http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/GNOME_Meeting_2008-03-20

We’re meeting at 9pm CEST/7pm UTC on the #opensuse-project IRC channel at freenode.

Main topic will be board elections, details are also currently discussed on the opensuse-project mailing list.

Issue 14 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out!

In this week’s issue:

• Videos and Slides from FOSDEM 2008
• openSUSE to Participate in Google Summer of Code 2008
• Novell Free Hugs at CeBit 2008
• KIWI-LTSP 0.3.14 Now Out
• LimeJeOS, the openSUSE-based JeOS is Born
• Banshee 1.0Alpha1 is Available with 1-Click-Install
• New KDE Four Live and updated KDE 4.1 Snapshot Packages
• HP to preload SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop on Notebooks, Desktops
• In Tips and Tricks: Best Practices for Editing Configuration Files
• Upcoming: openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 3 (today)

Zonker wrote the following:

I’m happy to announce that the openSUSE Project has been accepted to Google’s Summer of Code 2008! Now the real fun begins!

We’re now in the “interim period” for students to discuss application ideas with mentoring organizations. (That’d be us.) Students will then have from March 24th through March 31st to apply to Google. See our ideas page, and Google’s SoC 2008 FAQ for more info and timeline.

Kudos to Google for acting quickly on this — applications for organizations were due last Wednesday, and I was notified this afternoon that we had been accepted. That’s pretty speedy, given the number of applications I’m sure they had to read through.

Discussion about openSUSE’s participation in Google’s SoC 2008 is most appropriate on the opensuse-project mailing list.

Meeting Announce

The videos and slides of the openSUSE presentations at FOSDEM are now online, and available at the FOSDEM2008 wiki page.

They are also available on Google video (lower quality).

Huge thanks goes to Thomas Schmidt and Juergen Weigert for making it all possible.

Meeting Page

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This week we feature Timo Hönig, openSUSE Mobile Device team member, mainly working on D-Bus, IAL, and KNetworkManager.

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