openSUSE Project April 2021

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by ddemaio

Hi all, I just wanted to send out a reminder about the openSUSE Conference meeting we have every Tuesday at 18:00 UTC. The meetings will take place later in https://meet.opensuse.org/bar. While doing a live meeting, topics and updates to the #project chat on openSUSE Discord will be posted. I'll give an update on the planning of the conference and send out the minutes tomorrow. If you haven't submitted a talk yet, please do so by logging into https://events.opensuse.org/ and submit proposal. There are only 14 more days until the CfP closes. v/r Doug

9 hours, 54 minutes

Leap 15.3 marketing meeting update from April 14

by ddemaio

Hi all, I wanted to send everyone an update from the marketing meeting we had yesterday. We finalized the release announcement (https://en.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.3 <https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/153release>) last night so the next step will be to send it off for translations, which should give the community a good amount of time to translate it. I want to send it out with an updated version of the social media messages on https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Social_media_launch_plan, which will also need translations and people to post the messages on the local language social media pages. We will have another marketing meeting on April 28 at 18:00 UTC on https://meet.opensuse.org/153marketing The plan for that meeting will focus a bit on brainstorming, the imagery that goes along with the release and whatever gets threaded here before the next meeting. v/r Doug

5 days, 7 hours

openSUSE Conference meeting and Leap 15.3 marketing meeting

by ddemaio

Hi all, I wanted to reminder everyone of two meeting we have this week. We will have a meeting today (every Tuesday) at 18:00 UTC for the planning of the openSUSE Conference. This meetings will take place in https://meet.opensuse.org/bar as recommended by those attending. While doing a live meeting, we will post topics and updates to the #project chat on openSUSE Discord. We are looking for people to help stream the talks, so if you are interested, please join us or contact me if you can't make the meeting. We will have another marketing meeting on tomorrow (April 14) at 18:00 UTC on https://meet.opensuse.org/153marketing The plan is to finalize the announcement and start working on the social media launch plan. If you have ideas for social media post for the release of Leap 15.3, please go ahead and add them to https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Social_media_launch_plan Contributing to https://en.opensuse.org/Features_15.3 are also welcome. Cya later. v/r Doug

6 days, 10 hours

A note on principles (by the board)

by Gerald Pfeifer

We, the members of the openSUSE Board, strongly value the openSUSE Code of Conduct and Guiding Principles: https://en.opensuse.org/Code_of_Conduct https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Guiding_principles Inclusion is a fundamental pillar of our community and the broader free software and open source communities that we are part of, are connected with, and value. We firmly stand against sexism, racism,... and strive to keep our communities open, welcoming, and safe for everyone to join. As a board, we also believe that these principles that apply to our openSUSE communities shall also apply to the events and groups that we partner with and sponsor. We are reassessing our sponsorships in that light. Axel, Gerald, Gertjan, Neal, Simon, Syds, Vinz

1 week, 1 day

Wikipedia page(s) for openSUSE

by Axel Braun

Dear Community, the english wikipedia-page for openSUSE [1] as well as the page in German [2] received some major rewrites in the last weeks, mainly to reflect the project character (vs. purely the distribution), history, structure and current distributions. Please consider to check if the wikipedia pages for your language need an update as well, and kindly use the german/english page as template. Thank you Axel [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSUSE [2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSUSE

1 week, 1 day

openSUSE Board - 20210315 Minutes

by Neal Gompa

Meeting minutes for Board call on 2021-03-15 @ 21:00 CEST Attendees: Gerald, Gertjan, Simon, Vinz, Axel, Neal Meeting start * Treasurer on board@? It has been generally agreed that Syds will be added to board@ mailing list. Gertjan will schedule with Syds a time to meet and talk with the Board. (Note: this happened for the 20210329 meeting, minutes for which already were published) * Emeritus Membership Simon intends to clarify the information and rules around emeritus membership. * Communication Protocols It has been observed that openSUSE as a project is gradually improving on communication, the Board will revisit this at a later date. * Conflict resolution issues: Acknowledged and worked on Meeting end @ 23:00 CEST -- Neal Gompa (ID: Pharaoh_Atem)

