January 2016 - 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] Google Summer of Code 2016
by Henne Vogelsang 05 Mar '16

05 Mar '16

Hey, let's go. Henne -------- Forwarded Message -------- Hi GSoC mentors and org admins, We've announced <http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/10/dozen-of-one-half-dozen-of-ot…> that we're holding Google Summer of Code 2016 <http://g.co/gsoc>. The GSoC calendar <https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=gsummerofcode@gmail.com&ctz=Ameri…>, FAQ <https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/faq>, and events timeline <https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline> have all been updated with next year's important dates, so please refer to those for the milestones for the program. Please consider applying to participate as an organization again next year or maybe joining as a mentor for your favorite organization if they are selected to participate. We rely on you for your help for the success of this program, so thank you in advance for all the work you do! Cheers, -- 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] About mailinglists and changing box. Smalltalk held at Fossdem with Richard and Michael (I think)
by stakanov＠freenet.de 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

a) Having considered the troubles of some to find ways to unsubscribe, even to recall what lists they are subscribed to and also searching for a channel to convey information about unsubscribe, behavior in case of complain, responsible people (since this may change due to turnover): it would be IMO a good idea to send a reminder mail every 6 month (e.g.) containing: - the lists the email in question is subscribed to - the way on how to unsubscribe if desired -update on rules and regulations and particularly - a how to on behavior to hold in case of complain about list members causing grief or conflict - an updated list on who is in charge where in the project especially but not necessarily exclusively the ones in charge for the respective mailing-lists. The rational is that such an email avoids questioning on the very lists. The demand for it is obviously there since although in theory the information is there, it is in separate places, people forget about details, do not have time to inquire etc. The mail should not come often not to annoy people but often enough not to be outdated. IMO 6 month period is a reasonable time, one year is also acceptable but it seems long to me. The less frequent such a mail does come, the more information should it contain (in a clearly structured way) YMMV. An example mailing list that AFAIK is doing it regularly is the GNUPG mailinglist. b) a second point was about the entry page. How could one have some information be presented in a circular and dynamic way without requiring a lot of personnel to change the outfit of the page? My proposal would be to stick to this design examples of commercial websites below (disclaimer: these are design examples of what I propose, neither do I think you will be interested in the commerce nor am I associated with these people in any way. But I noticed the web-solution): https://www.bike-components.de/en/ a similar thing you have it with this vendor (just differently sized). https://www.alternate.de/ here you instead you have a tab-based approach but substantially the same solution (again the same disclaimer applies). If you have a look at the upper part of the page. It presents a slide-show that can be manually stopped, a click brings you to the corresponding information if desired and of course it circles through. Such a presentation could solve the issue of who "comes first" on a webpage, e.g. tumbleweed being on the left or leap on the right etc) as everyone will have the same circle time. This first diapo could be the one giving info of new and recent thematic, then circle to the distributions. Substantially this gives you a lot of freedom to: 1) change a lot of things 2) to not change a thing Point two is particularly nice because a redesign can be done very selectively and does not require to change the setup of the whole page. IMO an economical way of proceeding. Lastly a suggestion about how to lower complexity in link based websites (or that do convey a lot of different info available). "Click-boxes" that selectively show only a part of the information - thus making the page easier to read. An example of what I mean here, you can find it here: http://www.archchinese.com/chinese_english_dictionary.html?find=software This page will open with a lot of translations and gimmicks for the word "software" . Now look at the section "sentences" below. It is cluttered with too much info. But you see the tick-boxes? Try them out, a click and you deselect part of the page. I found this to be extremely efficient to see what you search with little effort and to have a very personalized approach to information. Where you could use this, I do not know, maybe WIKI? But I think it is nice for the eye, thus I wanted to present it here a an example, maybe it raises some interest. (Again I do not take money nor any advantage from this link, it is just for the sake of an html example). Thank you Richard, Michael and who else was present today. It was a refreshing smalltalk. --- Alle Postfächer an einem Ort. Jetzt wechseln und E-Mail-Adresse mitnehmen! http://email.freenet.de/basic/Informationen -- 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] Volunteers for oSC16 Program Committee and Organizing Team
by ddemaio 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

