We are pleased to announce that the call for speakers for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2024 started today. The event will be held on November 2 and 3 in Tokyo, Japan. Please check ...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2024 Logo Competition We are pleased to announce the launch of our logo contest for the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2024! The logo plays a crucial role in rep...

The openSUSE.Asia Committee is seeking sponsors for the ninth openSUSE.Asia Summit. The summit will take place in Chongqing, China, from Oct. 21–23, 2023. Our participants ...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2023 Call For Papers It is a pleasure to announce the call for papers for openSUSE.Asia summit 2023 starting today, the openSUSE.Asia Committee is lo...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2023 Logo Competition Today is the launch of our logo competition for the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2023. A logo is an integral part of the openSUSE.Asia Su...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2022 Call For Papers CFP deadline is extended to Aug 13, Fri. And Notification to speakers: Week of August 22, 2022. Let's submit your proposal. It is...

openSUSE.Asia Online Summit 2022 Logo Competition Today, we will start a logo competition for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2022. A logo is an essential material for the successful ...

Hi All! First, on behalf of all the openSUSE BAR regulars, we’d like to wish you Happy Holidays / Merry X-mas🎄. But, we are also aware that many of us will be spending the...

Almost a year ago, on the 19th of December 2020, openSUSE Members knurpht and m4u had the following conversation: Gertjan™ - Knurpht™, [19.12.20 00:05] Dude, have a drink ...

openSUSE.Asia Virtual Summit 2021, Faridabad India Call For Paper Theme : USE. SHARE. CONTRIBUTE It is a pleasure to announce the call for papers for openSUSE.Asia summit ...

openSUSE.Asia Online Summit 2021 Logo Competition It’s a rationally acknowledged fact that openSUSE has a reputation for community-driven projects. Buckle up, here’s your ...

Organizers of the openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference had a meeting this week to discuss various topics surrounding COVID19 and how it may affect the conference and planning ...

openSUSE.Asia Online Summit 2021 Logo Competition It’s a rationally acknowledged fact that openSUSE has a reputation for community-driven projects. Buckle up, here’s your ...

Planning for the openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference has begun and members of the open-source communities can now register for the conference. The Call for Papers is open and...

The winner of the openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference logo competition is Kukuh Syafaat from Indonesia. Kukuh’s “Fresh Community Spirit” was the winning design and was one o...

The openSUSE Community is going to Ireland March 27 and 28, 2020, for openSUSE Summit Dublin. Registration for the summit has begun and the Call for Papers is open until F...

The openSUSE community concluded its sixth openSUSE.Asia Summit this weekend at the Fakultas Teknik of the Universitas Udayana in Bali, Indonesia. Bali’s newest tourist at...

The LibreOffice and openSUSE communities will have a joint conference next year in Nuremberg, Germany, and for this special co-conference, we are having a logo competition....

The votes are in and the openSUSE Project is happy to announce that the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2019 logo competition winner is Hervy Qurrotul from Indonesia. Congratulations ...

Today, we will start a logo competition for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2019, which is going to be held in Bali, Indonesia. A logo is an essential material for the successful summ...

The openSUSE.Asia Committee call for proposals for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2019 is now open. openSUSE.Asia Summit is one of the great events for openSUSE community (i.e., bot...

openSUSE Conference 2019 in Nuremberg, Germany, is just four short weeks away.  The conference will be from May 24 -26 at the ZBau and will start at 9:30 a.m. with a keynot...

openSUSE is pleased to announce the first phase for accepting talks for the openSUSE Conference 2019 (oSC19) has begun. A total of 80 talks were submitted during the call ...

Cast Your Votes While You Can! Ballots Will Close This Friday for 2018-2019 openSUSE Board Elections [caption id=”attachment_21696” align=”alignleft” width=”283”] Ahmad R...

Cast Your Votes! We have done our part:  Now, You do Yours! [caption id=”attachment_21677” align=”aligncenter” width=”650”] 2018-2019 Election Poster contributed by Aris ...

Seven Candidates in Race for Three Vacant Board Seats With only 8 days left to go until the ballots open on Monday, February 4, 2019, openSUSE News and the Elections Commi...

Seven Candidates in Race for Three Vacant Board Seats With only 9 days left to go until the ballots open on Monday, February 4, 2019, openSUSE News and the Elections Commi...

Seven Candidates in Race for Three Vacant Board Seats With only 10 days left to go until the ballots open on Monday, February 4, 2019, openSUSE News and the Elections Comm...

Seven Candidates in Race for Three Vacant Board Seats With less than two weeks to go until the ballots open on Monday, February 4, 2019, openSUSE News and the Elections ...

Seven Candidates in Race for Three Vacant Board Seats With less than two weeks to go until the ballots open on Monday, February 4, 2019, openSUSE News and the Elections C...

The Elections Committee announced today, Tuesday, January 8, 2019, the first two Candidates who have passed the application and eligibility process and are declared as offi...

There are less than 10 days left to apply as a Candidate for the openSUSE Board Elections, yet as of this date, no eligible Candidates have stepped up to run for the three ...

The Travel Support Program (TSP) provides travel sponsorships to openSUSE community who want to attend the openSUSE conference and need financial assistance. The openSUSE c...

One of the growing community of openSUSE enthusiasts in Indonesia has contributed a poster he designed for the 2018-2019 Board Elections and Membership Drive. [caption id=...