1 week, 4 days

Re: [opensuse-project] huge amount of SPAM on opensuse-connect

by christian.imhorst＠posteo.de

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

1 week, 5 days

oSC21 Meeting: April 6

by ddemaio

Hi all, I just wanted to send out an update of the meeting we had yesterday about the openSUSE Conference. Have have listed the bullets of what was discussed below. To summaries some of the key takeaways from the meeting. We will be doing meeting every Tuesday at 18:00 UTC. The meetings will take place in https://meet.opensuse.org/bar as recommended by those attending. While doing a live meeting, we will post topics and updates to the #project chat on openSUSE Discord. I will also continue to post the meeting notes on the mailing list for the community to read if they don't attend the planning meetings for oSC21. We believe the best way to do the conference is to have pre-recorded talks during the event and have the speaker present for a live Q&A session after their talk. We will have to figure out how to do this There also an option for a live workgroup via Big Blue Button in the tool venueless that we will be using. We hoping to get some volunteers to help with the conference planning, so please email me if you are willing to assist. Anybody with OBS (broadcast software) experience who are willing to help, please contact me. If you haven't submitted a talk yet, please do so by logging into https://events.opensuse.org/ and submit proposal. v/r Doug #topic Status #info The CfP ends May 4 #info Registration 55, Submissions 14, 8 hours #topic Venue #Info opensuse.venueless.events/ #info If you want to help, I can make you an admin. Please let me know. Email ddemaio(a)opensuse.org #info most documentation I have is in German #topic Keynote #info Our keynote speaker will be Sheng Liang - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_Liang <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_Liang> I would like to have another speaker and have reached out, but don’t have confirmation. They are still evaluating. Does anyone have any ideas for other people who might be a good keynote? #action ddemaio to email Mathew Miller about keynote discussing mutual collaboration? Also, Maybe have a Fedora Social hour during the conference #info Keynote from Sheng is planned for Friday toward the later have of the first day on June 18. #topic Recording or Live Stream #question we will need to discuss the structure. Does it make sense to have everyone record their talks and then just do a live Q&A? #info We might need some backup for recording. If someone is good with OBS (broadcast) and wants to help, let me know. #info In contact with c3voc and the venueless allow for stream. #agree Have talks recorded and play talks according to schedule. Presenters to be present for live Q&A. #topic Moderators #Info I’m still trying to figure out the tool. It would be good to have more moderators to introduce the talk. #info Volunteers should contact ddemaio #topic Sponsors #info SUSE and Fedora are sponsors. #info Sponsors package updated and prices decreased #link https://en.opensuse.org/images/4/42/OpenSUSE_Conference_2021_Sponsorship.pdf #topic T-Shirts #Info We will be sending out a t-shirt ordered from a sub-website freewear.org #info IMPORTANT - For some depending on the country the t-shirt is going to, you may have to pay a customs/import charge. If you don't pay the fees, Customs will proceed to destroy the shipping. openSUSE will still be charged the t-shirt and the shipping cost. Please don’t order a t-shirt if you don’t plan on paying a customs fee should you have to. #link (not up yet) https://www.freewear.org/oSVC/ #topic Volunteer Team #info If you want to volunteer to help with the conference, please email ddemaio(a)opensuse.org <mailto:ddemaio@opensuse.org> with the subject “oSC21 Volunteer Team” #topic Social media posts #info If you submit a talk for the openSUSE Conference, please post it to social media and tag @openSUSE #info posts can be developed once the talks have been approved and the schedule complete.

1 week, 6 days

Board meeting minutes 2021-03-29

by Axel Braun

Meeting minutes board call 2021-03-29 , 2100 CEST Attendees: Simon, Gertjan, Neal, Gerald, Syds, Axel Excused: Vinz Minutes: Axel Meeting closed: 2230 CEST ** Syds (New Treasurer) joins the board and we discuss his role ** **Multiple conflict resolution issues** **Timing of board calls** * With all regions switching to summer time current timing means 0430 for Simon * Proposal: 0700 NY, 1300 Europe and 2030 Australia * Check with Vinz * Plan B if Plan A does not work: Move next call to 2200 Nürnberg time [Note: We go for 1300 CEST] **Recent developments in FSF** * We would not like to sign any existing letter as oS Board * We would like to publish a note where we emphasize the CoC and guiding principles of the oS community * As a sponsor of FSF we would like to see the guiding principles reflected. We would not like to sponsor an organization that is not in line with CoC and common values. * AI Simon and Neal to draft proposal based on Geralds mail to the board. * For the time being, sponsorship is suspended [Note: Board statement was published to project@ in between]

2 weeks, 2 days

marketing workgroup and social media posts

by ddemaio

Hi all, I wanted to send this info out after our marketing meeting yesterday. We are pretty close to finalizing the release announcement and plan on sending out in a couple weeks for translations. We will have another marketing meeting on April 14at 18:00 UTC on https://meet.opensuse.org/153marketing <https://meet.opensuse.org/153marketing> At that meeting, we hope to finalize the announcement and start working on the social media launch plan. If you have ideas for social media post for the release of Leap 15.3, please go ahead and add them tohttps://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Social_media_launch_planThere is no need to wait until April 14. We'll discuss what we have an come up with more during the meeting. Also please consider contributing to the https://en.opensuse.org/Features_15.3 page. It is shaping up pretty good and I want to thank those who have already helped to develop the content. Have a great day. v/r Doug

2 weeks, 5 days

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