http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/GNOME_Meeting_2007-10-04

openSUSE 10.3 has been declared Gold and will now be uploaded to the mirrors and available for download on October 4th - the boxed version can be pre-ordered for delivery shortly after. tuxmachines.org has a late report on openSUSE 10.3 RC 1 with lots of new screenshots. Francis has created statistics about the openSUSE 10.3 bug reporters - half of the bug reports were done by non-Novell community members. Novell is now putting more resources into the Linux Driver Project which offers to write drivers for companies, for free.

To strengthen the openSUSE project we’re looking for an enthusiastic Chief Evangelist to:

• promote and spread the adoption of openSUSE
• be a public face for the project on conferences and events
• act as voice of the community back to Novell’s leadership team
• develop and nurture the openSUSE communities
• pro actively drive openSUSE marketing

This is a global role and as such, you can be located anywhere in the world. We’re looking forward to you. For detailed information please look here.

Here is another ‘People of openSUSE’ interview, this time with Carlos Gonçalves, a very active member of our Portuguese community and founder of ENOS.

By the way Carlos joined the ‘People of openSUSE’ initiative and will do some interviews in the future!

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Some changes in openSUSE 10.3 have ensured that if you are interested in just about any type of popular virtualisation, then openSUSE is the operating system to be on. From Xen to VirtualBox, QEMU and KVM — it’s all available in the new version. Today we’ll be going through a few of these new additions and we’ll be talking to Frank Kohler, the project manager for Virtualisation at SUSE, to help us learn a bit more.

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Meeting page

Stephan Kulow has announced openSUSE 10.3 Live CDs based on Release Candidate 2 which also got synced out - its live installer should still be considered Alpha. The security support for SUSE Linux 10.0 will be discontinued soon, after over two years. The openSUSE Codecs Site went online which will provide openSUSE 10.3 users with hints when they try to play unsupported formats. There is a nice user report about Novell’s presence at the recent OpenOffice.org conference. Marcus Meissner did some observations on how fragmentation can affect package manager speed and added a support database article. Responding to a distribution survey, Pascal Bleser created some statistics about the amount of packages for openSUSE.

We launched the new shiny design for the wiki on Monday. It was a little rough but we sorted out most of the bugs, even the newsfeed is working again :-). Now we have a more unified look of all openSUSE pages, just compare news, download and the wiki. Thanks to all who helped us to make this great redesign!

For all wiki maintainers: please look at Frank’s HOWTO mail on the wiki mailinglist.

Open Source Developer’s Conference

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