OpenSUSE 11.2 Launch Party Locations

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openSUSE 11.2 was released on Thursday, November 12th, 2009! There's no better way to enjoy the new release than with your fellow openSUSE users! If you, your LUG or openSUSE User Group are hosting one, go ahead and add it to this list. If you're interested in hosting one but have questions, see the Launch Party HOWTO or email the openSUSE Marketing list for information.

Note that launch parties aren't limited to the release date! Feel free to plan a launch party for the week after or even a month after!

Please note, for info on how to add your party to this list, please check the Discussion page.

Asia

Indonesia

Bandung

• openSUSE 11.2 Launch-Party
  • When  : Sunday, November 15th 2009, 09:00 AM.
  • Where : Museum of the Asian-African Conference (KAA), Asia Afrika 65, Bandung (West Java) 40111. Map.
  • Agenda: openSUSE 11.2 Release Party and OpenOffice.org + Blender Workshop.
  • Contact: Andi Sugandi

India

Vadodara/Baroda

• openSUSE 11.2 and Ubuntu Karmic double bonanza party
  • When: 14th November 2009, 5 pm onwards
  • Where: B.C.A. Dept., Faculty of Science, The M.S.University of Baroda Map
  • Agenda: openSUSE 11.2 and Ubuntu Karmic launch party, check out two of the most popular Linux distributions while having a party, bring laptops, USB sticks or your computer box for installation.
  • RSVP here

Bangalore

• openSUSE 11.2 Release party
  • When: 12th November 2009, 4 pm
  • Whom: Organized by Novell India employees, who contribute to the openSUSE project across departments within Novell India.
  • Agenda: Cake cutting, openSUSE related talks, socializing

• openSUSE 11.2 Launch party
  • When: 13th November 2009, 2 pm
  • Where: Novell India Breakout area - 6th Floor

Bhopal

• openSUSE 11.2 Release party
  • When: 17th November 2009, 2 pm
  • Whom: Organized by visionbharat.com, student portal of RKDF Group of Professional Institutions
  • Where: Radio Popcorn, Bhabha College Campus, Behind Vrindavan Gardens, Hoshangabad Road, Bhopal.
  • Agenda: We'll show openSUSE 11.2 in action, give a few presentation about openSUSE 11.2, hand out media and help people to install openSUSE 11.2
    • • openSUSE related talks live on 90.4 fm Radio Popcorn
      • bring laptops, USB sticks or your computer box for installation.
  • Contact - jitendra@visionbharat.in (+919993120407); priyank@visionbharat.in (+919826948282); harleen@visionbharat.in (+919826643005)
  • BUser Group: Join Bhopal Linux Users Group today

Japan

Tokyo

• openSUSE 11.2 Launch Party Tokyo/Japan
  • When: 12th November 19:30-22:00 JST (10:30-13:00 UTC)
  • Where: Dining Bar mixing Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
  • Agenda: It's a casual party. Feel free to join and have a lot of fun !
  • IRC: We'll be online at #opensuse-ja channel on freenode.net during the party. So, if you can't attend the party, login to the channel and share the happy time !
  • Link: Details in Japanese
  • Contact: Satoru Matsumoto

Africa

South Africa

Hermanus

• openSUSE 11.2.... African launch
  • Space Scientists celebrate openSUSE 11.2. Come join.... the African way
  • Where: Hermanus Magnetic Observatory, 1 Hospital road, Hermanus.
  • When: 12th Nov 2009
  • Time: ... 16:30 for ...17:00 SAST
  • B.Y.O.B

Australia

Europe

Austria

Vienna

• openSUSE 11.2 Launchparty
  • When: Nov 13th, Start: 8pm, Opening: 7pm
  • Where: RaumD, Electric Avenue, quartier 21, Museumsquartier, 1070 Wien (Map: Museumsquartier Map Raum Nr. 55)
  • Contact: Sebastian Schöbinger
  • Link here

Czech Republic

Prague

• openSUSE 11.2 Release Party
  • When: Nov 20th, Start: 2pm, End: 7pm
  • Where: MFF UK, Malostranske namesti, Prague
  • Contact: Pavol Rusnak
  • Announcement: here
  • Facebook event

Germany

Chemnitz

• openSUSE 11.2 Launch-Party Chemnitz
  • When: 14th November 13.00-18.00
    
  • Where: Haus der Kinder und Jugend - Spektrum Kaßbergstraße 36 D-09112 Chemnitz Germany
    
  • Agenda: some talks about openSUSE and openSUSE 11.2 program in german, Help for installing and help with software problems and some demo points.
    
