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Alan Clark

28 Apr 2011 28 Apr '11

17:13

Planning has begun for this years openSUSE conference. Though a date hasn't been confirmed, there is still much to do and preparations that can be made. We really want to include as many community members as possible in the conference preparations, in leading the presentations and participating at the event. At last weeks program committee meeting, it was determined that the conference needs to build and strengthen our community as well as invite collaboration with other people and projects. To best accomplish this it is critical that the conference focus on topic areas that are of most interest to you, and so we are asking for your input. We, as the program committee, are reaching out to ask for your input to 2 questions: 1) What do you consider to be the top two or three current or upcoming topics, (e.g. in terms of technology major undertakings and tasks) that need to be addressed soon, and where one or more sessions during the conference could be helpful for collective brainstorming 2) To engender collaboration with the openSUSE.org project, who are the top two or three people/projects from outside of openSUSE.org that should be invited to the conference for close collaboration? To join the preparations and to stay apprised of the latest plans, contribute at: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_Planning_2011 regards, openSUSE Conference Program Committee -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org

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Kostas Koudaras

29 Apr 29 Apr

05:45

2011/4/28 Alan Clark :

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Planning has begun for this years openSUSE conference. Though a date hasn't been confirmed, there is still much to do and preparations that can be made.

We really want to include as many community members as possible in the conference preparations, in leading the presentations and participating at the event. At last weeks program committee meeting, it was determined that the conference needs to build and strengthen our community as well as invite collaboration with other people and projects. To best accomplish this it is critical that the conference focus on topic areas that are of most interest to you, and so we are asking for your input.

We, as the program committee, are reaching out to ask for your input to 2 questions:

1) What do you consider to be the top two or three current or upcoming topics, (e.g. in terms of technology major undertakings and tasks) that need to be addressed soon, and where one or more sessions during the conference could be helpful for collective brainstorming

If I understood right what you are saying I would say -Organizing Communities -Making and recruiting Contributors

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2) To engender collaboration with the openSUSE.org project, who are the top two or three people/projects from outside of openSUSE.org that should be invited to the conference for close collaboration?

I would have said KDE people and Gnome people but those will be there anyway ;-) so I am thinking a bit more outside the box and say to bring people from smaller projects such as Enlightenment(E17) and LXDE and see how we can work with them since extra light GUI's are interesting and I had many conversations about them the last few months, their development seems to attract some users and some developers. Also I would like to see Fedora/Debian/Ubuntu/Madriva(or Mageia) and last but not least Slackware people. That's it from me.

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To join the preparations and to stay apprised of the latest plans, contribute at: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_Planning_2011

regards, openSUSE Conference Program Committee

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jdd

07:46

Le 29/04/2011 07:45, Kostas Koudaras a écrit :

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If I understood right what you are saying I would say -Organizing Communities -Making and recruiting Contributors

may be: becoming really international. How to support foreign ambassadors (by foreign I mean non german and non english speaking) - non european could be sponsored to come or some similar event be programmed outside of Europe (India?)

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Also I would like to see Fedora/Debian/Ubuntu/Madriva(or Mageia) and last but not least Slackware people.

Mozilla? Libreoffice? jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.youtube.com/user/jdddodinorg http://jdd.blip.tv/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org

Kostas Koudaras

09:09

2011/4/29 jdd :

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Le 29/04/2011 07:45, Kostas Koudaras a écrit :

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If I understood right what you are saying I would say -Organizing Communities -Making and recruiting Contributors

may be: becoming really international. How to support foreign ambassadors (by foreign I mean non german and non english speaking) - non european could be sponsored to come or some similar event be programmed outside of Europe (India?)

...
Also I would like to see Fedora/Debian/Ubuntu/Madriva(or Mageia) and last but not least Slackware people.

Mozilla? Libreoffice?

Recommend your own stuff ;-) I am just saying what I would like to see :-)

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jdd

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Diomidis Anadiotis

09:14

I think that Indian, Indonesian etc. ambassadors who cannot afford a trip to Germany, should be financially sponsored to join the conference. This would be a huge WIN for our global community. -Diomidis Anadiotis- openSUSE Ambassador IRC: diomidis@freenode PGP KEY: 0x998EC388 http://www.twitter.com/kandinskyboy On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Kostas Koudaras wrote:

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2011/4/29 jdd :

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Le 29/04/2011 07:45, Kostas Koudaras a écrit :

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If I understood right what you are saying I would say -Organizing Communities -Making and recruiting Contributors

may be: becoming really international. How to support foreign ambassadors (by foreign I mean non german and non english speaking) - non european could be sponsored to come or some similar event be programmed outside of Europe (India?)

