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People of openSUSE: An Interview with Ish Sookun

Douglas DeMaio 13. Feb 2020

Can you tell us a bit about yourself? I live on an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean (20°2’ S, 57°6’ E), called Mauritius. I work for a company that supports me in ...

Q&A: What it is like to be on the openSUSE Board

Douglas DeMaio 7. Jan 2020

You already know what a fantastic platform openSUSE is for doing just about anything with Linux. So what’s behind that easy-to-use and super powerful distribution that we k...

People of openSUSE: Sébastien Poher

Imad Aldoj 13. Jul 2019

[caption id=”attachment_21578” align=”alignright” width=”300”] Sébastien Poher aka sogal[/caption] About me I’m 1.80m, I love to wear unreadable thrash metal bands t-shir...

People of openSUSE: Stasiek Michalski

Imad Aldoj 7. Jun 2019

Introduction I’m LCP, or Stasiek if you can pronounce that. Just a 20 years old guy from Poland who spends way too much time in front of computers. That’s how all my potte...

Voters Choose Two New Board Members and One Incumbent to openSUSE Board

Fraser Bell 16. Feb 2019

[caption id=”attachment_21446” align=”alignleft” width=”180”] Christian Boltz aka cboltz, incumbent[/caption] The results are in and the Voting Members have chosen incumbe...

Voting Gets Underway for the 2018-2019 openSUSE Board Elections

Fraser Bell 5. Feb 2019

Cast Your Votes! We have done our part:  Now, You do Yours! [caption id=”attachment_21677” align=”aligncenter” width=”650”] 2018-2019 Election Poster contributed by Aris ...

2018-2019 openSUSE Board Elections: Meet Marina Latini

Fraser Bell 26. Jan 2019

Seven Candidates in Race for Three Vacant Board Seats With only 8 days left to go until the ballots open on Monday, February 4, 2019, openSUSE News and the Elections Commi...

2018-2019 openSUSE Board Elections: Meet Nathan Wolf

Fraser Bell 26. Jan 2019

Seven Candidates in Race for Three Vacant Board Seats With only 9 days left to go until the ballots open on Monday, February 4, 2019, openSUSE News and the Elections Commi...

2018-2019 openSUSE Board Elections: Meet Vinzenz Vietzke

Fraser Bell 25. Jan 2019

Seven Candidates in Race for Three Vacant Board Seats With only 10 days left to go until the ballots open on Monday, February 4, 2019, openSUSE News and the Elections Comm...

Website About People of openSUSE Ends Hiatus

Douglas DeMaio 19. Jun 2017

Interviews with people involved in the openSUSE Project have returned and new pages will be added in the future highlighting individuals involved in the community project. ...

Bird Watching: An openSUSE Maker Project

Douglas DeMaio 18. Apr 2017

Creating cool projects is what makes openSUSE so much fun and a recent project by an openSUSE member highlights just how creative and fun one can be using openSUSE. Adrian...

oSC 2015 - Call for Team Members

Kostas Koudaras 22. Dec 2014

Before the dawn of 2015 and as announced at oSC14  work has already started for yet another awesome openSUSE Conference. For 2015 the city of The Hague in theNetherlands ...

openSUSE G(r)eekos @Fosscomm 2013

George Bratsos 2. May 2013

Fosscomm (Free and Open Source Software Communities Meeting) is an annual conference for Free and Open Software. It’s organized from the Greek open source community for th...

Rest in peace, daemon.

Pascal Bleser 29. Feb 2012

Our fellow and long time openSUSE contributor Marco “daemon” Michna has passed away last week. He was a friend to many of us, and will be sorely missed. Our condolences a...

People of openSUSE: Frederic Crozat

Kim Leyendecker 9. Jan 2012

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 syste...

People of openSUSE: Mihnea Dobrescu-Balaur

Kim Leyendecker 20. Jul 2011

**Nickname:** mihneadb / used to be CrAzzY_ in online games **Homepage: ** none **Blog:** none **Favorite season:** Winter ...

People of openSUSE: Manu Gupta

Kim Leyendecker 5. Jul 2011

**Nickname:** manugupt1 over www and Manu in the real world **Homepage: ** **Blog:** [Http://sysbytes.wordpress.com](//sysbytes.wordpress.com/) ...

People of openSUSE: Christos Bountalis

Kim Leyendecker 23. Jun 2011

**Nickname:** mpounta **Homepage: ** //cbounta.wordpress.com/ **Blog:** //cbounta.wordpress.com/ **Favorite ...

People of openSUSE: Jeff Mahoney

Kim Leyendecker 27. May 2011

**Nickname:** Jeff **Homepage: ** h[ttp://www.jeffreymahoney.com/](//www.jeffreymahoney.com/) **Blog:** N/A **Favorit...

People of openSUSE: Jos Poortvliet

Kim Leyendecker 9. May 2011

On this issue of people of openSUSE, you can read about our friendly SUSE community manager, Jos Poortvliet. Read about his job at the SUSE, what he does in openSUSE, his p...

