One more thing. Imagine nobody adds to the list on the wiki and we get talks exactly like we ask for (and nothing else): Some areas we are interested in include: *Cloud, virtualization and appliances *(multi) touch screens, new form factors and architectures like ARM *OBS, packaging, Studio, KIWI I'm sure there are more things to talk about... Come on, some threads get hundreds of opinions, now we need some and it is silent? On Friday 06 May 2011 20:21:53 Jos Poortvliet wrote:

Hi all,

We need some decisions soon on a few things!

Questions: - do we a _separate announcement_ of the conf & 1-2 days later the CfP or all in one? Currently we have two texts: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Announcing_openSUSE_conference_2011 and http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_Planning_2011_CfP I will publish both (we need images from the location and/or a nice logo btw) unless someone is willing to integrate them so we can have one article. Deadline: Sunday. - Theme: the marketeers have to come up with a theme before sunday night or we use what we already have: rwx^3. Robert has made some nice graphics for that already. - Schedule. Cornelius proposed to only schedule talks and workshops and provide a wiki page for the BOF's. It would need a CfP member stepping up however to feel responsible and make sure no conflicts arise. I'm not sure about this whole idea as we might have too many sessions and no quality control this way. How about we get up a list where you can add a BoF you want to do, keep that open until 2 weeks before the conf, schedule then and keep 20% open for AT the conference. So we have quality control, can do something about redundancy but also schedule it smart, for example in topical rooms or so... Decision Deadline: tuesday.

The theme and the announcement part have fallbacks for me: if nobody cares, I'll just do whatever I feel like ;-)

The schedule I'd rather not decide on my own but if there are no sensible suggestions and opinions until Tuesday I'll make something up :D

Cheers, Jos

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The schedule I'd rather not decide on my own but if there are no sensible suggestions and opinions until Tuesday I'll make something up :D

Cheers, Jos

One thought I did have regarding theme, with the proposed conference location motto being Zentrifuge with 'Creating Communities', a theme that echoes that could be good. I know a few people felt RWX^3 was a bit too geeky. ''Create Community' could work or we could play with some ideas along those lines. Something in German language? The focus on cloud/virtualization, hardware and packaging could generate something. 'real + virtual' ... or newness... 'cutting edge community' ... but RWX^3 works. Regarding newbies, is a whole day required? Sunday afternoon could possibly work. Or what about an evening, that people could go to on the way home from work? Provide light refreshments and a few talks, not finishing too late. cheers, Helen -- IRC: helen_au helen.south@opensuse.org helensouth.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org

On Friday 06 May 2011 20:21:53 Jos Poortvliet wrote:

Hi all,

We need some decisions soon on a few things!

Questions: - do we a _separate announcement_ of the conf & 1-2 days later the CfP or all in one? Currently we have two texts: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Announcing_openSUSE_conference_2011 and http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_Planning_2011_CfP I will publish both (we need images from the location and/or a nice logo btw) unless someone is willing to integrate them so we can have one article. Deadline: Sunday.

Several people told me to combine the two, so I'll do that now.

- Theme: the marketeers have to come up with a theme before sunday night or we use what we already have: rwx^3. Robert has made some nice graphics for that already. RWX^3 it is.

- Schedule. Cornelius proposed to only schedule talks and workshops and provide a wiki page for the BOF's. It would need a CfP member stepping up however to feel responsible and make sure no conflicts arise. I'm not sure about this whole idea as we might have too many sessions and no quality control this way. How about we get up a list where you can add a BoF you want to do, keep that open until 2 weeks before the conf, schedule then and keep 20% open for AT the conference. So we have quality control, can do something about redundancy but also schedule it smart, for example in topical rooms or so... As I'll merge the announcements and the announcement goes out as soon as we know we can use the Zentrifuge for sure, this decision has to be taken before that. I'll go with the above unless someone has a more sensible suggestion...

Decision Deadline: tuesday.

