April 2014 - 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] SUSE capitalization
by Adam Spiers 27 May '14

27 May '14

Of course we still see people getting this wrong on a regular basis, but googling for "SUSE capitalization" doesn't reveal anything helpful. IMHO we need a wiki page covering the One Absolute Truth, and also a bit of the history behind it. I found this thread from 2005: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2005-08/msg00377.html but it didn't provide the full story. Additionally, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuSE are (somewhat depressingly) two entirely different articles, neither of which gives any real detail over the renaming from SuSE to SUSE. Shouldn't there be a page https://en.opensuse.org/Capitalization or something? -- 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 29 Apr '14

29 Apr '14

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=30&month=4&year=2014&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] Downloads page down for maintainence 503 error
by MITCHELL T.J. 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

Hi there, When will the downloads page be back online? At the moment all download pages are returning a 503 error, with a message stating that the pages are down for essential maintenance. Thanks, Tom-- 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] Informal meeting in Dubrovnik today, volunteers tomorrow
by Svebor Prstačić 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

Hi everyone, I'm calling out to all volunteers to come tomorrow morning to the venue, we need to prepare for the conference guys, make plans who does what and when. Please be there at 9. Also, today we will meet in the evening at PUB KARAKA, http://goo.gl/maps/EfV6n Everyone, come on over, we will be there at 21:00h. Best, Svebor @mobile

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[opensuse-project] LinuxTag 2014
by Jos Poortvliet 21 Apr '14

21 Apr '14

Hi all, I'll organize the LinuxTag Booth this year. LinuxTag, taking place during May 8-10, is different this year - they have partnered with Droidcon and Re:Publica for their event, moved to a new location. Brand new! I have proposed to do something different than a normal booth, too. I'm involved with KDE, openSUSE and ownCloud so I thought the three could do something cool this year The plan is this: We get an area with a few rows of chairs and a projector. Every hour, we host a 45 minute workshop there. Examples: * testing Linux distro's with openQA * writing an ownCloud App * Building a basic QML Plasma App The schedule will probably be: 10-12 and 13-17, so ~6 talks/day. People get something for participating - nothing big, just a few nice thingies. On the sides of this area, we have our booths: the traditional table with material and somebody around to ask questions from. All this should of course make 'our' area much more interesting and give opportunities to talk to people. LinuxTag liked the idea, so did the openSUSE board, KDE and ownCloud so they all tasked me with making it happen. LinuxTag asked if Postfix Admin could share our space as well - so Christian Boltz is in Now I need you. I need volunteers who are willing to give a short workshop on an openSUSE subject. Packaging in OBS is an obvious example but there are other examples. Each volunteer gives one workshop per day, three times in total thus. You'll also be at the booth a bit but we have >6 people for one table so that won't be much either. Plenty of time to enjoy LT! And you get even free access to the exhibition area of Re:Publica. Note that we can take at most 2 volunteers (but if you give a talk you get in anyway). Anybody interested? If needed, there is some travel budget available and if you're really cool you can help make it even cooler: we have some budget from the board to do something but I just don't have time to organize it. I can fill you in with the details, just ask! So, who's in? Cheers, Jos -- 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 - Volunteers, meeting in Dubrovnik before conference
by Svebor Prstačić 17 Apr '14

17 Apr '14

Hello everyone, As most of you know, it's almost oSC14 time! That means we'll be seeing fellow Geekos soon. So, let's make a meeting plan? The conference officially starts on Thursday, 24th. We will be there at the venue, preparing it from 8 o'clock in the morning and throughout the day, so if you are in Dubrovnik on 24th, come and register, possibly help out or just hang out with other Geekos! And don't forget the welcome party - it's at 18:00 o'clock in the Sesame tavern (http://sesame.hr/contact.html) really close to the venue. Volunteers, please come as early as possible, as we also need to plan who handles what for the rest of the conference. Those who will help out with video streaming and recording will also need to familiarize themselves with the equipment so it will be good to have enough time for everything. Local team will arrive there on Tuesday 22nd in the afternoon. If you are also in Dubrovnik, on 22nd or 23rd, let us know. We might also need some help these days, or we can just hang out. Let us know! If at any time you need some info, or to contact me and email isn't enough (or fast enough), I'm reachable on my mobile: +385 98 885 985. All the best, Svebor -- 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] Suggestions and critiques from a little group of desktop users
by G G 16 Apr '14

