Karl-Tux-Stadt

FrOSCon has called for talks and projects a while ago. Fedora has requested a booth already but there is still some time left (9 days) for submit talks and workshops. Last year we had also an DevRoom we shared with Mageia, openSUSE and Centos where we did a schedule with talks about RPM packaging. The question is now, do we want a DevRoom again and what we can do with it. Any suggestions are welcome.

Next week from 2nd to 4th of May there will be Linuxwochen in Vienna. This event is part of a series kind of road show events in Austria touring through different cities in the country. Linuxwochen will be held in the new building of UAS Technikum Vienna and Fedora will have of course an booth there. But besides that Fedora people will deliver a lot of talks and workshops. Christoph Wickert will doing a talk about Kolab3 and an second one about spam protection with postscreen, Raphael Groner will talk about the VoiceXML framework, Rákosi Gergely will show how gaming with Fedora works, Jaroslav Reznik will talk about Fedora works and talk about the new upcoming Fedora 19, Peter Czanik will show new things in sylog-ng, Miro Hroncok will give an talk about RepRap 3D printers and deliver an workshop how to do 3D models with OpenSCAD and in a second one how to create manpages. I will also have workshops in the program on friday one about Inkscape and on saturday one for using Inkscape again and a second one about using Blender, besides that I have also 3 talks introducing Fedoras Design Suite, how Tupi can be used for animations and the third talk will be about how you can use Inkscape for preparing presentation slides. In case you are interested in the program it can be found here.  I would say that’s a lot of talks and Fedora blue will be very visible….

Last weekend 15th edition of Chemnitzer Linux-Tage happend. Of course I was there as it is an event in my home town and I had as always an workshop about Inkscape there and an talk, this year about Tupi the animation software. My workshop was with 25 people filled, not so much as in the last years but still a good result. My talks was also good visited, but I was not so happy, as my prepared files made me some trouble.

The booth was well visited, the 3D printer Miro brought was a highlight and a lot of people was interested. So it was definitely a good idea to present that feature of Fedora 19. The little Fedora chips we printed was popular.

Es ist schon eine Weile her, seit der letzte Blender-Hangout statt gefunden hat. Das liegt nicht daran, das es an Themen mangelt sondern an der Zeit. Aber jetzt geht es weiter in der Blender-Drink Serie und dieses Mal gibt es Bier.

Zeit für den Hangout ist der 23. März um 19.00 Uhr, Sprache ist wieder in Abhängigkeit von den Teilnehmern deutsch oder englisch. Wer nicht teilnehmen kann, das Ganze wird es hinterher natürlich auch wieder als Screencast geben.

Im Fall, dass ihr die Ausgabe 3 des Blender Hangout vermisst habt, nächsten Samstag den 9. Februar wird es eine weitere Ausgabe geben. Das ist dann die Nummer vier und dieses Mal wird es darum gehen ein Holzfass und ein Weinglas mit Blender zu erstellen. Das ganze findet wie gehabt bei Google+ statt und zwar um 19.00 Uhr. Sprache wird allerdings wieder englisch sein, da sich schon wieder einige internationale Gäste angemeldet haben.

Just in case you have not noticed yet, I will doing another Blender Hangout tomorrow. It is scheduled for 6pm UTC again, to fix a lot of timezones, what we try to do is this scene, you can see at the left side. So if you are interested learning a little bit about Blender just join.

Nachdem am letzten Samstag nun das zweite Blender Hangout statt gefunden hat, gibt es diesen Samstag nun die dritte Ausgabe. Dieses Mal soll diese morgentliche Szene mit einer Kaffeetasse entstehen.

Also wer Zeit und Lust hat und den Umgang mit Blender erlernen möchte ist herzlich eingeladen, diesen Samstag den 26. Januar um 19.00 Uhr bei Google+

2 weeks ago I did a Google Hangout for learning Blender and I prepared some tutorials more and this weekend the next Hangout will take place. I will do it a little bit later this time, that should be helpful for participants from the other side of the Atlantic. So it will take place this Saturday at 6pm UTC, there is a event page on Google+ for it so pleas if you are interested tell it there so that I can invite you to the hangout. As there are a lot people they like to join, I think I will do it On Air. So I will publish the URL for it on the event page as it has started.

