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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE @ FOSDEM 2007 call for papers/speakers/participants
by Christoph Thiel 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Hi everyone, After a very successful FOSDEM participation in 2006, we are happy to announce that the openSUSE project will be taking part at FOSDEM 2007! Besides representing openSUSE with a booth, we managed to get one of the greatly demanded "devrooms", to conduct sessions centered around the openSUSE project. So, first of all, what the heck is "FOSDEM"? Quoting fosdem.org: >> The seventh Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting is a 2 days event, organized by volunteers, to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. Taking place in the beautiful city of Brussels (Belgium), FOSDEM meetings are recognized as "The best Free and Open Source events in Europe. The event will take place *February 24th and 25th 2007* in Brussels (Belgium). FOSDEM 2006 attracted over 4000 visitors from all around the world. Entrance and attendance to the event is totally free of charge! << In 2006 we launched the openSUSE build service at FOSDEM and attended with more than 20 SUSE/Novell people. In fact, we had both a booth and a "devroom", which was used to conduct several presentations and community meetings. The overall response to our 2006 activities was very positive! [Proceedings are available from http://en.opensuse.org/FOSDEM2006] For 2007, we dare to challenge all of us, the community, to play a much more active role in making FOSDEM 2007 a great success. Therefore we would like to open a "call for papers" and encourage everyone to send proposals to the opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org mailing list. Proposals should be submitted by *January 15th 2007*. We will do our very best to support all community activities around FOSDEM. Please share your ideas, visions, and comments regarding a successful FOSDEM participation with us. FOSDEM will be the forum for open discussions about the future of openSUSE. We are looking forward to meeting all of you at FOSDEM 2007! A happy holiday season and a great new year to all of you! Your openSUSE team

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[opensuse-announce] Reminder: openSUSE status meeting 2006/12/20 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT)
by Martin Lasarsch 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Hi The next openSUSE status meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-project IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-project) this Wednesday at 2006/12/20 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT) This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Status_Meeting_2006-12-20 as soon as possible. Also, if you cannot attend the meeting, but have questions you want to see discussed, please add them to the meeting wiki page as well. For general info about our IRC meetings read: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About For a general technical introduction to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) see http://www.irchelp.org/ (not affiliated with openSUSE) or enter "IRC help" into your preferred search engine. The network we use is freenode - for more information on this, including how to find a server, visit http://freenode.net/ (not affiliated with openSUSE either). -- with kind regards, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Lasarsch, Core Services SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nuremberg martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- simply change to www.suse.de

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[opensuse-announce] "Lessons for Lizards" Start Today
by Thomas Schraitle 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

Hi, "Lessons for Lizards" is a new way to learn about openSUSE. It is a documentation project for and by the community (licensed under GFDL) that will be released on an equal footing with the internally produced documentation. Lessons are written in a cook book style and cover more specific or exotic topics than the traditional manuals. For example: * Experimental or nonstandard software * Third party software * Third party drivers * Unusual hardware * Complex setups (such as configuration of a home network server) The Project So Far ------------------------------- We've set up a project on Novell Forge (http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Lessons_for_Lizards) with lots of information and a basic functional document. Our software package installs the necessary build environment (including scripts and style sheets). The basic SVN structure is set up and we've gotten started with some documents. If you want to learn to use it all, take a look at http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Lfl/Lessons_for_Lizards_Quicksta… The Future ------------------------------- Our guide has barely cracked out of its egg. We know it needs: * Content--it's very hungry * Testing and more documentation for the LfL quick start guide (we're already working on this) * Better support for FOP configuration (the program that turns DocBook into PDFs); our gurus are hard at work here * You Yes, the documentation team needs YOU! (No, we don't mean the online update tool) If you have a special topic to document, want to work on the guts of the DocBook stylesheets or FOP build environment, have dreams of becoming an editor, or just want to help out by testing what's been written, this project is for you. We have XML gurus and experienced writers and editors at the ready to help you make this the manual of your dreams. What do you want in an openSUSE manual? Join <opensuse-doc(a)opensuse.org> and let us know. Contribute as you can to help make it happen. We wanted to get this announced before Christmas so everyone can take some time over the holidays to think about what they want and what they can do. The team members here at SUSE all have a new year's resolution of working with the community to make this happen. When we are back in January (around the 8th for most of us, although we do have some members around between the holidays, too), we hope to see lots of new faces and new ideas on the mailing list. The future of "Lessons for Lizards" is in your hands. Have a lot of fun! The SUSE Documentation Team -- Thomas Schraitle ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX GmbH >o) Documentation Specialist Maxfeldstrasse 5 /\\ 90409 Nuernberg _\_v http://en.opensuse.org/Documentation_Team

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[opensuse-announce] Release of openSUSE 10.2
by Michael Loeffler 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

