April 2012 - openSUSE Conference - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-conference] New conference in indico (4)
by opensuse-conference＠opensuse.org 16 May '12

16 May '12

_Category_ Home _Title_ openSUSE Conference 2012 _Speaker/Chair_ _Room_ _Description_ _Creator_ CLARK, Alan (57) _Date_ 2012-10-19 08:00:00+00:00 -> 2012-10-22 18:00:00+00:00 _Access_ http://conference.opensuse.org/indico//conferenceDisplay.py?confId=4 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-conference+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-conference] openSUSE Conference venue
by Michal Hrusecky 09 May '12

09 May '12

Hi, little update from negotiations. We found a way how to make it all work. It's not perfect, but according to my opinion doable. There is dormitory in the campus where they do have free space. They have conference room for 200 people, for 80 people and two rooms for 40 for workshops. We can rent this on Monday and Tuesday and spend the weekend at the University so we will have to move on Sunday evening/Monday morning. Currently it looks like these two days will cost us about 90-100k CZK < 4k EUR. I know it would be better to start alone and then have a big event all together, but unfortunately dormitory doesn't have enough free rooms on Thursday. On university we can take during weekend pretty much as much small rooms as we want, the rest will depend on how do we divide it with other two conferences. Costs for University is still unofficial (we were talking about 40k CZK ~ 1.6k Eur, final offer still in discussion). I believe it's still doable. And I still think that it will be awesome event. I'll try to meet with them and discuss stuff asap. Little downside, I'm leaving for conference in Wien next week and will be there whole week. Not sure whether I can actually sign anything on behalf of the company and what is still Okish from the budget point of view. Will go scouting the location and will try to meat with dean and dormitory manager to get at least some reservation before I'll leave, so will be sure that nobody will decide to have conference in the same time at same place before somebody will sign it on behalf of company. Now, even more downsides. We are talking about October 20-23. On 23rd PostreSQL conference Europe starts in Prague at different university (one day overlap, probably no big deal). From 18th to 21st there is Realtime Linux Workshop somewhere (probably no big issue for us either). And on 20/21st there should be GSoC Mentor summit if I'm not mistaken (two people from each open source project not able to come to our conference). So any objections, comments, better solutions, flying stones, UFOs, whatever? -- Michal Hrusecky <Michal(a)Hrusecky.net>

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[opensuse-conference] Accomodation for openSUSE Conference
by Michal Hrusecky 26 Apr '12

26 Apr '12

Hi, still no news from University, but let's hope that everything will go well and let's start talking about possibilities of accommodation. I took a look at what university offers and here are few interesting options, most of it is Hotel/Hostel part of dormitories: http://www.studenthostel.cz/dejvicka.html Next door to the university, 84 beds with own bathroom and kitchen, one person room 650 CZK ~ 26 EUR. Two bed room 990 CZK ~ 36 EUR. Rooms should be accessible for people with disabilities. http://www.studenthostel.cz/orlik.html Short walk away from university, cca 1km, 173 beds with own bathroom, reconstruction in 2004. One bed room 800 CZK ~ 32 EUR, two bed room 1200 CZK ~ 48 EUR. http://www.studenthostel.cz/masaryk.html Three star hotel and conference room with 64 beds, own bathrooms, TV, internet, rooms should accessible for people with disabilities, parking place, breakfast included. One person room for 1320 CZK ~ 53 EUR, two beds room 1690 CZK ~ 68 EUR. Quite close to the university as well (not next door, but next block) Haven't checked availabilities, whether do they speak English, hom many rooms of what type will they have available in the time of conference and how big discount can we get by booking in bulk in advance. What I want to know is your opinion first, what else do we need to know and then I'll go forward and ask them. -- Michal Hrusecky <Michal(a)Hrusecky.net> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-conference+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-conference] CfP draft and web
by Michal Hrusecky 26 Apr '12

26 Apr '12

Hi, so as we should get stuff moving, I started writing some CfP announcement[1] to be ready to go once we will get definite answer on the venue (today/tomorrow). Comments are welcome, but direct editing is preferred ;-) As for other conference we hopefully will be co-hosted with, for Gentoo Theo says that it's easy and I should not worry (which worries me, but I believe him) and for LinuxDays conference (the one that will replace LinuxExpo), they have name, web ready, currently working on logo and final touches to the website. So they are up to speed and maybe even before us a little bit. So I'll start working on the texts for the web harder and will try to come up with something soon (got something half written). Apart from that, do we know where the whole web will be hosted? Do we have some contact with admin there who can deploy it? Did anybody asked for domain? Do we have logo? [1] http://typewith.me/p/eQyKJYd0lI -- Michal Hrusecky <Michal(a)Hrusecky.net> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-conference+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-conference] Venue status update
by Michal Hrusecky 23 Apr '12

