Being a board member of a LUG (the old-fashioned distro agnostic kind) myself, I'm not particularly pleased with the Ubuntu LoCos. I don't think this fragmentation is good for LUGs, GNU/Linux promotion effort, or really anything else for that matter. United we stand, divided we fall.
Exactly. I fully agree.
Hence I don't think local openSUSE LUGs are a particularly good idea. Also, presently openSUSE has far less users than Ubuntu, and often also less enthusiastic and active ones, so I have doubts whether it would be succesful in many places at all.
Hehe. We should find a cure for the lack of enthusiasm of openSUSE users ;-)
However it might make sense to form some sort of national committees, to ensure that special national circumstances are addressed by openSUSE. For example in Denmark there are certain special services and things that "must" work (as easily as possible) for openSUSE to be able to compete (national television streaming, home banking java applets, national digital signature, etc.). I guess other countries also have special national things that "everyone" uses - maybe it's more complex for larger countries, dunno.
I agree with the idea of testing things you surely need. Various applications used by the public administration in Italy for example were or are being converted to java. The digital signature is starting to take place too. So being certain that they work out of the box is something important if openSUSE targets desktop users. Probably this testing can be done by current users, just in a more organised way, with a sort of checklist where the working/non-working applications are listed and possible workarounds are presented. With kind regards, Alberto --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org