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[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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Re: [opensuse-project] huge amount of SPAM on opensuse-connect
by christian.imhorst＠posteo.de 02 Jun '21

02 Jun '21

Hi, Am Do., 21. Feb. 2019 um 15:32 Uhr schrieb Lars Vogdt <Lars.Vogdt(a)suse.com>: As such, maintaining 447 [1] openSUSE members should not depend on a single tool. Especially not if the used tool has open, well known security issues since years[2]. On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 11:41:19 +0100 Richard Brown wrote: > This isn't the first time I've asked this question on a public stage, > but in the hope that this time I get an answer; > Who volunteers to tackle the problem with connect.o.o and drive > forward a solution? I made my proposal already and I stand the point: shut down an insecure system! what does "drive forward a solution" mean? Can we integrate the functions of connect.o.o into other services at openSUSE which are allready maintained like the openSUSE wiki? A form for travel support for example? An application for membership could be done by e-mail to an e-mail address of the membership officials. Elections could be done with an eVote software like https://github.com/mdipierro/evote for example, but probably there are better tools. What did I miss? I think Lars is right an we should shutdown this insecure system as soon as possible. Regards Christian Imhorst -- 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] LIBOCON
by ddemaio 03 Sep '19

03 Sep '19

Hi all, We may sponsor LibOCon (https://libocon.org) in Almarie, Spain, this year. If anyone plans on going and would like to help out with a booth there, 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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[opensuse-project] dis-Connect
by Fraser_Bell 19 Jul '19

19 Jul '19

Hi, Christian: > <Fraser_Bell> Thanks. BTW: I would join Heroes and work on the Connect.o.o replacements, if I had any idea what I was doing. But, not till elections are over. > <cboltz> :-) > <cboltz> the important part of connect.o.o is handling the membership and maybe being a "phonebook" for openSUSE > <cboltz> the other parts (groups, polls etc.) are more or less useless and can easily be dropped <snip> > <cboltz> Fraser_Bell: I also like the https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/profile/$USERNAME pages so if you work on a replacement and keep them, I'll be more than happy ;-) > <Fraser_Bell> Yes. <snip> > cboltz> oh, I'm quite sure someone will happily upgrade you if you promise to do the work ;-) > <Fraser_Bell> cboltz: Wait until after the Elections, please, I am now down to 20 pounds soaking wet and red, bleary eyes!!!! Elections are over. Let's get started. -- -Gerry Makaro openSUSE Member openSUSE Global Moderator openSUSE Contributor YaST Contributor aka Fraser_Bell on the Forums, OBS, IRC, and mail at openSUSE.org Fraser-Bell on Github -- 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] 2019-04-02 board meeting minutes
by Christian Boltz 04 Jun '19

04 Jun '19

Hello, here are the meeting minutes of the 2019-04-02 board meeting. If you prefer the wiki formatting, you can also read them on https://en.opensuse.org/Archive:Board_meeting_2019-04-02 There are some items with a "feedback welcome" - if you want to comment on them (or the other things), feel free to answer here or to board@ == Foundation/Independence == * we need to decide which way (e.V., joining an umbrella foundation) makes sense - topic for the face to face meeting, feedback on opensuse-project@ is of course welcome * Simon will write up a summary of the options of umbrella foundations * in general feedback from SUSE about becoming independent is positive, but we've also heard a concern that independence could be driven by fundamental things, not practical reasons * if ever needed, we could ignore whatever SUSE does and go our own way * a foundation / independence would make legal stuff like GDPR our business * Simon will talk to Ciaran how we could handle GDPR and other legal stuff == mail hosting using mailbox.org == We have an offer from Heinlein / mailbox org to make @opensuse.org mail addresses real mailboxes. Do our members want this? (Feedback on opensuse-project and @oSC welcome) == GDPR request == openSUSE received a GDPR request which now gets handled by the responsible people. == Cloudfest in Rust == We've seen the discussion on the opensuse-project mailinglist why openSUSE wasn't at Cloudfest. * base requirement (as always) is to have volunteers * commercial booth prices are insane, we'd have to find out if they offer free community booths Regards, Christian Boltz -- Es ist halt nur nicht eine einzige zentrale Filterdatei. Vorteil ist, dass die Anwender ihre eigenen Scripte verwalten (und sich dabei in den Fuss schiessen können). Nachteil ist genau das gleiche. (^-^) [Sandy Drobic in suse-linux über Sieve] -- 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 Community Releases Leap 15.1 Version
by ddemaio 24 May '19

