Παρασκευή 23 Σεπτεμβρίου 2011

Greek openSUSE community, Translation of openSUSE Weekly news in Greek (issue 193)



Hello everyone!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Enjoy it!
Efstathios Agrapidis (efagra)

Παρασκευή 16 Σεπτεμβρίου 2011

Greek openSUSE community, Translation of openSUSE Weekly news in Greek (issue 192)

Hello everyone!

Back to Thessaloniki after a great openSUSE conference in Nuremberg and I am very pleased to announce the new issue (192) of openSUSE Weekly News in Greek.
In this issue you will read about:

* Jos Poortvlieet: Sponsors present at openSUSE Conference 2011
* Jos Poortvlieet: Bretzn at oSC
* Kai-Uwe Behrmann: Oyranos @ rwx³
* Greek openSUSE Ambassadors: openSUSE Greek community and 76th International Trade Fair,
Thessaloniki
* Wazi/Anatoliy A. Dimitrov: How to Secure Your Apache Web Server

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

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

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

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

Enjoy it!
Efstathios Agrapidis (efagra)

Πέμπτη 15 Σεπτεμβρίου 2011

openSUSE Conference 2011, Day 5 “Τhe Last Day”

Greeks woke up earlier in order to be in time at Zentrifuge. We ate breakfast and we prepared ourselves for taking the road to the conference. We were a bit tired but we wanted to live again and again the experience of participating at the openSUSE Conference. So we took the metro and went at Zentrifuge.

There were many community based presentations and many technical presentations about Google summer of code projects and in general technologies that openSUSE uses and updates. Our day started by attending the conversation about “Do we need an ambassador mentoring program?” by Koudaras, Kostas where we talked about ambassadors and how we can improve the program in all ways. Many people from Novel attended the presentation and integrate with ideas in order to help improve the program. After that, we attended “Connect - a social networking platform for the openSUSE Community” by Mr. Vogelsang, Hendrik and Rusnak, Pavol who presented us this new awesome community tool, how it works and how we can improve it.



After a small coffee break, we attended the “openSUSE project meeting”. There we talked about the elections and the board and about in general on “how to improve the project”.

We had a lunch break, in order to refill our batteries and after we got split up in many presentations. Some of us attended the packaging sessions “What's a good package” by Peilicke, Sascha and “Packaging guidelines discussion” by Bleser Pascal, Peilicke Sascha and Rueckert Marcus and other attended the artwork sessions “Organizing our Artwork Repositories” and “openSUSE 12.1 Artwork” by Placeholder. Last presentations were some "Lighting Talks" from various people guided by Yunashko Bryen.









The conference ended with the “Wrap up Session” by Poortvliet Jos who thanked everyone for participating at openSUSE Conference. After that we took a “Group Photo” and a “Group Hug Photo”.





But, the last day of the openSUSE Conference wasn't over. After leaving Zentrifuge we went at a nearby city where there is the beer factory that made us the “Old Toad” openSUSE beer! We were guided in the factory rooms and saw how beer is made. After that, we ate local food and drunk local beer at the local restaurant where we stayed there till late at night discussing, drinking beer and having fun!





openSUSE Conference was a great experience for everyone. We met new people, we met the global openSUSE community, we learnt many things from them and how they work and the most important is that we worked with them and we will collaborate in the future.

You can find photos from the openSUSE Conference at our facebook group, and at Kostas Koudaras Picasa. We upload photos all day long !

Last but not least, you can get informed of what is happening at openSUSE Conference via the Greek Community twitter account, the openSUSE Conference twitter account, Kostas Koudaras and George Bratsos.



From Nuremberg,

openSUSE Conference: Day 4

The Greeks woke up early today. The cloudy weather of Nuremberg didn't stopped us from taking the road to openSUSE Conference. We also had Lydia Pintschert of KDE keep us company for the way to Zentrifuge.

