumpis) -- About Me-- http://zoumpis.wordpress.com https://github.com/athanrous -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Inconsistent and confusing
by Per Jessen 23 Mar '13

23 Mar '13

That is what a short review in the most recent c't magazine said about openSUSE 12.3 and the networking setup. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (8.5°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free DNS hosting, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] mentors needed
by Ayush Agrawal 23 Mar '13

23 Mar '13

hi everyone, i am looking forward to applying for gsoc 2013. There are two ideas that i am interested in that do not have any mentors. 1.Interactive Tutorial 2.MirrorBrain: buffer-cache-friendly mirror selection I think an interactive tutorial would be great as most of the people new to opensuse are reluctant to go through the documentation and an interactive tutorial on it would help them to explore this beautiful OS. I went through the mirror brain concept and would really like to try and optimise the existing framework. If anyone is interested to mentor these two ideas, please add yourself as a mentor in the respective idea. Regards. Ayush Agrawal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Packaging Kolab.org Groupware
by Torsten Grote 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

Dear all, you might have heard that the truly Free Software Groupware Kolab has been released recently in version 3 and has undergone a major rewrite. It supports several native clients and now also mobile phones with ActiveSync. Soon there will also be CalDAV and CardDAV support. So you'll have all freedom to synchronize your personal data across all your devices without relying on big 'cloud' providers. The old Kolab 2 had been packaged for OpenSUSE, but is totally outdated now. Aeneas Jaißle restarted the packaging efforts for Kolab 3 and has made amazing progress. Everything is packaged and can be installed right away. Thanks Aeneas! You can read more about the progress and the current state of the packages in Aeneas' blog [1]. We are still looking for more people who could test the packages and provide feedback. If somebody wants to help with packaging that would even be more awesome. Some little help can already have a big impact and take some weight off of Aeneas' shoulders. You'll find the packages at the OpenSUSE Build Service [2] [3]. Some more outdated information is in the OpenSUSE wiki [4]. If somebody could help bring this up to date, this would be very much appreciated. If you like to get in touch with Aeneas, you'll find him at OBS [5]. And if you haven't tried out Kolab yet, you probably should. There is a public demo [6] if you just want to take a quick look. Kind Regards, Torsten [1] https://kolab.org/blogs/aeneas-jai%C3%9Fle [2] https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=server%3AKolab%3AUNSTABLE [3] https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=server%3AKolab%3AExtras [4] https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Kolab [5] https://build.opensuse.org/home?user=aeneas_jaissle [6] https://MyKolab.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Minutes of openSUSE Project Meeting of March 20th, 2013
by Vincent Untz 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

Here are the minutes of today's meeting. Cheers, Vincent http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2013/opensuse-proje… http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2013/opensuse-proje… http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2013/opensuse-proje… ========================= #opensuse-project Meeting ========================= Meeting started by vuntz at 15:00:38 UTC. The full logs are available at http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2013/opensuse-proje… . Meeting summary --------------- * Review of past AIs (vuntz, 15:03:25) * Ilmehtar and darix will discuss the cloaking topic tomorrow (vuntz, 15:05:07) * ACTION: Ilmehtar and darix work out the cloaking thingy (vuntz, 15:05:23) * for planet.o.o, we got volunteers to help maintain (thanks!) (vuntz, 15:08:04) * darix points out we need a ticket system to handle planet-related requests (vuntz, 15:09:03) * still need to find the right solution to let volunteers be able to maintain planet.o.o (vuntz, 15:09:37) * ACTION: vuntz to help sort the planet.o.o maintenance (vuntz, 15:13:47) * for reference, planet.o.o is maintained at https://gitorious.org/opensuse/planet-opensuse (vuntz, 15:14:23) * GSoC status (vuntz, 15:14:38) * many projects added to the ideas page (vuntz, 15:18:29) * including 14 projects that have mentors (vuntz, 15:18:45) * working with other orgs that will possibly co-participate with us (owncloud, supertuxcart, syslog) (vuntz, 15:19:08) * we will apply next week-end (vuntz, 15:26:25) * ACTION: vuntz to figure out if GSoC money can be used to buy a tablet for the project (or a co-participating project) (vuntz, 15:45:32) * LinuxTag (vuntz, 15:47:15) * we have 4 people offering to help, more help is welcome (vuntz, 15:52:30) * please contact Ilmehtar if you want to help (vuntz, 15:52:42) * AOB (vuntz, 15:53:05) * FOSS.in (conference in India) will be in November; openSUSE-related talks are welcome! :-) (vuntz, 15:55:29) * suseROCKs points out that we should use this as an opportunity to help grow the local community that will be able to do more and more for such local events in the future (vuntz, 16:01:32) * suseROCKs suggests to have a permanent "Initiatives" topic to the agenda so that new ideas can be discussed during the meetings (vuntz, 16:06:33) * summit mailing list is getting revived (mailed sent to mladmin) (vuntz, 16:10:19) Meeting ended at 16:10:43 UTC. Action items, by person ----------------------- * darix * Ilmehtar and darix work out the cloaking thingy * Ilmehtar * Ilmehtar and darix work out the cloaking thingy * vuntz * vuntz to help sort the planet.o.o maintenance * vuntz to figure out if GSoC money can be used to buy a tablet for the project (or a co-participating project) People present (lines said) --------------------------- * vuntz (89) * manugupt1 (61) * zimba12 (35) * saurabhsood91 (31) * suseROCKs (29) * darix (19) * robjo (9) * anditosan (9) * Ilmehtar (8) * bugbot (2) * Roguehorse (2) * wstephenson_ (1) * FunkyPenguin (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Today's meeting project minutes
by Robert Schweikert 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