Yesterday the Brandenburger Linux-Info-Tag or short BLIT happend. It was the 9th edition of this event and also my ninth one. I always had there talks or mostly workshops about using Inkscape and GIMP, so also in this year. This year was the first year Fedora had also a booth there, Dominic Hopf and Michael Spahn helped me with it. Logistic was really easy, Dominic brought the rollup banner which he took from the FrOSCon and also the rest of the DVD I sent them for the SFD Hamburg and I brought the table cloth and the rest of the DVD I had. Christoph Wickert sent Dominic also a WeeTab and OLPC, because he had a talk about OLPC and Fedora at the event. He also sent some cool Beefy Miracle stickers and pins. So thanks to Christoph we had really enough on the booth as I had also some stickers left. We handed out really lot DVD, my part was after the event gone and Dominic had only a few left, so it was arround 120 DVD, which is a lot for such a “small” event like BLIT. But we had also a lot of conversations on the booth.

After the lunch break I had my 2 Inkscape workshop, which was good filled with arround 15-20 people. Even I had not in booth workshops the same people, so it was a good result. After my workshops was only an hour left of the event and I had to leave as I use always a weekend ticket for travelling to that event, it takes me not longer as travelling with ICE but its cheaper and so we travel as group with the ticket as it allows to take 4 persons with you and I was back home short after half past 11pm. So it was an amazong day trip. I think I will do it next year again.

Am 23. und 24. Februar soll im mährischem Brünn eine Rakete steigen, die DevConf.cz. Die Veranstaltung richtet sich an Administratoren, fortgeschrittene Anwender und Entwickler und wird von den RedHat, Fedora und JBoss Communities ausgerichtet. Derzeit ist man allerdings auf der Suche nach dem Treibstoff um die Rakete starten lassen zu können oder anders gesagt man sucht Beiträge in Form von Vorträgen, Workshops, LightningTalks und man bietet auch Raum für Hackfests.

Wer nicht als Vortragender teilnehmen möchte, dem kann ich den Besuch dieser Veranstaltung nur empfehlen. Brünn ist ziemlich gut zu erreichen und liegt nur 2h Zug/Autofahrt von der tschechischen Hauptstadt Prag entfernt, noch näher sind die slowakische Hauptstadt Bratislava und die Hauptstadt Österreichs – Wien. Die Veranstaltung ist gut besucht rund 700 Besucher in diesem Jahr. Also wer Interesse an Themen wie oVirt, JBoss, Fedora, OpenShift und ähnlichem hat, der sollte vielleicht die Reise nach Brünn machen. Btw. das Bier in Tschechien ist bekanntlich gut und auch noch ziemlich preiswert

Nächsten Samstag, den 3. November ist es so weit, der BLIT findet wieder in Potsdam an der Universität am Griebnitzsee statt. Für mich ist es die 9te Teilnahme an dieser Veranstaltung und wie immer bin ich auch im Programm zu finden. Dieses Mal habe ich allerdings keinen Vortrag sondern nur 2 Workshops. Beides werden Inkscape Workshops sein, zuerst “Grinsen kann jeder” und dann später “Sexy Jeans“. Also eine Gelegenheit Inkscape näher kennen zu lernen. Beide Workshops haben allerdings nur 90 Minuten Dauer, was sehr knapp bemessen ist. Wer Interesse hat, ich plane wieder ein ganzes Inkscape-Wochenende, das nächste findet Ende November vom 23. -25. November 2012 statt. Den Rest des Tages wird man mich dann auf jeden Fall am Fedora Stand finden. Man sieht sich also in Potsdam….

So today was the first day with talks and workshops at the german ubucon. And I had my first talk at 1pm and after a break for one hour an 2 hours workshop. I took some Fedora 17 DVD to the ubucon and placed them next to the Ubuntu versions at the registration desk, after my workshop they was all gone and I saw also some people sitting around with an running Fedora. So they looked really at it and tested fedora. One of the results of my workshop was, that some asked me if there is an overview about projects/software for doing presentations with CSS/HTML and SVG. As I showed this time also such software. I don’t know if there is one, but I think I will write such one when I am back home. With both my talk and my workshop I can be happy with the amount of participants. Not so much like last year as I did the same talk as the opening talk on friday and the room was crowed but still enough.

After 7pm we went to the Cancun at Alexanderplatz for the social event. Was really funny because the offered beer not only in a pitcher there was also a bigger version. A la card is was 3 litre but as it arrived and we had 3 litre drunk, we calculated there there over 4 litre are in it. So it was really a bargain, because you had only the choice which beer they have to fill in and we took Duckstein which is a really good beer.  So four litre are definitly enough for three man and we had beside of that a lot of fun and interesting conversations. So now is time for the bed as I have tomorrow morning the next workshop.

