Hi,
We are 2 weeks from the application deadline for Google Summer of Code
for 2014. So far, we only have two ideas on the ideas page.
Requesting mentors to add their ideas to the page
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_ideas
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Saurabh Sood
Have a lot of fun!
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Here are the minutes of today's meeting.
Cheers,
Vincent
Minutes: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2014/opensuse-proje…
Minutes (text): http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2014/opensuse-proje…
Log: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2014/opensuse-proje…
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#opensuse-project: openSUSE Project meeting
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Meeting started by vuntz at 15:01:37 UTC. The full logs are available
at
http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2014/opensuse-proje…
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Meeting summary
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* GSoC (vuntz, 15:05:17)
* list of projects is too small for now (vuntz, 15:25:17)
* we need more mentors (vuntz, 15:25:20)
* manugupt1 is looking if other projects might want to participate
with us (vuntz, 15:25:30)
* Update on marketing materials (vuntz, 15:29:45)
* ACTION: ilmehtar to ask unixstickers.com if we can get discounts on
large orders for our advocates (vuntz, 15:42:08)
* anything else? (vuntz, 15:48:34)
* board has a face-to-face meeting in two weeks; feel free to contact
us to give us more topics to discuss! (vuntz, 15:49:28)
* ACTION: kigurame to investigate possible crowdfunding solutions and
report back to Board (ilmehtar, 15:51:11)
Meeting ended at 16:13:26 UTC.
Action items, by person
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* ilmehtar
* ilmehtar to ask unixstickers.com if we can get discounts on large
orders for our advocates
* kigurame
* kigurame to investigate possible crowdfunding solutions and report
back to Board
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* vuntz (40)
* manugupt1 (25)
* kigurame (24)
* ishwon (19)
* differentreality (19)
* henne (17)
* saurabhsood91 (16)
* ilmehtar (16)
* |miska| (9)
* awafaa (4)
* tux93 (3)
* tigerfoot (3)
* bugbot (2)
* warlordfff (1)
* koda (1)
* izabelvalverde (1)
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HI All,
How can I join to OpenSUSE project on github.com ?
I would like to publish there the source code for http://lizards.opensuse.org
in the similar way as is done for the https://connect.opensuse.org/ -
openSUSE / connect
His might help us to cooperate on updates for it with IS&T department od SUSE.
my github user name is mcaj.
and so far I have published there my hackweek project dv2switch and a few
small "home-used" utilities
see - https://github.com/mcaj
If you need additional information cantact me on IRC or email.
Have nice day.
Martin
Hi all,
During the last days, the openSUSE Team has proposed several changes in
the openSUSE processes and tools:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2013-11/msg00920.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2013-12/msg00044.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2013-12/msg00132.html
The main goal of this mail is to present another idea that was already
discussed during the recent openSUSE Summit: the Karmafication of the
openSUSE infrastructure. People there liked the idea and some related
topics have already been raised in the last days on both Factory and
Project mailing lists, so we bring the idea here for wider debate and
especially to get input from you all.
Where can Karmafication be useful?
1. Decision making.
As you all know, most final decisions on the technical side rests in
Coolo's shoulders. He plays the role of a benevolent dictator, working
based on his perception of skills and dedication. Sure he is fair and
experienced but still a single human being.
2. Guidance
We lack a clear path from newbie to contributor and then to experienced
contributor (like maintainer, reviewer etc). Also, we have a wide
variety of guidelines which we'd like people to follow better but which
aren't hard rules.
3. Motivation
There are areas in openSUSE that do not get the love and attention they
deserve in both technical and non-technical terms. People who work on
them should be recognized and rewarded.
How does Karmafication support the factory proposal goals in the above
areas?
The idea is to add certain 'social' features to our infrastructure to
better track contributions and make them more visible. Contributors
would earn AND lose karma points based on their actions (or lack of
them), that's why we are calling it 'Karmafication'. We explicitly want
to avoid the word 'gamification' because is not only about engaging
people or motivating them. The main goal is to help our decision making
processes: we're a meritocracy (or a do-ocracy, if you prefer) which is
very much trust-based, and that trust is very much based on what you do
and what you did in the recent past.
Karma should have an impact in:
1. Decision making.
Make contributions visible: credit where it is due. Having a profile
page for every contributor in OBS would be useful in decision making at
all levels. Is this person a good candidate to become technical
reviewer? Should I accept this risky SR to factory? In the future, once
the system is mature enough, a minimum of karma could even be required
to perform some actions.
