grommunio at the openSuse Conference 2026
For many years, the annual gathering of the openSUSE community has been happening in Nuremberg, in the historical Z-Bau, and this year grommunio is main sponsor!
The free community event is taking place on June 25 to June 27, with a pre-party on Wednesday, 24th in the Kater Murr – a bar run by former and currentSUSE employees and simply the place to be for Geekos whenever you’re in Nuremberg.
Full Agenda available now
Full schedule can be found here. Follow the event on their primary source of information on Mastodon to get all the latest info from the organizers!
grommunio is on the schedule twice: Our CTO Michael Kromer will present our Exchange alternative in a 30 Minute Keynote on June 25, at 10:30.
Enterprise-grade drop-in replacement for Microsoft Exchange
His talk presents grommunio as an open, enterprise-grade alternative to Microsoft Exchange, with a strong focus on the technology behind making it usable out of the box. The session will show how grommunio builds on the openSUSE ecosystem to deliver a complete collaboration appliance based on openSUSE 16.0, using KIWI to create a reproducible, maintainable, and deployable system image.
Rather than only discussing groupware features, this talk goes behind the scenes: how the appliance is assembled, how openSUSE provides the operating system foundation, and how grommunio packages email, calendaring, contacts, mobile synchronization, Evolution/Thunderbird/Outlook compatibility, and administration into an integrated enterprise experience.
How an Open Letter Saved Bavaria a Billion Euros
On Saturday, June 27, Open source advocate Markus Feilner will present his story of „How we hacked the Bavarian State with an Open Source Open letter“. An open letter can be effective: Some geeks got together and successfully kept the state of Bavaria from covertly spending a billion Euro in an extension of a Microsoft contract. The letter worked, but a lot of serendipity was necessary, and now the ministry of digital affairs is testing Linux.
Next Event with grommunio: Froscon in August
grommunio will also be at FROSCON from August 15 to 16 at the Department of Computer Science at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences. FrOSCon is one of Germany’s longest-running open-source community events.
