March 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] Introduction to the Opensuse community as GSoC intern
by kamdjou idriss leonel 31 Mar '17

31 Mar '17

Hi everyone, I am Leonel Kamdjou, student from the University of Buea, Cameroon reading software engineering. I have programming skills in JavaScript, AngularJS, Angular2, ReactJS, HTML5, CSS3, SASS and LESS, JQuery, Firebase, NodeJS, Bootstrap, Material Design and automated build system such as Grant and Gulb. I am really motivated to work on this project REVAMP JANGOUTS USER INTERFCACE Although I came across late, I think with my ability of building pleasurable UI/UX, I have all the necessary skills to handle it with minimum supervison. Actually, I have setup the jangouts github repository with angular1.4 and I will like to get some assistance with respect to which repository(angular1 or angular2) I will use to submit this junior jobs of the get started ? Also, if there are further information I may need in order to write my proposal. Thanks for the assistance. Regards, Leo-14 -- 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] Microsoft's latest publicity
by PatrickD Garvey 29 Mar '17

29 Mar '17

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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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[opensuse-project] forums doesn't works
by victorhck 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

Hello. The link to https://forums.opensuse.org/ doesn't works properly. If I follow that link a message to download "forum.php" appears! ¿? something is wrong? Greetings! -- ------------------- GPG Key: 0xcc742e8dc9b7e22a Aprende a proteger la privacidad de tu correo: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/es/ Mi blog sobre openSUSE, GNU/Linux y software libre: https://victorhckinthefreeworld.com/

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE SMB?
by Klaas Freitag 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

Dear openSUSE, with this email I like to ask about the status of the openSUSE Projects Teams, such Education or Medical, as listed at [1], and see if openSUSE would support the founding of a new Project Team which would be openSUSE for Small and Medium Business, or short 'openSUSE SMB'. With Invis-Server [2] which builds on the openSUSE distributions and the openSUSE community and tools we have a very successful and hardened offering for SMB, that is exclusively built on openSUSE. Stefan Schäfer, the Invis Server founder is a long standing openSUSE promoter and very experienced system integrator in real life SMB scenarios. He started many years ago to build Invis on (open)SUSE, and has moved his project consequently closer to openSUSE by using the OBS, building up community and promoting the work on various openSUSE- and other FOSS conferences. As I am also interested in the SMB area doing my pet project Kraft [4] for more than 14 years now, Stefan and myself often worked together for example by giving talks together about the topic. In the recent Hackweek we were thinking about how to make the whole activity more visible to a broader community and one idea was to found an openSUSE Project Team for SMB. We hope that this will increase the visibility of the solutions. For the openSUSE project this is a perfect reference that demonstrates how valuable openSUSEs technical precision and ease of use are for these kind of "special usecases". For SMB, that is in place for years, with very practical experience in lots of installations. We think and hope that there are other community members around who have experience in SMB, and a Project Team's task would be to collect the information, create and document solution proposals and hints, and promote openSUSE and the existing SMB solutions together. What do people think about this? regards, Klaas [1] http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Teams [2] https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Invis-Server [3] https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/spins:invis [4] http://volle-kraft-voraus.de -- 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 5
by ddemaio 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

Hi all, We will have a half hour meeting tonight at 1700 UTC on the openSUSE-project IRC Channel on freenode to discuss the following topics for the openSUSE Conference. Status Keynote T-Shirts Design Videos Status Pre-Party Summits Status TSP Posters Status cya there. v/r Doug Links for previous meetings Week 1 - https://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2017/opensuse-proj… Week 2 - http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2017/opensuse-proje… Week 3 - http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2017/opensuse-proje… Week 4 - http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2017/opensuse-proje…

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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] YaST development during Hack Week 15
by Imobach González Sosa 07 Mar '17

07 Mar '17

Hi all, JFYI, the YaST team has published a blog post highlighting some things that we did during Hack Week. You can find it here: https://lizards.opensuse.org/2017/03/07/yast-development-during-hack-week-1… Regards, Imo -- Imobach González Sosa YaST team at SUSE LINUX GmbH Blog: https://imobachgs.github.io/ Twitter: @imobachgs

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