Hi everybody,
as you all know, we have the openSUSE Members, a group of contributors through
their sustained and substantial contributors that are eligible to participate
in elections, have @opensuse.org mail and other perks. We have now about 600
of them, but as you can see[1] in last openSUSE Board elections only 150 of
them voted.
This could mean two things - either most of the members are not interested in
elections or plenty of them are simply no longer around. I guess the truth is
somewhere in middle. This is something we need to know when we take project
wide decisions in order to correctly assess the communities interest in the
topic.
This is a recurring topic that has been discussed at the openSUSE Board Face to
Face meeting last year, oSC 15, and on this list several times over the last
few years. Taking these into consideration, we (in the board) think it would
be a good idea to implement something to help with ensuring our Membership list
accurately reflects our current Membership. I have put together a tool which
attempts to detect an openSUSE Members activity on mailing lists, OBS,
bugzilla, maybe more. This tool will remember when we last saw openSUSE Member
on any of those channels and if they doesn't show for 6 months, we will send
them an e-mail asking whether they still wants to be a member. A response to
that email will automatically count as activity and preserve the Members
status. If there is no response within 30 days of the notification, the Member
will be 'retired' and be considered a 'Member emeritus'. If someone is retired
incorrectly, or a 'Member emeritus' returns to the Project and wants a
restoration of their voting privilege, they will be unretired without question
by the Membership Committee.
There are few implementation details to be worked out, so we don't expect this
to go live overnight but consider this a "statement of intent" and an
explanation of how we expect things to work before we start testing the
process.
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To answer some of the obvious questions:
Q: Shouldn't we retire inactive members anyway after measuring and evaluating
their activity?
A: No, that would be too hard, too subjective and it could bother people that
we cannot measure automatically. Automatic measurement is just an indicator
that those people are no longer interested, but they might be just working
on project aspects we cannot measure. openSUSE Members are members until
THEY no longer want to be. We believe this system preserves that principle.
Q: Wouldn't it offend active contributors if they will be falsely accused of
not being interested?
A: I hope not. If period will be long enough (6 months) and if we monitor even
mailing lists, people will usually show up somewhere. We intend to word the
'ping' email in a way that is not judgemental, but just makes it clear that
we have failed to automatically find evidence of contribution so want to make
sure they are still interested in remaining a Member.
Q: Doesn't it change the meaning of the openSUSE Member?
A: Not really. So far once you got a membership status, it was forever without
question. Now it would be forever as long as you are interested. No big
change, just a little difference.
Q: What if mail with warning gets lost?
A: If you lose your membership by accident by losing an e-mail, you can still
contact membership committee and as a retired member you will be reinstated
immediately without voting/verification that takes time. And you should fix
your e-mail in connect.opensuse.org in that case ;-)
Q: Will retired members retain their email & IRC cloak perks?
A: No, the intention is that retired members will no longer be eligible for
@opensuse.org email addresses and Freenode IRC cloaks.
[1] https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/polls/read/pluskalm/49480/opensuse-board-el…
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Hi All
We will have an organizing meeting for the openSUSE Conference on the
opensuse-project channel on freenode IRC today at 1700 UTC.
The agenda for today's meeting will be:
Program Committee Update
Entertainment Update
Requests for TSP Timeline
Marketing Status
Structure/CapacityUpdate
Equipment Update
Swag Update
v/r
Doug
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Hi all !!
There's a spam attack in planet.o.o from:
Alexey Fedorchuk.
Can someone fix it? Or I can edit the GitHub code and remove it?
Thanks
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Hello,
good news: after a month of hunting a) spammers and b) server admins,
the needed wiki extensions to prevent and delete wiki spam finally got
installed and the database updated so that those extensions can work.
(Done in the english wiki, the others will follow.)
This means the wiki is editable again :-)
It also means we now have an easy way to block spam, and can mass-delete
existing spam pages.
As every good news, there's also a bit of bad news - the database update
cleared all cache, which means the wiki is terribly slow at the moment.
BTW: If I accidently delete something that was not spam while doing the
mass deletion, please tell me ;-)
For those who are interested in details:
- the Nuke and AbuseFilter extensions were installed
- I just added the first spam filter - let's see how it works out (and
tell me if it accidently produces false positives [1])
- I just started to delete all the spam. If someone has admin
permissions on the english wiki and wants to help, head over to
https://en.opensuse.org/Special:Nuke and enter something like %1_8%
as page title search term. It uses MySQL LIKE syntax, as a regex the
example means .*1.8.* (the "all pages" list will give you more
spam page titles if you sort by creation date)
- If you are interested in helping with AbuseFilter rules, see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam/AbuseFilter_examples and
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter#Documentation_and_mana…
for documentation.
If you reply to this mail, please answer only to one list. Cross-posting
the announcement is enough ;-)
Regards,
Christian Boltz
[1] Funnily I was the first victim of the spam filter ;-)
I didn't exclude the 'delete' action on the first attemp. When I
tried to delete pages with spammy title, this was denied because
the page title matched the spam filter ;-)
Lesson learned: I need to exclude the 'delete' action from the filter ;-)
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Hello,
I logged in to my connect.opensuse.org account
Reached at https://connect.opensuse.org/travel-support/
At left hand navigation tab, clicked on 'travel Support Program' under
'External Links'.
Got redirected to https://www.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Travel_Support_Program
And, got URL not found error.
Link/URL seems to be broken.
Regards,
Amey.
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Hi All
We will have an organizing meeting for the openSUSE Conference on the
opensuse-project channel on freenode IRC today at 1700 UTC.
