The openSUSE Project is opening the call for participation in the openSUSE Summit 2009[1], to be held September 17 through 20 in Nuremberg, Germany. We're looking for contributors to openSUSE, upstream projects, and members of the openSUSE community to participate[2].
The summit will be an opportunity to bring the openSUSE contributor community together to share ideas, experience, hack, and help guide the direction of the project. So we're looking to members of the community to give presentations, tutorials, and lead birds of a feather and panel sessions in several tracks:
* Community: Marketing, translations, wiki, documentation, forums, and openSUSE governance.
* Desktop: Topics related to the openSUSE desktop, including KDE, GNOME, Xfce, and applications.
* Server: Use of openSUSE on the server or development of server applications.
* Toolchain and System: The kernel, YaST, packaging, and openSUSE Build Service.
* Open Day: Saturday will include a track for openSUSE users and people new to Linux.
If you're interested in presenting at the openSUSE Summit, fill out the Call for Participation Form[3] with all of the details for your participation. We're accepting talks, tutorials, birds of a feather, and panel discussion submissions. (Birds of feather sessions will be scheduled after hours.)
The summit will not be entirely composed of prepared presentations, so we will be accepting a limited number of proposals.
Deadline ========
All proposals must be submitted by May 20th. To submit a proposal, fill out the form[3] before 12:00 UTC on May 20.
[1]: http://bit.ly/NLIcy
[2]: http://bit.ly/13y5n
[3]: http://bit.ly/44B4Dv
Hi Zonker,
The openSUSE Project is opening the call for participation in the openSUSE Summit 2009[1], to be held September 17 through 20 in Nuremberg, Germany. We're looking for contributors to openSUSE, upstream projects, and members of the openSUSE community to participate[2].
The summit will be an opportunity to bring the openSUSE contributor community together to share ideas, experience, hack, and help guide the direction of the project. So we're looking to members of the community to give presentations, tutorials, and lead birds of a feather and panel sessions in several tracks: [...]
How is the way of creating/submitting 'activities' around the tracks? I would like to see a key-signing party for example. But I'm sure there are other things that do make sense to have.
Is it too early to talk about that now?
Best wishes, Holgi
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Holger Sickenberg holgi@opensuse.org wrote:
How is the way of creating/submitting 'activities' around the tracks? I would like to see a key-signing party for example. But I'm sure there are other things that do make sense to have.
Is it too early to talk about that now?
It's not too early to talk about that now. Feel free to send me or other organizers an email and let us know what you're thinking.
For the specific idea -- a key-signing party sounds like an excellent Birds of a Feather activity, something that might take place after 18:00 each day. (Planning for BoFs to happen between 18:00 - 20:00)
And yes, I think there are plenty of other things that make sense to have. :-)
Best,
Zonker
Le jeudi 16 avril 2009, à 08:24 -0400, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier a écrit :
If you're interested in presenting at the openSUSE Summit, fill out the Call for Participation Form[3] with all of the details for your participation. We're accepting talks, tutorials, birds of a feather, and panel discussion submissions. (Birds of feather sessions will be scheduled after hours.)
Any reason a phone number and address are required?
Will we be able to schedule last-minute BoFs or mini-talks in some hacker rooms? (I'd expect people to discover new topics they'd like to discuss)
The summit will not be entirely composed of prepared presentations, so we will be accepting a limited number of proposals.
Deadline
All proposals must be submitted by May 20th. To submit a proposal, fill out the form[3] before 12:00 UTC on May 20.
Might be nice to send a reminder ;-)
Vincent
On Sonntag 17 Mai 2009 14:29:16 Vincent Untz wrote:
Le jeudi 16 avril 2009, à 08:24 -0400, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier a écrit :
If you're interested in presenting at the openSUSE Summit, fill out the Call for Participation Form[3] with all of the details for your participation. We're accepting talks, tutorials, birds of a feather, and panel discussion submissions. (Birds of feather sessions will be scheduled after hours.)
Any reason a phone number and address are required?
Good point. I would have submitted already if one would not have to give sensible data there. Would be great to get that not so strict.
Will we be able to schedule last-minute BoFs or mini-talks in some hacker rooms? (I'd expect people to discover new topics they'd like to discuss)
Yes, there could be a BOF board where people can post their BOFs as they come up.
regards,
Klaas
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Vincent Untz vuntz@opensuse.org wrote:
Le jeudi 16 avril 2009, à 08:24 -0400, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier a écrit :
If you're interested in presenting at the openSUSE Summit, fill out the Call for Participation Form[3] with all of the details for your participation. We're accepting talks, tutorials, birds of a feather, and panel discussion submissions. (Birds of feather sessions will be scheduled after hours.)
Any reason a phone number and address are required?
Yes.
Phone, because I think it'll probably be good to have phone numbers in case conf. organizers are needing to get in touch with speakers right before the conference.
Address, because now's a good time to get that information if we need to send anything to the presenters.
Generally, I'm pretty conservative about giving out phone/address/email, but we're not going to be spamming anyone or telemarketing anyone for openSUSE.
Will we be able to schedule last-minute BoFs or mini-talks in some hacker rooms? (I'd expect people to discover new topics they'd like to discuss)
Yes, of course.
Best,
Zonker
Le lundi 18 mai 2009, à 14:31 -0400, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier a écrit :
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Vincent Untz vuntz@opensuse.org wrote:
Le jeudi 16 avril 2009, à 08:24 -0400, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier a écrit :
If you're interested in presenting at the openSUSE Summit, fill out the Call for Participation Form[3] with all of the details for your participation. We're accepting talks, tutorials, birds of a feather, and panel discussion submissions. (Birds of feather sessions will be scheduled after hours.)
Any reason a phone number and address are required?
Yes.
Phone, because I think it'll probably be good to have phone numbers in case conf. organizers are needing to get in touch with speakers right before the conference.
Address, because now's a good time to get that information if we need to send anything to the presenters.
Generally, I'm pretty conservative about giving out phone/address/email, but we're not going to be spamming anyone or telemarketing anyone for openSUSE.
Sure, sure. We're missing a link to a privacy policy, though.
FWIW, in my case, I don't care that much since this information is already freely available if you look for it. But this might push back some people... So I'd prefer to have those fields "recommended" next time :-) (no need to fix it now, it's not worth the effort)
Vincent
Ahoj,
Am Monday 18 May 2009 20:31:36 schrieb Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier:
Phone, because I think it'll probably be good to have phone numbers in case conf. organizers are needing to get in touch with speakers right before the conference.
Ask the guys/girls when you accepted their speech.
Address, because now's a good time to get that information if we need to send anything to the presenters.
Ask the guys/girls when you accepted their speech.
Generally, I'm pretty conservative about giving out phone/address/email, but we're not going to be spamming anyone or telemarketing anyone for openSUSE.
Dude ... this is no Novell nor SUSE service - this is going through google.
I just found out that someone had some fun adding a weird speech in my name. Thank you very much!
pissed, daemon -- You don't need to know!
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