*Hi all,** *We are off and running. The call for papers for oSC16 will open tomorrow. The current dates we have are June 27 - June 30 in Nuremberg. There will be an***SUSE Owncloud Summit / Kolab Summit on the front end of the conference and a **Kernel Summit (by SUSE Labs) / Salt Stack Summit.** ** **** **We are asking for volunteers to participate in the *Program Committee and the Organizing Team.If you are interested in participating in the Program Committee or the Organizing Team, please reply or email ddemaio(a)suse.de. Those interested in the Program Committee should also include FTeodori(a)suse.com in their reply. * **Responsibilities of the Program committee are:** **** ** * Selecting proposals for program * serve as an advocate for the conference * coordinate needs to the organizing team (social events, set up, etc.) * Work with summit leaders planning their summits at oSC to ensure their program needs are met. ** **** ** **The organizing team will have a monthly meeting to organize the following:* *** ** **Session Host** ** **Information / Registration Volunteers** ** **Marketing* * *At events* * *Through social media* * *Writing articles* * *making videos* * *taking pictures* * *Make posters* * *Make Guide for online and physical handout (trains, food, etc.)* * *Reach out to schools, businesses with invitation (design invitation)* * *Book with program schedule and abstracts* * video posts of oSC on YouTube* * * **Welcome Bags* * *Handouts* * *Tshirts* * *USB* * **Setup* * *Add wifi* * *Video and audio* * *beamers* * *computer equipment* * *chairs* * *tables* * *power supply* * *recording crew* * **Entertainment / Social Events* * *Bands* * *Social Event* * **Food and Drinks** ** **Need for New **Video and Audio **Equipment ***

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE board 2015/2016 election is now open for votes
by Martin Pluskal 26 Jan '16

26 Jan '16

Hi since today, all members of openSUSE can vote for candidates for openSUSE Board: https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/polls/read/pluskalm/49480/opensuse-board-el… Canditates are following: + Bryan Lunduke * + Manu Gupta + Gertjan Lettink, a.k.a. Knurpht + Tomáš Chvátal, a.k.a scarabeus_iv * + Efstathios Iosifidis As allways, each openSUSE member has THREE VOTES. Candidates marked with a (*) are SUSE employees. The election period ends at 2016-02-01 and results will be announced at 2016-02-02 In case of any questions, feel free to ask at election-officials(a)opensuse.org. openSUSE 2016 Election Committee Andrew Wafaa Martin Pluskal

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[opensuse-project] Board Meeting Minutes - 25th Jan 2016
by Richard Brown 26 Jan '16

26 Jan '16

Meeting Minutes 25 Jan 2016 3PM CEST Present Everyone Topics oSC 16 TSP Election Farewells oSC 16 Call for Papers is now open! Submit your talk suggestions now! https://events.opensuse.org/conference/oSC16/proposal/new oSC 16 Team have found that a previously favoured venue is available a week earlier than originally targeted for oSC 16. Price appears reasonable. Dates for oSC 16 are now expected to be somewhere around 21-26th June. Would not recommend anyone booking anything yet as further planning and discussion needs to be confirmed, but this should be finalised and formally announced soon. TSP Michal mailed Stathis from the TSP team asking for clarification about the confusing messages about FOSDEM travel reimbursement. Did not receive a response to this mail, but anecdotal feedback suggests the TSP team have decided to consider requests for reimbursement for FOSDEM despite the earliest opportunity for people to apply being later than the usual deadline. If this is the case, the Board welcomes this action by the TSP team. Election Board election underway - https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/polls/read/pluskalm/49480/opensuse-board-el… We seem to have 109 votes already (vs 150 last year), If you're an openSUSE Member then VOTE NOW - would be very nice to see a much higher turnout than last years election Farewells This was the last Board meeting for Andrew Wafaa, Bruno Friedmann and Robert Schweikert. The remaining Board members would like to thank them for all their hard work over the last years and look forward to them continuing as important members of our community going forward. Thank you and have a lot of fun. -- 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] SCaLE14x Videos
by PatrickD Garvey 25 Jan '16