The agenda for today's meeting will be:
Entertainment Update
Structure Review
Outreach/Education Update
Marketing Update
Keynote Update
Trello Cards Update
Equipment update
Swag update
The call for proposals ended last Friday. We have 111 submission. The
Program Committee has started it's rating process of the proposals and
we hope to have the selection process finished by the end of the month.
Please make sure to start your TSP process 6 weeks prior to oSC16-
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Travel_Support_Program
v/r
Doug
Hello,
I have done registration for oSC16 in 1st week of March & have
received registration confirmation e-mail too on same day from the
team.
I was waiting for 'Request for invitation letter for visa' tab/option
to show up/get enabled.
Unfortunately I am unable to find that option as of today.
After logging, I just see i) t-shirt size ii) Arrival & departure time options.
I am about to apply for German/Schengen visa in a week or 2.
According to VFS Germany web-site for my region, it takes 15 working
days for visa processing i.e. 3 weeks.
In addition to that as it's a tourism season,difficult to get
appointment to submit application.
With this regard [i.e invitation letter], is it possible to add lunch
options too i.e. vegetarian/non-vegetarian lunch at OSEM? I have seen
this option at several conference registration pages recently &
thought of suggesting for OSEM. [If feasible]
Regards,
Amey.
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Hi,
I would like to join the openSUSE organization on github. Could you add me?
Thanks already,
Nick
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# Board Meeting Minutes 4th April 1600 CEST
## Present
- Richard Brown - Chair
- Michal Hrušecký
- Tomas Chvatal
- Gertjan Lettink
- Bryan Lunduke
- Andrew Wafaa - Treasurer
## Absent
- Kostas Koudaras - Last minute emergency, contributed to some agenda
items via email.
## General Items
### TSP Committe Proposal
Izabel proposed a TSP committee for oSC16. As the Board are already
working on figuring out a more streamlined future for the TSP the
decision was made to forgo this option and accelerate our plans.
Board discussed the idea of Andrew taking responsibility for the TSP
immediately.
Andrew needs full access to the TSP Application. Richard has mailed Ancor.
### openSUSE Asia
Was approved at F2F meeting, the openSUSE Asia CFH commitee have been
informed. The Board is looking forward to see proposals from candidate
locations.
### oSC16
Preparation is progressing well. Growing number of sponsors! Famous
FOSS Faces in attendance! Please help spread the word! CFP is still
open! https://events.opensuse.org/conference/oSC16
### Trademark request
The Board recieved a request regarding the use of the openSUSE
trademark in a domain name.
The Board & Legal team to discuss
### Piwik
The Board now have access to statistics service running behind most
*.opensuse.org services
## Action Item Review
Due to the large number of action items, the progress of these will be
split into 3 sections
- DONE; This task is complete and will not be discussed in future meetings
- WIP; This task is in progress, and will be discussed in future meetings
- TODO; This task is still waiting for some progress by the Board
For more context you can find details in the recent Face to Face
meeting minutes at
http://rootco.de/2016-03-20-board-meeting-f2f-2016-p1/
### DONE
Ludwig has mailed the Board with any other "Roles" which are suitable
for the planned "openSUSE Release Team"
Douglas has updated the sponsorship guide
*Michal would like a copy to give to potential sponsors*
Board has discussed proposed ideas for a special event linked with oSC
with the oSC organisers
*Announcement expected as soon as SUSE can talk about it*
Infrastructure is now a standing topic in regular meetings between
Richard and Roland Haidl
Michal has sent email covering our intent to notify and tidy inactive members
*Feedback recieved and incorporated into plans*
Andrew Wafaa, Treasurer has been added to board ML
Board to announced Treasurer to Project
Doug is now involved in internal SUSE Marketing meetings, so we can
have better collaboration with SUSE Corporate Marketing.
Infra team has given the Board a fresh list of all openSUSE.org services
### WIP
Board + Ludwig to send a 'Call for Volunteers' for the "openSUSE Release Team"
*Richard if he has time this week, Tomas next week if not*
Board is discussing some ideas with our various Desktop Teams
Michal is working on tooling and the process of retiring members
*Draft list of people to be contacted has been produced. No obvious errors*
*Nice mail to check if people want to remain a member needs to be
sent. A mailinglist would be nice for the responses to go to.*
*Michal working on detecting Forum activity*
Michal is retiring connect.opensuse.org and doing the Membership tooling
Kostas has taken care of the Negotiation regarding FOSSCOMM
*Mostly done, but considered WIP to track it in next meeting*
Tomas has talked with Craig about OBS team preparing the code for
maintaner tidyup
*Feature in OBS teams TODO*
Bryan has started arrange informal exploratory discussions with
ownCloud and Kolab about closer relationships
*Meetings expected in the next week or two*
Kostas is reaching out to our few bloggers on lizards.opensuse.org
about moving to other platforms.
Richard has been talking to Douglas about the possibility of moving
news.opensuse.org to a new blogging platform. Richard's personal blog
is running a potential candidate (Jekyll with custom openSUSE theme)
http://rootco.de. Soruce is available in http://github.com/sysrich
### TODO
Board to request release-team(a)opensuse.org list for the Release Team
Board to investigate alternatives for voting & membership management
*To be done after the Membership Tidy Up*
Tomas will investigate Helios voting system for openSUSE
Board to put together a Sponsorship policy document
Richard to review/tune up filtering in current system so trademark
enquiries don't get lost
Board to put stuff on wiki regarding rules/scope of Treasurer
Tomas will talk with Andrew and Marketing teams about possible Kickstarter
Board intends to create a skeleton of the getting started guides to
help people get started with Using, Joining, and Partnering with
openSUSE
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