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We are happy to announce that after scouting many wonderful places, having long discussions and many last minute changes, we finally have a location and date set for the openSUSE Conference 2012 (oSC12) and our CfP committee is ready to accept talk proposals!
location
This year oSC12 will take place at the Czech Technical University in Prague. [...]
The storage backend of the openSUSE Build Service at build.opensuse.org is causing again problems. Server side builds will not be enabled for now. The outage will be for at least today.
Access to api.o.o and the website build.opensuse.org are possible, so source modifications and local builds, e.g. via the command line client osc, are working. Just [...]
Once again, the Greek openSUSE community was present and rocked in the Free open source software communities meeting, which took place this year in the beautiful town of Serres. We had 5 talks and 1 workshop.
The openSUSE Project-talk (Kostas Koudaras)
Yast-talk (Kostas Koudaras-Stathis Agrapidis)
openSUSE Medical-talk (Stathis Iosifidis)
OwnCloud-talk (Stathis Iosifidis but originally registered from Chris Loukas)
OBS-workshop (Stathis [...]
Like last year, openSUSE will participate again on the coordinated launch of the next-generation Internet protocol IPv6 on June 6, 2012.
Joining the Internet Society and several major Internet companies like Google, Yahoo and Facebook, openSUSE shows again its readiness for the industry-standard technologies including the new standard protocol for the Internet, Internet Protocol version 6 [...]
Planned outage of some openSUSE infrastructure on 2012-05-10 starting at 0:00 UTCWed, 09 May 2012 10:09:49 +0000
Our Provo data center will take down a few server starting today at 6pm local time (MDT) which is 10th of May, 0:00 UTC. The downtime is expected to last for three hours.
The following openSUSE services might be effected:
all openSUSE wiki instances, e.g. en.opensuse.org
the wordpress instances like news.opensuse.org and lizards.opensuse.org
the forums at forums.opensuse.org
Open Build Service is a generic system to build and distribute packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way. OBS 2.3 brings the functionality to maintain a released software product in an efficient and transparent way. This includes
Update coordination: One or more maintenance groups can decide if and when to start or release [...]
*Updated – we’re back* download.opensuse.org celebrates May 1 holiday (it’s broken)Tue, 01 May 2012 09:01:27 +0000
Update: download.opensuse.org is back up, OBS and mirrors are resyncing
After receiving a new disk array, and restoring backups onto it, download.opensuse.org is back up. The openSUSE Build Service is currently syncing all its repos to it, and then a full mirror rescan will be carried out so that the latest software is on all the [...]
Google published the list of 12 students proposals that have been accepted for Google Summer of Code 2012 for openSUSE. It means that 12 students will be able to work full-time on changing the world this summer!
51 proposals, 12 students accepted
Big thanks to every student who dedicated their time thinking up and writing awesome proposals: [...]
The openSUSE Summit team has been working hard over the last weeks to add Spanish translations to the website. As the openSUSE Summit is meant to be an ‘Americas’ event, we aim to create a dual-language conference, accommodating both the Spanish and English speaking visitors. The exact language distribution of talks will strongly depends [...]
SUSE, our founder, partner and sponsor, has put out a couple of job openings for the openSUSE Boosters Team! Are you a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) enthusiast? Are you quick on your feet, a talented technologist? Are you hungry to learn new things and equally passionate about sharing your knowledge with your peers? [...]