Thats again a part of the year, where I have to do a lot of travel and talks/workshops on FLOSS events. In 10 days I will go to Berlin for the german Ubucon. I will be there again in Fedora blue and give an talk and 2 workshops. On the first weekend in November I will go again back to Berlin or better to Potsdam, which is nearby. This time for BLIT and there Fedora will have a booth, it’s the first time Fedora is present there with an booth. But I also will have speaking engagements on this event. I will give two lectures about Inkscape. But there will be also a Fedora related talk from Dominik Hopf, who will talk about OLPC & Fedora. Just a few days later I will go to the RedHat offices in Brno where the first Linux ColorManagement Hackfest will take place. I am happy that I found someone who is interested to work in the future on my TaxiDB idea. We will work on implementing the features Richard Hughes requested on LibreGraphicsMeeting, that gives the new guy a chance to look in the code and become familiar with it. After that I will have another full weekend workshop inhouse on 23.-25. of November. I already had one on the last weekend, I think all the participants learned a lot about Inkscape, but there are still some out there who had problems with the date, so I offer a second/third workshop. In December I plan to attend the EMEA Ambassador FAD in Rheinfelden, which will begin for me with an horrible train/car or plane ride. That place is really a damn corner of Germany, at least for me. That will be the last event this year for me (hopefully). But the good thing is thanks to many friends, I can spend the travel time now working

The last weekend the 7th edition of FrOSCon happend, and I was there for manning the Fedora booth, organizing the Fedora track and give an Inkscape workshop. For the Fedora booth was not so nice that we was to few people, especially we had also the DevRoom with an track about packaging. Nevertheless we handed out app. 200 DVD and had still a lot of conversations.

For the DevRoom, I think it was a good idea to do it with other distributions together. We should do that maybe next year again. We had app. between 15- 20 participants in the talks and workshops. More is I think only possible if we market it better and for that we should next time the program have earlier. On the Satruday evening ther was the famous Social Event the barbecue in the yard of the university. And there was a “Spherical Cow” spotted!

So we had a lot of this, what they call beer there and of course some sausages and steaks and conversations. On Sunday it was harder for Sven Lankes and Michael Spahn, because the had to handle the booth mostly alone as I had my workshop on that day. But we still managed everything. And after an horrible trip home I am back now, and can get back to work now.

P.S. we had a little collegue at our booth and he got in a mysterious way missed in the night from Saturday to Sunday. If you see the little Tux, just give notice, his owner misses him really.

There are only a few weeks and then one of the coolest FLOSS events in Germany will happen. Fedora will have an booth and an special track there. I putted the talks for the special track in the FrOSCon system now and the are published in the FrOSCon program now. We will share the room with other distributions and concentrate on the topic packaging.

• Oliver Burger will give an introduction to RPM and will also show how to package for Mageia
• Robert Scheck will introduce the Fedora packaging guidelines
• Michal Hrusecky will show how the openBuildService works and what is new on functions on it
• Ralph Angenendt will talk about how from the sources CentOS is build
• Myself will talk about Fedora EPEL and after all talks there will be enough time for learning packaging in a 3 hours workshop.

All talks and lectures will be held in German or English, depending on the audience. Except the one for OBS because Michal dont speaks German. So if you are interested in that topic step by Fedora has room C130, but you are also welcomed on the Fedora booth.

Last week I was in Berlin for LinuxTag, “Europes leading Open Source Event”. But I wasnt alone, there was other Fedorians too and I saw also some “Beefy Miracles”.

As always the event begins with the travel to it. This year I had bad luck with it. First of all I couldnt go by car so I had to take the train. And that is with all the stuff really hard, not the sitting in the train but moving it from train to train or from the station to the venue. So as I arrived I really sweated especially I had to take a long detour for the construction area  opposite the fairground. After the preparation of the booth we all went to our accommodations. The day ended for me with some beer and a little barbecue.

Wednesday is allways a day with a lot of people wearing ties so more business as community. This year there was definitly more people at this day as last year. Next to the Fedora booth was Centos and a HotDog Place, so we had some vouchers for HotDogs because we couldnt handout real Beefy Miracles. A guy named Michael Larabel found them really tasty. The wednesday ends for me tradionally on the GUUG evening. On thursday and friday the halls begun to be more crowded. Every media I brought to Berlin was gone friday evening, we had only 1 DVD left saturday morning. I used the time in Berlin also to speak with some people about the upcoming Linux Color Management Hackfest in Brno.
Saturday in the morning, I had a shift as session chair and in the same track together with Kai-Uwe Behrmann our talk “Bring Color To The Game“. The honor on this day goes to cwickert, who presented Fedora in a Beefy Miracle costume on the Projects Fast Forward and also took part for Fedora in the Distro Battle, a longer track where different Linux distributions can show, how tasks in with there distribution can be done.
I had to go this year a hour before the LinuxTag ended, for fetch my train and the travel home was again an adventure with delayed trains.