Meeting ended Wed Mar 20 16:10:43 2013 UTC. The log and minutes are available from: (v 0.1.4) (12:09:37 PM) bugbot: Minutes: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2013/opensuse-proje… (12:09:37 PM) bugbot: Minutes (text): http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2013/opensuse-proje… (12:09:37 PM) bugbot: Log: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2013/opensuse-proje… -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead rjschwei(a)suse.com rschweik(a)ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] [reminder] openSUSE Project Meeting tomorrow at 15:00 UTC
by openSUSE Meeting Reminder 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

Hello all, The biweekly project meeting will be held tomorrow at 15:00 UTC in #opensuse-project on freenode. Everybody is invited to join and participate! Find out what time the meeting will be in your timezone: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=20&month=3&year=2013&h… Agenda of the meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Project_meeting#Agenda_for_the_next_meeting If you cannot participate and want a specific question to be answered during the meeting, please add your question to: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Project_meeting#Questions_Section Minutes and logs of previous meetings can be found at: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/ Thanks, -- openSUSE Meeting Reminder -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] ownCloud/openSUSE collaboration for GSoC 2013
by Alessandro Cosentino 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

Hi, I am happy to announce a collaboration between openSUSE and ownCloud to participate in GSoC 2013. As most of you know, in the last year we have participated under KDE. This is no longer possible, so this year our projects will be hosted under openSUSE. I created a section for ownCloud projects on the openSUSE wiki: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_ideas#ownCloud If you are interested in mentoring a project (and you should!), please list it there. Some students have already shown interest for some projects, namely: - an app for Prey - integration with Shiva See related emails in the mailing list. It would be awesome if you could stand up and volunteer to mentor these projects. Alessandro -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Urgent - Call for Volunteers openSUSE@LinuxTag May 22-25
by Richard Brown 19 Mar '13

19 Mar '13

Apologies for the cross posting, but given the deadline only being a few days away I want to make sure this reaches as many potential volunteers as possible. As you may already be aware, LinuxTag 2013 is happening this year during May 22 to 25 in Berlin, Germany. Currently, it appears the openSUSE project has not organised a booth for the conference, which I and the rest of the Board think is a great shame, given LinuxTag is one of Europes largest Open Source events. We're looking for at least 1 volunteer from the community to help co-ordinate the openSUSE presence at LinuxTag, and ideally several more to help staff the booth. If you think you can help out, please contact me on email at RBrownCCB(a)opensuse.org as soon as possible, and I'll do what I can to help put the proposal together. The deadline to apply for a booth at LinuxTag is March 22, so we really need to get a move on if we're going to have openSUSE on the showroom floor. Further details of the process can be found here: http://wiki.linuxtag.org/w/fp:Call_for_Projects Many Thanks and Have a lot of fun! Richard Brown openSUSE Board Member -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] GSoC Idea: Wayland Input method protocol support for Fcitx
by Weng Xuetian 18 Mar '13

