On 05/19/2011 05:52 PM, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> 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

And me didn't finish my article about that great event.
Need more nights with calm to finish it :-)


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