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openSUSE Board Elections Update

Douglas DeMaio 20. Jan 2025

Members of the openSUSE Election Committee have informed the project that Board elections are underway. Four candidates are running for three open seats. The final candid...

Board Election Schedule Revised

Douglas DeMaio 7. Jan 2025

Members of the openSUSE Election Committee have provided an update regarding this year’s Board election. This election will fill three board seats. All eligible openSUSE me...

Project to have AMA with SUSE’s GM

Douglas DeMaio 28. Nov 2024

The openSUSE community is invited to an online engagement with SUSE’s General Manager for Business Critical Linux on Dec. 3 at 16:00 UTC. Rick Spencer, who leads the SUSE ...

Ignite Creativity in Hack Week

Douglas DeMaio 18. Nov 2024

Open-source software developers, tech enthusiasts and innovators worldwide are set for Hack Week 24 that starts today and runs through Nov. 22. The event is a cornerstone ...

Community Call for Involvement With Project’s Governance, Rebranding

Douglas DeMaio 15. Nov 2024

The openSUSE Board is calling for the formation of a working group to explore topics focused on project governance, operational models and rebranding for the project. This...

Board Election for Three Seats Opens

Douglas DeMaio 13. Nov 2024

Members of the openSUSE’s election committee have provided notice to the project about the start of this year’s board election. This election there are three board seats up...

Project Welcomes rsync.net as Gold Sponsor

Douglas DeMaio 12. Nov 2024

The openSUSE Project is excited to announce rsync.net as the latest Gold Sponsor! The company’s support will empower the openSUSE community to continue building open-sourc...

Project Launches Recognition Platform

Douglas DeMaio 8. Nov 2024

The openSUSE Project has announced the launch of a new initiative aimed at highlighting contributions of its diverse community members. Dubbed “Contributor in the Spotligh...

Outreach, Survey Extension Addressed in Second Meetup

Douglas DeMaio 2. Feb 2021

The second session of the openSUSE Project’s meetup regarding the End of the Year Survey Results on Jan. 30 led to some changes with regard to future surveys and contributo...

Web Development Sprints To Start Next Week

Douglas DeMaio 28. Jan 2021

The openSUSE Project will begin monthly web development sprints to address feedback provided by attendees of the Jan. 23 meetup regarding the results of the End of the Year...

Session One Meetup Generates Enhancements, Actions

Douglas DeMaio 25. Jan 2021

The first session of the openSUSE Project’s meetup regarding the End of the Year Survey Results on Jan. 23 is already starting produce some actionable items from contributo...

Meetup Will Discuss Survey Results, Project Improvements

Douglas DeMaio 18. Jan 2021

The openSUSE Project welcomes our followers to participate in two planned meetups to discuss results from the End of the Year Community Survey on Jan. 23 and Jan. 30. Both...

Get cool merchandise for upcoming openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference

Mike Saunders 6. Oct 2020

The joint openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference 2020 will take place from October 15 – 17. And there’s lots going on! We’ll have talks, presentations, keynotes, tutorials and m...

Collabora is Diamond Sponsor for openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference 2020

Mike Saunders 28. Sep 2020

The joint openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference 2020 will run from October 15 – 17, and Collabora has joined as a Diamond Sponsor. Collabora is a major contributor to the Libr...

Conference Organizers Announce Schedule, Platform Registration

Douglas DeMaio 15. Sep 2020

Organizers of the openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference are pleased to announce the schedule for the conference is published.   All times on the schedule are published in Coor...

openSUSE Projects Support Hacktoberfest Efforts

Douglas DeMaio 14. Sep 2020

The openSUSE community is ready for Hacktoberfest, which is run by Digital Ocean and DEV that encourages people to make their first contributions to open source projects. T...

Participate in Hacktoberfest, Help Develop Contributions

Douglas DeMaio 14. Aug 2020

The month-long, virtual-festival event that celebrates open source contributions, Hacktoberfest, is coming soon and members of the openSUSE community can make a difference....

Release Team to have retrospective meeting about openSUSE Leap 15.2

Douglas DeMaio 5. Aug 2020

Members of the openSUSE community will have two retrospective meetings about the release of openSUSE Leap 15.2 after receiving feedback from the recent survey. The meeting...

Release Team Asks for Feedback on openSUSE Leap 15.2

Douglas DeMaio 17. Jul 2020

The openSUSE release team is would like feedback from users, developers and stakeholders about the release of the of community-developed openSUSE Leap 15.2 through a survey...

openSUSE Leap 15.2 is Available for Windows Subsystem for Linux

Douglas DeMaio 9. Jul 2020

The release of openSUSE Leap 15.2 continues to expand its use and is now available for Windows Subsystem for Linux in the Microsoft Store. Leap can be executed on top of W...

openSUSE Leap 15.2 Release Brings Exciting New Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, and Container Packages

Douglas DeMaio 2. Jul 2020

ISO 639-1 Languages - CA - CS - DE - FR - ID - IT - ES - JA - ZH-TW - PT NUREMBERG, Germany (02/07/2020) – The openSUSE release team is proud to announce the availability ...

Call for Papers, Registration Opens for openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference

Douglas DeMaio 14. Feb 2020

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...

People of openSUSE: An Interview with Ish Sookun

Douglas DeMaio 13. Feb 2020

Can you tell us a bit about yourself? I live on an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean (20°2’ S, 57°6’ E), called Mauritius. I work for a company that supports me in ...

Q&A: What it is like to be on the openSUSE Board

Douglas DeMaio 7. Jan 2020

You already know what a fantastic platform openSUSE is for doing just about anything with Linux. So what’s behind that easy-to-use and super powerful distribution that we k...

openSUSE Board election 2019-2020 - Call for Nominations, Applications

Douglas DeMaio 5. Dec 2019

Election time is here! Two seats are open for election on the openSUSE Board. Gertjan Lettink completed his second term. Simon Lees completed his first term and thus he is...

openSUSE to have Summit in Dublin

Douglas DeMaio 16. Oct 2019

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...

Sixth openSUSE.Asia Summit Concludes

Douglas DeMaio 7. Oct 2019

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...

Election Committee Set to Open Vote on Project Name

Douglas DeMaio 30. Sep 2019

Following discussions about the “openSUSE Project logo & name change” that started in June on the openSUSE Project mailing list [1], the Election Committee received a r...

Co-Conference Logo Competition for 2020

Douglas DeMaio 27. Sep 2019

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....

Changing the Chair of the openSUSE Board

Richard Brown 19. Aug 2019

Dear Community, After six years on the openSUSE Board and five as its Chairperson, I have decided to step down as Chair of the openSUSE Board effective today, August 19. ...

openSUSE Community Releases Leap 15.1 Version

Douglas DeMaio 22. May 2019

Leap 15.1 Supports More Hardware, Drivers, Enhances Installation EN / CA / DE / FR / IT / ES / JA / NL / PL / ZH / ZH-TW 22/05/2019 ** NUREMBERG, Germany **- Today’s r...