Earlier this week, on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, the Elections Committee posted the Schedule for the 2018-2019 openSUSE Board Elections, along with the announcement of a Membe...

For people planning on attending the openSUSE Conference 2019 in Nuremberg, Germany, from May 24 – 26, there are certain requirements necessary to receive a visa for those ...

Two companies were recently added to the openSUSE Sponsors page thanks to the companies generous donations to the openSUSE Project. Both Marvell and TUXEDO Computers have ...

David Kang and I attended two weeks ago (12-14 Oct) the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Mentor Summit in California representing openSUSE. Here is our report of the co...

The openSUSE Project will have a summit at the 17th annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, Calif., March 8, 2019. The...

The openSUSE community is headed to Nashville, Tennessee, next year and will have the openSUSE Summit Nashville April 5 through April 6, 2019, during the end of SUSE’s prem...

openSUSE is pleased to announce that registration and the call for papers for the openSUSE Conference 2019 (oSC19), which takes place in Nuremberg, Germany, are open. The ...

The Travel Support Program (TSP) provides travel sponsorships to openSUSE community who want to attend the openSUSE conference and need financial assistance. The openSUSE c...

The release of openSUSE Leap 15 is scheduled to be release during the first day of this year’s openSUSE Conference in Prague, Czech Republic on May 25. The package submiss...

The first weekend in March 2018, the openSUSE Heroes met again in-person, after one year of infrastructure work, which was mostly done from home. After our last in-person ...

The 16th Southern California Linux Expo is about a month away, and openSUSE will once again have a booth with the KDE and GNOME booths. The event takes place at the Pasade...

Prague is a beautiful city and you can bet that the city will be crowded during the openSUSE Conference. Hotels are already starting to fill up, so it’s best to take a look...

For people planning on attending the openSUSE Conference 2018 in Prague, Czech Republic, from May 25 – 27, there are certain requirements necessary to receive a visa for th...

openSUSE is pleased to announce that registration and the call for papers for the openSUSE Conference 2018 (oSC18), which takes place in Prague, Czech Republic, are open....

Hack Week 0x10 will be Nov. 10 - 16 at many of the SUSE Research and Development locations and developers and hackers from the community are welcomed to participate. Hack ...

Members of the openSUSE will host a 3D Design and Printing Workshop in Nuremberg on Sept. 10 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m at SUSE Headquarter. The workshop, which as 60 spots a...

openSUSE.Asia Committee calls for proposals of talks for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2017 held at the University of Electro-Communications on October 21 and 22. Please refer to...

It is our great pleasure to announce that openSUSE.Asia Summit 2017 will take place at the University of Electro Communications, Tokyo, Japan on October 21 and 22. openS...

The openSUSE Conference is about seven weeks away and this year will again have high-quality keynote speakers. Keynote speakers for this year’s conference at the Z-Bau in ...

The openSUSE.Asia organization committee is accepting proposals to host the openSUSE.Asia Summit during the second half of 2017. The openSUSE.Asia Summit is the largest ann...

LinuxFest Northwest 2017, coming up the first weekend in May, promises to continue its tradition of providing a unique, active, fun experience for open-source enthusiasts a...

While we had some fun and good food and drinks, we also managed to discuss a lot during the three days in the Nuremberg headquarter. This was needed because this was the fi...

Thank you to everyone who came out to LinuxFest Northwest 2016 April 23 and 24! The Geeko crew had a lot of fun in our newly-expanded openSUSE Lounge, where we were able to...

The stage is set for the 14th annual Southern California Linux Expo in Pasadena, Calif., this week and openSUSE will be apart of the scheduled entertainment and tech talks....

Happy New Year Geekos It is mid-January and in a few days is FOSDEM time again. openSUSE will be there once again to show the entire Free Open Source Software community ...

Today is the beginning of two week-long events that are both exciting and serve a great purpose. This week the Hour of Code begins and the lessons of teaching students to ...

The openSUSE Project has been very busy this week. The project shared a booth with SUSE at the Supercomputing Conference in Austin, Texas, this week. The theme (see phot...

We’re pleased to announce that the logo for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2015. The logo comes from Kukuh Syafaat. Congratulations, Kukuh Syafaat!!! A very big thanks from the o...

Yesterday’s release of the first Leap Beta in the 42 series has people excited. Another thing that gets people excited is pizza, so why not combine the two for a Leap Betaf...

Time is running out fast!!! We already have an impressive list of proposals, but hey, it does not hurt to be greedy. Submit your proposals for the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2015...

The openSUSE.Asia Committee seeks sponsors for the second edition of openSUSE.Asia Summit that will take place in Taipei city, Taiwan from 5th and 6th of December 2015. We ...

The openSUSE.Asia Committee is happy to announce the call for papers upcoming second openSUSE.Asia Summit. Starting today, the Committee is looking forward to see your prop...

Preparations for the openSUSE.Asia Summit are rolling. As we are busy prepping ourselves for this big event, we realized that we need a logo for our very own Summit. Follow...

We are happy to announce the second openSUSE.Asia Summit following a glorious successful first edition. The conference will take place in Taiwan at National Taipei Universi...

Hack Week, a week where openSUSE/SUSE hackers experiment without limits! It’s the opportunity to innovate, collaborate across teams, and learn. The only rule is: Do what yo...

The conference date is right around the corner. Part of schedule is out and the organization is running to have everything settled to host visitors and organize the best op...

