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, Gregory “Introduction 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

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

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:

Greek openSUSE community, Translation of openSUSE Weekly news in Greek (issue 190)

Hello everyone!

I am very pleased to announce the new issue (190) of openSUSE Weekly News in Greek.

In this issue you will read about:

* Sascha Manns: openSUSE Conference 2011: How to make a podcast?

* Jan Weber: Keysigning Party at openSUSE Conference 2011

* Honey, your conference is on the phone!

* Fun, fun, fun at OSC11

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)

Greek openSUSE community, Translation of openSUSE Weekly news in Greek (issue 189)

Hello everyone!

I am very pleased to announce the new issue (189) of openSUSE Weekly
News in Greek.
In this issue you will read about:

* The openSUSE Conference Program and Keynote Speakers
* openSUSE Edu Li-f-e 11.4 update release announcement
* Bruno Friedmann: Desktop Summit Berlin 2011 – Report
* Sebastian Kügler: Installing Plasma Active on the ExoPC (“WeTab”)
* Andrea Florio: openSUSE-LXDE logo contest starting now!

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)