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
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!
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openSUSE Project
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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
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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
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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
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