September 2021 - 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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GitHub organization migration request: obs-service-erlang_changes
by Matwey V. Kornilov 09 Feb '22

09 Feb '22

Hello, I would like to migrate my following project https://github.com/matwey/obs-service-erlang_changes to the opensuse github organization. The project is an OBS service that is used to package new Erlang versions. It is also packaged: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Tools/obs-service-erlang_c… -- With best regards, Matwey V. Kornilov

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Regular Community Meeting Week 39
by ddemaio 01 Oct '21

01 Oct '21

Hi all, We had our Tuesday meeting today. Please find the notes below or at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting20210928. We will be moving the time of Tuesday meetings from 11:00 UTC to 13:30 UTC. It will be a 60 minute meeting and the shift should help with attendance. The Thursday meeting we will discuss the purchasing of swag and a plan for developing a workgroup regarding an openSUSE Foundation. The Thursday meeting will be at 18:00 UTC on https://meet.opensuse.org/meeting. Access all the meeting notes at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting v/r Doug ## Participants: ddemaio, ftake, knurpht ### topics Tuesday Meeting * We plan to move the Tuesday meeting to 13:30 UTC and have it go for 60 minutes. * Feedback was helpful to making a decision software.o.o * Will have a workshop. Finding a date for the workshop https://doodle.com/poll/kxban48es58brz6n?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link * With software.o.o. proposal, there is a point about "Optimize filters for package searches." The Japanese community is using software.o.o. quite a bit and there are some difficulties finding package using the web UI fitler. A package search for openCV with the Leap 15.2 filter show results, but a filter with Leap 15.3 does not provide a result for openCV. * https://github.com/openSUSE/software-o-o/pull/1065 discusses this, but the issue is not fixed OPI: OBS Package Installer https://github.com/openSUSE/opi Sent a ticket to heroes to see if tsp.o.o can be fixed. Swag * Discussion on color of beanie & color of embroidered logo

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Something goes wrong if you can read this in a website
by victorhck 30 Sep '21

30 Sep '21

Hello listmates! I really gets surprised when I read this article in Linux Journal website¹: "Say no to distributions made for specific purposes like Kali, CentOS, and OpenSuse. OpenSuse is great, but it is made for enterprise use. An everyday user won't ever need most of its features. To maintain it would be a waste of time." I'm an everyday user and openSUSE lives in my laptop and makes me happy, and is not a waste of time to run "zypper dup" from time to time to update my system. IMHO Someone should answer properly about this "fake news" about our beloved distro. Or publish an article in news.o.o saying that this is not right. Greetings! [1] https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/how-pick-linux-distribution -- ------------------- GPG Key: 0xcc742e8dc9b7e22a Fingerprint = 6FE2 3B1F AAC8 E5B7 63EA 88A9 CC74 2E8D C9B7 E22A Aprende a proteger la privacidad de tu correo: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/es/ Mi blog sobre openSUSE, GNU/Linux y software libre: https://victorhckinthefreeworld.com/ Herramientas para proteger tu privacidad https://victorhck.gitlab.io/privacytools-es/

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Board Meeting minutes 2021-09-13
by Knurpht-openSUSE 30 Sep '21

30 Sep '21

Board Meeting minutes 20210913 Present: Simon, Axel, Syds, Gertjan, Neal Guests: Maurizio, Attilla, Luna, Bill, Doug Excused: Gerald Board briefly goes through open tickets, no developments at the moment ** Foundation Simon: Stagnation due to changes at SUSE, feedback from SUSE now seems to change to more positive Advantage DE: possible keep governance / legal structure Other options: US, BE https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/project@lists.opensuse.org/thread/ ZLAE3USCBC7W3RCHL5PAHDSFASF3XFCM/ Axel mentions that the Board has agreed that it does not want to change the relationship with SUSE Simon: This must come from community. To avoid it being seen as a way to avoid taxes from SUSE side. We're aiming for receiving money, from sponsors donations (Summary of previous findings) Neal mentions Linux Foundation could possibly help. Also noted that LF helps with making American foundations, though they take a cut as part of that. We can certainly do it on our own, too Axel mentions US Cloud Act being a potential issue. For this and the fact, that (open)SUSE has its roots in Germany, Axel proposes to keep the foundation in Europe Neal noted meeting that the CLOUD Act of 2018 already applies to us due to SUSE using AWS and Azure and owning a DC in Provo, UT. Simon: 2 ways to break a Foundation: GDPR, not doing proper accounting SUSE providing part-time accounting, GDPR requests Bill: a lawyer? Simon: SUSE is willing to.. Trademarks owned by SUSE. If ™ owned by a Foundation , that Foundation has to defend them. Neal also noted that we might want to consider an arrangement similar to how Ziff Davis did for their trademarks and brand when the company split in two (Ziff Davis and Ziff Davis Enterprise), though that arrangement no longer exists with ZDE being gone now. Doug: most of our sponsoring is wider community projects: smaller conferences etc. Doug brings up a possible Foundation on Curaçao Gertjan asks Syds about possibilities in NL AI Syds: find EN versions of NL Foundation docs -- Gertjan Lettink a.k.a. Knurpht openSUSE Board openSUSE Forums Team

