January 2016

[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 … [View More]

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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-… [View More]

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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 … [View More]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 [View Less]

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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, … [View More]

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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 … [View More]

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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 … [View More]

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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 … [View More]

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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 … [View More]

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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 … [View More]

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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 … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Board Meeting Minutes - 11th Jan 2016
by Richard Brown 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

Meeting Minutes 11 Jan 2016 3PM CEST Topics Budget oSC 16 TSP Mailinglist Moderation Budget Board discussed current budget status at the end of the Board year - agreed to continue as in previous years going forward, with the assumption that the next board will put together an expectation of expenses for SUSE to approve/be aware of oSC 16 Some confusion about the final dates, the Board is awaiting confirmation of the final dates. The Board is concerned that time is ticking and the … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Board meetings & minutes?
by Per Jessen 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

Judging by https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_meeting, the board stopped meeting in March last year, and no minutes were posted from that last irc meeting. Apparently a face-to-face meeting took place on March 28 & 29, but I see no minutes nor a report from that either. In May 2015, Bruno Friedmann then quietly announced: "To be precise, the meeting on irc, is no more automatic. It's on demand when the need and the actors are there." http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2015-… [View More]

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE @ FOSDEM - Chance for free travel from Nuremberg, DE
by Richard Brown 09 Jan '16

09 Jan '16

(Apologies for the cross-posting) Hello All, It's that time of year again! FOSDEM is at the end of the month (30 & 31 Jan) and as usual, openSUSE will be there, big, bold and as green as ever FOSDEM is one of our biggest events of the year, and is an exceptionally good opportunity to see what is going on in the big wide open source world and start conversations collaborating across our various projects. Kostas has arranged for a booth at the conference, and I believe he is still looking … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Board elections: Knurpht's platform
by Knurpht - Gertjan Lettink 08 Jan '16

08 Jan '16

Hi all, Here's my platform on openSUSE:Board https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_2016_platform_Knurpht -- Gertjan Lettink, a.k.a. Knurpht Official openSUSE Member openSUSE Forums Team -- 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] Board platform for scarabeus
by Tomáš Chvátal 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

Seems like everyone is posting out their platform. So without more ado here goes my linky to wiki: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_2016_platform_scarabeus Cheers Tom

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Re: [opensuse-project] Board meetings & minutes?
by Amey Abhyankar 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

On 6 January 2016 at 19:43, Richard Brown <RBrownCCB(a)opensuse.org> wrote: > > On 6 January 2016 at 14:35, Christian Boltz <opensuse(a)cboltz.de> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Am Mittwoch, 6. Januar 2016 schrieb Richard Brown: > >> Board meetings are typically where non-urgent 'day to day' type stuff > >> is discussed (eg. openSUSE conference planning and preparation, > > > > Good point - are there any news about the openSUSE … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] My campaign for the openSUSE Board
by Manu Gupta 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

Hi Everyone ( I have a very weak Internet connection until Sunday, so please bear with me, with this email only for a while). My general consensus would be to improve communication between everyone (the board, the developers, the non-developers and SUSE). Thanks to the previous efforts from the community and the Board (I do not agree with all that the board does however, they have worked hard over the past two years and have bought noticeable changes to the community), we have are at talking … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Board Elections 2016 - Stathis Iosifidis Platform
by Efstathios Iosifidis 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

Hello lizards, As you probably know, I am candidate. I used older templates for platform and created my own here: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_2016_platform_diamond_gr You can find my contributions there. I'll try to answer as many questions as possible during that period. January until mid February are hard months for me regarding my personal-professional life. So I'll try to answer as soon as I can. More blogposts to come. Bring the fun back. #vote4stathis -- http://… [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Was: Re: [opensuse-factory] New Tumbleweed snapshot 20151229 released!
by Knurpht - Gertjan Lettink 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

