On Tuesday 17 May 2011 22:52:45 Kostas Koudaras wrote: > FOSSCOMM 2011 was held in Patras on the 7 to 8 May from Patras Linux > User Group (PLUG) and the Department of Computer Engineering & > Information Technology (Computer Laboratory / Computer Center), > University of Patras. The conference was very interesting with several > additional speeches, several parallel events (booths from communities > and projects, parallel talks, workshops) and live streaming. > > The Greek openSUSE community has united to present this two-day > conference in Patras. There, we met people from other communities, > discussed and promoted openSUSE and FOSS. > > > The community participated at the conference with the following > presentations and parallel events: > > Saturday, May 7, > > > Presentation by Bruno Friedmann, for the openSUSE project and its future. > > Presentation by George Bratsos for the release of openSUSE 11.4 and > the new technologies and innovations brought by the distribution. > > Presentation by Kostas Koudaras who presented the Greek openSUSE > community and their actions, the project dealt with and the events it > has organized. > > Presentation by George Koutsikos, for the Enlightenment Project. > > Presentation by Athanasios Elias Rousinopoulos about a subproject of > openSUSE, the openSUSE Medical, which contains tools used by the > branch of medicine. > > Presentation by Efstathios Iossifidis about the Greek Gnome community > and the release of Gnome 3 and the new technologies and innovations. > > Lighting Talks by members of the Greek openSUSE community about > sub-projects with which we participate, but also things that we do all > together. > Introducing YaST (Efstathios Agrapidis), > Add / Remove software in openSUSE (Athanasios - Elias Rousinopoulos), > Weekly News - The Greek way (Efstathios Agrapidis), > Evergreen Project (George Tsiapaliokas), > Tumbleweed Project (George Bratsos), > KDE Akokandi (Antonis Tsiapaliokas), > Guidelines for mariners, using openSUSE Community tools (Efstathios > Iosifidis). > > > Sunday, May 8, > > > Presentation by Efstathios Agrapidis for the revolutionary OBS > platform that solves packaging problems. > > Presentation by Efstathios Iossifidis on how we can create an > openSUSE distribution with SUSE Studio. > > Workshop by Efstathios Agrapidis to create .deb and .rpm packages with > OBS. > > > The openSUSE community booth was one of the largest in the > organization and except the dvds, posters,, flyers, cheat-sheets etc. > we co-hosted the booth of the Greek community of Gnome, the > Enlightenment Project and the amazing people of other communities who > were there to assist and promote their favorite project and FOSS in > general. > > > On Saturday evening the openSUSE community had a Release party for the > distribution of openSUSE 11.4 at the hotel where he resided. The party > achieved its purpose because, apart from the cake we ate and the beer > we drunk, we came closer to people from other communities such as the > Ubuntu, Slackware, Gentoo, FreeBSD and OS-arena. At the end of the > night Red Hat people visited our party, with whom we shared the same > roof (hotel). :P > > The workshop ended with a farewell message from the organizers of > Fosscomm whom we thank for the wonderful organization even though the > misfortunes of the second day which left us without power and wifi > internet access for the most part. > > More photos can be found in our group on facebook. > http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=153638841330360&ref=ts
Awesome report! I already browsed the photos a couple of days ago on picasaweb, hehe, fun :D
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