After lot of work, we proudly announce the availability of openSUSE 10.2 formerly know as SUSE Linux 10.x It's available for download on http://download.openSUSE.org in x86, x86-64, and ppc versions - via ftp from our mirrors and bittorrent. openSUSE 10.2 will be offered as boxed product in Europe through retail as usual. In North America the box will be available through http://www.shopnovell.com. Due to production lead time first boxes will show up on shelves and onlineshops mid of December. For download we offer as ISOs the 5 CD open source version plus our add-on CD with proprietary portions, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader, RealNetworks RealPlayer, and Sun Java Runtime Environment. DVDs for all architectures are available and contain the open source version plus proprietary add-ons. For the first time we offer a language add-on CD which offers support for languages which are not part of our base language set up. The Live DVD will be release next week. We do our best in providing enough bandwith for quick and painless download. But especially in the first days after launch it could be slow sometimes. In those cases check our mirror list at http://en.opensuse.org/Mirrors_Released_Version or try a day later. We'd appreciate if you use bittorrent to share the download with others. For more informataion http://en.opensuse.org/BitTorrent_and_openSUSE Additionall ftp trees are available - with only open source packages and with non open source packages. The open source tree contains packages build from more than 3100 source RPMs and offers some packages which didn't fit on the media. As usual, we ship all the latest open source packages available at the time. But we want to give special mention to the redesigned GNOME and KDE desktop, Firefox 2.0, ext3 as new default file system, support for internal SD card readers, new power managment and last but not least our improved package management. We'd like to thank you all for testing heavily, reporting bugs, giving feedback on mailing lists, etc., and in general for supporting and participating in creating openSUSE 10.2 Have a lot of fun! Michael, Andreas and Adrian P.S.: Overview for CD insallation: * CD1-2 only for a minimal text installation (English) * CDs 1-3 for a default KDE or GNOME installation in German or English * All 5 CDs for other selections * Addon-NonOSS CD for the proprietary software * Addon-Lang CD for addtional languages Delta ISOs for updating RC1 to goldmaster are on the server, please check mirrors for details. -- Michael Löffler, Product Management SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nuremberg

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[opensuse-announce] Get Involved! openSUSE community meeting 2006-12-16 18:00GMT
by B.Weber＠warwick.ac.uk 06 Dec '06

06 Dec '06

Details: Date: Saturday - 2006-12-16 Time: 18:00 GMT Location: irc.freenode.net #opensuse-community Explanation: This meeting is primarily organised for, and run by openSUSE community members who are not employed by Novell/SUSE. This meeting is not a status meeting, Status meetings are primarily communication to and from @suse.de folk. The aims of the meeting are to: - Inform (of existing community participation.) - Encourage (further community involvements through practical suggestions.) - Enable (said involvement with further meetings & connecting resources.) The meeting is planned for a Saturday as this seems to be the best day to allow as many people as possible who do not work for Novell/SUSE to attend. A core group of people have already agreed to attend. It would be great to have as many people as possible attend. Whether you have any interest in participating in the project in any capacity, or are simply interested in what others are doing. It would be good to feedback on the results of this meeting at the status meeting on 2006-12-20. However, most of those involved with organising this meeting are unable to attend status meetings due to timing. Agenda below: --- Agenda: - Introduction/Purpose of meeting. - Overview of a selection of existing projects with opensuse community involvement, and how others can get involved. - opensuseupdater (Narayan Newton) - Translation (Martin Schlander) - Packaging (Pascal Bleser) - Build Service clients (Jonathan Arsenault) - Package Search (Benjamin Weber) - Perhaps more, time permitting. If you want to talk about a project you are involved with let me know, or reply to this thread. - Brainstorming session to concoct achievable projects that would directly benefit openSUSE. Please come with ideas if you have any. Aim for projects requiring varying skillsets. Results can be populated on http://en.opensuse.org/Tasks . Some ideas to kick off discussion: - Some ideas on http://en.opensuse.org/Tasks and http://en.opensuse.org/Feature_Wishlist already. - Extensions to pre-existing projects mentioned in the first part of the meeting. - YaST module UI cleanup [1] - FAQ [2] - One click repository adding + Package install [3] - Hopefully many more to be gathered before and during meeting. - Organisation - Exchange names/contact details with any who are interested in helping with a particular suggestion. - Plan dates for subsequent specialized meetings to persue any projects with significant interest. - Set preliminary date for next community meeting. - Assign task of writing minutes. - Assign task of updating wiki tasks/projects page with results of this meeting. - Assign task of giving feedback on the results of this meeting at the next status meeting. -AOB --- [1] Certain modules in YaST are in need of user interface improvements to make their core functionality accessable to inexperienced users, This breaks down into several tasks for those with varying abilities/time. - Gather feedback about current modules, Identify core use-cases for modules. - Design/Mockup improved UI to better enable these core use-cases. - Gather feedback on suggested changes. - Make suggested changes. Requires: Users, Designers/Artists, Developers [2] There are innumerable existing howtos, tutorials, and support articles all over the place, on opensuse.org and in other places. Some superb, others less good. Many of the very most frequently asked questions touch areas of questionable legality and cannot be hosted on opensuse.org. It would be very beneficial to have a FAQ covering a few of the very most frequently asked questions and a "Best practice" consistent answer to each of the top n questions. They would cover not the easiest way for the support person to fix the issue with an obscure command, but the very easiest way for the user to accomplish their goal (& how they might discover it on their own). Illustrated with appropriate media, Text,Screenshots,Screencasts etc as appropriate. This is a lot more work than it might sound, but it is something that many people would be capable of helping with. Entails: Discussion & Planning to come up with the top questions & easiest way to solve each question. High level of maintenance to keep current (See constant changes in best way to install nvidia driver etc) Requires: People experienced with support in Real Life/Forum/IRC etc; Good language skills; Translators [3] I blogged about this after this meeting was planned (http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/bweber/entry/next_generation_package/).