23 Apr '12

Hi, I just spoke with the guy from the university and current status is three faculties down, two to get decided (one promised to get answer back by tomorrow, other one I'm going to call in few minutes) and there are dormitories in the same campus that has one big enough presentation room and several smaller ones, so that might be doable as well. What I can tell right now... I still thing it is awesome idea to have it all together and attract even outsiders to our conference and that it is worth it. What we need to sacrifice - two days will be in different building in the campus. Little inconvenient, but I still think it's Ok. -- Michal Hrusecky <Michal(a)Hrusecky.net> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-conference+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-conference] Status
by Michal Hrusecky 21 Apr '12

21 Apr '12

Hi, just not to keep you all completely in dark regarding the venue, I'm pushing the University guy, hopefully I'll meet him on todays conference, but I'll meet some guys from the other conference team for sure, so I hope to get them moving faster. -- Michal Hrusecky <Michal(a)Hrusecky.net> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-conference+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-conference] Meeting results
by Jos Poortvliet 21 Apr '12

21 Apr '12

In the meeting we had we decided: - to delay the final decision with max one week - but work with the assumption we're going university - the theme would be "*bootstrapping awesome*", because - we always bootstrap awesome things in openSUSE - we bootstrap the first gentoo summit - we bootstrap the first community-led LinuxExpo - SUSE Labs is all about weird words like 'bootstrapping', 'chrooting' etc - based on that, start the artwork and the CfP - the current CfP volunteers would be (let me know who's wrong): - Vincent Untz - Kostas Koudaras - michal Hrusky - Pavol Rusnak - Theo Chatzimichos - Petr Uzel - Michal Čihař - Alan Clark - Juri - Dinar Please subscribe to cfp+subscribe(a)opensuse.org NOW. - I will email andy for the artwork, give him some ideas that floated around at the meeting. - Shayon, could you copy the Summit site over? We will also need a double site, translations in Czech. - We will synchronize the CfP esp on Sat and Sun, basically set the program together. - Michal will collect some nice info about the city and university. Timeplan: - We have a final CfP committee, they have to get talkin' about what they want - Sunday Theo talks to Gentoo, hopefully gets an OK. He'll put up a static page with info asap. - Mon/Tue we get final word on if we can use the big rooms in the Uni and how much. - Wed the CfP committee gets a draft of the CfP to me - Wed we have a meeting with the LinuxExpo team to talk about the plan - they need to hurry up securing the LinuxExpo name/URL etc - they need to get at least a static site up and a CfP committee together so we can announce at the same time Tuesday April 24 - Thursday website has to be up and CfP draft ready - Friday/Saturday we translate website and CfP - Friday we try to have something final on the location and sign it - Monday April 23 I inform the press about it all - Tuesday 24th of April week we announce the location, site and CfP. Please, all - look over this - what is missing, can we do this? Can we get "all hands on deck"? Hugs, /Jos -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-conference+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-conference] Logo for oSC 2012
by Theo Chatzimichos 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

Hello, (this mail is valid only for the case we will finally have a split oSC/Gentoo/LinuxExpo conf) here [1] is the wallpaper I use in my work machine. The idea that came up in today's meeting would be to create something like this, in order to combine the logos: I Love Linux I: the SUSE lizard's eye [2] Love: the Gentoo logo rotated Linux: the tux, with the LinuxExpo logo in his belly Opinions about the idea? Any other ideas about the conference's logo? [1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~tampakrap/gentoo_suse_wallpaper.png [2] http://geeko.ioda.net/git/art/00assets/logo/buttons/geeko-button-bling.png Theo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-conference+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-conference] Update on the conference website
by Shayon Mukherjee 17 Apr '12

17 Apr '12

Hello all, Prior to previous email by jos. Here is my update 1) openSUSE Conference site copied with some minor changes at - http://suse2.shayon.me/ 2) Github for the same is maintained at - https://github.com/shayonj/openSUSE-Conference Let me know if you have questions/comments. The next couple of things needs to be done is (a rough version) 1) Suitable content 2) Suitable Artwork 3) Domain space Cheers! /S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-conference+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-conference] Nanoc or Wordpress
by Shayon Mukherjee 17 Apr '12

17 Apr '12

Hello, Since its LinuxExpo/Gentoo/openSUSE now. The question to be asked is, is nanoc a good tool for multiple community collaboration for adding stuff to the website? Will everyone be comfortable using it ? Or rather a tool like Wordpress will be more helpful where user creation is and so is the post creation. But if its only about 10-15 static pages, do we really need wordpress or in the first place will it only be 10-15 static ? I think in order to do collaboration well, answers to these questions are important. Also feel free to raise some other questions you might have and then lets see where to go from here. /S -- With great power comes great responsibilities ;) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-conference+owner(a)opensuse.org

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