Monthly Archives: September 2008

openSUSE IRC – Mailing list & Bot

There is a new mailing list for operators on the openSUSE IRC channels – ircops at opensuse dot org.
If you have any queries, suggestions, or complaints regarding an openSUSE IRC channel, please email the list, supplying relevant log excerpts.
For reference, the IRC rules are located on the opensuse-community wiki..
If you are an operator on [...]

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Hackweek – Software Portal

Most of the time that I was able to spend actually hacking during hackweek I spent working on the software portal. It was very helpful to be able to discuss issues with Pascal in person.
The software portal project aims to expose the software available for openSUSE and other linux distributions to users as “Applications” rather [...]

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Hackweek Summary & New Blog

Having now left the University of Warwick, I have lost access to my Warwick hosted blog. So I will now be hosting it myself at http://benjiweber.co.uk/blog.
Last week was hackweek at Novell – during which Novell developers get to work full time on their own personal projects. Novell were kind enough to sponsor several openSUSE community [...]

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