Get ready for a good time in April and a flashback to old times. openSUSE will have Hackweek April 13 - 17 and everyone is welcome to participate. All participant will rec...

openSUSE Conference 2015 As you may already know, the Travel Support Program (TSP) provides travel sponsorships to openSUSE community who want to attend the openSUSE con...

By Bruno Friedmann Hi Geekos, here is a small summary of our Thursday February 19th openSUSE miniSummit event here at SCALE 13x. Located in Century AB room, a 80 seats ro...

From retro gaming to Linux Professional Institute exams, this year’s openSUSE Conference is shaping up to be full of fun, knowledge and entertainment. Security Lock picki...

FOSDEM is here once again and openSUSE will be there for all the madness that will take place next Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Geekos will discuss everything you want to ...

Hello Westvliet, goodbye BINK36, in with the new, out with the old. For the second time, Dutch legislation is impacting oSC15; we are obviously very important! What Happ...

Geekos are kicking off 2015 events in Southern California with an openSUSE Mini Summit @ SCALE. To attend the free openSUSE Mini Summit, you must buy a SCALE ticket; regist...

Before the dawn of 2015 and as announced at oSC14  work has already started for yet another awesome openSUSE Conference. For 2015 the city of The Hague in theNetherlands ...

NUREMBERG, Germany (5-Nov.-2014) -  Many Linux user groups throughout Italy met at separate, but collectively themed events on Oct. 25 for Linux Day to promote the use of G...

Hi everyone, I’m Doug! This is the beginning of my third week at openSUSE contributing to marketing and communications. It is great to be of the community. Everything here ...

We announced the openSUSE Asia Summit yesterday and here we are already opening up our registrations for the summit. We welcome you with open hands to visit our conference ...

Spreading the word about our project has again become a little bit easier. As announced during the Opening Keynote at oSC14 the reimbursement program for locally produced ...

oSC14 took place in Dubrovnik, Croatia, attracting a large number of Geekos to give and attend talks, organize and attend workshops and have fun at the parties. Compared to...

Geekos gathered at beautiful Dubrovnik in Croatia for their annual meetup. They drunk, they conversed and they shared knowledge and progress of the project. They had fun! T...

This year’s openSUSE Conference is being held in the beautiful city of Dubrovnik in Croatia. This year’s conference organization team has taken care of its attendees with a...

The openSUSE Conference 2014 is being held in Dubrovnik, on the Dalmatian coast in Croatia. The conference venue, also known as the Campus of the University of Dubrovnik is...

[caption id=”attachment_17869” align=”alignright” width=”300”] The Board in Action[/caption] The openSUSE Conference 2014 in Dubrovnik was kicked off just an hour ago by t...

We are happy to announce that at long last the schedule for oSC14 has landed and you can find the details of the once again jam packed conference here. We already published...

Next week, from Monday the 31st of March to the 4th of April, developers from the major Linux Desktops (GNOME, KDE, Unity and RazorQt) will meet again in Nuremberg for the ...

Less than two months from the awesome openSUSE Conference will kick off. The location of oSC14 is the beautiful and historic city of Dubrovnik, located on the Dalmatian co...

[caption id=”attachment_17724” align=”alignright” width=”300”] click to download banners![/caption] Every year we hear from people who did not know when or where the openS...

As you can see on the website, affordable accommodation deals have been prepared for all the Geekos visiting the openSUSE conference 2014. To get those low prices, bookings...

At the openSUSE Conference 2014 in Dubrovnik hundreds of Geekos are expected to meet, discuss and attend the talks and workshops. The openSUSE Conference Paper Committee is...

We are very pleased to announce Michael Meeks as our keynote speaker for the Saturday opening session at oSC14, held in Dubrovnik April 25th - 28th, 2014. Besides Michael M...

The openSUSE Conference 2014 will happen in Dubrovnic, Croatia. The TSP goal is to help everybody in and around openSUSE to be able to come to the openSUSE Conference! Yo...

“The early bird gets the worm” That was the theme of our awakening at 5AM this morning. We arose to 22 notifications of retweets by new followers we made at the conference....

Following the recent participation by our team at FOSDEM we would also like to continue in the tradition of showing our team’s outreach to different audiences. Over the pas...

Fosdem is the biggest open source developer’s event in Europe. Geekos couldn’t miss the chance to be there promoting our beloved distribution and of course our next big ...

Starting today, the oSC14 Program Committee is ready to accept your proposals for sessions!We’re also ready to register visitors interested in joining us. Your talk and wor...

As announced at the openSUSE Conference 2013, this years openSUSE conference will take place in Dubrovnik, Croatia. This beautiful city will welcome us Geekos from the 24t...

Our openSUSE Summit 2013 has just finished here in Orlando. We were hosted in a Mexican themed hotel in the area of Disney World, with our own special area setup nicely f...

As you may well know, Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in beautiful Florida will welcome all Geekos to this year’s openSUSE Summit from November 15 to 17. This will be a g...

Friday a week ago a Beta Pizza Hackaton took place at the SUSE offices and online. 121 people went over more than 580 bugs, screening 440 and fixing 140 of them. The conte...

We as a community are still abuzz from the success of the first community organized openSUSE conference in Thessaloniki this past July and many are already looking forwar...

We are happy to announce the Travel Team is ready to receive applications for sponsorships to attend to openSUSE Summit 2013. This year openSUSE Summit will be held in t...

It has already been a year since the first iteration of the openSUSE Summit held in Orlando Florida. Our guests and organizers agreed that tying this community event at th...