16 Apr '14

Hi All, I'm hawake, i work to the Italian translation of the wiki, and I'm writing here just to share some thoughts about openSUSE assuming the point of view of a desktop user. In the following list i've collected not just my suggestions and critics but also those of all my friends that I converted to openSUSE 13.1 (after a migration from Ubuntu 13.10, which was unstable... :S ). I hope to be useful to all of you guys contributing to make openSUSE better day by day. I've distinguished 6 main categories. Communication. First of all, as pointed out in other discussions, the communication between developers and community is fundamental. I don't want to reopen this discussion here, i just want to tell you that many non-expert users perceive this lack of communication because they found ambiguous posts around the web and obviously in particular on social networks. BTW I think that the lesson has been learned and we (as a Community of supporters + Developers) are improving. ;) Installation. Installing openSUSE is not a difficult task for someone who can manage installation of a Windows OS but during the partitioning phase there are too many advanced options that are useless and scary for most part of our desktop users [0]. For example, you could hide some of these advanced options (like RAID, tmpfs, NFS, LVM and "Use Btrfs as default filesystem") under an "Advanced options" entry, or redesign that part of the installer so that the basic partition screen has a simpler layout. Software installation. Software.opensuse.org is very nice, I think it could be useful to have it accessible from the desktop because not all users know that it exists (and they use untrusted RPMs found through Google...). In fact it should be an important part of our marketing strategy. System configuration. There is a bit of confusing redundancy between some settings available through YaST and through the settings manager of a DE (for instance printer installation/configuration). We should modify the settings manager of supported DE to tell to the user when are needed root privileges, so that when it's necessary to open YaST. For instance the installation of proprietary stuff for HP printers. Help. I think that the openSUSE Activedoc Start Up guide should be accessible offline as default and in a simple way from desktop. For example, take a look at Ubuntu, you go to the shutdown menu (top-right of the screen) and you have an entry that opens a new window with the common questions about desktop usage (Unity in this case, [1] [2] ): video drivers, printers, information about the desktop environment and how to use it etc.. We still have shortcuts for KDE4, GNOME3 and so on, but they don't bring to Activedoc (which is well written) and is a little bit confusing because they bring to the SDB or HCL (not to an index of ready to use and problem-oriented guides). "Online help" links yet to the Novell documentation for openSUSE 11.0 which is translated only in german [3] and very... very outdated. So here, in the Italian wiki, we are discussing about how we should modify that SDB pages to allow the user to easily find solutions to common problems but we can't modify help.opensuse.org. So it's up to you. Interestingly the Gentoo documentation it's much more problem-solving oriented with an index very complete, see for example [4]. I know that pages like that one are very scary, but they collect a set of useful key questions right at the beginning of the page. I think that layouts like that one should be further studied (obviously not blindly applied!) to improve the usability and accessibility of our wiki. Other. Last but not least, I also report here two annoying issues: SUSE ImageWriter it is not automatically setup to use the file filter *.* (so the unexpert user is unable to see ISO images -> read all of my friends asked me how to use it); after the installation from the 4 GB ISO image, YaST does not automatically disable the DVD local repository, so the user have to handle with YaST's repository manager. In conclusion, all of my friends are enjoying openSUSE and they are using it both for work or study because of its stability, all DE equally supported, YaST, Zypper and someone (like me) really appreciate that is pure FOSS without privacy issues. Although it needs some little refinements to the user-experience as I said before but nothing impossible to do. Thank you and keep up the good work! :) Best regards, hawake [0] http://www.mediafire.com/view/jocz56r29yude8d/screenshot25modificata.png# [1] http://www.mediafire.com/view/bzrrpdgxejvxy9w/screenshot21.png# [2] http://www.mediafire.com/view/92n6youe70rmxxn/screenshot24.png# [3] http://www.novell.com/documentation/opensuse110/ [4] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/AMD64/FAQ -- Linux user number 433087 Linux registered machine number 351448 http://linuxcounter.net/ -- 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] Meeting minutes for today's project meeting
by Robert Schweikert 16 Apr '14

16 Apr '14

(11:57:15 AM) bugbot: Meeting ended Wed Apr 16 15:57:15 2014 UTC. The log and minutes are available from: (v 0.1.4) (11:57:15 AM) bugbot: Minutes: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2014/opensuse-proje… (11:57:15 AM) bugbot: Minutes (text): http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2014/opensuse-proje… (11:57:15 AM) bugbot: Log: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2014/opensuse-proje… -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU Public Cloud Architect LINUX SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center 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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