As the corporate event came to an end, the community event got underway. As SUSECon, the SUSE Linux conference concluded in Orlando, Florida, on Friday afternoon, part of the venue was taken over by the community to set up things for the second openSUSE summit.
Managing an open source community project is an art – especially when one is a for-profit company. As the examples of Oracle and the former Sun Microsystems have shown, it is not an easy proposition.