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…
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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
>>>
>>
>>
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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
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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
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.
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.
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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.
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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??
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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
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
>
> Hi, does the conference have a certain motto that you would like to use
> to
> inspire design, or are you ok to just submit designs and then choose a
> cool
> one?
No motto yet, but we have a meeting in like three minutes, so I can
bring it up. Of course the odds are a cool design might be the one that
gets selected.
v/r
Doug
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