Today there are many interesting presentations about community tools and about new technologies in Linux. We started from Lydia's awesome presentation about “Social skills for geeks”. After that we attended the presentation of Mr. Vogelsang, Hendrik about “How to contribute to the openSUSE Wiki” which was very interesting and we all were there get informed on our next community target ;). Also, we attended at the main hall the presentation of an important member of SUSE and openSUSE Mr. Milller Michael who told us about his experience with SUSE and openSUSE. After we ate, talked with people and rest ourselves we attended the conversation about “Playing with Geeko: Contribution can be fun” by Koudaras, Kostas and Gupta, Manu where they presented to the community why and how we can contribute at the project.



After attending all those interesting presentations it was time for an extraordinary one! George “Etern4L” Bratsos and Kostas “Warlordff” Koudaras signed up and attended the “8 bit music workshop" by Mr. Fertala Hannes. They had a tweaked Game Boy and tried to make music from it. After that, Kostas presented the music that he made which was awesome!!!



Stathis “Efagra” Agrapidis focused on Packaging presentations and workshops while he is a packager.



Stella went with Jos at the supermarket in order to buy steaks, sausages, salads and etc for the barbeque. Also, there was an extraordinary happening. Fertala Hannes, had an 8bit Music concert !!! We had a lot of fun eating, drinking beer and hearing the great music from the Game Boys!



You can find photos from the openSUSE Conference at our facebook group, and at Kostas Koudaras Picasa. We upload photos all day long !

Last but not least, you can get informed of what is happening at openSUSE Conference via the Greek Community twitter account, the openSUSE Conference twitter account, Kostas Koudaras and George Bratsos.

Τρίτη 13 Σεπτεμβρίου 2011

openSUSE Conference: Day 3, The conference continues, the Greeks attack!

Greek team woke up in the cloudy morning in Nuremberg. We ate our breakfast at hotel and we started heading to the openSUSE Conference.

We arrived a bit late but luckily they haven't started yet! There were again many interesting presentations among about community, distribution and about technology. Presentations that stood out where “openSUSE Tumbleweed” Mr. KH, Greg, “Ambassador Program: Current status,potential changes and improvements” by Mr. KOUDARAS, Kostas (openSUSE), Mr. GUPTA, Manu (openSUSE), “Our experience in organizing a local community: The Greek example” by by Mr. KOUDARAS, Kostas (openSUSE) and “How to get more Women into openSUSE” by PINTSCHER, Lydia (KDE). Do not forget the LPI exams we had at the conference.







After the presentations were over there were a big “Rodeo Texas Party”! There were free hamburgers for everyone, poker tables and a bull in order to try to ride! Geekos gathered outside the building of the Conference, ate a lot, played poker and had fun riding the bull!







After that, there was live music at Zentrifuge with rock music! Geekos gathered there, danced, drunk beer and some OUZO Kostas brought there till late at night! :)



You can find photos from the openSUSE Conference at our facebook group, and at Kostas Koudaras Picasa. We upload photos all day long !

Last but not least, you can get informed of what is happening at openSUSE Conference via the Greek Community twitter account, the openSUSE Conference twitter account, Kostas Koudaras and George Bratsos.



From Nuremberg,

Δευτέρα 12 Σεπτεμβρίου 2011

Greek openSUSE community, Translation of openSUSE Weekly news in Greek (issue 191)




Greetings for every from the openSUSE Conference in Nuremberg!

We are very pleased to announce the new issue (191) of openSUSE Weekly News in Greek.
In this issue you will read about:

* Pascal Bleser: My talks at the openSUSE Conference 2011
* Pascal Bleser: On communication, cultural differences, and the openSUSE Conference
* Jos Poortvliet: CLS, DS, COSCUP… Plasma Active, ARM, …
* Andrew Wafaa: What the openSUSE Conference means to me
* Jan Weber: Keysigning Party, Web Of Trust, PGP? What’s that all about?

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

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

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

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

Enjoy it!
Efstathios Agrapidis (efagra)
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We rock baby and we like it

openSUSE Conference: Day 2, The Conference Begins

Awesome! The sun goes up in Nuremberg... The Greek team woke up early in the morning in order to get ready for the first day of the conference... We had a good breakfast and we started heading for the Zentrifuge in order to meet the other guyz and attend the Conference. On our road to the openSUSE Conference we met the Chinese community and we both head to the conference together.

