January 2023 - 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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Ask your openSUSE Board candidates questions
by ddemaio 17 Jun '24

17 Jun '24

Hi all, Per a conversation some of us had at the community meeting last Thursday, we wanted to get discussions for the project started regarding this year's openSUSE Board elections. We listed a few questions in the minutes at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting20221103 You can find some of those questions in the 1103 meeting minutes between lines 48 and line 54. Please ask your questions (Ask us Anything) in this thread so we can keep the conversations focused and centralized for all the candidates and members who want to ask questions of the candidates. All the candidates are in cc and you can find their profiles at the board election wiki. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election v/r Doug

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cross distribution email list
by Marcus Meissner 02 Feb '23

02 Feb '23

Hi, I just saw this post: Not sure if this is of interest to us. https://social.treehouse.systems/@thesamesam/109781551802800007 Distro people! We're starting a mailing list for coordinating on cross-distro problems, "fire of the week", anything which needs - or would benefit from - distributions speaking to each other. Example topics include: - "new $X is totally broken oh god", - coordination of stuff like time_t migration - discussing how to handle something new (the github - unstable-tarballs incident today would be a good example) Please consider subscribing: distributions(a)lists.linux.dev (link on lists.linux.dev / https://subspace.kernel.org/lists.linux.dev.html) Do join too if you're an upstream and interested in these topics, especially if you're writing core software. We want a diverse set of opinions and perspectives! Pass it on to other distribution folks / packagers too. Cheers! Ciao, Marcus

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Changes to the openSUSE Board
by Gerald Pfeifer 31 Jan '23

31 Jan '23

Hi everyone, as you probably have seen, after serving on the board for a good year Attila has resigned (mainly due to his day job). We quickly synced up as a board and in alignment with the Election Rules (cf. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_rules#Appointment ) offered the vacant seat to Patrick Fitzgerald who was a close runner-up in the recent elections. And I am happy to share that Patrick accepted. Thank you Attila for all you have done for openSUSE and hopefully will be doing. And welcome Patrick - looking forward towards working together more closely! And now on to some hacking, testing, designing, documenting, supporting, using and promoting... Gerald (on behalf of the board) -- Dr. Gerald Pfeifer <gp(a)suse.com>, CTO @SUSE + chair @openSUSE

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Community Meeting: Week 5 Info
by ddemaio 30 Jan '23

30 Jan '23

Hi all, No community meetings are planned for this week. However, drop into the openSUSE Bar https://meet.opensuse.org/bar when the meetings are normally scheduled and maybe an impromptu meeting will happen. Enjoy Hack Week (https://hackweek.opensuse.org/) and cya at FOSDEM (https://fosdem.org/) Have a great day. v/r Doug

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Reminder meeting : openSUSE Board meeting next Monday (13:00 Europe/Berlin)
by openSUSE Meeting Reminder 28 Jan '23

28 Jan '23

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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Stepping down
by Attila Pinter 26 Jan '23

26 Jan '23

Dear All, As some may have noticed in the past few months I got limited to no time to attend board meetings, or to be part of the daily life of the project. This has a number of reasons, but mainly that my day job is draining me hard. The change what I hoped to achieve by end of this month in my job - which would've provided me some with extra free time - seem to have slipped to the end of the second quarter. I find it disrespectful towards other members of the Board, and towards the community to hold a title that I can't actively fulfill therefore I decided to step down as a member of the board. -- Adathor

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Projects' that have a CfP open or coming up
by ddemaio 25 Jan '23

25 Jan '23

Hi all, I was working on the wiki with events and noticed there are a few events that have their Call for Papers happening. We also have the openSUSE CfP open. Below are some CfP that are coming up or those that are open and you can submit a talk now: https://events.opensuse.org/ - April 9 https://www.devconf.info/cz/ - March 10 https://linuxappsummit.org/ - February 18 https://packaging-con.org/ - TBD https://2022.dorscluc.org/ - TBD v/r Doug

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Minutes of openSUSE Board meeting 2023-01-16
by Gerald Pfeifer 23 Jan '23

23 Jan '23

= Board Meeting Monday 2023-01-16 13:00 CET = * Present: Doug, Gerald, Maurizio, Neal * Excused: Syds, Gertjan * Missed: Attila * Guests: Axel == This meeting == * https://en.opensuse.org/index.php?title=openSUSE:Board_best_practices#Agenda == Scam around domain names == * board@ received two mails re openSUSE-related domain names. * Gerald involved SUSE Legal, turns out to be a scam * Still may be worth acquiring the domains officially. * Gerald will suggest to SUSE Legal. == Walk through open items in code.opensuse.org == * There are five open tickets at this time: https://code.opensuse.org/board/tickets/issues * Went through all of them and will follow up * AI: Gerald to follow up regarding "#39 Role of the board" and "#9 Moderator accountability across all platforms" * AI: Maurizio to follow up on emeritus memberships Meeting closed at 13:41 CET

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Info & Community Meeting: Week 4
by ddemaio 23 Jan '23

23 Jan '23

Hi all, Details for this week's meeting are below. As a side note, I would like to bring your attention to two items coming up. Next week is HackWeek. The project welcomes your project ideas and supported contributions for project's people have listed at https://hackweek.opensuse.org/. Join in or create any project you would like to do next week and build some synergy around ideas within the project. Individuals and companies are welcomed to participate. The other topics I want to mention is the community meeting on Feb. 7 will be specific for finalizing Google Summer of Code application and projects. If you are interested in mentoring, please find more info at https://news.opensuse.org/2023/01/18/mentorship-plans-finalization-submissi… The community meeting take place tomorrow at 15:30 UTC. Thursday community meeting will take place at 20:00 UTC. Meetings take place in https://meet.opensuse.org/meeting You can see the overview of meeting notes at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting Have a great day. v/r Doug

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