1. The Community role in openSUSE life-cycle Dinar Valeev Community member

2. © 11/22/2016 Novell Inc. 2 Community structure Users: 2000 of them have signed Guiding Principles Members: 260 approved members Board: The First was appointed by Novell in 2007 The second was elected in 2008

3. © 11/22/2016 Novell Inc. 3 Member Contributions to get a member status: Code and Packaging Wiki Editing Bug reporting Translation Continued User Support via any Communication Medium Giving openSUSE talks/presentations

4. 4 Product life-cycle Testing Ideas Product life-cycle Testing Release

5. Ideas stage

6. 6 features.opensuse.org Testing

7. 7 forums.opensuse.org Testing

8. Testing stage

9. © 11/22/2016 Novell Inc. 9 Testing stage openSUSE Build Service: Have 10000 projects with 60000 packages Community Repositories: Gnome Community repo KDE Community repo KDE3.5 will be created and supported completely by Community Contrib repo: Central, official community repository Translations: lcn/YaST translations Wiki translations

10. Release stage

11. © 11/22/2016 Novell Inc. 1 Release stage Mirrors We have 140 registered mirrors Marketing team Promoting Translation Release parties Spread openSUSE Promo DVD “Spokesperson”

12. © 11/22/2016 Novell Inc. 1212 Summary Ideas release test Community

13. © 11/22/2016 Novell Inc. 1313 End Any questions?

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