Heya all,
I've updated the wiki page about LinuxTag:
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:LinuxTag
I have been volunteered to organize it. I can't promise to do as great a job
as Henne did last year but I'll try ;-)
I'm going to ask for a booth. I think it's best to use the same hotel as
least year - Motel One Berlin Tiergarten was fine... You can have a room for
about 59 single and 79 double. And you'll have to book yourself... If you
guys/girls think it's worth trying I could give them a call, see if we can
get a bit of a discount?!? Henne, did you manage that last year?
Anything else we'll need? The CfP is closed by now, we'll have to make sure
we make a nice splash at the booth this year :D
If anyone has any fun ideas, I'd love to hear it. I'll see if we can sell
beer and t-shirts :D
/Jos
Hi,
I am a third year engineering student from India and am greatly
interested in this year's GSoC programme. This is my first time at
GSoC and am raring to go ahead with a project. I have tried my hand at
various minor projects and prefer Python as the language to be used. I
would like to know which all projects I can work on and where to start
from.
Hoping to hear from you all soon.
Regards,
Gaurav Sood
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Hi,
I am interested in participating in this year's GSoC programme. I had
submitted an application for last year's programme also, but it wasnt
accepted, but I still worked on the project. I would like to
participate this year, and wanted to know which all projects I could
work on, and how I could start on them.
Looking forward to hearing from you all.
Regards,.
Saurabh Sood
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Hello All,
I am Shayon Mukherjee and I go by Sj. I am an ex-openSUSE member. I
haven't been able to contribute to openSUSE for quite a long time. But I
use to, to the Wiki and the marketing team. To be honest, I just got
busy with school work.But that didn't stop me from spreading the word. I
have actively been promoting openSUSE to my peers.
Moving on to GSOC 2012. I am really interested in contributing and
working towards the openSUSE's GSOC 2012 Idea - End user oriented web
interface . Reasons and about me are as follows
Age - 19
School - University of
Wisconsin Green Bay
Majors - B.S Computer
Science
Minors - Information Science
Year - Sophomore
(2nd year)
Expected year of graduation - 2014
Languages and Frameworks I know - Java, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, MySQL,
SQLite, Jquery, HTLM5 and CSS3. Also have the ability and passion to
learn new things.
On-going project with Ruby on Rails - Designing a Real time wiki
application as a part of my personal project, independent study /
research project, using Ruby on Rails.
Experience - Student
technology assistant at the Learning Technology Center of University of
Wisconsin Green Bay (October 2010 - Present)
Open Source projects I have worked with - openSUSE, Ubuntu and
Mozilla student reps
Why i want to work on this - Firstly, I am a big open source
enthusiast. That being said,I highly support the idea behind Open Source
and free knowledge. My journey of Open Source started with openSUSE at
the age of 17 where I created portals in the wiki, helped managing
articles in the openSUSE wiki,writing templates and giving presentations
in schools and colleges in my town (India). For a short while I also
fixed bugs in Ubuntu and became a Bug Squad team member (ex right now).
Moving on to rails, as a part of my job as Student Technology Assistant
at University of Wisconsin Green Bay I maintain the Rails application,
update the databases, implement new features as and when required. Also
currently in 2nd year of school I have taken up the research work where
I am designing a Real time Wiki application. At this point, I can say I
have a good understanding of Ruby and Ruby on rails. I can create
industrial based application right from scratch. And I am really
confident that If given the opportunity then I can very much accomplish
the goal behind the openSUSE's GSOC 2012 Idea - End user oriented web
interface. And also I think this is a great way for me to get back into
the community and make some substantial contribution to openSUSE, as I
always wanted to do so.
Looking forward to hear form the mentor(s) and anybody else who wants to
know more have questions or share something.
Till then,
Cheers,
Shayon Mukherjee
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I am currently making arrangements to secure a booth for the Indiana
Linux Fest held in Indianapolis on April 13-15. If you are in the area
and would like to join in the openSUSE festivities, please let me know
so we can coordinate plans together. :-)
Also, Call for Papers is currently open until February 7th. If you'd
like to submit a talk, the link is:
http://www.indianalinux.org/cms/speaker_app
Look forward to meeting all of you there soon!
Bryen M Yunashko
openSUSE Project Marketing
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Hi all,
I have been waiting for the announcement for quite a while. I am very
eager to take part in this year's edition.
Regards
Saurabh Sood
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All,
I add to the wiki with a couple of updates from my meeting with the SUSECon planners yesterday.
1. Regarding the Orlando venue. We have plenty of conference rooms for sessions, parties...
1 large room with stage for keynote sessions through Saturday morning
4 session rooms, with projector, screen, and audio system (Suggest 3 rooms for sessions, 1-2 rooms for BoFs)
1 social lounge (We will need to decide how what we want in this room)
1 speaker ready room, with computers, project and printers
2 storage, conference prep rooms
1 Registration booth, with computers and printer
For evening events, we have the large ballroom or areas outside the convention hall. I saw Jos' note about wanting to play chef. I asked Alexia to check with the venue to see what options are available.
