October 2022 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[Notice] - openSUSE Regular Board election 2021
by Ariez Vachha - openSUSE 01 Nov '22

01 Nov '22

Dear openSUSE members, openSUSE Board Election 2021 [1] It's time to elect new Board members to fill empty seats on the openSUSE Board. There are two seats for election in accordance per our normal election cycle. This is a regular election as defined in our Election Rules [2] ## Phase 0 01 November 2021 - Announcement of the Board Election 2021 - Call for Nominations and Applications for Board candidacy - Membership drive 22 November 2020 - Nominations and Applications for Board candidacy close ## Phase 1 22 November 2021 - Announcement of the final list of candidates - Campaign begins - Membership drive continues, opportunity to apply for openSUSE Membership, but members will only be eligible to vote and not run as a candidate ## Phase 2 13 December 2021 - Ballots open: Please cast your vote during this time - Campaign continues 30 December 2021 - Ballots close 31 December 2021 - Announcement of results To stand for a position in the openSUSE Board please send an email to: * project(a)lists.opensuse.org and * election-officials(a)lists.opensuse.org If a member would like to nominate another member, please inform the Election Committee and the officials will contact the nominee to ask whether they would like to run as a Board candidate. Only openSUSE members are eligible to run for openSUSE Board openings in accordance with the Eligibility and Validity section of our Election Rules [2]. The Election Committee [3] are hereby calling for Nominations & Applications for the openSUSE Board. [1] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election [2] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_rules [3] Members: Ish Sookun, Edwin Zakaria and Ariez Vachha. -- Regards, The Election Committee election-officials(a)lists.opensuse.org

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Candidate for openSUSE Board 2022
by Knurpht-openSUSE 01 Nov '22

01 Nov '22

Hi all, I've decided to do the jump once again and run again for Board Membership. Will put out my platform later this week and publish the URL here. To the others: Let's have a good one !!!! Good luck to all. -- Gertjan Lettink a.k.a. Knurpht openSUSE Board openSUSE Forums Team

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Tend to run
by Chuck Payne 31 Oct '22

31 Oct '22

Hello, In years past I have been super busy, I am finally to a place in my personal life and career where I have free time. With that being said, I like to announce that I live to run for the openSUSE board. I feel that I can bring a lot to the tablet, and again I do have time now to stand up and help out. -- 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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openSUSE Board Election 2022
by Ish Sookun 31 Oct '22

31 Oct '22

Dear Geekos, It is the time of the year when we call for volunteers to run for the Board Election. It requires a lot of commitment to spare time to give back to the project. Being a board member gives one the chance to contribute so much to the project and help the community by pushing ideas forward. A few days ago, Ariez Vaccha from the Election Committee announced [1] the General Board Election 2022 schedule. As per that schedule, the Call for Nomination & Application ends on 31 October. That leaves you, Geeko, five days to make up mind, roll up your sleeves and throw your hat forward. Regards, Ish Sookun [1] https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/project@lists.opensuse.org/thread/…

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Notice of intent to run for the openSUSE Board
by Neal Gompa 31 Oct '22

31 Oct '22

My fellow members of the openSUSE community, I wish to declare my intent to run for one of the available openSUSE Board seats in the upcoming election. I have had the wonderful pleasure of being involved in openSUSE as a contributor for the past five years, and I believe openSUSE is an amazing project offering a Linux distribution platform with great potential! My hope is that I can help get openSUSE to realize its potential as a member of the Board. Here is my election platform: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_2022_platform_-_Neal_Gompa Feel free to reach out to me and ask about myself, my thoughts on openSUSE, and/or my candidacy for the Board. Thanks in advance and best regards, -- Neal Gompa (ID: Pharaoh_Atem)

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Re: openSUSE Board request for candidacy
by Ish Sookun 31 Oct '22

31 Oct '22

Dear Nathan, On 31/10/2022 18:53, Nathan Wolf wrote: > I would like to throw in my hat to be a candidate to be on the openSUSE board. > > Thank you for your consideration. Thank you for throwing in your hat. Your candidacy is well received. Regards, Ish Sookun // on behalf of the Election Committee

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2022 Board election - candidate
by Patrick Fitzgerald 31 Oct '22