The theme and the announcement part have fallbacks for me: if nobody cares, I'll just do whatever I feel like ;-)

The schedule I'd rather not decide on my own but if there are no sensible suggestions and opinions until Tuesday I'll make something up :D

Cheers, Jos

On Friday, May 06, 2011 20:37:19 Jos Poortvliet wrote:

One more thing.

Imagine nobody adds to the list on the wiki and we get talks exactly like we ask for (and nothing else): Some areas we are interested in include: *Cloud, virtualization and appliances *(multi) touch screens, new form factors and architectures like ARM *OBS, packaging, Studio, KIWI

Some great upstream technology that we will have in openSUSE 12.1, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE aj@{novell.com,suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org

On Monday 09 May 2011 14:18:44 Andreas Jaeger wrote:

On Friday, May 06, 2011 20:21:53 Jos Poortvliet wrote:

...

Hi all,

We need some decisions soon on a few things!

Questions: - do we a _separate announcement_ of the conf & 1-2 days later the CfP or all in one? Currently we have two texts: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Announcing_openSUSE_conference_2011 and http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_Planning_2011_CfP I will publish both (we need images from the location and/or a nice logo btw) unless someone is willing to integrate them so we can have one article. Deadline: Sunday. - Theme: the marketeers have to come up with a theme before sunday night or we use what we already have: rwx^3. Robert has made some nice graphics for that already.

- Schedule. Cornelius proposed to only schedule talks and workshops and provide a wiki page for the BOF's. It would need a CfP member stepping up however to feel responsible and make sure no conflicts arise. I'm not sure about this whole idea as we might have too many sessions and no quality control this way.

We basically did it the same way last year - just a bit more chaotic since nobody know what the process was ;)

...

How about we get up a list where you can add a BoF you want to do, keep that open until 2 weeks before the conf, schedule then and keep 20% open for AT the conference. So we have quality control, can do something about redundancy but also schedule it smart, for example in topical rooms or so...

We could also have some open slots on the wiki with times (not everybody comes all the time, so let those that propose a BOF, schedule it themselves) - and block every day a few time slots to be filled at the conference. Let's say we open the slots until e.g. 2pm and reserve those in the afternoon...

Good suggestion, made it into the CfP :D

Let's make it easy to schedule a BOF - and I agree, let's reserve some slots for scheduling at the event.

Andreas

On Monday 09 May 2011 21:42:47 Christian Boltz wrote:

Hello,

on Montag, 9. Mai 2011, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

...

Let's make it easy to schedule a BOF - and I agree, let's reserve some slots for scheduling at the event.

I fully agree - there are always some topics that don't come up in advance.

I'd like to propose another, related thing - let me call it a "BOF wishlist" ;-)

My idea is to have a wishlist where people can state "I'd like to know more about XY / discuss FOO / ..." (and a column for "me too" votes) - and with some luck we have someone on the conference who can do a BOF about this topic then. (Maybe this person thought his/her pet topic isn't interesting for someone else and is even happy to talk about it.)

This can be done in the wiki before the conference and also on a whiteboard at the conference.

I can't promise if it works, but it's worth a try ;-)

Well, sounds like a good idea. As the CfP is supposed to go out tomorrow, how about you create a start of a wiki page with a list of 'BoF's we'd like to see'? We can link to it in the speakers guidelines or something like that :D Moreover, the CfP is in pretty-much-final state on the wiki now but someone who is not traveling all day tomorrow (like me) has to put it on news.o.o and publish it. And it has to be on http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Conference - this page has to be updated. Again, I won't be able to do that tomorrow. Indico will need some work, too. Klaas promised to do that part. Who's up for helping out and modifying the Conference portal? Can I count on someone from the news team to publish http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_Planning_2011_CfP tomorrow around 12-14 hours from now? (between 12:00 and 14:00 Tuesday)? Don't let me down, there seems to be plenty of time to discuss the anti- harassment policy while this is actually way more productive and less work... Jos

Regards,

Christian Boltz

2011/5/10 Jos Poortvliet :

On Monday 09 May 2011 21:42:47 Christian Boltz wrote:

...

