On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:43:04 -0400
Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
Hi Andrew,
Thanks for subscribing, great to have you on the list! :-)
Thank you, and it's a pleasure.
I appreciate I have already asked the question on IRC in the past about openSUSE and LRL UK'08[0], but there were no real responses (I'm not complaining much, honest). After a fairly healthy discussion on #opensuse-project last night about an openSUSE Conference the idea of holding some un-meetings before any such event was thought to be a good idea.
Sorry, I thought we'd reached an outcome on that -- basically, after attending LRL U.S., my take was that it was a fun show, but the turnout didn't really justify the expense of sending staff + swag to the show.
I can appreciate that, although Fedora and Ubuntu will be getting some free press as their community heads are there (no I'm not getting at you - honest).
Now I know LRL isn't necessarily the best of breed in OSS conferences, but one thing that it does have in it's favour is the relaxed manner of the event. As such I think it would be a missed opportunity if openSUSE was unable to have some form of presence there, and we could try and have an un-meeting there at the same time - even if it was done as an official BoF session. There are many members of different communities from distros (not just Ubuntu) to hardware hackers and anything in between, an ideal ground for showing Green really is the new Brown :)
Nice slogan. ;-)
It's naturally true, but we need to get the word out to more people - we can't just have ZDnet be the ones praising openSUSE, they all do.
I'd be happy to support you (or any other local openSUSE folks) if you want to run a community openSUSE booth at LRL UK, but it's not on the list of shows in our budget for this year.
I may just take a soap box and become one of those dribbling lunatics standing on street corners preaching about how redemption can only be attained through the mystical powers of the geeko.
I have already mentioned in the past that I am attending and would be more than happy to help with a booth or anything else required. Attendance is in the region of 200 people so not a huge event but still one that hits a large audience through the podcast[1] and fanboys.
So, if you want to set up a booth and whatnot, let me know, and we'll work out arrangements to get one of the openSUSE banners there and some DVDs + swag to hand out.
They're also still looking for speakers, so if you want to do an openSUSE talk I'd be happy to help prepare a presentation if you need it -- we need to create a set of slides for the community to use for openSUSE presentations anyway, so this might be a good first opportunity to do it.
Scarily I like the idea of speaking, problem is what subject? I'm open to suggestions, one issue is I'm no programmer so if it's going to be a real techie talk I'll need some homework with a tutor :-)
What do you think?
I try and not think too much, I tend to either hurt myself or get myself into serious trouble :-D
Best,
Zonker
Thanks again, Andy -- Andrew Wafaa, openSUSE Member: GNOME Team. awafaa@opensuse.org | http://opensuse.org/GNOME openSUSE: Get It, Discover It, Create It at http://www.opensuse.org http://www.wafaa.eu -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org