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Gnome3 launch party @ Zürich report

Bruno Friedmann — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 17:22:42 +0000

Gnome3 launch party in Zürich, April 8th 2011

ETHZ building

A group of 20 people met in ETHZ F26.3 room Friday afternoon (3pm to 7pm). To assist the Gnome 3 Launch party. We were expecting more people, but a so sunny weather, and a Monday off in Zürich doesn’t help to keep people inside after a long winter.

Marcus Moeller showed us a deep overview of the whole Gnome 3 desktop, with the strength and weakness (non yet finished features or controversial ones).

Then there’s some talks about features, what will happen unity/ubuntu/gnome etc …

On my side I did a late presentation about what’s openSUSE project is, and its associated SUPER COOL tools like OBS and susestudio.
It was supposed to last 15 minutes long. I was asked only Tuesday night to do it! But in fact we spend more than half an hour demoing obs and susestudio. Really was cool to do.

A special thanks to Biju Gopi Thilaka for setting up that party.

Biju Gopi was kind enough to share his slides with us, so keep reading …

Gnome3 resources

Go to gnome3.org website, to get a idea about the new features, you can eventually get the live cd (an openSUSE 11.4 32/64 bits) is proposed and a 32bits fedora latest

I (with the help of Izabele Valverde in fact) also found this videos series on you tube.

GNOME 3: Deeper Hardware Integration

GNOME 3: App-based Window Management

GNOME 3: Accessing Apps Quickly

GNOME 3: Fewer Interruptions

GNOME 3: Creating a Workspace

GNOME 3: Working with Windows

That’s all folks for this openSUSE Ambassador report

Nota : just a word to my KDE’s relatives, no I didn’t nor will change my desktop. Gnome 3 looks pleasant but miss some keys features I need, and have under kde4

Gnome 3 Launch Party Friday 8th April in Zürich Join us!

Bruno Friedmann — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 06:48:22 +0000

Gnome 3

Wake up ! it’s today ! Happy celebration

Learn a bit more about Gnome 3 : gnome3.org

Launch party in Zürich

If you can join the Launch Party in Zürich Friday 8th April 2011, 15h00 to 19h00

Deeper informations : visit the info page, or read the full invitation letter

Don’t hesitate to join!

Remember Zürich is less than one hour flight away from any major city in Europe, and well desserve by train. Weather will be nice and warm. So you didn’t have an excuse to not come!

I will talk about openSUSE, and how to get Gnome3 in it, I really will be happy if any other geekos around could come and join

Virtual Party it’s now ! Eat my geeko’s cake

Bruno Friedmann — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:49:52 +0000

Virtual Party Geeko's cake

Just a reminder the first virtual party just start now for the next two hours !

Did you have the appétit for coming eating a piece of our huge cake ?
We just start with pleasant music, DJ Ariella (one of our Australian DJ) wakes up early to animate the show !

The dancing ballons

Don’t be shine, let’s roll you avatar, we have geeko’s t-shirts to wear, and balloons too !
A cup of wine, a beer, just enjoy partying our 11.4 release !

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