February 2015 - 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] we stopped selling openSUSE shirts - trademark permission request
by Gabor Kum 02 Mar '15

02 Mar '15

Hi Board Members, At HELLOTUX we had permission to sell embroidered openSUSE shirts. I asked for prolonging this permission for another year, but still no answer :-( Our plans if we can make these shirts again: 1. New, green color, with white embroidery. I made a demo, it is really cool! 2. We would like to contribute shirts to members/ambassadors in the same way as we do with the Hungarian Ubuntu Community or donate money as for Linux Mint, Kubuntu or LXLE. 3. Sweater, kitchen apron, etc... What do you think? -- Gabor Kum owner of HELLOTUX - European Linux Clothes www.hellotux.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] Request for DTP/design: Sponsorship brochure for oSC15
by Hans de Raad 24 Feb '15

24 Feb '15

Dear all! The conference needs sponsors and we need to approach them soon! Based on the sponsorship brochure from earlier editions, we've made a couple of adjustments, and would like to request the artwork team (or anyone with any DTP talent) to help us out in designing a visually appealing version which we can distribute asap! The text for the brochure is attached to this issue in progress.opensuse.org https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/4974#note-3 Please include the logo made by Victorhck: https://github.com/openSUSE/artwork/blob/3452b8ecd072cb722e99b03a304ac6e0ce… If you have any questions, please ask us! All the best! Hans de Raad Robin Edgar -- OpenNovations / DevHdR Van Sevenbergestraat 49 2274PK Voorburg Tel +31 6 83578847 www.hcderaad.nl

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[opensuse-project] Confirmation: Sleep over at the venue is a go!
by Hans de Raad 23 Feb '15

23 Feb '15

Dear all! We've just received confirmation about something we think is very cool: We will have 50 sleepover beds (at least, more are still under negotiation) at the openSUSE Conference and Kolab Summit venue!!! Costs aren't 100% definitive yet, but you can expect to spend about E 50,- for 4 nights (which is E 12,50 per night, you won't get a better deal than that!). Also, we're looking into organizing some allnighters, like a LAN party or suchlike, so dust off your Quake engines! ;-) We'll keep you posted as soon as more info becomes available, registration for this will be separate from the conference registration, stay tuned! Best regards, Hans de Raad Robin Edgar -- OpenNovations / DevHdR Van Sevenbergestraat 49 2274PK Voorburg Tel +31 6 83578847 www.hcderaad.nl

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[opensuse-project] Minutes meeting oSC 15 -> Next meeting 3rd March 13 UTC / 14 CEST
by Hans de Raad 23 Feb '15

23 Feb '15

Dear all, We just had our openSUSE Conference 2015 IRC Meeting, minutes are available here: https://progress.opensuse.org/documents/14 Next meeting 3rd of March 13h UTC / 14h CEST on the opensuse-project channel on freenode See you then! Hans de Raad Robin Edgar -- OpenNovations / DevHdR Van Sevenbergestraat 49 2274PK Voorburg Tel +31 6 83578847 www.hcderaad.nl

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[opensuse-project] Reminder openSUSE Conference 2015 IRC meeting at 13h UTC / 14h CEST today
by Hans de Raad 23 Feb '15

23 Feb '15

Dear all! Today we'll meet again at the opensuse-project channel on freenode to discuss the progress of the openSUSE Conference 2015 The meeting will be at 13h UTC and 14h CEST. Notes from previous meetings can be found here: https://progress.opensuse.org/documents/14 We hope to see you all again at the meeting! Best regards, Hans de Raad Robin Edgar -- OpenNovations / DevHdR Van Sevenbergestraat 49 2274PK Voorburg Tel +31 6 83578847 www.hcderaad.nl

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[opensuse-project] GSoC Mentor Organization Deadline in 2 Days
by Henne Vogelsang 18 Feb '15

18 Feb '15

Hey, applications for mentoring organizations for this year's GSoC close in about 2 days. Did we apply? Henne -- Henne Vogelsang http://www.opensuse.org Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- 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 17 Feb '15

17 Feb '15

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=18&month=2&year=2015&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] FOSDEM Wrap up regarding oSC
by Hans de Raad 17 Feb '15

17 Feb '15

Hi All! Here is a little update on all the topics discussed past weekend at FOSDEM: - Entertainment for the conf We have invited Awesome Retro to provide us with their amazing vintage computer game machines, this will no doubt provide a great challenge to all participants trying to battle each other in Prince of Persia, Streetfighter, Tetris, Pong and many more great games! - Some more talks Radically Open Security will do a talk about their open source business model. Markus Feilner will do a talk about open source and media relations. Brenno de Winter (famous Dutch research journalist) has also confirmed to be present and to do a talk about the necessity of open source software in a free society. - Lock picking workshops Security is obviously a very urgent topic and not only in the digital realm! At the CCC conf a German minister got her fingerprints copied from hi-res press images, and we will offer something at least as scary/interesting. Did you know that you only need a picture of a key to "hack" a lock? Well, come and see! - Organizations invited We (Robin and myself) have spoken to GNOME, KDE, Tor, Diaspora, FSFE and many others to invite them to the conference. We are working with LibreOffice to get a joint devroom as well. - Joint openSUSE and Kolab dev room We all love having our data under our own control and Kolab offers you just that: email/calendar/file-storage it's got it all! But what would be even better? Let's try to integrate the Kolab setup with the Yast mailserver toolchain! Yast already offers quite a lot of useful features to work with Kolab (LDAP user management, firewalls, webserver, etc), the next logical step would be to tighten those warm relations even more and in the meantime improve the Yast mailserver component. - Cyrus IMAP server 3 sneak preview and dev room We have just received preliminary confirmation that Bron Gondwana (one of the lead developers for the well known Cyrus IMAP server) will also attend both our conferences (Kolab Summit and openSUSE Conference), and he'll probably bring friends! So what would be better than sitting down with them in a dev room to work on Cyrus IMAP servers' openSUSE offerings and look at the great features in store for Cyrus 3. - LPI Exams Have been confirmed to take place again at the oSC. Possibly we will also be hosting LF exams. And besides all that goodness, we also had a very nice social at the Cafe Belga, it was great to see you all. Some more news, last week I attended another conf (phpBenelux in Antwerp) and spoken to quite a lot of speakers about our conference as well. I've got some very interesting talks confirmed: - Ansible (an alternative to Chef and Puppet) - Docker Security (by the person who writes rkhunter) We are still looking for speakers and we really want your help there. Don't forget to register for the conference at http://conference.opensuse.org. More to come! All the best, Hans de Raad Robin Edgar -- OpenNovations / DevHdR Van Sevenbergestraat 49 2274PK Voorburg Tel +31 6 83578847 www.hcderaad.nl

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11 Feb '15

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