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[opensuse-announce] [ml-admin] More Mailinglists migrated
by Henne Vogelsang 06 Dec '06

06 Dec '06

Hi, today we migrated another bunch of mailinglists to the new mailinglist server. The "new" openSUSE mailinglists are: * opensuse-autoinstall(a)opensuse.org Everything about unattended installations. Especially with autoyast2. * opensuse-edu(a)opensuse.org and opensuse-edu-de(a)opensuse.org Using openSUSE in the education space. * opensuse-ham(a)opensuse.org and opensuse-ham-de(a)opensuse.org openSUSE and HAM radio. * opensuse-m17n(a)opensuse.org Discussion about multilingualization, internationalization and CJK-related topics in openSUSE. The migrated mailinglists if other projects are: * blinux(a)opensuse.org and blinux-de(a)opensuse.org Mailinglists of the blinux project: http://www.novell.com/de-de/products/linuxprofessional/blinux/ * packet-writing(a)opensuse.org and packet-writing-announce(a)opensuse.org Mailinglists of the packet-writing project: http://packet-cd.sourceforge.net/ * proxy-suite(a)opensuse.org Mailinglist of the SUSE Proxy-Suite: http://www.suse.com/en/whitepapers/proxy_suite/ Henne -- ml-admin

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[opensuse-announce] Reminder: openSUSE status meeting 2006/12/06 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT)
by Martin Lasarsch 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

Hi The next openSUSE status meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-project IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-project) this Wednesday at 2006/12/06 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT) This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Status_Meeting_2006-12-06 as soon as possible. Also, if you cannot attend the meeting, but have questions you want to see discussed, please add them to the meeting wiki page as well. For general info about our IRC meetings read: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About For a general technical introduction to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) see http://www.irchelp.org/ (not affiliated with openSUSE) or enter "IRC help" into your preferred search engine. The network we use is freenode - for more information on this, including how to find a server, visit http://freenode.net/ (not affiliated with openSUSE either). -- with kind regards, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Lasarsch, Core Services SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nuremberg martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- simply change to www.suse.de

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.2 is done
by Andreas Jaeger 02 Dec '06

02 Dec '06

We've mastered yesterday openSUSE 10.2 RC5 and declared it as goldmaster. Looking at the comments on the opensuse mailing list and on the websites I hear that 10.2 could become a "great distribution". I hope it does and like to thank all of you for your part in it, especially for: * Translating software in even more languages than before * Testing openSUSE 10.2 * Reporting bugs and fixes * Maintaining packages in our openSUSE build service that got synced into the distribution (I know the sync is a manual process now and I'm looking forward to improvements) * Helping others testing 10.2 * Suggestions on how to improve 10.2 Our build folks have created the first set of ISO images and will continue to create all of them - and the complete ftp distribution - early next week. We'll start syncing soon the images to the ftp mirrors so that they have all files on thursday, 7th December, for the announcement. CD production is starting now and I hope to see some shiny green openSUSE 10.2 boxes on the shelves before Christmas. There are still a lot of bugs open for 10.2 and I'm sure real usage over the time will find some more. We will release via online update security updates for 10.2 as usual and release also the most severe bug fixes. But most bug fixes will only be done for 10.3, our next release coming out next summer. You will not see much of me during the next weeks. I'll be visiting our Prague development team next week with limited email access and afterwards go on vacation. I'd like to thank Adrian for taking care of releasing 10.2 to the public! Thanks again to all of you for making openSUSE 10.2 possible and a success! Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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