October 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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Join openSUSE on github
by Robert Frohl 03 Nov '23

03 Nov '23

Hi all, I am reaching out because I suspect this might be the correct mailing list to ask for an account the be added to openSUSE org on github. If this is the wrong list, please let me know where I should turn. If this is the correct list then please let me know what you would need from me to add my account. Thanks, Robert

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Community Meeting: Week 44
by ddemaio 31 Oct '23

31 Oct '23

Hi all, We will have a community meeting today(Tuesday) at 14:30 UTC (60 minutes). This will be an hour earlier in local time for those who had daylight savings. Community Meeting 2 is scheduled for Thursdays at 20:00 UTC. This time was adjusted, which means it will happen at a similar local time we were having it for those who had daylight savings already. Find all meeting notes at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting Meetings takes place in https://meet.opensuse.org/meeting You can see a list of other items where project's need help at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/help (someone did reach out who has a good knowledge of c, java and javascript, so if you have any projects with these languages and need help, please feel free to add your project.) v/r Doug

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openSUSE infrastructure migration
by Georg Pfuetzenreuter 30 Oct '23

30 Oct '23

Hi everyone, this week are starting to migrate various machines to our new location in Prague. This will cause intermittent outage of affected services. I will be updating https://status.opensuse.org/ where possible. If there are any issues not correlating to a report on status.opensuse.org, please reach out in #opensuse-admin (on ircs://irc.libera.chat) or open a ticket [1] in order for us to investigate. Note that the status and ticket systems are going to be temporarily affected as well. Cheers, Georg [1] https://progress.opensuse.org/projects/opensuse-admin/issues

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openSUSE to have Logos Competition
by ddemaio openSUSE 25 Oct '23

25 Oct '23

Hi all, openSUSE is have a logos competition. We are looking for a new openSUSE chameleon logo as well as new logos for Tumbleweed, Leap, Slowroll and Kalpa distributions. Please read the details and rules at https://news.opensuse.org/2023/10/25/os-to-have-logos-competition/ v/r Doug

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Creative Freedom Summit
by ddemaio openSUSE 23 Oct '23

23 Oct '23

Hi all, openSUSE is excited to be collaborating with Fedora to be a part of the upcoming Creative Freedom Summit, which is an event dedicated to promoting the use of Creative Free Software. The event will be using our Jitsi for streaming and broadcasting to platforms. The Creative Freedom Summit is calling for proposals for talks and sessions for the 2024 event. They invite members of the open-source community to submit their ideas. The deadline for proposals is November 24th, 2023. Submit your proposals via the Fedora Project CfP Platform - https://cfp.fedoraproject.org/ You can sign on using your GitHub, Gmail, or Fedora Account login credentials. This is an excellent opportunity for the openSUSE community to share their expertise, experiences, and insights related to Creative Free Software, and to contribute to the greater Open Source Design community. Check out the recordings from last year on the Creative Freedom Summit PeerTube Channel at https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/c/creativefreedom/videos?s=1 We are looking for the following themes for sessions: - Look at what I made with free & Open Source creative tools - here's how I made it - Here’s how to do this cool thing or use this feature in this free & Open Source tool - I work on this free & Open Source software - here are some new features, or we'd like your feedback - How we can improve our greater Open Source Design community What to submit? Generally the sessions will be in one of these formats: Session (25 minutes) Session (50 minutes) We are currently open for proposals for the following topics: - Accessibility - Community - Craft/Skills - Demo - Features/Enhancements - Open Source UX/Design - Other Get more info at https://opensource.com/article/23/4/open-source-tools-virtual-conference and https://creativefreedomsummit.com/call-for-papers-2024-creative-freedom-sum…

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Community Meeting: Week 43
by ddemaio 23 Oct '23

23 Oct '23

Hi all, We will have a community meeting tomorrow (Tuesday) at 14:30 UTC (60 minutes). Community Meeting 2 is scheduled for Thursdays at 19:00 UTC. Find all meeting notes at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting Meetings takes place in https://meet.opensuse.org/meeting The meeting times will change toward the end of the month. We will update you on those times after our discussion on how to change them due to Daylight Savings. You can see a list of other items where project's need help at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/help v/r Doug

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openSUSE Board minutes 2023-10-09
by ddemaio 23 Oct '23

23 Oct '23

Board Meeting Monday 2023-10-09 13:00 CEST = * Present: Gerald, Doug, Mau (13:15) * Excused: Gertjan, Neal, Patrick * Missed: * This week's report to be sent by: Doug * Guests: bw == Project Clarity == * Discussed next steps == Communications with Community == * Based on a few reoccurring topics, we agreed to send a reminder to all communication channels to be welcoming and considerate to people on all our communications channel * Doug will draft message and send to board ** Will then ask moderators to post or pin the topic to each channel they manage. == Asia Summit Keynote == * Patrick is planning to attend and give talk on board's behalf == Conflict Resolution Item (board private) == Board Meeting ends at 13:59 CEST.

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Reminder meeting : openSUSE Board meeting next Monday (13:00 Europe/Berlin)
by openSUSE Meeting Reminder 21 Oct '23

21 Oct '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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