One of the good things that happend on LGM, was that Richard Hughes and Kai-Uwe Behrmann found time to speak with each other and found a way how they can work together in the future. That brought a new spirit to OpenICC and made a lot of people happy. Since then there was a lot of work on metadata key and also on some discussions about color managed printing. But this is mostly theoretical work and both like to write also code. So time to move forward there also.

There was since a long time the idea to an Hackfest on color management stuff. On LGM we had all three together also the time to speak about this topic, and we all had the feeling that would move color management on the free desktop forward. So now we made some plans and the hackfest will be in November. As you can see Kai-Uwe and also Hughsie blogged already about it.

The hackfest will be from 16th-19th of November 2012 in Brno, RedHat offices. There is already a wiki page for the hackfest. Planned is to get some experts in color management together with authors of applications, also working color managemed printing, move some browsers forward on this topic and also work on color management in toolkits. Some people from QT showed already interest.

So if you are interested, contact me or Kai-Uwe or simple join the #openicc channel on freenode.

May the 3rd was the second day of Libre Graphics Meeting and the first one of Linuxwochen Vienna. So in the foyer of the UAS Technikum opened the exhibition area and also DrupalDay.at and the first talks of Linuxwochen helped to fill the area with people. Of course there was a Fedora booth at the exhibition and it was the biggest one. I brought the table cloth and one of the rollups to Vienna, and also what was left from FOSDEM on stickers. Mizmo brought also some stickers and flyers and also some DesignSuite DVD. Zoltan brought cheatcubes, DVD and an OLPC. So the booth was well prepared. The Fedora booth was also photographed from the Der Standard and published on his online platform. As you can see not only the both was photographed, also Taticas keynote was topic. She had later an interview with Der Standard and got there own article. The topic on migration to Linux is really from interest for the people in Vienna, as the migration in that city failed and they have to spent now again every year a lot of mon€y for licenses. On the end the topic was from so much interest, that the organizers decided to give a second slot to Tatica speaking about the situation arround Open Source in Latinamerica. Together we managed the spontaneously additional talk.

On the Libre Graphics Meeting side Mizmo and Emichan had their talk: An awesome FLOSS design collaboration workflow presenting SparkleShare, Magic Mockup, GlitterGallery and DesignHub. I didnt see a lot of talks on LGM on this day, but this one I didnt miss. The day on the event ended with an traditional q/talk from q/uintessenz. The topic on that panel discussion was “Open Content, Free Culture” the guests was Pete Ippel, Ricardo Lafuente and Ana Carvalho who work together on Libre Graphics Magazin and the guy who does always Free & Open Movie Nights, I think he is called gnokii So an second additional talk at this day. We didnt went out for dinner this evening and I prepared a dinner in our appartment, “Zwiebelkuchen” and 2 nice bottle of wine.

photo by Nicu.

2 weeks ago the german event FrOSCon called for talks. FrOSCon is one of the bigger events in Germany, they have a main track with talks, an exhibition with a lot of booths, and track especially for kids called FrogLabs and another part they give away rooms for projects for ther own program also.

Last year Fedora had such an room and we prepared an whole day talk program with topics arround Fedora. Christoph Wickert organized that. As the CfP was opened I had a short conversation with Cristoph if we should do that again and I wrote a mail to the ambassadors list. To have an Fedora related track makes only sense when we have enough interesting talks in it. So we need people who want to participate in this or some clear statements if we should do it again or not. But anyway the CfP ist still open until 23rd of May and you can submit your talks also there. FrOSCon hosts this year also a PHP sub-conference with an extra program, there is also still time left for submissions.

In knapp einem Monat ist es wieder soweit, Europas größter Event rund um Linux und Open Source geht über die Bühne. Das freie Vortragsprogramm ist ja mittlerweile veröffentlicht und die Austeller stehen auch schon eine Weile fest. Ich selbst werde am Samstag um 10.30 Uhr im Saal Berlin I einen Vortrag haben, das Thema ist “Bring Color To The Game“. Den Votrag halte ich zusammen mit kai-Uwe Behrmann vom Oyranos Projekt. Der Vortrag versucht zu erklären was Color Management eigentlich ist, da sieht es bei vielen schon trüb aus und wie der derzeitige Stand innerhalb der Open Source Welt ist. Da gibt es ja so einiges an Software von ArgyllCMS, über LittleCMS, dispcalGUI, colord, Oyranos, KolorManager, Gnome-Color-Manager usw. Allein diese Woche hatte ich 3 Personen, die Gnome-Color-Manager für ein Color Management System hielten, wo es doch nur ein grafisches Frontend zur Konfiguration eines solchen ist. Es sind eine Menge Mythen und Unklarheiten zu diesem Thema unterwegs und wir hoffen, mit unserem Vortrag diese bereinigen zu können und dem Anwender zu zeigen wie er zu einem farbverwalteten Desktop kommt.