January 2018 - 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] Could any of the openSUSE Committers add me to github openSUSE group
by Liang Yan 24 Apr '18

24 Apr '18

Hello, My name is Liang, and I am working on virtualization team, and we have a QEMU repo under openSUSE now. Could anyone invite me to join openSUSE group, and two of my colleagues if possible, :) really appreciate it. Liang Yan: lyan(a)suse.com Lin Ma: lma(a)suse.com Fei Li: fli(a)suse.com Thanks, Liang -- 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-only security announcements
by Javier Llorente 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

Hello everyone! I don't know if it has been discussed before, but wouldn't it be good to have openSUSE-only security announcements at the opensuse-security mailing list? We could have one for openSUSE and another for SUSE, to stay focused. What do you think? Greetings! -- Javier Llorente

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Re: [opensuse-project] Visas for openSUSE Conference
by Amey Abhyankar 30 Jan '18

30 Jan '18

On 29 January 2018 at 16:58, ddemaio <ddemaio(a)suse.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > If you plan on attending the openSUSE Conference in Prague this year, please > be aware that you might need a visa. You can find out more details about > what is need at > https://news.opensuse.org/2018/01/29/find-out-the-visa-requirements-to-atte… > > If you do need an invitation letter, please email me. Thanks Doug for broadcasting this message. I have e-mailed you for 'conference invitation letter' request. Thanks, Amey. > > v/r > > Doug > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org > -- 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] Visas for openSUSE Conference
by ddemaio 29 Jan '18

29 Jan '18

Hi all, If you plan on attending the openSUSE Conference in Prague this year, please be aware that you might need a visa. You can find out more details about what is need at https://news.opensuse.org/2018/01/29/find-out-the-visa-requirements-to-atte… If you do need an invitation letter, please email me. 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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Re: [opensuse-project] Call for openSUSE Election Committee
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 25 Jan '18

25 Jan '18

Hi Ana, the election will be planned now. That was the Call for Election Committee, not for nominations. We setup a new election system based on Helios now. The election committee will create a plan for elections then and you can nominate Community Members as candidates. Best regards, Sarah Gesendet: Donnerstag, 25. Januar 2018 um 11:34 Uhr Von: "Ana Martínez" <anamma06(a)gmail.com> An: "Sarah Julia Kriesch" <ada.lovelace(a)gmx.de> Cc: "openSUSE Board" <board(a)opensuse.org>, opensuse-project <opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org>, opensuse(a)opensuse.org Betreff: Re: [opensuse-project] Call for openSUSE Election Committee Hi, I am not able to find the following information, maybe someone can help me: When are the elections? where can I see the candidates? Thanks, Ana 2018-01-13 18:01 GMT+01:00 Sarah Julia Kriesch <ada.lovelace@gmx.de[mailto:ada.lovelace@gmx.de]>:Dear openSUSE Members, The 2017 openSUSE Board term is soon coming to an end. So we have a new openSUSE Board election like every year. Do you want to stand up as a volunteer for the openSUSE Election Committee? Members of the election committee have to be openSUSE Members. The openSUSE election committee will organize and oversee the openSUSE Board election, the board has authorized it to decide any open questions on the elections. Members of the committee have agreed to refrain from standing for the election to ensure a fair and impartial process. Answer to this email with board@opensuse.org[mailto:board@opensuse.org] in CC, if you are interested for this position. You can find our election rules and the process in our wiki[1]. Sincerely, The openSUSE Board [1] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_rules[https://en.opensuse.o… -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org[mailto:opensuse-project%2Bunsubscribe@opensuse.org] To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org[mailto:opensuse-project%2Bowner@opensuse.org] -- Ana María Martínez Gómez http://anamaria.martinezgomez.name[http://anamaria.martinezgomez.name/] -- 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 Desktop Thememing
by Stasiek 25 Jan '18

