[opensuse-project] Call for Action: The Conference Program Committee
Hi, as agreed in the conference IRC session I am happy to ask you for your participation in the Program Committee of the openSUSE Conference 2010. The Program Committee is respsonsible for the schedule of presentations, bird-of-a-feather-sessions and lightningtalks at the conference. For that it has to outline the rough frame of the conference topcs and issue a call for papers. As a team, it will pick from all submissions coming in and assemble the schedule. It also might actively seek out for interesting contributors to the conference. The ideal candidates for the Program Committee should be prepared to quite some work until and during the conference and should have a good idea of what the community might be interested in. Experience in FOSS conference organization would be ideal. If you feel to join the Program Committee please go to [1] and add your name to the list. I think around eight people would be a good team. As a rough time frame, I think it would make sense to make the CFP public by calendar week 20. Let's schedule a first PC meeting for mid next week. As a starting point a proposal for the Call for Papers can be found at [2]. Comments are welcome. best Regards, Klaas [1] http://en.opensuse.org/Conference_2010/Program_Committee [2] http://en.opensuse.org/Conference_2010/Call_For_Papers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
Hi Klaas, On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 17:18 +0200, Klaas Freitag wrote:
Hi,
as agreed in the conference IRC session I am happy to ask you for your participation in the Program Committee of the openSUSE Conference 2010.
The Program Committee is respsonsible for the schedule of presentations, bird-of-a-feather-sessions and lightningtalks at the conference. For that it has to outline the rough frame of the conference topcs and issue a call for papers.
As a team, it will pick from all submissions coming in and assemble the schedule. It also might actively seek out for interesting contributors to the conference.
The ideal candidates for the Program Committee should be prepared to quite some work until and during the conference and should have a good idea of what the community might be interested in. Experience in FOSS conference organization would be ideal.
If you feel to join the Program Committee please go to [1] and add your name to the list. I think around eight people would be a good team. As a rough time frame, I think it would make sense to make the CFP public by calendar week 20. Let's schedule a first PC meeting for mid next week.
As a starting point a proposal for the Call for Papers can be found at [2]. Comments are welcome.
best Regards, Klaas
[1] http://en.opensuse.org/Conference_2010/Program_Committee [2] http://en.opensuse.org/Conference_2010/Call_For_Papers
The spread of topics seems like a good and varied list. I would like to see if possible the topic of Accessibility covered, maybe as part of the Collaboration Across Borders track as it applies to all aspects of openSUSE regardless of DE. It would be a great opportunity to get members of all DEs (GNOME/KDE/Meego/LXDE/XFCE) and look at ways we can work together and learn from each other in an aspect that affects us all. One thing that isn't 100% clear to me is the target audience for the conference, is it aimed at developers, users or both? Personally I would like to see it aimed at both, but is that the general consensus? It may be worth holding workshops to help enlighten people to the ways of the Geeko. Off the top of my head we could have workshops based around packaging/OBS/testing/kiwi/bugs. You could have several workshops on the same topic aimed at different levels of experience. Last year we had four tracks (one being taken up by the RPM Summit) with a fairly general topic for each track, is this what we want again? Would it be better to have more tracks with a more focused topic per track as mentioned in the CFP outline? Regards, Andy -- Andrew Wafaa, openSUSE Member: FunkyPenguin. PGP: 0x3A36312F openSUSE: Get It, Discover It, Create It at http://www.opensuse.org
On Wednesday 05 May 2010 Andrew Wafaa wrote:
The spread of topics seems like a good and varied list. I would like to see if possible the topic of Accessibility covered, maybe as part of the Collaboration Across Borders track as it applies to all aspects of openSUSE regardless of DE.
That's a very good point.
It would be a great opportunity to get members of all DEs (GNOME/KDE/Meego/LXDE/XFCE) and look at ways we can work together and learn from each other in an aspect that affects us all.
Yes, I think openSUSE is an excellent place to bring the desktops together.
One thing that isn't 100% clear to me is the target audience for the conference, is it aimed at developers, users or both? Personally I would like to see it aimed at both, but is that the general consensus? It may be worth holding workshops to help enlighten people to the ways of the Geeko. Off the top of my head we could have workshops based around packaging/OBS/testing/kiwi/bugs. You could have several workshops on the same topic aimed at different levels of experience.
