June 2011 - openSUSE Ambassadors - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Report from EL/LAK Conference (Thessaloniki)
by Thanasis Rous 09 Jun '11

09 Jun '11

Report from EL/LAK Conference (Thessaloniki,Greece,22/05/2011) As an openSUSE Ambassador, I 'm very happy to report for another time what took place in the conference. So the conference lasted 1 day The Day : Booth and Presentation We set up the booth as an openSUSE Community. All the related stuff (about Medical and openSUSE) was available around the booth. Furthermore me and Stathis Iosifidis informed people about the openSUSE Project and openSUSE Medical Project as well as the applications which are available via the openSUSE Medical Distro. Efstathios Agrapidis also made an introductory presentation about OBS. The presentation rolled out smoothly. Although there wasn't enough time to answer questions, the audience showed their interest by coming later to the booth asking for more details; not only about the platform and the infrastracture itself, but also about packaging generally. I would like to note that we informed the people about: * openEMR * GNUMed * FreeMedForms * FreeDiams * TEMPO * Plasmoid Glucose Booth helpers : Efstathios Agrapidis, Vasilis openSUSE Ambassadors : Rousinopoulos Athanasios-Ilias , Efstathios Iosifidis Presentations : Efstathios Agrapidis ("Introduction to OBS") * Event Details : 22 Μαΐου 2011 Q : How many DVDs taken and distributed? A: About 75 DVDs. We also used the file Greek help flyer Q:Would you go again? A:Yes of course! You can take a look at the photos of the conference and the booth as well : 1) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28782593/ELLAK/DSCN1418.JPG 2) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28782593/ELLAK/DSCN1419.JPG 3) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28782593/ELLAK/DSCN1420.JPG 4) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28782593/ELLAK/DSCN1421.JPG 5) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28782593/ELLAK/DSCN1423.JPG 6) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28782593/ELLAK/DSCN1427.JPG 7) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28782593/ELLAK/DSCN1433.JPG 8) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28782593/ELLAK/DSCN1444.JPG 9) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28782593/ELLAK/DSCN1445.JPG 10) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28782593/ELLAK/DSCN1446.JPG 11) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28782593/ELLAK/DSCN1448.JPG Also you can download the presentation here: 1) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28782593/OBS.pdf Have a lot of fun and enjoy openSUSE! -- Rousinopoulos Athanasios-Ilias -- About Me-- http://zoumpis.wordpress.com http://www.zoumpis.eu http://en.opensuse.org/User:Zoumpis -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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[openSUSE-ambassadors] Event Report from Taiwan
by Max 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

Dear ALL: First, I am very happy to meet openSUSE guys in India ( GNOME.Asia 2011) ^___^ I upload some pictures at flickr ( http://www.flickr.com/groups/opensuse/pool/page2/ ) I am sorry about I didn't write any report to you. Orz............ At GNOME.Asia 2011, we use GNOME3 with openSUSE iso ( http://www.gnome3.org/tryit.html ), and isohybird command to create usb linux for people. Just two simple steps. Step 1: # isohybrid xxxopenSUSExxx.iso ( isohybird command is include in syslinux package) Step2: # cat xxxxopenSUSExxx.iso > /dev/sdx ( /dev/sdx is the usb device) ----------------------- May ---------------------------------- I teach my student openSUSE linux and use some open source application this year. At Ming Chi University of Technology ( http://english.mcut.edu.tw/onweb.jsp?webno=3333333330 ) They love to use openSUSE at all. ^__^ ( Maybe in the course ) We had two seminar at 2 different college. Ling Tung University ( http://webov.ltu.edu.tw/Eng_Ltu/ ) and National Formosa University ( http://www.nfu.edu.tw/main.php ) About " SUSEStudio " and "Nagios with openSUSE" And they got openSUSE DVD for their teacher and students. They really want to learn more with openSUSE and freeware. Write an article "openSUSE and Hadoop" with Linux Pilot Magazine in May It's a paper magazine in Hongkong, China, and Taiwan http://www.linuxpilot.com/issue/102 Thanks openSUSE, thanks Jos, thanks every Ambassador. And I just got some openSUSE DVD with GNOME 3 ^__________^ I will use it to promote openSUSE and GNOME Sorry, I am not a good ambassador, I am not write a good report XD Best regards Max -- _/_/ openSUSE Ambassador - Taiwan _/_/ _/_/ Weekly News Team _/_/ _/_/ mail: sakanamax_at_gmail.com _/_/ _/_/ twitter: sakanamax _/_/ _/_/ nickname: sakana _/_/ -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Announcement of openSUSE Medical 11.4
by Thanasis Rous 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