Bali, Indonesia, Selected for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2019

Douglas DeMaio 6. Mar 2019

For the second time, Indonesia was chosen to host the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2019 event. A similar event was held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 2016 and was attended by hundre...

Voters Choose Two New Board Members and One Incumbent to openSUSE Board

Fraser Bell 16. Feb 2019

[caption id=”attachment_21446” align=”alignleft” width=”180”] Christian Boltz aka cboltz, incumbent[/caption] The results are in and the Voting Members have chosen incumbe...

First Phase for openSUSE Conference Talks Begins

Douglas DeMaio 13. Feb 2019

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 ...

Only a Few Days Left to Cast Your Ballot in the Board Elections

Fraser Bell 10. Feb 2019

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...

Voting Gets Underway for the 2018-2019 openSUSE Board Elections

Fraser Bell 5. Feb 2019

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 ...

2018-2019 openSUSE Board Elections: Meet Marina Latini

Fraser Bell 26. Jan 2019

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...

2018-2019 openSUSE Board Elections: Meet Nathan Wolf

Fraser Bell 26. Jan 2019

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...

2018-2019 openSUSE Board Elections: Meet Vinzenz Vietzke

Fraser Bell 25. Jan 2019

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...

2018-2019 openSUSE Board Elections: Meet Sébastien Poher

Fraser Bell 24. Jan 2019

Seven Candidates in Race for Three Vacant Board Seats With only 11 days left to go until the ballots open on Monday, February 4, 2019, openSUSE News and the Elections Comm...

2018-2019 openSUSE Board Elections: Meet incumbent Sarah Julia Kriesch

Fraser Bell 23. Jan 2019

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 ...

2018-2019 openSUSE Board Elections: Meet Dr. Axel Braun

Fraser Bell 22. Jan 2019

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...

2018-2019 openSUSE Board Elections: Meet incumbent Christian Boltz

Fraser Bell 21. Jan 2019

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

And the Race is On! 2018-2019 openSUSE Board Elections Enter Campaign Phase

Fraser Bell 15. Jan 2019

Nominations and applications for Candidates came to a close Sunday, January 13, 2019, and the Campaign Phase of the 2018-2019 openSUSE Board Elections kicked in Monday, Jan...

First Two Candidates for the 2018-2019 openSUSE Board Elections Announced

Fraser Bell 9. Jan 2019

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...

No Candidates? Board might be forced to hand pick new Board Members

Fraser Bell 4. Jan 2019

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 ...

Google Summer of Code 2018

Ana María Martínez Gómez 21. Dec 2018

One more year, Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a mentoring program in which openSUSE helps university students contribute to open source project, has come to an end. So, befo...

openSUSE Enthusiast Creates Board Elections Poster to Encourage Participation

Fraser Bell 18. Dec 2018

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=...

2018-2019 Elections Underway with Calls for Candidates and New Members

Fraser Bell 13. Dec 2018

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...

openSUSE Develops Legal Review System

Douglas DeMaio 8. Nov 2018

The open-source community has a new project designed to help Linux/GNU distributions with the legal review process of licenses. The new project called Cavil is legal revie...

Marvell, TUXEDO Computers Sponsor openSUSE Project

Douglas DeMaio 6. Nov 2018

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 ...

GSoC 2018 Mentor Summit

Ana María Martínez Gómez 27. Oct 2018

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

openSUSE Conference 2020: Call for Hosts

Douglas DeMaio 25. Sep 2018

The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce that it is accepting proposals for openSUSE Conference 2020. The Call for Hosts will be open until April 15, 2019. The openSUSE...

openSUSE.Asia Summit

Ana María Martínez Gómez 5. Sep 2018

openSUSE.Asia Summit is an annual conference organized since 2014 every time in a different Asian city. Although it is a really successful event, which plays a really impor...

Registration, CfP for openSUSE Conference 2019 Open

Douglas DeMaio 31. Aug 2018

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 ...

openSUSE Kubic Moves in a New Direction

Douglas DeMaio 9. Aug 2018

Dear Community, It has been more than a year since the openSUSE community started the Kubic Project, and it’s worth looking back over the last months and evaluating where ...

openSUSE Leap 42.3 End of Life is Extended

Douglas DeMaio 8. Aug 2018

The usual lifetime of openSUSE Leap minor versions have traditionally received updates for about 18 months, but the minor version of Leap 42.3 is being extended. The last ...

GSoC Half Way Through

Ana María Martínez Gómez 20. Jul 2018

As you may already know, openSUSE participates again in GSoC, an international program that awards stipends to university students who contribute to real-world open source ...

Dates, Location set for openSUSE Conference 2019

Douglas DeMaio 25. Jun 2018

The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the location and dates for the 2019 openSUSE Conference. The openSUSE Conference 2019 will return to the Z-Bau in Nuremberg, Ge...

openSUSE Releases Leap 15 Images for Raspberry Pi, Armv7 Devices

Douglas DeMaio 14. Jun 2018

The release of openSUSE Leap 15 two weeks ago is following up with its Build to Scale theme by offering images for Raspberry Pis, Beagle Boards, Arndale board, CuBox-i comp...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2018 Logo Competition

Douglas DeMaio 29. May 2018

Today, we will start a logo competition for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2018, which is going to be held in Taipei, Taiwan. A logo is an essential material for the successful summi...

Uyuni: Forking Spacewalk with Salt and Containers

Douglas DeMaio 26. May 2018

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Members of a new open source community project called Uyuni announced today at openSUSE Conference that a fork of the open-source systems managem...

GSoC students are already hacking!

Ana María Martínez Gómez 23. May 2018

We always enjoy that new people join openSUSE community and help them in their first steps. Because of that, openSUSE participates again in GSoC, an international program i...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2018 Taiwan: Call for proposals is open

Douglas DeMaio 17. May 2018

openSUSE.Asia Committee calls for proposals of talks for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2018 held at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology on August 11 and 12.  We mig...

Results in for openSUSE Board Elections

Douglas DeMaio 3. May 2018

This year’s openSUSE Board elections produced the longest election period in the history of the project. The four phases of the election, which included an application pha...

Elections for openSUSE Board Run Until April 27

Douglas DeMaio 19. Apr 2018

The ballots for Elections to fill the three seats on the openSUSE Board are open until April 27. The voting began April 15 and openSUSE Members are able to vote for the fo...

Questions and Answers With Candidates for openSUSE Board Elections

Douglas DeMaio 3. Apr 2018

Elections for the openSUSE Board have been postponed until mid-April. Until then, the community can familiarize themselves with the candidates who are running for three ava...

openSUSE Elections Postponed

Douglas DeMaio 31. Mar 2018

The elections for the openSUSE Board have been postponed until April 15. The postponement will extend Phase 1 of the elections and give candidates more time to campaign an...

Elections for openSUSE Board Approaching

Douglas DeMaio 27. Mar 2018

Campaigning for the elections of the openSUSE Board is nearing its end and will move on to the Phase 2 Election phase beginning April 2. There are three seats available on...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2018: Call for Host

Douglas DeMaio 13. Mar 2018

The openSUSE.Asia organization committee is accepting proposals to host the openSUSE.Asia Summit during the second half of 2018. The openSUSE.Asia Summit is the largest ann...