Realistically I think we can mostly expect contributors at the conference, so I would make this the primary target group. This includes non-programmers, so packaging/OBS/testing/kiwi/bugs are certainly good topics. I'm not sure about pure users. It might be nice to have something in the program to address them as well, but from my point of view this shouldn't be the main focus.
Last year we had four tracks (one being taken up by the RPM Summit) with a fairly general topic for each track, is this what we want again? Would it be better to have more tracks with a more focused topic per track as mentioned in the CFP outline?
I think we should decide about the exact tracks once the deadline for for
submission of presentations is over and we know what presentations we'll have.
Then we can choose the optimal track structure based on the actual content.
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Cornelius Schumacher
It would be a great opportunity to get members of all DEs (GNOME/KDE/Meego/LXDE/XFCE) and look at ways we can work together and learn from each other in an aspect that affects us all.
Yes, I think openSUSE is an excellent place to bring the desktops together. Yes, and we should try to approach the communitees and try to make this
One thing that isn't 100% clear to me is the target audience for the conference, is it aimed at developers, users or both? Personally I would like to see it aimed at both, but is that the general consensus? It may be worth holding workshops to help enlighten people to the ways of the Geeko. Off the top of my head we could have workshops based around packaging/OBS/testing/kiwi/bugs. You could have several workshops on the same topic aimed at different levels of experience.
Realistically I think we can mostly expect contributors at the conference, so I would make this the primary target group. This includes non-programmers, so packaging/OBS/testing/kiwi/bugs are certainly good topics. I'm not sure about pure users. It might be nice to have something in the program to address them as well, but from my point of view this shouldn't be the main focus. I completely agree. Last year we had the "open day", I liked it, but I
Hi, option attractive upstream. How can that be done? think it was not too crowded. The most related this year is the "Home Track". An option would be to change it to "User Track" for example. Along that we would have to make more marketing around that. What options do we have for that?
Last year we had four tracks (one being taken up by the RPM Summit) with a fairly general topic for each track, is this what we want again? Would it be better to have more tracks with a more focused topic per track as mentioned in the CFP outline?
I think we should decide about the exact tracks once the deadline for for submission of presentations is over and we know what presentations we'll have. Then we can choose the optimal track structure based on the actual content. Agreed.
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Am Donnerstag, 6. Mai 2010 10:54:25 schrieb Klaas Freitag:
Hi,
It would be a great opportunity to get members of all DEs (GNOME/KDE/Meego/LXDE/XFCE) and look at ways we can work together and learn from each other in an aspect that affects us all.
Yes, I think openSUSE is an excellent place to bring the desktops together.
Yes, and we should try to approach the communitees and try to make this option attractive upstream. How can that be done?
There is no combined Desktop Summit this year, that might be a good lever to get people abord, maybe ping the freedesktop.org people about which part of the desktops would benefit most? Karsten -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
Hi,
It would be a great opportunity to get members of all DEs (GNOME/KDE/Meego/LXDE/XFCE) and look at ways we can work together and learn from each other in an aspect that affects us all.
Yes, I think openSUSE is an excellent place to bring the desktops together. [...] Realistically I think we can mostly expect contributors at the conference, so I would make this the primary target group. This includes non-programmers, so packaging/OBS/testing/kiwi/bugs are certainly good topics. I'm not sure about pure users. It might be nice to have something in the program to address them as well, but from my point of view this shouldn't be the main focus.
I completely agree. Last year we had the "open day", I liked it, but I think it was not too crowded. The most related this year is the "Home Track". An option would be to change it to "User Track" for example. Along that we would have to make more marketing around that. What options do we have for that? We can't expect users travelling from far away to the conference. Therefor I
On Thursday 06 May 2010 10:54:25 Klaas Freitag wrote: think we need to beat the drum locally - we need need to inform local education facilities (schools, universities, LUGs, adult education centers, professional schools etc.) and local press. And the user track or day need to tell its benefits very clearly - "What do I learn there when I attend?" Best M
Last year we had four tracks (one being taken up by the RPM Summit) with a fairly general topic for each track, is this what we want again? Would it be better to have more tracks with a more focused topic per track as mentioned in the CFP outline?
I think we should decide about the exact tracks once the deadline for for submission of presentations is over and we know what presentations we'll have. Then we can choose the optimal track structure based on the actual content.