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Reminder meeting : openSUSE Board meeting next Monday (13:00 Europe/Berlin)
by openSUSE Meeting Reminder 25 Sep '21

25 Sep '21

Hello all, The biweekly board conf call will be held in two days at 13:00 Europe/Berlin Meeting will be in the regular Board Meeting Room https://meet.opensuse.org/OSBoard Current Topics: https://code.opensuse.org/board/tickets/issues?status=Open&tags=meeting Board Members: If you cannot participate, please advise by replying to this mail.

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Asking for guidance
by Sid Lais 23 Sep '21

23 Sep '21

Hi there, I am a first year B.Tech student in CSE. I came across your group while looking at the GSoC page and was interested in the project. I would really like it if you could give some tips and guidance. I don't think I can contribute to the code immediately but would like to do as much as I can. I have some basic knowledge of HTML and Python and can use Linux and Bash at a beginner level. What should I do so that I can contribute to Open Source as soon as possible.

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FreeIPA
by Chuck Payne 20 Sep '21

20 Sep '21

Guys, What would it take to get FreeIPA supported again? I work with a lot RHEL boxes and a few Debian boxes. IPA great, because I can tie into a AD Domain and use the same accounts account all box. Yes, I could pay for Beyond Trust or Centrify. I could use Winbind. So far SSSD seems to work the best. -- Terror PUP a.k.a Chuck "PUP" Payne ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein Register Linux Userid: 155363 openSUSE Community Member since 2008.

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Meeting Notes: Regular Community Meeting Week 37
by ddemaio 17 Sep '21

17 Sep '21

Hi all, We had some issues with meet.o.o. and weren't able to connect for our regular meeting. Thanks to Jens a fix has been submitted - https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/919564 Next week I will be unable to attend. If you want to have a meeting, the notes are set for next week at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting v/r Doug

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I want to join the openSUSE organization on GitHub
by Giovani Candido 15 Sep '21

15 Sep '21

Good afternoon! I hope you're doing great! My name is Giovani (aka giovcandido) and I'd like to join the openSUSE organization on GitHub. I've been contributing to opi. I'd like to help you guys to maintain this and other projects (in the future). Currently, I'm a computer science student. But, I've been coding since 2014. I learnt to code with CodeAcademy. Then, I joined a technical school. And now, I'm in college. It's important to note that I've been using Linux for the past three years. Recently, I fell in love with openSUSE TW. Hope you guys have space for me. Best regards. Giovani Candido

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Regular Community Meeting Week 36
by ddemaio 14 Sep '21

14 Sep '21

Hi all, Here is a reminder that we have two regular community meetings you can attend this week. The meetings will be similar and give community members globally a chance to attend, chat and discuss issues related to the project. The meetings are scheduled for: Meeting 1: Tuesdays at 11:00 UTC Meeting 2: Thursdays at 18:00 UTC Meeting Details: Date: Tuesday, Sept. 7 Time: Meeting at 11:00 UTC Location: https://meet.opensuse.org/meeting Etherpad: https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting20210907 Date: Thursday, Sept. 9 Time: Meeting at 18:00 UTC Location: https://meet.opensuse.org/meeting Etherpad: https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting20210909 v/r Doug

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Reminder meeting : openSUSE Board meeting next Monday (13:00 Europe/Berlin)
by openSUSE Meeting Reminder 13 Sep '21

13 Sep '21

Hello all, The biweekly board conf call will be held in two days at 13:00 Europe/Berlin Meeting will be in the regular Board Meeting Room https://meet.opensuse.org/OSBoard Current Topics: https://code.opensuse.org/board/tickets/issues?status=Open&tags=meeting Board Members: If you cannot participate, please advise by replying to this mail.

