Community Week

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Community Week

Our community week has the purpose to get people together at the same time to focus on a certain topic and especially to transfer knowledge around openSUSE to enlarge teams. The idea behind is to cover each day a different topic to empower ourselves as a community by broadening our knowledge. The idea is not only to be available to discuss certain topics the idea really is to teach people how to do things. It might be a good idea to tutor 3 times a day (to cover all time zones) a topic. Therfore each owner of a topic should do some preparation in advance, eg. set up a wiki page, creation of a screencast.

Don't be afraid to attend even if you don't know a particular subject.  The purpose of hack week isn't to just to fix/clean up existing stuff,

GNOME

Here's a list of activities that the GNOME team could help organize. Note that those ideas haven't been validated.

• Create packages for GNOME applications and push them to Contrib
• Clean up GNOME-related bugs in bugzilla, and forward relevant bugs upstream
• Tag patches in the packages, and make sure they're forwarded upstream
• Create a new "About openSUSE" application (or help document) that would replace greeter

Packaging

• How to do packaging right
• Tips and tricks
• Package maintainership

Testing/QA

• How to get started with testing
• From test case to bug report

Translation

• Maintaining translation memories
• Updating translation template files (POT) and merging with translation message files (PO).
• Packaging translation files
  • YaST
  • Desktop components
  • Third party or upstream software packages

Features

• How to use openFate
• openSUSE 11.2 feature focus

wiki clean up

• get some more structure in the wiki
• find the good stuff in the wiki nobody knows about but should

openSUSE Board

• where is the project moving to
• what's wrong, what's missing

Miscellanous

Ideas from the Czech Packagers team

• openSUSE BuildService cleaning event
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2009-01/msg00344.html
• http://en.opensuse.org/BrainStorming_Prague#Mess_in_the_available_packages

Organization

• http://en.opensuse.org/CommunityWeek

• Countdown banner for openSUSE Community Week (by HeliosReds)

 How about creating a countdown banner for openSUSE Comminity Week as
 we did for the release of 11.1. I don't know exactly how I can create such a banner, 
 but IIRC, Pascal created the one for the release of 11.1. If we have such a countdown
 banner, don't you think we can spread the word all over the web with it ?

• Community "theme" or "slogan" for 11.2 contest (by HeliosReds)

 As I posted to -marketing list in past times, how about organizing the
 contest for 'Community "theme" or "slogan" for 11.2' during the
 openSUSE Community week ?
 http://lists.opensuse.org/archive/opensuse-marketing/2009-02/msg00010.html