April 2022 - 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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[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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Update on next generation of SLE
by Stefan Behlert 14 Jun '22

14 Jun '22

(Sending to both openuse-project as well as opensuse-factory. Please keep discussions on the -project list to make life easier for all.) Moin, In the last months many people have brought up the topic of "When will the next SLE major version come out?". Today we would like to give you a first update on the plans. Since 2018, when SLE 15 was initially released a lot of things have changed, including requirements from users and customers, technologies, the speed of new versions of applications, languages and their libraries appearing. Also the connection between Leap and SLE has changed. And while some bits and pieces got better, we firmly believe we can do better. SLE 15 is a great general purpose operating system, yet challenges with some use cases, now places of deployment, and the type of enhancement requests show that it's time for a successor. With the next generation of Enterprise releases we want to tackle the above. Intending to do radical changes (regarding technology- but also design-wise) we choose "Adaptable Linux Platform" or short "ALP" as codename for that next generation. This indicates already that some things will be quite different than a "mere "SLE 15++ would be ;) First and foremost, ALP will be developed in the open. We are not going to put the pieces together internally and then share outside, as in the past. No, we are creating and building in the openSUSE Build Service - in a project next to you :). You get to directly see to see what is going on and participate more easaily. Another important point is that we intend to split what was a more generic, everything is closely intertwined into two parts: One smaller hardware enabling piece, a kind of "host OS", and the and the layer providing and supporting applications, which will be container (and VM) based. You might say "This is very generic, can you tell us more?" - of course. In the upcoming weeks more and more will crystalize, and we will share as quickly and regularly as possible. This is just a first heads-up to inform you that we are in the process of setting everything up - from project to feedback channels, from documentation to testing. Of course, you will have lots of other questions - how will contribution work, what impacts this has on LEAP and get-o-o, how migration could work, and many more. We kindly ask you for a little bit of patience. We promise we will share as soon as possible more details. ciao, Stefan -- Stefan Behlert, SUSE Software Solutions Product Management SUSE Linux Enterprise Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, GF: Ivo Totev (HRB 36809, AG Nuernberg)

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discussion/workshop on Leap Successor & notes from Community Meeting 1: Week 17
by ddemaio 27 Apr '22

27 Apr '22

Hi all, We will have an open discussion/workshop during the community meetings on May 10 and 12 to discuss the successor of Leap and seek input and gather interests from people who are interested in joining the discussion. The workshop/discussion will be at https://meet.opensuse.org/meeting and we will be using a pad to write down points of interest. Please note that the time for the meetings will shift from the normal time of 14:30 UTC to 13:30 UTC for May 10 and the second meeting on May 12 will shift from 19:00 UTC to 18:00 UTC. You can see the notes from today's meeting 1 below. v/r Doug ## Participants: Knurpht, Emily, Doug, Lubos ## Topics Doug gave update on TSP discussions. Pathway to resolving the TSP looks promising and we hope to have solution soon. Unfortenately, we can't say with 100% certainty it will be in place in time for oSC22 and the openSUSE Summit at OSCAL Went over the Leap Micro slides and discussed possible use cases for it with Flatpaks, Snaps, AppImage Organizing an open discussion/workshop on May 10 and May 12 to discuss the successor of Leap and what are people's input/interests are. Will take place at the community meeting time. (With a slight time shift during that week) The next two weeks of meetings to Meeting 1: Tuesday at 13:30 UTC and Meeting 2: Thursdays at 18:00 UTC. updated on https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting Will return to normal on May 17

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oSC22 and Community Meeting: Week 17
by ddemaio 27 Apr '22

27 Apr '22

Hi all, There will be a Regular Community Meeting tomorrow at 14:30 UTC. At 19:00 UTC tomorrow, we will have a meeting for the openSUSE Conference. The second Regular Community Meeting is scheduled for Thursday at 19:00 UTC. I will not be able to attend this meeting as I will be traveling to LAS. View the community meeting notes at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting and the conference planning meeting notes at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/osc22 The meetings will take place on https://meet.opensuse.org/meeting v/r Doug

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Translations for openSUSE Leap 15.4 Release Announcement / Screenshots
by ddemaio 25 Apr '22

25 Apr '22

Hi everyone, I have placed the release announcement for openSUSE Leap 15.4 on the wiki at https://en.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.4 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. Screenshots Also, please consider updating the screenshots once we have the RC. You will find old screenshots on https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:15.4/Screenshots and new screenshots will just need to be uploaded and updated. v/r Doug

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oSC22 and Community Meeting: Week 16
by ddemaio 25 Apr '22

25 Apr '22

Hi all, There will be a Regular Community Meeting today at 14:30 UTC. At 19:00 UTC tonight, we will have a meeting for the openSUSE Conference. We will have a second Regular Community Meeting on Thursday at 19:00 UTC. View the community meeting notes at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting and the conference planning meeting notes at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/osc22 The meetings will take place on https://meet.opensuse.org/meeting v/r Doug

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Reminder meeting : openSUSE Board meeting next Monday (13:00 Europe/Berlin)
by openSUSE Meeting Reminder 25 Apr '22

25 Apr '22

Hello all, The biweekly board conf call will be held in two days at 13:00 Europe/Berlin time (CET = UTC+1) 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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Fwd: Reminder meeting : openSUSE Board meeting next Monday (13:00 Europe/Berlin)
by Luna Jernberg 23 Apr '22

23 Apr '22

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Luna Jernberg <droidbittin(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 1:58 PM Subject: Re: Reminder meeting : openSUSE Board meeting next Monday (13:00 Europe/Berlin) To: openSUSE Meeting Reminder <no-reply(a)opensuse.org>, <board(a)opensuse.org>, project <project(a)opensuse.org>, Gerald Pfeifer <gp(a)suse.com>, bittin < bittin(a)opensuse.org> Attending as a guest On 4/23/22, openSUSE Meeting Reminder <no-reply(a)opensuse.org> wrote: > Hello all, > > The biweekly board conf call will be held in two days at 13:00 Europe/Berlin > time (CET = UTC+1) > 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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Leap 15.4 features, screenshots, release announcements
by ddemaio 22 Apr '22

22 Apr '22

Hi all, The marketing team is still working on the release announcement and plan to send it out for translation on or about April 20. We need more input from the community about what packages to highlight and new features we will have in openSUSE Leap 15.4. We go over the release announcement during the community meetings. Please visit https://en.opensuse.org/Features_15.4 for the list of features we are highlighting. Feel free to add your package and features, which will help us with some additional information to the release announcement. Also, we would appreciate anyone willing to add screenshots of their desktop and packages they are using to https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:15.4/Screenshots. Musicians, artist, developers, creators please add the things you like to screenshots wiki page https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:15.4/Screenshots v/r Doug

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