Announcing ENOS 2009

(See the announcement in English bellow)

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Pelo terceiro ano consecutivo, toda a comunidade portuguesa de openSUSE reúne-se num só espaço com o intuito de dinamizar o projecto openSUSE em Portugal.

O ENOS 2009 (acrónimo para "Encontro Nacional de openSUSE 2009"), organizado pela comunidade portuguesa de openSUSE e pela Associação de Informática de Castelo Branco, decorrerá na magnífica cidade de Castelo Branco, Sábado 26 de Setembro, tendo como ponto de encontro o Instituto Português da Juventude de Castelo Branco pelas 10 horas.

O objectivo do ENOS é dar a oportunidade aos utilizadores portugueses de openSUSE de se juntarem assim como dar aos participantes uma visão introspectiva dos últimos desenvolvimentos do projecto openSUSE e estimulá-los a participarem na comunidade, tudo num ambiente bastante informal e aberto.



Para além do convívio, troca de ideias e discussões dos mais diversificados temas possíveis, também decorreram durante o dia apresentações e BoF's tais como:

• O projecto openSUSE desde à 365 dias (Carlos Gonçalves, openSUSE)
• Integração de Open Source vs Software Proprietário (Engº João Batista, Novell Portugal)
• Linux na pós-produção áudio (Ricardo Antunes, UrbanaFM)
• BoF: Moonlight (Andreia Gaita)
• BoF: Packaging com o Build Service (Carlos Gonçalves)

Também este ano será possível submeter-se aos exames de certificação LPI, através da empresa nacional DRI, Master Affiliate do LPI em Portugal, com um desconto de 50% nas certificações - os interessados deveram informar a organização com pelo menos 8 dias de antecedência da sua intenção.

Assim, convidam-se todas as comunidades, associações e instituições, empresas e individuais a participarem.

Embora o encontro seja totalmente livre, agradece-se o registo na página do evento ou por email para eventos () opensusept () org por forma a ter uma ideia do número expectável de participantes.

Para informação mais detalhada, queira por favor consultar a página oficial do evento em http://pt.opensuse.org/Eventos/ENOS


Com os melhores cumprimentos,
A organização do ENOS 2009

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English Version (note: it differs slightly from the above in Portuguese)

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For the third consecutive year, all the Portuguese openSUSE community users will be meeting will the main goal of boosting the openSUSE project in Portugal.

ENOS 2009 is the third yearly edition of the event and will be held in the Institudo Português da Juventude (IPJ), Castelo Branco, Portugal on Saturday, 26 September.

• About

The acronym ENOS stands for ‘Encontro Nacional de openSUSE‘, a Portuguese expression which can be translated to ‘National openSUSE Meeting‘, an event meant to unite the Portuguese openSUSE users, as well as provide the participants an inside view into the latest developments in the openSUSE project and stimulate them to take an active part in the community itself.

• Schedule

The current schedule, subject to changes, defines the following (GMT timezone):

• 10:00 - Gathering at Institudo Português da Juventude
• 11:00 - ENOS kicks off
  • 11:15 - 11:50 - The openSUSE project since 365 days ago (Carlos Gonçalves)
  • 11:50 - 12:00 - Coffe Break
  • 12:00 - 12:45 - Open Source vs Proprietary Software Integration (Eng. João Batista) Batista)
• 13:00 - 14:30 - Lunch
• 14:30 - 17:00 - IPJ
  • 14:30 - 16:00 - Audio post production on Linux (Ricardo Antunes)
  • 16:00 - 16:30 - (pending talk)
  • 16:30 - 16:45 - Coffe Break
  • 16:45 - 17:30 - Birds of a Feather
    • 16:45 - 17:10 - BoF: Moonlight (Andreia Gaita)
    • 17:10 - 17:30 - BoF: Packaging with Build Service (Carlos Gonçalves)
  • 17:30 - 18:30 - Activity (suprise)
  • 18:30 - 19:30 - Ideas & Discussion ; openSUSE Install Party ; LPI Certification
• +19:30 - Castelo Branco at night

• LPI

The LPI (Linux Professional Institute) seeks to become recognized as the global leader in the certification of Linux professionals while advancing the Linux and Open Source movement through strategic partners, sponsorships, innovative programs and community development activities.

The ENOS organization has the pleasure to announce that we agreed with the LPI Master Affiliate DRI to allow interested people to certificate themselves with the LPI certification during the ENOS meeting (50% discount), which is a really good opportunity to everyone get their own LPI certification!

• Invitation

Anyone interested in attend should sign in or email eventos () opensusept () org so we can have a better idea of how many people we should expect (tip: you will not leave the event without some openSUSE goodies! ).

For more detailed and up-to-date information please see the official event page.

• The Community

• Mailing list: opensuse-pt@opensuse.org
• IRC: #opensuse-pt on irc.freenode.net
• Web: http://opensusept.org

• Thanks To

Big thanks to Associação de Informática de Castelo Branco, Novell, IPJ, and Castelo Branco City Council for the support!

Looking forward to see you there!

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ENOS 2008: a quick review

As announced on openSUSE News, ENOS 2008 took place this Saturday, September 6th at ISEP, Porto, Portugal. The event started at 10:00 am (local time) and during 1h:30m people had the opportunity to meet each other in a non formal environment, and at the same time I gave away openSUSE t-shirts, caps, lots of stickers and PromoDVDs (thanks Novell, specially to Martin Lasarsch!) to them. At 11:30 we started the two scheduled morning presentations:

• "The openSUSE 11.0 News" (Carlos Gonçalves, PDF) - as the name says, I presented the news of openSUSE 11.0, but also took the opportunity to do an overview of the openSUSE project since many of the attendance wasn't openSUSE users, and at the end random slides including information on how to get involved, how to communicate, openSUSE 11.1 roadmap, etc.


