openSUSE at Fosscomm 2011

FOSSCOMM 2011 is organized by the Patras Linux User Group (PLUG) and the Computer Engineering & Informatics Department (Laboratory of Computing/ Computer Center), University of Patras, Greece on 7-8 May 2011. Every active LUG, Team, and greek communities are there to make presentations about the work they have done, presentation of technological developments in the field, the presentation of innovative ideas.

The Greek openSUSE community will be there to promote our Favorite Project. This year we are marching to Fosscomm in order to make the difference and show people who we are. OpenFEST 2011 at Pireus was just the beggining.

In our try Bruno Friedman (a.k.a Tigerfoot) is comming to Greece to join forces with us and present the openSUSE project to the Greek audience. Along with his presentation we are also presenting the Greek openSUSE community, openSUSE 11.4 distribution, OBS along with a workshop, SUSE studio and openSUSE with E17 GUI.

Of course we are having a booth with all short of promotional stuff such as informational fliers about the openSUSE community (both in english and Greek), 11.4 DVDs stickers, zypper cheat sheets, pins and other free stuff.

Along with all that we are also organizing openSUSE small talks/presentations for various matters around openSUSE project such as

- Use of YaST
- Add/Remove aplications on openSUSE
- Presentation of Tumbleweed Project
- Presentation of Evergreen Project
- How to use openSUSE wiki and other community tools
- Building a Geekos nest os-el.gr
-Presentation about KDE 4.6

More information can be found on the organizer's site at http://patras.fosscomm.gr/ as well as the full program of lectures http://patras.fosscomm.gr/schedule/

Also at Saturday's night we are organizing an openSUSE 11.4 Release party where everyone is invited to join us and celebrate :D

Have a lot of fun!