Op woensdag 6 januari 2016 23:17:56 schreef Basil Chupin: > On 04/01/16 20:02, Bruno Friedmann wrote: > > On Monday 04 January 2016 17.51:58 Basil Chupin wrote: > >> On 02/01/16 03:58, Ludwig Nussel wrote: > >>> Please note that this mail was generated by a script. > >>> The described changes are computed based on the x86_64 DVD. > >>> The full online repo contains too many changes to be listed here. > >> > >> [pruned] … [View More]> >> > >> > >> A question, Ludwig: why are these announcements about the release of new > >> snapshots of Tumbleweed still being posted in this Factory list -- a > >> list which most people probably do not read -- instead of being posted > >> for all to see in the opensuse [help] list? > >> > >> The current incumbent to the role of the Chairman of the OpenSUSE Board > >> pronounced his dictum that the Factory list was for developer matters > >> and that user support/matters are to be dealt with in the opensuse list > >> -- reference: > >> > >> > >> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2015-12/msg00646.html > >> > >> > >> (Do I hear a dissenting voice in the form of Patrick Shanahan? :-) ) > >> > >> > >> BC > > > > Hey Basil, you're suscribed to both list right? > > Yes, I am subscribed to both lists. You're point being? > > > Then it would be nice contribution for those end users, to simply forward > > the mail to the users list until factory/tumbleweed team find a way to > > auto-push to it. > > Ah, that's your point. Well, you see, I am not the author of those > messages and I do not have the authority to FWD them. > > Besides, it doesn't take much effort to add a 'CC:' in the HEADER to > also send a copy of a message to 'opensuse' list. > > > The Chairman, as any board member, as any contributor, do what he can, > > with the free time, we can all allow to openSUSE contribution. > > > > You've plenty of time to write, nice. Use that to drive the community to a > > be a nice place to play with others. > > You know what I think? I think that you have been taking lessons from > your 'Fearless Leader' in how to reply to people's posts and therefore > "how to make friends and influence people". > > I ask a legitimate question from Ludwig and you, who is not Ludwig, come > out with your response. > > I didn't ask you the question -- and your response did not even come > close in providing a sensible answer. > > And, therefore, I await the sensible answer from Ludwig. > > > ps : You know, you can still apply to become Board Member, so you will be > > able to share the slaps some of you have kindly throw to our Board staff. > > Bruno, you wrote this message at 2002 hours on 4 January 2015. > > As a board member who has been active on the board for the past 2 years > and taking a keen interest in all things openSUSE-Community-Board and > openSUSE-Community itself you would know that nominations for vacancies > on the board closed on 1 January 2015[#]. Apart from missing the closing > date for nominating I have no intention of nominating for anything -- I > have had my share of being on boards et al. > > > [#] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2015-12/msg00083.html > > > BC A second reply: some googling and going through the archives shows you have a long history of questioning and ridiculing board decisions, mostly wrapped up in personal attacks. IMHO that's not what these lists ( nor the forums, nor the social media pages ) are for. -- Gertjan Lettink, a.k.a. Knurpht Official openSUSE Member openSUSE Forums Team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org [View Less]

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[opensuse-project] Board Elections - New Blog URL
by Knurpht - Gertjan Lettink 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

Hi all, Here's the new URL for my blog posts: http://blog.knurpht.nl -- Gertjan Lettink, a.k.a. Knurpht Official openSUSE Member openSUSE Forums Team -- 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] Board Elections
by Knurpht - Gertjan Lettink 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

Hi all, As promised, coming back with a blog post / manifesto https://forums.opensuse.org/entry.php/168-Here-we-go -- Gertjan Lettink, a.k.a. Knurpht Official openSUSE Member openSUSE Forums Team -- 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] Bryan Lunduke's campaign platform
by Bryan Lunduke 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

I wrote a quick blog post summarizing what I have to offer as a candidate for the openSUSE Board. http://lunduke.com/2016/01/06/bryan-lunduke-for-opensuse-board/ -Bryan Lunduke -- 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] Board election status
by Martin Pluskal 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

On Sunday, January 03, 2016 07:12:53 PM you wrote: > Let the great campaign begin! :) > > Hey... you know what would be kind of cool? What if we had an > "openSUSE Board Election Hangout"? > > Instead of a debate or something... what if, instead, the 5 of us > running all get together on one Hangout (or Jitsi or Jangout, etc.) > and simply have a friendly, happy chat about the election and where we > see openSUSE going in the next few years? Then post the video … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Board election status
by Martin Pluskal 03 Jan '16

03 Jan '16

Hi we are currently in Phase 1, that is campaign for the candidates before the ballots open. We have following candidates running for board: * Bryan Lunduke * Manu Gupta * Gertjan Lettink, a.k.a. Knurpht * Tomáš Chvátal, a.k.a scarabeus_iv * Efstathios Iosifidis And as a remidnder following is ahead of us: 4/ 2016-01-21 (Phase 2) * Ballots open: Please cast your vote here! 5/ 2016-02-01 * Ballots close (end of phase 2) 6/ 2016-02-02 * Announcement of the results Have a lot of fun! … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Fwd: Board member candidate Efstathios Iosifidis
by Alex-P. Natsios 01 Jan '16

01 Jan '16

Hello community, Stathis has some issues with his client so I was asked to fwd this cover message for his intention to run for the board. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Efstathios Iosifidis <iefstathios(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 11:59 PM Subject: Fwd: Board member candidate Efstathios Iosifidis To: "Alex-P. Natsios" <xxxxx(a)xxxx.com> ---------- Προωθημένο μήνυμα ---------- Από: "Efstathios Iosifidis" <iefstathios(a)gmail.com> Ημερομηνία: 1 Ιαν … [View More]

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