25 Jan '18

Hi, I was instructed by Ludwig a few weeks back to post about Themes here, as Artwork ML is apparently dead (which is quite sad). I am entirely to blame if this feels out of scope here though. This might be completly out of the blue, because that is something that openSUSE has not been doing for years now, but I committed a theme, so openSUSE may not be just great working, but also great looking. It is also a part of the greater Leap 15.0 branding preparations I have been doing for a few months now [1] (and apparently generating a lot of bugs in the process, sorry). Presenting Geeko GTK theme [2] and to lesser extent, for now, Geeko KDE theme [3], and, as a complementary icon theme, Origami [4] as an idea for primary themes, for future openSUSE versions in environments such as GNOME or XFCE. Brief reminder to openSUSE Factory on which can be caught up to speed is here: https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2018-01/msg00296.html Fine, but why is it so important to announce it here, you may ask? Awareness in this case is the most important factor. The more people know about it, the more people submit bug reports, and when more people use it daily and say what should be improved, the easier it is to make sure that it will be 100% ready for all kinds of environments in which openSUSE is used, before it's decided that it's rock sturdy and ready to rock (I couldn't resist, sorry), so we don't have a Solus/Bungie situation where all themes look broken beyond repair (for which I'm also really sorry, bad experiences). It's also very important to make DE maintainers aware of this kind of change. I want to address every concern anybody might have about it, especially from DE maintainers, because that is something that will affect this part of openSUSE the most. This will be huge departure from previous routes, so all decisions should be considered by a bigger part of the community. It will also come with some changes that will be required to make the most out of those themes, on which the community should also comment. Mainly connected to GNOME's shell theming and extension for that, but most importantly YaST, that of which I tried to take the most care of. It would be nice to have a consistent icon set for patterns and RPM groups (as it is now, those parts seem impossible to change from a user's point of view), because as of now, we have 3 different icon sets across both of those parts of YaST (which, in my humble opinion, is just awful -- decide on one and stick with it, if that's what you're aiming for). I made Origami to have all possible YaST icons looking to YaST theme repo on Github, including patterns and misc. icons from there, for full compatibility's sake. GNOME would need an additional package to have the shell themed properly (User Themes) because apparently, we can't have that functionality OOTB. It's worth discussing if we want a system wide extension, which would need to be updated as quickly as new versions come out, because the Gnome Extensions page doesn't care that it's a system plugin and tries to update it anyway, usually breaking everything in the process (something that happened a few times on Fedora with some plugins which, again, is a bad experience). I leave it up to you now to decide, is it something that may interest you and do you want to have that in your system from the start, to make it look and feel nice? Have a nice day, LCP [Stasiek] https://lcp.world [1] https://github.com/openSUSE/branding [2] https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/geeko-gtk-theme https://github.com/LelCP/geeko-gtk-theme [3] https://github.com/LelCP/geeko-kde-theme [4] https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/origami-icon-theme https://github.com/LelCP/origami-icon-theme -- 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] Call for openSUSE Election Committee
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 15 Jan '18

15 Jan '18

Dear openSUSE Members, The 2017 openSUSE Board term is soon coming to an end. So we have a new openSUSE Board election like every year. Do you want to stand up as a volunteer for the openSUSE Election Committee? Members of the election committee have to be openSUSE Members. The openSUSE election committee will organize and oversee the openSUSE Board election, the board has authorized it to decide any open questions on the elections. Members of the committee have agreed to refrain from standing for the election to ensure a fair and impartial process. Answer to this email with board(a)opensuse.org in CC, if you are interested for this position. You can find our election rules and the process in our wiki[1]. Sincerely, The openSUSE Board [1] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_rules -- 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] seeking for new maintainer for www.opensuse-education.org
by Theo Chatzimichos 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

Hello, the current maintainer of http://www.opensuse-education.org stepped down, and the website is seeking for a new maintainer to keep the content alive. If anyone is interested please let me know, we'll transfer the domain to you and give you write access to the current service. Regards -- Theo Chatzimichos <tampakrap(a)opensuse.org> <tchatzimichos(a)suse.com> System Administrator SUSE Operations and Services Team

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[opensuse-project] Google Summer of Code 2018
by Christian Bruckmayer 11 Jan '18

11 Jan '18

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 a little bit earlier this year: 04.01.2018 - 23.01.2018 The full timeline can be found here: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline Since two years ago we collect all our GSoC projects in this repository: https://github.com/openSUSE/mentoring/issues If you have a new project for this year, please also open ASAP a new issue for each project and label it accordingly. As the deadline is already in two weeks we're a little bit in a hurry. If you have a potential project, please contact me or gsoc-mentors(a)opensuse.org ASAP. 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! Thanks Christian -- 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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