Gentoo Miniconf 2012: Bootstrapping Awesome!
Gentoo Miniconf 2012 (the first ever!) will be held in Prague, the beautiful capital of the Czech Republic, during the weekend from October 20 to October 21. The Miniconf will be joined by no less than three other events! The local LinuxDays, a newly created event to replace the largest Czech Free Software event, the 4th annual openSUSE Conference and the 14th SUSE Labs conference. Having so many projects and people in one place, an environment full of fun and creativity, a place where ideas become reality and new friends are made, will be created! You can check out all the other co-hosted events from our common landing page and make some new friends ;-) The Miniconf conference will take place at the Czech Technical University, which runs Gentoo on all its servers and desktop machines! For more information about the venue, check the website of LinuxDays conference. Hope to see you all in Prague in October!! The theme of the conference is Bootstrapping Awesome! It has a special meaning for each of the four conferences that are going to be co-hosted. It's the first time that the openSUSE conference will be held in another city (previous ones have all been held in Nurnberg), but it also means the 'bootstrapping' for our Gentoo Miniconf and the LinuxDays Conference! The Call for Papers has ended and the schedule is now up for the four in one event that is gonna take place soon in Prague. The full schedule of all the co-hosted conferences can be found here, and the Miniconf's one along with the speakers can be found also here! Don't forget to register! Gentoo Miniconf: It will take place on Saturday and Sunday with a plethora of amazing talks by experienced Developers and Contributors, all around Gentoo, targeting both desktop and server environments! On Saturday morning Fabian Groffen, Gentoo Council member, along with Robin H. Johnson, member of the Board of Trustees, will give us a quick view of how those two highest authorities manage the whole project. Afterwards there are going to be a few talks regarding various topics, like managing your home directory, the KDE team workflow, the important topic of Security and a benchmarking suite, all performed by important people for the project. A cool Catalyst workshop will be next, followed by a workshop regarding Gentoo Prefix, and at the end we're going to participate on BoFs regarding the Infrastructure and the Gentoo PR, which will cover hot topics, like the Git migration and our website. On Sunday we'll see how a large company (IsoHunt) uses Gentoo, the tools it has developed and the problems it has encountered. Then, a cool talk about 3D games and graphic performance is going to take place, followed by a presentation on SHA1 and OpenPGP, which is the precursor of the Key Signing Party!! The second part of the Catalyst workshop is next, along with a Puppet workshop. At the end there are again two BoFs, the first about automated testing and the second about how we can grab more contributors and enlarge our cool project. You can and you should register for attending the Gentoo Miniconf and other conferences. Although registration is optional, it will help us estimate number of people coming and will get you some benefits as well. There is only one registration for all conferences and you can register for free but there are also other registration options that will let you support conferences financially. Why register? Even with free registration you’ll get a badge with your name and bag full of swag. Among other things, bag will contain plush openSUSE chameleon called Geeko. Next option is supporters registration which costs €40. In comparison to free registration, you will get on top of everything unique gift (details of this gifts are highly classified and meant as a surprise) and opportunity to attend VIP dinner at Sunday evening with speakers and organizers. Last option is registration as professional. Professionals will get on top of everything previously mentioned opportunity to attend feedback session with SUSE executive management team. For those who will ask (independent of type of registration), organizers will try to provide possibility to buy a lunch nearby. So if you don’t want to be hungry during the conference, you can do something about it Hotel Krystal was selected as the conference hotel. It’s situated near the conference venue, it can accommodate many people, and it’s easy to find. All the information you need is in linuxdays accommodation page. In there you will find the prices, reservation instructions, the map of the area and public transportation instructions. 5. Facebook and Google+ events We will once again need the help of the community in various areas. If you think you can help in any of the following, please contact Theo Chatzimichos.
Call for papers for the Gentoo Miniconf has started! You can submit your proposals here. Type of proposals we are looking for The Miniconf is a perfect opportunity to hack together. Thus, we will try to lean on technical topics mostly, and workshops about packaging, ebuild hacking or other Gentoo related projects. Of course non-technical topics are welcome as well. So if you’re unsure if your idea fits our conference, let us decide that for you – just send it in! Each conference will have their own Call for Papers. However, the CfP teams will collaborate to ensure there is no overlap and that sessions relevant for multiple audiences are planned in the right spot. It is therefor appreciated if you properly select if your proposal also has relevance for the other communities; and what level (beginner-intermediate-expert) it has; and what languages you’d prefer to give the session in.
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