Back in July 2017 I wrote a blog post, published by Codethink, explaining why is a good business to support community driven FOSS events. This post is related to that one. I will be attending to Akademy 2018. It will take place in Vienna, Austria, from August 11th to 17th. I will be there representing … Continue reading Codethink is sponsoring Akademy 2018 and I am attending.
Category: opensuse
openSUSE transformation step 2. The user oriented distro.
openSUSE Tumbleweed is a rolling release that was designed with a clear goal, target and metric. It was developed following a clear picture of where to go. Design it was a painful but unavoidable process that challenged an assumption established in many people mindset back in 2012. Latest/greatest and stability were incompatible. Hence, Factory, the … Continue reading openSUSE transformation step 2. The user oriented distro.
Team blog: more than just a blog.
Motivations Creating high quality contents takes time. A lot of people write nowadays but very few are writers. In the software industry, most of those who write very well are in the marketing side not on the technical side. The impact of high quality contents is very high over time. Engineers and other profiles related … Continue reading Team blog: more than just a blog.
First weeks al Linaro and other things
I few weeks ago I announced I was joining Linaro. I work there as Director of Core Development Group. I moved from Prague to Cambridge (the original), that is, from continental to oceanic climate. From dry, cold in winter and hot in summer to wet, soft in summer and above zero most of the winter. … Continue reading First weeks al Linaro and other things
Sponsored vs supported
Probably the most relevant non technical action that a community executes is events. Most mature communities organize one or several big events in different part of the world with different goals, but one of them is common in every single case: engagement needs face to face relations. We are humans....after all.In order to organize these … Continue reading Sponsored vs supported
Closing doors
Yesterday was my last day as KDE e.V. Board Member. As you know I have been the KDE Treasurer since April 2012. I will keep being part of the Financial Working Group so I will be able to help my successor during the landing process and in the future. I still have some leftovers to … Continue reading Closing doors
openSUSE 2016: taking a picture of openSUSE today
As some of you know, the openSUSE Team at SUSE is publishing a series of proposals to the openSUSE community in several key areas of the project. The first of those mails tried to provide a general picture of the project based, among other sources, on the data mining done during these past few months. Many … Continue reading openSUSE 2016: taking a picture of openSUSE today
Summary about what the openSUSE Team @ SUSE is doing
openSUSE 13.1 is about to be Released (Nov. 19th) and I would like to share what the team I am part of is doing.I joined SUSE in June 2012, almost 18 months ago. I haven't written much about anything during this time. And it haven't been because I hadn't time, but because I haven't have … Continue reading Summary about what the openSUSE Team @ SUSE is doing
Abierto el plazo para la presentación de candidaturas para la celebración de la openSUSE Conference 2015.
La comunidad openSUSE celebra cada año un evento en el que los principales contribuidores participan en charlas y talleres junto a interesados y profesionales. Al tratarse de una distribución, la lista de temas que se tocan es muy amplia, desde administración de sistemas hasta aplicaciones web, pasando por empaquetado, marketing, hardware, traducción y, por supuesto, … Continue reading Abierto el plazo para la presentación de candidaturas para la celebración de la openSUSE Conference 2015.
Insides about the new openSUSE Team at SUSE blog
Yesterday we created a new blog [1]to communicate to our community and readers what do we do as a team within the openSUSE project. It is a collective effort and it will be part of our duties to create and publish contents for it.Its main goal is to talk about what we do so in … Continue reading Insides about the new openSUSE Team at SUSE blog