Hello,

on Montag, 9. Mai 2011, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

...

Let's make it easy to schedule a BOF - and I agree, let's reserve some slots  for scheduling at the event.

I fully agree - there are always some topics that don't come up in advance.

I'd like to propose another, related thing - let me call it a "BOF wishlist" ;-)

My idea is to have a wishlist where people can state "I'd like to know more about XY / discuss FOO / ..." (and a column for "me too" votes) - and with some luck we have someone on the conference who can do a BOF about this topic then. (Maybe this person thought his/her pet topic isn't interesting for someone else and is even happy to talk about it.)

This can be done in the wiki before the conference and also on a whiteboard at the conference.

I can't promise if it works, but it's worth a try ;-)

Well, sounds like a good idea. As the CfP is supposed to go out tomorrow, how about you create a start of a wiki page with a list of 'BoF's we'd like to see'? We can link to it in the speakers guidelines or something like that :D

Moreover, the CfP is in pretty-much-final state on the wiki now but someone who is not traveling all day tomorrow (like me) has to put it on news.o.o and publish it.

And it has to be on http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Conference - this page has to be updated. Again, I won't be able to do that tomorrow. Indico will need some work, too. Klaas promised to do that part.

Who's up for helping out and modifying the Conference portal?

Meeeeeee ;-) I was out for a while due to Fosscomm 2011 but now I am back. Let me know what exactly what you want me to do, I prefer to do that by private e-mail though. I even catch up with you on IRC later today.

Can I count on someone from the news team to publish http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_Planning_2011_CfP tomorrow around 12-14 hours from now? (between 12:00 and 14:00 Tuesday)?

Don't let me down, there seems to be plenty of time to discuss the anti- harassment policy while this is actually way more productive and less work...

Jos

...

Regards,

Christian Boltz

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Well I dont know if this is the exact place but I wanted this to be bought to notice for the CFP Committee, last year several of us could not attend openSUSE Conference, is there any possibility that videos of talks could be recorded or live streamed, off course recorded videos are better but this would be an awesome thing to do. Regards Manu On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Kostas Koudaras wrote:

2011/5/10 Jos Poortvliet :

...

On Monday 09 May 2011 21:42:47 Christian Boltz wrote:

...

Hello,

on Montag, 9. Mai 2011, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

...

Let's make it easy to schedule a BOF - and I agree, let's reserve some slots  for scheduling at the event.

I fully agree - there are always some topics that don't come up in advance.

I'd like to propose another, related thing - let me call it a "BOF wishlist" ;-)

My idea is to have a wishlist where people can state "I'd like to know more about XY / discuss FOO / ..." (and a column for "me too" votes) - and with some luck we have someone on the conference who can do a BOF about this topic then. (Maybe this person thought his/her pet topic isn't interesting for someone else and is even happy to talk about it.)

This can be done in the wiki before the conference and also on a whiteboard at the conference.

I can't promise if it works, but it's worth a try ;-)

Well, sounds like a good idea. As the CfP is supposed to go out tomorrow, how about you create a start of a wiki page with a list of 'BoF's we'd like to see'? We can link to it in the speakers guidelines or something like that :D

Moreover, the CfP is in pretty-much-final state on the wiki now but someone who is not traveling all day tomorrow (like me) has to put it on news.o.o and publish it.

And it has to be on http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Conference - this page has to be updated. Again, I won't be able to do that tomorrow. Indico will need some work, too. Klaas promised to do that part.

Who's up for helping out and modifying the Conference portal?

Meeeeeee ;-) I was out for a while due to Fosscomm 2011 but now I am back. Let me know what exactly what you want me to do, I prefer to do that by private e-mail though. I even catch up with you on IRC later today.

