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    The Community Week special edition of openSUSE Weekly News is now out!

For a list of available translations see this page:
http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/CommunityWeek2009/Translations

Have a lot of fun!

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It’s hard to believe we’re already on day four of openSUSE Community Week ! Let’s take a look at all the fun that’s in store for Thursday, May 14th:

• GNOME Testing Day from 08:00 UTC to 22:00 UTC, with intros at 08:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC. Sessions held in #opensuse-gnome on Freenode.
• KDE: Bug Squashing Session from 09:00 UTC to 16:00 UTC and from 18:00 UTC to 22:00 UTC in #opensuse-kde on Freenode.
• KDE: KDE IRC meeting from 16:00 UTC to 18:00 UTC in #opensuse-kde on Freenode.
• openSUSE Weekly News: How to translate a newsletter from English to your $LANG from 12:00 UTC to 15:00 UTC in several channels. (See schedule)
• Testing/QA: How to get started with Testing/QA at 18:00 UTC in #opensuse-testing in Freenode.
• Translations: Submitting YaST translations from SVN to openSUSE:Factory. Held in #opensuse-translation on Freenode at 11:00 UTC.
• openSUSE Education: Weekly Meeting at 17:00 UTC to 18:00 UTC in #opensuse-edu on Freenode. Also, informal discussion from 09:00 UTC to 17:00 UTC.

What is Community Week?

Our community week is a chance to get people from around the world together at the same time to focus on specific topics, and to transfer knowledge about openSUSE to help grow our teams. The idea is to cover topics to improve our community by broadening our knowledge, and to enable new contributors to openSUSE and open source.

openSUSE Community Week runs from through May 17. openSUSE Community Week is a chance to get people from around the world together at the same time to focus on specific topics, and to transfer knowledge about openSUSE to help grow our teams.

The idea is to cover topics to empower ourselves as a community by broadening our knowledge, and to enable new contributors to openSUSE and open source.

    Issue #71 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out!

In this week’s issue:

• Get Ready for the openSUSE Community Week
• Jan-Simon Möller: GSoC Introduction openSUSE @ ARM
• Katarina Machalkova: Secret AutoYaST feature
• Jigish Gohil: openSUSE in Education
• Linux Magazine: KDE 4.3: First Widget for Social Desktop

For a list of available translations see this page:
http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/71/Translations

The openSUSE Community Week is going strong! The fun kicks up a notch Wednesday with sessions with the openSUSE Board and a workshop with the openSUSE Weekly News team, in addition to sessions with the GNOME and KDE teams, testing and QA, and much more.

Our community week is a chance to get people from around the world together at the same time to focus on specific topics, and to transfer knowledge about openSUSE to help grow our teams. The idea is to cover topics to improve our community by broadening our knowledge, and to enable new contributors to openSUSE and open source.

openSUSE Community Week runs from through May 17. openSUSE Community Week is a chance to get people from around the world together at the same time to focus on specific topics, and to transfer knowledge about openSUSE to help grow our teams.

The idea is to cover topics to empower ourselves as a community by broadening our knowledge, and to enable new contributors to openSUSE and open source.

As a reminder — all sessions are being held in IRC. If you need help getting started with IRC, see the openSUSE wiki for more. The entire week’s schedule can be found on the wiki. Here’s an overview of Wednesday’s events:

• Meet with the openSUSE Board at 07:00, 17:00, and 20:00 UTC in #opensuse-project on Freenode.
• GNOME Wiki day from 08:00 to 22:00 UTC, with intro sessions at 08:00 and 16:00 UTC in #opensuse-gnome on Freenode.
• KDE: KDE PIM session with Kevin Krammer from KDE PIM at 16:00 UTC in #opensuse-kde on Freenode.
• The openSUSE Weekly News Team will meet at 12:00 UTC to 20:00 UTC to hold a workshop on creating an edition of openSUSE Weekly News. Held in #opensuse-newsletter on Freenode.
• Getting started with openFATE at 08:00 UTC in #opensuse-project on Freenode.
• Packaging and openSUSE Build Service Q&A in #opensuse-buildservice on Freenode.
• How to get started with Testing and QA in #opensuse-testing on Freenode at 06:00 UTC.

Check the schedule on the wiki for all sessions. As always, there will be plenty of openSUSE contributors in #opensuse-project for general questions about openSUSE and getting started as a contributor.

Sign in on Wednesday and have a lot of fun!

The openSUSE Community Week is going strong! Monday kicked off with a number of really informative and well-attended sessions on GNOME, KDE, testing, packaging, and more. Tuesday is even more chock full of fun, with more sessions and plenty of openSUSE contributors on hand. If you want to get involved in openSUSE there’s no time like the present!

Our community week is a chance to get people from around the world together at the same time to focus on specific topics, and to transfer knowledge about openSUSE to help grow our teams. The idea is to cover topics to improve our community by broadening our knowledge, and to enable new contributors to openSUSE and open source.

openSUSE Community Week runs from through May 17. openSUSE Community Week is a chance to get people from around the world together at the same time to focus on specific topics, and to transfer knowledge about openSUSE to help grow our teams.

The idea is to cover topics to empower ourselves as a community by broadening our knowledge, and to enable new contributors to openSUSE and open source.

