April 2012 - openSUSE Conference - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [opensuse-conference] Accomodation for openSUSE Conference
by Alan Clark 17 Apr '12

17 Apr '12

>>> On 4/16/2012 at 05:31 AM, Michal Hrusecky <michal(a)hrusecky.net> wrote: > 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. On the 3 star hotel you noted that they have conference rooms. If we end up needing conference rooms outside of the University, we have more bargaining ability with a block of rooms, but at the same time they will want us to guarantee money on a set number of rooms. If we don't need conference rooms I suggest that we don't put ourselves on the hook for hotel rooms. Great if they'll block some rooms for us without a cover charge, otherwise we should post the links and encourage people to register early. Michal - would you add the hostel information you found to the wiki and update that task page. That way we won't lose any of this great information you've worked on finding. Thanks, AlanClark -- 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] SUSE Labs
by Michal Hrusecky 16 Apr '12

16 Apr '12

Hi, so I've got some information about SUSE Labs people. They want to join us again. Hurayyy!!! So what does it mean for us? We'll get more interesting speakers! Now to their feedback to the conference. Last year, when we had first joined conference, common problem expressed by both openSUSE and SUSE Labs people was that it was hard to distinguish between conferences and between beginners talks and hardcore talks. This year it will be even more difficult as there will be four conferences at once! So we will have to handle it better. That would be hard task for CfP committee... Some more feedback: So far, they are fine with having common website and CfP with openSUSE Conference if we will do some merged branding, but not final words on that yet. And they would like to have one day one room for themselves (about 60 people). As Gentoo conference might be just during the weekend, we might have Gentoo room available for Labs people on Friday. Need to clarify this with university, still don't know what rooms for what times we will get... -- 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] IRC channel
by Theo Chatzimichos 15 Apr '12

15 Apr '12

All, I have registered #openSUSE-conference IRC channel, and added it in the list [1]. Anyone interested in helping to the conf please join. [1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:IRC_list 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] Scouting openSUSE Conference locations - the surprise...
by Jos Poortvliet 14 Apr '12

14 Apr '12

So here's a pleasant surprise. Michal and Theo are involved in the just-starting organization of a 'reboot' of a well known local event (12 years of history): LinuxExpo. This used to be organized by a conference-company but they've announced not to do that this year. A local team has decided to do it instead, working with the Technical University of Praha (biggest technical university in the country, I'm told). The team consists of openSUSE, Ubuntu, Gentoo people as well as chief editors of the 3 major Linux magazine and university people. Michal and Theo had an appointment to discuss the conference and I tagged along. The team was unsure about their scope: go international or not? Theo suggested to have a Gentoo side-event with about 50-70 people. We then suggested to co-locate with openSUSE Conf! The team liked the idea and we went over the basics: - Location? 3 metro stops from the city center, 2 stops from the old city - Rooms: all we want. 300 + 180 + 180 large rooms, plenty of small rooms. - Catering: there is university catering but we can do what we want. - Branding: go nuts. - Date: please one week earlier than we wanted to do at KC. - How many days: they wanted 2 days (sat & sun) but we can have Thur and Fri if we pay a bit. - What do they think: The team loves it. They get international exposure 'for free'. The university was so excited they promised to move whatever is needed in their schedule to give us space on Thur and Fri... - openSUSE 'identity': We start on Thur, Sat we open up. Enough time to just hang with geeko's. - CfP: We should collaborate with our CfP - there is plenty of overlap between the local and global teams (gentoo, openSUSE & LinuxExpo). Just think of a keynote by Greg KH :D - Team: we work with the university and other people so it'll save us all work. - Costs: It looks like we can afford it, it is in the same price range as KC. We have a final cost picture tomorrow, Monday latest. - Costs2: We and the Gentoo people need travel support - but the LinuxExpo has an estimated total costs of about 1500 euro as they don't do that, have a free location (university) and free marketing (the magazine people!). - Sponsoring: we need to figure out the exact details but nobody is trying to get rich of this so it should work out fine. - Timeframe: we can probably have it all fixed by end of next week! - Marketing: Awesomeness of course. With the main local magazines part of the organization, we'll have all the local attention we want. internationally, this looks really good too. We want to collaborate, this is our chance! - University: all big geeks. They run Gentoo with KDE desktops on their computers in the work rooms :D - Language: We will have both Czech and English tracks. Bit of shuffling should make sure there's always plenty going on for both language groups. - Feeling: less cozy, more 'university'. Big building, not particularly pretty or sweet. We need to bring some of that good old huggyness there. Couches etc., not sure if there's a good spot for that but I think we can find something. - But but but didn't we sign something with KC already: no, Alan asked Michael to hold off until we can decide on this new opportunity. In short. Crazy surprise, but everyone seems to love the idea and we can do it. It fits our requirements and has many benefits. I made a quick impression - it's much shorter as it was less prepared than the KC one, but here you go: http://youtu.be/EFd4pXcBeDQ Tomorrow around 15:00 EU time we have a meeting to discuss this, feedback please asap so we can bring that to the table. We have to decide quickly. /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] Scouting of locations... KC first!
by Jos Poortvliet 14 Apr '12

14 Apr '12

Heya all, Went with Theo and Michal to the KC place today. See the video below for an impression: http://youtu.be/qwKUrWXO5NY The place is big enough for about 200-250 people. The main hall is very nice and cozy and bigger than what we had at the location until 2010 so it should be OK to hang out there. The little cafetaria is OK for drinks and snacks but we do need more for lunches (they can help with handing stuff out and we can put our beer there as well). In 2 min walking distance is a small shopping area with a LIDL and a restaurant. ~10 min walking away is the dormitory, with about 150 low-priced hotel rooms. We could reserve them all - it should cover most of our visitors. The metro is about 15 min walking or one bus stop - there are plenty of busses going. The metro station is however not very close to the center - it's about 30 minutes from Mustek (city center). I understand we are not allowed to hang up posters so we can't really brand the place green :( My impression of the rooms: enough. Not big, not many - but good enough. Parties inside wouldn't really work but there are places nearby according to Pavol. Total verdict: the place is nice, but on the small side. The location is quite a bit from the city center. Don't forget to read my other mail (coming in 10 min or so) with a nice surprise :D /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] Conference meeting
by Michal Hrusecky 12 Apr '12