18 Mar '13

Hi all, I'm the main developer of Fcitx. For those who might not know about fcitx, it's a input method framework that helps people type different languages under Linux, and it is now the default IMF for Simplified Chinese under openSUSE. As we also work close with openSUSE people for packaging and testing, someone in openSUSE suggests me to apply for GSoC within openSUSE projects. So there it is, :) https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_ideas#Wayland_Input_method_protocol_s… And I have already found a student to work with. Is there anything else I should do? Thanks in advance! Regards Xuetian Weng

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE 12.3 Release
by Agustin Benito Bethencourt 18 Mar '13

18 Mar '13

Hi, the last few months/weeks the openSUSE Team, together with many of you, has been focused on the openSUSE 12.3 Release. This week we are on the process of analyzing the work done the last few months in this area. Thanks to all of you who have contributed to this effort. There are some key activities that SUSE has been doing (or heavily involved) in the past that we think the community can take over, following the examples of the openSUSE Conference and the TSP. One example that is on the table right now are Hackathons. The Board has recently made a call for volunteers to help in organization tasks. It is very important that a group of community members take this responsibility. Hackathons have been very useful and we would like to support more in the future. Is up to the community to decide which ones, when, what for, etc. SUSE will take care of booking the accommodation, preparing the facilities, etc. Please consider contributing in this area. Connected to the above, we are developing a tool for managing the TSP that will help to reduce the workload impact on the TSP committee due to the increasing relevance of the Program. We plan to have it on production for the openSUSE Conference. Saludos -- Agustin Benito Bethencourt openSUSE Team Lead at SUSE abebe(a)suse.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] GSoC Idea : Porting bento to Twitter Bootstrap
by Raghu Nayyar 17 Mar '13

17 Mar '13

Hi Guys, I am Raghu Nayyar, a third year undergraduate from BITS Pilani University, India. I was going through the list of ideas for Google Summer of Code 2013 by openSUSE and found interest with *Porting bento to twitter bootstrap*. I have been a regular contributor as an Interaction Designer and Developer to ownCloud[1] since quite some time now and have a proficiency in HTML, CSS, Git and JavaScript along with a sound knowledge about Interface and Interaction Design. I have forked the GitHub repository[2] for openSUSE-themes and I am ready to contribute. Please help me getting started with it and also redirect me to the right person. Thanks a lot in advance! [1] https://github.com/raghunayyar [2] https://github.com/raghunayyar/opensuse-themes -- Sincerely, Raghu -- Sincerely, Raghu Nayyar Undergraduate, B.E. Mechanical Engineering BITS-Pilani, KK Birla Goa Campus E-mail: me(a)iraghu.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Re: [Owncloud] ownCloud/openSUSE collaboration for GSoC 2013
by Frank Karlitschek 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

Yes. Thanks from me too. Please note that this is a huge amount of work if we want to do this on our own. So as long as we can work with friendly projects like openSUSE I prefer to do that. Frank On 16.03.2013, at 16:52, Jan-Christoph Borchardt <hey(a)jancborchardt.net> wrote: > Wow Alessandro, thanks for taking care of this! > > Maybe we should aim for participating on our own next year? I don’t know what this entails, maybe you also know more about this? > > > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Alessandro Cosentino <cosenal(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am happy to announce a collaboration between openSUSE and ownCloud > to participate in GSoC 2013. > > As most of you know, in the last year we have participated under KDE. > This is no longer possible, so this year our projects will be hosted > under openSUSE. > > I created a section for ownCloud projects on the openSUSE wiki: > https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_ideas#ownCloud > If you are interested in mentoring a project (and you should!), please > list it there. > > Some students have already shown interest for some projects, namely: > - an app for Prey > - integration with Shiva > > See related emails in the mailing list. > It would be awesome if you could stand up and volunteer to mentor > these projects. > > Alessandro > _______________________________________________ > Owncloud mailing list > Owncloud(a)kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Fwd: opensuse-community.org wiki
by Jan Papež (honyczek) 15 Mar '13

