Program for Community Summit Berlin

2024-06-19
08:30
Simon Lees

What is openSUSE? and how does it help SUSE and its Partners?

presented by Simon Lees

This session will provide an introduction to the openSUSE Project. It will include details about how the openSUSE community works in close relationship with SUSE to provide benefits to both openSUSE's users and SUSE's Partners.

The Session will cover the following topics: * The openSUSE Community * openSUSE's Linux Distributions * openSUSE's Other Projects * How openSUSE helps SUSE and i...

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08:30 - 09:00 Room III (Community Summit) Open Source
09:00
David Duncan

Support your custom workloads on hybrid cloud environments using Kiwi

presented by David Duncan

You may not realize that customizing and building your own cloud deployments is a simple and easily managed process. In this session, we'll introduce the progress that we have made using the SUSE Project Kiwi and management tools built on the AWS Cloud Control API to drive targeted workloads like Desktop application integration and custom Deep Learning Amazon machine images. If you are interes...

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09:00 - 09:30 Room III (Community Summit) Open Source
09:30
Richard Brown

openSUSE Aeon - Desktop Linux without getting Down and Dirty
Desktop Linux without getting Down and Dirty

presented by Richard Brown

openSUSE Aeon is an exciting new take on Desktop Linux, aiming to provide Developers, Sysadmins, and general Linux enthusiasts, a fully functioning Desktop OS without the need for hands on management, tinkering, or any of the other distractions that come with 'traditional' Linux desktops. Leveraging years of experience and development in community and commercial efforts like MicroOS and SUSE L...

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09:30 - 10:00 Room III (Community Summit) Open Source
10:15
Bernhard M.

A quick overview of reproducible builds

presented by Bernhard M.

  • What is it?
  • Why do we want it?
  • Why don't we have it yet?

10:15 - 10:30 Room III (Community Summit) Open Source
10:30
Johannes Segitz

ALP and SELinux: One year later
ALP and SELinux: One year later What we did, what challenges we've seen and where we will go

presented by Johannes Segitz

With ALP we switch from AppArmor to SELinux.

This talk will discuss the current state of SELinux on ALP: - what works well - what are the challenges we've seen - what to expect in the future

This talk requires a basic understanding of SELinux

10:30 - 11:00 Room III (Community Summit) Open Source
11:00
Dominik Wombacher

Pagure CI integration with AWS CodePipeline

presented by Dominik Wombacher

Pagure is a lightweight git centered forge based on Python with a long usage history in the Fedora project. It's well known in the openSUSE project too with an instance on https://code.opensuse.org. I demonstrate in this talk the current state of the Pagure Plugin system. How I implemented AWS CodePipeline as additional CI type. And how this can serve as blueprint to optimize the Plugin system ...

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11:00 - 11:30 Room III (Community Summit) Open Source
11:30
Nuno do Carmo

From Windows to Aeon: a container journey to immutable
Can a Windows user switch not only to Linux, but an Immutable distro nonetheless?

presented by Nuno do Carmo

Follow me through the "Dante Layers" of switching from Windows to Aeon on my daily driver. We'll start in the "Always Admin" (hell) layer and will try to reach the "User only" (heaven) layer.

Luckily, Containers and Kubernetes (purgatory) can help us make the final switch have a cozy (and secure) new $HOME.

The talk will showcase the different options available to run software on Aeon an...

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11:30 - 12:00 Room III (Community Summit) Community
12:00
Markus Feilner

Open Source - a question of national security
What will you do when things go bad? Taking precautions in a failing world

presented by Markus Feilner

Climate change, wars, catastrophes, political uproar: Some things are going bad. Risk management on the higher OSI Layers has never been that important - so how well are you prepared? Is your company relying on software imports? Do you even know? do you have a clue where and how much open source software could one day be the one thing that safes your job, life, company? What is crucial for your...

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12:00 - 12:15 Room III (Community Summit) Open Source
13:00
Bernhard M.

openSUSE Slowroll

presented by Bernhard M.

