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Re: [opensuse-project] openSUSE 11.0 Countdown
by Francis Giannaros 10 Apr '08

10 Apr '08

On 10/04/2008, Yannik Stadelmaier <phos4(a)phos4.de> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Francis Giannaros schrieb: > > On 10/04/2008, Robert Lihm <rlihm(a)suse.de> wrote: > >> Hej Guys. > >> > >> > >> Is there a "The one and only openSUSE 11.0 Conter" version, which could be > >> announced/placed on the 1. Wiki page? > > > > Hopefully we'll be able to announce the availability of the > > countdown.o.o one on news.o.o very soon (just waiting for the DNS now > > I believe). > > > > Kind thoughts, > > What about this one here: > http://dev-loki.blogspot.com/2008/04/110-countdown-banner.html Yes, that's the one that's going to be used on countdown.o.o, though we will also probably link to other countdown ideas as well. Kind thoughts, -- Francis Giannaros http://francis.giannaros.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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[opensuse-project] RE: How to be a contributor to OpenSuse
by Reggie Buckner 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Is there a way to get help on how to contribute to OpenSuse? I am a computer major college student and I dont even know how to begin. Reggie Buckner _________________________________________________________________ Pack up or back up–use SkyDrive to transfer files or keep extra copies. Learn how. hthttp://www.windowslive.com/skydrive/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refre… 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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Re: [opensuse-project] Request for advice and help from OpenSuse Community
by Jordi Massaguer 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

Shashank, that is a very very very interesting initiative! Personally I am not sure I can help a lot here, but I'll do my best. First thing could be to discuss your ideas on a public mailing list, like in here, and make know people that you are organizing that (like you are doing). However I see that there are only 3 days left, not much time to change anything. So, one thing you could do is write a small report when the event is finished, with some pictures, and if you post it on http://techfreaks4u.com/123/ I will blog about that for sure. good luck! jordi massaguer i pla http://jordimassaguerpla.blogspot.com/ lin.cat: Serveis professionals en linkat http://www.lin.cat ----- Mensaje original ---- > De: Shashank <shashank.personal(a)gmail.com> > Para: opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org > Enviado: lunes, 7 de abril, 2008 11:25:16 > Asunto: [opensuse-project] Request for advice and help from OpenSuse Community > > Respected Community Members, > We are group of students who deeply believe in principles of Open > Source, and in true spirit of freedom, we love to share our ideas / > knowledge with others .This is what motivated us to form a Linux user > group in our university (Jaypee University of Information > Technology,India), when we found out that our passion had caught on > with other students and people were taking interest in Open Source & > Linux in general. That was two years back. > After toiling for 2 years thence, we have been able to include our > events in our universities main Cultural Festival "Le Fiestus" only > this year. The events vary from "Hacking Challenges" to "Quiz"; though > small in number we expect the events to be more attractive and bigger > in upcoming years. > After Formation of Linux User Group, awareness of Open Source and > Linux in general has increased manifold, and we are taking small steps > toward complete shift towards Linux. > Due to popularity of Linux, our university decided to provide an > opt-in course to students for making students aware of Linux. > We are even trying to take this knowledge outside confines of our > university and make local computer vendor in our region sell Linux > laptops and Desktops. > All these factors contributed to what we see today in our university, > a healthy viewpoint of students towards Open Source without any > misconception, to further this cause the idea of organizing event in a > cultural fest was born, but without any prior organizing experience we > felt bit marooned. > More than fifty percent of our Linux users are OpenSuse users, that > made OpenSuse community natural choice for us to ask for help. We have > an open Request for OpenSuse Community and Linux community at large, > of helping us in our nascent steps of making Linux a natural concept > as freedom rather than just an alternative to Microsoft Windows. > > Regards > Shashank Singh > Founding Member > Jape university of information Technology Linux User Group (Jlug) > Waknaghat > Solan > Himachal Pradesh > India > > P.S: > Related links: > University Website: http://juit.ac.in/ > Cultural Festival Website: http://www.juit.ac.in/lefiestus/index.php > Juit Linux User Group Event's List: http://events.techfreaks4u.com/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org > > ______________________________________________ LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. Llamadas a fijos y móviles desde 1 céntimo por minuto. http://es.voice.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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[opensuse-project] Request for advice and help from OpenSuse Community
by Shashank 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