Almost time for the release of openSUSE 13.1 Beta. Many openSUSE contributors, upon hearing that, will feel their bellies rumbling: Pizza! The tradition of Beta, Pizza a...

[caption id=”attachment_16406” align=”alignright” width=”300”] Volunteers oSC13[/caption] One of the most exciting openSUSE Conferences is over. The community proved that ...

Just as we started the conference with great energy and enthusiasm there is always a time to part ways until the next reunion. Some tears drop and hugs are given as we sepa...

After the first awesome day at #oSC13 and a more exciting night, we’re over 200 participants. Many more interesting presentations and workshops took place and everyone ha...

The openSUSE Conference 2013 is being held in Thessaloniki, Greece at the Olympic Museum. Everything is set and the first day of the conference is now over! Last night, we...

We at openSUSE team have been faced with one slight difficulty. We need to track people interested in the workshops so we can assure you can fit in beforehand, tell you som...

While everyone is certainly looking forward to the upcoming openSUSE Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece (only a few days away) it is not too early to cast our view just a b...

We opened registration back in February and now we’ve just passed the mark of two weeks from the conference! If you have not yet registered, please hurry up: we need these ...

We’ve got great news for you: the openSUSE Conference Paper Committee has finalized the conference program! We’ve got inspiring keynotes, interesting talks, in-depth worksh...

In about a month, the openSUSE conference will kick off in Thessaloniki, Greece. We expect that about 300 visitors will join us for 4 days featuring over 60 talks, workshop...

The openSUSE conference will feature Georg Greve as first keynote speaker, opening the event on Friday morning. He will talk about “Freedom in the world we live in and the...

Master oSC13 Kostas just published his “only 58 days to go” blog in his series of daily how are we doing posts and it should be clear that with less than two months to go,...

The Conference is getting closer while the team makes progress. Let’s talk numbers: two promotional video’s have been made, a choice of 7 hotels is available on the confere...

Over the last few years, we’ve seen openSUSE grow into an international project consisting of a large number of volunteer contributors from around the world. These contribu...

Today the openSUSE Travel Support Team opened the Travel Support Request Submission tool for requests related to the openSUSE Conference 2013 in Thessaloniki. The goal is...

Fosscomm (Free and Open Source Software Communities Meeting) is an annual conference for Free and Open Software. It’s organized from the Greek open source community for th...

Now that openSUSE 12.3 is out, the openSUSE ARM Team want to step up a gear. As the cycle was shorter than normal, there are a few wrinkles that need to be ironed out and ...

Today the openSUSE board invites you to submit your proposal for locations of the openSUSE Conference in 2014. Please send proposals to the openSUSE project mailing list wi...

Today, the openSUSE community is happy and proud to announce the openSUSE Conference 2013, oSC13. On July 18, the openSUSE Community will flock to the land where 2500 years...

Over the weekend of Friday 19 to Sunday 21 January 2013, a group of openSUSE contributors braved heavy snowfalls all over Europe to come to the Nuremberg SUSE office. Follo...

This article attempts to give a bit of an overview of what happened at oSC 12. And that is lots and lots, as you can see in the Google Plus event page for oSC12 and LinuxD...

On 6 December, 2012, the 8 candidates standing for election of the 2013 openSUSE Board joined members of the community in an open Q&A Debate session on IRC.   The compl...

The excitement has been building for weeks and now the most important phase of the openSUSE Board elections begins today – Election Time! Two seats are open for election...

Two weeks ago, openSUSE Ambassadors Ilias and Diomidis joined the SUSE crew at LinuxCon in Barcelona, Spain, to represent the Geeko to the visitors of this conference. As m...

[caption id=”attachment_14487” align=”alignright” width=”300”] registration desk[/caption] The third day schedule began gently at 10:00, with a few of the headaches that c...

The second day started an hour later to give people time to recover from the party the previous night.  The golden autumn weather seemed to have run out by Sunday, making...

On Saturday the openSUSE Conference 2012 began. The fourth annual meeting of the openSUSE Community is taking place in Prague, Czech Republic at the CVUT University. After...

You’ve seen interviews now with a number of speakers at the upcoming conference in Prague starting on Saturday. Here, we’ve got one more: Shane Coughlan on his Flying Drone...

At the upcoming four in one conference in Prague we have a smashing session schedule ready for you. Last week we gave a sneak peek of some of those sessions. Today, we add...

Next weekend the openSUSE Conference 2012 begins. Please join us October 20-23 at the Czech Technical University in Prague. This year, the openSUSE conference co-locates wi...

Everyone knows what really matters at a conference happens outside the scheduled talks, right? The life of the openSUSE project happens when we get together, talk and pla...

The openSUSE Conference 2012 takes place next week from October 20th to 23rd in Prague, Czech Republic. When you first step into the world of Free Software, it isn’t alwa...

Less than two weeks from now the openSUSE Conference will start. The location itself is almost enough reason to attend: the openSUSE Conference 2012 is in the beautiful, h...

Within three weeks, in Prague, the openSUSE Conference will start off again. Like last year, we have not only an awesome program but also reserved time for small sessions ...

The openSUSE Conference in Prague is about to happen and we know that all of you are really excited about it. One more year with great talks and workshops and the warmth of...

The openSUSE Conference is coming! The Call for Papers is closed and the sessions for this awesome four-plus-one event are decided upon and scheduled. It is time to grab a...

Everyone’s excited about the upcoming openSUSE Summit in Orlando, Florida next month and now there is a full itinerary tailored just for you.  The openSUSE Summit, a 100% f...

