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
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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" :/
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SUSE
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
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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
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Dear all, please find the meeting minutes here:
https://en.opensuse.org/Archive:Board_meeting_2018-07-03
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Dear all, here are the meeting minutes
https://en.opensuse.org/Archive:Board_meeting_2018-07-03
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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.
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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
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Hi openSUSE people,
openSUSE.Asia Summit committee is looking for the 2018 summit logo
[1]. We already received 10 cool design from community and would be
very appreciate if everyone could involve in selecting the logo.
The voting period will be from July 3 - July 10, 2018.
Please vote your favorite logo through https://vote.opensuse-asia.org
Use your openSUSE account to login.
Thanks for your vote!
[1] https://events.opensuse.org/conference/summitasia18
Have fun,
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