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[COMMUNITY] Developing developers: From end user to developer

Community

We’ve seen how to gather some people and create a community (at least that’s the quick tutorial how it worked for us in Greece).

The product is cool (any product) but here we have people. They should know WHY they join a community as volunteers. Is it because they want to help FLOSS to make the world a better place? Is it because it is Fun? Is it because they like the pros that open source provides? Is it because they like to help other people? Find out WHY people want to join-form a community.

The key to increase the number of the members is to attend to events. Here a quick tutorial how to do that. The best possible scenario is a developer to come to your booth and join the team. But this is 1% possible to happen (maybe less). Usually developers we’re searching, they have their favorite distro/project and they don’t change so easy.

The best thing is to join events where you can find end users (end users = users they’re computer science students where they focus on windows, users that their computer being used for facebook/twitter/office suite). Why? Because those users can do some work that the developers hate. What’s that?

0. Junior Jobs. Write a junior jobs list where someone can find exactly what to do and how to do it. The list could have the following.
1. Report bugs to bugzilla. So developers can fix it (of course developers have to be polite and help end users to provide possible broken data etc).
2. Documentation. Developers just hate to write documentation.
3. Translation. Usually developers use some “strange” language. So if someone asks you, please be polite and reply.
4. Promotion. Everyone call it marketing. The term marketing seems that the distro/project earns money out of promotion. Maybe the best term is engagement. This is needed because if it’s the best distro/project among others, how more potential users will learn about it? And if it’s the best, if no one uses it, then it’s useless.
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SSD configuration for openSUSE

As you already know, there are mechanic disks and also SSD. There is the rumor that SSDs last for 5 years or up to 5 years. Read the openSUSE wiki page for more information about openSUSE and SSD.

Here I’ll describe what I did to my SSD.

RULE 1: Partitioning

The first step is creating the right partitions. First of all, create the root partition (about 15-20GB is enough). Then create the home partition (/home). Finally leave about 7% of the disk unallocated. This will help your disk during write process. The right filesystem is ext4.

If you have new computer, then you should have a partition /boot/efi. You don’t have to do any of the following configuration for that partition.

BE CAREFUL: Don’t create a swap partition. If you already have enough memory (4GB), you don’t need it. Swap memory is “destroying” your SSD. Finally, be careful of the file system, since openSUSE 13.2 uses BTRFS as default filesystem. Snapper will create snapshots, something that you don’t need.

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Report: openSUSE conference 2014, Dubrovnik.

One more fan-freakin-tastik openSUSE conference is over. Thank you Dubrovnik and local organizers for such fantabulous conference. Your city is beautiful. Too bad that the weather wasn’t sunny all the time (don’t forget that Dubrovnik is touristic city). The old city was dope. I mean it’s very cool to stay inside the walls, go to school there. Of course restaurants, bars etc are expensive there, but still it’s so cool!!!

Personally don’t understand why everyone in the community linked Dubrovnik with Game of thrones series. It’s a Hollywood product. Maybe I’m the only one that don’t watch it. On the other hand, I saw the cruelty of civil war during 91-94 and the siege of Dubrovnik that lasted for 7 months. Of course a theme couldn’t use that, since it’s politics (although Game of Thrones has copyrights and it’s better not to use it either).


Greeks, Brazilians, Germans and Czechs.
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A fantabulous #openSUSE conference is over… #oSC13

Family Picture

THE fantabulous openSUSE conference is over. We have some left overs to do and the #oSC13 will be history. All presentations can be found at openSUSE Recordings @ Youtube. Soon we’ll have all the pictures gathered.
You can read what happened day by day at news.opensuse.org. Day 1, Day 2, Day 3. You can find links to more pictures there.

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What happens ats Serras stays ats Serras

SerLUG event poster

SerLUG, this year turns 5 years old. They celebrate it with a day conference and after night party on March 11th, 2013. I was invited to present something for many reasons:

1. They’re very close friends of mine but also of openSUSE community.
2. They wanted a smiple presentation about how to use GNOME and what is unique on openSUSE. The reason of a simple presentation was the audience. They expected mostly windows users and they wanted many of them to join and help SerLUG.
3. Promote openSUSE conference.

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2nd openSUSE collaboration summer camp report

On July 20-22, I joined the 2nd openSUSE collaboration summer camp.

Participants from almost all FOSS communities (Ubuntu, Fedora, KDE, openSUSE, Gnome, Gentoo, Libre Office), interesting presentations and workshops on our favourite projects. I enjoyed the most the off schedule things. Relaxing, talking and water games (see the pictures). This year, the presentations were in English because there was a participant from SUSE offices from Prague.

This year I had 2 presentations and a workshop.

My first presentation was about ownCloud. Many people found it interesting for a business environment. I gave some live cd with owncloud in a box. You can find my presentation here.

My next presentation had the title Boothing. Not sure if there’s a word but what I wanted to say is how to use the nonverbal communication at the booths we attend at events. How to make the visitor feel safe and friendly to talk to us.


You can find my presentation here.

The last presentation-workshop was about translation some programs of Gnome. I explained the system we use to translate Gnome, I gave some po files to translate them. There was lack of time, so the participants got the files to finish them at home and then upload them to the system.

The event was pretty successful. Next meeting is the openSUSE conference (see below):

 

 

See 3 albums of photographs:

1. Album Baharakis

2. Album Koudaras

3. Album Michal Hrušecký

2nd openSUSE Collaboration Summer Camp, July 20-22, Katerini-Greece

Summer.

The images that come to your mind are: sea, suntan, sand games, relax.

Greek openSUSE community combine those images with working our favourite projects and have fun during summer time.

They started last year (check pictures from the event). Greek Gnome community was there, presenting the new Gnome 3 environment (check my presentation in Greek).

This year we will be there with a translation workshop (check the program).

The presentations will be in English, since we have not only Greek participants.

Just in case, someone wants to attend (last minute), can contact summercamp@os-el.gr