25 Jan '16

For those who like to attend conventions, but don't have an infinite budget, there are sometimes (as thankfully there is with oSC15) videos. The staff of the Southern California Linux Exposition (SCaLE) has a YouTube channel < https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN2nbMPLJWv3Y__4JuF_hMQ > to which they are now actively posting presentations made at SCaLE14x. You can binge on copies of the 11 hour live feeds from individual rooms or find individual presentations broken out. Of course, the quality of the presentation depends upon the originator, but I intend to look for information I was not able to receive live. It was a great conference and I expect to find much more good information in the videos. -- 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] openSUSE board 2015/2016 election is now open for vot
by Martin Pluskal 21 Jan '16

21 Jan '16

Hi since today, all members of openSUSE can vote for candidates for openSUSE Board: https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/polls/read/pluskalm/49480/opensuse-board-el… Canditates are following: + Bryan Lunduke * + Manu Gupta + Gertjan Lettink, a.k.a. Knurpht + Tomáš Chvátal, a.k.a scarabeus_iv * + Efstathios Iosifidis As allways, each openSUSE member has THREE VOTES. Candidates marked with a (*) are SUSE employees. The election period ends at 2016-02-01 and results will be announced at 2016-02-02 In case of any questions, feel free to ask at election-officials(a)opensuse.org. openSUSE 2016 Election Committee Andrew Wafaa Martin Pluskal

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[opensuse-project] http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/spectacle-15.12.0-1.1.x86_64.rpm
by Steven Hess 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

Trying to access this URL(http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/spectacle-… ) to download spectacle. I get: Object not found! The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again. Is something up with the downloads server? Trying to get a screen capture back on Tumbleweed Plasma. I'm having no luck this is the one that's supposed to be provided but a recent update removed the old screen capture program and didn't provide the replacement. This is the replacement. Steven -- ____________ Apply appropriate technology. Use what works without prejudice. Steven L Hess ARS KC6KGE DM05gd22 Owner Flex-1500 and Flex-3000 Flex-6300, FT-857D, FT-817ND 927.0875Mhz and 441.125 Repeaters Taft Ca. openSUSE Tumbleweed KDE Plasma with Packman, Leap 42.1 -- 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] Planning w.r.t. Packages and Versions
by Till Dörges 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

[I'm not sure this is proper place for my question. If it isn't please excuse the noise (and tell me where to turn to :-)).] Hello all, I'm trying to do some mid-term planning for a couple of our projects. For that it'd be very helpful to know how certain packages will evolve over the next couple of versions: Looking at Leap 42.1 we currently have - wxWidgets 2.8.12 (as well as the more recent 3.0.x) - DeviceKit-disks (contained in udisks-1.0.5) - Ruby 2.1 - X.org 7.6 What are the odds that wxWidgets 2.8.12 and DeviceKit-disks (udisks-1.0.5) will still be kept for 42.2 or 42.3? How about Ruby and X.org? Will it simply be the version of these packages that are current a few months before the release of 42.x? Any insights, guesses, hints, ... will be greatly appreciated! TIA -- Till -- Dipl.-Inform. Till Dörges doerges(a)pre-sense.de Tel. +49 - 40 - 244 2407 - 14 Fax +49 - 40 - 244 2407 - 24 PRESENSE Technologies GmbH Sachsenstr. 5, D-20097 HH Geschäftsführer/Managing Directors AG Hamburg, HRB 107844 Till Dörges, Jürgen Sander USt-IdNr.: DE263765024 -- 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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