Planned Outage To Affect openSUSE Services This Weekend

Douglas DeMaio 6. Mar 2018

A network outage this weekend will effect openSUSE services that have a Direct Connection to Nuremberg host infrastructure on Saturday, March 10, between the hours of 1 and...

University students, openSUSE participates in GSoC!

Ana María Martínez Gómez 19. Feb 2018

openSUSE participates again in Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a program that awards stipends to university students who contribute to real-world open source projects during ...

Project Selected as Mentoring Organization for Google Summer of Code

Douglas DeMaio 14. Feb 2018

Let the fun begin! This week it was announced that the openSUSE Project is one of the 212 mentoring organization for this year’s Google Summer of Code, which is an annual i...

openSUSE Leap 15 Reaches Beta Phase Snapshots

Douglas DeMaio 31. Jan 2018

The development version of openSUSE Leap 15 has reached its beta phase builds and snapshots are available for testers via //download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.0/iso...

openSUSE 42.2 to Reach End-of-Life This Week

Douglas DeMaio 22. Jan 2018

The minor release of openSUSE Leap 42.2 will reach its End-of-Life (EOL) this week on Jan. 26. The EOL phase ends the updates to the operating system, and those who contin...

Current Status: openSUSE and "Spectre" & "Meltdown" vulnerabilities

Richard Brown 4. Jan 2018

Hi folks, By now you probably heard about the new “Spectre” and “Meltdown” side channel attacks against current processors. openSUSE, same as almost all other current ope...

Special Edition Highlights openSUSE, KDE

Douglas DeMaio 11. Oct 2017

Getting the masses to move to a Linux distribution can be challenging, but the openSUSE Project is doing its part to get people started with open-source software. Members ...

SUSE Studio online + Open Build Service = SUSE Studio Express

Douglas DeMaio 4. Oct 2017

Merging SUSE Studio and Open Build Service Written by Andreas Jaeger SUSE Studio was launched in 2009 to make building images really easy. Nowadays, images are used every...

Planned Downtime to Affect openSUSE Services

Douglas DeMaio 4. Oct 2017

A scheduled power outage in the Nuremberg office will effect a number of openSUSE services from Oct. 13 at 4 p.m. (16:00 UTC) to Oct. 14  at 4 p.m. (16:00 UTC). The schedu...

Design Selected for openSUSE.Asia Summit

Douglas DeMaio 13. Sep 2017

Thank you for designing great logos and helping us to choose one from them. As a result of the final vote, two candidates tied for the first place. openSUSE.Asia Summit Co...

Are Governments Held Hostage? Why openSUSE Supports Public Money Public Code

Douglas DeMaio 13. Sep 2017

Public Money? Public Code! from Free Software Foundation Europe on Vimeo. Europeans can disagree on political issues, but there is one issue the open-source community is b...

Refresh of Linux Distribution Continues Leveraging Community, Enterprise Benefits

Douglas DeMaio 26. Jul 2017

(Languages: DE, ES, FR, IT, ZH, zh_TW) openSUSE Leap 42.3 Gives Smooth Desktop and Server Upgrade The openSUSE Project released openSUSE Leap 42.3 today bringing the comm...

openSUSE Heroes Spring Into Action

Douglas DeMaio 19. Jul 2017

Mike Tyson might have said it best when he said “everyone has a plan ‘till they get punched in the mouth.” Tyson’s point is that plans change, especially in the moment of ...

Plan A Community Release Party for openSUSE Leap 42.3

Douglas DeMaio 17. Jul 2017

Many people are anxiously awaiting for the release of openSUSE Leap 42.3 next week, but before the release arrives, you can prepare for a Release Party to celebrate the upc...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2017 Logo Competition

Douglas DeMaio 14. Jul 2017

Today, we will start a logo competition for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2017, which is going to be held in Tokyo, Japan. A logo is an essential material for the successful summit....

English openSUSE wiki updated and moved home

Douglas DeMaio 10. Jul 2017

The English openSUSE wiki has been moved and updated  successfully. If you encounter any issue, please let us know by mail to admin(@)opensuse.org. On July 11, the MediaWi...

Introducing Kubic Project: a new open-source project

Douglas DeMaio 29. May 2017

Recent years have seen tremendous growth in the container technologies market. From being a non-existent category just a few years ago to being one of the most interesting,...

Students to Enhance Multiple Open Source Projects

Douglas DeMaio 9. May 2017

Five students will spend this summer putting their coding skills into practice for openSUSE and other projects during this year’s Google Summer of Code. The internationa...

openSUSE at LinuxFest Northwest 2017

James Mason 27. Feb 2017

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...

Release Candidate Available for openSUSE Leap 42.2

Douglas DeMaio 18. Oct 2016

The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the availability of the openSUSE Leap 42.2 Release Candidate 1 (RC1). Since mid-May, the project has been guiding the developme...

Google Summer of Code Mid-Term

cbruckmayer 19. Jul 2016

In this years edition of Google Summer of Code, an international annual program in which stipends are awarded to students to hack on Free Software during the summer, openSU...

openSUSE announces Community Release Team

Douglas DeMaio 28. Apr 2016

The openSUSE Board announced today a call to action for a Community Release Team to assist with tasks associated to the development of the next Leap version 42.2. The anno...

Free software equalizes economic segregation in schools

Douglas DeMaio 15. Apr 2016

William Shakespeare once wrote that “it is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” Fine words from an educated and knowledgeable man who was born privileged...

Landing page published, search page to become default page for users

Douglas DeMaio 10. Sep 2015

An updated landing page for the openSUSE Project is live and it features 18 different languages to describe the embodiment of the project. New visitors can now easily unde...

Release Engineer job offers unique challenge

Douglas DeMaio 22. Jul 2015

A job announcement for a Release Engineer for openSUSE was published today and it offers a unique challenge, which sounds pretty cool. The optional bonus challenges to be i...

May Madness - The Screenshot Contest Continues!

Nenad Latinović 7. May 2015

A warm and green hello to all of the geekosphere! Last month’s screenshot contest was a complete success! Our geeko friends submitted twice the usual amount of screenshots...

Gear Up For The Screenshot Contest!

Nenad Latinović 31. Mar 2015

Greetings, green portion of the GNU/Linux web! It’s been a while since you last heard from us, so let’s say we give you something special this time around. All of us users...

TSP - oSC15 Second Call

Izabel Valverde 27. Mar 2015

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...

oSC15 Travel Support Request

Izabel Valverde 24. Feb 2015

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...

Thank you FOSS community!

Douglas DeMaio 13. Feb 2015

February 14 is a day to express your love for others and in keeping with that theme, openSUSE extends its gratitude toward the organizations and people who make Free and ...

oSC 2015 - Call for Team Members

Kostas Koudaras 22. Dec 2014

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 ...