24 May '19

Hi all, On behalf of the release team and all contributors to the openSUSE Project, I would like to inform you that we have released openSUSE Leap 15.1. Please view the announcement below or view it and share it online at https://news.opensuse.org/2019/05/22/opensuse-community-releases-leap-15-1-… v/r Doug openSUSE Community Releases Leap 15.1 Version Leap 15.1 Supports More Hardware, Drivers, Enhances Installation *EN* / CA <https://en.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.1_ca>/ <http://zh-tw.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.1>DE <http://de.opensuse.org/Release-Ank%C3%BCndigung_15.1>/ <http://zh-tw.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.1>IT <http://it.opensuse.org/Annuncio_di_rilascio_15.1>/ <http://zh-tw.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.1>ES <http://es.opensuse.org/Anuncio_publicaci%C3%B3n_15.1>/ <http://zh-tw.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.1>JA <http://ja.opensuse.org/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%82%A2%E3%83%…>/ <http://zh-tw.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.1>NL <http://nl.opensuse.org/Release_Aankondiging_15.1>/ <http://zh-tw.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.1>PL <http://pl.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.1>/ <http://zh-tw.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.1>ZH <http://zh.opensuse.org/%E5%8F%91%E8%A1%8C%E5%85%AC%E5%91%8A_15.1>/ <http://zh-tw.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.1>ZH-TW <http://zh-tw.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.1> 22/05/2019 *NUREMBERG, Germany *– Today’s release of the openSUSE Leap 15.1 brings professional users, entrepreneurs and Independent Software Vendors updated support for modern hardware. The release of Leap 15.1 improves YaST functionality and the installer. “Continuity and stability are what we are providing users with Leap 15.1,” said Haris Sehic, a member of the openSUSE community. “With Leap 15, we have introduced a huge number of new features and innovations in security, performance and tool/desktop area. Having in mind how stable, efficient and reliable Leap has become, with this release, we managed to keep the level of quality to the point that our private and Small Business users can, actually more than ever, profit from the enterprise background of an openSUSE Linux Distribution. Let’s continue to have a lot of fun!” Leap releases are scalable and both the desktop and server are equally important for professional’s workloads, which is reflected in the installation menu as well as the amount of packages Leap offers and hardware it supports. Leap is well suited and prepared for usage as a Virtual Machine (VM) or container guest, allowing professional users to efficiently run network services no matter whether it’s a single server or a data center. Professional users, system administrators and developers can have confidence in the reliability of the Leap distribution based on its development process to deliver a modern, secure, maintained and highly tested distribution using the open-source build system unique to both SUSE and openSUSE, which is the Open Build Service, along with the automated testing of openQA. What’s New An entirely new graphics stack update is available for this stable community- and enterprise-based open-source GNU/Linux distribution. Graphics hardware supported by the 4.19 Linux Kernel were backported for the release of Leap 15.1, which uses the 4.12 Linux Kernel and supports additional graphics drivers for Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and improved support for AMD Vega chipset. GPU virtualization has become quite popular among vendors like AMD, Intel and Nvidia and Leap 15.1 helps to delivers these implementation and support solutions for virtualized and cloud environments. Leap 15.1 will now use Network Manager by default for both laptops and desktops – previously only laptops defaulted to Network Manager. Server installations will continue to default to Wicked, the openSUSE advanced network configuration system. The release adds a few popular WiFi drivers for more modern wireless chipsets. A change that applies to both Wicked and Network Manager is that /etc/resolv.conf, yp.conf and some other files are a link to a file in /run and are managed by netconfig. The management of system services in YaST has been revamped to take advantage of many of the features offered by systemd in that area. Improved Setup and Configuration Some of the improvements to YaST have made for better management of services. Firewalld can be managed in text mode. There is a new User Interface to manage Firewalld, including AutoYaST support/advancements. System administrators will have better control with Salt formulas in the yast2-configuration-management module, and management of SSH keys