Respected Community Members, We are group of students who deeply believe in principles of Open Source, and in true spirit of freedom, we love to share our ideas / knowledge with others .This is what motivated us to form a Linux user group in our university (Jaypee University of Information Technology,India), when we found out that our passion had caught on with other students and people were taking interest in Open Source & Linux in general. That was two years back. After toiling for 2 years thence, we have been able to include our events in our universities main Cultural Festival "Le Fiestus" only this year. The events vary from "Hacking Challenges" to "Quiz"; though small in number we expect the events to be more attractive and bigger in upcoming years. After Formation of Linux User Group, awareness of Open Source and Linux in general has increased manifold, and we are taking small steps toward complete shift towards Linux. Due to popularity of Linux, our university decided to provide an opt-in course to students for making students aware of Linux. We are even trying to take this knowledge outside confines of our university and make local computer vendor in our region sell Linux laptops and Desktops. All these factors contributed to what we see today in our university, a healthy viewpoint of students towards Open Source without any misconception, to further this cause the idea of organizing event in a cultural fest was born, but without any prior organizing experience we felt bit marooned. More than fifty percent of our Linux users are OpenSuse users, that made OpenSuse community natural choice for us to ask for help. We have an open Request for OpenSuse Community and Linux community at large, of helping us in our nascent steps of making Linux a natural concept as freedom rather than just an alternative to Microsoft Windows. Regards Shashank Singh Founding Member Jape university of information Technology Linux User Group (Jlug) Waknaghat Solan Himachal Pradesh India P.S: Related links: University Website: http://juit.ac.in/ Cultural Festival Website: http://www.juit.ac.in/lefiestus/index.php Juit Linux User Group Event's List: http://events.techfreaks4u.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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[opensuse-project] openSUSE 11.0 Countdown
by Pavol Rusnak 05 Apr '08

05 Apr '08

Hello all! I found out that Ubuntu has nice way to promote their new release - small banner which informs how many days are left before new version is out. See http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/countdown for details. This banner also links to information page about distribution features and _mainly_ to beta releases which can attract more testers. I think it would be nice if openSUSE had something similar. I would created it by myself but unfortunately I don't have time right now. -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o Package Maintainer Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9, CR prusnak[at]suse.cz http://www.suse.cz --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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[opensuse-project] openSUSE GNOME meeting (2008/04/03)
by Rodrigo Moya 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

Introduction People want to discuss building more community members and contributions JP out next week AI: schedule community contribution discussion April 17 Factory testing Usual round of updates this week Bad kernel update bug is fixed No wireless at all for some people (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=376742) Missing esound problem, will be fixed with a Provides:esound in pulseaudio Other testing requests: xdg-user-dirs-gtk, packagekit, gdm Google Summer of Code We have a bunch of applications AI: Federico to bring plan for accepting applications to opensuse-project AI: federico1 to ensure we accept GSoC applications properly before deadline Torrent default app decision Monsoon seems the more dynamic app, good response from its maintainer Transmission seems to have a better UI, actively developed, although a bit mac centric BitTorrent-gtk very basic but should work for basic needs AI: add both monsoon and transmission, monsoon as default AI: suseROCKS to run tests with both apps AI: FunkyPenguin to package Transmission today AI: vuntz to move Transmission and monsoon to autobuild and drop gnome-btdownload Policy review http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Desktop_Policy contains a huge table with the gconf keys we change Once completed, we'll discuss every change AI: vuntz, rodrigo to define new policy patch tags Wishlist review Please respond to the thread, especially in the case of any new packages that might be needed Pattern review After discussion on the list, we should be able to compile a list of packages to be dropped from the CD pattern For base patterns, bring up discussion on opensuse-factory Main menu performance work Magnus' 3-liner patch shrinks main-menu startup time by more than half Main-menu is reading ~/.recently-used.xbel twice at startup, should be easy to fix and reduce time by 0.1 sec more Now starting up in under 1.5 seconds GDM status GDM not shipped in GNOME 2.22 is now up to 2.21.9, should be ready for 11.0 Test packages at https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home:hpjansson:11.0-testing (might need the ConsoleKit package from that repo also) Some configurability regressions still present, might be a problem for deployments Background image + gtkrc for login dialog for basic theming Compiz/XGL update 'Enable desktop effects' option in appearance capplet now in FACTORY Discussion upstream for a distro-agnostic fix, but will take some time Need to decide on dropping gnome-xgl-settings once the functionality to switch XGL/AIGLX is in yast AI: vuntz to hack something quickly in gnome-wm to start the correct WM in all cases (ie when the session is not saved) PackageKit update PK testing info is on the wiki now (http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/11.0/Testing) Test it and let Scott know of any problems Patch upstreaming Not much progress this week because of package review, but some upstreamed patches were removed this week, so number of patches continues going down 756 patches still remaining as of today Task update suseROCKS will send confirmation for tasks when moving off RTM to wiki Should we continue including task updates in the meetings? It should be already covered in each topic -- Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo(a)novell.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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[opensuse-project] openSUSE Board election proposal
by Andreas Jaeger 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

