August 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] Why market opensuse as two different releases?
by pc 29 Aug '15

29 Aug '15

I think maintaining two different opensuse versions is a big mistake, I dont understand it and I think most users wont understand it. Shouldnt it be enough for those normal users to simply add some other repos and then press zypper dup? If that is the case, it should be "one enterprise release" + an option during installation that you can check if you want the latest and greatest from tumbleweed. It would be much less confusing. -- 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] Why market opensuse as two different releases?
by Traktor Toni 29 Aug '15

29 Aug '15

t it be enough for those normal users to simply add some other repos and then press zypper dup? If that is the case, it should be "one enterprise release" + an option during installation that you can check if you want the latest and greatest from tumbleweed. It would be much less confusing. -- 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] Video about Tumbleweed and Leap integration process
by Douglas DeMaio 28 Aug '15

28 Aug '15

Hi all, Last week Dominique Leuenberger gave a really good presentation about the Tumbleweed and Leap integration process and briefly described the interconnecting points of the openSUSE project. If you are interested, please read the article and watch the video at http://bit.ly/1fK42Z5. Share the video at http://bit.ly/1JnCYHu Have a lot of fun. v/r Doug -- 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] LFNW 2015 activity summary
by James Mason 27 Aug '15

27 Aug '15

Sorry for the lateness - I just found this in my "Drafts" folder. I blame the corporate email system ;-) LFNW 2015 was April 25th & 26th, in Bellingham, WA. openSUSE sponsored LFNW again this year; thanks to the board for making this happen. As usual, we "had a lot of fun!" As a sponsor, we were entitled to a 100 sq.ft. booth space, which was setup in the 'openSUSE Lounge' design once again this year. The lounge design provides a calm place for people to sit down and relax for a few minutes in an otherwise crazy conference floor space. Our volunteers can sit back and spend time chatting with users, or other enthusiasts with questions, or go to the 'workbench' in the back to sit down with a laptop and solve real problems. The Booth Box supplied us with an abundance of media, both DVDs and thumb drives, as well as swag that was very popular with passers-by. We make a point of bundling the DVDs inside the "What's Cool" brochure, so guests of the show don't just walk away with install media, but at least a general idea of the community and tools that make openSUSE unique. Morning meeting at the openSUSE Lounge: https://plus.google.com/events/gallery/c4aqcfn8o62uvkgvqodbvlu07oc?pid= 6142240621319176434&oid=109797684537320994845 LFNW 2015 had record attendance again this year, with about 1850 registered attendees, and an uncounted number of unregistered attendees (it is a completely free and open event, so registration is optional). In the conference hall we felt this on Saturday, with big loud crowds. With a crowd of that scale, its hard to make good connections from handing out some of the items in the booth box, so we worked with LFNW organizers to use our materials as effectively as possible. The majority of the openSUSE thumb drives went toward the event's "world famous" raffle, where the announcer mentioned, with nearly every giveaway, "and an openSUSE thumb drive". It was great to hear him say "openSUSE" fifty times over the course of the hour :-) The openSUSE coasters were allocated to the event's Saturday night party, and were preliminarily placed at tables and booths, and handed out with beers until they were gone. I was informed by a few attendees on Sunday that they pocketed the coasters instead of using them for their beers as intended. Saturday's crowd: https://plus.google.com/events/gallery/c4aqcfn8o62uvkgvqodbvlu07oc?pid= 6142258520193779986&oid=101366257805402002854 -- James Mason Technical Architect, Public Cloud openSUSE Member SUSE jmason(a)suse.com ------------------------------------- SUSECon 2015: Register at susecon.com

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[opensuse-project] Question About Bandwidth
by Andres Betts 27 Aug '15

27 Aug '15

Hey friends, My work is currently looking at providing mirrors to some distributions, openSUSE being one of them, but they asked me about how much bandwidth on average is spent when people use your mirrors. I wanted to ask our group if anyone knows those numbers. For example, main repository versus a list of repositories in the USA. If anyone knows, please let me know :) -- Andy (anditosan) -- 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] My comments regarding the landing page
by Manu Gupta 27 Aug '15

27 Aug '15

Hi First of all, the design of the landing page is awesome!!!! Kudos to everyone who worked on it. However, I have issues with how the content was placed. I have always believed that the openSUSE Project is different from the openSUSE Distro. By calling openSUSE as a Linux OS, we are ignoring the fact that the we are not just a distro. One may argue that Tools describe other projects but then we come off more strongly as a distro rather than a community. Second, the contributions corner. It is uninviting for non-technical contributors. There is no mention of it and it does not help at all with the issues we are already facing or not talking about. I hope the people who are working on it give thought about it. -- Regards Manu 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] membership policy
by jdd 26 Aug '15

26 Aug '15

Hello, I'm in the way of trying to makes more live the membership process. This mail should have been sent to the "membership_official" list only, but most of his members are probably also on -projet, and this number is not now large enough to have a normal functioning. normally, we should accept or decline a submission if it reach *4* votes in the good direction. Problem is some submissions are pretty old and I think very bad to have people waiting an answer. two kind of people do not give any problem: * ones having no contribution at all and not listing any or asking to make contributions in the future. I think these submission should be declined by the first member of the team that sees them, with a kind message (anyway all the submission results a e-mailed on the m_o list, so anybody knows) * some peoples have a large contribution (like people making the OSC-15 happen) and could be accepted may be with only two positive advices. Should be on this category people who's contribution is confirmed by one of the team, even if it's not too much visible on the net (I think for example Nicolas that held the openSUSE booth during a hole week at RMLL!!) for the people having some plus and some minus, the m_o list is there for discussion. What do you think? thanks jdd -- 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] contact mhrusecky
by jdd 21 Aug '15

21 Aug '15

Hello, I'm said than mhrusecky is the connect admin, but He do not seems to be connected to the ticket system and all the tests at mhrusecky@suse (com, de, cz) come back with unknown are you here? thanks jdd -- 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] Leap 42.1 - consistent naming
by Jay 19 Aug '15

19 Aug '15

Now that the first milestone for Leap 42.1 is imminent (or is it out already?) I'd like to suggest that we no longer use just "42" as a name (not even for download-links) but "Leap 42.1" or "Leap" in order to penetrate the name early and consistently. Otherwise me might end up with two competing names (= confusion). The project-page should be updated accordingly, too. BTW: - Is it "official" now that Leap 42.1 uses the 4.1-LTS-kernel? I've read that somewhere. - And has a decision been made already with respect to support-time: 3 or x years? Greetings! Rainer Fiebig -- 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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