Agreed.
Thanks,
Klaas
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Am Donnerstag, den 06.05.2010, 13:40 +0200 schrieb Michael Loeffler:
On Thursday 06 May 2010 10:54:25 Klaas Freitag wrote:
Hi,
It would be a great opportunity to get members of all DEs (GNOME/KDE/Meego/LXDE/XFCE) and look at ways we can work together and learn from each other in an aspect that affects us all.
Yes, I think openSUSE is an excellent place to bring the desktops together. [...] Realistically I think we can mostly expect contributors at the conference, so I would make this the primary target group. This includes non-programmers, so packaging/OBS/testing/kiwi/bugs are certainly good topics. I'm not sure about pure users. It might be nice to have something in the program to address them as well, but from my point of view this shouldn't be the main focus.
I completely agree. Last year we had the "open day", I liked it, but I think it was not too crowded. The most related this year is the "Home Track". An option would be to change it to "User Track" for example. Along that we would have to make more marketing around that. What options do we have for that?
We can't expect users travelling from far away to the conference. Therefor I think we need to beat the drum locally - we need need to inform local education facilities (schools, universities, LUGs, adult education centers, professional schools etc.) and local press. And the user track or day need to tell its benefits very clearly - "What do I learn there when I attend?"
Last year we made some failures with openday. First I would call it open day because the door is always open! Second first the talks was announced in english then they changed to german. Thats funny because as the people registerd the conference they read iit is in english and the change the found not out. As I said in the planning meeting last time. We should make from friday evening and the whole saturday a more user related program. It is not true that users not travelling far away. Michl u know I visit a lot of linux events here in Germany. There are always people from "far" away. At my last launch party there was a guy who travelled 240km there and there was Stefan Majewsky from KDE he travelled 80km from Dresden and Steffen Birnbaum he travelled 80km to. How far users travel depends really at the program. I dont travel to Nuremberg that shows me a Jan Weber some computers with openSUSE on it. I dont travel for one talk (except the topic is very interesting for me) but when there are mor talks the interest me so that I have a reason to stay the whole day, then I travel 240km to Nuremberg ;)
br gnokii P.S. I read last week not my mails maybe that answer was given, I have to answer a lot of mails now and dont have time to sort out which answer is given. The FOTU/TOFU quotes that happend here make it not easier to find out ;) Maybe there come some more mails from me to this topic -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
Le lundi 10 mai 2010, à 06:20 +0200, S.Kemter a écrit :
How far users travel depends really at the program. I dont travel to Nuremberg that shows me a Jan Weber some computers with openSUSE on it. I dont travel for one talk (except the topic is very interesting for me) but when there are mor talks the interest me so that I have a reason to stay the whole day, then I travel 240km to Nuremberg ;)
That's fair. But I think the point is that we won't reach end-users that are not part of our community anyway. The users who will attend the conference and who are coming from more than 100km are advanced users who care about the distribution, follow the news, etc. They are already part of our community and they know the basics of the project. So to attract them, we shouldn't talk about "What's openSUSE?" but "What's next in openSUSE?", "How can you help?" or "Current state of the project". (Note that those topics are of interest to all contributors anyway ;-)) The CfP looks okay -- I like the main theme. I'm unsure about the tracks yet, but as said earlier, this will depend on the submissions, so it's okay to wait here to be sure. What's important is to make it clear that all openSUSE-related topics are welcome, and that we also want upstream to come and talk about what they're doing that might impact a project like ours. Maybe add something like: "We encourage upstream communities to come and present the latest developments of their projects, as well as to come to learn about the openSUSE project. We want upstream to feel comfortable with openSUSE, and the openSUSE community is always excited to see what will be coming next thanks to upstream!" (needs to be reworded, I guess) Oh, we probably need some text about "getting sponsored", or a link to a page about that so that potential speakers know if there will be sponsorship opportunities. Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 10 May 2010 12:48:08 Vincent Untz wrote:
Le lundi 10 mai 2010, à 06:20 +0200, S.Kemter a écrit :
How far users travel depends really at the program. I dont travel to Nuremberg that shows me a Jan Weber some computers with openSUSE on it. I dont travel for one talk (except the topic is very interesting for me) but when there are mor talks the interest me so that I have a reason to stay the whole day, then I travel 240km to Nuremberg ;)
That's fair. But I think the point is that we won't reach end-users that are not part of our community anyway. The users who will attend the conference and who are coming from more than 100km are advanced users who care about the distribution, follow the news, etc. They are already part of our community and they know the basics of the project. So to attract them, we shouldn't talk about "What's openSUSE?" but "What's next in openSUSE?", "How can you help?" or "Current state of the project".
