The openSUSE Project welcomes Jos Poortvliet as new Community Manager
Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:30:51 +0000
We?re proud to announce today that Jos Poortvliet will join the openSUSE project and Novell as openSUSE Community Manager starting on August 1. With Jos we?ve found a leader with excellent community building experience combined with a very welcoming nature, many fresh, promising ideas and a strong drive to grow the [...]
openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 133 out now!
Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:39:53 +0000
We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News 133!
In the issue 133 you can read
Timeline for openSUSE?s strategy discussion
Sirko Kemter: Improve the distribution design 2
Alex Barrios: openSUSE present in the Especial Edition of CIBESS
python4kids: WhyPy?
KDENews/Stuart Jarvis: Ever wanted your ownCloud?
Content:
Announcements
Status Updates
Team Reports
In the Community
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Timeline for openSUSE?s strategy discussion
Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:32:51 +0000
Due to the positive fact that more proposals emerge, we wanted to take the time to make them into polished proposals that we want to publish for discussion as well.
Here’s our new timeline:
Consolidate community proposals for discussion till July 25
Discuss proposals starting, July 27 (4 days for each discussion)
end of public discussions, Aug 10.
Create final proposals
Define voting [...]
openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 132 it out!
Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:27:59 +0000
We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News!
In the issue 132 you can read
openSUSE 11.3 is here!
OBS Development Team Member Job Position
Sirko Kemter: Improve the distribution design
Thorsten Leemhuis: Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.35 (Part 2) – File systems and storage
IBM developerWorks/Ian Shields: Learn Linux, 101: Create partitions and [...]
openSUSE Edu Li-f-e 11.3 available now!
Sat, 17 Jul 2010 08:19:21 +0000
openSUSE Education team is very thrilled to announce the availability of openSUSE Edu: Linux for Education(Li-f-e). Li-f-e is built on openSUSE 11.3. The aim of this DVD is to provide complete education and development resources for parents, students, teachers as well as IT admins running labs at educational institutes
It comes [...]
openSUSE 11.3 Launch Information
Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:19:13 +0000
We had a successful openSUSE 11.3 launch yesterday. The announcement itself saw many friendly comments. Many people retweeted the announcement from @openSUSE.
Besides the announcement on news.opensuse.org, Novell released a press release and distributed it through the press channel. We’re collecting all press mentions of the launch in the openSUSE wiki.
A couple of launch parties were [...]
openSUSE 11.3 is here!
Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:00:08 +0000
openSUSE 11.3 is here!
The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of the latest incarnation of openSUSE, with support for 32-bit and 64-bit systems. openSUSE 11.3 is packed with new features and updates including SpiderOak to sync your files across the Internet for free, Rosegarden for free editing of your audio files, improved indexing [...]
New wiki, what now?
Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:02:22 +0000
We just switched to the new wiki. So here it is. And now? Let me explain what you can do to help!
Create your user page
Every user of the wiki has a personal page and we did not transfer any of them. We wanted to use this opportunity to brush them up and standardize them. Your [...]
Change in openSUSE Membership handling
Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:16:55 +0000
Anyone can become openSUSE member after showing continued and substantial contribution to the project of any kind (bugs, support in forums, wiki edits, code contribution etc.). For those who don’t know what openSUSE Membership is or how to become a member I suggest to read this wiki article or older blogpost by Andreas.
Some time ago [...]
openSUSE Weekly News #131 is out!
Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:35:00 +0000
We are pleased to announce our openSUSE Weekly News #131.
In the issue 131 you can read
openSUSE Wiki – Episode II: A new hope
KDE Desktop Tricks
ownCloud in a box
My favorite Firefox extensions for Firefox
openSUSE 11.3 delivers spit, polish and niggles
Content:
Announcements
Status Updates
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