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The KDE and openSUSE communities welcome you to COSCUP 2012!

April 3rd, 2012 by

Geeko's at the booth
COSCUP is the largest FLOSS conference organized by local communities in Taiwan. The conference has sessions for new users, enthusiastic promoters, coders or anyone who is interested in cutting-edge FLOSS technologies. The goal is to create a friendly and informative environment for people from different communities to make friends, learn new technologies and inspire each other.

At COSCUP 2011, several KDE and openSUSE contributors gave talks and presented ‘cool stuff’ at their booths. This year, we will have a fully dedicated track for KDE and openSUSE and starting today, you can send in session proposals.

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openSUSE Summit Geeko-ing Up: Website up, Call for Papers out!

March 29th, 2012 by

We’re happy to announce that starting March 29 the openSUSE Summit team will accept session proposals for the openSUSE Summit. The openSUSE Summit will take place from September 21-23, 2012 in Orlando Florida at the Caribe Royale Hotel. The proposal submission period ends on June 15, 2012 at midnight EDT. Final announcement of the program will occur on or before July 23, 2012.

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openSUSE to be part of GSOC 2012!

March 19th, 2012 by

GSOC 12 logo with openSUSE Geeko

Good news! As followers of our openSUSE Google+ account already know, openSUSE will be part of GSOC 2012. That means it is now time for the students to take the openSUSE GSOC ideas, find a mentor and start creating proposals to be submitted to Google. We’ve got until April 6th for this, at which point openSUSE and Google will start to look at the proposals.

Proposals

So what does a good proposal look like? There is plenty of advice to be found:

As is being said above, the proposal has to be technically sound and realistic. For this, make sure you write it in cooperation with the potential mentor(s). They know what can and can’t be done and what makes sense! In the end, you have to convince both GOOGLE and the openSUSE GSOC team and they heavily rely on the mentors’ opinions. Work with them!

For openSUSE GSOC proposals We’d like you to include at least the following items:

  • Background
  • Use Cases
  • Benefits
  • Caveats
  • Technical Details
  • Why Me
  • Contact Information

Now go to our GSOC 2012 page and write a kick-ass proposal!

What Next?

Once the proposals are selected and Google has given us a share, May 21st coding will start and it will continue (with a mid term evaluation on July 13th) until August 13.

But now, first order of the day is for students to talk to their mentors and flesh (not flush) out those ideas!

You can find all information about our GSOC program on our wiki and you can always ask the openSUSE GSOC team if you have any questions:

  • Vincent “vuntz” Untz
  • Matt Barringer

They hang out on IRC in our #opensuse-project channel on Freenode!

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Join FLISOL 2012!

March 16th, 2012 by

It’s that time of the year again – FLISOL, the “Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre” (Latin American free software install fest) will start in about 6 weeks! If you live in Latin America, you can join one of the hundreds of install fests happening all over the continent on April 28th. And if there is nothing close by, there is no reason you can’t organize it yourself… (more…)

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OSC12 is coming to Prague in fall

March 7th, 2012 by

The openSUSE Conference (oSC) is the yearly get-together of  our community to give its people a chance to meet face to face, talk to and inspire each other. Being together in one room, even in this day and age, beats every other collaboration method and is what forges cohesion and friendships. That is why the openSUSE Project tries to get together this conference every year for its contributors. But not only for them, the conference is also for anyone using, working with or taking advantage of the project. No matter if you use our technology, if you are one of our many friends from free and open source upstream projects or if you contribute to another GNU/Linux distribution this conference is for you.

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openSUSE at FOSDEM

February 8th, 2012 by
busy booth

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…)

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Results of openSUSE Conference 2011 Survey

January 5th, 2012 by

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!

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FOSDEM12 Cross-Distribution Devroom: (Last) Call for Participation

December 16th, 2011 by

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.

  • Your name
  • A short bio, to be put on the website along with your name
  • optionally a picture of yourself
  • The title of your session
  • A (short) abstract describing the session in further detail.
  • The desired approximate duration for the session.

Sessions can be talks, round tables, BoFs, or any number of other things that could generally benefit from an audience of distributions developers.

The deadline for submissions is December 22nd!

Use this opportunity to bounce ideas, projects and plans off your peers in the Linux distributor community.

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Join or organize openSUSE 12.1 Launch parties!

November 15th, 2011 by
Party time poster

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!

Parties

Currently there are parties scheduled and registered in:

  • Bucharest, Romenia
  • Provo, Utah, USA
  • Göttingen, Germany
  • Second Life, Global
  • Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Rouen and Toulouse, France
  • Guatemala city, Guatemala
  • Alphen aan de Rijn, Netherlands
  • Beramo, Italy
  • Prague, Czech Republic
  • No less than three parties in Greece!

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Will you Party?

November 2nd, 2011 by

My Sixth Birthday Party

A little over two weeks left for openSUSE 12.1 to be released on November, 16th 2011. And there is no better way to enjoy the new release than with your fellow openSUSE peers. So, attend or organize a Launch Party! These events around the openSUSE release can be anything – from a party in a pub to a series of presentations at an office. But there is a common theme: cool people sharing some fun and talks around the latest openSUSE release!

Read more on how to find out if there is a release party in your neighborhood or how to organize one!
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