July 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] oSC 2019 Organizational Team
by ddemaio 30 Jul '18

30 Jul '18

Hi everyone, We are still trying to put together an organizational team for the openSUSE Conference 2019. If you are interested in helping with the planning of oSC19, please email me. We currently have four members who are interested in helping, but would like a few more. 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] Error on package search; can't paste - error on paste
by James Mason 25 Jul '18

25 Jul '18

I encountered an error on package search, where a complete OBS error page was returned in a "flash". It's easiest to describe by pasting a screenshot of the page, but I found that paste.opensuse.org isn't working either... it only says "Disallowed Key Characters" :/ -- James Mason <jmason(a)suse.com> SUSE

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[opensuse-project] Call for host of openSUSE.Asia Summit 2019: the deadline of registration is coming
by Fuminobu TAKEYAMA 22 Jul '18

22 Jul '18

Hi all, The first deadline of call for host of openSUSE.Asia Summit 2019 is the end of this month. Since those who want to host the next summit just need only casual introduction of themselves, please do not miss the deadline. For more information, please see the announcement of CFH: https://news.opensuse.org/2018/07/06/opensuse-asia-summit-2019-call-for-hos… BTW, this year's summit will take place soon too: https://events.opensuse.org/conference/summitasia18 Regards, Fuminobu TAKEYAMA -- 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] openSUSE Foundation
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 16 Jul '18

16 Jul '18

Gesendet: Donnerstag, 05. Juli 2018 um 10:34 Uhr Von: "Christian Bruckmayer" <cbruckmayer(a)suse.com> An: opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org Betreff: Re: [opensuse-project] openSUSE Foundation On 07/05/2018 02:24 AM, Simon Lees wrote: [snip] > > Yes we have no intention of moving away from our great relationship with > SUSE, at the same time there have been financial restrictions / > limitations with our current arrangement that have made it impossible to > work with organizations outside of SUSE with our current setup (example > below), this and other less major issues have lead the board to believe > that we need an alternative solution at times when dealing with sponsors > outside of SUSE, If SUSE finds it beneficial to also use this > alternative solution at times then they are more then welcome too but we > are expecting that atleast most of the time they probably wont. > > As I mentioned in a previous email last year google offered to sponsor > openSUSE in order to to send some people involved in GSoC to an event, > at the time SUSE's budgets were frozen and they were unable to accept / > use this money on openSUSE's behalf and as a result people missed out on > traveling to an event that would have been fully paid for. The board is > very keen to ensure that such a situation does not happen again and that > we have an alternative way of accepting the sponsorship. Even if this > alternative way is only ever used sparingly in cases when SUSE can't > accept the money for whatever reason or in cases where I third party > doesn't want to donate via SUSE because they have no way of confirming > the money they donate will actually be spent on openSUSE. As I was the Google Summer of Code admin the last three years, I want to give some more insights. openSUSE participates since many years in GSoC. To reward the organizations, Google offers every year a donation. This donation is usually 1100 USD travel stipend for two mentors + 500 USD for every student we mentored (+ 500 additional travel stipend). For openSUSE it was usually around 5-6k USD. The mentor travel stipend is intended to send two mentors to the annual GSoC mentor summit at the Google campus in Sunnyvale. As openSUSE has no bank account, the only way to accept money (in an official way) is to use a SUSE account. However, we needed to use a MicroFocus account in the end. Therefore every year I have several long conversations with people from MF accounting and legal if we're allowed (this is not a very common scenario for SUSE as we usually SELL something before we receive money) and how we can accept the money (every year it starts again because people left, process changed etc etc). After we finally get all the information and approval to send the money to a MF account, the money "vanishes" and I need to tell the openSUSE board to state this money in the next "budget planning" (not sure what happens exactly behind the scenes here). If this process would be feasible if I wouldn't be a SUSE employee, I don't know! So the issue we had last year was that we received the travel stipend from Google but we were not allowed to spend it because of the frozen budget. This caused some frustration among our mentors. If this is the only issue we have with receiving / spending money, than an openSUSE foundation might be overkill. If there are more issues like this... Christian We had more issues with SUSE last year. Damaged hardware and full disks in the openSUSE infrastructure are an example. The replacement was declined because of missing money. If we would have our own budget and an bank account with money by other sponsors, we have a lower number of such problems. Best regards, Sarah -- 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] Meeting minutes 03072018
by Knurpht-openSUSE 12 Jul '18

