Hi Andrew, Thanks for subscribing, great to have you on the list! :-)
I appreciate I have already asked the question on IRC in the past about openSUSE and LRL UK'08[0], but there were no real responses (I'm not complaining much, honest). After a fairly healthy discussion on #opensuse-project last night about an openSUSE Conference the idea of holding some un-meetings before any such event was thought to be a good idea.
Sorry, I thought we'd reached an outcome on that -- basically, after attending LRL U.S., my take was that it was a fun show, but the turnout didn't really justify the expense of sending staff + swag to the show.
Now I know LRL isn't necessarily the best of breed in OSS conferences, but one thing that it does have in it's favour is the relaxed manner of the event. As such I think it would be a missed opportunity if openSUSE was unable to have some form of presence there, and we could try and have an un-meeting there at the same time - even if it was done as an official BoF session. There are many members of different communities from distros (not just Ubuntu) to hardware hackers and anything in between, an ideal ground for showing Green really is the new Brown :)
Nice slogan. ;-) I'd be happy to support you (or any other local openSUSE folks) if you want to run a community openSUSE booth at LRL UK, but it's not on the list of shows in our budget for this year.
I have already mentioned in the past that I am attending and would be more than happy to help with a booth or anything else required. Attendance is in the region of 200 people so not a huge event but still one that hits a large audience through the podcast[1] and fanboys.
So, if you want to set up a booth and whatnot, let me know, and we'll work out arrangements to get one of the openSUSE banners there and some DVDs + swag to hand out. They're also still looking for speakers, so if you want to do an openSUSE talk I'd be happy to help prepare a presentation if you need it -- we need to create a set of slides for the community to use for openSUSE presentations anyway, so this might be a good first opportunity to do it. What do you think? Best, Zonker -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org