March 2013 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[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 The old Kolab 2 had been packaged for OpenSUSE, but is totally outdated now.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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