2. Guidance
By defining tasks and rewards we could 'spell out' a path, or several,
from beginner to more experienced contributor. Think for example a
number of tasks around your first step to contributing; or tasks related
to more advanced hackery like fixing certain type of bugs. It could
also be used as a way of define best practices for OBS and encourage
people to follow them.
3. Motivation
Motivate people and visibly reward them for working on things which
usually fly below the radar. It would be great to have openSUSE
contributors pointing to their OBS profile pages as a reference of their
skills and experience, in the same way that most open source developers
points to their github page. We could make this recognition more
tangible with some special gifts (what about a "I take care of stuff!"
t-shirt?).
A big benefit of Karmafication over other ways of reaching the same
goals is that most alternatives require making rules, commitees and
bureaucracy and require much more work. Soft motivation through
Karmafication brings us these benefits in a much nicer and more flexible
way, hopefully without the downsides of rigorous rules. See this video
for some insights in rules vs 'soft nudging': http://vimeo.com/54434167
What do you think about the whole idea?
Would you like openSUSE to be the first distribution with a karma-driven
development process?
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Hi all,
We have digested most of your input on our proposed changes to the factory
development workflow. Based on that, we'll be making some more concrete plans
on what to hack on first to get there, like the openQA integration and
staging projects.
Next week our team has a meeting in Nuremberg and we'll have a more concrete
plan after that. Feedback and offers for help continue to be welcome!
The openSUSE Team
Hey all,
As the openSUSE team works on our tools like openQA, we would like to keep
you up to date on what we do, our progress and perhaps see if some of you who
are interested in these tools can help out.
But working in the open sounds easier than it is. We organize our work in a
public task tracker [1] and our code goes on github [2]. We also blog about
it [3] and give talks [4] at oSC.
Still, we have tended to communicate too much over our internal IRC channel
and mailing list, something we want to change in the future coding sprints.
The question I now have for all of you is: WHAT ELSE CAN WE DO?
How could we reach you? Engage you? What would make you help out if you can?
We really want to have a decent plan AND execution not only in the technical
area but also when it comes to working in and around the openSUSE community.
Please help us with that!
Hugs,
Jos
[1] see https://progress.opensuse.org/projects/openqa-improvement for openQA
[2] see https://github.com/openSUSE-Team/openQA as example for, again, openQA
[3] see http://lizards.opensuse.org/2013/06/06/openqa-in-opensuse/ as example
[4] see www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjKqN3eIFWQ - openQA
Hello to the list,
i just wanted to tell that i will stop my contribution to the openSUSE
project.
I could leave quite and secretly, but ...
During the discussion which went along the election process it showed up
that my ideas for the project and the ideas of the others doesn't fit
together. Maybe caused by christmas break, but the election is over and
the discussion stopped right after that.
I showed a list from other projects and i guess i will start
contributing somewhere there.
openSUSE was for years my weapon of choice, caused by i liked the way
openSUSE was created and mostly cause i am an old SUSE fanboy. I always
liked the idea that you can change the mind of people, change the idea
and contribute in every way i want to. Now i am a bit dis-chanted by all
the discussion and the way it is done.
So, maybe we meet again, we will definitely meet at a conference/booth.
Cheers & So long & Auf wiedersehen & Have a lot of fun
Jörg
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Hi,
We just got mentioned on the GSoC blog :)
http://google-opensource.blogspot.in/2014/01/google-summer-of-code-veteran-…
GSoC 2014 is underway, and as a reminder, projects can be added to our
ideas page
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_ideas
We have about three weeks before org applications start. Hoping to see
some awesome projects on the list soon ;)
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The openSUSE board elections 2013 ended last Sunday. We have 4 new members
for the board, the first two positions will be serving a 2 year term,
the third and
fourth a one year term.
Election results:
We had 177 people voting.
Bruno Friedmann, 75 Votes (42%)
Andrew Wafaa, 70 Votes (40%)
Richard Brown, 68 Votes (38%)
Kostas Koudaras, 63 Votes (36%)
Sascha Peilicke, 48 Votes (27%)
Andres Betts, 37 Votes (21%)
Jorg Stephan, 27 Votes (15%)
Ish Sookun, 8 Votes (5%)
Thanks for all candidates who stepped up and all members who casted
their votes!
Greetings from the election committee!
(election-officials(a)opensuse.org)
[1] https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/polls/read/digitaltomm/43818/opensuse-board…
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