So, we’re delaying our release. And Coolo has announced we will do another Beta. There will be plenty of time after the beta and before the release which means: we can tes...

Akademy ES is the yearly meeting of KDE developers and users in Spain. It is organized by the KDE Spain Association, and started in 2008. This year the event was organized ...

Once again, the Greek openSUSE community was present and rocked in the Free open source software communities meeting, which took place this year in the beautiful town of Se...

COSCUP is the largest FLOSS conference organized by local communities in Taiwan. The conference has sessions for new users, enthusiastic promoters, coders or anyone who is...

We’re happy to announce that starting March 29 the openSUSE Summit team will accept session proposals for the openSUSE Summit. The openSUSE Summit will take place from Se...

It’s that time of the year again - FLISOL, the “Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre” (Latin American free software install fest) will start in about 6...

[caption id=”attachment_12680” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”Busy time at the booth”][/caption] openSUSE brought lots of fun to FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium. We’r...

A few weeks ago in A Coruña, Spain a Hackfest around GNOME Accessibility took place hosted by Igalia . openSUSE found the opportunity to make some questions to the people i...

FOSDEM is the biggest event organized by and for the Free and Open Source (FOSS) community. Its goal is to provide developers a place to meet, come together and share and d...

[caption id=”” align=”alignright” width=”200” caption=”Party time!”][/caption] We’re almost there. In two days openSUSE once again releases a new, improved version of its ...

A little over two weeks left for openSUSE 12.1 to be released on November, 16th 2011. And there is no better way to enjoy the new release than with your fellow openSUSE p...

Last Friday Dirk Müller send an email to openSUSE-Factory about the status of the openSUSE ARM port. SUSE employees Adrian, Alexander, Dirk and Reinhard had spend their H...

The new openSUSE 12.1 Release is approaching very soon and all you Geekos should not miss the opportunity of becoming a double GPM! Party time starts this weekend and l...

One of the ways SUSE and its developers contribute to openSUSE is through Hackweek: - a week long sprint permitting developers to work on something entirely of their own de...

The openSUSE community is happy to announce that the 6th Milestone of the upcoming release will be renamed openSUSE 12.1 Beta. This change in name reflects the state of t...

The Testing Core Team has decided to hold our third Open Bugs Day (OBD) on Sunday August 21 from 0:00 to 23:59 UTC. To ensure that all the testers are using the same code...

[caption id=”attachment_9741” align=”alignright” width=”225” caption=”Getting ready to rock in Thessaloniki”][/caption] Over the last few months the openSUSE ambassadors h...

From Friday the 15th to Sunday the 17th of July Lizards and other FOSS enthusiasts were gathered at Katerini for the 1st Greek openSUSE Collaboration Summer weekend Camp....

Continuing the great work of our Ambassadors of the Southern Hemisphere, our Brazilian openSUSE team once again gets ready for a strong openSUSE presence in Brazil beginnin...

Summer in Greece! Is the weather too hot for you to code or contribute to your favorite FOSS project? Do you need some motivation and a refreshing swim? Come to our Summ...

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 Lab...

Again this year, same procedure as every year, the openSUSE Project is attending the LinuxTag in Berlin with more than 30 members, a booth, several talks in the program an...

Following in the growing list of appearances we’re making worldwide, openSUSE will land in Bellingham, Washington for the LinuxFest Northwest conference ( LFNW ) on Saturda...

openSUSE 11.4 is going to be released this Thursday (March 10th, 2011) and there is no better way to enjoy the new release than having fun with your fellow openSUSE Lizard...

As announced previously, openSUSE organized an Open-Bugs-Day held on January 20. Many people participated, including a large number of contributors new to #opensuse-testi...

As you all know, we’re closing in on the Final Release of openSUSE 11.4… and so in this last window for bug-fixing we need your help! The testing team is looking for vol...

Novell hosted the first Bretzn Sprint in the SUSE office in Nürnberg between 21th and the 23st of January. The objective of the sprint was to create an proof of concept ap...

Back in October, at the openSUSE Conference, several meetings and hallway discussions occurred on the topic of “Installation ofApplications” on openSUSE. As of today, we st...

Hackweek VI will take place January 24th - 28th, 2011. Hackweek is one of Novell’s biggest ways of giving back to the openSUSE community - by providing developers the oppo...

Accessibility has become an important selling point in getting computing solutions into many organizations. Organizations are faced with legislations and regulations that r...

On the 6th of December, the openSUSE marketing team held the first of three Collaboration Days. The goal of these days was to get on IRC together and get some tasks done. E...

[caption id=”attachment_6063” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”picture by Robert Lihm”][/caption] Next years FOSDEM takes place again in Brussels on Feb 5th and 6th...

[caption id=”attachment_5382” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”Heinz on Skolelinux”][/caption] At the openSUSE conference almost two months ago a special Educationa...

Last Monday the second Marketing Collaboration Day happened - with a focus on Marketing Materials. The moderators, Chuck Payne and Bryen Yunashko, would like to thank every...

On Saturday the 27th of November a Bug Day was organized to solve the issue with Zombie bugs, bugs against old, non-maintained versions of openSUSE. A team got together in ...

[caption id=”attachment_5804” align=”aligncenter” width=”300” caption=”The openSUSE Brasileiros!”][/caption] A few weeks ago, Latinoware offered an opportunity for the Bra...

