On Wednesday 09 February 2011 01:28:26 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
On 2011-02-06 Graham wrote: <snip>
Common questions asked: openSUSE still alive? (answer: more than ever :D) Why would I use openSUSE and not XXXX? (because we're cool, see A4 poster)
Is this our only point of difference, that's a bit sad! :/
Hey, that poster has a whole bunch of reasons - and it's not complete, YaST for example isn't on there right now.
To me and to the simple desktop user, YAST is the biggy. Ubuntu and all it's iterations requires people to fiddle in the command line and it's admin interface is all over the shop. It's a UX nightmare. Watch ubuntu user maillists and all the help is about: "sudo this sudo that" In YAST, root password once and do all your admin from an easy to figure interface. Yast should be at the top of the list although admittedly this is a dev conf so not so significant to them.
How is the takeover stuff doing for openSUSE? (see my interview with Jeff Hawn)
I will put this in the wiki page of LCA 2011 too :D
Glad to see it was a success and it has been noticed at last by OpenSUSE. sorry I couldn't be there but my budget wouldn't stretch with only a month to pull together the couple of thousand dollars it would have cost me to go.
You should've contacted me, I would've been able to help with the finances...
Now he tells me! :/ OK, I'll put my hand up now for next year, so I can get in early.
We need to prepare earlier, I should have made more noise about it than just putting it up on the events list. I shall make a point of it for next year.
Please do, I don't think I'll make it again next year and we have more openSUSE people in Au - I know because I met a few. We 'just' have to get you all to talk :D
I would prefer you to be there, consider this last one as an exploratory trip, there was no planning, no goals set so it only ended up as a flag waving exercise. I was struggling back when I first mentioned it, to convey the significance of LCA, there was a tone initially that was slightly dismissive. You have, however, now seen it for yourself. You also impressed in the lightning talks, that's a plus, people remember that when it comes to handing out speaking engagements.... and believe me the speakers get looked after, I was a speakers Limo driver in wellington! :) Go back over the speakers lists and you'll see what I mean, Linus, Shuttleworth, Maddog, Cerf, Phipps and so on not to mention high powered Politicos and others. I can even see some topics in my minds eye already. We go to LCA, we go for a reason and with a set of goals that would be good to achieve. Given not so recent, almost ancient, history we have to sell openSUSE to the wider linux dev community big time. We have disappeared off the map down here we need to re-establish ourselves. We could even give the trip a title: "LCA 2012, Paint Ballarat Green." Raise profile, set a different image in the minds of the conf attendees, provide some good high value talks that people will talk about afterwards. People see other people committed to their distro of choice, having fun and creating an excellent piece of software and they will want to participate. We need to present a heap of abstracts from Community members, present a miniconf proposal, tutorials and equip for big splash at the OpenDay. They are out there, since LibreOffice forked under the Document Foundation, the community has added 92 developers. Mageia has forked Mandriva under a similar community model and is looking like it will build similar numbers or more. So they are out there if they feel welcomed. I see Tim Serong introed as a new Ambassador, Helen has said she'll be in Ballarat, presumably Tim will too, with that sort of commitment I don't mind putting my hand up as well, but it's not worth my while for something half baked, it has to be planned, effective and supported by the community and the corporate partner. Cheers GL -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org