After the openSUSE 2011 Conference, we run a survey to gather feedback so that we can improve for the next conference. The overall feedback was very positive. Thanks a lot to the 134 people that participated in the survey!
Author Archive
openSUSE 12.1 Launch Feedback
November 19th, 2011 by Andreas JaegeropenSUSE 12.1 was launched on Wednesday and it’s time to look back at the successful launch of a great distribution.
We’ve seen a lot of positive feedback regarding openSUSE 12.1 via press, social networks, blogs etc. The interest in social media is significant with good conversations and new members, our facebook group has grown the last weeks by several hundred new members, the followers of our @openSUSE twitter increase and the recently launched Google+ page is in the circles of over 3200 people.
Looking over twitter messages directed to our @openSUSE account, here’re just a few comments about openSUSE 12.1:
Really impressed (I’m not impressed easily) with all of the added configuration and customization @openSUSE 12.1 brings very polished – by OhHeyItsLou (more…)
Internet at openSUSE Conference 2011
October 25th, 2011 by Andreas JaegerAt the openSUSE conference 2011, there was especially one area that caused us the previous years some trouble and this year nobody spoke about since it just worked fine: Wireless internet access.
So, what have we done right this year? It was basically wiring internet ourselves to the location and setting up the wifi controllers sponsored by Aeroaccess.
Open Bugs Day on August 21
August 20th, 2011 by Andreas JaegerThe Testing Core Team has decided to hold our third Open Bugs Day (OBD) on Sunday August 21 from 0:00 to 23:59 UTC.
Build Service Down Time – Fixed
June 21st, 2011 by Andreas Jaeger
We are currently facing a hardware problem with the openSUSE Build Service.
Affected services are:
We are trying to resolve this as fast as possible. Apologies for inconveniences this may cause.
Please contact admin@opensuse.org with any queries.
Your openSUSE Admins
Update 18:53 UTC: Everything is up and running again. Note the build service scheduler needs to read all files now and create some data structures. It will take a few hours until the build service is building again packages.
FOSSCOMM 2011
May 27th, 2011 by Andreas JaegerFOSSCOMM 2011 was held in Patras on the 7 to 8 May from Patras Linux User Group (PLUG) and the Department of Computer Engineering & Information Technology (Computer Laboratory / Computer Center), University of Patras. The conference was very interesting with several additional speeches, several parallel events (booths from communities and projects, parallel talks, workshops) and live streaming.
The Greek openSUSE community has united to present this two-day conference in Patras. There, we met people from other communities, discussed and promoted openSUSE and FOSS.
openSUSE 11.4 DVDs for Events
April 26th, 2011 by Andreas JaegerOutage of build/api/features.opensuse.org (solved)
March 28th, 2011 by Andreas JaegerWe are currently facing problems with the the following openSUSE services:
http://build.opensuse.org
http://api.opensuse.org
http://features.opensuse.org
We are trying to resolve this as fast as possible. Apologies for inconveniences this may cause.
Please contact admin@opensuse.org with any queries.
Your openSUSE Admins
Update 2011-03-28 10:30 UTC: Everything is working again.
Update 2011-03-28 13:44 UTC: The login system is a bit unstable at the moment and might be occasionally unavailable for a few minutes again, they will be back soon. We’re working on getting everything running smoothly again.
Updating openSUSE Manuals for openSUSE 11.4
December 7th, 2010 by Andreas JaegerWith the openSUSE distribution, we have a set of openSUSE manuals and QuickStart guides. You can read them online via http://doc.opensuse.org. They are installed by default on your system so you can access them there as
well.
For openSUSE 11.4, we face the usual challenge of updating the manuals: The documentation writers know what’s in the manuals but do not know everything that’s changed and the developers know what’s changed but may not know all the manuals.
For openSUSE 11.4, I created feature 310944 
in openFATE which will be the one reference point for documentation. Please add there things that need to be changed in the manuals. I’ve already added a few things that came to mind.
The Novell documentation team will concentrate on updating the Startup Guide, the GNOME and KDE Quick Guides and the Reference guide. They plan to also add a short chapter on the top use cases so that for example new users know to use LibreOffice as their Office Suite and where to find more information about it.
If anybody is interested in helping improve the documentation, please reach out to the documentation team on the opensuse-doc mailing list or on IRC on the #opensuse-doc channel on the freenode network. You can also find the sources of the manuals at https://developer.berlios.de/projects/opensuse-doc/.
Call for help
Please add to feature 310944 new comments that explain what needs to be changed in the manuals for openSUSE 11.4.
Feature handling for openSUSE reworked
November 30th, 2010 by Andreas Jaeger
openFATE, the feature tracking tool used in openSUSE has been completely reworked and the new version is live now on features.opensuse.org.
A team has started driving the handling of features and we’d like to update you with the current state and invite you to participate.
The new version is now live and contains a long list of new features so that features can be handled completely with the new web user interface. The interface uses the new openSUSE Bento theme to fit in better in the openSUSE site family, has several search options to allow the screening team to find features easily, it’s possible to edit all fields and also the product states.
Thanks to the openSUSE boosters, especially to Thomas Schmidt, for the new version.
The new team has defined a workflow to handle features and described it in the openSUSE wiki.