• "Migrating from Windows to Linux" (Lívio Cipriano, PDF) - a great talk by Lívio on how to migrate from Windows to Linux with good points of view and tips to easily migrate even in enterprises environments, eg: start using cross-platform software such as OpenOffice.org, Firefox, and Thunderbird and later migrate to Linux - users won't notice much difference indeed.

At 13:00 we headed to a shopping nearby to lunch and continue the informal conversation we were having before. Hot topics: openSUSE, Ubuntu, KDE, GNOME, Novell, community. Back from lunch, we had scheduled interesting and full afternoon talks:

• "YaST - a programming platform. PackgeKit and PolicyKit" (Ricardo Cruz) - it was mainly a technical talk about YaST. Ricardo showed us how simply is to create a "Hello World!" windows, buttons and some widgets. He also introduced PackageKit and PolicyKit.
  


• "Oxygen, a pillar of KDE4" (Nuno Pinheiro, PDF) - Pinheiro's main goal with this presentation was to demonstrate that Oxygen is not a KDE icons theme, but rather much more stuff than that.
  

(Coffee Break, free cookies!)

• "Qtractor, an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer" (Rui Capela, PDF) - Linux Audio hacker on his spare time Rui spoke about his audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer Qtractor application, gave audio demos using it, and highlighted some Linux Kernel Real Time 2.6.{26,27} issues as for example the time lag problem kernel-rt is facing at the moment.
  


• "Mono - introducing Mono and its features" (Andreia Gaita) - what can I say... awesome talk! Andreia presented Mono and MonoLight, what made them, developers, develop such technology, what we can do with it, etc. This talk was indeed one of the reasons to people have attended ENOS 2008.
  

After these talks we went into several discussions while some participants were doing the LPI exams and raffled (no money involved obviously) the biggest Tux I had ever seen sent kindly by Novell. Later around 19:15 many said goodbye and drove back home and a few others stayed for a bit longer where we moved to a restaurant to have dinner.

Gallery

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ENOS 2009:

ENOS 2009 already has place, Castelo Branco, and it will be organized by Associação de Informática de Castelo Branco. Anyone interested in helping us is highly welcome. I hope see you next year! ;-)

The Community:

• Mailing list: opensuse-pt@opensuse.org (subscribe)
• IRC: #opensuse-pt on irc.freenode.net
• Web: http://opensusept.org/

Big thanks to Porto Linux, ISEP, and Novell for the support!

Thanks to all attendees for participating!


P.S.: there are two presentation PDFs missing. I will add them as soon as possible.

Encontro Nacional de openSUSE 2008

The acronym ENOS stands for 'Encontro Nacional de openSUSE', a Portuguese expression which can be translated to 'National openSUSE Meeting', an event meant to unite the Portuguese openSUSE users.

The purpose of ENOS is to give an opportunity to the Portuguese openSUSE users to be together, as well as provide the participants an insight view on the latest developments on the openSUSE project and stimulate them to take an active part on the community itself.

ENOS 2008 is the second yearly edition (read about ENOS 2007 here) of the event and will be held in Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP), Porto, Portugal on September 6th.

This year we will have special guests giving some talks:

• Ricardo Cruz (YaST-GTK maintainer) will introduce us YaST and how easily is to create a module for it. PackageKit and libzypp will be be introduced.


• Andreia Gaita (Mono developer) presenting Mono open source project, sponsored by Novell.


• Rui Capela (Linux Audio hacker) will talk about his audio applications, focusing on Qtractor, an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application.

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As in last year, attendees will have the opportunity to do the LPI Certification Exams at the event with a 50% discount off by LPI Master Affiliate DRI. Email eventos@opensusept.org to sign in.

Anyone interested in attend should sign in or email eventos@opensusept.org so we can have a better idea of how many people we should expect (tip: you will not leave the event without some openSUSE goodies!).

Big thanks to Porto Linux, ISEP, and Novell for the support!

Re: openSUSE adopts Canonical's strategy to promote the project

Replying to "OpenSuse adopta estratégia da Canonical para promover o projecto" (aka "openSUSE adopts Canonical's strategy to promote the project") posted by Bruno Miguel:

The openSUSE project does this for quite long, even maybe before Ubuntu exists.
The news here is that now we have a specific page to users request them easily instead of emailing.

Just to clarify to avoid wrong conclusions about openSUSE/Novell... :-)

Linux 2008

Caixa Mágica and Sysbase for the 6th consecutive year are preparing Linux 2008, a National Open Technology Meeting event at the Auditório da Lispólis, Pólo Tecnológio de Lisboa, Telheiras, Portugal, coming up in 15 April.

Among many talks, "Linux in the low cost PC market" by Mandriva CEO François Bancilhnon, and "Debate: Definition of Open Standards and of Interoperability" by many known Portuguese and international people, including Manager Novell Portugal João Batista, would be personally the top moments of the day.

Also, there will be a short presentation about the recent decision that PSA Peugeot Citroën made for have choose SUSE Linux Enterprise for its desktop and server machines - 20,000 desktops plus 2,500 servers.


Unfortunately I will have to miss Linux 2008 due to an exam that I have to do (damn Maths!) ...