15 Mar '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jan Papež (honyczek) <honyczek-mailing(a)email.cz> Date: 2013/3/15 Subject: opensuse-community.org wiki To: opensuse-web(a)opensuse.org Hi, recently I've encountered opensuse-community.org wiki, but I don't understand, which role it has? It's content seem to be rather duplicating, eg.: https://en.opensuse.org/Restricted_formats http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats I've noticed that openSUSE Project teams use openSUSE Wiki to manage themselves. Is somebody using opensuse-community Wiki to manage himself? What's purpose of opensuse-community Wiki? Should be translated? Thanks. Jan Papež (honyczek) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Geeko Pumping Iron Session - openSUSE ARM Hackathon 08-12Apr
by Andrew Wafaa 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

Now that openSUSE 12.3 is out, the openSUSE ARM Team[0] want to step up a gear. As the cycle was shorter than normal, there are a few wrinkles that need to be ironed out and also a whole heap of new things that can be added. After some discussion at FOSDEM, it was decided to hold a Hackathon to address these items. The Hackathon will take place on 08 to 12 April, both at the SUSE offices in Nuremberg as well as online for those that can't attend in person. We have a TODO list which comprises the following: * AArch64 fixes for 12.3 & Factory * Resolve outstanding 12.3 package issues * Test and release 12.3 images * Create OpenStack images for ARM * Get KVM and Xen on Chromebook & Arndale running * OBS improvements There will also be the opportunity for new device bring up for those that want to, but our intention is to work through and complete as much of the above TODO list as possible first. For those interested in joining in the fun, please either join us in Nuremberg and/or join the opensuse-arm mailing list[1], the #opensuse-arm IRC channel on Freenode[2] and also keep an eye on the openSUSE on ARM Trello board[3]. If you have any questions please let us know on the mailing list or on IRC. 0 - https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:ARM 1 - http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-arm 2 - irc://freenode.net/#opensuse-arm 3 - https://trello.com/board/opensuse-on-arm/5007cfc12cf0ae352e21d8dc -- Andrew Wafaa IRC: FunkyPenguin GPG: 0x3A36312F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] It's out!
by Jos Poortvliet 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

Heya all, As many of you have already noticed, on news.opensuse.org you can find the announcement of openSUSE 12.3! Have a look at https://news.opensuse.org/?p=15299 Download openSUSE from http://software.opensuse.org/123 Share the news via twitter, G+, facebook and of course your favorite news outlets. You can use standard texts from: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Social_media_launch_plan Have a lot of fun, Jos & the openSUSE team

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[opensuse-project] Need Mentor for google summer of code 2013
by Akif Khan 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

Hi all I am Akif Khan a Computer Engineering student from New Delhi, India I am interested in a project for Google summer of code 2013 which is: Automatic resizing of LVM volumes and filesystems. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_ideas#Automatic_resizing_of_LVM_volum… Since this project is without a mentor so i am looking for someone to mentor this project who can help me in accomplishing this task. I am new to openSUSE development so a mentor would be of great help to introduce me to the open source world. Regards Akif Khan akif500(a)gmail.com IRC(freenode) - akif500 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Invitation to use Google Talk
by Google Talk 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

----------------------------------------------------------------------- You've been invited by Akif Khan to use Google Talk. If you already have a Google account, log in to Gmail and accept this chat invitation: http://mail.google.com/mail/b-8285b86595-d4bbc422f8-f8guOVOGnnizWtZipfIFLZP… To sign up for a Google account and get started with Google Talk, you can visit: http://mail.google.com/mail/a-8285b86595-d4bbc422f8-f8guOVOGnnizWtZipfIFLZP… Learn more at: http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/accounts/ Thanks, The Google Team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Board meeting minutes 2013-03-11
by Robert Schweikert 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

