The third openSUSE Conference, osc11, kicks off on Sunday September 11, 2011 in Nuremberg, Germany. Under the motto RWX³ all Free and Open Source Software enthusiasts are invited to come together for four days to learn, hack and to have a lot of fun. The program will cover a variety topics with an emphasis on interaction between participants. The conference is free of charge and open to anyone!
Last week our Ambassadors did what they do every week: promote openSUSE. They went to meetings, conferences and tradeshows for a talk or staffing a booth. And they organized meetings, gave students lessons in using openSUSE, handed out DVD’s and valuable knowledge.
Many visitors of this site have no idea how active our ambassadors really are. The amount of work they do is amazing and they deserve a bit more of a spotlight on what they do! Their reports are usually highlighted in our weekly news, be sure to check their work out each week.
Read on for a short selection of reports which came in over the last week by the openSUSE ambassadors. And note that we get reports like this almost every day! Some come in the form of text, others like this one by Bruno about attending FrOSCamp 2010 in Zürich are in the form of a nice presentation (very much worth a look).
On the evening of Monday the 22nd of February, the KDE Plasma, KWin and Oxygen developers will be holding a public event at the SUSE office in Nuremberg, Germany. All are welcome to come to the openSUSE Community Space to hear the KDE hackers present their vision of the state of the art in user interfaces.
This evening forms part of the 4th Plasma coding sprint, codenamed ‘Tokamak4‘. Sponsored by KDE e.V. and Novell, twenty-five leading KDE developers will be coming together from all over the world to work on the Plasma Desktop for future versions of KDE Workspaces, including the desktop and netbook shells, the window manager, and the desktop look and feel. With KDE SC 4.4 still burning up broadband lines and download mirrors everywhere, the developers are moving on to address important challenges for the next release, including empowering Plasma with semantic technologies, easier extensions using JavaScript and other scripting languages, enhancing mobile devices with Plasma interfaces, and enriching the desktop with more Web content from Project Silk.
For many years, there has been close cooperation between SUSE and upstream desktop projects. For KDE, this has resulted in the Kiosk lockdown framework, the love-it-or-hate-it Kickoff application launcher, usability testing and more recently the openSUSE Air theming for 11.2, KNetworkManager and integration with Firefox and OpenOffice.
The doors open to the public at 1800 in the openSUSE Community Space, Maxtorhof, Maxfeldstr 5, 90409 Nuernberg. If you’re planning to attend, it would be much appreciated if you can let Will Stephenson know in advance – but feel free to come along spontaneously.
KDE Plasma Desktop
The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday, January 13, at 16:00 UTC. The meeting time in all time zones are listed on the Fixed Time World Clock. Project meetings are always held in the #opensuse-project channel on Freenode.
Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at:
http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_1010-01-13
Please add topics as soon as possible. Also, if you have questions for the meeting, but can’t attend (we know that the meeting times can’t work for everyone) please add them to the agenda as well. We also take live questions, of course. Logs of the meeting are posted to the wiki here:
http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Archive
New to openSUSE’s IRC meetings? For more on our IRC meetings and how they’re run, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About.
Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. Alternatively, you can log into the IRC meeting via a Web-based interface at webchat.freenode.net.
As always, we meet in #opensuse-project on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-project.
Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there.
If you’re interested in how the openSUSE Project is run and want to participate, please be sure to join us on Wednesday. See you there!
The next openSUSE Weekly News meeting will take place tomorrow (Saturday December 12) at 14:30 UTC. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-newsletter channel on Freenode.
Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at:
http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/Meetings/Topics_current#Meeting_12_12_09
We using for our Meeting the Meetbot. Please check http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot for the commands.
Please add topics as soon as possible. Also, if you have questions for the meeting, but can’t attend (we know that the meeting times can’t work for everyone) please add them to the agenda as well.
For more on IRC meetings, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About.
As always, we meet in #opensuse-newsletter on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-newsletter.
Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/.
Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there.
on IRC meetings, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About.
As always, we meet in #opensuse-newsletter on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-newsletter.
Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/.
Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there.
Issue #100 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out!
In this week’s issue:
* openSUSE Board Election Update
* Egbert Eich: The Future of SaX2
* Ben Kevan: KDE 4.3.4 Released – openSUSE Build Service
* Linux Weekly News: Firefox locks down the components directory
* Linux.com/minaev: Linux Desktop Search Engines Compared
For a list of available translations see this page:
http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/100/Translations.
The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday, November 18th, at 16:00 UTC. The meeting time in all time zones are listed on the Fixed Time World Clock. Project meetings are always held in the #opensuse-project channel on Freenode.
Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at:
http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_2009-11-18
Please add topics as soon as possible. Also, if you have questions for the meeting, but can’t attend (we know that the meeting times can’t work for everyone) please add them to the agenda as well. We also take live questions, of course. Logs of the meeting are posted to the wiki here:
http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Archive
New to openSUSE’s IRC meetings? For more on our IRC meetings and how they’re run, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About. Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/.
As always, we meet in #opensuse-project on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-project.
Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there.
If you’re interested in how the openSUSE Project is run and want to participate, please be sure to join us on Wednesday. See you there!
The next openSUSE Weekly News meeting will take place tomorrow (Saturday October 16) at 14:30 UTC. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-newsletter channel on Freenode.
Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at:
http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/Meetings/Topics_current
We using for our Meeting the Meetbot. Please check http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot for the commands.
Please add topics as soon as possible. Also, if you have questions for the meeting, but can’t attend (we know that the meeting times can’t work for everyone) please add them to the agenda as well.
For more on IRC meetings, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About.
As always, we meet in #opensuse-newsletter on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-newsletter.
Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/.
Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there.
on IRC meetings, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About.
As always, we meet in #opensuse-newsletter on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-newsletter.
Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/.
Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there.