Geeko holiday gift ideas

Douglas DeMaio 11. Dec 2014

Tis the season for Geeko hacking - Fa la la la la, la la la la! Whom wouldn’t get excited about this time of year? And as Christmas is about giving here is our selection ...

Help promote openSUSE 13.2!

Douglas DeMaio 10. Nov 2014

To help promote 13.2, we have assembled some badges, backgrounds, counters and banners for you to put on your social media or blog pages. For your blog and social media ac...

openSUSE 13.2: time to get your hands dirty

Ancor Gonzalez Sosa 16. Oct 2014

With less than three weeks from the release of our beloved green distro and the first release candidate already rocking, we can feel like we are almost there. This is exact...

openSUSE users and the new Linux Foundation Certification Programs

Kostas Koudaras 8. Oct 2014

Hello Geekos, You may be aware the Linux Foundation recently launched two Certification programs Linux Foundation Certified Sysadmin (LFCS) covering basic system admin...

Statement on the recent Merger announcement

Richard Brown 17. Sep 2014

Dear openSUSE Community, As you might be aware, SUSE’s parent entity, the Attachmate Group has entered into an agreement to merge into Micro Focus, a UK-based enterprise s...

openSUSE News Survey - Responses

Nenad Latinović 29. Aug 2014

Hi there, green machine users! As you know, there has been a survey going on about your favorite news spot. It was our way of feeling your pulse a little, to see what you ...

Join The Geeko Community!

Nenad Latinović 4. Jul 2014

Heya geekos, geekos-to-be, and all other interested parties. This time it’s going to be a short one. We, the geekos kindly invite you to hang out with us! Yes, hang out....

Artwork Overhaul a Possibility in openSUSE 13.2?

Nenad Latinović 28. Jun 2014

As we stated in one of our earlier articles, the openSUSE team is working full steam. Even though it may sometimes seem quiet news-wise, it’s not so by any means. So, let’s...

Spreading the Word on the Geeko - Support is Back!

News Team 21. May 2014

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 ...

Aufbruchstimmung.....Here is what you missed at oSC14

News Team 2. May 2014

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...

oSC has started - follow us remotely!

Jos Poortvliet 25. Apr 2014

[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...

Make Room on the Runway: openSUSE Conference 2014 Program Ready

Jos Poortvliet 18. Apr 2014

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...

openSUSE Conference 2014 Location Sneak Peek

Jos Poortvliet 24. Mar 2014

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...

Help Promote oSC14!

Jos Poortvliet 21. Mar 2014

[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...

oSC14 Organized Accomodation Deadline Tomorrow!

Jos Poortvliet 14. Mar 2014

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...

Sneak Preview of oSC14 Sessions

Jos Poortvliet 11. Mar 2014

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...

oSC14 Keynote Confirmed, More Awesome Coming

Jos Poortvliet 5. Mar 2014

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...

oSC14 - The openSUSE Travel Support is open!

Izabel Valverde 24. Feb 2014

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...

FOSDEM 2014: The Infomercial

George Bratsos 7. Feb 2014

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 ...

oSC14 CfP and Registration Open!

Jos Poortvliet 29. Jan 2014

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...

openSUSE Forums - back on-line

Jos Poortvliet 16. Jan 2014

As we reported last week, our public forums have been compromised and defaced. Passwords were safe but the cracker did manage to get access to the database with our forum p...

openSUSE Conference 2014 Takes Place April 24th - 28th in Dubrovnik, Croatia

Jos Poortvliet 9. Jan 2014

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...

The openSUSE Travel Support Team wishes you a Happy New Year!

Izabel Valverde 1. Jan 2014

Great News!!! For almost 2 years Izabel Valverde and Kostas Koudaras run the Travel Support Program Team with the openSUSE Board & SUSE support. After a great job d...

Reminder: Vote for the openSUSE Board!

Jos Poortvliet 14. Dec 2013

It is december 14, dear Geekos! That means that tomorrow, December 15, the official deadline for voting for the openSUSE Board Elections ends! That’s right, you have only ...

We're Ready For The Release, Are You?!

Jos Poortvliet 18. Nov 2013

Dear Geekos! We’re sure you are all anxiously awaiting the release of openSUSE 13.1, coming in 24 hours. Yes, just around the corner! So we want to remind you that you ca...

openSUSE Summit Was Geeko Awesome

News Team 18. Nov 2013

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...

Get Ready to Party: Release is Around the Corner!

Jos Poortvliet 11. Nov 2013

In just a little over a week, openSUSE 13.1 will be released! As we’ve all put in serious work to make this happen, it is certainly a good cause for celebration. Time to or...

Board Elections Coming!

Jos Poortvliet 30. Oct 2013

The end of the year is approaching. And besides Santa and fireworks, Geekos know: the openSUSE board gets a refresh! The openSUSE Election Committee has announced the time...

openSUSE Summit Schedule Ready!

Jos Poortvliet 21. Oct 2013

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...

openSUSE Conference 2015 (oSC15) Location Search

anditosan 9. Oct 2013

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...

Help promote openSUSE 13.1!

Jos Poortvliet 7. Oct 2013

We’re not at the release, but the beta is out, according to the roadmap RC1 is coming Thursday and our artists have been hard at work preparing artwork. We’ve got badges,...

Travel support applications to attend openSUSE Summit opened!

Izabel Valverde 27. Sep 2013

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...

Beta Pizza Hackaton Starting Friday!

Jos Poortvliet 25. Sep 2013

Friday is the day: the Beta Pizza Hackaton is here. Have you already been testing the Beta? Reported bugs? Great! This Friday we’ll begin to triage and fix them! There wi...

openSUSE Summit 2013: Registration Opened!

anditosan 24. Sep 2013

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...

openSUSE Conference 2013 3rd day

George Bratsos 22. Jul 2013

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...

Announcing the openSUSE Summit 2013

News Team 15. Jul 2013

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...

openSUSE Conference Schedule ready!

Jos Poortvliet 3. Jul 2013

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...

Thanking the openSUSE Conference Sponsors!

Jos Poortvliet 1. Jul 2013

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...

Announcing the First Keynote for oSC: Georg Greve on Freeing our Data

Jos Poortvliet 19. Jun 2013

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...

Be a volunteer at oSC13, it matters

Kostas Koudaras 20. May 2013

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,...

openSUSE Conference Getting Greener

Jos Poortvliet 13. May 2013

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...

Ambassadors & Event Merchandise - All Change!

openSUSE Board 10. May 2013

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...

oSC 2013 Travel Support Requests Period Open

Izabel Valverde 3. May 2013

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...

openSUSE G(r)eekos @Fosscomm 2013

George Bratsos 2. May 2013

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...

Geeko Pumping Iron Session - openSUSE ARM Hackathon

News Team 19. Mar 2013

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 ...

openSUSE 12.3 Launch Feedback: we're still awesome!

