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 :-) -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member & Ambassador GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
