FYI ;-)
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Subject: openSUSE Conference schedule available!
Date: Wednesday 12 September 2012, 12:49:21
From: Jos Poortvliet
To: jpoortvliet@novell.com
Dear press,
At 15:00 UTC today the openSUSE Conference team announces the openSUSE
Conference schedule. The event is planned for October 20-23 and will be co-
located with the local Czech LinuxDays event, the SUSE Labs meeting and a
Gentoo miniconf. We'll also host a special feature track on the impact of
(internet) technology on the future of communication, data sharing and more
with prominent speakers from around the world [0].
You can find the announcement [1] and schedule [2] already on the bottom of
this email.
The announcement will go out on 14:00 on the openSUSE news site
(news.opensuse.org) and to opensuse-announce@opensuse.org and I kindly
request you to not publish before then.
The conference is shaping up to become a truly unique event. Combining a
generic FOSS conference with a large distribution gathering will lead to an
interesting and collaborative atmosphere. In the past, the openSUSE
community has always welcomed contributors from other Linux Distributions at
our events (see for example the 'collaboration across borders' themed event
in 2010 [3]). But this year, we step it up, opening our event to plenty of
talks from other distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora and even co-locating
with a Gentoo miniconf. I'm proud that openSUSE continues to play a big role
in enabling Free Software collaboration and that we help make this event
happen!
There is another reason why this event will be special for us.
As you might recall, the openSUSE 12.2 release (which came out last
Wednesday) had to be delayed due to integration issues with the growing
number of contributions to openSUSE [4]. The openSUSE conference will play
a crucial role in doing something about these problems, coming with
solutions for them and deciding on new procedures and possible changes to
our release process.
See my blog about possible directions we might take [5] and about the
choices we have before us.
On the conference schedule you can see that Monday and Tuesday have a number
of sessions scheduled to discuss these things as well as ample time for BoF
breakout sessions and a long lunch break to facilitate the kind of open
debate we'll need to take the right decisions and keep openSUSE growing at a
brisk pace.
If you have any questions, please let me know, I'd be glad to answer them
or, in case I can't, put you in contact with whomever can!
Hope to see some of you there!
Greetings,
Jos Poortvliet
openSUSE Community Manager
SUSE
[0] http://bootstrapping-awesome.org/futuremedia
[1] http://news.opensuse.org/2012/06/14/where-is-my-12-2-my-kingdom-for-
a-12-2/
[2] http://blog.jospoortvliet.com/2012/06/future-of-opensuse-update-on-
discussion.html
[3] http://news.opensuse.org/2010/10/28/opensuse-conference-big-success/
[4] http://conference.opensuse.org/news/2012/09-05-
some_opensuse_conference_sessions_announced/
[5] http://bootstrapping-awesome.org/schedule/
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