On the board meeting two hours ago we discussed adding an
"abstain" option to future votes. We unanimously agreed.
That is, future votings shall include "abstain" as a choice.
Thank you to all who provided feedback!
Gerald
PS: We understand board elections allow a flexible number of
choices, including choosing no candidate, so we do not see
this as applicable there.
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Hi all,
Since the current NNTP gateway by MicoFocus is being shutdown from Wed 19th of
June, there will temporarily be none. Meanwhile some of our community members
are working on replacing it, announcements about this will follow a.s.a.p.
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Dear community members,
It's 26 December! The call for nominations and applications for the
openSUSE Board election has ended. We received four applications. The
list of candidates is as follows:
Alessandra de Oliveira Faria
https://en.opensuse.org/User:Cabelo
Sarah Julia Kriesch
https://en.opensuse.org/User:AdaLovelace
Simon Lees
https://en.opensuse.org/User:Simotek
Vinzenz Vietzke
https://en.opensuse.org/User:Vinzv
We thank them for stepping up and wish them all the best for the
election campaign. The campaign will last for about three weeks and
members can begin voting on 16 January. The election schedule is as
follows: https://twitter.com/openSUSE/status/1206462985750896640/photo/1
In the coming days, we will share more information about our candidates.
Should you have any question for our candidates, please feel free to
ping them.
Regards,
Ish Sookun
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ISTR discussion somewhere that openSUSE has copious software developers as users.
Is this documented anywhere, maybe with statistics, and reasons why? Since I don't
code anything, I don't have a clue what might create favor, unless it has to do
with openSUSE's BS and/or QA systems. I first tried it for several reasons, among
which German heritage, KDE3, YaST2, and understandable network installation
instructions for 8.0.
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Hi all!
Watching openSUSE from being not involved in development I get the impression
that it keeps acting like a poker player:
Having a full deck of cards at hand including four aces but not showing to
anyone just because the position of his sun glasses could… possibly…
eventually… under circumstances… be optimized.
That's something I want to change and want to revive the marketing team and
get arts people involved. So I started to take notes:
1) Create content
- present tools
- continuous reports about developments going on
- do interviews with different people/teams about their work in oS
- ask people running booths to report
- show how cool oS features are
- draw pictures, memes and such
- create video demos of various oS features
2) Create buzz
- push stuff from 1) to any platform online
- push shop-o-o with monthly product
- make raffles of stickers etc.
- invite to chats, forums etc. to discuss things
3) Keep following up
- run regular onboarding events for new people interested to help
- tailor events for special interests ("how to work with oS as a web dev")
I am willing to step up and coordinate the whole thing a bit. But this all
needs a few more people. Anyone wanting to help with this is welcome. Also
please keep in mind that the things I mentioned are just ideas and discussion
is very much welcome.
What are your thoughts? Who's in?
Regards,
vinz.
I know Distrowatch has its detractors, and for good reasons, but it exists.
Is there anything better that remotely resembles what it purports?