per user will make sysadmins tasks much more pleasant. YaST comes with an improved Partitioner, that now can automatically format full disks without partition tables, create software MD RAIDs on top of full disks, create partitions within a software-defined MD RAID and many other combinations. AutoYaST also supports all these combinations. The work the YaST team has put into the setup and configuration tool has a better default partitioning proposal in several scenarios like those with small disks or systems with several disks making solutions easier for Linux professionals. Leap 15.1 brings new YaST icons developed by the community. The YaST team worked hard on improving the 4k display (HiDPI) experience. HiDPI displays are now autodetected and the UI is auto-scaled giving the installer a beautifully crisp interface. Security and Maintenance Maintenance updates from both Leap 15 and updates from SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 are inherited into Leap 15.1 and are part of the release. The security team issues fast updates for Leap 15.1. With maintenance updates, about 10 to 20 percent are contributed from the community. There is a YaST testing option for users to test maintenance updates before being released. The testing repository allows users to test the updates seven days before being pushed to the maintenance update repository. Minor versions of the Leap 15 series have about an 18-month life cycle of maintenance and security as minor releases come roughly once a year. Users of openSUSE Leap, 15.0, which was released on May 25, 2018, should upgrade to Leap 15.1 within the next 6 months. The 15 series of Leap is expected to achieve an estimated 36 months of maintenance and security updates. Images, Deployment and Hardware with Linode, Slimbooks and Tuxedo Leap 15.1 continues to add more hardware providers as Slimbook and TUXEDO Computers will both offer the option of purchasing hardware with Leap 15.1 preinstalled. Linode cloud images of Leap are available today and ready for all infrastructure needs. TUXEDO Computers devices were an important part of the openSUSE reference tests of Leap 15.1. “We share the fundamental belief that the user should have the best user experience we can offer,” said Herbert Feiler, CEO of TUXEDO Computers. “openSUSE Leap 15.1 is the consistent continuation and further development of stable Linux for end users. Therefore we of course continue to offer openSUSE pre-installed on all TUXEDO notebooks and PCs,” adds Feiler. Cloud hosting services will offer images of Leap 15.1 in the coming weeks like Amazon Web Services, Azure and OpenStack. Leap 15 is continually optimized for cloud usage scenarios as a host and virtualization guest. Desktop Environment Leap offers a great variety of Linux desktops, including traditional KDE, GNOME as well as efficient Xfce. Users can select their preferred desktop environment, configuration and workflow. GNOME 3.26 and the Long-Term-Support version of KDE Plasma 5.12 are in both Leap 15.0 and Leap 15.1. SLE 15 enterprise users can also get the KDE version and other community tools and packages available through PackageHub <https://packagehub.suse.com/>. Live images of KDE and GNOME are available for simple test-driving through the live tab under the Leap distribution on software.opensuse.org; a Rescue Live image is also available on the Live Images <https://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.1/live/> page for those mentioned above. Containers Leap 15.1 is filled with several containerization technologies like Singularity, which bring containers and reproducibility to scientific computing and the high-performance computing (HPC) world. Singularity first appeared in the Leap distribution in Leap 42.3 and provides functionality to build smallest minimal containers and runs the containers as single application environments. This is also the first Leap release containing the Podman container runtime and Buildah build tool; the used by default in openSUSE Kubic. Collectively they provide a more lightweight and resilient alternative to the alternative Docker container runtime, while also adding a number of unique features. Gamers and Designers Web designers and digital marketers can make use of the newer graphics stack with the minor version update of the Mesa 3d Graphic Library and use open source tools like the 3D Creation Software Blender to create intriguing and captivating animations. Gamers, music lovers and podcaster can enjoy the enhancements of the High Definition HD-audio, backported USB-audio drivers and software updates that were made for MultiMedia Card (MMC) and embedded MMC (eMMC). Migration to Enterprise made easy openSUSE Leap 15.1 brings plenty of community packages built on top of a core sources of SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) 15 SP1. The shared common core and