...
Also I would like to see Fedora/Debian/Ubuntu/Madriva(or Mageia) and last but not least Slackware people.

Mozilla? Libreoffice?

Recommend your own stuff ;-) I am just saying what I would like to see :-)

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jdd

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Jos Poortvliet

12:36

On 2011-04-29 Diomidis wrote:

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I think that Indian, Indonesian etc. ambassadors who cannot afford a trip to Germany, should be financially sponsored to join the conference. This would be a huge WIN for our global community.

That is certainly on the agenda. We'll do what we can to find as many sponsors as possible - without additional sponsors (besides Attachmate) it will be difficult to do this. So if anyone has good ideas on that, has contacts etc - let Izabel and me know in a private mail.

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-Diomidis Anadiotis- openSUSE Ambassador IRC: diomidis@freenode PGP KEY: 0x998EC388 http://www.twitter.com/kandinskyboy

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Kostas Koudaras wrote:

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2011/4/29 jdd :

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Le 29/04/2011 07:45, Kostas Koudaras a écrit :

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If I understood right what you are saying I would say -Organizing Communities -Making and recruiting Contributors

may be: becoming really international. How to support foreign ambassadors (by foreign I mean non german and non english speaking) - non european could be sponsored to come or some similar event be programmed outside of Europe (India?)

...
Also I would like to see Fedora/Debian/Ubuntu/Madriva(or Mageia) and last but not least Slackware people.

Mozilla? Libreoffice?

Recommend your own stuff ;-) I am just saying what I would like to see :-)

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jdd

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Jos Poortvliet

12:37

On 2011-04-29 Kostas wrote:

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2011/4/28 Alan Clark :

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Planning has begun for this years openSUSE conference. Though a date hasn't been confirmed, there is still much to do and preparations that can be made.

We really want to include as many community members as possible in the conference preparations, in leading the presentations and participating at the event. At last weeks program committee meeting, it was determined that the conference needs to build and strengthen our community as well as invite collaboration with other people and projects. To best accomplish this it is critical that the conference focus on topic areas that are of most interest to you, and so we are asking for your input.

We, as the program committee, are reaching out to ask for your input to 2 questions:

1) What do you consider to be the top two or three current or upcoming topics, (e.g. in terms of technology major undertakings and tasks) that need to be addressed soon, and where one or more sessions during the conference could be helpful for collective brainstorming

If I understood right what you are saying I would say -Organizing Communities -Making and recruiting Contributors

...
2) To engender collaboration with the openSUSE.org project, who are the top two or three people/projects from outside of openSUSE.org that should be invited to the conference for close collaboration?

I would have said KDE people and Gnome people but those will be there anyway ;-) so I am thinking a bit more outside the box and say to bring people from smaller projects such as Enlightenment(E17) and LXDE and see how we can work with them since extra light GUI's are interesting and I had many conversations about them the last few months, their development seems to attract some users and some developers.

Also I would like to see Fedora/Debian/Ubuntu/Madriva(or Mageia) and last but not least Slackware people.

If possible, try to let us also know what it is what you expect from them being there. It is awesome to have slackware people at the oSC - but other than having another opportunity to drink beer with patrick, what exactly do you hope to accomplish? Having them there for the sake of it - ?!?

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That's it from me.

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To join the preparations and to stay apprised of the latest plans, contribute at: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_Planning_2011

regards, openSUSE Conference Program Committee

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Kostas Koudaras

Robert Schweikert

13:14

On 04/28/2011 01:13 PM, Alan Clark wrote:

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Planning has begun for this years openSUSE conference. Though a date hasn't been confirmed, there is still much to do and preparations that can be made.

We really want to include as many community members as possible in the conference preparations, in leading the presentations and participating at the event. At last weeks program committee meeting, it was determined that the conference needs to build and strengthen our community as well as invite collaboration with other people and projects. To best accomplish this it is critical that the conference focus on topic areas that are of most interest to you, and so we are asking for your input.

We, as the program committee, are reaching out to ask for your input to 2 questions:

1) What do you consider to be the top two or three current

A current topic from my point of view is, yes I know it is over hyped but I have to say it, Cloud. Also mobile devices and small screens (we still have some issues on Netbooks.

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or upcoming topics,

In the current and upcoming topics overlap regions I would consider multitouch (touchpad and touch screen). And now I have to stray off topic, well somewhat off topic. In order to attract new members to the community it would be nice to have an "openSUSE 101" track that covers project at a high level, teaches about packaging, the build service, etc. Basically, a getting started guide plus maybe some intermediate to advanced stuff. My $0.02 Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead rschweikert@novell.com rschweikert@ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org

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