Hi Bruno and All,
I just finished reading through the minutes and a couple of things
caught my attention:
* we did a bad job at creating a list of ideas for students since we
didn't have any ideas :/ (vuntz, 17:38:27)
* next time, we will need to evaluate if there's interest for
mentoring students in GCI, so we can know if it's worth applying
(vuntz, 17:45:47)
I am a student at the University of Phoenix BSIT Software Engineering
(previously Multimedia) program and I am involved with openSUSE to
enhance my education through collaboration and involvement with a
professionally established Linux distribution. I am an avid follower
and advocate of FOSS and community driven software such as is found
from Google and other companies focused on open source. I am aware
that many other students like myself turn to distributions such as
openSUSE to learn from and encourage their educational goals as well
as feeling like they are a part of a "team" with focus on something
greater than financial gain such as great services, applications and
innovative solutions to everyday problems.
As a a forerunner in major open source Linux distributions, I feel it
is imperative that openSUSE promote the involvement and recruitment of
students into the fold through sources such as GCI. Besides
subscribing to mailing lists to stay current with happenings at
openSUSE and the variety of projects going on, I also scan through my
university forums and find many students always asking questions of
how to find a good mentor that will help them develop their skills so
they can make that transition into their chosen fields even if what
they are doing now has no relation to information technology. My
responses to them are always to look towards openSUSE, KDE, Gnome or
any of the other open source projects who always need people to work
on a variety of projects and help with their development. Some
students know very little about programming however, are very eager to
learn and be pro-active. Many students aren't sure where to turn and
are often looking for someone to hold out a hand and say "Hey, come
check us out, were a lot of fun to hang out with and we'll show you
how to do some really cool stuff."
Before starting this new job, I was a campus student (now online) and
one of my classmates asked me why I chose to follow openSUSE instead
of Ubuntu or Fedora? My response was that openSUSE seemed a more
natural fit to the way I like my OS and a few people were there for me
when I had questions of what I needed to do to solve problems. Those
two simple factors turned me to an advocate for the distribution and
as I dig deeper into the workings of SUSE and openSUSE I find a wealth
of really cool stuff that motivates me even farther to want to learn
more, help more and promote it to others with my excitement as I
continue with my own journey. There are a lot of students out there
like me and it would be a shame if we (openSUSE) were not there for
them as they call out looking for someone to hang out with and teach
them that Linux and FOSS is a great place to learn and apply their IT
education.
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Bruno Friedmann
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Meeting started by vuntz at 17:01:05 UTC. The full logs are available at http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2012/opensuse-projec... .
Meeting summary ---------------
* Update on inactive mailing lists (vuntz, 17:04:19) * not done yet, mostly due to lack of time (vuntz, 17:06:26) * henne will likely be the one dealing with this (vuntz, 17:08:07)
* Update on admin@o.o reactiveness (vuntz, 17:09:39) * suggestion to create a backup admin for mailing list, so that previous topic can be dealt with faster (vuntz, 17:10:05) * some discussion about admin@ was summarized by christian: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2012-11/msg00033.html (vuntz, 17:10:36) * someone might step up soon to help with planet.o.o administration (vuntz, 17:17:18) * helping with ML might be possible only from SUSE people at the moment (due to access restrictions) (vuntz, 17:18:41) * ACTION: darix to ask henne about getting someone else to help with administrating the mailing lists (vuntz, 17:25:25) * LINK: https://github.com/openSUSE/wiki (digitltom, 17:29:06) * status of wiki update: an attempt to update to 1.19 was in git, but it didn't work, so everything went back to 1.17. The git branch (repo: https://github.com/openSUSE/wiki) also got force-pushed :/ (vuntz, 17:32:02) * ACTION: cboltz to ask scott about status of wiki update (vuntz, 17:33:31)
* Update on GCI (Google Code-In) (vuntz, 17:34:36) * we're not participating this year (vuntz, 17:37:51) * list of selected organizations: http://google-opensource.blogspot.fr/2012/11/mentoring-organizations-for-goo... (vuntz, 17:38:03) * we did a bad job at creating a list of ideas for students since we didn't have any ideas :/ (vuntz, 17:38:27) * next time, we will need to evaluate if there's interest for mentoring students in GCI, so we can know if it's worth applying (vuntz, 17:45:47)
* Status of Board elections (vuntz, 17:46:33) * elections fully documented at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election (vuntz, 17:49:49) * already two candidates (vuntz, 17:49:56) * people can apply to run, or nominate a candidate until November 27th (vuntz, 17:50:25)
* Next meeting chair (vuntz, 17:58:00) * LINK: http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Meetings has some info on how to use bugbot (vuntz, 18:03:12) * ACTION: vuntz to find a replacement chair in case he can't make it for next meeting (vuntz, 18:03:48) * ACTION: vuntz to write some short doc on what chairing involves, and how to do it (vuntz, 18:04:02)
* Q&A (vuntz, 18:06:42) * hendersj asking about handling op privs on #opensuse-forums; nobody present knows, but darix or ircops@o.o should know (vuntz, 18:13:31) * anditosan raises the topic of having a paid designer (from SUSE) to work on openSUSE; vuntz will chat with toscalix to see if there's a possibility for this (vuntz, 18:16:28) * ACTION: vuntz to talk to toscalix about a paid designer for openSUSE (vuntz, 18:16:43)
Meeting ended at 18:18:06 UTC.
Action items, by person -----------------------
* cboltz * cboltz to ask scott about status of wiki update * darix * darix to ask henne about getting someone else to help with administrating the mailing lists * vuntz * vuntz to find a replacement chair in case he can't make it for next meeting * vuntz to write some short doc on what chairing involves, and how to do it * vuntz to talk to toscalix about a paid designer for openSUSE
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