Hi! As maybe some of you I was at the FOSDEM too. I hade the pleasure to meet the openSUSE staff and can just say that they are at least as friendly as they are over IRC :). But now enough of the honey, here are some conclusions to the things I heard at the FOSDEM: .) Forums: The never ending story. At the FOSDEM it was announced that there will be an official forum (I hope I can say that here, but as you said it in public at the FOSDEM I assume it is ready to be heard by anyone). Although I'm not too happy with that decision I can somehow understand it, at least it will bring the discussion to a rest (and IMO there wouldn't have been a solution everyone is happy with anyway). The only thing I do not really like is that you told us to host a discussion at our board (suselinuxsupport.de) but then suddenly decided that there will be web-forums - next time maybe tell us straight-forward what is planned :). Anyway that's it from me on topic forums. .) Houghi's XML-Yast repository idea: Unfortunately you weren't there today in the evening when I wanted to talk with you. I think this is actually a great idea, and even though the openSUSE staff is a bit worried about legal issues I think this could be easily done using a YaST module (yes I heard the YaST module tutorial too :)). I think the best way to make this easy to distribute is to let a community member do it and then just include it. The argument that it might be abused for including repositories with illegal content is nonsene IMO - just because it CAN be abused it isn't illegal, because else you wouldn't be able to include webbrowser too, since those can be used for downloading illegal software too :). For those who weren't there at the FOSDEM and have no clue what I'm talking about - don't worry houghi will setup a wiki page soon :). .) Build-Service: I think the build service is definately a great idea . I was really impressed by what it can do so far - but yet there is more to come :). For me as a software developer this will definately help to provide more up to date RPMs for various distributions. Here is my only comment: keep up the great work and gimme an account to start producing RPMs :). .) General comment: actually all talks were really great, the content was well selected and there was almost no boring talk to here - next time just don't be that nervous - we won't bite you - there is really no need to be nervous :) Right now I can't think of anything else to comment on :). Special thanks also go to Pascal, he was always very friendly and helpful - yes and of course to the openSUSE staff - who made the FOSDEM weekend really a very nice experience for me :). Mfg, Wolfgang Koller alias Viras PS: I'm an Admin at suselinuxsupport.de, I mention that so that I don't get flamed :) -- Nothing than Linux counts http://wiki.suselinuxsupport.de/ http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/