February 2017 - 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] 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 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

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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 openSUSE member [2][3]. For those of you who are curious about current voting system - here are sources [4]. Cheers Election committee 0. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election 1. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election#Phase_2:_Election 2. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Members 3. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Membership_officials#Process 4. https://github.com/miska/simple-php-openid-elections

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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 >>> 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 order: >>> >>> Design 1 - https://goo.gl/photos/ewvVE5ZmB8UqTjxN8 (credit to > kopstukken) >>> Design 2 - http://susepaste.org/8009565 (Victorhck) >>> Design 3 - http://susepaste.org/73401113 (Victorhck) >>> Design 4 - https://goo.gl/photos/E7yaLPGjXfjbHsGo9 >>> Design 5 - https://goo.gl/photos/XN4zxpykguZaUjc48 (anditosan) >>> Design 6 - >>> Design 7 - >>> Design 8 - >>> Design 9 - >>> etc >>> >>> 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] 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 new project for this year, please also open ASAP a new issue for each project and label it accordingly: More information about being a mentor and submitting mentoring projects you can find on our openSUSE 101 page (http://101.opensuse.org/) or the official Google page (https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/) If you have questions, please feel free to contact me! GSoC was in the past a great opportunity to recruit new people for the openSUSE project and it is great experience to teach young developers the power of Open Source! We hope to get a lot of support from you! Thanks Christian Bruckmayer -- 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] 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 Volunteers / Teams #topic Summits / Events #topic Keynote #topic T-Shirts #topic Gift Bags #topic Videos #topic Ideas #topic Topics for next meeting #topics Links #link Week 1 - https://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2017/opensuse-proj… #link Week 2 - http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2017/opensuse-proje… v/r Doug

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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 board. Special thanks goes to Michal for helping with elections while stepping down from elections. Have a lot of fun Martin Pluskal P.S voting poll is yet to be deactivated, but as votes have been counted trying to use it will have no effect.

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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 the openSUSE project, and are given voting rights and the ability to run for the openSUSE board." and the page also state that you have to be accepted in the "members group" at:https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/groups/111/opensuse-members/ that's was sad because it meant that i can't vote but it also seem "FAIR" that you have to do actual contributions to the project. ***************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** any way today(which the last day to vote) i was checking the opensuse twitter account and i find this link to the voting page:https://connect.opensuse.org/vote/ the page says:You have successfully verified https://www.opensuse.org/openid/user/XXX as your identity with login XXX. You also returned 'XXX(a)XXX.com' as your email. Your fullname is 'XXX'. where XXX is my identity info i registered on community page, and it seems the page is allowing me to actually vote , i don't know what will happen if i click vote button or if my vote will be counted or not , but this is just so frustrating as i didn't have any chance to study the candidate proposals as i thought i can't vote before this moment. ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** any way can you confirm if the rule that i have to be an accepted opensuse member to have the right to vote is still valid or not?? -- 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] 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, Apache's way of dealing with it and bridging this all together, today we seem to have reached what was believed to be impossible: download.opensuse.org knows in what country I am when connecting using an IPv6 address Now, I myself am a very small subset of our total userbase out there, and as such this test is of course of limited value - yet, it is a step forward. I'd like you to keep an eye out for potential changed / regressed behaviors when working with download.opensuse.org during the next few days/weeks and report anything inexplicable. We are aware that we're not at the full level of IPv6 support that we would like to reach: unlike on IPv4, we cannot yet do AS and Prefix based matching of mirrors. Thank you for your attention - and happy downloading Dominique

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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 order: Design 1 - https://goo.gl/photos/ewvVE5ZmB8UqTjxN8 (credit to kopstukken) Design 2 - Design 3 - Design 4 - Design 5 - Design 6 - Design 7 - Design 8 - Design 9 - etc v/r Doug

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