Apparently the nice folks over at SourceForge.net are having a tattoo artist at their Community Choice Awards next week at OSCON. Ross Turk asked whether I’d like a “tech-related tattoo” on Twitter. Sure, I said, I’ll get one if we can hit one million openSUSE 11.0 installs by the time of the party next week.

Now, that’s not terribly likely, but hey — if we hit the 1 million mark, I’ll totally get a Geeko tattoo. If we just hit 300K, I’ll just dye my hair green. So, if you’d like to see me sporting a geeko tattoo, start hitting up your friends, family, co-workers, and random strangers to install openSUSE 11.0!

Want to become an expert on Evolution? (The mail client, that is…) Join the Helping Hands project on Friday, July 18th for “Things You Didn’t Know About Evolution,” which is being presented by the Go-Evo Developer Team.

It’ll be held in the opensuse-gnome IRC channel on Freenode at 14:30 UTC. (That’s 16:30 for those of you in Germany, 10:30 for folks on the East coast of the U.S. like me, and a slightly early 7:30 for folks on the West coast. Click the link for the time in your timezone…)

If you know anyone who’s just started using openSUSE, how about spreading the word? I’m sure lots of openSUSE users would find this session helpful. I might just have to join this one myself, actually… I am sure there’s plenty I don’t know about Evolution.

Also, I know the Helping Hands team is looking for people to present on topics outside of GNOME (so far all the HH activity has been GNOME-specific, but that’s not the long-term goal) so if you’re a KDE fan or YaST guru, step up and share the knowledge.

LugRadio Live UK is coming up next weekend, and the openSUSE project will be in attendance. Roger Whittaker and Andrew Wafaa are going to be representing the green at LRL, and (assuming the shipping gods are kind to us) handing out openSUSE 11.0 DVDs to all and sundry.

If you’d like to assist at the booth, get in touch with Roger. A big thanks to both Roger and Andrew for taking the initiative at LRL!

If you’re running Bind on openSUSE or SUSE Linux Enterprise, you want to install the update that was pushed out recently. This was pushed out on opensuse-security-announce (which I’m sure everybody is subscribed to, right? Cause these announcements are very infrequent and fairly important…) but I wanted to mention it here as well…

In case you hadn’t read about it already, there’s a major DNS flaw that leaves DNS implementations vulnerable to cache poisoning (essentially giving the wrong IP address for a domain name, which makes it possible to redirect queries to the wrong host — which opens up a whole slew of possible mischief).

We’ve issued a fix for openSUSE 10.2, 10.3, and 11.0, as well as SLES/SLED 10, and a number of other versions.

OK, “summer tour,” might be stretching it a bit, but it sounded nice in the headline. However, we’re going to be out and about this summer and the next two events are OSCON and LinuxWorld Expo in Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco, California, respectively.

We’ll have booths at both shows, and we’ll be doing the openSUSE Day at LWE, with a ton of great talks and openSUSE 11.0 DVDs, some door prizes not to be missed, and lots of fun in general. We’d love to see an enormous crowd at LWE, so bring your friends, family, co-workers, ameniable strangers… you get the idea.

Mozilla’s Christopher Blizzard has whipped up something pretty cool — Whoisi, a search engine/tracker to follow your friends’ feeds and other online output.

So, for instance, if you want to follow Blizzard’s online trail, just go to his Whoisi page and you can see his most recent updates on Flickr, Twitter, Identi.ca, LinkedIn, etc. (Or you could check out my page, or just hit up a random user.)

I’d encourage everybody in the openSUSE community to set up a page for themselves if they have a blog or other online presence that Whoisi can track.