The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday April 22nd at 13:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-project channel on Freenode.

Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at:

http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_2009-04-22

Please add topics as soon as possible. Also, if you have questions for the meeting, but can’t attend (we know that the meeting times can’t work for everyone) please add them to the agenda as well.

For more on IRC meetings, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About.

As always, we meet in #opensuse-project on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-project.

Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/.

Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there.

Quick status update on the Google Summer of Code program for openSUSE. The deadline for student applications has passed, and yesterday was the “duplicate resolution” meeting for organizations that had a student that had been accepted to multiple organizations.

openSUSE has 9 slots. This isn’t 100% set in stone at the moment, but it’s pretty firm. Likewise, our top selections for those slots look very good, but they’re not set in stone. The final accepted proposals will be announced on Monday, April 20th. As soon as those are announced, we’ll post the news here as well.

The next step in the GSoC timeline is the community bonding period which will allow students to get up to speed with the organization, get prepared to work on their project, and get to know members of openSUSE and their mentors better. Please extend a warm welcome to our students during this time period.

While students are officially working with a single assigned mentor through the Summer of Code program, we can all be “unofficial” mentors and help students new to the project feel welcome and provide help if they need it.

At the same time, during this period students need to provide Google with their payment info and so forth so that Google can issue payments.

Coding begins officially on May 23rd.

The “midterm” begins on July 6th. We should make sure that students have plenty of feedback going into the midterm period and there are no surprises when we give evaluations.

The midterm evaluation is due on July 13th at 19:00 UTC. For the full timeline, see the Summer of Code site. We’ll try to always provide updates via openSUSE News and the openSUSE Announce mailing list, but it’s also up to students and mentors to be familiar with the timeline and to read the appropriate Google mailing lists!

The openSUSE Project is opening the call for participation in the openSUSE Summit 2009, to be held September 17 through 20 in Nuremberg, Germany. We’re looking for contributors to openSUSE, upstream projects, and members of the openSUSE community to participate.

The summit will be an opportunity to bring the openSUSE contributor community together to share ideas, experience, hack, and help guide the direction of the project. So we’re looking to members of the community to give presentations, tutorials, and lead birds of a feather and panel sessions in several tracks:

• Community: Marketing, translations, wiki, documentation, forums, and openSUSE governance.
• Desktop: Topics related to the openSUSE desktop, including KDE, GNOME, Xfce, and applications.
• Server: Use of openSUSE on the server or development of server applications.
• Toolchain and System: The kernel, YaST, packaging, and openSUSE Build Service.
• Open Day: Saturday will include a track for openSUSE users and people new to Linux.

If you’re interested in presenting at the openSUSE Summit, fill out the Call for Participation Form with all of the details for your participation. We’re accepting talks, tutorials, birds of a feather, and panel discussion submissions. (Birds of feather sessions will be scheduled after hours.)

The summit will not be entirely composed of prepared presentations, so we will be accepting a limited number of proposals.

Deadline

All proposals must be submitted by May 20th. To submit a proposal, fill out the form before 12:00 UTC on May 20.

We want YOU ! The openSUSE Weekly Newsletter team needs your support – join the crew !
Wanted:
* Editors for the main newsletter
* Translators for Italian, Russian, Swedish, French, Chinese
You can reach through opensuse-marketing@opensuse.org mailinglist (subscription required).

    Issue #67 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out!

In this week’s issue:

• OBS will be added to LDN
• People of openSUSE: Sascha Manns
• Jigish Gohil: Most efficient Ways to Download
• polishlinux: KDE 4.3 – early preview
• tuxmachines.org: We’re Linux” Video Contest Winners

The openSUSE Weekly News is available in:

Chinese (delay),
French (delay),
German (delay),
Hungarian (delay),
Indonesian,
Italian (delay),
Japanese,
Polish (delay),
Portuguese (delay),
Russian (delay),
Spanish and
Swedish (delay).

Join the openSUSE Project as we celebrate the 10th anniversary of LinuxFest Northwest! The openSUSE Project will be exhibiting at LinuxFest Northwest on April 25th and 26th.

The LFNW organizers are going all out to celebrate a decade of gathering the Linux community. Featured speakers at LFNW this year include Jon ‘maddog’ Hall, Monty Widenius, Allison Randal, and many others from the FOSS community.

In a rough economy, you don’t get more value than LFNW. The show is free to attend, and no registration is required. Directions are available on the LFNW site.

Need a ride to Bellingham from Seattle or nearby? The LFNW site has a wiki page for ride shares. If you’re looking to give or get a ride, sign up on the wiki.

Booth help for LFNW

Want to help out with the openSUSE booth at LFNW? Drop me an email and your shirt size, and we’ll get you hooked up with an openSUSE shirt and booth schedule.

Jean-Daniel Dodin is openSUSE member since the very beginning. He is the first sysop of http://fr.opensuse.org and in general very active openSUSE and Linux advocate, both on and off line. The most recent of his numerous projects is attempt to revive the Linux Documentation Project which was sinking in a lethargy for quite some time before he appeared started reorganization, energizing people.

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We want YOU ! The openSUSE Weekly Newsletter team needs your support – join the crew !
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    Issue #66 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out!

In this week’s issue:

• Google Summer of Code
• Graphical Mode for YaST/Partitioning
• KDE 4.2.2 is out
• Mono 2.4 and MonoDevelop 2.0 released
• The real antidote for Conficker

The openSUSE Weekly News is available in:

Chinese,
French,
German,
Hungarian,
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The Google Summer of Code application period ended last Friday, April 3rd. We’re now in the interim period until April 15th. The full timeline is available on Google’s site.

During this time, mentors will be reviewing student applications and ranking them. There’s still time for mentors to sign up, but mentors must be signed up by April 15th. Mentors should attend the openSUSE Project meeting this week if possible.

We should have all applications ranked and paired with a mentor (if applicable) by April 15th. If you’re interested in being a mentor, please be sure that you’re signed up to gsoc-mentors@opensuse.org (gsoc-mentors+subscribe@opensuse.org) to discuss students and applications.

We’re also meeting in the #opensuse-soc channel on Freenode to discuss Google Summer of Code topics. If you have general GSoC questions, head over to #gsoc on Freenode. There’s usually a bunch of people in the room who can answer questions.

Just a quick reminder: the next openSUSE Project meeting is April 8th, at 16:00 UTC. (See The Fixed Time World Clock for the time in your time zone.) As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-project channel on Freenode.

If you’re a mentor or student interested in participating in Google Summer of Code, please attend this meeting!

Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at:

http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_2009-04-08

Please add topics as soon as possible. Also, if you have questions for the meeting, but can’t attend (we know that the meeting times can’t work for everyone) please add them to the agenda as well.

For more on IRC meetings, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About.

As always, we meet in #opensuse-project on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-project.

Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/.
Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there.

Sascha is active in many areas of openSUSE (Marketing, Feature Screening and using Build service for his projects), but he is particularly active in openSUSE Weekly News. More than 1300 articles translated and edited since October 2008th is quite some effort. That alone is deserving attention, but he didn’t stopped there and recently he started a new initiative in cooperation with Radiotux. The plan is to prepare digest of openSUSE Weekly News in German. More about that you can read in his Radiotux blog (it is German) and even more in his Lizards blog

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