Busy time at the booth
openSUSE brought lots of fun to FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium. We’re all exhausted now from selling beer, t-shirts, hats and giving demonstrations of openSUSE with GNOME Shell, KDE, Plasma Active, openSUSE-on-ARM (running XFCE) and countless other things. Yet we did want to tell you about FOSDEM before we go catch up on sleep! (more…)
We all hope you had a good start in the new year. I’d say People of openSUSE had. Today we have the chance to interview SUSE’s Freederic Crozat, who’s responsible for systemd in openSUSE.
So, enjoy! ;-)
After the openSUSE 2011 Conference, we run a survey to gather feedback so that we can improve for the next conference. The overall feedback was very positive. Thanks a lot to the 134 people that participated in the survey!
We wish all developers, maintainers, users and friends a Happy New Year.
Let us make 2012 even better…
The openSUSE Election Officials is pleased to announce the 5th openSUSE Board elected by openSUSE community.
The new board members are Pascal Bleser, Will Stephenson and Andrew Wafaa.
We would like to congratulate all Board Members and wish them all the best. We would also like to thank all candidates for their time to run for openSUSE board. We’re really proud to have so many good candidates.
The votes are as follows:
Pascal Bleser (172 votes) – 79%
Will Stephenson (104 votes) – 48%
Andrew Wafaa (90 votes) – 41%
Pavol Rusnak (81 votes) – 37%
Manu Gupta (60 votes) – 28%
Richard Brown (43 votes) – 20%
Marcus Moeller (42 votes) – 19%
Chuck Payne (16 votes) – 7%
A total of 218 members participated in the poll. Voters had the option to vote for 3 candidates.
Thanks Bryen Yunashko, Rupert Horstkotter and Pavol Rusnak for the great time served in the Board.
The official results can be found at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election
Thank all voters for taking the time to vote. Thanks to the openSUSE Election Officials.
FOSDEM is the biggest event organized by and for the Free and Open Source (FOSS) community. Its goal is to provide developers a place to meet, come together and share and discuss ideas. The event happens 4-5 February 2012 in Brussels, Belgium. And there will again be a cross-distribution mini conference at FOSDEM this year. By organizing a mini conference where all distributions participate in we foster collaboration and cross pollination. You are hereby invited to hold a session.
If you’re interested let your intention be known on the distributions@lists.fosdem.org mailinglist, with the following information and we will factor in your contribution.
Sessions can be talks, round tables, BoFs, or any number of other things that could generally benefit from an audience of distributions developers.
Use this opportunity to bounce ideas, projects and plans off your peers in the Linux distributor community.
The openSUSE board election just started! Please go to:
https://connect.opensuse.org/
The board consists of 6 members and one chairperson. As the election period of Bryen Yunashko, Pavol Rusnak and Rupert Horstkotter ends, this election will appoint 3 new board members.
The election period ends at December the 16th.
All candidates have put their agenda on the wiki[2], linked as “Platform” after the candidates’ name.
If you have any questions, please contact the election officials (election-officials@opensuse.
Greetings
[1] http://en.opensuse.org/Members
[2] http://en.opensuse.org/
Introducing people to the world of free and open source software (FOSS) has always been a priority for the openSUSE project. We’re not only doing so for new users with our distribution (did you get 12.1 yet?) or for new contributors with our project, we also frequently participate in programs like Googles Summer of Code or Code in. Those programs have introduced a lot of new contributors to both openSUSE and the FOSS community. So with pride we announce that, after a successful participation in Google Summer of Code this year, openSUSE will also participate in Google Code-in.
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Party time!
We’re almost there. In two days openSUSE once again releases a new, improved version of its distribution to the world. Reason to celebrate! And celebrate we will. Currently, about 11 parties have been registered but we know many more are being organized and we call out to you to add your party to the wiki page!
Currently there are parties scheduled and registered in:
The IT world moves fast and along with it does social networking. It’s been only a few days since Google announced the limited availability of Google+ pages and already thousands of Google-plussers have created a Google+ page. Of course, we’re social too and thus the openSUSE project now has an official Google+ page!
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