After meeting with the SUSECon planners I would suggest the following program format:
Those that register by September 1 will be invited to attend the Friday SUSECon sessions and closing keynote. (registration will help us manage catering and other costs)
A suggested program format is:
Friday September 21 9:00 - 12:00 SUSECon sessions and closing keynote
Friday September 21 14:00 - 17:00 openSUSE Event sessions
Friday September 21 18:00 - 22:00 openSUSE Event Evening Celebration
Saturday September 22 9:00 - 10:00 openSUSE Event Keynote
Saturday September 22 10:00 - 17:00 openSUSE Event sessions
Saturday September 22 18:00 - 22:00 openSUSE Event Evening Party
For event registration and conference planning we will need to use our current tool - indigo.The openSUSE event registration will occur through indigo. SUSECon will have computers, printers setup for their registration system and the venue. On September 16th, we should plan to transfer the registered names from indigo into the SUSECon systems to print the conference badges. SUSECon will supply the badge holders and lanyards, notebook and pen. It will be up to use to supply additional materials such as printed programs or conference bags.
SUSECon has a roomblock, which will be made available in April. I asked the SUSECon team to supply us with the html code needed to link to the roomblock registration from our web.
Thanks,
AlanClark
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The poll is now open for naming the event for the openSUSE conference to
be held in Orlando, Florida September 21-23. The poll will be open
until February 11. Please vote, as we value the community's input here.
http://bit.ly/xjGuee
Thanks to all!
Bryen M Yunashko
openSUSE Project
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Regarding the names, I think openSUSE forum ain't that smart since
someone would think that it's a support forum or something.
openSUSE AMCon (AMerican Conference) maybe is also a candidate.
Have a lot of fun!!!
Stathis
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If you missed today's meeting, don't worry. There's plenty of
opportunities to get involved in different ways. Here is the link to
the transcript [1] and below is our summary of today's discussions:
[1] Transcript - http://bit.ly/yAPh4A
[2] Our Wiki Planning Page: http://en.opensuse.org/SUSECon_Planning
+++ Volunteers +++
Please see the section on volunteers. Just like the openSUSE
Conference, no event is successful without community involved. If you
see a task missing, please feel free to add it. We need to move fast to
get the teams going soon.
Note: You can still volunteer even if you don't plan to attend the
event. :-) We welcome all input!
+++ Calendar +++
At the bottom of the wiki page there is a calendar of milestones. There
are several items in there now and soon our committees will add their
own milestones to the list.
Thanks to Peter Linnell's suggestion, we may be able to add an .ics
calendar to the wiki to make it easier for you to keep track of
milestones.
+++ Target Audience +++
There seems to be a good consensus on making the event focus on a good
mixture of talks and HowTo's, enabling our users to get their hands
dirty. If you feel you have some input on the targets, we encourage you
to join the Program Committee where your input will be best heard.
Hackfests can be planned as we get closer to the event. These can be
more ad-hoc style where people can gather in the main area or create
their own pockets of hackfests.
We also discussed making the event bi-lingual. Given that this event
will be in Florida and an easy jump for many in Mexico and Central
America, we can attract more attendees. This is supported by the
several Central Americans who attended today's meeting, and volunteered
to be interpreters.
+++ Event Name +++
We don't want the name to be confused with our main Conference in EU.
We proposed the following names, and we will create a poll on Connect
for everyone to vote.
- openSUSE Camp
- openSUSE Fellowship
- openSUSE Forum
- openSUSE Huddle
- openSUSE LiveCon
- openSUSE Summit
- openSUSE Symposium
Got another name in mind? Add to the wiki page. All suggested names by
Friday will be included in the poll.
We will announce the poll link on Friday (Feb 3) and the poll will close
on Saturday (Feb 11.)
+++ Sponsorship +++
SUSE has graciously donated space to us to use the hotel venue after
SUSECon. However, there is no guarantee of any financial funds that
SUSE will give to the event.
We, as a community, need to step up and seek out sponsorships to fund
the event as well as travel costs. Several people have already pointed
to potential sponsorship leads and we believe that many of you can reach
out to your own personal contacts in the world to request sponsorship
considerations.
We will leave it to the soon-to-be-formed Sponsorship team to develop
the guidelines and materials you will need in order to pursue. e.g.,
formal letters of requests, etc. and coordination so that we're not all
bothering the same sponsor. :-)
+++ Communication +++
We will send periodic updates to the Project mailing list to keep the
community informed of the planning progress.
Committees will have their own discussion groups so that the Project
list will not be overly spammed. I will also blog frequently whenever
possible. (Look for my next blogpost soon!)
As with our tradition of openSUSE conference planning, we will still
hold a monthly "status update" meeting on IRC (with summaries reported
to the mailing list like this one.)
These meetings will be held on Saturdays rather than weekday, once a
month. The next status meeting will be Saturday, March 3 at 18:00 UTC.
+++ What needs to be done quickly +++
- Artwork: Andi Silva and Carlos Ribeiro will collaborate with the
openSUSE Artwork team to create posters and flyers. We need this by
March 1 so we can begin sending materials to FOSS events. (Many events
happening in March and April in the U.S.)
- Once we have a name for the event, I have volunteered to work with our
admins to set up our website and configure Indico (our CFP management
process.)
- Committees need to form quickly and begin outlining their procedural
plans for their tasks. Please sign up for a task soon.
Thanks all and looking forward to a great event!
Bryen M Yunashko
openSUSE Project
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