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In this special episode, Dan and Fab interview former OpenSuse community manager Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier about leaving Novell, his plans for the future, more general Linux topics and totally unrelated stuff as well.

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Interview: Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier

We interview former OpenSuse community manager Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier about him quitting his job at Novell, his plans for the future and a lot of other general Linux topics. We talk about the role of a community manager and the responsibilities and perks involved, what else Zonker did while at Novell, the past and future direction of Suse and its community, SLED and Zonker’s views on journalism and being a writer.

Zonker is @jzb on identi.ca, if you want to follow his journalistic exploits in the future. Also check out his podcast OpenMic with Zonker on Network World.

Song: Hold On To Your Structure from the album A good Path to follow… by The Hoboscopes

The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.