February 2017

[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] openSUSE Members retirement
by Michal Hrusecky 27 May '17

27 May '17

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 … [View More]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. ==== 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… -- 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] openSUSE Elections 2016/2017 resumed
by Martin Pluskal 26 Mar '17

26 Mar '17

Hello I have some good news, and some bad news - we can proceed with elections [0][1] but one of our candidates (Michal Hrusecky) decided to resign from his candidacy. So please cast your vote here: https://connect.opensuse.org/vote/ Voting will be open until 20.02.17 and results will be announced on 21.02.17. You need to login with your connect.opensuse.org credentials, you can choose from two candidates and you have to vote for two candidates - of course you can only vote if you are … [View More]

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Re: [opensuse-project] Thread - T-Shirt Design for oSC17
by ddemaio 07 Mar '17

07 Mar '17

On 2017-02-18 07:21, Andy B wrote: > On February 16, 2017 at 9:44:34 AM, victorhck (correohck(a)gmail.com) > wrote: > > El 16/02/17 a las 17:39, victorhck escribió: >> El 15/02/17 a las 09:35, Douglas DeMaio escribió: >>> Hi all, >>> We would like to encourage people to submit a design to be put on the >>> official openSUSE Conference T-Shirt. >>> >>> Please submit a link to your design via this thread and make sure >>> … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] GSoC 2017
by Christian Bruckmayer 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

Good evening and happy new year, as a new year just started, it is also time to prepare for another round of Google Summer of Code. The organization application period is approaching fast: 19.01.2017 - 09.02.2017 Since last year we collect all our GSoC projects in this repository: https://github.com/openSUSE/mentoring/issues Meanwhile I closed all projects from last year, if you submitted one and it is still valid, please open a new issue and just copy over and/or update! If you have a … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] oSC17 IRC Meeting - Week 3
by Douglas DeMaio 22 Feb '17

22 Feb '17

Hi All, Just a quick update on oSC17. We will have a half hour meeting tonight at 1900 to discuss planning. Last week, the topic of T-Shirt design came up. One design for the T-Shirt was submitted during last weeks meeting - https://goo.gl/photos/ewvVE5ZmB8UqTjxN8 I will start a thread for the T-Shirt design for the conference for those who would like to submit a design. Below are the topics we will discuss tonight and the links to the previous meetings: #topic Status #topic … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE Elections 2016/2017 results
by Martin Pluskal 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

Hello It is my pleasure to announce results of openSUSE Board elections: Aaron Luna 31 votes Sarah Julia Kriesch 66 votes Christian Boltz 71 votes Andrew Wafaa 52 votes Thus, new members of openSUSE Board are Sarah Julia Kriesch and Christian Boltz, taking place of Michal Hrusecky and Kosta Koudaras I would like to use this opportunity to thank all members for voting, candidates for standing for elections and last but not least Michal and Kosta for doing great job while serving in openSUSE … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] can i have the right to vote in the current opensuse board elections ??????
by TechnoTux 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

hi, i was looking out for the elections since it was announced back at the end of 2016, back then i red the board elections rules at:https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_rules#Voting and it had a very clear paragraph stating that : "Only openSUSE members may vote" i went to look for the definition of the "openSUSE members" at:https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Members which state:"openSUSE Members are community members that have provided continued and substantial contributions to … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] download.opensuse.org mirrorbrain IPv6 improvements
by Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar 19 Feb '17

19 Feb '17

Hi everybody, I'd like to let you know that Marcus Rueckert aka darix and myself have been investing some time in the last couple days in an attempt to get download.opensuse.org handle IPv6 traffic a bit smarter. It has been a long-standing issue that users connecting using IPv6 could not be assigned to any geographical location, resulting in mirrorbrain redirecting them all around the world. After a couple of nicely spent evening analyzing/confirming the various geoip databases in use, … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Thread - T-Shirt Design for oSC17
by Douglas DeMaio 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

Hi all, We would like to encourage people to submit a design to be put on the official openSUSE Conference T-Shirt. Please submit a link to your design via this thread and make sure that you have the original in .svg, .eps or .ai so the printer can get the best quality image for the T-Shirt. Please submit your design by April 1, so we have enough time to get the T-Shirts printed. We will vote on the submitted designs April 5. Provide a link to your design below in ascending numerical … [View More]

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