In case you missed the flurry of announcements last week and the weeks before, we’re doing Hack Week III this week (also known as “return of Hack Week,” “revenge of Hack Week,” or maybe “son of Hack Week”).

Skimming Planet SUSE I see we’re already off to a great start. Jakub Steiner (jimmac) is working on a free font replacement for Cholla, which is the non-free font used in marketing materials for openSUSE.

Robert Lihm has created some nice materials for us in the past, but because of the font issue, we’ve had a bit of a problem in terms of creating reusable materials that local groups can grab and edit to fit their own events and/or localize for non-English speakers. Obviously, that’s a problem, so I’m particularly pleased to see jimmac doing this for Hack Week.

I do hope we’ll have a healthy participation outside of Novell for Hack Week. I know we’ve got several community members who have been sponsored to travel to Novell offices and collaborate, and we’ve got Andrew Wafaa who’s been sponsored to go to Nuremberg to work on some video documentation of Hack Week and life in the Nuremberg office (”Geekos Gone Wild,” anyone?).

If you’d like to get involved this week, head over to ideas.opensuse.org and/or jump into IRC on the #opensuse-factory channel on Freenode.

And, as always, if this week doesn’t work for you, there’s no reason to feel constrained by an arbitrary set of dates. We have to pick a set of dates for Novell’s planning purposes, but there’s no reason at all that contributors in the larger community have to be bound by our timing. Since we have a three-day weekend coming up in the U.S., that’d be a perfect time for contributors to set aside and attack a project for openSUSE, or any time that’s convenient.

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