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Submit your proposals for LinuxTag now!

mjung — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:35:33 +0000

Although LinuxTag is about five months away, you should consider submitting your proposal for a presentation about your favourite Open Source project.

The program committee for the 15th LinuxTag is seeking exciting and suitable proposals for the lecture program on topics including, but not limited to, the following: Open hardware, Software and development, Application examples and case studies, Free software in education, research, and administration, Collaboration among several projects and initiatives, and Cool New Inventions and Experiments (CNIE). In addition, LinuxTag has chosen three core themes for its 2009 conference program. The program committee is seeking proposals on these themes in particular: Mobility, Processes, and Responsibility

Interested speakers are asked to submit their papers until February 8th, 2009. After this deadline it’s unlikely that proposals are accepted. Find the terms and conditions of the Call for Papers at LinuxTag’s website or download a nice formatted print version (PDF).

I follow the frog!

mjung — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:15:56 +0000

This weekend will be the third edition of one of my favourite conferences in Germany: FrOSCon.

FrOSCon is a two day conference on Free Software and Open Source, taking place for the third time on August, 23rd/24th 2008 at the Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin near the cities of Bonn and Cologne.

I was asked to give a presentation on my research I am doing for my thesis. Please join me on Sunday at 11:15 in lecture room HS5 on my talk “Who can you trust - a trust metric for the openSUSE build service”. I will present my concept for integrating a community contributed user rating into the OBS to support collaboration and improve security in this distributed package building system.

Besides this you can find me most of the time at the openSUSE community booth in the exhibition area. I am looking forward to see you there!

Update: many LinuxTag core team members will be around. As far as I know you also can meet Elke, Florian, Guido, Michael, Oliver and Wolfgang this weekend in Sankt Augustin.

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mjung — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:44:35 +0000

Friends and readers of this blog: what should I say: please add me to your blogroll or set a similar link to blog.markojung.net.

Thanks!

Lazy service

mjung — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:38:18 +0000

What happenes if the service at my favourite beergarden is lazy and my colleagues are in the right mood to start playing around?

I proudly present the first proove that the Bieramyde is not only a mysterious tale:

Picture credits: Martin ‘notlocalhorst’ Lasarsch

Mobile blogging…

mjung — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:21:00 +0000

This short entry is just a test. Hopefully I will now also be able to blog using my new gadget.

The next full post is already in the queue…

Hello world ;-)

mjung — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:00:45 +0000

I thought I would never start blogging, but here it is: my first weblog where I try to write more or less regulary some notes on funny or interesting things I encounter.

First I will start a new series: migrating Marko (from Debian and Ubuntu) to openSUSE. I started a new job as working student for SUSE Linux Products GmbH where I got an exciting research topic for writing my thesis. Even I started using Linux with SUSE (I think it was around version 11/95) I switched starting with my employment at the MPII to Debian GNU/Linux in 1999. Because I am a creature of habit I have since them rarely used SUSE. But I think it is a extremely interesting experiment to switch to a totally different distribution, not like trying Ubuntu instead of Debian.

Let us see where it ends…