December 2012 - openSUSE Ambassadors - openSUSE Mailing Lists

help improve our event list for 2013!
by Jos Poortvliet 02 Jan '13

02 Jan '13

Hi, I'm working to create a list of events around the world that openSUSE might (want to) go to - with associated info like size and target audience. This will help us decide where to send materials and/or people to. And now I need your help... You're the people who go to events, so if we're going to make a list and decide how to support them and how important they are, we need to hear from you! Please, open the google spreadsheet if you can, and spend a little time to add information about events I've forgotten or correct what I have. The ones with green are ones I know are properly in there, the ones with red really need some input - the ones without a color I'm unsure about. If you know about an event and can add the info, make it green - so others don't spend brain cells on it ;-) The numbers mean: how likely are you to talk to (1=very unlikely - 5=very likely): * Business people * Developers * Students * Average users * FOSS knowledge = do the people know what the 'Free' in 'Free Software means (like they do at a GNOME hackfest for example, score 5) or do they have no clue (at a generic tech event, score 1) * How likely are you to bump into international folks (1 = the website is only in $local language - 5 = everyone speaks English and comes from 5 continents at once) * How technical are the sessions (1 = how to use LibreOffice - 5 = kernel drivers are easy) I hope you have some time for this!! If events are missing, please add them. Even if you don't have all the details - the more we have, the better. If I forgot someone who knows many events and might want to help, please add him/her. The link: http://bit.ly/R0OByW Hugs and lots of thanks, Jos

2 2

SCaLE 11x announcement
by Drew Adams 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

Hey everyone, The 11th annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE 11x), is just around the corner. I have already been in contact with the fine people at SCaLE and secured our booth. They will be getting us our Exhibitor=92s Kit soon enough. I would like to put some feelers out in the community for interested community members that would like to help work the booth. I have informally spoken to a few local people who have expressed a desire to help, but I would like to formalize those discussions by bringing them on-list. Also, I know there has been some ideas tossed about... Ideas like, getting a custom "openSUSE Project" banner, and having some videos looping showing off the different desktops running on 12.2. If we are serious about doing ideas like these, we need to start planning and, more importantly, acting in preparation for SCaLE. SCaLE is going to be on February 22-24, 2013 at the Hilton Los Angeles International Airport Hotel. I am looking forward to working the booth again... I hope we get some new faces working the booth this year too. Join us, we always have a lot of fun! -- Drew Adams Member & Ambassador, openSUSE Project -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+owner(a)opensuse.org

4 9

openSUSE Conference 2013 In Thessaloniki Greece
by Kostas Koudaras 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

We are very happy to inform you that next year’s openSUSE Conference (oSC13), the yearly get together of our community, will happen in July in the beautiful city of Thessaloniki, Greece. oSC13 will bring together a wide variety of Free and Open Source (FOSS) contributors to collaborate on one of the major Linux distribution projects. In exciting talks, workshops and social events our community will bring alive our motto “Have a lot of fun”. See the Promotional video at: http://youtu.be/Eiv4e5ZxTmg or at http://blip.tv/openSUSEtv/geeko-stories-thessaloniki-greece-6470971 Also a presentation about Thessaloniki has been done at openSUSE conference 2012 and you can find this at: http://youtu.be/SmubYI2FpZ0 We are entering the organization phase right now and have not yet settled on an exact date and location but we will let you know, right here on news.opensuse.org, once we have that info. In the meantime how about you help us organize oSC13? We need you at the kick off meeting! To make this the most awesome conference ever, we are looking for people who are willing to help out. We need you! There is a lot of organizing to be done, logos to be drawn, websites to be designed, schedules to be made, hotels to be booked, sponsors to be found and a million of other things you can help with. So to kick off the organization team and to get everyone on the same page we are going to meet this Thursday, December 13th on IRC to discuss what we need to do and how we are going to do it. If you’re looking for a chance to give back to the openSUSE community this is it! When: 2012-12-13 at 15:00 UTC Where: #opensuse-project on the freenode network Who: Everybody who want’s to make oSC13 great If you, for whatever reason, can’t participate but still want to help you should subscribe to our conference mailinglist: opensuse-conference(a)opensuse.org we are going to post meeting minutes there and will use this list to further organize oSC13. Now we would like all of you to go ahaid and spread the word out so if you like go ahaid and spread the word, if you happen to blog about it or if you find any article related to openSUSE Conference 2013 go ahaid and give a link to the connect Group I've created at https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/groups/42396/osc13-the-summer-is-coming/ so that feedback would be available. Let’s get going and make oSC13 in Thessaloniki the best conference ever! Have fun and Spread the Word out -- --- \m/ --- http://opensuse.gr http://os-el.gr http://amb.opensuse.gr http://www.kde.gr http://warlordfff.tk --- \m/ --- me I am not I --- \m/ --- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+owner(a)opensuse.org

2 1

CzP @ FSF Hungary conference
by Peter Czanik 09 Dec '12

09 Dec '12

Hello, Yesterday I was at the annual FSF Hungary conference. It's website is only available in Hungarian: http://konf.fsf.hu/ There were over 500 visitors from all over Hungary. This is traditionally an Ubuntu dominated event, but for the first time there was also an openSUSE booth. I started to organize it quite late, but still there were at least 3-4 people continuously caring for the booth. To draw more people, we had a number of interesting computers on display, all running openSUSE: a large gaming config with KDE and Steam and other native Linux games. There were a also a number of small machines: fitpc3 running Gnome3 and office apps, also a raspberry pi and a CuBox. There were many people visiting the booth, some only for the exotic machines, but most also asked about openSUSE. There were some technical questions (mostly video card related problems), and also the usual "why openSUSE". We did not have any openSUSE 12.2 DVDs (which Kalman ordered a long time ago), but had a few 12.1 and 11.4 disks. Even those old disks found users as many people told us, that they have old machines and they don't need the latest and greatest, rather something what is not sluggish on old machines. Bye, CzP -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+owner(a)opensuse.org

1 0

Google+ Communities
by Francisco Arias 08 Dec '12

08 Dec '12

Hi everyone, Google have just launched Google+ Communities, which IMHO can be a great platform to spread openSUSE. Recent days I've read how Google+ is getting bigger and I think maybe it would be interesting to do some little brainstorming to offer some kind of presence on it. My first idea is creation of some geographical communities (openSUSE Chile, for example) where ambassadors can do: spreading news from openSUSE official channels (blog, etc...), organization of events (InstallFests, talks) and user support/orientation. Please, let me know what you guys think about it. Cheers. Francisco J. Arias Ingeniero Civil en Computación Universidad de Talca T/L: (75) 32 42 31 Mobile: (56) (9) 780 92 712 Skype Contact: francisco.arias ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Cuando el último árbol sea cortado, el último río envenenado, el último pez pescado, sólo entonces el hombre descubrirá que el dinero no se come." Proverbio Cree. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+owner(a)opensuse.org

5 5