The following over December 2004 to date is based almost exclusively
upon Distrowatch pages:
2004-12 2009-11 2014-12 2019-12 Debian
Rank Name Hits Rank Name Hits Chg Rank Name Hits Chg Rank Name Hits Chg 32? based
1 Mandriva 1390 | 1 Ubuntu 2176 +8 | 1 Mint 2325 +2 | 1 MXLinux 4559 New Yes 4559
2 Fedora 1271 | 2 Fedora 1679 +- | 2 Ubuntu 1853 -1 | 2 Manjaro 2573 +16 No No
3 SUSE 9.2 937 | 3 Mint 1359 New | 3 Debian 1581 +3 | 3 Mint 2225 -2 Yes 2225
4 MEPIS 857 | 4 openSUSE 11.2 1350 -1 | 4 OpenSUSE 13.2 1361 +- | 4 Debian 1675 -1 Yes 1675
5 Debian 844 | 5 Mandriva 998 -4 | 5 Fedora 1297 -3 | 5 Ubuntu 1428 -3 Yes 1428
6 Knoppix 810 | 6 Debian 908 -1 | 6 Mageia 1171 * | 6 Elementary 1288 +6 No 1288
7 Slackware 666 | 7 Puppy 836 +22 | 7 CentOS 1169 +5 | 7 Solus 1112 New No No
8 Gentoo 639 | 8 Sabayon 755 New | 8 Arch 1040 +2 | 8 Fedora 959 -3 No No
9 Ubuntu 566 | 9 PCLinuxOS 730 +5 | 9 Elementary 906 New | 9 Zorin 928 +1 No 928
10 Damn Small 489 | 10 Arch 702 +12 | 10 Zorin 810 New | 10 Deepin 878 +7 No 878
11 FreeBSD 398 | 11 Slackware 649 -4 | 11 LXLE 777 New | 11 AntiX 782 +26 Yes 782
12 Yoper 363 | 12 CentOS 607 New | 12 Puppy 748 -5 | 12 KDE Neon 741 New No 741
13 Xandros 361 | 13 FreeBSD 521 -2 | 13 Kali 739 New | 13 CentOS 705 -6 No No
14 PCLinuxOS 357 | 14 Tiny Core 492 New | 14 Lubuntu 730 New | 14 OpenSUSE 15.1 704 -10 No No
15 Vine 289 | 15 MEPIS 472 -11 | 15 Android X86 697 New | 15 PCLinuxOS 679 +1 No No
16 RedHat 282 | 16 Gentoo 439 -8 | 16 PCLinuxOS 662 -7 | 16 ArcoLinux 670 New No No
17 SLAX 273 | 17 Kubuntu 396 New | 17 Deepin 625 New | 17 Pop!_OS 647 New No 647
18 Kanotix 252 | 18 Zenwalk 363 New | 18 Manjaro 591 New | 18 Arch 615 -10 No No
19 Vector 219 | 19 Vector 345 +- | 19 FreeBSD 581 -6 | 19 Kali 488 -6 Yes 488
20 Gnoppix 207 | 20 Ultimate 339 New | 20 Bodhi 550 New | 20 ReactOS 433 +22 Yes No
21 Feather 190 | 20 CrunchBang 339 New | 21 Robolinux 540 New | 21 Mageia 432 -15 Yes No
Total 11660 Total 16455 Total 20753 Total 24521 15639
The 32bit column may be a bit misleading, as some distros whose latest
releases do include 32bit versions have announced future versions will
not include them. e.g. DW lists yes for Fedora, but that's for Fedora's
latest-1, out of support in 4 months, not latest, so I listed it as no.
64% of the top 21 distros are Debians (15639/24521), 74% of the top
10 (12981/17625), and 81% of the top 6 (11175/13748). Debian proper
support is expected through 2038 at least, and so at least some of
its derivatives.
I did not try to account for any name changes that I didn't already know
about. e.g. the former Mandrake/Connectiva/Mandriva dissolved into three
different distros that I'm aware of, with Mageia the apparent strongest
of the survivors.
There's nothing to make me want to leave, but if I was looking for a
distro, the abundance of obsolete or otherwise not up to date wiki pages
make openSUSE look to me like a dying distro. Traffic over the past year
or more on the support lists and forums seems to have gone way down. Only
two stepped up to become candidates for two expiring board positions. Are
we doing better than these observations make openSUSE look?
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Hi,
The connect platform is broken, for few days. admin - tickets #61641,
The menus do not work, the panels have disappeared. I believe this
platform is used by the candidates.
You know I'm one of the two admins that clean up the spam, but beyond
that I can do no maintenance of the platform. Neither access nor
knowledge.
Reported: <https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/61641>
(I have no permission to see my own ticket, too)
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)
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Hi,
I want to run for the openSUSE Board again (after a short break about 1 year).
Here is my short overview: https://en.opensuse.org/User:AdaLovelace
Best regards,
Sarah
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Hi All,
I am officially announcing my intention to re run for the openSUSE
board. I'm yet to write out a full platform but should I be re elected
my main initial focus will continue to be work toward an openSUSE
Foundation.
If you don't know who I am there is a small amount of info at the
following locations.
https://en.opensuse.org/User:Simotekhttp://simotek.net/
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