People of openSUSE: Alexander Naumov

Kim Leyendecker 20. Apr 2011

**Nickname:** anaumov (as nickname on IRC), Ute11ok **Homepage: ** //en.opensuse.org/User:Alexander_Naumov **Blog:** //thefreecountry.wordpress.com...

People of openSUSE: Per Jessen

Kim Leyendecker 4. Apr 2011

**Nickname:** I don't use one **Homepage: ** [//www.jessen.ch/](//www.jessen.ch/) **Blog:** I don't use one. **Favorite season:** All/none of them,...

People of openSUSE: Andrew Wafaa

Sascha Manns 19. Apr 2010

**People of openSUSE ** Your Full Name: Andrew Wafaa IRC Nick: FunkyPenguin, FunkyPenguin_mob Favorite Season: Whichever one my favorite team wins. Motto: Personal: Be...

People of openSUSE: Marcus Schaefer

News Team 13. Aug 2009

Marcus Schaefer is busy with Build Service, KIWI and SUSE Studio. Every openSUSE user, that tuned graphic, used SaX2. The xorg.conf created with SaX2 has this line: # C...

People of openSUSE: Lars Müller

News Team 13. Jun 2009

Lars Mueller is one of Samba developers. I have limited need for Samba which is the most often used way to connect Windows and Linux networked computers, so I couldn’t mis...

People of openSUSE: Jim Henderson

News Team 3. May 2009

I noticed Jim by his thoughtful replies on openSUSE mail lists and forums. He has ability to listen, understand and answer in the way that correspondent can not only find ...

People of openSUSE: Jan Engelhardt

News Team 23. Apr 2009

Jan is one of silent community members that is active in kernel packaging and development area. Thanks to him openSUSE users have had chance to try stable real time kernel ...

People of openSUSE: Jean-Daniel Dodin

News Team 13. Apr 2009

Jean-Daniel Dodin is openSUSE member since the very beginning. He is the first sysop of //fr.opensuse.org and in general very active openSUSE and Linux advocate, both on an...

People of openSUSE: Sascha saigkill Manns

News Team 6. Apr 2009

Sascha is active in many areas of openSUSE (Marketing, Feature Screening and using Build service for his projects), but he is particularly active in openSUSE Weekly News. M...

People of openSUSE is back

News Team 25. Mar 2009

We will start new round of People of openSUSE interviews with openSUSE community members. Just as before, the aim is to make you familiar with people behind openSUSE projec...

People of openSUSE

News Team 3. Feb 2009

Who is this guy named notlocalhorst, FunkyPenguin or cb400f? Well, without people of openSUSE it’s quite hard to tell if you didn’t met them in person. So it’s a great over...

People of openSUSE: Vincent Untz

News Team 20. Nov 2008

Continuing the last ‘People of openSUSE’’ interviews with people involved in the openSUSE Board Elections Committee, today we introduce you another member - Vincent Untz. V...

People of openSUSE: Claes Backstrom

News Team 10. Nov 2008

This week on ‘People of openSUSE’ we have interviewed openSUSE Election Committee member, Senior Linux Trainer and VMware Trainer Claes Backstrom. Besides all these titles ...

People of openSUSE: Henne Vogelsang

News Team 17. Oct 2008

After a long summer holiday season ‘People of openSUSE’ is back! This week we caught up one of the many people responsible for the success of the openSUSE project maintain...

People of openSUSE: Frank Sundermeyer

News Team 18. Jul 2008

Former webservers administrator and presales consultant at S.u.S.E. he is currently working as a technical writer contributing to the openSUSE documentation and openSUSE we...

People of openSUSE: Bryen Yunashko

News Team 12. Jul 2008

Bryen Yunashko, a openSUSE member, is a recent acquisition to the openSUSE project who is involved in the openSUSE-GNOME and Marketing teams, coordinating the Helping Hands...

People of openSUSE: Joe Brockmeier

News Team 5. Jul 2008

For those who have been waiting for a ‘People of openSUSE’ interview with our openSUSE Community Manager and long time Linux and open source journalist Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockme...

People of openSUSE: Jan-Simon Möller

News Team 28. Jun 2008

Weekly News writer and openSUSE member Jan-Simon Möller accepted ‘People of openSUSE’ interview request and shared with us some information about himself. Jan is also the m...

