On 2011-04-29 Kostas wrote:
2011/4/28 Alan Clark <aclark@novell.com>:
Planning has begun for this years openSUSE conference. Though a date hasn't been confirmed, there is still much to do and preparations that can be made.
We really want to include as many community members as possible in the conference preparations, in leading the presentations and participating at the event. At last weeks program committee meeting, it was determined that the conference needs to build and strengthen our community as well as invite collaboration with other people and projects. To best accomplish this it is critical that the conference focus on topic areas that are of most interest to you, and so we are asking for your input.
We, as the program committee, are reaching out to ask for your input to 2 questions:
1) What do you consider to be the top two or three current or upcoming topics, (e.g. in terms of technology major undertakings and tasks) that need to be addressed soon, and where one or more sessions during the conference could be helpful for collective brainstorming
If I understood right what you are saying I would say -Organizing Communities -Making and recruiting Contributors
2) To engender collaboration with the openSUSE.org project, who are the top two or three people/projects from outside of openSUSE.org that should be invited to the conference for close collaboration?
I would have said KDE people and Gnome people but those will be there anyway ;-) so I am thinking a bit more outside the box and say to bring people from smaller projects such as Enlightenment(E17) and LXDE and see how we can work with them since extra light GUI's are interesting and I had many conversations about them the last few months, their development seems to attract some users and some developers.
Also I would like to see Fedora/Debian/Ubuntu/Madriva(or Mageia) and last but not least Slackware people.
If possible, try to let us also know what it is what you expect from them being there. It is awesome to have slackware people at the oSC - but other than having another opportunity to drink beer with patrick, what exactly do you hope to accomplish? Having them there for the sake of it - ?!?
That's it from me.
To join the preparations and to stay apprised of the latest plans, contribute at: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_Planning_2011
regards, openSUSE Conference Program Committee
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Kostas Koudaras