12 Apr '12

Hi, just a little announcement. On Friday Jos will deliver some hugs to Prague office as we all miss him and his hugs. Apart from that, we are going to have Conference face to face meeting in Prague SUSE office at 3pm local time to decide some stuff. But don't worry, we are not trying to exclude community. If you are part of our community or just want to help out and don't have a key, send me an e-mail with some guesstimate of your arrival time and I'll let guards know and will get you in. -- 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] openSUSE Conference Website
by Shayon Mukherjee 12 Apr '12

12 Apr '12

Hello, I am currently working on the openSUSE Summit website [1] [2]. And I would love to contribute my two cents towards the openSUSE Conference. That being said, I would like to help with the openSUSE Conference website as well. We can use the same code structure for the openSUSE Conference as we did for the openSUSE Summit. Looking forward to comments and suggestions. /S [1] Website - http://summit.opensuse.org [2] Github - https://github.com/shayonj/openSUSE-summit-- 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 2012
by Michal Hrusecky 11 Apr '12

11 Apr '12

Hi everybody, as you probably already know[1], we are working on preparations for this years openSUSE Conference, which will happen in my home town - Prague. If you are excited about the conference and want to help and and want to know what's going on, you should be subscribed to the conference mailing list[2]. That's for general introduction. Now to the point. How can you help... If you take a peek at archive of openSUSE Conference mailing list, you'll see, that we were discussing central theme and motto of this years conference. Final decision will take place on Friday, but you still have some time to suggest something. I'll collect every suggested motto and present it on the meeting and we will choose from them (so deadline for suggestions is this Friday noon CEST). As we need to move forward, we also need to form CfP committee asap. On Friday we will have a main theme, we will do another announcement and as we are getting closer on finalization of venue as well, soon we will be able to announce CfP as well. And for that, we need CfP committee. What would you do? You'll read proposals and help to select the best of them in accordance with our conference motto (which we will have soon :-D ). So if you want to be part of that, put your name/nick (ideally with link to your personal page) to the wiki [3]! Overall, we've got a lot of things going on right now and you can expect a lot of happening soon. And don't worry, after the theme and central motto will be decided, we will ask for help from some artists as well ;-) [1] http://news.opensuse.org/2012/03/07/osc12-is-coming-to-prague-in-fall/ [2] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-conference/ [3] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_volunteers#CfP_committee -- 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] osc12 venue contract
by Alan Clark 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

Michal, Pavol, Did you receive any more information from the caterer or the Zahreda? We need to get the contract in place, so we need to give Michael Fielding the latest info so that he can go ahead. Here's my understanding of what we need Michael to negotiate: Access on October 25th - we come in the afternoon and start with rooms they don't have use for and finish during the evening/night when there will be nothing around. All day Friday October 26th, Saturday October 27th and Sunday October 28th Access on Monday October 29th to tear down and haul away. Negotiations with the cafeteria is separate from Zahreda (confirm with Zahreda). We need the cafeteria to have coffee, drinks and snacks available for sale. Will the cafeteria to handle the sale of SUSE Brew. We will set the price. We need the cafeteria to have lunch available for sale on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Having seen the cafeteria, how many persons do you feel will buy lunch from the cafeteria vs. going to local food court? We should plan that the conference will pay for food for Friday evening for a yet to be planned party. We'll need to find out what type of food the cafeteria can handle. Network - We need the zahrada to increase the network speed. How much? We will bring in our own APs The zahrada should plan that we will use the big plasma TV screen in the lobby. We expect that each of the rooms are supplied with a projector and screen. What other details do we need Michael to negotiate? AlanClark -- 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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Re: [opensuse-conference] Can I help
by Bogomil Shopov 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

Thanks :) Yes, want to help with some tasks. I have filled them already. //Bogo On 7 April 2012 02:03, Izabel Valverde <izabelvalverde(a)opensuse.org> wrote: > 2012/4/6 Alan Clark <aclark(a)suse.com> >> >> >> >> >>> On 4/6/2012 at 10:10 AM, Bogomil Shopov <shopov.bogomil(a)gmail.com> >> >>> wrote: >> > Guys, >> > I am fan of OpenSUSE and I live in Prague. Can I help? >> >> Definitely! >> >> We are in the process of firming up the venue. There is much to do in the >> planning. Chime in on this mailing list for planning and the Wiki. See: >> http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference for areas to volunteer. >> >> regards, >> >> AlanClark >> >> >> > >> > -- >> > Bogomil "Bogo" Shopov >> > >> > Open Web, Communities and Technologies >> > >> > http://about.me/bogo >> > http://bogomil.cz >> > http://twitter.com/bogomep >> > http://http://cz.linkedin.com/in/bogomil >> > -- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> > To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-conference+owner(a)opensuse.org >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-conference+owner(a)opensuse.org >> > > > Hey, > > Might be better here: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_todo_list > > Izabel > > > -- > Izabel Valverde > openSUSE Marketing > http://news.opensuse.org/ > http://www.opensuse.org/pt-br/ -- Bogomil "Bogo" Shopov Open Web, Communities and Technologies http://about.me/bogo http://bogomil.cz http://twitter.com/bogomep http://http://cz.linkedin.com/in/bogomil -- 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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