We had today a public openSUSE board meeting and came up with the following proposal. If you like to see stuff added to it, or changed, please speak up - the board will vote on this in two weeks time. * Only openSUSE members may vote, each member having one vote. * Special role for the first election: Each openSUSE member can vouch for one person that should be part of the openSUSE community and this person can vote, too. * Special role for the first election: After the announcement - and before the election - there will be a 4 week period where people can apply to be openSUSE members in order to vote. * An openSUSE election team will be created. It consists of 3 people. Neither of them can be elected as openSUSE board member. * The openSUSE board will ask on the opensuse-project mailing list for volunteers for the openSUSE election team and select appropriate candidates. At least one member of the election team will be a Novell employee and at least one member will not be a Novell employee. * The openSUSE board election period is two years and every year half of the board will be elected. For the first election, the Novell and non-Novell members with the most votes will be elected for two years, the second runners for one year. * openSUSE board members can serve for up to two consecutive election periods. After that they have to pause for one year. * openSUSE members will be choosen by the openSUSE election team. The openSUSE board may be contacted when anybody considers the decision was wrong, and the board may overrule the membership decision. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj(a)suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse-project] Czech users mailinglist?
by Marek Stopka (M4r3k) 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

We have a lot of language specific users mailing lists but we don't have any Czech list. Maybe you can create one. What you think? -- S pozdravem / Best regards Marek Stopka Kontakty / Contacts Mobil/Cell phone: 774 59 79 40 E-mail: marekstopka(a)gmail.com WEB: www.m4r3k.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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[opensuse-project] openSUSE GNOME meeting (2008/03/27)
by Rodrigo Moya 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

Factory testing Continual bootloader/grub fun (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=371618) Wireless problems (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=354141) gnome-panel crashes when adding/removing workspace switcher GSOC 2008 openSUSE participates in GSOC 2008 (http://en.opensuse.org/Summer_of_Code_2008) A student has applied for the GNOME BS client, others asking about removable media tasks Student submissions due on Monday Multihead bug week Going to be 2 weeks, much to do here Need people with laptop & projector, a machine with 2 monitors, a TV and a laptop with TV output http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Multiscreen Starting April 7th PackageKit update The existing PackageKit packages had some bugs and issues Most are fixed in the next release, testing needed Packaging days http://en.opensuse.org/Packaging/Packaging_Day April 4-5 Bug day for FF 3.0 RC currently building in BS AI: revisit FF 3.0 bug day in 2 weeks Package review contact-lookup-applet to go to G:C glade-2 will be dropped or put in G:C Policy review No real progress this week Non-gconf policy changes, mail to vuntz(a)novell.com Will use the wiki voting module to know what policies are important Pattern review http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Pattern_Review Compiz/XGL update Patch to enable desktop effects in control-center2 package in home:rodrigomoya yast xgl/aiglx configuration pending Patch upstreaming Scripts to display data for our packages: http://tmp.vuntz.net/opensuse-packages/srcpackage.py http://tmp.vuntz.net/opensuse-packages/patch.py http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Projects/PatchUpstreamingStats Will display more information, like build failures, new upstream versions, etc +-100 patches already removed from our packages -- Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo(a)novell.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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[opensuse-project] Summer of Code draft proposal
by Nicholas Marquez 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