This should be a short overview of the new openSUSE Slowroll distribution.

  • What is it?
  • What challenges did we solve?
  • What is left to do?

13:00 - 13:30 Room III (Community Summit) Community
13:30
Neal Gompa David Duncan

Sweetening heterogeneous Linux deployments in the Cloud with KIWI
Using KIWI to easily support multiple distributions in the Cloud

presented by David Duncan, Neal Gompa

When dealing with heterogeneous Linux deployments, a common challenge is developing a strategy to maintain customizations for various business needs (such as security settings, compliance, etc.). With the cloud, this is even more important as automation helps enable greater success for business goals. This talk will introduce the KIWI image build tool and show how to use it to effectively maint...

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13:30 - 14:00 Room III (Community Summit) Open Source
14:00
xmulligan

Buzzing across the eBPF Landscape and into the Hive
eBPF 101

presented by xmulligan

The buzz around the Linux kernel technology eBPF is growing quickly and it can be hard to know where to start or how to keep up with this technology that is reshaping our infrastructure stack. In this talk, Bill will trace how he got into eBPF, explore some of the applications leveraging eBPF today, and teach others how to dive into the hive of activity around eBPF.

People just beginning wit...

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14:00 - 14:30 Room III (Community Summit) Community
14:30
Jos Poortvliet

Another approach to Ethical AI
And no, AI won't kill us all

presented by Jos Poortvliet

Progressively, there are more and more risks associated with computer intelligence, and as a transparent software company we at Nextcloud have the responsibility to intervene and protect our users. [Microsoft laid off its entire ethics and society team](https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23638823/microsoft-ethics-society-tea...

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14:30 - 14:45 Room III (Community Summit) Community
14:45
Bernhard M.

A bit-reproducible openSUSE distribution

presented by Bernhard M.

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Reproducible_openSUSE

In openSUSE we ship binaries. I want to discuss a derivative distribution that consists of only bit-reproducible binaries, so that anyone can verify that the build-process worked correctly without corruption (accidental or malicious)

14:45 - 15:15 Room III (Community Summit) Open Source
15:30
Sunny

We are openSUSE. Asia Summit
We are openSUSE. Asia Summit

presented by Sunny

openSUSE.Asia summit started from 2014, and we will have the 10th openSUSE.Asia Summit in 2024. It will be pleasure to review the journey we went together in the past 10 years, and to share the memorable experience and achievement. We are eager to present how openSUSE.Asia summit started, what is openSUSE.Asia Summit, how we make it run under Asian culture, what is the highlight of the Summit, ...

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15:30 - 16:00 Room III (Community Summit) Community
16:00
Alfonso Hernandez

Midori a completely open and free browser
Midori is a light, fast and secure web browser that promotes and respects user privacy.

presented by Alfonso Hernandez

We are going to talk about Midori, a renowned browser that has been renewed, we are going to talk about the news, our future plans, our commitment to privacy and free software, and we are also going to talk about how we use OpenSUSE in our construction process and the integration of Midori with other applications and services.

16:00 - 16:30 Room III (Community Summit) Community
16:30
Markus Feilner

Exchange your Exchange: grommunio - an open source drop-in and so much more
Replacing 42 Exchange protocols in open source with grommunio

presented by Markus Feilner

groupware, video conferences, chat, file sync, mobile device management, archive, web office: Grommunio is much more than just an open source replacement for MS Exchange. In this talk, we will show why we did what we did and how. It's about reading more than 8000 pages of specs, starts with a Chinese programmer and is standing on the shoulder of giants: With grommunio, no changes are necessary ...

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16:30 - 17:00 Room III (Community Summit) Open Source
Unscheduled events
Patrick Fitzgerald

Everything, Everywhere, All at once: the future is coming.
From Utility to Community

presented by Patrick Fitzgerald

The age of decentralisation is coming fast - but not just for the internet. It applies just about everything we do. Are we brave enough for this new world?

Community