Hello mates! I'm very happy to announce the openSUSE Medical 11.4 release! 1) What is openSUSE Medical Project? * The openSUSE Medical project supports the use of openSUSE in doctor's practices and other clinical environments. We try to collect and update software. As base for packaging we use: List of Open Source Healthcare Software List. After we have packaged enough software we will try to create an openSUSE based Distribution out of it. 2) Where can i find more info about the project? * http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Medical 3) What's new in this release? openSUSE 11.4 Repositories : *openSUSE 11.4 Updates remove *openSUSE 11.4 OSS, *education 11.4, *Nvidia 11.4, *Libre Office Stable 11.4, *11.4 Wireless, *Medical 11.4, *non-ossd 4) New features that will impress you! 5) Where can i download it ? * http://susegallery.com/a/UbPYJM/opensuse-medical-114 Also available at : OVF image , VMware Image , Live CD/DVD 6) Ok , i would like to make some comments or contribute in the project , what do i have to do? Comments are great, you can sent us with an Email to: opensuse-medical(a)opensuse.org. If this don’t run directly, then you must subscribe the List (mail to opensuse-medical+subscribe(a)opensuse.org) Feel free to express your opinion! Have a lot of fun! Rousinopoulos Athanasios-Ilias -- Rousinopoulos Athanasios-Ilias -- About Me-- http://zoumpis.wordpress.com http://www.zoumpis.eu http://en.opensuse.org/User:Zoumpis -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Late report - FLISoL, Santiago de Chile.
by Ricardo Varas Santana 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

Event Date: 30/04/2011 (heck, I know!) Event Sponsors: Ministerio Secretaría General de Gobierno; Desarrollo digital del Ministerio de Economía; CORFO, Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos; Colegio de Profesores; Universidad de Chile, and Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM). openSUSE Ambassadors: Ricardo Varas Santana. Helpers: n/a. Event Details ========= -Tell us about the event, What did you do? I got to talk about the openSUSE Project in one of the offical talks. Official name was "openSUSE, Linux in Green and for all". So I talked about how to contribute to openSUSE from a non-developer point of view, showing how the community is organized and how cool it is to be part of it. Also pointed out about the SUSE Studio and Build Service platforms. -How many DVDs taken and distributed? I used old 11.3 DVDs and T-shirts I had from back then, so it was around 400 units of DVDs, plus 5 t-shirts. -How many people were there at the event? Out there over 1000 people the whole day for many talks at the same time, I just stayed half of it. Sadly, only 12-15 were in my talk. Not looking for cheap excuses, but room location was not very accessible, first round in the morning, install-fest going on, etc. That was not good at all. -How did you promote the Event? I used mostly Twitter and Facebook. -Any Interesting Story you will like to share with us? Met 12 years old kid who wanted to install and try openSUSE. He was very enthusiastic about that, didn't care to delete the whole Ubuntu system :). He had excellent Linux skills, already knew about partitions, a few shell commands, software for specific tasks, etc. We had problems with the wifi drivers, and then added the proper repos and problems fixed. That was awesome to him. Anyway, his father promised to get me a beer for the time installing and setting up the new openSUSE powered system. Hell yeah! :) -Did you have a booth? Nop. -Who staffed the booth? n/a -Would you go again? Definitely. -What more can you do to make it better? Well, I was not organizing it, but here are my 2 cents. Event did not start on time, and there was a sort of miss-information about the rooms/talks/time, so I guess that is one of the strongest reasons for having low number of people attending the talk. I wish there were more Ambassadors/Members around so we can show openSUSE's power in a massive way. -Other Comments like Will you blog about the event - and where? Who staffed the booth? Did you have a talk? Which topic? Would you organize again? I didn't have the time to blog about it, it's been almost crazy at work --that is a lot of tickets to fix--, but I managed to put together a lot of information about the openSUSE Project myself, and you know, it's never easy to make it fit within an hour of time. Most of the people in the room did not know about SUSE Studio, and they were less curious about the Build Service, as the audience was not coming from a technical background pretty much. They asked a lot about the SUSE Studio, things like ways to customize it, details about the final output for the appliances, how free it is to use, etc. Then questions about the openSUSE-Educational spin, and how easy it is to set up a development environment. I walked down to the install-fest, saw a lot of people taking one of our DVDs, and they looked amazed when I pointed out it's 32bits on one side and 64bits on the other. I don't think there is any other Linux distro providing that coolness. Again, they asked me about the differences between us and Ubuntu, or why they should pick up openSUSE instead of Fedora, differences between SLEx and openSUSE, hardware compatibility, multimedia drivers, and so on. It was a lot of fun to share time with people in the install-fest area. I wish we had an openSUSE stand. I hope this report is OK, I don’t think I am too good at it, so next time it will be better. Regards everyone! -- Ricardo Varas Santana openSUSE Member, Ambassador, and Translator. http://ricardovs.wordpress.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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