Hi, Please find below the meeting minutes for the board meeting this past Monday. As always the meeting minutes are also posted on the wiki https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_meeting#Meeting_2013-03-25 Agenda 1.) Review Action items 2.) CLT issues brought to boards attention Minutes Present: Richard, Vincent, Will, Robert, Andrew Missing: Raymond, on a business trip 1.) Review Action Items No progress on board report, Vincent will work on this today No reply yet from events team on help request concerning Hackathon organization Announcement concerning Pascal's resignation completed 2.) CLT issues An issue regarding CLT has been brought to the boards attention. It appears that a few things went awry with respect to getting people energized to give talks, man the booth and have hardware available. One of the underlying issues appears to be a communication and expectation issue. After the reorg at SUSE from the Boosters team to the openSUSE team we have not done a great job in setting expectations and communicated the new channels of communication. The board needs to address this and provide better information to the community. The board will make this one of the topics to be discussed extensively at the face to face meeting in April. Robert to communicate with the CLT participants that raised the issue about the board discussion and next action items. We definitely want community members to pick up the ball for events such as CLT and somehow there was an issue in getting everything worked out. We have to improve on the process and make things easier for community members. If you have questions or concerns please do not hesitate to respond to this thread or contact the board directly on the board mailing list. Your openSUSE board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Fwd: [Reminder] GSoC Ideas on Ideas Page and Mentors
by Saurabh Sood 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

Hi, We have about 15 days to have a solid ideas page for Google Summer of Code this year. Applications start on the 17th of March. At the moment, I put up the projects from last year's ideas page on the wiki page, but they are open to be taken by mentors. Feel free to add your name to the mentors. There is a lot of interest among students about Google Summer of Code for openSUSE, and I have got many mails from prospective students about the ideas that we have on the ideas page. I think we should spend some effort into making our participation successful. Our Ideas Page: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_ideas Please put up your ideas / make yourself available for mentoring on the ideas that we already have on the page. -- Regards,. Saurabh Sood Have a lot of fun! -- Regards,. Saurabh Sood Have a lot of fun! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Starting up a new project, looking for help.
by Elijah 12 Mar '13

12 Mar '13

Hi all! I am new, so sorry if I don't do something right. I am trying to learn as much as I can as fast as I can. My name is Elijah, aka "Ham_Radio" on the forums. I am starting up a website called "openSUSEME" Pronounced similar to "open sesame" just "openSUSEME". I just started it up and am looking for some help. I am not an openSUSE or Linux expert (Yet!). The website is going to be similar to "OMG! UBUNTU" except for openSUSE. I have already paid for the domain name, which include "opensuseme.org, .net, & .com" and a server. I am asking for help to write articles, administrate the website and all. I would like News, reviews, how-to's, etc.. and all. I can give more information to those who are interested. Thanks! -- Elijah -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Call for GSoC Ideas 2013
by Manu Gupta 12 Mar '13

12 Mar '13

Dear All We will be submitting our applicaitons by this thursday and we ned you guys to step up and take part in GSoC You can add your ideas here at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_ideas -- Regards Manu Gupta -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Board Changes
by Robert Schweikert 11 Mar '13

11 Mar '13

Hi, It is with great regret that we have to announce that Pascal has decided to leave the openSUSE board. Due to changes in Pascal's life he feels he is no longer able to commit the necessary time and energy to the openSUSE project and the openSUSE board. As we all know, Pascal has given a lot of time to the project and the community. He has always been willing to help, teach, and maintain. We thank Pascal very much for his past contributions and wish him all the best. We hope that at some point in the future, life presents another opportunity for Pascal to get re-involved with the project and the community. Pascal, thank you for everything you have contributed to the openSUSE project. The board would like to welcome Richard Brown as its newest member to fill the seat vacated by Pascal. Richard received the 3rd most votes in the recent election, and was endorsed by Pascal as a preferred candidate for the vacated seat. Richard's term will run to the next election. Regards, Your openSUSE Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] https://en.opensuse.org/Release_announcement
by Nelson Marques 09 Mar '13

09 Mar '13

With heart filled with love and will to help, I would like the bring the following to your consideration (specially after a call for translations) regarding this document[1] 1. Usage of therm 'refurbished' for a new distribution; While the dictionary definition is nice and elegant, I __personally__ find this therm reductive and negative; You can ask yourself if you would go for a new 'refurbished' monitor for example. I'm sure this can be improved to something more elegant. I have my doubts (no solid evidence to backup, just common sense) that non-english native speakers will be aware of the elegant dictionary definitions. The falacy here is, how will people react to such therminology? 2. Usage of 'novel features'; once more I find hard that non-native english speakers will go with the correct semantics of this kind of wording; I assume people want to say 'striking new, surprisingly'. I think this can be improved too (considering maybe non-native english speakers which might find this therminology obsfuscated). 3. Message misleading or hard to decipher; Topics such as PostgreSQL (please not it's actually a topic) start the text with MariaDB? This is bad, really bad... GNOME Boxes topic starts with openSTACK (ain't this one of the Novel features or is a refurbished feature ? :)). Take 5 mins to read the whole thing... I'm sure someone can improve some innacuracies and place some more effort on what you are doing; Marketing people, that's your playground. NM [1] - https://en.opensuse.org/Release_announcement -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Call for translation of openSUSE 12.3 release announcement
by Max Lin 08 Mar '13