The openSUSE Marketing Team is proud to host Collaboration Days during the month of December.  Each designated day, we will focus on a specifc area related to marketing.  T...

At Latinoware, a team of openSUSE contributors will come together, not only to promote openSUSE but also to talk with each other about the future plans for the major linu...

For those who couldn’t make it to the actual event, here is a little impression of the openSUSE conference. Of course, the many blogs on planet openSUSE and the cool specia...

A lot of people have been involved with the openSUSE Conference and I’ve heard a lot of people saying thanks for a great conference. This is supported by 290 attendees visi...

[caption id=”attachment_5220” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”Meeks and Wafaa”][/caption] Wednesday at the conference, Smeegol master Andrew “Funkypenguin” Wafaa w...

[caption id=”attachment_5196” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”Henne kicking ass”][/caption] As 260 fans of openSUSE descended upon Nuremberg, the second annual ope...

Hi all! Friday the 1st of October will be the deadline for requesting travel and hotel sponsorship requests for the openSUSE conference. We will notify those who will rece...

Last week our Ambassadors did what they do every week: promote openSUSE. They went to meetings, conferences and tradeshows for a talk or staffing a booth. And they organiz...

> [](//news.opensuse.org/category/sneak-peeks/) > > The openSUSE Conference brings together users, contr...

In a little over a month, the openSUSE conference 2010 will start under the title “collaboration accross borders”. This article highlights one of the main topics at this co...

> >  > > > > The openSUSE Conference brings together users, contributors and friends of the op...

The openSUSE Conference brings together users, contributors and friends of the openSUSE project from 20th to 23rd October in Nuremberg, Germany. Over four days, more than s...

On September 18, it is international Software Freedom Day. Software Freedom Day aims to celebrate Free Software and the people behind it. It wants to spread the word about ...

Join the HackMeck! HackMeck is the weekend hack retreat of the openSUSE Boosters team in the openSUSE development room @ FrosCON. The aim of HackMeck is to advance Conne...

On Saturday, July 10th from 09:00 AM CET to 03:00 PM CET, our infrastructure vendor will be shutting down services in the Nuremberg (Germany) data center to allow for a sch...

The Ohio Linux Fest will be on September 10-12, 2010 in Columbus, Ohio.  There is now a one-week extension for Call for Partiicipation. If any of you are in the Ohio ar...

On July 15th you are invited to celebrate with us the latest release of our distribution: openSUSE 11.3! **Who? **All people interested in openSUSE. Please spread the wo...

As openSUSE 11.3 is around the corner and will be released on July 15, it’s now the right time to prepare your Launch Paty in our city or region. Gnokii just posted on th...

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The outage planned for this Saturday (June 5th) has been rescheduled.  The outage is now scheduled to take place between 20:00 and 00:00 GMT (4:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT).  The...

openSUSE -  as usual - will be at LinuxTag. We have booth #203 in hall 7.2a and will show there the openSUSE Build Service 2.0 release which is scheduled for June 11 and ho...

On Saturday, June 5th, most of openSUSE.org will be down due to a network upgrade in the data center.  The outage is scheduled to take place between 13:00 and 17:00 GMT (9:...

LinuxTag 2010 is around the corner. There will be openSUSE Rock ‘N’ Roll from June 9 to 12 at the Berlin Fairgrounds! We just received word that our project got accepted ...

The next openSUSE Weekly News meeting will take place tomorrow (Saturday February 27)  at 14:30 UTC. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-newslet...

On the evening of Monday the 22nd of February, the KDE Plasma, KWin and Oxygen developers will be holding a public event at the SUSE office in Nuremberg, Germany. All are ...

The first openSUSE-Medical Team meeting will take place tomorrow (Saturday February 6) at 14:00 UTC. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-medica...

It is that time of the year again! FOSDEM will take place at the first weekend in February (6th/7th) in Brussels and we’re going to attend. There is a buttload of tracks...

We’re very, very close to the final release of openSUSE 11.2! To help promote the 11.2 release, we have banners for openSUSE 11.2 available on the openSUSE wiki, courtesy ...

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday, October 21st, at 16:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting will be he...

The next openSUSE Weekly News meeting will take place tomorrow  (Saturday October 16) at 14:30 UTC. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-newsletter c...

english version below Wir möchten alle in und um Nürnberg dazu einladen openSUSE auf der “Langen Nacht der Wissenschaft” zu besuchen. Diese findet am Samstag 24. Otkober v...

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place tomorrow (Wednesday October 10th) at 12:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting w...

The next openSUSE Weekly News meeting will take place today (Saturday October 03) at 14:30 UTC. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-newsletter chann...

On Sunday the first openSUSE conference (osc09) finished in Nuernberg, Germany. Overall it was great success and brought people face to face together. Participants were mo...

This Thursday 16:45 - 17:30 will be a GPG-Keysigning Party and a CaCert Assurance Event at the openSUSE Conference Unconference track in Nürnberg. So even if the deadline f...

The openSUSE Conference isn’t just an opportunity to work together — it’s also an opportunity to play together. During the conference, we’ll have several activities for at...

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place tomorrow (Wednesday September 9th) at 12:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting ...

The openSUSE Project is happy to announce that Lenz Grimmer will be delivering the opening keynote for the first-ever openSUSE Conference. The openSUSE Conference will be h...

The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce its second confirmed keynote for the first-ever openSUSE Conference. Our closing keynote will be delivered by Gianugo Rabellino,...

