OpenSUSE Weekly News/FOSDEM2009

Some articles posted before FOSDEM:

• Daniel Bornkessel: Build your own appliance @FOSDEM2009
  "You have an application you want to show off on a Live DVD or you have a cool appliance in mind you want to realize? We will be demoing SUSE Studio on FOSDEM. Come by and build your own openSUSE based Live DVD, VMWare or disk image. We will have DVD blanks and some USB sticks at the booth so you can take your appliance home. ..."
• Martin Lasarsch: FOSDEM …
  "Preparing stuff for FOSDEM, call me Sir Printalot. So we have nametags (if you didn’t added you to the list you have to live with a handwritten one), schedules and posters. I also preparing the demo systems, collecting merchandise and writing blogs about it :-) See you on Friday in Bruxelles …"
• Cornelius Schumacher: SUSE Studio at FOSDEM
  "I'm doing my last preparations for FOSDEM right now. Together with the other SUSE guys I will go to Brussels later today. ..."
• Luc Verhaegen: Last preparations for the X.org DevRoom at FOSDEM.
  "Tomorrow morning, notlocalhorst and i will fill up the car with our stuff, and then we will head off to FOSDEM, and we're destined to arrive somewhere in the early evening, if cologne isn't too big of a traffic mess."

• 2009-02-06: Welcome to Bruxelles ! Most people arrived and the beer event at the "Delirium Cafe" was really cool and crowded. Good sign for Saturday.

• 2009-02-07: Arriving at ULB, the openSUSE team prepared the devroom and the booth. There were many talks on Saturday and Sunday:
  • Presentation from Joe `Zonker` Brockmeier
  • openSUSE devroom (Saturday)

• A Picture from the devroom:
  

• Thomas Schmidt and Jürgen Weigert did a great job recording the devroom-talks!
  

• The booth crowded:
  

• 2009-02-08: A big thanks goes to the FOSDEM team - all was well organized.
  • Some openSUSE Members were interviewed by Andrew Waafa - the videos will soon be available on opensuse.blip.tv.
  • openSUSE devroom (Sunday)

• Video
  • tube.opensuse.org
  • opensuse.blip.tv (talks and interviews)

• Slides
  • Most slides linked here.

• Joe Brockmeier: Fun at FOSDEM"
  "If you weren’t at FOSDEM this weekend, you missed some great talks and the opportunity to meet lots of free software folks. And I do mean lots — not sure if they have an accurate headcount of attendees, but it’s in the thousands."
• Pascal Bleser: FOSDEM2009 is over
  "First of all, I'd like to thank the many volunteers who helped us during the week-end, with all the non-fun parts of the job (transporting tables and chairs, cleaning up, picking up trash, help people out at the Infodesk and the new cloakroom, installing and removing insane amounts of network cables and gear, etc...), but obviously also everyone who's involved into the core team. Each FOSDEM event is the result of many months of hard work spent during our free time."
• OpenSUSE News: FOSDEM the day after
  "The Car crew arrived today at 01:00 in Nuremberg, except some snowstorms at Cologne it was a very smooth ride. This year we had really luck with the weather. What i heard so far there where no major incidents, nothing is missing, everybody got back somehow. In the afternoon i will have fun to unbox and sort all the equipment …"
• Jordi Massaguer: fosdem09 is over
  "Fosdem was fun. Fosdem is the kickoff of new projects every year and in one year will see which succeded."
• Adrian de Groodt: FOSDEM2009
  "Another year, another FOSDEM. The smell of warm geek in the morning. A blustery and wintery Brussels. Beer at the slutty nun (not its real name). Overcrowding. Realizing the one talk you really wanted to attend started ten minutes ago because you were talking to someone you remember from last year's FOSDEM. While the event is great fun, it is also under strain from its own success. The beer event is unbearably loud; while you can nod at people and hang out with your own crowd, as a social integration event it seems to be missing. Maybe I'm getting old and would prefer dinner with some wine to meet people over shouting at them and spilling beer."
• Vincent Untz: Back from FOSDEM
  "I came back from FOSDEM on Sunday evening, completely burnt out. Not because it was bad, quite the contrary: it was a blast, really. Especially since there were all those familiar faces, some of which I hadn't seen in a long while. I didn't really help with any booth (except the openSUSE one, for an hour or so), or devroom, which was quite a change from the previous years. Instead, I had tons of discussions with many different people on a large set of topics, and it felt extremely productive to me. Of course, the bad thing is that I came back with many more things to do ;-)"

Collection by:

• Jan-Simon Möller
• Sascha Manns

Pictures by:

• Adrian Schröter
• Martin Lasarsch