08 Mar '13

Hello everybody, openSUSE 12.3 is only 6 days to go, currently openSUSE team prepared an release announcement, we're looking for your help translated the announcement wiki page before release date! The article at https://en.opensuse.org/Release_announcement, you can found many localization openSUSE wiki-side already link to it on "In other languages" block, there is a good start point, go there, copy&paste the source and start translaing release announcement to your native language. Thanks for your contribution to keep openSUSE grow up! Best regards, Max Your openSUSE Team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] [Gravatar] Verify password reset
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08 Mar '13

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08 Mar '13

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[opensuse-project] Welcome to Gravatar
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07 Mar '13

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[opensuse-project] Today's project meeting minutes
by Robert Schweikert 07 Mar '13

07 Mar '13

Meeting ended Wed Mar 6 15:46:20 2013 UTC. The log and minutes are available from: (v 0.1.4) (10:46:20 AM) bugbot: Minutes: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2013/opensuse-proje… (10:46:20 AM) bugbot: Minutes (text): http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2013/opensuse-proje… (10:46:20 AM) bugbot: Log: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2013/opensuse-proje… -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead rjschwei(a)suse.com rschweik(a)ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] [Announcement] openSUSE 12.3 for AArch64 preview image available
by Dirk Müller 06 Mar '13

06 Mar '13

Dear openSUSE user, the openSUSE on ARM team was quite busy the last few weeks with getting openSUSE 12.3 for AArch64 ready. At the time of this post, we have finished around 4000-4100 packages (out of ~ 6000) of the current state of the openSUSE 12.3 project for AArch64. With those successfully built packages, we’re also able to build a regular openSUSE image for you to try and run in the ARMv8 System emulator (ARMv8 Foundation Model). This is a huge achievement and milestone for us, thanks to lots of helpful hands in openSUSE. Just to put this into context: This is not a minimal system with a couple of toolchain packages. It is also not an embedded variant of a Linux environment. No, this is the full featured, standard openSUSE distribution as you’re used to, ported to AArch64, up and running. We have built it based on (slightly newer versions of) standard openSUSE 12.3 packages, and the changes are mostly already merged back into openSUSE Factory. For all we know it’s also more successful package builds than any other Linux distribution has on AArch64! If you’d like to see the status yourself, please check out the OBS repository we created for this [1]. As an open distribution, it is important to make contributions easy and we worked hard to enable others to participate in our effort. We extended OBS (the Open Build Service) to automatically spawn a Foundation Model virtual machine when you want to build for aarch64. This works remotely on the OBS server as well as locally using osc build. Building for AArch64 is therefore as easy as building for any other architecture, and it feels native to all who are familiar with the OBS. More information on this is available on the respective wiki page [2]. So, dive right into it: Get the image and start with openSUSE on AArch64 by following our wiki page: https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:ARM/AArch64. Please contact the openSUSE Team at opensuse-arm(a)opensuse.org Greetings, Dirk (openSUSE ARM Team) [1] https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=devel:ARM:AArch64:12.3 [2] https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:ARM/AArch64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Question about netdevice parameter for network installing
by Pang Dawei 06 Mar '13

