January 2020 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] >avg developer friendliness?
by Felix Miata 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

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. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- 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 Board election 2019-2020 - Voting
by Ish Sookun 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

Dear community members, Voting has begun! You must have received the election url and your voter credential on your @opensuse.org member mail alias. Some of the members do not have an email alias and therefore their credentials have been sent to their member email address instead. If you haven't received your credential yet let us know on election-officials(a)opensuse.org. Lastly, a reminder about voting. We have four candidates running for the openSUSE Board for the two seats available. You may vote for two candidates, just one or submit a blank vote by not selecting any candidate. Regards, Ish Sookun -- 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] Addressing newcomers
by Martin Winter 15 Jan '20

15 Jan '20

Hi all, I followed the discussion of the revived marketing team and also the meeting on 8.1.2020 from the perspective of a desktop user and having in mind people which want to switch from Windows to Linux. After thinking about this discussion I think we could/should put even more focus on attracting newcomers. This means that we should be more visible also outside the established Linux and openSUSE communities and reduce the entry hurdles. Some proposals: - Improve www.o.o. Some ideas below. - Write articles or article series for computer magazines and web sites targeted to the general user - (I should have more ideas, but currently that's it, sorry) For the www.o.o website: - First, write openSUSE the right way! At the German version it is spelled OpenSUSE :( - Improve the slogan. The German translation sounds like machine translation and is not appealing. One idea which came to my mind was "openSUSE: Get it! Use it! Be part of it!" linking to the download, the documentation and the community, resp. - Improve the links in the Tools section. They go directly into some quite deep pages instead of first telling what this is. E.g. YaST: yes, the linked page tells a little bit what this is. But when you go to `Documentation` you're already at developer documentation level. Keep the user in mind! - Contributing: are Code and Hardware really the two options? Put more focus on the community! - Generally: read the page with the eyes of a user who has heard of openSUSE recently and now wants to try it out. Give her/him everything she/he needs! Just some points I stumbled across when I was in about that situation two years ago: - Download was easy. But the page with instructions on how to create a bootable USB stick under Windows mentioned SUSE Studio Image writer. This tool is no longer supported for Windows and difficult to install. Remove it in favor of Etcher. Such a hurdle at the very beginning of the installation of openSUSE can be disappointing. - Mention the Multimedia codec topic in some prominent place. Discuss openSUSE's decision not to include some codecs in the standard repositories and the user's options. EVERY desktop user stumbles across this point, and quite some stop using openSUSE at this point because this does not work out of the box. - Finding the proper documentation was quite difficult. E.g. I had to ask on a forum before I found the page in the wiki explaining all the repositories and their content. There is no prominent link called `Documentation` on www.o.o. - Go through the Wiki. There are quite some pages, where the latest tested version for a documentation is 42.3 or even older. This makes a bad impression. Huch, is openSUSE still alive?! And provide some good entry points to relevant information for newcomers. There are so many portals! Where should I start? Thank you Vincent for reviving the marketing team and all others participating in this effort! openSUSE is great and deserves a good visibility. Best regards Martin -- 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] Collecting topics for news-o-o
by Vinzenz Vietzke 14 Jan '20

14 Jan '20

Hi, As talked about in last week's marketing team meeting here's the topics collection for possible news-o-o articles: https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/marketing-topics-collection-jan2020 Please feel free to dump in things coming up to your mind. Anything is welcome! And if you want to pick something to start writing it's even more appreciated! Just strike it out in the etherpad and place your nickname in brackets behind it. For any questions and thoughts just drop them here or the mailing list - or ping me directly. Thanks! vinz.

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[opensuse-project] Some graphics needed
by Vinzenz Vietzke 09 Jan '20

09 Jan '20

Hi there, a note in advance: I'm re-sending this mail here to get more attention as I'm not sure how many people actually are subscribed to the artwork mailing list. If you're interested in artwork it might be good to join that low traffic list. On topic: We want to get news.opensuse.org more going and therefore would need some "dummy" graphics for recurring types of articles. Would someone with graphics skills be willing to do that? You won't need to do all of them even though that'd be awesome. ;-) Some of them are: - Leap releases - Tumbleweed reviews - Summits and conferences - Board elections More details and stuff to get inspired by if necessary is on Github. [1] [2] If you need assistance with Git or Github, or don't have an account there just let me know. Otherwise just comment on the issue that you're helping us. :-) Regards, vinz. [1] https://github.com/openSUSE/artwork/issues/36 [2] https://github.com/openSUSE/artwork

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[opensuse-project] Meeting Team Marketing / 2020-01-08 19:00 UTC
by Vinzenz Vietzke 08 Jan '20

08 Jan '20

Hi there, as there were no objections against the appointment and Doug is available as well I hereby invite everyone interested to the team marketing meeting: *Date & Time* Tomorrow, January 8th at 19:00h UTC Check your local time here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200108T19 *Where?* Unfortunately IRC bridging is still due. Discord, Telegram and Matrix are all three bridged together. So choose one of them to take part. Details here: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_meeting *Agenda* I condensed the points you mentioned into a rough agenda. If I missed something please feel free to add it. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_meeting For anyone not able to make it I will try to make a report. Looking forward to see you! vinz.

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[opensuse-project] Reviving the marketing team
by Vinzenz Vietzke 07 Jan '20

07 Jan '20

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.

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[opensuse-project] Who is responsible for cleaning spam on IRC/Matrix/Telegram?
by Carlos E. R. 07 Jan '20

07 Jan '20

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I see spam in IRC (#opensuse-es), and I don't see any admin banning those users. Example: 13:55:48) riasaftchick[m]: legalmente y presentarle para recibir la suma de $ 20 millones de dólares estadounidenses. Lo cual, por supuesto, usted gana el 30%. Contácteme Then I see another user welcoming him: (13:57:42) Pasin[m]: Un placer igualmente, bienvenido al grupo - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHYEARECADYWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCXhSHcRgcY2FybG9zLmUu ckBvcGVuc3VzZS5vcmcACgkQtTMYHG2NR9Wd6gCgg4BCJcssODHJOysWK2AYCm5K fqgAn1uOwyrOxk2jxuI3lsvZoRPyzTlm =UTdf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[opensuse-project] My candidate profile for openSUSE Board elections
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 05 Jan '20

05 Jan '20

Hello together, I hope you all have got a good start into the new year! We are in the campaign period for our elections. Therefore, I created my candidate profile in the last days: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_2019_platform_AdaLovelace You can ask questions if you want to know more. 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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