European Wafaa

Ok so I've finally pulled a finger out and created the .ymp files for 1-Click installation of all the packages in my repo (This only works for openSUSE 10.2 and 10.3, and yes I do recommend you switch to 10.3 ;-p ). Many thanks go to cyberorg for helping me find my typo. So with a single click you can install:

openSUSE 10.2
Bongo


Bongo-UNSTABLE


Midgard


tvgrabau


openSUSE 10.3
Bongo


Bongo-UNSTABLE


Cheese


Midgard


tvgrabau


Enjoy the single life

The boys and girls (pretty much all the former, but that needs to change) of the Bongo Project would like to remind all usability/graphic gurus and also all those interested in having a swish, usable, integrated mail and calendar server that there is a meeting to address some issues with the web UI (codenamed Dragonfly) this Friday. Some people can't make it, but most people can.






You can see some more screenshots here

It will be a somewhat informal discussion to reflect the fact that some people will be able to come earlier, some later, and some not at all. Basically, it will be a public discussion forum and then a summary of the discussion will be posted to the Developers mailinglist and hopefully there will be some good consensus about where the project is going to go.

So the details you need to put in your PIM are:
Friday 5th October, 09:00 UTC onwards on #bongo on irc.oftc.net

Alex (the great Moo) has written some brief notes about the main problems that he would like addressed here, if you think of anything else please add them. Here is a brief synopsis:

*Making sure the experience is reasonably quick, and usable over https
*Making sure the UI is reliable, handles errors gracefully and is trustworthy
*Having a decent base on which to build the various features we want to add
*Having a reasonable plugin system

It would also be handy to have a good vision for how calendars/events can be shared with people not on your Bongo system; there are ideas and thoughts , but there isn't much of a plan to get there.

So please, come if you can and do tell your friends if you think they'll be interested and can help. Actually just come over anyway as I'm susre you can help - kick the tyres, look under the bonnet/hood, hack on code etc

Ok so openSUSE 10.3 is being released today "Hoohaa" (In my best Al Pacino accent)

As always with almost anything that Novell is involved in nowadays there is a huge fog of FUD that lingers around like a fart in a steam room. For those involved in openSUSE and Novell I would imagine it is pretty annoying, I find it infuriating and I'm just a member of the community trying to contribute. For those that have a grudge against Novell take it up with them through the proper channels, DO NOT attack the openSUSE community in an infantile manner. Doing so only damages your credibility and also damages the greater Linux and Open Source community.

If you want to make claims, please do back them up with genuine information - not "i heard from Suzie's boyfriend's cousin's parrot that XYZ" etc. If you provide proof of your claims then you will hold a damn site more credibility. I'm not going to advertise which FUD sites are culprits, they're in the IRC logs. Novell and openSUSE must be doing something right otherwise these ignorant people wouldn't bother with the crud and polluting the ether. I would like to applaud and thank all the openSUSE and Novell guys and girls for what will be an excellent release and for making my life in computing enjoyable, involving and educational.

Oh and by the way Roy, KISS MY ARSE!!

After creating the tvgrabau packages and also enabling the 1-Click install feature for halex, he told me this morning that he has created a Tango styled button (actually quite a few buttons).

They are:

Aluminium SVG


Butter SVG


Chameleon SVG


Chocolate SVG


Orange SVG


Plum SVG


Scarlet Red SVG


Sky Blue SVG


You can get the svg files from here. Many thanks to halex for the great job. Please let us know your thoughts/preferences etc here, they can be improved with your help. Enjoy

UPDATE: Added SVG files to mirror Alex's

M3 is on its way hooray! Unfortunately I have some dampening news boo!

As I have just moved house, good old BT are unable to organise a piss up in a brewery, let alone a phone line for me to get my DSL service. As such I'm unable to package the new releases - sorry folks, but blame BT not me. This is also the reason why I can't jump onto IRC (damn firewalls at work)

I'm hoping to get connected in time for the official 0.3.0 release, but until then you'll have to make do with the tarballs provided, or the soon to be announced rPath appliances (great job LanceHaig and SM2K btw).

The Bongo Bugle is also long overdue for an issue (sorry), this will also hopefully coincide with the release of M3. If I could ask you, the great community, to post any comments to this post for items you would like to see in the Bugle and also if you would like to help on the publication. This is a great way for people to be involved in the project that would like to contribute, but like me, know very little code I'm hoping to move the Bugle to a dedicated site so that better involvement with the community can be achieved.

Till next time, please take this lovely new sports car out for a spin and thrash the engine, any damage is at your own risk but we will help you fix it

I now have a connection to the great wide ether, hoorah, only taken two months of harassing BT and the buggers charged me GBP125 for the privilege!

First thing I need to do is apologise to both Planet Bongo and Planet SUSE for my double post - I blame it on BT. Sorry for that.

I will now start in earnest to get back upto speed with both packaging and general community work.