Mandag den 16. Juni 2008 11:33:25 skrev Andrew Wafaa:
I'm now thinking of doing a talk at LRL about openSUSE and how the community is directly involved in the project/distro. This came about from a discussion at the last GNOME team meeting, and I think it would help dispell some of the misconceptions that still linger out there that openSUSE is a Novell puppet.
Some of the items I'd like to cover are: *How the GNOME team selected their default BitTorrent Client *How contributors can help the upcoming distro using the new BuildService 1.0 *How community members get the hackers to help out - GNOME Team's Helping Hands initiative. *a11y - getting the message to _everyone_
If someone involved in the KDE (and any other) aspect of things could let me know about some of the initiatives where it is the community and not employees that are taking the lead would be most appreciated.
The most prominent example of community involvement is probably Benjamin Weber's 1-click-install. Another, though less impressive, example is the Oxygen YaST icon theme, that I put together - which is now included in the distro and used by default on KDE 4.0 installations of 11.0. While it's a good idea to point out that people actually can influence the distro itself, I don't think there's any reason to disregard community contributions that are not officially included in the distro, like opensuse-community.org wiki or webpin package search, or the packman packages. Contributions that are very important to the overall user experience. I also think it's worth mentioning all the important places where people can contribute with a pretty low barrier to entry - like wiki maintenance, translation (Enlish speakers can help translate openSUSE to proper UK English), bug reporting, marketing etc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org