Agree, these active, engaging topics are catnip for contributors, whereas the descriptive 'what is openSUSE' or 'new features in KDE/GNOME in openSUSE 11.x' talks belong only at general purpose shows. Will -- Will Stephenson, KDE Developer, openSUSE Boosters Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
Am Montag, den 10.05.2010, 12:48 +0200 schrieb Vincent Untz:
Le lundi 10 mai 2010, à 06:20 +0200, S.Kemter a écrit :
How far users travel depends really at the program. I dont travel to Nuremberg that shows me a Jan Weber some computers with openSUSE on it. I dont travel for one talk (except the topic is very interesting for me) but when there are mor talks the interest me so that I have a reason to stay the whole day, then I travel 240km to Nuremberg ;)
That's fair. But I think the point is that we won't reach end-users that are not part of our community anyway. The users who will attend the conference and who are coming from more than 100km are advanced users who care about the distribution, follow the news, etc. They are already part of our community and they know the basics of the project. So to attract them, we shouldn't talk about "What's openSUSE?" but "What's next in openSUSE?", "How can you help?" or "Current state of the project".
I am not asked for talks like "Whats openSUSE" that isnt necessary to make, for this they can travel to other events like LinuxTag, CLT or a other linux events. I heard last year a talk from Spevack. It was called "Innovations from fedora project" on the end the headline was wrong I spoke about transform users to contributors http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2009/vortraege/detail.html?idx=18 the talk is available as mp3 and ogg ;) I think also more on topics like *packacking with OBS *how to use bugtracker some entry workshops and talks for programming for transforming users to contributors. Atract free developers
(Note that those topics are of interest to all contributors anyway ;-))
+1
The CfP looks okay -- I like the main theme. I'm unsure about the tracks yet, but as said earlier, this will depend on the submissions, so it's okay to wait here to be sure. What's important is to make it clear that all openSUSE-related topics are welcome, and that we also want upstream to come and talk about what they're doing that might impact a project like ours. Maybe add something like:
"We encourage upstream communities to come and present the latest developments of their projects, as well as to come to learn about the openSUSE project. We want upstream to feel comfortable with openSUSE, and the openSUSE community is always excited to see what will be coming next thanks to upstream!"
(needs to be reworded, I guess)
Oh, we probably need some text about "getting sponsored", or a link to a page about that so that potential speakers know if there will be sponsorship opportunities.
br gnokii
Vincent
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Moin, what about having an IRC meeting sometime this week to shape the program in real time a bit ? I think it would be pretty good to start the call for papers still in May. Looking at the people who added themselves to the program committee and the guys participating in this discussion I think Wednesday could fit. Would 4pm CEST work for you ? Best Michael Wednesday, On Monday 10 May 2010 13:26:10 S.Kemter wrote:
Am Montag, den 10.05.2010, 12:48 +0200 schrieb Vincent Untz:
Le lundi 10 mai 2010, à 06:20 +0200, S.Kemter a écrit :
How far users travel depends really at the program. I dont travel to Nuremberg that shows me a Jan Weber some computers with openSUSE on it. I dont travel for one talk (except the topic is very interesting for me) but when there are mor talks the interest me so that I have a reason to stay the whole day, then I travel 240km to Nuremberg ;)
That's fair. But I think the point is that we won't reach end-users that are not part of our community anyway. The users who will attend the conference and who are coming from more than 100km are advanced users who care about the distribution, follow the news, etc. They are already part of our community and they know the basics of the project. So to attract them, we shouldn't talk about "What's openSUSE?" but "What's next in openSUSE?", "How can you help?" or "Current state of the project".
I am not asked for talks like "Whats openSUSE" that isnt necessary to make, for this they can travel to other events like LinuxTag, CLT or a other linux events.
