16:00:14 #startmeeting 16:00:14 Meeting started Wed Jan 12 16:00:14 2011 UTC. The chair is henne. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 16:00:14 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic. 16:00:27 #meetingtopic Welcome to the openSUSE Project Meeting! 16:00:33 Welcome to the openSUSE Project Meeting! 16:00:42 This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE. 16:00:52 The topics for this meeting are: 16:01:06 1. Old Action Items 16:01:07 2. Status Reports 16:01:07 3. Questions & Answers 16:01:50 lets roll 16:01:56 first topic 16:02:04 #topic old action items 16:02:10 Action items you can find in bugzilla with this link. http://bit.ly/opensuse_action_items 16:02:48 the one and only AI we have is bug #659659 16:02:51 openSUSE bug 659659 in openSUSE.org (Action Items) "Top feature list for 11.4" [Normal,Assigned] https://bugzilla.novell.com/659659 16:03:09 manugupt1: whats the status here? :) 16:04:07 jospoortvliet? 16:04:14 do you know anything? 16:04:24 henne, we are done almost imo but need to polish jos lnows better though 16:05:32 okay cool 16:05:40 so this is on track :) 16:05:51 can you estimate when this will be finished? 16:06:19 By the end of this month and it will be sent to everyone magazine 16:06:40 and online media 16:06:47 Thats what is jos's plan 16:07:07 okay wonderful 16:07:12 ive updated the ETA 16:07:15 thanks manugupt1 16:07:40 as this was the only AI we can continue to the next topic 16:07:45 #topic status reports 16:07:59 Teams and individuals send various status reports around. Coolo sends one for the distribution, the OBS team publishes meeting minutes, the boosters their "What are the boosters up to" blogposts, the board has a public meeting and so on and so on. Are there any questions regarding those or do we need to discuss anything in detail? 16:08:24 or does anyone want to give a status update live now? :) 16:08:27 a central dumping place for these would be nice 16:08:38 right now I only know of reports@suse.de or so 16:08:55 otherwise everytime has it's own hosting place 16:09:05 every team* 16:09:11 well every team has its own way of working 16:09:19 if you want something central you have to collect it :) 16:09:35 or convince every team to change it way of working 16:09:54 right, I'll ask on -project if there is interest in such a place 16:10:18 if you can make this happen i will marry you 16:10:20 ;) 16:10:27 date -u ? ;-) 16:10:58 this also plays in the realm of the new opensuse news team 16:11:03 maybe they are interested 16:11:52 I'll cc them 16:11:58 cool. thanks 16:12:08 any particular report we need to discuss? 16:12:25 digitltom, prusnak: how is the election coming? 16:13:10 henne: some people already voted 16:13:18 we hit some bug, that some can't vote 16:13:22 but we are working on it 16:14:19 any statistics on how many already voted? :) 16:14:23 or something 16:15:06 22 votes 16:15:16 phew ;) 16:15:17 out of ~480 members 16:15:23 great. thanks for that report 16:15:52 any other report we need to discuss? 16:16:51 alrighty then 16:16:56 next topic 16:17:12 #topic questions and answers 16:17:19 #undo 16:17:19 Removing item from minutes: 16:17:23 no not yet! 16:17:33 i have a status report myself 16:17:36 i just remembered 16:17:39 FOSDEM 16:18:17 since a couple of days the distro mini conf we will participate in has a programm 16:18:36 the schedule is not hashed out yet completely but the talks are worked out 16:19:01 you can find the list of talks at http://grep.be/~wouter/fosdem/2011/talks.txt 16:19:35 we contribute with a couple of talks mostly around collaboration and tools 16:19:46 so if you have time, swing by and listen 16:20:03 FOSDEM is a great opportunity to meet a lot of opensuse and open source folks 16:20:17 * mrdocs plans to go 16:20:45 henne: too bad the distro collaboration manifesto "only" has one person from debian and one from fedora :\ 16:20:51 (in the panel) 16:21:15 there are more talks/panels of this kind 16:21:56 and as far as i understand this it will be a room discussion 16:22:01 do you think not? 16:22:15 sure 16:22:21 the topics are very interesting though 16:22:57 I'm sure this years programm is awesome 16:23:13 what you initially planed is now really happening 16:24:07 do you thik i should ask stefano/jared if you or I can come up on the stage too? 16:24:10 yes indeed 16:24:13 or whoever... 16:24:32 henne: would be cool, for symbolic value at the very least, to show (even more) that we want to collaborate with them :) 16:24:41 henne: but not so important.. 