alignment with SLE makes migrations to SUSE’s enterprise product easy for professional who want to extend the life cycle of their maintenance and security past the lifecycle of Leap. Migrating from the community version of Leap to SUSE Linux Enterprise is an available option for those who desire to migrate. The migration from openSUSE Leap server installations to SUSE Linux Enterprise is easy for system integrators developing on Leap code who may decide to move to an enterprise version for SLAs, certification, mass deployment, or extended Long Term Support. The instructions on how to do this using the SUSEConnect package and SUSE documentation can be found here <https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles-15/book_sle_upgrade/data/sec_upgrad…>. All Standard and Some Existing Services for Networks Like prior versions, System Administrators and small businesses can use Leap for hosting web and mail servers or for network management with DHCP, DNS, NTP, Samba, NFS, LDAP, and hundreds of other services. File sharing and cloud services include software such as NextCloud <https://nextcloud.com/> and even the groupware application suite Kopano <https://kopano.com/> (formerly known as Zarafa) is part of the official Leap 15.1 repositories. Leap 15.1 also introduces automatically configured SSH for both it’s “Server” and “Transactional Server” system roles by default, helping make things a little easier to work on your server immediately after installation. Health and Science The Leap distribution supports the health, science, research and developer communities. GNU Health, the award-winning health- and hospital management system, comes in version 3.4.x, which introduces the Federation Server, gnuhealth-thalamus. There is an added setup-script for GNU Health called openSUSE-gnuhealth-setup to ease the setup of a new system for less experienced users. Solve linear and nonlinear problems numerically and perform other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with MATLAB through GNU Octave or use the Free and Open Source Geographic Information System QGIS <https://www.qgis.org/> to create, edit, visualize, analyze and publish geospatial information. Leap has plenty more packages like the Computer Algebra System (CAS) for problems in field theory called Cadabra, the interactive physical simulator Step, and the periodic table package Kalzium. Platforms Leap works with X86_64 and deployment scenarios can be run for physical, virtual, host and guest, and cloud. Ports to other architectures like ARM64 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture> and POWER <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Architecture> are in the works by the community. The installation of openSUSE for the Raspberry Pi for ARM64 has been simplified to one image and is customizable. openSUSE Leap 15.1 is the first multi-purpose operating systems to support a full standard Linux experience in Raspberry Pi. There is no need for a custom specific ISO or precooked image to install on the Raspberry PI. The standard unmodified openSUSE image can be installed just like on any other computer. The installer detects and proposes the set of default configurations. Raspberry Pi needs a very specific partition containing the system firmware. This is important for the installer to detect the specific partition, preserve it and mount it in /boot/vc to allow the operating system to perform updates of the firmware. Download Leap 15.1 To download the ISO image, visit https://software.opensuse.org/distributions/leap Questions If you have a question about the release or think you may have found a bug, ask on one of the following : * https://t.me/openSUSE_group * https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-support/ * https://discordapp.com/invite/openSUSE Get involved If you would like to help the openSUSE Project, take a look at the list of ways you can participate at: https://rootco.de/2016-04-03-opensuse-and-you/ The openSUSE Project is a worldwide community that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. It creates two of the world’s best Linux distributions, the Tumbleweed rolling-release, and Leap, the hybrid enterprise-community distribution. openSUSE is continuously working together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community. The project is controlled by its community and relies on the contributions of individuals, working as testers, writers, translators, usability experts, artists and ambassadors or developers. The project embraces a wide variety of technology, people with different levels of expertise, speaking different languages and having different cultural backgrounds. Learn more about it on opensuse.org <http://opensuse.org> -- 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] Lighting Beer and Wein (Not Wine) Talks @oSC
by Christian Boltz 20 May '19