  • SocialEvent: after the Launchparty we plan to go in a restaurant, when you interested to go there please contact us that we can reserve an table for everyone.
    

event on facebook or xing

• • Contact: gnokii or teegee-tg
    
    
• Photos of the event on flickr

Nürnberg

• openSUSE 11.2 Launch Event
  • When: 12th November, 7-10pm CET
  • Where: Novell/SUSE Linux Offices, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg (see directions in German)
  • Agenda: We'll show openSUSE 11.2 in action, give a few presentation about openSUSE 11.2, hand out media and help people to install openSUSE 11.2
  • Contact: Andreas Jaeger (mail aj@suse.de) or Michael Löffler (mail michl@suse.de)
  • See also the announcement

Potsdam

• Linuxinfotag Brandenburg
  • When: 21th November
  • Where: Institut für Informatik der Universität Potsdam, Haus 6 14482 Potsdam linuxinfotag-brb.de
  • Agenda: Talk - The Innovations from the openSUSE project
  • Contact: gnokii

Göttingen

• openSUSE 11.2 Launch Event
  • When: 14th November 13.00-18.00
  • Where: Goe Open Coffee Club central office aka World Coffee, Bahnhofsplatz 1
  • Agenda: We'll show openSUSE 11.2 in action, hand out media and help people to install openSUSE 11.2
  • Contact: Lars Müller (mail lars@samba.org)

Gärtringen (Kreis Böblingen)

• PC-Treff: Linux Installations & Konfigurations Workshop
  • When: 14. November 10:00-17:00 Uhr
  • Where: EDV Raum der Ludwig-Uhland-Schule; Wilhelmstr. 14
  • Agenda: Gemeinsames Installieren und Probleme beheben, u.a. auch openSUSE 11.2 installieren
  • Web: http://www.pc-treff-bb.de
  • Contact: Peter Rudolph (mailto:peter.rudolph@pi-data.de)

Romania

Bucharest

• Release party
  • What: Beer!
  • When: 12th of november 2009, 20:00 EET
  • Where: Trattoria di Bugsy, Bd. Iuliu Maniu 59, Bucharest - Map
  • Who comes? Strainu, Lucian Oprea
• Extra fun :)
  • What: Presentations about openSUSE, Fedora and Firefox
  • When: 14th of november 2009, 14:00 EET
  • Where: Politehnica University Bucharest, Room EG301 - Map

You can find infos about all the parties at this page (in Romanian)

North America

Canada

Quebec

• Quebec city ... coming soon ;-)
• November 26, 2009
• more information coming
• .. to help: contact martial.bigras.ing@gmail.com

Manitoba

• Manitoba: On December 8, 2009, the Manitoba Unix User Group (MUUG) will hold an unofficial OpenSUSE 11.2 launch party at it's regular monthly meeting. OpenSUSE 11.2 will be demonstrated as well as an in depth look at SUSE Studio.

Mexico

Mexico City, DF

• Mexico City, DF:
  • What: Launch Party, Beer & Pizza.
  • When: On November 12, 2009. 19:00hrs
  • Where: GnuOwned's Apartment: Av. Universidad 1953 edif 16 depto 301, Col. Copilco-Universidad.
  • Contact: @gnuowned (Mike Barajas) at twitter.or mabarajas at novell dot com.
  • Who: Add Yourself
    • Gnuowned (Mike Barajas)
    • Charly (Carlos Rubio)
    • Mauropm (Mauro Parra-Miranda)
    • Jaime Feijoo (Via FaceBook)
    • Mauricio Aguirre (Via FaceBook)
    • Jassiel Reyes (Via FaceBook)
    • Genaro Contreras (Via FaceBook)
    • xAhuizotl (Raúl Reyes)
    • opmillan (Oscar Perez)
    • mw (Michael Wolf)

USA

Dallas, Texas

• Dunn Bros Coffee 3725 Belt Line Rd, Addison, TX (BeltLine @ Marsh Ln)
• FREE Wireless!
• Beer & Wine available
• Everyone is invited :)
• November 12th 2009 6pm to 9 or later

Washington

• Bainbridge Island, WA: On November 12, 2009, Town & Country coffee shop in Winslow. SIG -Special Interest Group- of www.psnug.org unofficial openSUSE 11.2 party. Intro to openSUSE, 11.2 DVDs and LinuxPro openSUSE introductory and How To guide to the openSUSE project. At least one programer and one systems administrator will address any and all questions about open source and Linux and openSUSE.

Provo, Utah

• Release Party
• When: November 12th, 6pm to 9pm
• Where: Open Source Technology Center, building A on the Novell campus
• Details and contact Please RVSP!

Central America

Nicaragua

Managua

• When: 19th november
  
• Where: UCA
  
• Link: http://opensuse.org.ni/

South America

Chile

Concepción

• When: 13th November
  
• Where : Portal Bicentenario.
• openSUSE 11.2, YaST and pizza!!! .
  
• Contact: llastra / [1]

Lota

• When: 12th November
  
• Where : Lota
• openSUSE 11.2, Gnome, Zypper, YaST yeah!!
  
• Contact: Caro_acevedo / [2]

Mulchén

• When: 12th November
  
• Where : Mulchén
• openSUSE 11.2, Gnome, Zypper, YaST :D
  
• Contact: Conates / [3]

Colombia

Barranquilla

• When: 21th November 2:00 pm
  
• Where : Agape carrera 46 # 53 - 34 of 3,
  
• openSUSE 11.2, YaST, SUSEstudio, SUSE education and KIWI will be demonstrated.
  
• Who:
  
• Pier José Gotta Pérez
  
• Jaime Andrés Vélez Osorio
  
• Contact: jvelez / jvelez

Venezuela

Mérida

• When: 21th November, 2pm-7pm
  
• Where : Av 4. Centro Unimall, Segundo Piso, Entrando por la InterZona
  
• openSUSE 11.2, YaST, Security Chat and maybe more.
  
• Contact: alexbariv / [4]

Antarctica

Penguinisia

Penguinville

• Penguins Celebrating openSUSE 11.2!

Come celebrate openSUSE 11.2!