Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (502 mails)

[Klaas Freitag <freitag@xxxxxxx>]

Am Freitag, 8. April 2011, 07:59:03 schrieb Pascal Bleser:
> On 2011-04-08 10:23:51 (+1000), Helen South <helen.south@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> > > Theme:
> > > What should be the theme of this year's conference?  In yesterday's
> > > Project meeting on IRC it was expressed that we've already succeeded in
> > > using the collaboration theme and we should look beyond that for this
> > > coming event.
> >
> > Perhaps it would be useful to return to an openSUSE-Centric theme and
> > look at ways to strengthen openSUSE itself - find our unique qualities
> > and tools and build on them. Also to identify weaknesses and target
> > those. And looking at fundamentals of user experience, stability,
> > security, integration, QA.  Sometimes this stuff isn't as cool and
> > funky as playing with new technologies, but like in good health, you
> > can't neglect your basic diet and exercise!
>
> Couldn't agree more.
I can see the reasoning.

> I'm the last one to complain about collaboration (I'm one of the
> organizers of FOSDEM and I'm the one who kickstarted the
> Cross-Distribution miniconference there after all ;)),
> especially across distributions, but I also believe that we need
> to keep a larger share of the time at the conference to
> concentrate on our own issues and initiatives.
>
> Isn't it a good occasion to present all our current projects and
> discuss them with peers, in order to
> 1) let the community (-> slideshare ;)) know what we're doing
> 2) collect some ideas, opinions and feedback
> ?
>
> Bretzn/appstream, connect, Build Service, webpin2, WebYast,
> zypp, security, marketing, ambassadors, tumbleweed, evergreen,
> studio, maintenance, factory, ... and that's really just off the
> top of my head in a couple of seconds.
>
> How about taking more time for those topics, time to present but
> also time to discuss, brainstorm, and potentially win active
> contributors for those projects.
Ok, good points. I agree. The only issue I see is to get new people
in. If we do the conference too much centric around ourselfes (which
is NOT what you suggest, I know that) no new people will show up and
we end up entertaining ourselfes. Given that our community has grown
already that would'nt be bad actually. And I am convinced that if we
do it smart, we can manage to talk about our backyard and make it 
attractive to new enthusiasts. I think that requires some self confidence
but this thread is a sign that we have it. Great.

> Make some tracks around our own projects.
I mean, we had that last year as well, but obviously from another
perspective.
> Or, to put it differently: more of a read/write conference than
> a read-only one.
Yeah, thats convincing :-)
 
> Theme: "rwxrwxrwx" (read, write and execute for the owner, the
> group, and the world ;))
I like that very much. I would support that, even though that needs some
explanation for 'outsiders', but that can be done.

regards,

Klaas
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