When we arrived people were awesome. Everyone was there... The day's program was printed so we took a copy in order to see and decide which awesome presentations we will attend!



We all attended the presentation of Mr. ZYSK, GregoryIntroduction to Cross-Cultural Communication, Conflict and Collaboration”. After presenting his model of cross-cultural communication model and his ambitions, he made an awesome test... He made everyone in the room pick a mate that he hadn't worked with him at all or get to know and after he gave us two papers of different scenarios he made us conflict and find a common solution to solve the scenario!




It was a difficult choice on decide which presentation we will attend and everyone made his own choice. There were community based presentations, and many technical presentations. Everything went as programmed and after a day full of knowledge it came about 18:00 when we started a “Barbeque Party” !!! Kostas, wore his firefighter uniform in order to be ready to protect us from the flames while me and Stathis were helping baking the sausages. After that, a party started with rock music beers and geekos talking, laughing and having fun till late at night!





Last but not least, you can get informed of what is happening at openSUSE Conference via the Greek Community twitter account, the openSUSE Conference twitter account, Kostas Koudaras and George Bratsos


Κυριακή 11 Σεπτεμβρίου 2011

openSUSE Conference: First Day

In Friday morning, at 4:50 Kostas “Warlordfff” Koudaras , George “Etern4L” Bratsos, Eustathios “efagra” Agrapidis and Stella “differentreality” Rouzi met in Thessaloniki’s airport. We were about to travel to Nuremberg, Germany to go at the openSUSE Conference at Zentrifuge.


After we met up at the airport we checked in and we entered the airplane. It is the first journey of the Greek community to a Conference like that. After two and a half hours we arrived at Zurich airport where we stayed for two hours waiting for the next flight to Nuremberg. The flight between Zurich and Nuremberg lasted half an hour an finally after 4 hour traveling we arrived at Nuremberg.


At Nuremberg, we went to the hotel we left our luggage and we went straight to Zentrifuge in order to meet the other geekos and help organizing and in general help at the openSUSE Conference. When we arrived we found people already working there... Bruno who was at Fosscomm was setting up the sound over the halls, other were creating pins with the names of the participants, other were preparing some special bags which include a poster, stickers, a magazine and many other things and other were setting up the presentation laptops. Stella and I helped with the bags, Kostas and Stathis helped with the pins were they excel,and by folding fliers. After that, Jos the community manager decided that we must decorate the halls so George and Stella went with him at IKEA and bought some pretty things for the halls.


After a long and difficult day at 19:00 we stopped working and started drinking beers :) We had a small “Pizza Party” !!! Fifteen pizzas arrived at Zentrifuge for the geekos there! Old Toad the openSUSE beer helped geekos retrieve their strength for the next day! We ate, talked about several things laughed a lot and drunk many beers!


After the long day, we took the metro and returned to our hotel in order to rest, take a bath and prepare our selves for the next awesome day.


You can find photos from the openSUSE Conference at our Facebook Group and at Kostas Koudaras Picasa. We upload photos all day long !


Last but not least, you can get informed of what is happening at openSUSE Conference via the Greek Community twitter account, the openSUSE Conference twitter account, Kostas Koudaras and George Bratsos



Παρασκευή 9 Σεπτεμβρίου 2011

openSUSE Greek community and 76th International Trade Fair, Thessaloniki



The openSUSE Greek community will participate to the 76th International Trade Fair (TIF), 10-18th of September in Thessaloniki.

The 76th TIF focuses on outlets in development and innovation, as well as new ideas. This year’s event will highlight the opportunities and challenges generated by the crisis in the Greek economy, which is the starting point for the development of healthy entrepreneurship and modernising the public sector.

The 76th TIF will accordingly present the opportunities for development through specific and measurable activities with a tangible content and with actions that are directed at both the commercial as well as the ordinary visitors.

We would like to thank our sponsor Minisystems for the space they provide us.

We will be happy to see you there.

VENUE: THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION CENTRE
Pavillion 13, Booth 8

Our place:




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