For those who have been waiting for a ‘People of openSUSE’ interview with our openSUSE Community Manager and long time Linux and open source journalist Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier since February, here you have it! Don’t stop, keep reading

Nickname:
Zonker

Homepage:
http://www.dissociatedpress.net/

Blog:
http://zonker.opensuse.org/

Favorite season:
Winter, definitely.

Motto:
Do what you love, love what you do.

 
Please introduce yourself!
I’m the openSUSE Community […]

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• Up early, J.’s mastitis rumbling on (poor dear); she slept while
  I waited for the builder. Builder never turned up, phoned him, still
  never arrived. Bother.
• Lunch, off to the Newmarket Carnival - mercifully rain-free.
  Wandered the show, paying through the nose for fairground rides for
  innumerable little people. All Saints got to the final of the tug-of-war.
  Had a beer with Chris & admired his steam roller, still going strong.

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I’m gonna start to Istanbul for GUADEC 2008 in another 2 hours. I should be there Sunday evening at Istanbul and would be staying till July 13. I’m gonna present two talks

• Evolution On disk summary
• Evolution, the Road ahead

These explains about some of the interesting things that we are working for Evolution, for GNOME 2.24 and GNOME 2.26/28. Me, Chenthil and Johnny are traveling together this time.

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Haha.nu is one of my oft-visited entertainment sites, they manage to put out a lot of fun things, nearly all family-friendly, and some are downright profound.

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As a service to our readers whose first language is other than English, I’ve added the Yahoo Translate function to the site, it’s in the sidebar right below the Categories.

All you have to do is select your preferred language and it will translate the entire page, including all current posts on that page.

Enjoy,

RossB

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I’ve been in Mont de Marsan in the last few days for the RMLL (which is actually named LSM in english). This is the biggest community event in France, so it’s quite a good place to be! On the bad side, we could have done with a more helpful weather and a better connectivity to the outside world in the boothes area, but it was still an enjoyable event in the end.

While I was the only openSUSE advocate, I was pleased to see french GNOME friends Claude (okay, he’s swiss), Fr

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