Hello all, I'm a student at the Georgia (US) Institute of Technology seeking to participate in Google's Summer of Code for the general Linux community. Please forgive this mass distribution, as I was very unsure of where to send this message to. I'm thinking of sending my proposal to the KDE, openSUSE, and Fedora communities. I know it's kind of late to try, but I just realized that I indeed could (and should) try with an idea I've had festering for a while. I've pasted below an informal and abridged version of my proposal in the hopes that I can first get some feedback and input on it. Please, any ideas and constructive criticism are perfectly welcome and encouraged. ;) ~Nicholas (Alex) Marquez My name is Nicholas Marquez, and I am a 19-year-old 2nd year undergrad in CS at the Georgia Institute of Technology. (I am, however, a 4th year by way of credits.) [I have a good bit more biographical information to provide, but I'll do so in the formal version of this.] In terms of my project proposal... partition management is a bit of a niche topic, given that it is rarely used in an active manner, apart from the preparation of the disk in installation and the tweaking of the disk for power users. Nevertheless, one is given a few tools with which to do this... one of them being QTParted. However, this was last actively developed in 2005... 3 years ago. Worse still, GParted has been suffering from development draught for a while, only recently gaining a much needed C++ dev. To be clear, I mean no disrespect to either project. They are simply in need of updating and a development surge. I do, however, feel that the need is here for something new and more sustainable for the coming years. What I propose is that I base something new on VisParted (a recent GParted fork for partedmagic): ~Abstract it a tad more and adapt it to QT instead of GTKmm (which seem quite similar). ~I also wish to add optional extra functionality to partition operations (like block sizes and whatnot) in the form of an extension arrow in the dialog box for the partition operation. ~If time permits, I'd also like to make it such that one can use the program as a widget primitive of sorts (a component) to insert it into installation wizards or any sort of program needing such functionality. ~Perhaps make the viewing of the partitions separate from the two panels provided and abstracting the ways that one can change the partitions (so that one could use, for example, a popup-menu for that), such that one could easily put it into a Plasma applet to niftily monitor disk space. Certainly this can be done with KPart, but I'd rather first see if one could do it in pure QT first, and then add the option to use a KPart. ~If time permits, I'd like to make certain graphical primitives (tabs, dialog, etc.) for VisParted and thereby allow it to use either a QT "backend" or a GTKmm one (of course leaving it abstracted out enough to provide even an ncurses backend). This program could hopefully then become the de facto standard for Linux distribution installation, by embedding it in the native toolkit inside of the installation medium used. ~Other more minor things that could be done are the possibility to click on the "X" (denoting lack of functionality for a certain filesystem type in the capabilities table) which would seek the required external program via the system's native package manager (through pluggable scripts that individual distro's developer's can provide). This would all make the resulting program a very distinct fork of VisParted and so would require its own support base and name (though perhaps the maintainers of VisParted could be contacted and asked to use this new version, given that it can use a GTKmm backend; thereby keeping the name). I have indeed viewed the VisParted source and like what is there thus far, but see far more potential. I have never used QT before nor C++, but they appeal to me and I'd like to take this project as a chance to learn how to use them. I do not pretend that I am the "right person" for this task. I'm sure there are plenty of other developers out there with more experience in this sort of thing than I and with possibly more time to dedicate to it. I am, however, offering myself as available and very interested and willing to develop this application. I can offer that I'll work likely around 10~20 hours a week on this project, given that I plan to intern over the summer as well. (I don't wish to lie about my availability to the community.) I am perfectly comfortable working with a mentor through solely online interaction. As far as where I will be over the summer... this I am not certain of yet, but I can provide the information as soon as it becomes available. If need be, I am also fluent in Spanish and French, and so I can communicate with a developer of that native language, if it is more convenient to the community. I sincerely hope that there is interest in this idea, as GUI paritioning has been ignored and really needed a new breath of life for a few years. Thank you for your consideration, Nicholas (Alex) Marquez nmarquez3(a)gatech.edu (alias: nicholas.marquez(a)gatech.edu)

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