Events: LibreOffice in Romania, DebConf23, OpenInfra Summit, OpenSouthCode
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Learn about LibreOffice development at our upcoming conference!
The LibreOffice Conference 2023 is coming up in September in Romania - and everyone is welcome to join! The organisers have created a poster with details about a workshop at the event: We invite you to a technical workshop that will teach you about LibreOffice development and Open Source in general.
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Bits from Debian: Registration and the Call for Proposals for DebConf23 are now open!
For DebConf23, we're pleased to announce opening of registration and call for proposal. Following is the info text -
Registration and the Call for Proposals for DebConf23 are now open. The 24th edition of the Debian annual conference will be held from September 10th to September 17th, 2023, in Infopark, Kochi, India. The main conference will be preceded by DebCamp, which will take place from September 3rd to September 9th, 2023.
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Canonical extends its commercial OpenStack offering to small-scale cloud environments with project Sunbeam
June 13, Vancouver, OpenInfra Summit – Canonical today announced the extension of its commercial OpenStack offering to small-scale cloud environments with a new project Sunbeam. The project is 100% open source and is available free-of-charge. Early adopters can also opt-in for comprehensive security coverage and full commercial support under the Ubuntu Pro + Support subscriptions once they complete the deployment themselves. This enables organisations to modernise their small-scale, legacy IT estates and easily transition from proprietary solutions to OpenStack, without an expensive professional services engagement.
“Historically, commercial OpenStack deployments always used to come through paid consulting engagements and no vendor was an exception here”, said Tytus Kurek, Product Manager at Canonical. “In line with our mission to amplify open source, we are committed to delivering a production-grade platform to the community that everyone could just deploy themselves. Sunbeam emerged to remove numerous barriers around the initial adoption of OpenStack and is just the first step towards an autonomous private cloud.”
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OpenSouthCode 2023: my experience
As many of you are already noticing, Málaga is becoming an important hub is Spain for innovation in general and software in particular. Open Source has its place and events like OpenSouthCode are getting traction carried out by this trend. In addition, the organisers of this event have a clear view of what the event should look like. Having FOSDEM as reference, OpenSouthCode is moving from being a local event of reference into a national event. This process will take a few years to consolidate but this first step in 2023 has been remarkable.
This year OpenSouthCode has been bigger and better. A few sponsors supported the event and added to that support their presence through booths where they could interact with participants in a very relaxed atmosphere.
KDE had a relevant participation too. KDE Spain took the decision to organise Akademy-es,, the event in Spanish for KDE developers and users so, in addition to a booth, a full track with KDE related topics was organised as part of OpenSouthCode.