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!

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.

A quick reminder, if you’re interested in leading a session, track, birds of a feather, etc. — you should submit a proposal by end of day* May 20th using the form here.Read more about the CFP here.

A large part of the conference will be in “unconference” format — meaning that contributors attending the Conference will have the chance to set the agenda for much of the time, and discuss and work on topics of greatest interest. (Rather than sitting around watching someone give a presentation the entire time!)

A couple of folks have asked “why do you ask for my phone number and/or mailing address?” Generally speaking, we may not need these but it’s not uncommon to need to get in touch with a presenter or track leader quickly, especially right before a conference. We’d also like to have snail mail addresses in case we need/want to send something to you that doesn’t travel over TCP/IP. You will not be spammed or telemarketed to.

Have questions about the Conference? Drop me an email at zonker@opensuse.org.

*There is a bit of leeway here, so don’t worry if “end of day” in your time zone is later than end of day in Europe or North America.

In case you missed it, we’ve put out the openSUSE Summit Call for Participation here.

This is the chance for contributors to get up and lead on the topics that are near and dear to their hearts. Note that’s contributors and not only developers (though, of course, developers are very welcome!). Whether you contribute as a translator, wiki editor, packager, developer, member of the marketing team, etc., this is for all openSUSE contributors.

The summit is not going to be composed exclusively of presentations and such. Much of the summit will consist of workshops, birds of a feather, hack sessions, and other hands-on participatory sessions. So come prepared to give a lot of input and have a lot of fun!

Deadline is May 20th. Get those proposals in!

It’s hard to believe that some Linux conferences have been going on for 10 (*or more) years. But it’s true - a handful of Linux events have been going on yearly for upwards of a decade. This year, LFNW is celebrating its 10th anniversary in Bellingham, Washingon from April 25th to 26th.

Lots of great speakers this year - Jon ‘maddog’ Hall will be there, Monty Widenius, Allison Randall, and many more. I’m also giving a talk, and looking forward to that.

I had the chance to attend last year, and it was a great time. LFNW is organized by a really fun group of people, it draws a great crowd that’s pretty diverse — some experienced Linux users, some new users, some contributors, and all-around enthusiastic and great to talk to.

Meet  new and interesting people: We’ll also have an openSUSE Booth at the event. If you’re interested in helping with the booth, would love to have you there. If you’re interested meeting people and talking about openSUSE, drop me a line and we’ll get you on the schedule for a few hours!

Rideshare: Also - I’m arriving in Seattle Friday night around 9 p.m. — if you need a ride to Bellingham from Seattle, let me know!

Time is slipping away: If you’re interested in applying for the Google Summer of Code as a student (for openSUSE or any other project) you have a bit more than 73 hours — time runs out on Friday, April 3rd at 19:00 UTC.

Announcement for openSUSE here. If you have questions, please ask on the opensuse-project mailing list, or in IRC in the #opensuse-project or #opensuse-gsoc channels on Freenode. If you have general SoC questions, you can also ask in the #gsoc channel. Email me if you have additional questions, but asking on -project is probably the best way to go.

The Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Call for Participation is now open. The Desktop Summit is the first to pair the KDE and GNOME conferences, and will be held from July 3rd to July 11th in Gran Canaria, Spain.  Those poor desktop developers. Suffering through a week in the Canary Islands. Is there nothing they wouldn’t do for free software?

Ah, anyway - there are actually a couple of CFPs - one for Akademy, one for GUADEC, and they’ll also be posting CFPs for the local programme.

The CFP closes on April 10th - so not a lot of time if you want to get your proposal in. I’d like to see several openSUSE representatives at the Desktop Summit, so please be sure to submit those proposals! (I wouldn’t mind a few postcards from the Canary Islands, either…)

Next week’s openSUSE Project meeting should be fairly substantial. If you can make it, please do! The meeting will be at 17:00 UTC on #opensuse-project on Freenode. The agenda is here, feel free to add to it if there’s something we should discuss. (As if the topics on the agenda already weren’t enough!)

If you happen to be in the Los Angeles (or nearby) area, you don’t want to miss the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) this weekend.

SCALE goes three days — Friday is mini-conferences (including Open Software Source in Education, and Women in Open Source) and Saturday and Sunday are the main conference days.

Our own Michael Meeks will be doing a talk on “An open office suite” and I’ll be doing the keynote on Sunday morning, and there are lots of other interesting speakers on the schedule as well.

And, of course, we’ll have an openSUSE booth at the show and will be discussing openSUSE and other sundry topics there. If you’d like to help in the booth, feel free to drop me an email.

The Linux Foundation has announced the call for papers for the first annual LinuxCon, which will take place September 21-23, 2009 in Portland, Oregon.

If you’re interested in speaking, submit your papers by April 15th (yes, Tax Day for those of us in the States… interesting timing…). You can find the info over on the LF Website.

This should be a great conference, so sign up and I hope to see you in Portland!