On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Pascal Bleser wrote:
Christoph Thiel wrote:
Hi everyone, the sixth Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (commonly known as FOSDEM, [http://www.fosdem.org/]) will take place during the last week-end (25&26) of February 2006 in the city of Brussels, Belgium.
I couldn't make it this year but I intend to go there next year. It's not that far away the east of the Netherlands. I intend to go there by train, I only need to look for a hotel nearby. Any tips are appreciated by direct email, not to the list.
As you may have already noticed (because Pascal blogged about it), we will have an openSUSE 'DevRoom' (Developer Room) @ FOSDEM and most likely a booth as well. Therefore, we are in the very early stages of preparation and would like to team up with you to organize the openSUSE @ FOSDEM event.
Precisely, I think that would be the most interesting option. But, and that's probably the most interesting part, we can also make use of that event to make very interactive sessions, where we (Novell/SUSE staff + community members) meet up to discuss future directions, possible improvements, initiatives, etc...
That's very interesting. I went to LinuxWorld a couple of weeks ago in the Netherlands and that's too commercial to my taste. Salespeople don't know what I want to know. The only interesting part was meeting people that you know from other conferences and the talk on Linux Security (ExecShield and SELlinux) by Arjan van de Ven of Red Hat. I also go to SANE (www.sane.nl) and NLUUG conferences (www.nluug.nl) and that's much better: technical people who know what they are talking about. I held a presentation myself two times on a NLUUG conference (google images is your friend).
We also organize a few side activities: - - key and CAcert signing
I'm over 100 CAcert points so I can give them away myself.
- - Tutorial sessions (6 x 1h) - - hacker rooms, open for anyone - - a buffet at a hotel in Brussels (good occasion to meet a lot of interesting people ;))
The conference dinner, one of my favourites ;-)
Also, LPI will organize 4 Linux certification exam sessions over the week-end, at a (*very*) reduced rate (exact price to be announced in the next few days).
Which exams, beginner only?
To start off, we would like to get your opinion on what topics, presentation, talks, tutorials, etc. you would expect from openSUSE @ FOSDEM? And if you would like to deliver a presentation, talk, tutorial? The ultimate goal would be to have presentations distributed equally amongst community members and SUSE / Novell employees.
Here are some possible topics, that are basis for discussion far: - presentations + openSUSE in general (what happend so far, what's up next)
Yes, also to give a chance to visitors and people from other projects to have a look at what openSUSE really is and what (y)our plans are.
I would like to hear this from the openSUSE project leader.
+ openSUSE build infrastructure
That's a must. Adrian, you won't escape from doing this talk ;))) And for end of February, maybe we could even see a demo... ? ;)
Looks good.
+ SUSE Linux 10.1 - highlights and features - dicussion + SUSE Linux 10.2 - dicussion / plans for the future
That pretty much hits what I mentioned above, an open discussion about openSUSE's future.
+ Usability and Documentation - tutorials + packaging the SUSE-way
This could be held by someone from Packman (or me) ;)
+ using the build infrastructure + LIVE CD construction
Or rather a presentation of SUPER or SLICK.
+ Customizing SUSE Linux
That's it for the moment, we are all looking forward to a lively discussion and a great collaboration.
... which didn't really happen up to now.
Cmon folks, there have been a lot of people criticizing openSUSE for "not being open enough", now that's a great occasion to show off and move forward as a community ;)
I'm a software engineer, my last talk at a NLUUG conference was titled: Secure Programming by Example. It was about secure programming in C and C++ and the tools you can use to increase the quality of the sofware you deliver, e.g. valgrind.
As a side note, every project that has a devroom _must_ send in a schedule of the planned activities. The deadline hasn't been set yet, but expect it to be something like mid January. That means we have to start discussing it right now.
Who would be interested a) to come to the event, and attend the openSUSE devroom
Check.
b) participate and make a presentation or demo (30-45) on something about openSUSE/SUSE Linux
If I can think of a good subject. It will be hard for me to create a presentation for a specific distribution, I like portable software ;-) (http://www.marsman.org/personal_index.php)
c) propose a topic to be presented by Novell/SUSE staff members
Send in some feedback.
I hope to see a lot more replies in the days to come.
cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/
Have a nice weekend, Aschwin Marsman -- aschwin@marsman.org http://www.marsman.org