February 2017 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] Re: [opensuse] oSC17 IRC Meeting - Week 3
by Douglas DeMaio 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

On 02/15/2017 09:24 AM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > Can those of use who can't make it to the conference still buy a tee shirt? > > I think we can plan for that. Yes. 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] KDE applications repo?
by Administrator 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

Did I miss the announcement about the ending of KDE Update Applications repo? The report for 42.2 listed here: https://en.opensuse.org/ SDB:KDE_repositories#Updated_KDE_Applications_only no longer exists ... David -- 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] Notification of change to the openSUSE Trademark Guidelines
by Richard Brown 13 Feb '17

13 Feb '17

Hi Project, The openSUSE Trademark Guidelines cover the circumstances under which people can use our openSUSE Trademarks & Logos. The Guidelines explain the areas where we welcome the use of our marks, and for all other possible uses we ask the interested parties make contact to discuss whether permission can be granted or not. In the past this was permission(a)suse.com, which was primarily used for gathering requests for SUSE's marks. For openSUSE requests the email address was jointly monitored by the Chairman on behalf of the Board so the Project could have a say in the use of our Projects marks. As of today the correct email address for openSUSE Trademark requests is board(a)opensuse.org. The Board will now act as the first point of contact and decision making for requests to use the openSUSE Marks, and will then involves SUSE Corporate Counsel for final verification. This better reflects the long-held reality that the openSUSE community can decide in the use of it's marks, and makes my life easier as I no longer will have to fish out openSUSE related requests from the SUSE pile. As part of this change to the Guidelines, I have also updated the relevant wiki page [1] with the correct list of openSUSE Trademarks - it looks like wires got crossed somewhere and the wiki page was suggesting the openSUSE Project had involvement with Trademarks that are nothing to do with our project. Regards, Richard Brown openSUSE Chairman [1] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Trademark_guidelines -- 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 Meeting Minutes - 6 Feb 1500 CEST
by Richard Brown 08 Feb '17

08 Feb '17

openSUSE Board Meeting Minutes 6 Feb 2017 1500 CEST -- Attendees -- Richard Brown - Chair Tomas Chvatal Gertjan Lettink Michal Hrusecky Bryan Lunduke Absent -- Andrew Waffaa - Tresurer Kostas Koudaras Guests -- Martin Pluskal - Election Coordinator Agenda/Minutes -- openSUSE Infrastructure ---- There have been a number of openSUSE infrastructure issues in recent months, which the Board have been quietly working to address. This includes slow performance at peak times of various openSUSE web services (including download.opensuse.org), long lead times on fixes to aformentioned services (eg. several months to get updates to www.opensuse.org), long/no response to admin(a)opensuse.org tickets, issues with connect.opensuse.org that caused the cancellation of the openSUSE elections, and now issues with news.opensuse.org. These services are all hosted in datacenters run by either SUSE IT or Micro Focus IT with SUSE IT being responsible for the liason with Micro Focus IT when it is necessary. The Chairman has been liasing with SUSE Management over recent weeks about these issues but the Board remain concerned regarding the progress on resolving the issues, and the regular apperance of new issues. SUSE Management are actively discussing the situation, while SUSE IT are actively working to address many of the issues. The Board is considering its options regarding the situation, including the possibility of escalating these issues higher up the SUSE/MF Management structure. In the last few days there has been an uptick in the urgency in which these concerns are being addressed. Given this, the Board decided in todays meeting to take no immediate action, but to have an extraordinary Board meeting at 1500 CEST next Monday 13th Feb to review the situation and discuss next steps. Board Elections ---- Due to the technical issues with connect.opensuse.org duplicating names on the candidate list for the election while simultaniously removing some others, the Board election remains on hold. Satisfactorily debugging the root cause of the problems has proven to be impossible. The volunteers working on this investigation were hidered by a temporary outage of the MySQL database during the time they had available for their investigation. While all tests seem to suggest connect.opensuse.org is working satisfactorily at the moment, there is insufficient confidence that it can be trusted for the next Board election. We have wanted to replace connect.opensuse.org for some while, but despite this desire no one has stepped up with a viable alternative. As we need to elect a new board with some urgency, we do not have the luxury of time to continue waiting. Therefore Martin Pluskal will be urgently investigating the use of an alternative service for this particular election, such as SurveyMonkey. As only openSUSE Members can vote, this will likely require using the email addresses in connect.opensuse.org to email members and direct them with an individual, one-time-use, link to the poll. Martin will provide the details once his investigations into suitable tools is complete. Meanwhile you can help by ensuring your email address details are correct in https://connect.opensuse.org Please go to https://connect.opensuse.org and login and then click on your username then "Edit Profile" (or go to https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/profile/$USERNAME/edit/ but replacing $USERNAME with your username) Please then check/edit/correct your Email in your connect profile. Once this election is complete, Tomas Chvatal and anyone else willing to help will be needed to find a suitable replacement for connect.opensuse.org for voting. We require both a voting platform (eg. Helios - https://heliosvoting.org/) and a suitable replacement database and process for approving openSUSE Members. Thank you - The openSUSE Board -- 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 2
by Douglas DeMaio 08 Feb '17

08 Feb '17

Hi All, We are going to do a 30-minute meeting today for a quick update on oSC17. The meeting will be from 18:00 UTC to 18:30 UTC.The topics for the meeting are listed below. #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 v/r Doug

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[opensuse-project] oSC17 IRC Meeting - Week 1
by Douglas DeMaio 06 Feb '17

06 Feb '17

Hi all, We are starting our first planning meeting for the openSUSE Conference 2017. It will be today on Freenode openSUSE-project channel at 1800 UTC. We wanted to get at least one meeting before FOSDEM this weekend, where quite a few of us in the community will see each other. If you would like to take part, please do as this would give many in the community an opportunity to discuss ideas in person at FOSDEM. The below topics will be discussed during today's meeting: Status Rooms Sponsorship Keynotes Teams Volunteers Summits I will send a report of the meeting tomorrow. If you haven't registered or submitted a proposal for oSC17, please do so at https://events.opensuse.org/. Enjoy your day and all the best 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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