That's very cool. On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:49 PM, James Mason <[email protected]> wrote: > I sent this out to the rest of the studio dev team. I'll update > everyone of what we get done. As of now, it looks like we'll be able > to have 11.4 support on release day; we're just having 1 issue with > Kiwi we need to wrap up in the next day or so to make it happen. > > - James Mason 'bear454' > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: James Mason <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:30 PM > Subject: Ask not what your distro can do for you... > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > > > Last week was the openSUSE Hackfest[1], and among the discussions was > some brainstorming on how Studio could cooperate to promote the 11.4 > release. > > Release day is a big deal for openSUSE: it's one of the few events that > the media in general will take notice of. We should help openSUSE make > the best of that by doing what we can for release day ( Thursday, March > 10 ), and help ourselves by taking advantage of the extra interest > generated that day :) > > First and foremost, is to support creating 11.4 appliances, and > upgrading of existing appliances to 11.4. > > Additionally, we have some great opportunities to build a base of 11.4 > appliances to work from. openSUSE offers 'Live' desktop CDs for both > GNOME & KDE, and the community provides additional ones for LXDE & XFCE. > These are build in OBS using kiwi recipes. We could provide additional > formats for these live desktops as 'official' openSUSE builds, simply by > importing the kiwi config and sharing the built appliances. That would > give openSUSE the ability to share not just Live CDs, but Live versions > of all the formats, which many users (and especially reviewers) prefer, > as they will be virtualizing instead of doing full installs for the > short term. > > Another opportunity, the one I am most excited about, would be to finish > the Turnkey Linux appliance set we started during our last Appliance > HackWeek. Andy Fitzsimon has built a substantial repository of > consistent, beautiful icons for these appliances[2]. All we need to do > is upgrade the existing set of appliances, and provide some method of > accessing the set (a tag, or making them all featured, etc.) This is an > elegant way to show not only the flexibility of openSUSE, but to > highlight how Studio enhances that. > > I look forward to hearing everyone's thoughts & additional suggestions. > > [1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:11.4_Marketing_Hackfest > [2] http://paste.opensuse.org/37877314 > > -- > James Mason, 'bear454' > SUSE Studio Developer > Novell > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
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