Christoph’s Blog

Alright, the FOSDEM mail went out the openSUSE@openSUSE.org maillinglist finally ;) Here’s a copy:

The sixth Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting (commonly known as FOSDEM, [http://www.fosdem.org/]) will take place during the last week-end (25&26) of February 2006 in the city of Brussels, Belgium. It’s an annual 2-day event hosting talks, tutorials, and stalls for the free software/open source community. It is organized by volunteers at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. Access to all parts of FOSDEM is free, but donations and sponsors are welcome to help fund the event.

As you may have already noticed (because Pascal blogged about it), we will have an openSUSE ‘DevRoom’ (Developer Room) @ FOSDEM and most likely a booth as well. Therefore, we are in the very early stages of preparation and would like to team up with you to organize the openSUSE @ FOSDEM event.

To start off, we would like to get your opinion on what topics, presentation, talks, tutorials, etc. you would expect from openSUSE @ FOSDEM? And if you would like to deliver a presentation, talk, tutorial? The ultimate goal would be to have presentations distributed equally amongst community members and SUSE / Novell employees.

Here are some possible topics, that are basis for discussion so far:

• presentations
  • openSUSE in general (what happend so far, what’s up next)
  • openSUSE build infrastructure
  • SUSE Linux 10.1 - highlights and features
• discussion
  • SUSE Linux 10.2 - discussion / plans for the future
  • Usability and Documentation
• tutorials
  • packaging the SUSE-way
  • using the build infrastructure
  • LIVE CD construction
  • Customizing SUSE Linux

That’s it for the moment, we are all looking forward to a lively discussion and a great collaboration.

Sorry for having been so silent over the last couple of weeks - I neither had the time nor the drive to do blogging. But that’s hopefully changing now, as I finally have a broadband internet connection at my new apartment (which surprisingly has led to little sleep for some days already)… ;)

Well, I “survived” university for more than a month now, which has actually been a lot of fun, but at work, the last weeks have been very tough, as you can surely imagine by reading the news. Let’s just try to forget about it and close those matters. Things can only get better.

Focusing on openSUSE, I’m really looking forward to the SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha3 release, which is likely to happen any time now.

As you might already have noticed (because Pascal blogged about it ;)), openSUSE will be present @ FOSDEM 2006 in Brussels. Preparation as just begun and I’ll be drafting an announcement / request for discussion, to be sent out to the openSUSE mailinglist, today. Stay tuned.

Alright, it’s time to hurry off for lectures now…