August 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] Board Meeting Minutes of August 21 2018
by Ana Martínez 11 Sep '18

11 Sep '18

Board Meeting Minutes of August 21 2018. You can also find them in the Wiki: https://en.opensuse.org/Archive:Board_meeting_2018-08-21 Enjoy reading! ;) = Attendees = Complete = openSUSE.Asia Summit retrospective = Simon and Ana attended openSUSE.Asia Summit two weeks ago and they provided their impressions about the conference to the other board members. The conference was really successfully, incredibly well organized and a community event with lots of volunteers. There were some concerns about the summit being co-hosted with COSCUP and GNOME.Asia, but the fact that this was done keeping the three parts in the same level, made it working pretty well. The openSUSE conference was still well defined, but there was also the chance to interact with the other communities and to get the attention of more new people. We also spoke about the concerns from the openSUSE Asia community shared during the session with the board the day previous to the conference: Mentoring, translations, etc. = TSP openSUSE.Asia = The Board decided to try to improve openSUSE.Asia Summit travel support budget to ensure more people can benefit from it and that students get 100% reimbursement instead of 80%. There are concerns if there is a procedure for requesting materials and if it is widely known. ACTION: Ana will double check if the process for that works properly, is documented and will share it = GSoC = We discussed how openSUSE will receive the money from GSoC. SUSE will receive it and pay mentors travels for the mentor summit. = Sponsorships = == Football team discussion in the last minutes thread == We discussed if was appropriated to explain personal points of views on the topic. == TH Nürnberg == openSUSE will sponsor the food of the Linux course for new students in the TH Nürnberg university. == DevFest'18- VIT Vellore == ACTION: Knurpht will write back asking more details = Update membership information = ACTION: Richard and Knurpht will try to update the information in the next month -- Ana María Martínez Gómez 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] Formally resigning my openSUSE membership
by Bryan Lunduke 02 Sep '18

02 Sep '18

To the openSUSE community, There are so many wonderful, inspiring projects and communities in the broader Free Software world -- that it makes little sense for me to remain a member of one where the leadership personally attacks those who suggest simple notions such as "let's be more transparent" (an implied criticism that is as much about my own failings, as a past Board Member, as anyone). The responses received from some openSUSE Board members were profane, rude, slanderous... and just plain not nice. I have many friends in this community -- a community that has done some truly exceptional work. Many of you have *much* to be proud of. And I will do my best to not let the words and actions of some of the Board impact my views of the good work that you have done and, I hope, will do in the future. For the technology you have produced -- and the friendship you have shared -- I will always be in your debt. That said, the Board has created a negative, cruel atmosphere that I do not want any part of. Perhaps one day that will change but, for now, it is time to separate myself entirely and to focus on the communities with much less hate; To surround myself with love, instead. I do not expect any other people to take this action -- nor do I wish this to cause any additional unhappiness or conflict among the community. It is simply an action I must take, and I want my thoughts (whether any agree with them or not) to be stated. I request that I be removed from the openSUSE membership list. I will unsubscribe myself from the various mailing lists this evening. I wish you all (and I do mean *all*) the very best. -Bryan Lunduke -- 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] ngxtop
by Chuck Payne 27 Aug '18

27 Aug '18

Guys, So I am trying to get better stats on Nginx. I want to use ngxtop, so I did the install pip install nginx But when I try to run the following command ngxtop -l /var/log/nginx/access.log I get the following error Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/ngxtop", line 7, in <module> from ngxtop.ngxtop import main File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ngxtop/ngxtop.py", line 77, in <module> from config_parser import detect_log_config, detect_config_path, extract_variables, build_pattern ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'config_parser' I did a search and I found a package that says it should help with that module python-configparser I installed that package, but I am still getting that error. I am on the latest Tumbleweed with Python 3.6. Any clue what I need to install to get this working? ======================== Chuck Payne a.k.a terrorpup -- 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] Board Meeting Minutes of August 21 2018
by Patryk Zera 26 Aug '18

26 Aug '18

But how one did determined who they want to represent before? -- Patryk 'Sanchez' Zera -------------------------------------------- 26.8.18 (Nd), Patrick Shanahan <paka(a)opensuse.org> napisał(a): Temat: Re: [opensuse-project] Board Meeting Minutes of August 21 2018 Do: opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org Data: 26 Sierpień 2018 (Niedziela), 23:39 how else can one determine who they want to represent them? -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- 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] Board Meeting Minutes of August 21 2018
by Patryk Zera 25 Aug '18

