openSUSE community meets in The Hague
New Skies
The annual openSUSE conference in The Hague, The Netherlands, was the site for some important announcements about the future of the openSUSE project.
Figure 1: SUSE's Documentation Team lead Markus Feilner at his keynote. (C) Lars Vogt, CC BY-SA 4.0
The historic city known as The Hague is home to the International Court of Justice, the Dutch government, half a millions inhabitants, and one of the world's oldest universities. For the first week of May, The Hague also played host to the openSUSE 2015 conference [1], along with an annual summit for the Kolab groupware project [2]. Both communities showed up for some exciting discussions and plenty of big announcements.
The openSUSE conference included six tracks over four days (from May the 1st to 4th). More than 200 developers exchanged detailed technical information, as well as insights on strategic and organizational matters affecting the green chameleon's community.
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