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Welcome to the Portal:Weekly news Portal edit

The openSUSE Weekly News are the newsletter of and for the openSUSE community. The aim of the newsletter is to summarize everything that is happening in and around the openSUSE Community. Recurring topics include announcements, tips and tricks, event and meetings, statistics and much, much more! It is edited by the Chief Editors, Editors, Authors and Translators which form the Weekly News Team. Of course with input on the individual topics by a wide range of experts from the community.

Topics edit

Read It

The current issue you always find at news.opensuse.org
Older issues are in our Archive at https://en.opensuse.org/Category:Weekly_news_issues
Other Outputformats of the Weekly News you can find there
Project is moved to BerliOS
How to contribute
Permissions for OWN

Documentation

There is a check-list of things to do before and after releasing an issue on Weekly news checklist
The Weekly news guidelines explain what to submit and how to write it in the newsletter.
The Weekly News are translated into many languages. How is explained in the Weekly news translation guidelines
You can have a look at the Weekly news FAQ.

Team

Head over to the Weekly news team page with information about who they are and how to contact them.

Email: news@opensuse.org

You can also submit news in our Facebook-Site.

Frequently Asked Questions edit

Wiki-Editing

The Newsletter is written in the openSUSE wiki. Its a Mediawiki, check out Help:Editing for further help. To be able to write to openSUSE.org's wiki, you need to have/register for a novell-account.

Newsletter

The Weekly Newsletter is being drafted all week long on the next issue's page. If you have a wiki account, you can just edit it directly. Fix a type, put in a link or a complete article. All submissions are welcome - we're not google, so we don't notice all interesting stuff ;) .

Schedule

The current schedule is:

OpenSUSE Weekly News Publishing Plan
What	Description
Deadline for adding News:	Sat 10h UTC
Weekly News team meeting:	biweekly: Sat 14:30h UTC
Translations:	Saturday after Publishemail without Deadline
Announcement:	Saturday 12h UTC
	Localized annoucements follow as needed.

Translations

To synchronize our translations work, we use a "whats ready" table. And we've created a tool to make translating a bit easier. The tool is able to import the raw English newsletter code and translate predefined strings (e.g. headings or static content) into the desired language. Learn more on the openSUSE:Weekly news translation guidelines.