Jos Poortvliet 18. Mar 2013

Last week we let openSUSE 12.3 out of the gate. Like always, it was exciting and fun to see the result of so much preparation get to our users! So, how did it go and what ...

openSUSE Conference 2014: Call for Locations!

openSUSE Board 26. Feb 2013

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...

openSUSE Marketing and Artwork Teams Got Work Done

Jos Poortvliet 21. Feb 2013

In preparation for the upcoming 12.3 release, the openSUSE Marketing and Artwork Teams followed up a very successful FOSDEM presence with a week-long hackfest at the SUSE ...

openSUSE Conference 2013: Geeko Gets Geared Up!

Jos Poortvliet 24. Jan 2013

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...

The openSUSE Conference - a Few Months Later

Jos Poortvliet 21. Jan 2013

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...

Candidates Talk Frankly at Debate

Bryen Yunashko 7. Dec 2012

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...

2013 Board Elections begin today!

Bryen Yunashko 5. Dec 2012

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...

Meet the openSUSE Board Candidates

Bryen Yunashko 28. Nov 2012

The period for standing up for election to the 2013 openSUSE Board is now closed and the openSUSE Election Officials committee is proud to announce this year’s candidates...

openSUSE at LinuxCon

Jos Poortvliet 20. Nov 2012

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...

The Board Election 2012

Izabel Valverde 13. Nov 2012

This years openSUSE Election Committee is in the pleasant position to announce the 2012 Board elections[0]. The timeline we decided for this year election is the following...

Newcomer experience in openSUSE and other FOSS communities – Survey

Jos Poortvliet 7. Nov 2012

Kevin Carillo, a PhD student currently living in Wellington (New Zealand) is doing some research on Free/Open Source Software communities. He asked the openSUSE community f...

openSUSE ARM RC2 needs testing!

Jos Poortvliet 29. Oct 2012

Hot on the heels of the news that the Google Chromebook runs openSUSE (even made slashdot) and following the closing of the openSUSE Conference in Prague, Dirk Müller let ...

openSUSE Conference 2012: Monday

Jos Poortvliet 24. Oct 2012

[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...

Day 2 - Ending Linuxdays

Jos Poortvliet 23. Oct 2012

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...

Linux Days 2012 Day One

Will Stephenson 21. Oct 2012

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...

Last Interviews and Announcing Live Video Streaming!

Jos Poortvliet 17. Oct 2012

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...

LinuxDays Parties Scheduled

Jos Poortvliet 16. Oct 2012

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...

Announcing openSUSE Conference 2012 Sponsors

Will Stephenson 15. Oct 2012

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...

Reminder: Get BoFfin at openSUSE Conference 2012!

Will Stephenson 12. Oct 2012

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...

Learn More About Free Software Next Week in Prague

Helen South 11. Oct 2012

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...

First openSUSE Conference Sneak Peek

Helen South 8. Oct 2012

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...

oSC 2012 BoF sessions can be scheduled!

Jos Poortvliet 3. Oct 2012

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 ...

openSUSE Conference 2012 – Invitation to Lightning Talks and Speedy Geeko

Izabel Valverde 2. Oct 2012

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...

openSUSE Board Welcomes new Chairman: Vincent Untz

Jos Poortvliet 21. Sep 2012

This week Alan Clark announced to the openSUSE Board that he is stepping down from his position as Board Chair. His duties in SUSE keep him increasingly busy and SUSE has ...

openSUSE 12.2 Release Publicity: Call for contributions

Will Stephenson 27. Aug 2012

As we enter the final straight towards the release of openSUSE 12.2, the openSUSE Team is busy preparing the release publicity. And this is where you, the openSUSE communit...

Happy Birthday openSUSE!!!

Izabel Valverde 9. Aug 2012

Happy Birthday openSUSE Alles Gute zum Geburtstag openSUSE openSUSE Joyeux anniversaire openSUSE Feliz Aniversário Χρόνια Πολλά openSUSE openSUSE Feliz Cumpleaños V...

openSUSE @ Akademy Es

Jos Poortvliet 11. Jun 2012

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 ...

openSUSE rocking LinuxTag

Jos Poortvliet 25. May 2012

[caption id=”attachment_13466” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”booth talk at openSUSE Booth”][/caption] LinuxTag in Berlin is still going and openSUSE is having a ...

Grab the Geeko by the Horns: The Boosters are Hiring

Henne Vogelsang 20. Apr 2012

SUSE, our founder, partner and sponsor, has put out a couple of job openings for the openSUSE Boosters Team! Are you a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) enthusiast? Are ...

Heinlein Support Becomes openSUSE Project Sponsor

Jos Poortvliet 18. Apr 2012

The openSUSE community is proud to welcome Heinlein Support as new sponsor to the project! Heinlein is a Linux specialist offering training, consulting and hosting focused ...

The KDE and openSUSE communities welcome you to COSCUP 2012!

Jos Poortvliet 3. Apr 2012

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...

openSUSE Summit Geeko-ing Up: Website up, Call for Papers out!

Jos Poortvliet 29. Mar 2012

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...

software.openSUSE.org calling for Ruby Hackers!

Jos Poortvliet 27. Mar 2012

About 2 weeks ago Thomas “digitaltom” Schmidt of the openSUSE Boosters started working on a refresh of the software.opensuse.org search interface. In that time, he has tran...

Join FLISOL 2012!

Jos Poortvliet 16. Mar 2012

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...

Rest in peace, daemon.

Pascal Bleser 29. Feb 2012

Our fellow and long time openSUSE contributor Marco “daemon” Michna has passed away last week. He was a friend to many of us, and will be sorely missed. Our condolences a...

openSUSE at FOSDEM

Jos Poortvliet 8. Feb 2012

[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...

Happy 2012

Izabel Valverde 1. Jan 2012

**We wish all developers, maintainers, users and friends a Happy New Year. ** Let us make 2012 even better…

openSUSE Board election 2011 started

Izabel Valverde 2. Dec 2011

The openSUSE board election just started! Please go to: https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/polls/read/digitaltomm/15228/opensuse-board-election-2011 and cast your vote for t...

Join The G(r)EEKOS Release Parties!!!

George Bratsos 29. Nov 2011

The openSUSE 12.1 distribution is released. After 8 months of hard work by the openSUSE community, the result could be something less than awesome. It is true that openSU...

Geekos go on G+

Kostas Koudaras 8. Nov 2011

The IT world moves fast and along with it does social networking. It’s been only a few days since Google announced the limited availability of Google+ pages and already th...

Help us spread the word on openSUSE 12.1!

Jos Poortvliet 1. Nov 2011

Heya all, In less than 3 weeks, our little baby, openSUSE 12.1, will be released into the wild. Now as you know, babies need lots of attention! This is where we need YOU....

Coffee talk with Michael Miller

Kostas Koudaras 26. Oct 2011

Friday 16.09, while working on the openSUSE 12.1 marketing actions during the Marketing Hackfest, two of us had the spontaneous idea to suggest an interview to Michael Mill...

Strategy DONE!

Jos Poortvliet 9. Aug 2011

Almost 2 years ago, at the first openSUSE conference, a discussion started about Strategy. A few months ago a final document was ready and on July 14th 2011, the strategy...