25 Aug '18

How one can make informed decision to vote on any candidate who wasn't already on Board and don't have history of voting? >From my point of view, to this day, members voted on other members basing on their contributions, opinions and what they like in candidates. No matter if candidate was running for first election, re-election or n-th time election. And I see this as a good thing because all candidates are equal in this model. In my humble opinion, public Board voting will encourage hate of Board members which have other opinion than yours and feeling of betrayal when your trusted member (elected after informed decision) make a vote other than yours opinion. We vote for members who we like mostly because they go with values we also appreciate. And I believe they stick to this values during their Board voting. If Board decides differently than I would then I assume that doing the same voting in community would bring roughly the same results, because those people are representing community and my opinion is opinion of minority. Using example of football team sponsorship. I don't need to know who voted how. More people voted 'yes' than 'no'. It was looking weird to me, so explanation from Board (not individual Board members) was more than helpful to understand their intentions behind this decision and it was all I needed to cope with it. Now, Board members who shared their votes are exposed to unnecessary abuse because of different point of view. It's toxic and unhealthy. Best wishes, Patryk P.S. I apologize for my English, it's not my native language (many times I need to correct from Beard to Board ;) ) -------------------------------------------- 25.8.18 (Sob), Bryan Lunduke <bryan(a)lunduke.com> napisał(a): Temat: Re: [opensuse-project] Board Meeting Minutes of August 21 2018 Do: "opensuse-project" <opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org> Data: 25 Sierpień 2018 (Sobota), 23:16 Simply make the votes public. That's all. Every vote taken by the openSUSE Board -- on *every* issue -- should be made public. That way, when the next election occurs, the openSUSE membership can make an informed decision on who to elect (or re-elect) to best represent us. -- 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] failed to allocate memory
by Sam 24 Aug '18

24 Aug '18

For days I have been trying to find certain software packages via the website https://software.opensuse.org/, but I keep getting the following error message: failed to allocate memory. Also the status page of OpenSuse is anything but good. Many services have not been updated since 2017. Why doesn't anyone care about the website? I installed Leap 15 and need some packages and wanted to see where I could find them. I can't get my computer running for days! I'm really upset and I'm thinking about switching to another Distro. Sam -- 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 Jul 31 2018
by Richard Brown 24 Aug '18

24 Aug '18

# Board Meeting Minutes Jul 31 2018 # Attendees Complete # Minutes ## Board Meeting Minutes After an accidental disclosure of our Board minutes after the last meeting, Board agreed to only publish its minutes after the draft has been agreed upon by the Board ## Conflict Gertjan gave an update on the conflict to date Mediation so far has been therapeutic, solutions have been elusive todate, but the conflicting contributors are now constructively discussing with each other with the board mediators in CC. Discussions ongoing ## Conflict 2 AI Ana to discuss as recorded in last meeting ## Bugshare Bugzilla is not allowing SUSE-volunteers for bugshare to open bugs in the way intended AI Simon to email Richard about the problem to raise with SUSE mgmt ## Membership AI Richard to update Membership pages on wiki ## Licensing News news.opensuse.org need to fixed to show its license for the content (CC-BY) AI Ana to talk to Doug about getting that fixed if she doesn't fix it already ## Sponsoring Football Club Board had a request to sponsor a local kids football team in Bavaria. The Board discussed the idea We typically only sponsor conferences when there are openSUSE contributors present to represent the Project and discuss with interested parties In this case even though this is not a conference, there will be openSUSE Contributors present, so even though it isn't a conference And the team has parents and supporters from local technical companies in the area (eg. Siemens) The Board decided to sponsor the team with a 5-1 vote As it is unusual for us to sponsor such things, the Board decided to consider such things only on a case by case basis, at the Board level AI Ana to talk to Doug about updating the sponsorship page ## openSUSE Asia Discussion about the logo, trademark, etc. Nothing to discuss, although the logo doesn't comply with our usual colours and logo type, it does fit in the parameters allowed in the Artwork guidelines Ana and Simon will be doing the opening and closing sessions Ralf Flaxa (SUSE President of Engineering) will now also be providing a keynote ## Foundation Ongoing discussions with SPI - they are generally welcome at the idea of providing a project of our size with thier service SFConservancy - also seem to open to working with us Discussions ongoing # Next Meeting 21st August , after openSUSE Asia, due to Simon and Ana's inability to join due to their return travel from the conference. AI: Richard to violently persuade the bot to behave and remind us about the correct time -- 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] Regarding openSUSE Asia Summit 2019 bids
by Amey Abhyankar 18 Aug '18

18 Aug '18

Hello, I was not able to attend openSUSE Asia summit 2018. I shared my experience from this year's openSUSE conference at local Linux user group last month. [1] I also shared information about upcoming openSUSE Asia summit. With that regard, I got update from fellow openSUSE contributor from India about openSUSE Asia 2019 bid. I would like to know if there was any session about the bids for 2019 & if yes how many bids we have at the moment. 'Call for host' submission proposal deadline is 10th September 2018 [2] But still it'll be good to know about the bids we have so far. Thanks & Regards, Amey. [1] https://list.plug.org.in/pipermail/plug-mail/2018-July/011034.html [2] https://news.opensuse.org/2018/07/06/opensuse-asia-summit-2019-call-for-hos… -- 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] NextCloud Conference
by ddemaio 03 Aug '18

03 Aug '18

Hi all, Is anyone planning on attending the NextCloud Conference in Berlin toward the end of the month? If so, 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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