06 Mar '13

Hello, I want to install the opensuse via pxe boot, add the parameter "install= ftp://192.168.1.2/i386" without netdevice, after loading vmlinuz and initrd, the system can enter Yast GUI installer automatically. I have 8 ethernet ports, how can I know which port is used for installing OS? Thanks -Dawei -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] [reminder] openSUSE Project Meeting tomorrow at 15:00 UTC
by openSUSE Meeting Reminder 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Hello all, The biweekly project meeting will be held tomorrow at 15:00 UTC in #opensuse-project on freenode. Everybody is invited to join and participate! Find out what time the meeting will be in your timezone: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=6&month=3&year=2013&ho… Agenda of the meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Project_meeting#Agenda_for_the_next_meeting If you cannot participate and want a specific question to be answered during the meeting, please add your question to: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Project_meeting#Questions_Section Minutes and logs of previous meetings can be found at: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/ Thanks, -- openSUSE Meeting Reminder -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] [X-post][JOB] Plivo Invites you to join the team. (Python, Linux Developers)
by Rohit Gupta 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Hi, Plivo invites you for a off campus recruitment drive on 8th March, 2013 at Kalyani Government Engineering College (West Bengal). Interested candidates can take a print out of this post and visit the venue (written below). Position: Dev-Ops Engineer Details: https://plivo.recruiterbox.com/jobs/10894/ Salary: 5 - 6 LPA. Note: Salary and position will not be a constraint for the deserving candidate Company Profile: Plivo provides easy and feature rich APIs for businesses to develop powerful voice and messaging applications. Plivo has been part of Y Combinator (US biggest incubator), and The Morpheus (TM) (Indian Incubator). Plivo is funded by same investors like Google, Facebook and Skype. Plivo is headquarted in San Francisco, United States with an office in Bangalore, India Plivo is a small team, and are looking for people who can make a big impact. They are all about startup work culture. Venue: Kalyani Government Engineering College, Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal, India-741235. College website: http://www.kgec.edu.in Google Map Location: http://bit.ly/visitkgec Contact Person: Biswajit Pain: +91-9434608413 Thanks and Regards, Rohit Gupta Core Team Member, Plivo Inc. www.plivo.com PS: You may also apply online for open position in Plivo. Please visit: http://careers.plivo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE 12.3 doesn't support any video types
by Alexey Eromenko 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Sadly out-of-the-box, openSUSE 12.3 doesn't support any kind of video at all, not even WebM. I have opened a bug on it "Bug 802980 - WebM Video fails to play in KDE desktop", but as release draws near the chances of it being looked at appears slim. Anyway, Red Hat's RHEL6 does WebM just fine, and it is super-important for all Open-Source software to standardize on something, and WebM video (VP8) is the best we have for now. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Board meeting minutes
by Robert Schweikert 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Hi, Please find below the meeting minutes from this weeks board call. As always if you have any questions or concerns please feel free to respond to this thread or send a message directly to the board mailing list. The minutes are also posted on the wiki https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_meeting#Meeting_2013-02-25 Enjoy You openSUSE Board Board meeting 2013-02-25 Present: Vincent, Raymond, Robert, Will Andrew is participating in a seminar and could not call in 1.) Review Action items - Board report, no progress yet. Vincent will try to get this done ASAP - Hackathon organization + openSUSE team will help with local organization + message from Robert to -project did not result in any volunteers - Summit + Andy is working on Artwork + Robert asked Bryan to manage summit.opensuse.org, waiting for response + Robert asked Peter Linnell to manage local outreach program, waiting for response + Robert will ask Chuck about running keynote speaker search and organize the keynote 2.) Board Face to Face meeting Everyone is still OK with the dates (April 6 & 7), funds have been approved by SUSE. Everyone should make their travel arrangements. Meeting will be held in the SUSE Nuremberg offices. 3.) Events - oSC13 + looks as if everything is on track + CfP was announced last week - Summit + the wheels are starting to roll, see AI review above - oSC14 + we have a draft for a location search announcement everyone needs to review and chime in + should go out next Tuesday 4.) Lack of volunteers The call for volunteers to organize Hackathons has resulted in no response. The call for volunteers to help with the Summit had a low response and it appears that it is difficult to get people to step up and be more engaged with non technical issues. - Should we try to broadcast searches for volunteers to a wider audience then just sending things to the -project list. It appears that we always go back to the same group and always the same people step up (or not). + Broadcasting these searches on news.o.o is definitely worth a shot. + We should reach out to Universities and advertise the organization of a Hackathon as a course project to business students. - How can we get more people trained/enthusiastic in organizing events such as a Hackathon? - All Ambasadors should have a list of things where the openSUSE project is looking for help and show the list at events openSUSE ambassadors participate in. - Can we find a good place on the wiki or front page to show advertise a "Help wanted" list Next meeting: 2013-03-11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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