The next openSUSE Weekly News meeting will take place Saturday August 22 at 16:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting will be held...

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place today (Wednesday August 12) at 12:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting will be...

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the first confirmed keynote for the first-ever openSUSE Conference. The openSUSE Conference is an opportunity for openSUSE contrib...

Thanks to Jürgen we now have all presentations (documents and videos) from openSUSE day at LinuxTag online. This time Jürgen managed it with his unbeatable charm to get a ...

Join us in Nürnberg, Germany, 17 September through 20 September for the first-ever openSUSE Conference! The openSUSE Conference schedule is up and registration is open! At...

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday July 15th at 12:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting will be held in...

Novell is once again sponsoring a Hack Week, from July 20 through July 24th. This is an opportunity for Novell’s Open Platform Solutions developers to use their Innovation ...

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday July 1 at 16:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting will be held in IR...

Once again, it’s LinuxTag time, and (of course) openSUSE is there. Today was day one of LinuxTag, and the openSUSE crew turned out to talk openSUSE, Build Service, and SUSE...

If you’re in, around, or near Clemson, South Carolina this weekend don’t miss the SouthEast LinuxFest at Clemson University! The openSUSE Project will be exhibiting at the ...

The iFolder project will be having its monthly meeting tomorrow, June 9th, at 14:00 UTC. The meeting will be held in the #ifolder channel on Freenode. iFolder is a simple,...

The deadline for the openSUSE Conference call for participation is coming up pretty rapidly – Friday, June 5th is the last day to submit a proposal. We’re looking for contr...

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday June 3rd at 16:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting will be held in ...

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday May 20th at 12:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting will be held in ...

It’s hard to believe we’re already on day four of openSUSE Community Week ! Let’s take a look at all the fun that’s in store for Thursday, May 14th: GNOME Testing ...

The openSUSE Community Week is going strong! The fun kicks up a notch Wednesday with sessions with the openSUSE Board and a workshop with the openSUSE Weekly News team, in ...

The openSUSE Community Week is going strong! Monday kicked off with a number of really informative and well-attended sessions on GNOME, KDE, testing, packaging, and more. T...

openSUSE Community Week runs from May 11 through May 17. Our community week is a chance to get people from around the world together at the same time to focus on specific t...

On the iFolder mailing list, Brent McConnell has announced the first iFolder Project meeting on May 12 at 14:00 GMT. Meeting Agenda includes: Engineering update. ...

The first openSUSE Community Week is just around the corner. May 11 through May 17 we’ll be hosting live sessions in IRC to help grow the openSUSE Community. Community w...

Want to contribute to the openSUSE Project, but not sure where to start? Join us for the openSUSE Community Week May 11 through 17th. Want to help lead the project and ment...

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday April 22nd at 13:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting will be held i...

Join the openSUSE Project as we celebrate the 10th anniversary of LinuxFest Northwest! The openSUSE Project will be exhibiting at LinuxFest Northwest on April 25th and 26...

Just a quick reminder: the next openSUSE Project meeting is April 8th, at 16:00 UTC. (See The Fixed Time World Clock for the time in your time zone.) As always, the meeting...

Will Stephenson has announced that the KDE team will be having a bug squashing and packaging workshop day on Sunday, April 5: I'm happy to announce that we're having a bug...

The openSUSE Project is bringing the green to Prague in April! The openSUSE Project will have a booth, demos, and several presentations at the LinuxExpo in Prague, April 15...

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place tomorrow, Wednesday March 25th at 12:00 UTC (13:00 CET) See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the m...

The next openSUSE Project meeting will be Wednesday, March 11th, at 17:00 UTC on Freenode. Again that’s: 2009-03-11 17:00 UTC See all the timezones here: //is.gd/lZgv. T...

This year Juergen and me (tom) went to FOSDEM to do the video recordings of the talks in the openSUSE developer room. Last year we had some problems with the sound quality,...

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 s...

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....

Marko posted yesterday that the call for papers started for Linuxtag. Of course we will have a booth and we also want to do an openSUSE day again. Last year we had 8 presen...

One of our favorite shows for sure, and again we will be there with a lot of people. I’m also happy that Novell sponsors the event, because we think it’s quite important a...

[](//www.flickr.com/photos/notlocalhorst/3098241900/) Just a reminder, we will have a par...

After very careful deliberation, we’ve chosen the winners from Hack Week III. The categories were: Best Cross-Pollination Team, First Penguin Awards, and the Best Overall P...

The openSUSE Project is going to have a presence at the Indiana Linuxfest and Ohio Linuxfests this weekend. Friday, the Indiana Linuxfest is taking place in Bloomington, I...

The openSUSE KDE team wants to dedicate some time on KDE bugs before openSUSE 11.1 gets released, focusing on reported KDE bugs on bugzilla.novell.com inviting the commun...

See the openSUSE Project at the Utah Open Source Conference this week! The Utah Open Source Conference is going on August 28 through August 30 at the Salt Lake Community C...

Hack Week III is almost upon us! Novell is once again sponsoring Hack Week, from August 25th through August 29th, and we want the openSUSE community to be in on it! What’s...

Join the openSUSE Project this weekend, Saturday August 23, and Sunday August 24, at third annual FrOSCon. FrOSCon is a two day conference on Free Software and Open Source,...

The acronym ENOS stands for ‘Encontro Nacional de openSUSE’, a Portuguese expression which can be translated to ‘National openSUSE Meeting’, an event meant to unite the P...