How to start a project: Education

Kostas Koudaras 13. Jul 2011

The Education project provides parents, students and teachers as well as IT admins running labs at educational institutes with education and development resources for their...

openSUSE strategy voting close to the finish line!

Jos Poortvliet 27. Jun 2011

As we wrote three weeks ago, June 30th is the deadline for voting for the openSUSE Strategy! Relevance 2 years ago the subject came up at the openSUSE conference: what ...

New Leadership inside the Medical Project

Sascha Manns 9. Jun 2011

During the first openSUSE Conference in 2009, the idea was born to start a project to package and publish software for medical purposes. Since then, many packages were buil...

Time to vote on the openSUSE Strategy!

Jos Poortvliet 7. Jun 2011

Over the last year an openSUSE strategy discussion has been ongoing. Beginning this year things went quiet for a while as everyone was busy with the openSUSE 11.4 release...

openSUSE Ambassadors are rocking all over the world

Manu Gupta 6. May 2011

A big kudos to all our ambassadors who are working very hard to let the world know about openSUSE! They have been organizing events, speaking to people and writing about th...

openSUSE 11.4 DVDs for Events

Andreas Jaeger 26. Apr 2011

Following the huge success for filling requests of openSUSE 11.3 media in February, we have produced openSUSE 11.4 DVDs to distribute at events, Linux user groups, universi...

openSUSE servers with one click

James Mason 20. Apr 2011

Everybody knows openSUSE offers a great desktop experience; but its also a perfect fit for servers!  Go download the Installation DVD (or use one of the manufactured DVDs) ...

Evergreen needs you!

Kim Leyendecker 17. Apr 2011

Copyright Evergreen needs you! To make a version for 11.2 also released and to guarantee the quality of evergreen, we´re searching developers, packagers and also marketi...

Linux is 20 years old!

Jos Poortvliet 8. Apr 2011

We have two birthdays this week! While on April 6th GNOME 3 was born, another kid became 20 years old! The Linux Foundation celebrates the 20th anniversary of Linux with a...

Linux Foundation 20th Anniversary of Linux Campaign and Video Contest

Helen South 25. Mar 2011

[caption id=”attachment_7955” align=”alignright” width=”242” caption=”old school alternative”][/caption] It’s the 20th Anniversary of Linux in August and the Linux Foundat...

Mingle Today!

Henne Vogelsang 15. Mar 2011

It all started out with a simple question Pavol Rusnak asked on the openSUSE Conference ‘09 _What are we really doing when we develop a new tool to handle openSUSE users a...

Open-Bugs-Day Held Last Sunday

News Team 25. Feb 2011

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...

Help the Project. Spread openSUSE DVDs!

Henne Vogelsang 18. Feb 2011

One of the easiest things to do to contribute to the free and open source movement and the openSUSE Project is to exercise your second free software freedom: The freedom to...

Bretzn results released into the wild

Jos Poortvliet 1. Feb 2011

Apart from being a tasty Bavarian bread-snack, Bretzn is a code-name for a collection of technology aimed at solving a problem which has existed in software development for...

App Installer Meeting or More Collaboration Across Borders

Izabel Valverde 26. Jan 2011

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...

openSUSE finished 2010 big

Izabel Valverde 3. Jan 2011

[caption id=”attachment_6136” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”By somenametoforget at Flickr”][/caption] Since the openSUSE Conference in Nuremberg in October, the ...

Winner of openSUSE 2010 survey got his Chumby!

Jos Poortvliet 30. Dec 2010

[caption id=”attachment_6017” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”The lucky winner now has a Chumby!”][/caption] In February 2010 openSUSE held the openSUSE survey 201...

openSUSE Boosters Year 2010

News Team 29. Dec 2010

[caption id=”attachment_6077” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”The elusive Thirsty Thirteen”][/caption] At the end of the year it is the time for reviews and the op...

The first Marketing Collaboration days are over but more will come!

Jos Poortvliet 28. Dec 2010

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...

openSUSE at and with FOSDEM 2011

News Team 28. Dec 2010

[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...

Board Meeting Summary 15 December 2010

Bryen Yunashko 21. Dec 2010

For the full transcript of the last openSUSE Board meeting, see our logs. Introduction of new openSUSE Board Chairman - Alan Clark We opened with an introduction to new B...

Attachmate Acquisition: What does it mean for SUSE, openSUSE & open source?

Jos Poortvliet 20. Dec 2010

A Q&A with Jeff Hawn, **__chairman and __CEO of Attachmate by Jos Poortvliet, openSUSE Community Manager at Novell** I had a chance to speak with Jeff Hawn, chairman a...

Next Tuesday: Social Media Collaboration Day

Jos Poortvliet 17. Dec 2010

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...

openSUSE Collaboration thrives!

Bryen Yunashko 10. Dec 2010

Earlier this week, the openSUSE Marketing Team held the first of a series of Collaboration Days in December. This was, without a doubt, a success with many of our team mem...

openSUSE poster and Free Software Calendar 2011 with Linux Magazin

Jos Poortvliet 6. Dec 2010

Ladies and Gentlemen The Januari edition of the German Linux-Magazin this year will feature something this Magazine has not featured for almost 10 years: a Free Software E...

Feature handling for openSUSE reworked

Andreas Jaeger 30. Nov 2010

openFATE, the feature tracking tool used in openSUSE has been completely reworked and the new version is live now on features.opensuse.org. A team has started driving the ...

Where do we need to improve?

News Team 23. Nov 2010

Community, during our bi-weekly Board Meetings on IRC we have a regular agenda topic “Where do we need to improve?”. We’re very much interested in ideas you may have to im...

Novell, Attachmate and openSUSE

News Team 22. Nov 2010

Is this thing on? tap tap. Good evening friends, this is your openSUSE Board speaking. If you didn’t hear yet, Novell has agreed to be acquired by Attachmate Corporation. W...

openSUSE Conference 2010 Impression

Jos Poortvliet 27. Oct 2010

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...

Finalizing who we are...

Jos Poortvliet 15. Oct 2010

We’re almost there, ladies and gents.![Future Lizard!](//en.opensuse.org/images/a/af/Future.png) Again there was quite some feedback on the strategy doc. We have worked to...

openSUSE Strategy: the third and fourth part of the trilogy!

Jos Poortvliet 7. Oct 2010

Hi all,![Future Lizard!](//en.opensuse.org/images/a/af/Future.png) The last week we again received over 100 comments on the first and second part of our strategy. A few re...

Marketing Team Meeting

Andreas Jaeger 5. Oct 2010

The monthly meeting of the openSUSE Marketing Team Meeting is held on the third Tuesday of each month at 15:00 UTC on Freenode IRC network, channel #openSUSE-Marketing.  Al...

openSUSE: Target Aquired

Jos Poortvliet 27. Sep 2010

Hi all,![Future Lizard!](//en.opensuse.org/images/a/af/Future.png) Over the last week you have all given input on the new strategy document describing the target users of ...

openSUSE Conference 2010 – Collaborate Across Borders

Jos Poortvliet 13. Sep 2010

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...