I heard last year a talk from Spevack. It was called "Innovations from fedora project" on the end the headline was wrong I spoke about transform users to contributors
http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2009/vortraege/detail.html?idx=18
the talk is available as mp3 and ogg ;)
I think also more on topics like
*packacking with OBS *how to use bugtracker
some entry workshops and talks for programming for transforming users to contributors. Atract free developers
(Note that those topics are of interest to all contributors anyway ;-))
+1
The CfP looks okay -- I like the main theme. I'm unsure about the tracks yet, but as said earlier, this will depend on the submissions, so it's okay to wait here to be sure. What's important is to make it clear that all openSUSE-related topics are welcome, and that we also want upstream to come and talk about what they're doing that might impact a project like ours. Maybe add something like:
"We encourage upstream communities to come and present the latest developments of their projects, as well as to come to learn about the openSUSE project. We want upstream to feel comfortable with openSUSE, and the openSUSE community is always excited to see what will be coming next thanks to upstream!"
(needs to be reworded, I guess)
Oh, we probably need some text about "getting sponsored", or a link to a page about that so that potential speakers know if there will be sponsorship opportunities.
br gnokii
Vincent
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On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 14:50 +0200, Michael Loeffler wrote:
Moin,
what about having an IRC meeting sometime this week to shape the program in real time a bit ? I think it would be pretty good to start the call for papers still in May. Looking at the people who added themselves to the program committee and the guys participating in this discussion I think Wednesday could fit. Would 4pm CEST work for you ?
Best Michael
1400UTC works for me. I'm unavailable Thu & Fri all day, but if I cant make it then fine. I think I've made my views clear enough to people so as always I wont be missed too much :) Regards, Andy -- Andrew Wafaa IRC: FunkyPenguin. PGP: 0x3A36312F openSUSE: Get It, Discover It, Create It at http://www.opensuse.org
Am Montag 10 Mai 2010 14:50:48 schrieb Michael Loeffler: Hi,
what about having an IRC meeting sometime this week to shape the program in real time a bit ? I think it would be pretty good to start the call for papers still in May.
pls find a new draft which Vincent, Michl and me reworked at http://en.opensuse.org/Conference_2010/Call_For_Papers and keep in mind that there is another IRC meeting tomorrow to discuss feedback again, the goal is to issue the CfP still in may. Your input is appreciated, Thanks, Klaas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 18:53 +0200, Klaas Freitag wrote:
Am Montag 10 Mai 2010 14:50:48 schrieb Michael Loeffler: Hi,
what about having an IRC meeting sometime this week to shape the program in real time a bit ? I think it would be pretty good to start the call for papers still in May.
pls find a new draft which Vincent, Michl and me reworked at http://en.opensuse.org/Conference_2010/Call_For_Papers and keep in mind that there is another IRC meeting tomorrow to discuss feedback again, the goal is to issue the CfP still in may.
Your input is appreciated,
Thanks,
Klaas
1. I personally hate date information in a sentence and prefer it more bullet-ized. When: (date) Where: (location) etc. It is so much easier to locate when you are trying t quickly grab information about when the conference is so you can make plans around it. 2. Collaboration across Borders "Borders" typically refer to geography, but in fact can apply to anything. Borders between projects, borders between minds, etc. If you take the time to emphasize that as the theme, rather than leaving it at default assumption of geography, I think you're going to inspire a lot more people to submit for higher glory. The rest of it, I think is generally good. Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
Le mercredi 19 mai 2010, à 12:42 -0500, Bryen M. Yunashko a écrit :
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 18:53 +0200, Klaas Freitag wrote:
Am Montag 10 Mai 2010 14:50:48 schrieb Michael Loeffler: Hi,
what about having an IRC meeting sometime this week to shape the program in real time a bit ? I think it would be pretty good to start the call for papers still in May.
pls find a new draft which Vincent, Michl and me reworked at http://en.opensuse.org/Conference_2010/Call_For_Papers and keep in mind that there is another IRC meeting tomorrow to discuss feedback again, the goal is to issue the CfP still in may.
Your input is appreciated,
Thanks,
Klaas
1. I personally hate date information in a sentence and prefer it more bullet-ized. When: (date) Where: (location) etc.
It is so much easier to locate when you are trying t quickly grab information about when the conference is so you can make plans around it.
That's a good point. Maybe we can have something like: What: openSUSE Conference When: October XX-YY Where: Nürnberg, Germany Submission deadline: XX Notification of acceptance: YY at the top or bottom, to summarize everything?