Another show is over, it was a good one with some annoying stuff … But first the good stuff: We gave away a lot of openSUSE PromoDVDs, so much that we ran out quite soon. B...

The YaST teams met in Nürnberg recently in the SUSE offices to work on several projects. The team had a number of ideas and projects to tackle, but had to prioritize and t...

Novell is once again sponsoring Hack Week – and we want you to be in on it! Hack Week III (HW3) runs from August 25th through August 29th. What’s Hack Week? Hack Week is a...

Join the openSUSE Project for a day of fun and FOSS at the LinuxWorld Expo! On Wednesday, August 6th, the openSUSE Project will be holding its first “openSUSE Day” in North...

The kernel team is going to be hosting a kernel bug squashing day on Wednesday, July 30th. The goals of the bug squashing day are to: Reduce the number of kernel b...

Join the openSUSE Project for a day of fun and FOSS at the LinuxWorld Expo! On Wednesday, August 6th, the openSUSE Project will be holding its first “openSUSE Day” in North...

Now that openSUSE 11.0 is out the door, the YaST team is looking to get together and improve YaST even more. Next week the YaST team will be meeting in Nuremberg, Monday t...

The presentations held at LinuxTag, Berlin during the openSUSE day are now available as video and partly as slides as well. Beside of Zonker’s part in the project presentat...

Second day on the Linuxtag, i tried to post yesterday but the Network was not working that good. Anyway, we are in Berlin! On the first pic you see the car i have, the...

Well, for me and some other openSUSE guys it’s T-1, we going tomorrow to set up the booth. (actually the picture is from last year .. :-)). So why should you come to Ber...

A quick reminder, we have an openSUSE Project Meeting coming up on Wednesday, May 21, at 16:00 UTC, to discuss the latest developments in openSUSE. For a listing of this w...

The Novell/SUSE development offices in Prague, Czech Republic have on the 15th an event called “otevreneSUSE” which means “openSUSE” in Czech. This event is for local peop...

Please don’t forget the biggest Linux event in Germany, just a few weeks away! For the second time it will be in Berlin, from 28-31.05.2008. The location is slightly differ...

Thanks to the Switzerland Novell colleagues openSUSE is again on the biggest computer event in Switzerland. I will be there on a openSUSE demopoint at the Novell booth, sho...

The openSUSE Project is going Bug Smashing on April 25, and we want you to join us! We’re looking for openSUSE users and contributors who have some time to help triage YaST...

The videos and slides of the openSUSE presentations at FOSDEM are now online, and available at the FOSDEM2008 wiki page. They are also available on Google video (lower qua...

Ever had problems finding a package for your favorite application for your favorite distro? Are you an application developer or project contributor, and want to learn how t...

I’m still a little bit groggy after FOSDEM, but so far i’m quite happy. Nothing really bad happened, it seems that everybody got back alive. :-) I will for sure forget som...

This weekend (23-24.02) the openSUSE folks will again go to Brussels to one of the most important developer events in Europe: FOSDEM. For all openSUSE users we will again ...

We had last June our first Hackweek and have this week (from 11th to 15th) our second hackweek. Some of us do use the ideas.opensuse.org website for collecting ideas but n...

Masim informs us that the Indonesian openSUSE Community’s (OpenSUSE-ID) Annual Meeting will be held in Jakarta on 8th December 2007. This is their monthly meeting that beco...

The GNOME and KDE teams have teamed up to provide two packaging days, from November 30th until December 1st (from any timezone to any timezone). It will take place on IRC...

openSUSE developer and Novell employee Cristian Rodríguez will perform 3 talks during an event entitled “Opensource : mas cerca del código” that will take place on Valparaí...

The YaST team had last week a workshop and the participants are now updating the openSUSE wiki with their slides and comments. Lukas announced that the YaST team is openin...

The acronym ENOS stands for ‘Encontro Nacional de openSUSE’, a Portuguese expression which can be translated as ‘National openSUSE Meeting’, an event meant to unite the Po...

Stephen Shaw from Novell sent us some information about the upcoming Utah Open Source Conference! Thanks Stephen Utah Open Source Conference 2007 The Convergence… Septe...

The Bug Slashing Weekend has come to an end, and we are happy to report that it was a huge success! Countless old bugs were slashed, updated, and looked over, though for th...

So openSUSE 10.3 Beta 1 has now been released and it’s looking great. A long-discussed topic on the opensuse-project@opensuse.org (subscribe) mailing list was the suggesti...

First I have to praise 10.3 Alpha 7. We had it running on our demo laptops all day, and beside the Konqueror/flash bug and the bug of the all black splash screen when start...

Just a short/last reminder … We, Seth Arnold and /me, will be at LWE in San Francisco next week (06-09.08). You can find us at the .org pavilion, booth 20. If you are inter...

Ars Technica features a four-page story about the recent Hack Week in the Novell Open Platform Solutions business unit (where most of Novell’s openSUSE contributors are emp...

The acronym ENOS stands for ‘Encontro Nacional de openSUSE’, a Portuguese expression which can be translated to ‘National openSUSE Meeting’, an event meant to unite the Por...

The winners of Novell’s Hack Week have been announced. The main purpose of Hack Week was for everone to follow his passion, and the awards are really just a “bonus.” Noneth...

At Novell we’ve been planning a special internal event that will run this week, from June 25th to 29th. We’re calling it Hack Week. During Hack Week, our entire Linux engi...