Strategy sucks

Jos Poortvliet 3. Sep 2010

strategy statement from team Hi all, Over the last weeks there has been a lot of disussion, both internally and externally, about the strategies which have been proposed....

Software Freedom Day is Coming!

Jos Poortvliet 30. Aug 2010

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 ...

KDE bug team asks for help on Friday 13th

Jos Poortvliet 11. Aug 2010

Javier sent us the following announcement: It's my pleasure to announce the next KDE Bug triage :-) It will begin next Friday (13th) and end on Monday (16th). The aim of...

We’re a happy family – The Boosters are hiring!

Henne Vogelsang 5. Aug 2010

The openSUSE Boosters are a team of people helping developers of the openSUSE project to take off. It consists of people with skills ranging from low level C hackery ove...

The openSUSE Project welcomes Jos Poortvliet as new Community Manager

News Team 28. Jul 2010

We’re proud to announce today that Jos Poortvliet will join the openSUSE project and Novell as openSUSE Community Manager starting on August 1. With Jos we’ve found a lea...

Timeline for openSUSE’s strategy discussion

News Team 21. Jul 2010

Due to the positive fact that more proposals emerge, we wanted to take the time to make them into polished proposals that we want to publish for discussion as well. Here’s...

Change in openSUSE Membership handling

News Team 12. Jul 2010

Anyone can become openSUSE member after showing continued and substantial contribution to the project of any kind (bugs, support in forums, wiki edits, code contribution et...

Plan your openSUSE 11.3 release party now!

News Team 18. Jun 2010

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...

A Strategy for the openSUSE Project: Proposals and Discussions

Andreas Jaeger 17. Jun 2010

As announced previously, the openSUSE Board and its Strategy Team have worked on three strategic proposals to define the direction of openSUSE’s future, as a Project, Commu...

An Update about the Strategy Proposals

Bryen Yunashko 9. Jun 2010

We wanted to give you an update regarding the status of our Strategy Team’s release of strategy proposals for public discussion.  Truth is, despite our best intentions to r...

openSUSE Strategy Meeting – wrap up

Bryen Yunashko 1. Jun 2010

As in michl’s post announced a the openSUSE Board and some other community members met the past weekend in Nürnberg to have a comprehensive 2.5 days face to face meeting . ...

openSUSE Strategy Meeting

News Team 20. May 2010

For the past few months we, the openSUSE Board, together with the great help from Kurt Garloff, Jan Weber and Andreas Jaeger, held a series of strategy sessions to address ...

Honoring openSUSE Wiki Reviewing Contributions

News Team 22. Feb 2010

Community, we previously put a lot of efforts into encouraging the community to contribute to our Wiki Usability Concept for both the English and the German Wiki, i.e. to ...

openSUSE Survey 2010 - Participate now

News Team 7. Feb 2010

Participate in the openSUSE survey 2010 to give feedback to the openSUSE project about the distribution, the openSUSE tools environment and the project in general. Let us k...

Wanted: Linux Community Manager

News Team 27. Jan 2010

At the end of this month Zonker, our openSUSE community manager for the last two years, will be leaving Novell. On behalf of the whole openSUSE community I would like to ta...

openSUSE Art Team Meeting

News Team 25. Jan 2010

The openSUSE Art Team Meeting will take place on Saturday, the 30th of January, 2010 at 16:00 UTC in #opensuse-artwork IRC channel on irc.freenode.net This will be the fir...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday January 13th, 2010 at 16:00

News Team 11. Jan 2010

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday, January 13, at 16:00 UTC. The meeting time in all time zones are listed on the Fixed Time World Clock. Project ...

openSUSE Build Service Integrates with openDesktop.org to reach 150,000 contributors

News Team 17. Dec 2009

Today Frank Karlitschek, maintainer of the openDesktop.org network, announced that the first step of integration with openDesktop.org is complete. Effective immediately, de...

Announcing New openSUSE Board Members

Andreas Jaeger 9. Dec 2009

The election committee announces the three new members of the openSUSE board: Bryen Yunashko (non-Novell seat) Pavol Rusnak (Novell seat) Ruper...

Update on openSUSE Board Election

Andreas Jaeger 3. Dec 2009

For the current 2009 election of the openSUSE board, we have three seats for election and three candidates running unopposed. As our existing election rules did not anticip...

openSUSE Board Election – change of timeline

News Team 19. Nov 2009

As Thomas just announced on the project mailing list the election committee has decided to extend the period for announcing candidacy by one week to November 30. Same appli...

Reminder: Second openSUSE Board Election Deadline Approaching!

News Team 17. Nov 2009

The time has come again for openSUSE Members to vote for new members to the Board. Stephen Shaw (decriptor) and Bryen Yunashko (suseROCKS) have completed their tenure on t...

Announcing the Second openSUSE Board Election

News Team 26. Oct 2009

The time has come again for openSUSE Members to vote for new members to the Board. Stephen Shaw (decriptor) and Bryen Yunashko (suseROCKS) have completed their tenure on t...

openSUSE at "Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften", Nürnberg on Oct 24

News Team 16. Oct 2009

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...

Introducing the 'openSUSE Boosters' Team

News Team 3. Oct 2009

Following its announcement in August, the dedicated openSUSE Boosters team held its inaugural meeting in Germany last week to plan its activities to promote the growth of o...

openSUSE Conference is Over - Some Wrap Up

News Team 24. Sep 2009

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...

Announcing the openSUSE Ambassadors Program

News Team 27. May 2009

Want to help spread the word about the openSUSE Project and encourage more people to become part of the openSUSE Community? Are you ready to roll up your sleeves and spread...

openSUSE Trademark Guidelines Released

News Team 2. Mar 2009

The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of the openSUSE Trademark Guidelines (PDF). With the guidelines, the openSUSE Project is looking to clarify the use ...

YaST Mascot Winner Chosen! Say Hello to Yastie!

News Team 21. Nov 2008

The openSUSE Project and YaST team are happy to announce the winner of the YaST Mascot Contest. After extensive deliberation, the judges have chosen the Aardvark concept, s...

Get Your openSUSE 11.1 Countdown Button Here

News Team 6. Nov 2008

Yes, you too can have a beautiful openSUSE countdown button just like the one you see in this post. The banners have been updated, and as Pascal Bleser reports, we have ...

YaST Mascot Contest

News Team 21. Oct 2008

Because not everybody was aware of the contest and wondered a little bit about the reminder mail, we extended the deadline for the YaST mascot contest. The new deadline for...

openSUSE Board Election Extension

News Team 16. Oct 2008

Due to the unforeseen circumstances of last week the Board Election Committee have agreed that for fairness and transparency the Election deadline will be extended. The ne...

