October 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] oSC19 IRC Meeting
by ddemaio 31 Oct '18

31 Oct '18

Hi all, Next week on Nov. 6 will be the first meeting for oSC19 on the opensuse-project Channel on IRC. The meeting will start at 18:00 UTC. If you want to join, please do so. I will pass out the meeting minutes the following day. Currently we have 22 registrations and 5 submissions. If you haven't submitted a talk yet, please do so at https://events.opensuse.org/conference/oSC19. The call for papers will close on Feb. 3, so you have about 95 days to submit a talk. 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] openSUSE Brand Logo refresh
by hellcp＠opensuse.org 29 Oct '18

29 Oct '18

Hi, Just a quick mention of thread on Branding GH Issues about logo suggestions: https://github.com/openSUSE/branding/issues/93 LCP [Stasiek] https://lcp.world -- 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 Oct 02 2018
by Richard Brown 24 Oct '18

24 Oct '18

# Board Meeting Minutes Oct 02 2018 # Apologies Ana (Reason Given) Simon (Reason Given) # Minutes ## Bugshare Discussion of Bugshare. Board is concerned that the Bugshare team is receiving a disproportionate amount of requests unrelated to unblocking contributions. Board agreed on the principle that the bugshare team should prioritise requests which have a clear need identified by the contributor. ## Copyright Board discussed a situation of a copyright request related to an established website/group. Board decided to give them permission on the conditions that this group should abide by the following principles - Guiding Principles - Forum rules - Logo use properly - Non profit operation Confirmation with our legal team is pending. ## Elections/Call for Volunteers The Organisation of the next Board Election is currently blocked pending volunteers for the election committee. Elections has only recieved 1 volunteer for the Election Committee, but need at least 2 and wish for more. The meetings attendees are collectively disappointed in the community, and find it puzzeling that topics about Board transparency can produce email threads involving dozens of contributors, but there appears to be little or no interest in running the elections that will replace the current Board. AI: The Board will be sending reminder announcements about the open call for volunteers for the Election Committee. ## openSUSE Foundation Limited discussions due to Simon (who is taking the lead on this topic) being absent. >From SUSE's point of view all of the draft ideas being bounced around so far carry no objections from thier side. The Board would like to see some draft ideas shared with the community before the next Election so the topic can be part of the Election campaigning. -- 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] Developer Specific Questions
by ddemaio 24 Oct '18

24 Oct '18

Hi all, I was contacted by Bernadette who is doing a case study on developers in the community. If you have an interest in responding to the below questions, Bernadette's email is in and the questions are below. v/r Doug ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________- I write for DevPro Journal, and I am working on an article about the benefits of openSUSE for developers. I'd like to include comments from the community. If you are interested, please respond to the questions below. Please contact me directly if you have any questions or need more information. Thanks in advance! /Bernadette Wilson/ /editor / /DevPro Journal / / / *_DevPro Journal Questions:_* Your name and title: Company: Tell us about your business (You can include a link to your “About us” page) and your specific role. Tell us about your experiences using other operating systems/distros for development before openSUSE. What led up to your decision to use openSUSE for development? How long did it take to learn/train your team? What advantages does openSUSE have over other options? What is the developer community like? Is openSUSE right for any developer or would you recommend it for specific types of projects? Please share any other advice you can provide that would help a developer making a decision on whether to use openSUSE:

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[opensuse-project] Devconf CfP
by ddemaio 24 Oct '18

24 Oct '18

Hi all, I was talking with some developers at the Open Source Summit Europe and they mentioned that the Call for Papers for DevConf in Czech Republic will be this Friday. Please consider submitting a talk at https://devconf.info/cz. The developers specifically asked for talks about Kubic. Devconf will take place the weekend before FOSDEM in Brno. 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] Election Committee call for Volunteers.
by Simon Lees 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

Hi All, As was written in our last board minutes, to give plenty of time to organise our board elections as per the Board Election Rules[1], the board has decided to ask for volunteer's for the board election community a little earlier (now) Chuck has already proactively read our minutes and has put his name forward as a volunteer, so the remaining question is does anyone want to volunteer to help him? 1. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_rules -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B

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[opensuse-project] Broken blogs/feeds on planet.opensuse.org
by Christian Boltz 20 Oct '18

20 Oct '18

Hello, several feeds on planet.opensuse.org are broken since some months. If your blog/feed is listed below and you have a new feed location, please tell me - either with a mail to admin(a)opensuse.org, or a pull request to https://github.com/openSUSE/planet.opensuse.org I'll remove the broken feeds listed below in a week. If your blog/feed moved to a new location and you notice this mail too late, I can of course add the new location later. http://andreasjaeger.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full Andreas Jaeger http://jaegerandi.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default Andreas Jaeger http://ironman.darthgibus.net/?feed=rss2 Fred Blaise http://linuxart.com/log/feed/ Garrett LeSage http://calvinrg.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default Calvin Gaisford http://blog.fnmueller.de/feed/atom/ Felix-Nicolai Müller http://blog.coly.li/?feed=rss2 Coly Li http://www.kde4.de/feed/ KDE4.de (the page is available, but pretty urls seem to be broken) http://www.mirandamaster.com/feeds/posts/default Márcio Miranda http://oyox.de/feed/ Marco Heizmann http://andreipetre.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default Andrei Petre http://cheperobert.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full José Roberto https://bo.geekworld.dk/category/openSUSE/feed/ Bo Simonsen feed 15m http://blog.susestudio.com/feeds/posts/default define_name SUSE Studio feed 15m http://webeve.de/~cwh/blog/category/opensuse/feed/ define_name Christopher Hofmann feed 15m https://opensusebr.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default define_name Carlos Alberto Ferreira Filho Gruß Christian Boltz -- <jospoortvliet> sorry for being late, I managed to lock myself out of my house and had to travel to my wife's work to get the key. You can laugh now. [from #opensuse-project] -- 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] Please add me to "openSUSE Committers" team
by Andreas Hasenkopf 11 Oct '18

11 Oct '18

Hi there, currently I'm working on an internal project that relies heavily on some of the openSUSE projects (e.g. osc2, suseapi). Unfortunately no one is working on the Python3 migration of those projects and the latter showed no feedback on issue reports or pull requests. So in order to migrate by project to Python3 I would like to drive especially the latter project as it appears to be abandoned and broken in it's current state in the master branch. Thanks for adding me (name of GitHub: crazyscientist) to the "openSUSE Committers" team :) Cheers, Andi -- Andreas Hasenkopf <ahasenkopf(a)suse.de> SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nürnberg Tel: +49-911-74053-0; Fax: +49-911-7417755; https://www.suse.com/ SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)

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[opensuse-project] OT? contribution hiatus?
by Felix Miata 10 Oct '18

10 Oct '18

Just letting people know I didn't die (yet) in case the anyone wonders out loud on any of the lists, forums or in BOO. Hurricane Michael threatens flooding downstairs where my most used puter stations live. If current forecast holds, there will be storm surge in the house in around 4 hours. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- 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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