20 May '19

Hello, the openSUSE Conference will start in a few days, and I hope to meet lots of you there ;-) If there is something we like at openSUSE that is talks and beer and wine, and this time we want to combine them. We are going to to have a session with lightning talks, short talks of 5 minutes maximum each, where there is only one rule: The speaker muss always hold a beer or (new!) a glass of wine while giving the presentation. Everybody can submit a proposal. It doesn't matter if you are already an experienced openSUSE contributor or if you are just starting. We want to hear everybody! You just need an interesting and original topic related to open source or openSUSE to join the fun at the openSUSE conference. And if you don't drink alcohol, don't worry, we'll also provide beer-free beer (water ;-) Submitting a lightning talk If you want to give a lightning talk, please submit it by sending a mail to osc19(a)cboltz.de with the following information: My talk Title: _______________________________________________ Short description _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ I'll have slides: [ ] yes [ ] no I'll do a live demo etc. and need to use my own laptop: [ ] yes [ ] no About me Name _______________________________________________ I'd like to drink [ ] beer [ ] wine [ ] water You can submit your lightning talk by mail to osc19(a)cboltz.de until friday (2019-05-24) evening 22:00. The notification if your lightning talk gets accepted will be sent until saturday (2019-05-25) 11:00. If your talk gets accepted and you want to use slides, please send them by mail until 16:00 so that we can use one laptop for all speakers. You can also read the above on https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/oSC19/program/proposals/2423/ I'll publish the list of accepted lightning talks there on Saturday before lunch. Regards, Christian Boltz PS: Even if the session title indicates otherwise, talks about the software called "wine" are also welcome ;-) -- > vi wird nie mein Freund, seine zwei Modi sind einfach nicht mein Fall. Schade, wenn man sich erst einmal daran gewöhnt hat, kann man mit dem Ding fliegen. [> Helga Fischer und Bernd Brodesser in suse-linux] -- 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] 2019-04-30 Board meeting minutes
by Christian Boltz 20 May '19