16:24:55 lets talk to them in brussels 16:24:57 henne: more of symbolic value, as it will be a discussion with the whole room 16:25:00 okay? 16:25:03 okay 16:25:10 henne: you mean when they're drunk 16:25:11 :) 16:25:24 (codename for that is "in brussels" ;)) 16:25:31 henne: but thanks for the feedback 16:25:57 yes exactly ;) 16:26:02 oh another thing 16:26:27 if youre in nuremberg and want to join the opensuse bus that goes from nuremberg to brussels for fosdem let me know 16:26:36 we can offer you a ride 16:27:17 but seats are limited, so its fifs :) 16:27:26 its only one bus... 16:27:52 have people sit in each other laps 16:27:58 please 16:28:04 images. in my head 16:28:34 I can see jospoortvliet smiling now 16:28:39 alright. thats it for FOSDEM then 16:28:53 lets move on to the next topic shall we? 16:29:39 henne: yes, mom, please do :) 16:29:44 #topic questions and answers 16:29:52 there are no questions on the wiki 16:30:01 so are there any additional topics we need to discuss? 16:30:07 any general questions you might have? 16:30:29 Foundation / is it board 16:30:40 manugupt1: in english please? :D 16:30:51 and in whole sentences please ;) 16:31:08 What about foundation 16:31:42 the board is working on broadening the discussin around that 16:31:54 I guess this is about the relationship of board to foundation 16:32:00 more to come in today board meeting at 19:00 UTC 16:32:42 and after 16:33:48 does that answer/postpone your question? 16:34:05 Yes that does 16:34:32 anyone else? 16:34:34 What about LinuxTag? Did everybody notice the CfP is ending on january 25th? 16:34:59 i noticed but my plate is friggn full ATM :( 16:35:22 I will probably submit a talk about PostfixAdmin. 16:35:22 cboltz: do you have time to gather talks maybe? 16:35:35 time? never ;-) 16:36:15 would you do it anyway? ;) 16:36:39 my problem is to find _topics_ people could talk about 16:37:23 maybe there's even something that would be a good (and openSUSE-related) topic I could talk about, but sometimes I need someone to say "hey, topic XY would be interesting" ;-) 16:37:25 whats the problem with that? 16:37:52 I'd say a "talk wishlist" would be good. 16:38:10 thats the wrong way around imho 16:38:25 but hey sounds like you already have a plan :) 16:38:42 can you take this over? 16:38:50 *puppyeyes* 16:39:01 hehehe 16:39:01 as I said: no time :-( 16:39:05 gah 16:39:12 henne: try *pantsdropping* 16:39:25 no no no it might scare him :) 16:39:34 *lol* 16:39:42 when is linuxtag again? 16:39:59 how about proposing a talk about the collaboration ideas and agreements that will have been decided at fosdem ? 16:40:06 11-14 may 16:40:07 in May I think 16:40:25 the CFP closes end of this month i think 16:40:36 okay 16:40:47 but thats sounds like a good idea 16:40:52 henne: january 25th to be exact 16:41:14 think it's pretty interesting+important to show that we are willing and taking action to collaborate with others 16:41:48 (which we will do :)) 16:41:51 (won't we? :)) 16:42:10 yeah i think that is a really good topic 16:42:42 but we need someone to collect topics and speakers 16:42:53 and kick them in the ass every day to submit their talks... 16:43:09 henne: you're going to fosdem, you'll be in the xdistro room at fosdem, and you're going to linuxtag so.. :) 16:43:10 and help them to write abstracs, bios etc. etc. 16:43:49 gah do you really have to say it like that? ;) 16:44:23 I guess a new thread on opensuse-project@ would be more appropriate 16:44:29 okay i will see if i can find someone 16:44:29 or was there one already? 16:45:01 #action henne find someone to organize our programm for linuxtag or do it himself 16:45:17 Michal forwarded the CfP some days ago to -project, but there wasn't much response 16:45:31 * henne kicks cboltz a.k.a. AIbot 16:45:37 yeah, unsurprisingly.. :\ 16:45:50 well you know how it is 16:45:55 sure 16:46:00 shouting into the forrest doesnt cut trees :) 16:46:06 cutting trees does ;) 16:46:16 ill see what i can do 16:46:18 wow, henne is poet 16:46:30 henne is bloed 16:46:39 * terrorpup did I hear puppyeyes 16:46:43 okay anything else we need to discuss? 16:46:44 any other questions ? 16:47:01 cboltz: you seriously have to do that awesome wine talk again! 16:47:33 cboltz: if not in the programm then on the booth 16:48:03 no other topics or questions? 16:48:05 henne: sounds like a good idea :-) 16:48:21 cboltz: absolutely! 16:49:40 Okay that's it then. If you have more, don't hesitate to bring it up on the appropriate mailinglist. 16:49:45 #info The next project meeting will be in two weeks. Same channel but this time at 12:00 UTC. 16:49:49 Thank you all for participating. Good night and good luck! 16:49:52 #endmeeting