OpenSUSE Community
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What is the community and who is a member of it is a subject already often found on the openSUSE mailing-lists. A true answer is difficult to give. Some people think that anybody using openSUSE is a member of the community. Some others think that to be a member it needs some sort of involvement, subscription to a list, registration as wiki editor through the Novell login... In fact, if you think you are a member, want to be a member, ask if you are a member, then you probably are one :-).
Novell employees work on openSUSE both ways, they are paid to work on certain part of openSUSE, SLED and SLES, but many of them are addicts to Linux, passionate Linux advocates, and they do a lot on their own time. Of course they are members.
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Community Structure
The openSUSE Guiding Principles describe the goals of the openSUSE project and how it is driven. An openSUSE Board consisting of Novell employees and community members was setup to lead the overall project. openSUSE Members are specifically acknowledged contributors who have brought a continued and substantial contribution to the project (browse member list), who enjoy some perks and will elect the next openSUSE board.
The community is organized into many teams that concentrate on different areas of interest within the distribution or the project in general.
Make sure that you visit the How to Participate page.
Community specific wiki pages
Any page author/editor is de facto a community member, so any wiki page is done by the community.
However some pages are more specially aimed to the community interaction.
- Wishlists
- Tasks the community should like to see achieved
- Tasks that somebody of the community should drive
The Wiki (the thing you are reading now), is available in many languages, and is continually being translated into many more. Visit the Translation Team to help with this significant task.
openSUSE members location Worldwide
This is a snapshot of the current location map of the openSUSE community. You can also:
People of openSUSE
People of openSUSE is a project which aims to make the people behind the openSUSE project and the distribution more visible.
If you for example always wanted to know what a specific contributer motivates to participate or what he thinks about the future of the openSUSE project and of course if he turns off his computer during a thunderstorm as well as a few more non openSUSE related facts - just go on reading the interviews.
Planet SUSE
Planet SUSE is an insight into the lives of members of the SUSE community, both openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise, what they're working on and what makes them tick.
openSUSE Launch Parties
A current list of all launch parties being held throughout the world. Add yours and enjoy the parties!
Photos / Videos
| If you have photos or videos from an openSUSE event and you use Flickr or YouTube, please consider tagging your photos with opensuse |
Photos on Flickr tagged with:
Video on Youtube tagged with
SUSE specific screenshots, wallpapers and more are also shared on
Motto
Above all, do not forget the basics: Have a lot of fun!
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