I don't think there are any active derivative project teams left (like Medicine or Education). It seems that Medical is long dead, the medical mailing list is actually full of spam and no real posts. As for Education, I believe this is a combination of a lack of manpower and issues with openSUSE not providing an easy to use live installer. IIRC at least one of the developers moved to Ubuntu MATE as a base because of this. I think the most important thing is to first improve openSUSE in general to ensure solutions for SMBs are present -- perhaps one example that's been on the backlog is "samba-tool" missing from the distro. I'd agree that having a group to voice concerns and issues with using openSUSE for SMBs would be useful to have though. On 7 March 2017 at 08:01, Klaas Freitag <freitag@opensuse.org> wrote:
Dear openSUSE,
with this email I like to ask about the status of the openSUSE Projects Teams, such Education or Medical, as listed at [1], and see if openSUSE would support the founding of a new Project Team which would be openSUSE for Small and Medium Business, or short 'openSUSE SMB'.
With Invis-Server [2] which builds on the openSUSE distributions and the openSUSE community and tools we have a very successful and hardened offering for SMB, that is exclusively built on openSUSE. Stefan Schäfer, the Invis Server founder is a long standing openSUSE promoter and very experienced system integrator in real life SMB scenarios. He started many years ago to build Invis on (open)SUSE, and has moved his project consequently closer to openSUSE by using the OBS, building up community and promoting the work on various openSUSE- and other FOSS conferences.
As I am also interested in the SMB area doing my pet project Kraft [4] for more than 14 years now, Stefan and myself often worked together for example by giving talks together about the topic.
In the recent Hackweek we were thinking about how to make the whole activity more visible to a broader community and one idea was to found an openSUSE Project Team for SMB. We hope that this will increase the visibility of the solutions.
For the openSUSE project this is a perfect reference that demonstrates how valuable openSUSEs technical precision and ease of use are for these kind of "special usecases". For SMB, that is in place for years, with very practical experience in lots of installations.
We think and hope that there are other community members around who have experience in SMB, and a Project Team's task would be to collect the information, create and document solution proposals and hints, and promote openSUSE and the existing SMB solutions together.
What do people think about this?
regards,
Klaas
[1] http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Teams [2] https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Invis-Server [3] https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/spins:invis [4] http://volle-kraft-voraus.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org
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