2. Collaboration across Borders
"Borders" typically refer to geography, but in fact can apply to anything. Borders between projects, borders between minds, etc. If you take the time to emphasize that as the theme, rather than leaving it at default assumption of geography, I think you're going to inspire a lot more people to submit for higher glory.
The list of items in the CfP is actually supposed to do that. But we moved it towards the end of the CfP. Would moving it back after the introduction of the motto help? Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 15:39 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
Le mercredi 19 mai 2010, à 12:42 -0500, Bryen M. Yunashko a écrit :
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 18:53 +0200, Klaas Freitag wrote:
Am Montag 10 Mai 2010 14:50:48 schrieb Michael Loeffler: Hi,
what about having an IRC meeting sometime this week to shape the program in real time a bit ? I think it would be pretty good to start the call for papers still in May.
pls find a new draft which Vincent, Michl and me reworked at http://en.opensuse.org/Conference_2010/Call_For_Papers and keep in mind that there is another IRC meeting tomorrow to discuss feedback again, the goal is to issue the CfP still in may.
Your input is appreciated,
Thanks,
Klaas
1. I personally hate date information in a sentence and prefer it more bullet-ized. When: (date) Where: (location) etc.
It is so much easier to locate when you are trying t quickly grab information about when the conference is so you can make plans around it.
That's a good point. Maybe we can have something like:
What: openSUSE Conference When: October XX-YY Where: Nürnberg, Germany Submission deadline: XX Notification of acceptance: YY
at the top or bottom, to summarize everything?
2. Collaboration across Borders
"Borders" typically refer to geography, but in fact can apply to anything. Borders between projects, borders between minds, etc. If you take the time to emphasize that as the theme, rather than leaving it at default assumption of geography, I think you're going to inspire a lot more people to submit for higher glory.
The list of items in the CfP is actually supposed to do that. But we moved it towards the end of the CfP. Would moving it back after the introduction of the motto help?
Vincent
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In accordance with my action item after today's meeting, I have a revised first-draft of the "Collaboration Across Borders" paragraph. I want to tighten and clean it up a bit more, but wanted to go ahead and post it here to let you all see the direction I'm going in and give you an opportunity to call me an idiot. :-) Begin Text: Collaboration Across Borders This year's theme of collaborating across borders highlights the spirit of openSUSE and our goal of working closely with upstream projects and neighbor distributions. Tearing down the borders that separate projects so we can all work together to further the benefits of open source for everyone and strengthen lasting relationships. Below, you will find proposed categories that you may wish to present in, or you may suggest a topic that is not listed. End Text: -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
That's a good point. Maybe we can have something like:
What: openSUSE Conference When: October XX-YY Where: Nürnberg, Germany Submission deadline: XX Notification of acceptance: YY
at the top or bottom, to summarize everything?
2. Collaboration across Borders
"Borders" typically refer to geography, but in fact can apply to anything. Borders between projects, borders between minds, etc. If you take the time to emphasize that as the theme, rather than leaving it at default assumption of geography, I think you're going to inspire a lot more people to submit for higher glory.
The list of items in the CfP is actually supposed to do that. But we moved it towards the end of the CfP. Would moving it back after the introduction of the motto help?
Vincent
In accordance with my action item after today's meeting, I have a revised first-draft of the "Collaboration Across Borders" paragraph. I want to tighten and clean it up a bit more, but wanted to go ahead and post it here to let you all see the direction I'm going in and give you an opportunity to call me an idiot. :-) No need for that from my side :-) Thanks, Bryen, I will work in your
Am Donnerstag 20 Mai 2010 20:31:56 schrieb Bryen M. Yunashko: proposal tomorrow. regards, klaas
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Collaboration Across Borders
This year's theme of collaborating across borders highlights the spirit of openSUSE and our goal of working closely with upstream projects and neighbor distributions. Tearing down the borders that separate projects so we can all work together to further the benefits of open source for everyone and strengthen lasting relationships.
Below, you will find proposed categories that you may wish to present in, or you may suggest a topic that is not listed.
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participants (9)
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Andrew Wafaa -
Bryen M. Yunashko -
Cornelius Schumacher -
Karsten König -
Klaas Freitag -
Michael Loeffler -
S.Kemter -
Vincent Untz -
Will Stephenson