As a reminder — all sessions are being held in IRC. If you need help getting started with IRC, see the openSUSE wiki for more. The entire week’s schedule can be found on the wiki. Here’s an overview of Tuesday’s events:

• GNOME Patch Tagging and Upstream Day from 08:00 to 22:00 UTC in #opensuse-gnome on Freenode.
• KDE Administration and Internals from 16:00 to 17:00 UTC in #opensuse-kde on Freenode, and general discussion in #opensuse-kde the rest of the day.
• Marketing Team: Working on openSUSE 11.2 launch plan in #opensuse-marketing on Freenode from 13:00 UTC to 22:00 UTC.
• Features: Getting started with openFate from 12:00 to 14:00 UTC in #opensuse-project on Freenode.
• Packaging: Creating a package step by step at 15:00 UTC. Hands on session! Don’t miss it, in #opensuse-buildservice.
• How to get started with Testing and QA at 11:00 UTC to 13:00 UTC in #opensuse-testing on Freenode.
• openSUSE wiki “cleanup” from 13:00 UTC to 22:00 UTC in #opensuse-wiki on Freenode.

And there will be plenty of openSUSE contributors in #opensuse-project for general questions about openSUSE and getting started as a contributor. Also, the Education Project will have general discussion on Tuesday in #openSUSE-edu on Freenode from 09:00 to 15:00 UTC.

Join us Tuesday in IRC and Have a Lot of Fun!

openSUSE Community Week runs from May 11 through May 17. Our community week is a chance to get people from around the world together at the same time to focus on specific topics, and to transfer knowledge about openSUSE to help grow our teams.

The idea is to cover topics to empower ourselves as a community by broadening our knowledge, and to enable new contributors to openSUSE and open source. The week is starting off with sessions in GNOME, KDE, packaging, and much more.

As a reminder — all sessions are being held in IRC. If you need help getting started with IRC, see the openSUSE wiki for more. The entire week’s schedule can be found on the wiki. Here’s a quick overview of scheduled sessions for Monday, May 11th.

• GNOME Packaging Day starts at 08:00 UTC with introductory sessions at 08:00 and 17:00 UTC in the #opensuse-gnome channel on Freenode.
• KDE Desktop Shell (Plasma) session with Rob Scheepmaker and Marco Martin from the KDE Plasma team at 16:00 UTC in the #opensuse-kde channel on Freenode.
• Packaging: Creating a package step by step – hands on session in the #opensuse-buildservice channel on Freenode at 09:00 UTC.
• Testing: How to get started with Testing and QA in the #opensuse-testing channel on Freenode at 15:00 UTC.

And there will be plenty of openSUSE contributors in #opensuse-project for general questions about openSUSE and getting started as a contributor.

On the iFolder mailing list, Brent McConnell has announced the first iFolder Project meeting on May 12 at 14:00 GMT.

Meeting Agenda includes:

1. Engineering update. What’s happened since we relaunched?
2. Wiki port project. Volunteers needed
3. Todo list
4. Open discussion

Meeting will be in IRC on Freenode in the #ifolder channel.

The first openSUSE Community Week is just around the corner. May 11 through May 17 we’ll be hosting live sessions in IRC to help grow the openSUSE Community.

Community week is all about helping new contributors get started with openSUSE and getting existing contributors together to mentor new contributors, and working together on major projects.

We’ll be hosting a week of IRC tutorials, Q&A’s, and jam sessions on a number of topics. Learn to work with the testing/QA team, create packages, work with the openSUSE Build Service, help work on the wiki, or get involved with the GNOME and KDE teams. There’s something for everybody.

Schedule and Topics

The Community Week schedule is posted on the openSUSE Wiki. Each topic has its own schedule, and new sessions are still being added — so be sure to check the schedule throughout the week for new and exciting sessions.

If you have general project questions or aren’t sure where to go during Community Week, talk to us in #opensuse-project on Freenode. And, as always, questions about contributing to openSUSE are always welcome on the openSUSE Project mailing list.

Help with Community Week

Even if you’re not leading any sessions, you can still pitch in and help with Community Week. We need contributors to “staff” IRC channels to mentor new contributors, and to spread the word about openSUSE Community Week.

If you’d like to lead a session, there’s still time. Contact Zonker with a topic, abstract, and times you can hold sessions.

To mentor and answer questions, just show up! The more the merrier, so if you have some free time during the week, pop into IRC and lend a hand.

Spread the Word!

You can also help make Community Week a success by spreading the word. Blog about it, talk about it on Facebook, tell your friends and coworkers, get the word out however you can. You can also post a counter on your Web site or just link to the Community Week page.

If you’re on Twitter or Identi.ca, you can follow @opensuse and help spread the word by RT’ing our Community Week updates, and forward this announcement to anyone who might be interested in contributing. Every little bit helps!

Not feeling very creative? Just post the following on your blog:

Join me for openSUSE Community Week

The openSUSE Project is running a Community Week from May 11 through May 17. Learn how to get involved with the openSUSE Project and become a contributor to openSUSE. You can help promote the use of Linux everywhere and help make openSUSE the best Linux distro for new and experienced Linux users.

You don’t have to be a developer to participate. We’re looking for all kinds of contributors: writers, translators, artists, teachers, and (of course) developers to help shape the openSUSE Linux distribution.

Learn more about openSUSE and Community Week at:
http://en.opensuse.org/Community_Week