People of openSUSE: Tanja Roth

News Team 21. Jun 2008

How important is documentation to you and people around you? Certainly it is a lot! Then good news because openSUSE has a team focused on manuals for the SUSE Linux/openSUS...

People of openSUSE: Rupert Horstkötter

News Team 14. Jun 2008

This week the openSUSE Project announced the launch of forums.opensuse.org, a merger of the three largest openSUSE forums. Continuing the openSUSE Forums euphoria we presen...

People of openSUSE: Cornelius Schumacher

News Team 7. Jun 2008

Before openSUSE 11.0 GM get released next Thursday, we have the chance to meet Cornelius Schumacher - member of the incubation team, former Build Service developer, KDE vic...

People of openSUSE: Matthias Fehring

News Team 30. May 2008

‘People of openSUSE’ caught up the man behind the great effort done on the German openSUSE wiki - Matthias Fehring. He is one of the system operatores of the de.opensuse.o...

People of openSUSE: Klaus Kämpf

News Team 23. May 2008

Long time openSUSE developer Klaus Kämpf joined former S.u.S.E nine years ago and since then never looked back being committed to his System Management Architect job at No...

People of openSUSE: Wolfgang Koller

News Team 16. May 2008

While some are preparing their fly to Austria to attend EURO 2008, ‘People of openSUSE’ already flew but rather to meet Wolfgang Koller - founder of SuSELinuxSupport commun...

People of openSUSE: Marcus Hüwe

News Team 10. May 2008

Despite being a openSUSE member and a platinum member of the PackMan team packaging several widely-used applications he also helps the Build Service team with osc code cont...

People of openSUSE: Greg Kroah-Hartman

News Team 3. May 2008

This weekend ‘People of openSUSE’ brings to light long time Kernel hacker and Novell employee Greg Kroah-Hartman interview. Greg KH today’s working full time on Linux Drive...

People of openSUSE: Michael Löffler

News Team 25. Apr 2008

This week ‘People of openSUSE’ scope out openSUSE Product Manager Michael Löffler known for his great work in helping setting up the openSUSE Project, bridge between Novell...

People of openSUSE: Jakub Steiner

News Team 4. Apr 2008

Independently of how many new application features and fixes a distribution release, doesn’t matter much if the distribution doesn’t look great, and users know it for sure!...

People of openSUSE: Marco Michna

News Team 28. Mar 2008

This week we meet #openSUSE IRC supporter, and openSUSE Quality Assurance team member Marco ‘daemon’ Michna in one more ‘People of openSUSE’ interview! !...

People of openSUSE: Masim Sugianto

News Team 21. Mar 2008

Today’s ‘People of openSUSE’ interviews Masim ‘Vavai’ Sugianto - founder of the Indonesian openSUSE community helping users, and spreading out openSUSE to be widely used in...

People of openSUSE: Timo Hönig

News Team 14. Mar 2008

This week we feature Timo Hönig, openSUSE Mobile Device team member, mainly working on D-Bus, IAL, and KNetworkManager. ![timo_hoenig.jpg](/wp-content/up...

People of openSUSE: Detlef Reichelt

News Team 8. Mar 2008

Do you know who is behind the PackMan project? Then it’s time to we present you Detlef Reichelt - PackMan project maintainer and openSUSE Member! ![detle...

People of openSUSE: Marcus Rueckert

News Team 1. Mar 2008

This week we travel back to the main center of the openSUSE development, Nürnberg, to meet Marcus ‘darix’ Rueckert - openSUSE packager, and openSUSE Build Service content a...

People of openSUSE: Rossana Motta

News Team 22. Feb 2008

Continuing the ‘People of openSUSE’ series, this time we have the pleasure to meet openSUSE Member Rossana Motta, well-know among SuSELinuxSupport forum users. ...

People of openSUSE: Michael Meeks

News Team 15. Feb 2008

GNOME and full time OpenOffice.org developer Michael Meeks was invited by ‘People of openSUSE’ to an interview, and here are his answers! Just in case, if you will be in F...

People of openSUSE: Jake Rogers

News Team 8. Feb 2008

It’s community week, and as so ‘People of openSUSE’ interviewed the most popular openSUSE IRC helper around there, Jake Rogers! He is also the author of help.opensuse.org, ...

People of openSUSE: Wolfgang Rosenauer

News Team 25. Jan 2008

Mostly known for his work on openSUSE for packaging Mozilla applications and for testing the distribution, we present you the community contributor Wolfgang Rosenauer. ...

People of openSUSE: Katarina Machalkova

News Team 18. Jan 2008

Today’s People of openSUSE features a female YaST developer and the maintainer of ncurses user interface library - Katarina Machalkova! ![katarina_machal...

