Program for Early Adopter Tech Summit 2025

presented by Cédric Bosdonnat

Summer of Code is a program organized by Google to help people contribute to open source projects. Started in 2005 it originally targeted students and has been opened to every one who never contributed to open source.

Have you ever wondered how are project ideas, mentors or contributors selected? What we ask mentors to do? How to apply as a contributor? This session cast some light on these ...

presented by Patrick Fitzgerald

The internet provided the vision of the future, but the market drives consumers towards a hub & spoke model. The future will need to be decentralised: in computing, finance, energy and more. This presentation will attempt to outline the risks and benefits this potential future, vs the risks of the present.

presented by Bryan Gartner

On an installed Linux system, utilize performance test cases from available suites to evaluate desired functionality, similar to the workloads being used, plus then also continually and regularly apply patch updates and then compare to the previous functionality outcomes to assess if things are working faster or perhaps slower. This can be done on other systems even outside of your production o...

presented by Douglas DeMaio

Join us for a raffle from one of our sponsors and get a chance to win a free annual Personal subscription to a JetBrains IDE of your choice! JetBrains will provide a voucher for the prize, and the winner simply needs to sign up to redeem it.

presented by David Duncan, Neal Gompa

This session focuses on developing a streamlined desktop appliance using openSUSE Leap, Amazon DCV, KDE Desktop, and the Kiwi image builder, designed for application streaming environments.

Attendees will explore:

• Streaming-Optimized Desktop: Configuring KDE Desktop for user environments.
• Architecture Overview: Design and deployment in cloud-based desktop delivery.
• openSUSE Leap: ...

presented by Ram Mohan Rao Chukka

No one wants to be responsible for breaking the build. But what can you do as a developer to avoid being the bad guy? How can project leads enable their teams to reduce the occurrence of broken builds? In talking within our own teams, we discovered that many developers weren’t running sufficient integration and End to End tests in their local environments because it’s too difficult to set up a...

presented by Ram Mohan Rao Chukka

This session explores the utilization of parallelism and rolling updates within Ansible playbooks to expedite deployment processes and facilitate faster releases. As organizations strive for agility and efficiency in their software delivery pipelines, optimizing deployment strategies becomes crucial. By leveraging Ansible's parallel execution capabilities and implementing rolling updates, teams...

presented by Johannes Segitz

General security recommendations for (not only) openSUSE developers. This includes specific recommendations on how to package software in a more secure ways and how to create a developer setup that is secure. For this we will shed some light on the specific challenges and quirks of the tool chains we use and how they relate to security.

REPLACEMENT Please note that this talk replaces Paint it Green, automate migrations to openSUSE Leap with Uyuni on AWS

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 and...

presented by Bryan Gartner

Creating the automation and the functionality of a self-used L0 support approach to trigger, access, collect, evaluate, analyze and provide notifications and guidance for the used system even with a personal data pipeline for more systems towards the ability to an initial support request if needed.

In general this is like a simplistic AIOps/ITOps edge-core workflow to address next-step guida...

presented by Ann Davis, Rudraksh Karpe, Bryan Gartner, Terry Smith

The openSUSE Project has been participating in the Google Summer of Code program for a while now, building its legacy in the open-source space. Analytics Edge Ecosystem Workloads (AEEW) with SUSE Rancher is one of the awesome projects under the openSUSE project umbrella, started back in 2022. Initially, the project began with motivation to process the data locally leveraging the Edge Ecosystem ...

presented by Douglas DeMaio

Open-source software and methodologies have reshaped the modern economic landscape, creating a more collaborative, innovative, and equitable environment for businesses, governments, and individuals alike. From Linux distributions to blockchain networks, the economic impact of open-source is profound and far-reaching.

This talk explores how open-source software and methodologies are transfor...