The Kablink team has released 2.0 of the Kablink teaming platform.This release includes an updated user interface, advanced workflow features, an “expertise locator,” and tools for users to define what is (and isn’t) relevant to them.

What is Kablink? Kablink is an open source collaboration platform that is the foundation of Novell’s Teaming + Conferencing products. It’s a “total” collaboration tool that integrates blogs, wikis, forums, document sharing, and workflow features for teams that need an integrated collaboration platform rather than a piecemeal set of collaboration tools that only solve part of the collaboration puzzle.

The 2.0 release is ready for download — you’ll find a Linux installer, a VMware image, and Windows installer (if you insist) on the Kablink Web site.

Questions about Kablink? Touch base with Brent McConnell, who’s the community manager for Kablink and the ever-popular iFolder.

LinuxTag is going well so far, but tomorrow will be the big day! The openSUSE Day takes place tomorrow (Saturday, June 27th) at LinuxTag, and we have a full track of excellent talks that will be of interest to new users as well as openSUSE contributors and users.

openSUSE Day kicks off at 10:00 a.m. (a completely reasonable and sane time, plenty of time to grab breakfast and coffee even if you’ve been to social events the evening before!) with a break for the LinuxTag keynotes between 13:00 and 15:00. Here’s the rest of the schedule:

• 10:00 – 10:30: openSUSE Day Introduction — Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier
• 10:30 – 11:00: Easy-LTSP – Configure an openSUSE LTSP server easily – Jan Weber
• 11:00 – 12:00: Was ist neu in openSUSE 11.2? – Andreas Jaeger
• 12:00 – 13:00: Do it Yourself: openSUSE Home Theater PC – Henne Vogelsang
• 13:00 – 15:00: Break for keynote
• 15:00 – 16:00: Wine – Windows Applikation und Spiele für Linux – Marcus Meissner
• 16:00 – 16:30: Warum mein WLAN nicht funktioniert? – Helmut Schaa
• 16:30 – 17:00: AppArmor in der Praxis – Christian Boltz
• 17:00 – 18:00: SUSE Studio: Maßgeschneidertes Linux für Jedermann – Cornelius Schumacher

If you’re in or around Berlin, you don’t want to miss it!

As you know, Federico Mena-Quintero has ceded his seat on the openSUSE Board. We are all sad to see him go, but know we are grateful for his continued and ongoing contributions to the openSUSE Project.
The openSUSE Board is happy to announce Stephen Shaw (decriptor) to be a new openSUSE Board Member filling up the vacant seat after Federico’s resignation. We thank Stephen that he took up the position in such a quick and decent manner. We know Stephen for a long time and think he is a perfect fit due to his long term contribution and activities around the openSUSE community.
Stephen as of last years elections was the runner-up to Federico’s seat. He takes Federico’s seat and this seat is due for re-election this year in November.
Please join us in welcoming Stephen to the Board.  We look forward to his fresh ideas and contributions as we gear up for openSUSE Summit this coming September 17-20 in Nuremberg, Germany.

Sincerely,
Michael Loeffler
openSUSE Board Chairman

We need an openSUSE Ambassador to rock the Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference (CPOSC) in October! CPOSC is a small, one-day event about “all things open source” to be held on October 17, 2009 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

CPOSC organizers are looking for openSUSE contributors to speak at the event, so if you’re local to the area — please do put in a speaking proposal. The CFP is open through July 10th.We’re looking for openSUSE enthusiasts to spread the word at CPOSC, so be sure to sign up if you’re nearby.

If you need help prepping a talk about openSUSE, ask on the openSUSE Marketing mailing list — plenty of people on the marketing list would be happy to help proof and help develop the talk. If you need more info on CPOSC, ping the organizers or drop me a line and I’ll put you in touch.

Please see below the Meeting Minutes of the openSUSE Board. We welcome any feedback and recommend to use the opensuse-project mailing list so more people can participate. As always the openSUSE Board is reachable through board@openSUSE.org

May 20, 7-9pm UTC
Participants:
Michael Löffler, (michl)
Bryen Yunashko , (suseROCKs)
Pascal Bleser , (yaloki)

List of topics:

• Foundation
  We’ll investigate more into the creation of an openSUSE foundation. We reached out already to Novell how they feel about and received positive feedback. The foundation at the beginning should be a more independent body then openSUSE is today and should make it easier to collect donations in a transparent way to use directly for community efforts.
• Expanse spotlight.o.o to Board Members
  All openSUSE Board members will have access to spotlight.opensuse.org to post/blog there.
• openSUSE Membership requests
  The membership requests still are a pretty manual process. We imported out of users.opensuse.org another bunch of requests and are in the process of evaluation. But we need to admit we could have been faster with that.
• Status of “ambassador program”
  The Ambassador program will be announced soon by zonker (meanwhile happened)
• Add features to openFATE without being member?
  During community week the request was stated several times to make it possible to add new features for non-members as well. We had a discussion about it and the Board recommends to make this request happen as we think there are more up then down sides. See also Feature 306460

Next openSUSE Board Meeting on June 3, 7pm UTC

Some pretty good news for the ZYpp team! Ark Linux after some evaluation has choosen to use zypper with their next release.