...

Can I count on someone from the news team to publish http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_Planning_2011_CfP tomorrow around 12-14 hours from now? (between 12:00 and 14:00 Tuesday)?

Don't let me down, there seems to be plenty of time to discuss the anti- harassment policy while this is actually way more productive and less work...

Jos

...

Regards,

Christian Boltz

Kostas

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On 2011-05-10 Matt wrote:

Dear opensuse devs,

I was delighted when I heard about project Bretzn from Frank's blog-post for opensuse news, i think it will be a tremendous boost to both desktop (opensuse) and mobile (meego) linux, but..................

.............. ever since the Nokia announcement we have barely heard a peep about Bretzn, other than a sort-of confirmation that it wasn't ready for 11.4 and that Sept/Oct was the new target.

More importantly, ever since the Nokia announcement the Bretzn mailing list has been dead, utterly dead, with no new posts since February!

http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-bretzn/

What has happened to Bretzn?

I know. I'll talk to frank tomorrow (or rather today, when you receive this mail). Last time I spoke to him he told me he had little time for it lately due to a busy job. Some of the others are still on it but yes, it is quiet. I'm sure they can use some help, anyone interested - I know Frank would make time for coaching or any other support.

Kind regards

M

Thanks Jos, I am no developer, but i believe the potential of what Frank helped create is pretty amazing, and i'd love to see it included in November's opensuse release. Kind regards M On 05/10/11 22:57, Jos Poortvliet wrote:

...

Dear opensuse devs,

I was delighted when I heard about project Bretzn from Frank's blog-post for opensuse news, i think it will be a tremendous boost to both desktop (opensuse) and mobile (meego) linux, but..................

.............. ever since the Nokia announcement we have barely heard a peep about Bretzn, other than a sort-of confirmation that it wasn't ready for 11.4 and that Sept/Oct was the new target.

More importantly, ever since the Nokia announcement the Bretzn mailing list has been dead, utterly dead, with no new posts since February!

http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-bretzn/

What has happened to Bretzn? I know. I'll talk to frank tomorrow (or rather today, when you receive

On 2011-05-10 Matt wrote: this mail). Last time I spoke to him he told me he had little time for it lately due to a busy job. Some of the others are still on it but yes, it is quiet.

I'm sure they can use some help, anyone interested - I know Frank would make time for coaching or any other support.

...

Kind regards

M

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On Tuesday, May 10, 2011 11:57:46 PM Jos Poortvliet wrote:

...

...

Dear opensuse devs,

I was delighted when I heard about project Bretzn from Frank's blog-post for opensuse news, i think it will be a tremendous boost to both desktop (opensuse) and mobile (meego) linux, but..................

.............. ever since the Nokia announcement we have barely heard a peep about Bretzn, other than a sort-of confirmation that it wasn't ready for 11.4 and that Sept/Oct was the new target.

More importantly, ever since the Nokia announcement the Bretzn mailing list has been dead, utterly dead, with no new posts since February!

http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-bretzn/

What has happened to Bretzn? I know. I'll talk to frank tomorrow (or rather today, when you receive

On 2011-05-10 Matt wrote: this mail). Last time I spoke to him he told me he had little time for it lately due to a busy job. Some of the others are still on it but yes, it is quiet.

I'm sure they can use some help, anyone interested - I know Frank would make time for coaching or any other support. There's also a presentation at LInuxTag on Friday this week about project Brezn...

Andreas

On 05/11/11 11:04, Andreas Jaeger wrote: thanks Andreas, I will keep an eye out for it. M -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org

On Tuesday 24 May 2011 18:27:26 Matt Gray wrote:

was there any transcript or slides posted?

http://www.slideshare.net/karlitschek/project-betzn-linuxtag-2011 (sic) Will -- Will Stephenson, KDE Developer, openSUSE Boosters Team SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org