Hi,

everybody that I have talked to agrees that the organization of the event has been great. It has been a huge effort and the result has been worth it.

Thank you to everybody that work to make the event happy and thanks Kostas and Stella for leading this collective effort.

On Monday 22 July 2013 10:39:39 Andy Silva wrote:

> Hello my good friends of the community!

>

> Let me be the first one to give a BIG THANK YOU! to all those who

> participated of the first community-organized openSUSE Conference.

> Watching the videos I saw a presentation by Kostas and Stella detailing

> some of the challenges and also the positive things that they

> experienced as they organized this event and boy... that was a lot to

> do! So a big thank you hug to them two and also Carlos Ribeiro. He did a

> splendid job with artwork for the venue.

>

> I believe it is important for the rest of our community to know that

> working like this, with no pay whatsoever, with hours off regular jobs,

> leaving family and friends, just to do work for fun in our community is

> a tough thing and can go unrecognized.

>

> For all of those who sacrificed a little to make the conference possible

>

> clap, clap, clap.

>

> -- Andy (anditosan)

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Agustin Benito Bethencourt

openSUSE Team Lead at SUSE

abebe@suse.com