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Minutes of openSUSE Board meeting 2021-08-16
by Gerald Pfeifer 13 Sep '21

13 Sep '21

==== Minutes of openSUSE Board meeting 2021-08-16 ==== Present: Axel, Gerald, Gertjan, Neal (second half), Simon, Vinz Guests: Maurizio (m4u9), Richard (sysrich), Attila/Adator, Doug, Bittin, Brejoc, Adrien, Marcus Meissner (partly) Minutes: Gerald Next: Gertjan == Defi for Z-Bau == - Promised defi after events at most recent in person oSC at Z-Bau - Doug looking into it, definitely plan to still do it - Post meeting update: done == Moderator accountability across all platforms (#9) == - How were existing moderation teams bootstrapped? - In case of Forums consolidation from 3 existing one to 1 - Discord started from scratch - Wrt mailing lists focus on project@ initially - Maybe factory@, too, to help keep people on topic - Different approaches: -- ask for volunteers -- approach/nominate some -- existing moderators from other media - Side topic: common forum for all moderators (across all media) - Next steps: -- AI Simon to drive -- mail announcement including request for volunteers (Gerald to help) -- project@ and factory@ -- obtain list of current moderators (from LCP) -- Clarify confidentialty of lists like board@,... with moderators - Need ability for everyone to raise issues with moderators - mailing list for moderators - AI Mauricio, Gertjan - for reference: https://forums.opensuse.org/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq_novellgen == Teams and Sharing/Communications (#25) == - some exchange, no concrete next steps

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Could you add me to the openSUSE organization on GitHub?
by Marius Kittler 07 Sep '21

07 Sep '21

Hi, I'm an openSUSE user and SUSE employee and when doing the onboarding of a new colleague I realized that I'm not yet member of the openSUSE organization on GitHub? Could someone add me there? My name on GitHub is "Martchus". (You likely have already seen me there due to my contributions to openQA.) Best Regards Marius

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Regular Community Meeting Week 35
by ddemaio 07 Sep '21

07 Sep '21

Hi all, I just wanted to send a reminder that we have two regular community meetings you can attend this week. The meetings will be similar and give community members globally a chance to attend, chat and discuss issues related to the project. The meetings are scheduled for: Meeting 1: Tuesdays at 11:00 UTC Meeting 2: Thursdays at 18:00 UTC Meeting Details for today Date: Tuesday, August 31 Time: Meeting at 11:00 UTC Location: https://meet.opensuse.org/meeting Etherpad: https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting20210831 [1] v/r Doug Links: ------ [1] https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting20210826

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Hacktoberfest
by ddemaio 02 Sep '21

02 Sep '21

Hi all, Last year we participated in Hacktoberfest, which is an event run by Digital Ocean and DEV that encourages people to make their first contributions to open source projects. The event is a month away and it would be ideal to have a few projects within openSUSE host an event. Whether it is an event to teach people about a project, teach someone how to maintain a package or just a class abou improving documentation, any contribution will help. There is a page about Hacktoberfest on https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/hacktoberfest2021 where you can list your ideas. I'll put the topic on the list for our community meetings so we can discuss it later today and next week. Get more info about Hacktoberfest at, https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com. v/r Doug

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Docs team regular meeting 03-09-2021
by Attila Pinter 02 Sep '21

02 Sep '21

Hi, A reminder, we will have a meeting tomorrow September 3rd, 2021 at 4pm UTC at https://meet.opensuse.org/docs. On the agenda we have the deadlines to discuss and set for ourselves, Adrien will lead the charge on that. This is in a different time than usual, see you there ;) -- Br, A.

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removed news item
by Peter Czanik 01 Sep '21

01 Sep '21

Hi, What happened to https://news.opensuse.org/2021/08/30/GNA-and-Beast-Canyon-NUC11-compatibili… I shared it with the Hungarian community and now I got a report, that the page is 404. I just checked and it really disappeared. Peter

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