People of openSUSE: James Tremblay

News Team 11. Jan 2008

openSUSE Education founder James Tremblay was caught up by ‘People of openSUSE’ to an interesting interview. ![james_tremblay.jpg](//news.opensuse.org/wp...

People of openSUSE: Lukáš Ocilka

News Team 4. Jan 2008

Here you have an interview with Lukáš Ocilka, a Czech YaST developer maintaining many YaST components such as Installation, Firewall, and Backup. ![lukas...

People of openSUSE: Rajko Matovic

News Team 28. Dec 2007

Before 2007 ends you can read Rajko Matovic interview. Rajko is an openSUSE community member contributing largely on the Wiki side being a member of the Wiki team, and havi...

People of openSUSE: Marcus Meissner

News Team 21. Dec 2007

As a Christmas gift we present you Marcus Meissner - the teamlead of the SUSE Security Team, Wine and gPhoto coder and also packager. Keep reading! The ‘People of openSUSE...

People of openSUSE: James Ogley

News Team 14. Dec 2007

The Planet SUSE sysadmin, James Ogley, was interviewed by us. Apart from managing the biggest openSUSE blog aggregator, he is also part of the openSUSE GNOME team packaging...

People of openSUSE: JP Rosevear

News Team 7. Dec 2007

Here goes another ‘People of openSUSE’ interview, this time with a Canadian Novell employee and GNOME hacker - JP Rosevear. Besides his GNOME code contribution, he is the d...

People of openSUSE: Keith Kastorff

News Team 30. Nov 2007

The ‘People of openSUSE’ publishes this week one more interesting interview, one of the most active openSUSE community members - Keith Kastorff - the man who has his own Be...

People of openSUSE: Klaas Freitag

News Team 24. Nov 2007

The ‘People of openSUSE’ team had the pleasure to interview Klaas Freitag - a Novell employee working as an architect in the department responsible for the Build Service, a...

People of openSUSE: Federico Mena-Quintero

News Team 16. Nov 2007

Federico Mena-Quintero, the last member of the first openSUSE Board being interviewed on the ‘People of openSUSE’, is a full time GNOME ‘bug-fixing’ hacker, and one of the ...

People of openSUSE: Jigish Gohil

News Team 9. Nov 2007

We caught up with Jigish Gohil - a Compiz Fusion developer, openSUSE packager, and also a true openSUSE evangelist, for one more ‘People of openSUSE’ interview. ...

People of openSUSE: Stephan Binner

News Team 26. Oct 2007

On this ‘People of openSUSE’ week we interviewed the greatest openSUSE and KDE addict yet. He is also one of the administrators who takes care of both English and German op...

People of openSUSE: Martin Lasarsch

News Team 12. Oct 2007

Martin Lasarsch, the well-known openSUSE evangelist, gave us the great opportunity to let us know a little bit more about himself. You can’t miss this ‘People of openSUSE’ ...

People of openSUSE: Christian Boltz

News Team 8. Oct 2007

This week we interviewed Christian Boltz, one of the most active openSUSE development testers and bug reporters. ![christian_boltz.jpg](//news.opensuse.o...

People of openSUSE: Carlos Gonçalves

News Team 28. Sep 2007

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 jo...

People of openSUSE: Seth Arnold

News Team 21. Sep 2007

Today you can read which answers to the ‘People of openSUSE’ questions the AppArmor developer Seth Arnold provides. ![seth_arnold.jpg](//news.opensuse.or...

People of openSUSE: Edith Parzefall

News Team 12. Sep 2007

Here are Edith Parzefall’s answers to the ‘People of openSUSE’ questions. Have a lot of fun… ![edith_parzefall.jpg](//news.opensuse.org/wp-content/uploa...

People of openSUSE: Benjamin Weber

News Team 3. Sep 2007

Today you can read which answers to the ‘People of openSUSE’ questions Benji Weber provides. Moreover it is possible now to make suggestions for future interview partners ...

People of openSUSE: Andreas Jaeger

News Team 28. Aug 2007

Today we present the interview with Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform/openSUSE and also the very first person who came up with the idea to launch the project ‘People of ope...

People of openSUSE: Martin Schlander

News Team 16. Aug 2007

Here is the interview with Martin Schlander, also known as ‘cb400f’, from Denmark. Have fun reading it! ![martin_schlander.jpg](//news.opensuse.org/wp-...

People of openSUSE: Stephan Kulow

News Team 9. Aug 2007

Today you can also read the ‘People of openSUSE’ interview with Stephan Kulow, the release manager of the openSUSE distribution. Read on to see which answers he provides. ...

People of openSUSE: Pascal Bleser

News Team 9. Aug 2007

Today ‘People of openSUSE’ starts. This project aims to make the people behind the openSUSE project and the distribution more visible. Therefore there will be several inter...

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