Reminder: Call for openSUSE Board Candidates and Members

News Team 17. Sep 2008

The openSUSE Project is looking for a few good leaders, and voters! As announced by AJ, the board founded the election committee for the first openSUSE board election. The ...

openSUSE 11.0 Survey Results

admin 11. Sep 2008

The openSUSE survey results are out now. The survey we made in July/August time frame attracted over 12,000 participants. Here is a short summary on changes compared to the...

openSUSE's MirrorBrain and a New Lizard in China

News Team 29. Aug 2008

Do you know openSUSE’s MirrorBrain?  I have been working on it for over a year now. It is a mirror framework which is open source and can be used by anyone. The other day,...

Last Call for openSUSE Survey

admin 21. Aug 2008

Don’t miss to participate at this year’s openSUSE survey and tell us how you use openSUSE, what’s good or not so good about it or what you’d like to see in future releases...

Join the openSUSE Proofreading Team

admin 7. Aug 2008

We are about to establish a new openSUSE team - the Proofreading Team. This team wants to check new software strings before translator will start there work. If you are in...

openSUSE Jobs

Andreas Jaeger 5. Aug 2008

We have some open student positions for the next few months to work on various aspects of the openSUSE infrastructure.  If you’re interested, please apply at jobs@suse.de. ...

openSUSE 11.0 Survey

News Team 18. Jul 2008

Survey time again! After nearly a month of the openSUSE 11.0 release we want to know what you think about it, how you use it and about openSUSE.org in general. As usual we ...

Recorded Presentations Available From openSUSE Day at LinuxTag

admin 12. Jun 2008

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...

Thesis on openSUSE Published

News Team 24. May 2008

A year’s research on Novell and the openSUSE project is now published as a master’s thesis at the University of Oslo. “Managing Firm-Sponsored Open Source Communities” deta...

openSUSE Wants Your Vote (on Bugs)

News Team 19. May 2008

Attention openSUSE users and contributors! It’s time to exercise your vote and help the openSUSE team identify the bugs that need to be squashed prior to the openSUSE 11.0 ...

openSUSE Welcomes Zonker - The New Community Manager

Andreas Jaeger 4. Feb 2008

I’d like to give a warm welcome to Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier who joins the openSUSE project as “openSUSE community manager”. You can reach him directly at zonker@opensuse.or...

openSUSE Shop Now Live!

admin 10. Jan 2008

We proudly announce shop.openSUSE.org. This is the place to find official openSUSE gear: T-shirts, mugs, caps, bags and more are available. As many times requested by th...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday!

admin 22. Dec 2007

We’d like to take this opportunity to wish all openSUSE users and contributors a very merry Christmas and an enjoyable holiday! Thank you all for the great work you’ve done...

Results From openSUSE Contributor Survey

News Team 12. Dec 2007

281 contributors from the openSUSE community participated in a survey last month. The survey was part of a research project on the topic of firm-sponsored open source com...

Status Mail Highlights

News Team 21. Nov 2007

The highlights of this week’s status mails, for your convenience as a news article! We are working on a new LiveCD with updated packages (beta version here). ...

YaST Survey Finished

Andreas Jaeger 17. Nov 2007

The YaST survey has now been closed. More than 11,000 individuals participated in it. Thanks to everybody! A PDF of the results is now available.

openSUSE Guiding Principles Take Effect

admin 8. Nov 2007

It’s official: the openSUSE project Guiding Principles are now in force. The Guiding Principles are a framework for the project and give everyone a clear view of who we are...

IP Exchange Sponsors openSUSE Project

admin 7. Nov 2007

IP Exchange, a major german Internet Service Provider, is sponsoring the openSUSE project with internet connectivity. They provide a mirror server in their location with...

Free openSUSE 10.3 Boxes Shipped

Andreas Jaeger 5. Nov 2007

The openSUSE release is not only available for free download but also as separate boxed product to buy from retail shops and internet shops. The box product contains two ...

Participate in openSUSE Contributor Survey!

News Team 26. Oct 2007

A masters student from the University of Oslo (yours truly) is currently doing a research project on firm-sponsored open-source communities. openSUSE is the main case of st...

KDE 4 Hack Week, KDE IRC-Meeting, KDE 3.5.8

News Team 16. Oct 2007

As part of the KDE 4 hack week, which the KDE desktop team and KDE people working for SUSE are doing this week, we will do an informal and spontaneous openSUSE KDE IRC meet...

Novell Open Audio: openSUSE 10.3

News Team 5. Oct 2007

As part of a Novell Open Audio series on openSUSE, they will be interviewing various openSUSE developers to find out more about the project, particular involvements and new...

YaST Survey Started

Andreas Jaeger 1. Oct 2007

We have just published a survey on YaST, our systems management and installation framework. If you use any of the distributions openSUSE, SUSE Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise...

openSUSE is Looking for a Chief Linux Evangelist

admin 28. Sep 2007

To strengthen the openSUSE project we’re looking for an enthusiastic Chief Evangelist to: promote and spread the adoption of openSUSE be a public face fo...

First GNOME Team Meeting

News Team 24. Sep 2007

The GNOME team will hold its first public meeting this Thursday at noon EDT/18:00 CST/1600 GMT. In general we will follow the meeting guidelines outlined for the openSUSE ...

Quickies: Weekly Status Reports, Build Service Architect, Shuttle Preload, Silverlight for Linux

News Team 7. Sep 2007

Weekly status reports from the different areas of the openSUSE project are now posted to the mailing lists and get linked on the IRC meeting wiki pages (current) - the bi-w...

The openSUSE Project Turns Two

Henne Vogelsang 9. Aug 2007

It happened again. Another year passed (flew by). Happy Birthday openSUSE! Read on for a look back and some things to come. There are tons of things we achieved… In th...

Final Draft of openSUSE Guiding Principles

News Team 6. Aug 2007

Cornelius has posted the final draft of the openSUSE Guiding Principles to the opensuse-project mailing list. The openSUSE Guiding Principles are addressing the openSUSE c...

Linux Kernel Development List for openSUSE

Andreas Jaeger 31. Jul 2007

We have a new mailing list: opensuse-kernel (subscribe via lists.opensuse.org). This list is dedicated to the discussion of the openSUSE kernel development (Factory et al)...

Novell Open Audio: Hack Week in Review and Preview of KDE 4.0

News Team 28. Jul 2007

Novell Open Audio in its current episode features a retrospection of Hack Week including development site visit reports, awarded and other selected projects including this ...

News.openSUSE.org Goes Live

Andreas Jaeger 19. Jul 2007

We are happy to announce our new news.opensuse.org website. This news portal will provide the latest openSUSE news. We will continue to send important announcements to the...

New Project Manager for the Distribution

Andreas Jaeger 18. Jul 2007

I’m glad to announce that I have given over my responsibilities for the openSUSE distribution to Stephan Kulow coolo@suse.de. As from now on Stephan is project manager for ...

openSUSE Survey Results Now Online

News Team 4. May 2007

The openSUSE survey results are now online. The survey was live for almost 3 months and more than 27,000 user participated and gave us feeback how they use openSUSE what’s ...

New Mailing List opensuse-artwork

News Team 25. Apr 2007

We have a new mailing list opensuse-artwork. It’s meant for discussing issues related to the distribution styling and branding. Please read the general style guidelines bef...

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