This year oSC12 will take part in the Technological University of Prague (Czech Republic). The campus is located in the area of Dejvice and is next to an underground train station that takes you directly to the historic center of Prague. The conference will start on October 20 and end on the 23rd of the same month.
Co-housing and theme
The theme for this year\’s openSUSE Conference is \”Bootstrapping awesome!\” Labs conference will join us but there is something else.This year openSUSE Conference will trigger two other conferences to share the same location with us.
This will be their first year, but we are sure that it will be as nice as the openSUSE Conference and they will participate with us for a lot of fun 😉
The other conferences are the Gentoo Mini-Summit and the LinuxDays Conference.
LinuxDays Conference
The LinuxDays Conference is a community effort that replaces the well-known LinuxExpo trade fair, which was a major event in the Czech Republic with a long tradition. Unfortunately, this event \”died\” as the company that organized it decided that there was no value to continue. A group of local people decided to take over and organize the LinuxDays Conference to ensure that the brave tradition is not lost.
Like LinuxExpo, this event will focus on the Czech-speaking open / free software community and focus on practical and easy Czech sessions. The LinuxDays Conference will take place on the weekend of October 20 and 21.
The openSUSE Conference team is extremely happy to be able to co-host with the LinuxDays Conference! During the weekend we will work with them providing sessions for beginners as well as practical sessions for visitors. In the end, our goal is to spread the use of Linux everywhere and so it is a very good opportunity!
See their website!
Gentoo Mini-summit
The Gentoo Mini-summit will be a global Gentoo meeting. Organized by some of the (open) SUSE / Gentoo people in Prague, it will bring together a number of key Gentoo developers to talk and write code for the future of this more geek distribution, and provide a place for (future) users to learn and participate in development – in the end, a Gentoo user is a Gentoo developer! There is a striking overlap between openSUSE and Gentoo, with a number of prominent openSUSE people using Gentoo and vice versa. In addition, the university where the conference will be held is a strong Gentoo user, making it even more suitable for the conference. As with LinuxDays, we will share a number of sessions with Gentoo people, and of course there will be aspirations for further collaboration – as always.
The Call for Participation has started!
As of today, May 8, the Call for Participation is open. This means that you can send your suggestions. Go to the openSUSE Conference website and submit your suggestions!
What kind of suggestions are we looking for?
With respect to the theme of our conference, we would like to receive suggestions for speeches, workshops or BoFs that fit the \”bootstrapping\”. So if you are doing some \”bootstraping\” on your own, presenting a very new project and you are ready to start, come and tell us what you are doing! Maybe we can help! Also if you are doing something special and specialized in distribution, regardless of whether it is related to openSUSE we will be happy to hear about it.
But do not worry if your speech does not seem to fit into this theme, you can also teach people various technologies that will give them a bootstrap in their projects. We are interested in satisfactory workshops in the field of distribution development, software packaging and others, and due to the co-location of LinuxDays, Gentoo and SUSE Labs, there is plenty of room for hard core sessions on hacking and workshops for beginners.
If you want more details about the type of sessions and what we expect from you as a speaker, visit the speaker guide page.
So if you\’re not sure if your idea fits the conference, let us decide for you – just send us your idea!
Cooperation
Each conference will have its own theme. CfP teams will work together to ensure that there is no overlap and multiple listener issues are scheduled for the right spot. So we would appreciate it to choose if your proposal is relevant to other communities, and what level it is (beginner-intermediate-advanced), and in what language you prefer to present your topic.
Also if you are a Gentoo developer but have something related to openSUSE we would be happy to see your suggestion. If you are participating to give a workshop to novice users on how to configure their Linux, but also talk about something more technical, let us know.
Where and how
Registration for the conference will be announced shortly. For now send us our suggestions and we will meet in October in Prague.
Source: news.opensuse.org