Hi All, Short report from the openSUSE 11.3 release party Budapest, Hungary from an ambassador point of view. organize - used doodle for registration and best schedule: http://tinyurl.com/opensuse-113 - from 21 registration 16 people came (good ratio), one of them traveled 400 km from Slovakia and one of them from London (don't ask me how or why :) but it was great - talked to Novell Hungary marketing and they gave me a room in Novell office (attendees liked it, they talked about it as a sanctuary:) and paid the food and drink (with 2 barrels of party beer) - all of them about 100 EUR - talked to a pizza delivery company that I will order and asked them the highest piority for my forthcoming order (this is a kind of on-demand food - no worries about too much or not enough food (arrived within 35 minutes) - created a menu card to help me about the order: http://picasaweb.google.hu/lh/photo/xlSoEVmnPdZOckeEpLMusQ?feat=directlink (printed at home on my pixma) - requested some marketing gifts from novell... they gave me balls - http://picasaweb.google.hu/lh/photo/PTOC5gkKamlNxZorLOwGgg?feat=directlink , pens http://picasaweb.google.hu/lh/photo/9gvovkMqWYc0v19lYINApg?feat=directlink and 8GB pendrives! http://picasaweb.google.hu/lh/photo/7s0So8mTiiBp3vXHZPlKJw?feat=directlink - unfortunately DVDs haven't arrived so we copied a specialized openSUSE 11.3 install kit (starts in Hungarian and you can install it from the pendrive without any further settings). There was 11 + 1(dot) + 3 = 15 pen drive and it was enough http://picasaweb.google.hu/lh/photo/bWVbJDm9TC-15GubAzL_pg?feat=directlink. - took pictures by my phone http://picasaweb.google.hu/kkemenczy/OpenSUSE113OsszejovetelBudapest - it was not a good idea, few pictures not so good quality, next time I will ask someone to take care of this talk - we did not talked about openSUSE 11.3 features (well know thing), but about development and localization process - we agreed we continue the Reference guide translation as soon as it will release for 11.3 (11.2 was a big success: http://hu.opensuse.org/11.2/Dokument%C3%A1ci%C3%B3 - no other distributions has that big book in our language) - we would like to release the 11.3 Reference guide as a book (on-demand printing) with installation media - imho box with small box is not the right direction... big book could sell openSUSE (imho this is a very intresting idea) - we agreed that free ship it program (sponsored by Novell Hungary) should continue (last year we posted about 200 DVDs around the country - we are waiting for the 11.3 DVDs to relaunch the ship it program - we will to add openSUSE 11.3 and (sled 11 sp1 with Novell) as official operating system for high-school graduation (10.3 was the last one: http://www.oh.gov.hu/kozoktatas/altalanos-tajekoztatas/opensuse-erettsegi-10... and other distributions not work on that). One school will start to use this from September and we will release case study and we plan to release a screencast about how should solve the high-school graduation exercises on openSUSE - we would like to release very soon a course book for adults that meets ECDL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Computer_Driving_Licence (already work on it with ECDL teachers) - this is not the same as Start-Up guide this will be a real coursebook (an example: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2556976/openSUSE_start_gnome_final.pdf ) - we agreed to use openscope.org project to gather Hungarian localization issues http://bug.openscope.org - this is an umbrella project for Hungarian l10n volunteers (users don't like bugzilla, this is more easier and volunteers will do the rest) - we will looking for the opportunities to create install media Hungarian edition (starts Hungarian, update every 3 months, contains updates and multimedia support) - maybe with Studio - we will looking for the opportunities to step into the retail stores (one of the attendees works in Media Markt) to give DVDs to the computers that sells without any operating systems - we will contact to newspapers (PCWORLD and CHIP) to add DVDs to the newspapers aftershock - one of my friend (fsf.hu activist) wrote a nice article about the event: http://blog.fsf.hu/2010/08/07/opensuse-11-3-osszejovetel/ it was better than I wrote as openSUSE ambassador (more authentic), and he spread this article on buzz, twitter, portals sorry, this report is little bit messy, but let me know if you have questions about it best kalman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org