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#### [Andreas Jaeger: openSUSE 11.3 Launch Party in Nürnberg](//lizards.opensuse.org/2010/07/16/opensuse-11-3-launch-party-in-nurnberg/)
"At the SUSE/Novell offices in Germany, we had a great launch party. With free beer, BBQ, sunshine, a clown and openSUSE 11.3 released, it was a great atmosphere! More than 100 people showed up: some Novell employees, some former colleagues, and also many folks whose faces I haven’t seen before. We were overwhelmed and excited by this and after an hour Michael Löffler had to buy some more meat for the BBQ. I gave a short demo about some of the highlights of openSUSE 11.3. I demonstrated GNOME 3 preview with GNOME Shell, the new tracker indexer, KDE Plasma Netbook interface, ksuseinstall, the LXDE desktop, SpiderOak and zypper."
### Welcome new Members (Corner for new acknowledged Members)
"We are pleased to announce our two new openSUSE Members [Boris Manojlovic (bmanojlovic)](https://users.opensuse.org/show/bmanojlovic) and [Jim Henderson (hendersj)](https://users.opensuse.org/show/hendersj). Boris is already contributing the openSUSE Project with helping in IRC and Packaging in the BuildService. Jim is Administrator and Moderator of forums.opensuse.org. He also wrote on Mailinglists like opensuse-project and opensuse. Thanks to both new Members for contributing us."
### Events & Meetings
Past:
* [July 6-11, 2010: Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre RMLL (Bordeaux/France)](//news.opensuse.org/2010/05/27/3345/)
* [July 07, 2010: German Wiki Team Meeting](//news.opensuse.org/2010/05/30/german-wiki-team-meeting-2/)
* [July 08, 2010: openSUSE KDE Team meeting](//news.opensuse.org/2010/05/13/%ef%bb%bfopensuse-kde-team-meeting/)
* [July 12, 2010: IRC Meeting: openSUSE in Russia](//news.opensuse.org/2010/07/12/irc-meeting-opensuse-in-russia/)
* [July 13, 2010: openSUSE Marketing Team Meeting](//news.opensuse.org/2010/07/13/opensuse-marketing-team-meeting-2/)
* [July 14, 2010: openSUSE Board Meeting](//news.opensuse.org/2010/03/24/opensuse-board-meeting/)
Upcoming:
* [July 19, 2010: Birthday of openSUSE News](//news.opensuse.org/2008/05/25/birthday-of-opensuse-news/)
* [July 21, 2010: German Wiki Team Meeting](//news.opensuse.org/2010/05/30/german-wiki-team-meeting-2/)
* [July 21-24, 2010: Fisl 11 (Porto Alegre)](//www.fisl.org.br/)
* [July 24, 2010: Hadoop Lab with openSUSE in Taiwan](//news.opensuse.org/2010/07/13/hadoop-lab-with-opensuse-in-taiwan/)
* [July 28, 2010: openSUSE Board Meeting](//news.opensuse.org/2010/03/24/opensuse-board-meeting/)
* You can find more informations on other events at:
* [openSUSE News/Events](//news.opensuse.org/category/events/) – [Local events](//en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_events)
### openSUSE for your ears
* The openSUSE Weekly News are available as Livestream or Podcast in the German Language. You can hear it or download it on [//blog.radiotux.de/podcast](//blog.radiotux.de/podcast).
### From Ambassadors
#### [Javier Llorente: Workshop at Party Quijote](//lizards.opensuse.org/2010/07/13/workshop-at-party-quijote/)
"Last weekend I went to Party Quijote, which is probably the biggest LAN party of Castile (Spain). It was organized by the regional government (Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha), local universities (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares) and other institutions (Centro de excelencia de software libre de Castilla-La Mancha, Fundación Insula Barataria, Ayuntamiento de Azuqueca de Henares). Some of its sponsors were Cisco, Telefónica, Iberdrola and Caja Castilla-La Mancha. This year Party Quijote took place in the city of Azuqueca de Henares, which is very close to Guadalajara and Madrid. For more information, take a look at Party Quijote’s website (...)"
#### [Vincent Untz: Back from Bordeaux: RMLL 2010](//www.vuntz.net/journal/post/2010/07/15/Back-from-Bordeaux:-RMLL-2010)
"At the end of last week (assuming it's okay to say that the end of the week starts on Wednesday ;-)), I went to Bordeaux for the RMLL 2010: this is simply the biggest community-oriented event in France. Since I've been traveling often lately and I'm going to leave for GUADEC later this month, I chose to not attend the whole event and to only be there for 3-4 days instead of the full 6 days experience. Booths The Mandriva people had a really great idea this year: they proposed to try to share a booth among distributions, and thanks to them, we were able to have an openSUSE presence on the first few days. So walking down the hall where all the booths were, you could see Debian, Fedora, Mandriva and openSUSE all together. Of course, we shared more than just the booths: we're all friendly people after all, so we chatted a lot and enjoyed being together. I really want to thank Michael from Mandriva for pushing me to make sure openSUSE would have a place here. (...)"
### openSUSE in $COUNTRY
"Details"
### Communication
* [The mail lists](//lists.opensuse.org/) have: 37606 (+64) subscribers.
* [The openSUSE Forums](//forums.opensuse.org/)] have:
* 47766 (+359) registered users
* The most users ever online was 30559, 08-Jan-2010 at 13:06.
### Contributors
* 4815 (+53) of 12274 (+87) registered contributors in the User Directory have signed the Guiding Principles. The board has acknowledged 429 (+2) [members](//en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Members).
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://news.opensuse.org/2010/07/18/opensuse-weekly-news-issue-132-it-out/