12 Jul '18

Dear all, please find the meeting minutes here: https://en.opensuse.org/Archive:Board_meeting_2018-07-03 -- Gertjan Lettink a.k.a. Knurpht openSUSE Board Member openSUSE Forums Team -- 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 2018-07-03
by Knurpht-openSUSE 12 Jul '18

12 Jul '18

Dear all, here are the meeting minutes https://en.opensuse.org/Archive:Board_meeting_2018-07-03 -- Gertjan Lettink a.k.a. Knurpht openSUSE Board Member openSUSE Forums Team -- 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] ssl certificate for status.opensuse.org has expired...
by Mathias Homann 09 Jul '18

09 Jul '18

Hi, lemmy@kumiko:~> curl -I https://status.opensuse.org curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: certificate has expired More details here: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html please get a new one. Cheers MH -- Mathias Homann Senior Systems Engineer, IT Consultant. IT Trainer Mathias.Homann(a)openSUSE.org http://www.tuxonline.tech gpg key fingerprint: 8029 2240 F4DD 7776 E7D2 C042 6B8E 029E 13F2 C102

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[opensuse-project] Cacti Plugins in Server:Monitoring
by Timothy M Butterworth 07 Jul '18

07 Jul '18

Cacti 1.0 Merged the following list of plugins: feature: Merge Aggregate Plugin - Aggregate graph creation feature: Merge AutoM8 Plugin - Automation of graph creation feature: Merge Boost Plugin - Faster polling, result caching, on-demand RRDtool file updates feature: Merge CLog Plugin - View Cacti logs feature: Merge Discovery Plugin - Device discovery feature: Merge Domains Plugin - Support for domain (ADS/LDAP) specific user templates feature: Merge DSStats Plugin - Cache Data Source values for easy retrieval feature: Merge Logrotate Plugin - Rotate Cacti logs feature: Merge Realtime Plugin - Realtime graph viewing feature: Merge Reporting (Nectar) Plugin - Reporting feature: Merge RRDclean Plugin - RRD file cleanup and management feature: Merge Secpass Plugin - User password policy enforcement feature: Merge Settings Plugin - Shared settings for plugins feature: Merge SNMP Agent Plugin - SNMP Agent for Cacti providing system statistics feature: Merge SpikeKill Plugin - Remove unwanted spikes from graphs feature: Merge SSL Plugin - Force https feature: Merge SuperLinks Plugin - Add external links within Cacti feature: Merge UGroup Plugin - User groups with permissions feature: Merge Watermark Plugin - Watermark your Cacti graphs Many of these plugins are still packaged in server:monitoring for openSUSE 15.0 and should be removed. Also the NTOP plugin is depreciated, no longer works and also needs removed. server:monitoring is currently packaging Cacti 1.1.38 which is the latest version unfortunately some of the other previously supported plugins are probably also depreciated and need removed as well. -- 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] SUSE to be acquired by EQT Partners
by hellcp＠opensuse.org 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Hi, Wouldn't it be wise to consider both the best and the worst scenario that might come out of this aquisition? Best case scenario, nothing changes. Worst case scenario, SUSE turns back on openSUSE financially and in terms of contributions, because *financial incentive of some sort* > This morning we all learned the news that the openSUSE projects main > sponsor, SUSE, currently owned by MicroFocus, intends to be acquired > by EQT Partners in Sweden. Currently you Richard are speaking of openSUSE as legaly and financially independent entity, which it isn't. We wouldn't need this reassurance if this was the case. > This will be the third acquisition of SUSE since the creation of > openSUSE, the second under the leadership of Nils and his team. > Just as happened in that case, SUSE will be making no changes in its > relationship between the company and the openSUSE Project. Considering how dependent openSUSE is on SUSE, every single changing hands will worry both users and developers. That happened with every single aquisition before. Maybe by this point people start to care less about the whole thing, but here I am worried. > SUSE remains committed to supporting the openSUSE community, who play > a key role in helping SUSEs success, which is expected to continue > under their new partnership with EQT. So what are the options to ensure stable development if SUSE turns its back to us? Well, idea in 2010/2011 was to create openSUSE Foundation (which at that point was seemingly just a move to calm down people that wanted to fork openSUSE away from Novell's openSUSE). https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Foundation I doubt currently SUSE would oppose such a move, considering good relations, but it's always good to have ensurance in case something doesn't go right in the future. > If anyone has any questions, concerns, or feedback, please feel free > to discuss them on this list or email me directly. So maybe it's time again to open up discussion about Foundation, but this time have it result in something more substancial than before. 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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