April 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] [Announcement] SUSE Release SLE Sources to openSUSE Project
by Richard Brown 02 May '15

02 May '15

Dear Community, SUSE is preparing to pro-actively release a significant portion of the SUSE Linux Enterprise source code, including a regular stream of maintenance updates, to the openSUSE Project. These packages will give the community an enduring, stable, and maintained base, upon which exciting community led offerings could be built. An openSUSE community distribution built upon this base can plan for a sustainable stream of packages, as we intend to continue releasing and updating this platform in line with the cadence of SUSE Linux Enterprise and it's service packs. We at SUSE are going to be using this opportunity to focus more engineering efforts on the common elements between SLE and openSUSE, by directly increasing contributions to openSUSE and sharing sources, tools and processes to optimize collaboration for the mutual benefits. As members of the openSUSE community, we at SUSE invite everyone else in the community to collaborate on this base and to consider leveraging it for future openSUSE releases. We're keen to hear your feedback and talk about involvement in this project. For more details, I will be presenting about this concept in detail and how we propose it could be adopted by openSUSE at the openSUSE Conference on Friday, at 10:15 in the Main Hall. Have a lot of fun, Richard Brown openSUSE Board Chairman -- 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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Re: [opensuse-project] [Announcement] SUSE Release SLE Sources to openSUSE Project
by Jan Engelhardt 02 May '15

02 May '15

>SUSE is preparing to pro-actively release a significant portion of >the SUSE Linux Enterprise source code,[...], to the openSUSE >project. These packages will give the community an enduring, stable, >and maintained base, upon which exciting[...] Mighty goodlord, this is too much salestalk/marketspeak. The significant portion of SLE code is from openSUSE and/or other open projects anyway, so that may not be all that exciting. >An openSUSE community distribution built upon this base can plan for >a sustainable stream of packages, as we intend to continue releasing >and updating this platform in line with the cadence of SUSE Linux >Enterprise and it's [sic] service packs. Reads to me like "The openSUSE distribution converges with SLE and the two become the new SUSE Linux (open, this time)". Would not even be bad. -- 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] Want to be part of openFATE Screening Team
by Akash Vishwakarma 30 Apr '15

30 Apr '15

Hey, Just a few weeks ago I came to know about openFATE and got so in love with it. So, I decided to be part of openFATE Screening Team. For that I've tried to contact on #opensuse-project on freenode. From there I got reference to spyhawk. On contacting him I found out that he is not doing screening. Then I've mailed everyone listed on https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Openfate_screening. Only Andreas Jaeger replied. And he too is not doing the screening. So, some questions now. Is anyone doing openFATE screening? If anyone is doing. Then, I also want to start screening. Tell me how can I start? Regards, Akash Vishwakarma (vish_99) https://forums.opensuse.org/member.php/72120-vish_99 -- 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] conference schedule
by Christian Boltz 30 Apr '15

30 Apr '15

Hello, I just noticed that Michal Hrušecký is scheduled for two talks at the same time (2015-05-04 13:30). Either Michal has superpowers (or a clone ;-) or one of the talks should be moved to another time ;-) (Personally, I'd like to have the "Playing with OBS" talk moved ;-) Regards, Christian Boltz -- > Blöde Frage: Platte/Partition voll? -> df -h Tatsächlich. Erklärt mich nicht für blöd, das war auch mein 1.Gedanke, habe mich dann aber dummerweise bei der Ausgabe von "df -Th" verguckt. Die root-Partition ist wirklich voll gelaufen. Oh, wie ärgerlich. Aber vielen Dank für die blöde Frage! ;-) [> Christian Boltz und Jürgen Pabst in suse-linux] -- 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] Important information for the openSUSE Conference 2015
by Robin Edgar 30 Apr '15

30 Apr '15

Thank you for registering for the openSUSE Conference 2015 in the Hague! Conference check-in starts at 09:00 on Friday. The address of the venue is: Westvliet Sport Center Westvliet 55 Den Haag Netherlands The closest public transport stop is Station Voorburg, which is a 5 to 10 minute walk from the conference centre. We are looking for people to help with all kinds of stuff: Audio / Video, lunch, dinner, helping and announcing speakers, troubleshooting, etc - if you sign up beforehand, you can indicate what you prefer to help with. As this is a community driven event, we count on everybody helping out once you arrive. The printed conference schedule is included in this email, but we are in a fluid situation, so the best place to find out about the schedule remains online at https://events.opensuse.org/admin/conference/osc15/schedule If you are a speaker, please note what time your slot is. Please note your talk may be streamed and will be recorded. The recorded talks will be posted online. We look forward to seeing you over the next few days! Best regards, Robin Edgar

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[opensuse-project] Video team instruction this evening at Westvliet
by Hans De Raad (OpenNovations) 30 Apr '15

