February 2024 - 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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Board meeting minutes 2024-02-12
by Gerald Pfeifer 25 Feb '24

25 Feb '24

= Board Meeting Monday 2024-02-12 13:00 CET = * Present: Doug, Gerald, Gertjan, Neal, Patrick, Simon == This meeting's logistics == * Thanks to the Heroes we got a new calendering system, which includes board meetings * https://calendar.opensuse.org/teams/board * AI: Neal to reach out to Heroes re (missing) e-mail notifications * The board proceeds to import the calander event to their personal calanders == Boxed Sets DVD == * Simon is wondering whether we can get boxed sets DVDs for contributors and use at events. * Doug shares historic background and how in 2024 demand for DVDs is very low, not making it viable business for a third party any more. * Do USB keys instead? Other branded merchandise? * Opportunity cost? == Membership == * Formally request the membership officials to add two more people * AI ddemaio: sent email to members and board * Discuss a better system for recording and assessing members once we have more officials, including trying to recover lost list of Emeritus Members from a connect backup. == FOSDEM Update == * geekos.io had success accepting donations for Goods at a booth. == Private Topics == * Should we keep private minutes in a private ticket in code.o.o rather then just via email? Meetings ended 14:28

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Board Meeting minutes 2024-01-29
by Knurpht-openSUSE 25 Feb '24

25 Feb '24

= Board Meeting Monday 2024-01-29 13:00 CET = * Present: Doug, Gerald, Neal, Patrick, Simon, Gertjan * Excused: Mau * Missed: * Minutes by: * Guests: Georg == Handover from the 2023 Board to the 2024 Board == * In a nutshell the handover is extending Patrick's tenure and Simon replacing Mau * Board thanks Mau for all the work done during their Board membership * Gerald and Neal took care of adjusting various groups and access rights for Board's communication and issue tracking * Simon to review and update https://en.opensuse.org/[1] openSUSE:Board_best_practices#Joining_the_Board == openSUSE Logos == * Any ultimate decision to change the logo, let alone how, has not been made yet. * WIP, Doug will (re)share process on project@, following his December 16th email on the project@ ML * Consensus is : ** (a) align with SUSE and ** (b) put out any logo change for a vote by openSUSE membership, options to be provided by design team. == TSP == The TSP ( Travel Support Program ) will now be handled by the Geeko Foundation - https://geekos.org/[2] - SUSE will provide funding to the Geeko Foundation and thus continue to sponsor that program Users will need to become familiar with new procedures and limitations. Meeting ended 14:07. -- Gertjan Lettink a.k.a. Knurpht openSUSE Board openSUSE Forums Team -------- [1] https://en.opensuse.org/ [2] https://geekos.org/

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Meeting minutes 2024-01-29
by Knurpht-openSUSE 25 Feb '24

25 Feb '24

Apologies for sending this so late. = Board Meeting Monday 2024-01-29 13:00 CET = * Present: Doug, Gerald, Neal, Patrick, Simon, Gertjan * Excused: Mau * Missed: * Minutes by: * Guests: Georg == Handover from the 2023 Board to the 2024 Board == * In a nutshell the handover is extending Patrick's tenure and Simon replacing Mau * Board thanks Mau for all the work done during their Board membership * Gerald and Neal took care of adjusting various groups and access rights for Board's communication and issue tracking * Simon to review and update https://en.opensuse.org/[1] openSUSE:Board_best_practices#Joining_the_Board == openSUSE Logos == * Any ultimate decision to change the logo, let alone how, has not been made yet. * WIP, Doug will (re)share process on project@, following his December 16th email on the project@ ML * Consensus is : ** (a) align with SUSE and ** (b) put out any logo change for a vote by openSUSE membership, options to be provided by design team. == TSP == The TSP ( Travel Support Program ) will now be handled by the Geeko Foundation - https://geekos.org/[2] - SUSE will provide funding to the Geeko Foundation and thus continue to sponsor that program Users will need to become familiar with new procedures and limitations. Meeting ended 14:07. -- Gertjan Lettink a.k.a. Knurpht openSUSE Board openSUSE Forums Team -------- [1] https://en.opensuse.org/ [2] https://geekos.org/

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Heads up Leap 15.6 Beta will be delayed
by Lubos Kocman 22 Feb '24

22 Feb '24

Hello openSUSE! Yesterday was a code submission deadline for SLES 15 SP6 Public beta and Leap 15.6 Beta. SLES 15 SP6 Public Beta announced a slip as there were a lot of recent changes and further testing is needed. And therefore we're announcing the slip as well. We can use more time to focus on pending Python-related submissions including GNUHealth. If you have any late feature/package additions aside from bugfixes, that you'd still like to add to Beta, it would be nice corresponding request in https://code.opensuse.org/leap/features/issues Roadmap was already updated to propose March 8th for Beta as a new date. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Roadmap#Schedule_for_openSUSE_Leap_15.6 I'd like to integrate project roadmaps into https://calendar.opensuse.org/teams/product-schedule once https://github.com/openSUSE/calendar-o-o/issues/25 is resolved. I'll kepp you informed in case that there would be any further delays. -- Best regards Luboš Kocman openSUSE Leap Release Manager

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openSUSE MicroOS on FLOSS Weekly Next week
by Luna Jernberg 22 Feb '24

22 Feb '24

Hey! https://hackaday.com/2024/02/14/floss-weekly-episode-769-10-more-internet/ listening to this weeks FLOSS Weekly and MicroOS is on next week live on Wednesday 21th February and recording uploaded on Thursday 22th February

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openSUSE contribution workshops
by ddemaio openSUSE 08 Feb '24

08 Feb '24

Hi all, During tonight's community meeting, we felt that having openSUSE Contribution Workshops where people can volunteer to present and give a short monthly workshop with the goal of helping to teach people how to contribute. This could involve either packaging, using obs, creating a test for openQA, how to do translations, involvement of infra, etc. Please consider signing up for an episode with inputting the subject, your name, if you want it to be recorded and list the date and time you would like to provide a session. Sessions should be about a 15 minutes. You can sign up here https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/openSUSE-Contribution-Workshop v/r Doug

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