20 May '19

Hallo, here are the minutes of the 2019-04-30 board meeting. You can also read them in the wiki: https://en.opensuse.org/Archive:Board_meeting_2019-04-30 = 2019-04-30 Board meeting = * present: Axel, Christian, Gertjan, Marina, Richard * absent: Simon (reason given) * guest: Florian Effenberger (founding member of The Document Foundation) == Minute taking == Christian was the only board member without a good excuse ;-) and therefore volunteered to take the minutes. When reading the minutes, you'll notice that they cover lots of legal details. Please keep in mind that I'm not a lawyer. == Foundation == Florian Effenberger told us a lot about foundations (especially The Document Foundation / TDF) and answered our questions. === Comparison of foundation and association === We looked at two options that can be used in Germany: * a foundation (german "Stiftung") and * an association (german "eingetragener Verein / e. V.") An association is something you can "just setup" if you have 7 people who agree on the statutes. Template statutes (for associations and foundations) are available from court for download. This makes sure you are compliant to current legislation. In comparison, setting up a foundation is much harder. Besides people and statutes, you need a capital stock which gets "locked" (trademarks can be part of the capital stock). TDF has a capital stock of 50 k€, nowadays the authorities ask for 100 k€. This capital stock has to be kept, you can't spend it. Also, setting up a foundation takes more time. In an association, members can change lots of things, the dedication etc. quite easily by voting on changed statutes by voting on changing statutes with a qualified majority (usually > 66% or 75%). In theory, lots of people from one company could join the association and then change its objective. A foundation is more stable, changing the objective / main goal is intentionally hard. This also means that the statutes shouldn't be written too narrow. They should match future growth, and should be as open as possible (who knows if Linux is still named Linux in 10 years? Better write "free/open operating system"). As an example, a goal of "make a linux distribution" would no longer match openSUSE because OSEM, jangouts etc. don't fit into that description. Obviously we should think twice before setting things into stone. For reference: the statutes of the TDF are available at https:// www.documentfoundation.org/statutes.pdf To make the comparison even more interesting, an association could have the option or goal to setup a foundation in its statutes. === Things foundation and association have in common === There is no difference between association and foundation regarding tax and charitably status. Both need to ask the tax office for charitably status at the beginning. The tax office checks the statutes and also requires regular reports every three years. In case of a foundation, the foundation authority requires annual reports. Germany has a catalog of charitably reasons, for example supporting education and international attitude (§52 Abgabenordnung). Both are not set-up for profit reasons, so piling up money isn't allowed, it has to be spent according to the foundation's or association's goal. However, it's possible to keep the money if you have a plan what you'll do with it (a high-level overview like "marketing", "infrastructure" is ok, no details needed for the tax office). There's a breakdown between project costs (2-6 years) and recurring costs (staff, rent etc.). A "free reserve" (10% of the income) can be used to build a "backup" if for example donations decline to avoid running out of money and having to shutdown instantly. Both foundation and association are split into two areas: * ideal operations (german "Idealbetrieb") - everything covered unter the charitably, for example creating a linux distribution and running a conference to educate our members and visitors. This part receives donations and can write tax-deductable donation receipts. * a business part (german "Wirtschaftsbetrieb"), for example selling t- shirts or advisory board fees. This part can write invoices with VAT applied (and can deduct VAT from the invoices received for that area) * sometimes there's a mix between both (german "Zweckbetrieb") - a business that serves the charitable purpose In worst case, board members can be personally liable (for example for wrongdoing or not filing insolvency). Insurances for most of these risks are available. Having employees is possible. Regulations are similar to being a company. There's an additional limitation that forbids overpayment. === The Document Foundation === Reasons for setting up TDF included the will to become independent from one single corporate sponsor, holding assets like trademarks and collecting donations in an independent entity. Before TDF was setup as a german foundation, lots of foundation options in different countries were checked. Besides the legal differences, having active contributors in a country was considered. It turned out that there are even big differences inside a country. In Germany, the foundation authorities in Bavaria were not as open for TDF's rather new model than Berlin, while both gave valuable feedback on the statutes. TDF has a strong membership element compared to other foundations. After the decision to setup a foundation was made, TDF collected money in a "fundraising challenge". The goal was to get 50 k€ in two months, they got it in 8 days. Most donations came from lots of private donors and small entities world-wide, not many companies with big amounts of money. TDF also had the fallback option to setup a foundation in the UK (with less money) in case the fundraising wouldn't reach its goal. At the beginning, the TDF was run with lots of volunteer work. Florian strongly recommended to have an external lawyer and an external accountant, and to outsource / pay someone for "boring" daily administration stuff. In the meantime, TDF growed and has some employees. TDF is always fundraising and gets lots of small donations which sum up. Displaying the "please donate" page while people wait for their download turned out to make a massive difference in donations. TDF also gets money via the advisory board fees. The majority of financial donations comes from individual donors, while companies often contribute valuable employee time and code. === outlook === The board hopes to have a rough idea if foundation or association makes more sense within a week, and will discuss it with Thomas Di Giacomo (SUSE President of Engineering, Product and Innovation) during the face to face meeting in the days before oSC. Regards, Christian Boltz -- The hardware was ordered weeks ago and we're expecting delivery imminently - I wonder if our old hardware figured this out and decided to blow up in protest? ;) [Richard Brown in opensuse-factory] -- 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] Call for Papers for openSUSE.Asia Summit, Flock to Fedora and FrOSCon
by ddemaio 17 May '19

17 May '19

Hi all, I wanted to make you all aware of the call for papers that are currently open. The openSUSE.Asia Summit CfP is open until June 22. Please submit your proposal to the following website: https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/summitasia19/program/proposals/new Flock to Fedora is in Budapest this year and we have sponsored each others conference for the past few years. There are many packages and technologies that both openSUSE and Fedora communities collaborate on and it would be great to have speakers involved with openSUSE community give a talk at Flock to Fedora. The CfP is open. Please go to https://pagure.io/flock to submit your talk. One more CfP that is open is FrOSCon. The CfP for this will close next Thursday. If you are interested in giving a talk at FrOSCon, visit https://www.froscon.de/en/cfp/cfpapers/ 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] Translating the Release Announcement for Leap 15.1
by ddemaio 16 May '19

16 May '19

Hi all, I wanted to get this out to you all, so we can start translating the release announcement before the release. There is one section that is waiting for a quote, which I hope to have by the end of the day. The section is: QUOTE (Should have by May 7) I have placed the release announcement on the openSUSE wiki at https://en.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.1 It would be highly appreciated if you could help to translate the release announcement to your native language to help propagate the news of our next release. Currently it is only in English. Feel free to link your translated version to the top and include your ISO 639-1 Code language code. If you have any questions, please let me know. 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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