Last week we published the program of the upcoming OpenExpo on March 12/13, 2008 in Bern (list of the eight presentations in English). Our most famous guest from the FOSS community is Alan Cox, Linux kernel developer, visiting Switzerland for the first time.

A side note concerning the creation of the 32p booklet and how the open source process works in practice: This time I layouted the booklet with an own compilation of Scribus 1.3.5svn. It was not just a proof-of-concept concerning the great DTP software but also a real world test of community responsiveness: Three times I reported a minor software error through Scribus’ Bugzilla (e.g. bug 6622), getting informed that Franz Schmid submitted a patch 24h later and then downloading the new source code and recompiling the stuff - fixed! Now I’m trying to get sponsoring from /ch/open for a bounty enabling true PDF handling (scaling, croping…) - let’s see if it works till the next OpenExpo booklet creation!