If you missed my talk at the openSUSE conference or want to see the slides (including notes) again - here we are:

1001 bugs - or: the golden rules of bad programming as PDF
(If you need an editable LibreOffice file, just drop me a note.)

So here we go again, FOSDEM, the largest and coolest open source contributor event in Europe is prepping up for its 2012 edition.

I've just opened the Call for Developer Rooms, the deadline for submissions is 2011-10-27.

Other call-for-stuffs will open very soon (lightning talks, stands, main tracks).

Today I created a group for wiki maintainers on openSUSE Connect web page that I like to call Connect openSUSE.

 Connect openSUSE is a hub helping people with different interests within openSUSE to find each other and connect in interest groups. There is relatively old wiki article about Connect that was created in very early stages, and talks more about technical aspects and some plans then social benefits that we can have from place like Connect.

Group is meant as a place where we can publish events and group contact information in one place. It will make easy for new openSUSE users that look for some activity,  or want to give idea how to improve wiki, to find and contact us by simply typing "wiki" in the Connect search. 

It is idea that is just started so we will for sure try to improve on it.
Here is announcement to opensuse-wiki mail list.

After maintaining the Chromium browser in the openSUSE Contrib repositories, the last few weeks things got accelerated and as of this moment the Chromium browser has become officially part of openSUSE:Factory (the future 12.1). 

Hello everyone!

I am very pleased to announce the new issue (193) of openSUSE Weekly News in Greek.
In this issue you will read about:

* JosPoortvlieet: openSUSE Conference Fun!
* Andreas Jaeger: openSUSE Conference 2011 is over – Photos uploaded
* Nelson Marques: GNOME:Ayatana – Looking for contributor…
* Petr Mladek: LibreOffice 3.4 available for openSUSE
* Linux Journal/Joey Bernard: Parallel Programming Crash Course

As well as many interesting news about openSUSE and useful advice, which can make our lives easier.

Enough said though... Read more at: http://own.opensuse.gr, http://el.opensuse.org/Weekly_news or www.os-el.gr

We are always looking forward to receiving your comments as well as suggestions regarding things you would like to read about in our next issue.

The openSUSE Weekly News is being translated in the Greek language from issue #150. You can read older translated issues here: http://el.opensuse.org/Κατηγορία:Weekly_news_issues

Enjoy it!
Efstathios Agrapidis (efagra)

At the openSUSE conference last week, Lydia Pintscher from the KDE Community Working Group led a BoF on “women in openSUSE”. This is what we (Stella, Bruno, Lydia, Pascal, Susanne, Greg) worked out:

There are very few women in openSUSE for a variety of reasons. In our perceiption, despite the good efforts of moderators on IRC, forums and mailing-lists, some attitudes there still persist, and we believe these are a key issue that keeps women away. To further address this as a small group, we decided to start at just one place, opensuse-project@. Here’s why and how:

There is quite some research on why there is so few “women in FLOSS” in general. One of the recurring topics there, and one that we also quickly came to in the BoF, was the ‘flaming’, or more generally, the negative possibilities of the direct, unfiltered yet anonymous communication on IRC, forums and mail.

We all value the speed and positive directness of those forms of communication — however it’s cutting off facial expression and physical reaction. So it’s very easy to miss the tone, without even noticing. To more sensitive souls, this is creating a barrier of entry that especially women do not want to cross, or if it hits you unprepared, will reject you, often with no return. Nota bene: this effect is not limited to women! It just happens to reject women more than men.

What’s going on there? On one side there is newcomers wanting to learn, and with a great potential to contribute, however with a “thin skin”, an expectation of being treated with respect and politeness, whatever that means. On the other side, there are knowledgeable people, often young, sometimes unpatient, maybe tired, frustrated themselves. Now the former ask naive questions while the latter “shoot out” a quick response without any visual feedback on what happens right after they hit the “send” button. Kazoom! And the frustration results into discussions that quickly are far beyond the original topic, frustrating, unproductive and the opposite of what we want: respect and getting things done.

openSUSE, like many other open source projects, has set the direction for mutual respect by working out Guiding Principles, and making members accept these. The openSUSE project Board is forming a body of volunteers who “enforce” these rules, something like the Community Working Group in the KDE project. The objective is to focus the speed and directness of the communication on productivity: turn the flaming energy of frustrations into creative energy that makes openSUSE a place to enjoy and to contribute to!

We, the BoF participants, want to simply support that effort, by working on just one list (opensuse-project@), and by providing additional material that complements the very high level goals set forth in the guiding principles.

Stay tuned

One of the things that came out of the recent Geeko Love-In for me was a new project to immerse myself in within openSUSE. Yeah I know, we have enough existing projects already so why create a new one? Simples! Believe it or not but openSUSE is behind the curve in a specific segment, and that segment has yet to explode to its full potential. That segment is ARM. No I’m not talking about your upper body appendages, but the architecture that powers most of your little devices (and some bigger ones too).

Κλικ για να δείτε το σλάιντ

OpenSUSE, Ελληνική Πύλη Ρομποτικής και e-gaming (και σχόλιο του Sali για τα Windows 8 στο τέλος) αποτελούν το 3ο επεισόδιο του OSArena, μια πολύ καλή δουλειά των παιδιών που συνεχίζεται για 3η φορά!

Το OpenSUSE για άλλη μία φορά συμμετέχει σε ένα ακόμα event, αρκετά αξιόλογο (αναφέρομαι στην 76η Διεθνή Έκθεση Θεσσαλονίκης). Παρουσιάζει μια ενεργή και δραστήρια κοινότητα, η οποία «μάχεται», απρόσκοπτα, για την διάδοση και την βελτίωση του Ελεύθερου Λογισμικού, και της διανομής φυσικά.

Θα ήθελα να ευχαριστήσω τον χορηγό μας, Minisystems, για την παραχώρηση του χώρου και την άψογη συμπεριφορά και στήριξή τους. Επιπλέον, ένα μεγάλο ευχαριστώ στο OSArena, που πρόβαλε (δείτε το video) την προσπάθειά μας και ένα μεγάλο μπράβο – ευχαριστώ στον Στάθη Ιωσηφίδη, ο οποίος ήταν ο κινητήριος μοχλός όλης αυτής της προσπάθειας στην έκθεση, καθώς έκανε και ο ίδιος την συμφωνία με τον χορηγό μας!

Κάναμε πολύ καλή δουλειά και βοηθήσαμε τον κόσμο που ήρθε από το περίπτερό μάς και ενδιαφέρθηκε για μας και το Ελεύθερο Λογισμικό...

 Πολλά είπα πάλι… Το λακωνίζειν εστί φιλοσοφείν!

Απολαύστε την υπέροχη δουλειά του OSArena!

Χρήσιμες Πληροφορίες :

• Minisystems
• OSArena
• GRobot
• E-Gaming
• OpenSUSE

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