31 Oct '22

Hi All, This is to inform you of my intention to run as a candidate for the openSUSE Board. For more details please find them here: https://en.opensuse.org/User:Pfitzgerald Any questions please don't hesitate to ask. Best regards - Patrick -- -------------------------------- Patrick Fitzgerald i-Layer Limited * consultancy * solutions * support http://www.innovationLayer.com/ <http://www.i-layer.com/> General: +44 (0)20 3327 0011 Support: isupport(a)i-layer.com <mailto:comments@i-layer.com> Please send any comments regarding the quality of our services to: comments(a)i-layer.com <mailto:comments@i-layer.com> All the information contained in this electronic message from i-Layer Limited is private and confidential and is solely intended for the recipient(s) only. If you have received this electronic message in error and you are not the intended recipient be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender (whose contact details are above) immediately by reply email and delete the message and any attachments without retaining any copies. Any prices quoted in this email are subject to contract and are valid for 72 hours only.

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Community Meetings: Week 44
by ddemaio 31 Oct '22

31 Oct '22

Hi all, The meeting times have changed. The Tuesday Community Meetings will now take place at 15:30 UTC. I will not be at tomorrow's meeting, but please feel to show up and carry on with a meeting. Perhaps even consider testing the next gen installer - https://news.opensuse.org/2022/10/27/call-for-testing-next-gen-installer/ The Community Meeting on Thursdays will now take place at 20:00 UTC. Both meetings take place in https://meet.opensuse.org/meeting You can see the overview of meeting notes with the updated times at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting Please consider running for the openSUSE board. This is the last day to declare your candidacy. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election v/r Doug

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Adding the openSUSE Wiki to kiwix.org
by Lil Frogg 29 Oct '22

29 Oct '22

Hello everyone, I have noticed that the kiwix project has a couple of linux distro related wikis available, although not openSUSE. Kiwix is basically an offline reader project that allows users to download a variety of helpful resources, like the entirety of wikipedia, project Gutenberg etc for use in offline scenarios/regions with limited internet access. I feel like trying to add the openSUSE wiki to that list of downloadable resources might be a useful thing and also raise awareness for the distro. How do people here feel about it? I could try contacting them to ask about the requirements for that, although I'm just a regular user and providing the downloadable file of the wiki will presumably have to be done by someone with server side access to the wiki. Kind regards,

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Some notes on a security conference I attended to widespread openSUSE word
by Paolo Perego 28 Oct '22

28 Oct '22

Hi all, this is the first message in this list so let me spend some words to introduce myself. I'm Paolo, solution security engineer in SUSE since March 2021 and in the application security market since 2001 (mostly as penetration tester and code reviewer). A couple of weeks ago I attended RomHack, a security event in Rome, with an openSUSE booth. We were also silver sponsor and I had the chance to give a talk on about open source and security, mainly focused on how do we act dealing with packages going in our distro. I would like to share some notes I wrote right after the conference end. 1. People present on the conference were surprised that an OS vendor was having a booth, but they really liked it and they felt is a good thing. 2. Most of the people who came to our booth were not aware of the existence of SUSE and openSUSE. Perhaps if we participate in more events like this can be the first step in changing that. We could also reach out to contacts with newspaper or tech journalists and youtubers which could help promote our brand. Especially in Italy, where I live. 3. The people who previously heard about us thought that we produce a "derived" distribution. I explained that we use rpm, that we started back then like Slackware fork in the very early stages but now have our own identity, brand and added value services. 4. A person asked "tell me how to convince my boss that you're a good centos replacement". I talked to him about our team efforts in security, hardening configuration of base os, AppArmor, Rancher and NeuVector acquisitions. Perhaps we should brag more about our achievements in the area. Please note that I'm not a marketing person, so my view is limited. Feel free to integrate to enrich the discussion. At the time I'm writing this, I'm thinking adding some content to my YouTube channel to promote the usage of openSUSE in security testings, so to prove how versatile it can be. HTH -- (*_ Paolo Perego @thesp0nge //\ Software security engineer suse.com V_/_ 0A1A 2003 9AE0 B09C 51A4 7ACD FC0D CEA6 0806 294B

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