30 Apr '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Quick message to all volunteers coming to openSUSE conference, this evening around 19/1930 (exact time will follow) we'll have a video recording instruction at the Westvliet venue. If you want to help us out with that, please be there! Best! Hans de Raad Robin Edgar - --- OpenNovations / DevHdR Van Sevenbergestraat 49 2274PK Voorburg Tel +31 6 83578847 www.hcderaad.nl -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: APG v1.1.1 iQFNBAEBCgA3BQJVQgKjMBxIYW5zIGRlIFJhYWQgKE9wZW5Ob3ZhdGlvbnMpIDxp bmZvQGhjZGVyYWFkLm5sPgAKCRAodbI29i0B/pP3CAC1gaEfzseT6erKhNn0r37B reRQ2609FlzVtPy4lXdMEY5bGldG8EnagUmDS61RIqLKerCSiZsuxvnemBjcuMdc 0gVeVtyQChiMgBNNlg7GUy5OvQrfhb29kNL3Mw3wRHQ2Gu/u6Mbt3ORldRL5NJ62 V3IanuLI+Go4bw/hjTObZE/xyj535JiWQQ4ehHpKEWS5bJLFJQKA6NEy6ErBDP6y +2swf3O2YZD2MiZc9QZ5g9PeL6oKIU20nIN40gN2SD8Dwbzd+E/aA84eOOkpfEe0 2I2d4gZiza7ZTMcwEn9E1Nc83x/SAJRG98VjNx7cnO8Yqw9t9VdGKVln2aduJgdJ =BSVg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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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Re: [opensuse-project] oSC15 Sleepover at the venue, beds still available!
by Hans de Raad 30 Apr '15

30 Apr '15

Hi JW, thanks for letting us know what to prepare for! :-) Will more people from Neuremberg want to use the sleepover? You seem to be the only one that actually registered! ;-) Best, Hans -- OpenNovations / DevHdR Van Sevenbergestraat 49 2274PK Voorburg Tel +31 6 83578847 www.hcderaad.nl On Thursday, April 30, 2015 11:39:32 AM Jürgen Weigert wrote: > Hans, thanks for the update! > (Breakfast is great news) > > The SUSE crowd is on the way! > https://oc.fablab-nuernberg.de/public.php?service=files&t=bonJvVlM1SxlnMP > > I am happy to be part of osc15! > > cheers, JW > Am 29.04.2015 15:16 schrieb "Hans de Raad" <info(a)hcderaad.nl>: > > > Hi All! > > > > We've just gone over the list of registrants for the sleepover at the > > venue and we still have quite some beds left to be slept on! :-) > > > > If you want to stay at the venue, please register here: > > > > https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1P6aj0vIN2wTn_9y2kkCe9Py0Enw8VSXpXrw7y_S7Ju… > > > > Costs are E 12,50 per day (or night), breakfast will be available at the > > venue for only E 5,- per day (or morning). > > > > See you Friday! > > > > > > > > -- > > OpenNovations / DevHdR > > > > Van Sevenbergestraat 49 > > 2274PK Voorburg > > > > Tel +31 6 83578847 > > > > www.hcderaad.nl

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[opensuse-project] oSC15 Sleepover at the venue, beds still available!
by Hans de Raad 29 Apr '15

29 Apr '15

Hi All! We've just gone over the list of registrants for the sleepover at the venue and we still have quite some beds left to be slept on! :-) If you want to stay at the venue, please register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1P6aj0vIN2wTn_9y2kkCe9Py0Enw8VSXpXrw7y_S7Ju… Costs are E 12,50 per day (or night), breakfast will be available at the venue for only E 5,- per day (or morning). See you Friday! -- OpenNovations / DevHdR Van Sevenbergestraat 49 2274PK Voorburg Tel +31 6 83578847 www.hcderaad.nl

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[opensuse-project] oSC15 Social events: Friday
by Hans de Raad 29 Apr '15

29 Apr '15

Hi all! At any conference, the hallway track is at least as important as the "formal" talks and workshops, and for openSUSE Conference and Kolab Summit we think we have an excellent selection of social activities to engage in and get to know your fellow conference attendees! For Friday we don't have an "official" social event planned, how ever we won't leave you hanging in midair! At the conference venue we'll have the pretty great AwesomeRetro gameconsoles to improve your Duckhunting skills and suchlike and there will be simple food like fries and suchlike. Beer: However, we also arranged a room at what has officially been awarded as "The Netherlands Best Beer Restaurant" which is Rootz slap bang in The Hagues' great city center near the Grote Markt! Here is the English version of their website http://www.rootz.nl/best-beer-restaurant Info about the Saturday and Sunday will follow asap (hint, it will involve BBQ's and beer)! Enjoy! Hans de Raad Robin Edgar -- OpenNovations / DevHdR Van Sevenbergestraat 49 2274PK Voorburg Tel +31 6 83578847 www.hcderaad.nl

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