May 2013 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] How we will use the GSoC money
by Vincent Untz 18 Jul '24

18 Jul '24

Hi, (let's see how a public discussion about money goes :-)) The Google Summer of Code brings us great students, but also means that the openSUSE project will get $8000 (if I'm not mistaken) at the end of the summer. That's $500 per student. A while ago, I requested comments on my blog about what to do with the money, but didn't get any feedback. So I take this as "do what you feel is best", and this mail is about the plan. As a reminder, the main issue is that we will likely not have the openSUSE Foundation created in time for this. For instance, Google would like us to get some form filled before the end of June; this is not a mandatory timeline, but I think it shows that we won't be ready with the Foundation for that. The current plan is to give that money to another organization we feel close to, and I have two candidates in mind: - the Software Freedom Conservancy (http://sfconservancy.org/) it's a really nice org that provides a home for various cool projects (see http://sfconservancy.org/members/current/) and those projects help make openSUSE a great project. - the Desktop Summit (https://www.desktopsummit.org/) it's one of the biggest event this year, and this would help us have some more visibility (since we'd be sponsors, I guess). I'm sure they would welcome this to secure their budget. Note that an alternative solution would be to leave the money to Google for a future GSoC or similar program, but I feel it's better to use the money where it can make a difference today. Now, it's not too late to change the plan. If you have a better suggestion, please tell us. There's no need to argue forever about it, just explain why you think it's good. Keep in mind that if we cannot receive the money ourselves, this also means that we cannot use it to buy stuff for openSUSE. Pavol and I will take the final decision since we are the GSoC admins for openSUSE. Thanks, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[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] Poll about LXDE-E17 available through installer and on DVD
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 16 Aug '13

16 Aug '13

Hello mates, Few days ago, Softpedia had a blogpost [1] regarding an e-mail from Tomas Cech at our factory mailing list [2]. Tomas and Simon continue to maintain Enlightenment for openSUSE (check their TODO list at our Portal [3]). So we made a poll at connect to tell us you think about it. Here is the link: http://goo.gl/KYRak Deadline is on July 25th, right after the openSUSE conference [4]. Thank you for your help. Have a lot of phun, Stathis [1] http://news.softpedia.com/news/openSUSE-to-Drop-LXDE-in-Favor-of-E17-354437… [2] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2013-05/msg00208.html [3] https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Enlightenment [4] https://conference.opensuse.org/ -- http://about.me/iosifidis http://eiosifidis.blogspot.gr http://blogs.gnome.org/eiosifidis Great leaders don't tell you what to do... They show you how it's done. -- 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] Google Summer of Code'13 accepted student
by Kshitij Gupta 29 May '13

29 May '13

Hello, I'm Kshitij Gupta from Lucknow, India. I had applied for GSoC under openSUSE and am glad to have been accepted as a student to work on "Profile management tool for AppArmor" under the guidance of Christian Boltz (Project Mentor). I would like to thank the openSUSE and AppArmor community for their help and look forward to a wonderful experience with everyone. I would like to specially thank Christian Boltz and John Johansen for their wonderful ideas and much needed guidance through the process. I benefited greatly from your knowledge and I'm thrilled about this opportunity to work under you. Looking forward to ideas and help from everyone. I feel I'll love being a part of such warm and wonderful community. Project idea page: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/kshitij8/22001 Regards, Kshitij 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] Today's meeting minutes
by Robert Schweikert 29 May '13

29 May '13

(11:49:41 AM) bugbot: Meeting ended Wed May 29 15:49:41 2013 UTC. The log and minutes are available from: (v 0.1.4) (11:49:41 AM) bugbot: Minutes: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2013/opensuse-proje… (11:49:41 AM) bugbot: Minutes (text): http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2013/opensuse-proje… (11:49:41 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] Creating a Live USB stick suggests use of a package only in a home project?
by Greg Freemyer 29 May '13

29 May '13

All, I did not know where to post this, so -project as my default. Per: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Live_USB_stick#Put_ISO_on_vfat_partitioned_USB_s… if you don't want to reformat your thumb drive a user should install: http://software.opensuse.org/package/live-fat-stick or http://software.opensuse.org/package/live-usb-gui Both are only available in a home project from what I see. I did a quick test of live-fat-stick yesterday and it worked fine for me, but I don't think our documentation should be pointing at home projects? Especially ones like this where it seems all you are installing is a shell script. The script could do all kinds of nefarious activities and not have anyone but the project owner looking at it at all? Are there any guidelines? Should we ask that live-usb-gui get pushed to factory (assuming that adds some security protection)? Greg -- 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] oSC14 location proposal
by Svebor Prstačić 28 May '13

28 May '13

Hi guys, I'm writing on behalf of HrOpen (www.open.hr - Croatian association for open systems and Internet), a Croatian NGO, where I am the president, and my day work is at FER (http://www.fer.hr/en) - Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, as an Internet services architect. I started using SuSE with version 8.2. This is not a full proposal with details and prices yet, I haven't had time to prepare it since we were shoulder-deep in organization of our jubilee 20th open source and free software conference DORS/CLUC (http://2013.dorscluc.org/en/) 15th - 17th May, which we traditionally organize in cooperation with another NGO - HULK - Croatian Linux users' association. Some more info on our conference: - http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/croatian-president-supports-free-software-c… - http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/croatias-president-praises-c… In short, we would like to propose Dubrovnik for oSC14. The conference would be held at University of Dubrovnik, we have contacts there with which we would collaborate. In addition to ~10 volunteers from our organizations, I also expect students from Dubrovnik to register as volunteers for on-site conference support. I will gather and systematically arrange more info throughout the next week and get back to you, but I would also like to know if you guys are initially interested. :-) Best regards, Svebor Prstačić -- Google: https://plus.google.com/115164814659638687195/ Skype: sveboras Web: http://www.fer.unizg.hr/svebor.prstacic -- 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 28 May '13

28 May '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=29&month=5&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] Google Summer of Code Results
by Akif Khan 27 May '13

27 May '13

Hello everyone I am Akif Khan from New Delhi, India. I applied for Google Summer of Code under openSUSE and got accepted as a student for the project Automatic Resizing of Logical Volumes. I want to thank everyone of openSUSE community for helping me from finding a mentor for this project to finalising the proposal. With Special thanks to Dinar Valeev (Mentor of the project), Manu Gupta and Saurabh Sood (Organisation Admin of GSOC) for guiding me through the entire process, Carlos Ribiero who made me familiar with the community and cleared most of my doubts on working of community. and Michael Andres for pouring in great ideas into my proposal. Now i would love to work with such great community and contribute as much i can Project Idea :http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/akif500/1 Regards Akif Khan 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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