Program for openSUSE Conference 2017

presented by Christian Bruckmayer

Our pre-conference party will start on Thursday (May 25) at Kater Murr around 7pm. You’ll find the Kater Murr at Johannesgasse 14, only a few minutes away from the main station.

https://kater-murr.com/

presented by Matthias Kirschner

Started in 200X the Limux was often cited as the lighthouse project for Free Software in the public administration. Since then we have regularly heard rumours about it. Have they now switched back to proprietary software again or not? Didn't they already migrate back last year? Is it a trend that public administrations aren't using Free Software anymore? Have we failed and is it time to get de...

presented by Stephan Kulow

openQA has become core part of both openSUSE and SUSE development (and beyond), but there are many myths what it actually does. This talk targets interested developers who used openQA before, but used the test API as blackbox so far.

presented by Lars Vogdt

It's time to come, sit together and work on all the different topics inside the openSUSE infrastructure. The foundation of the openSUSE Heroes during the last openSUSE Conference was just a starting point. Now it's time to get your hands dirty and see where you can help to improve the infrastructure of your favorite distribution.

We will have small lightning talks inside the workshop program...

presented by Howard Guo

This is a lightening talk and live demo of a practical VNC client made for character terminals.

The more theoretical topics of the talk will dig into the basics of VNC programming, terminal manipulation, and how to deal with terminal input quirks.

presented by Bernhard M.

last year, I talked about reproducible builds in openSUSE and this talk is meant to give an update on where we are now, in addition to another short introduction on what it is and why it is important.

size: 20-30 minutes

Last years talk: https://events.opensuse.org/conference/oSC16/program/proposal/838 Wiki page on the topic: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Reproducible_Builds Slides: ...

presented by Richard Brown

Rolling Releases are the future of Linux distributions. They are already the better solution for power users & developers. Tumbleweed is the future of Rolling Releases. The methodologies, techniques, and capabilities of Tumbleweed are opening up new doors, creating possibilities, and disrupting existing technologies beyond its borders. This session will explain how and why openSUSE Tumbleweed...

presented by Sven Seeberg

This talk provides an introduction into Ceph, a software defined storage with openSUSE. The talk is going to explain and demonstrate how Ceph distributes data over hosts, racks and other failure domains and scales with the number of available nodes. The handling of failed hardware is explained and demonstrated. The talk concentrates on the theoretical concepts and a live demonstration.

presented by Stefan Behlert

A short introduction into the plans for SLE 15. You will learn about the schedule, scope, and other details of the next major code stream for SUSE Linux enterprise products.

presented by Thorsten Kukuk

openSUSE Kubic is the SUSE Container as a Service Platform based on openSUSE Tumbleweed. In this talk, we want to present what this is, how this works, how people can get involved.

presented by Tobias Mueller

The keysigning problem helps to strengthen the Web of Trust which is the decentralised PKI in the OpenPGP world. It depends on people participating by signing other people's keys. However, when following best practises, the act of signing a key involves secure transfer of the OpenPGP key which contemporary casual key signing protocols for small groups address by exchanging the fingerprint of ...

presented by Marita

openQA is an automated testing tool, capable of full system, console, and graphical application testing. This on-hands training will give you a technical introduction on how to write testcases for an operating system. openSUSE's QA engineeers will explain step by step how to write, debug and improve testcases in openQA. <b>Requirements: Bring your own machine and make sure that openQA is in...

presented by Frederic Crozat

Last year, we presented the state of openSUSE and SLE and how we were planning to close the gap between the two projects.

This talk will go into details on how we progressed for the last year, the pro and cons and what we plan for the future.

presented by Thorsten Kukuk

Applying small updates is normally no problem in a running system. But what about if there is a new major release of your favorite Desktop? Or a major version update of your used Linux distribution? Today’s concepts are most of the time to apply the patches in the running system and risk that a running service or Desktop breaks, or apply them all by booting an installation media and wait for qu...

presented by Christian Bruckmayer

After the first day of the Conference we will meet for a BBQ in the Beer Garden.

presented by Christian Bruckmayer

After the first day of the Conference we will meet for a BBQ in the Beer Garden.

presented by Thomas S Hatch

The data center is getting bigger and more complex, and the microservice revolution is creating even more moving parts with application stacks that may contain hundreds and thousands of containers and services. How do we move beyond the old patterns of configuration management and infrastructure as code to what's required to survive in a world of distributed systems? If application developers c...

presented by Klaas Freitag

There are a couple of activities out there that make openSUSE attractive for usage in small and medium business. That goes from desktop applications such as Kraft (http://volle-kraft-voraus.de) up to a full fledged specialized server solution such as the Invis Server (http://www.invis-server.org/) that build on the openSUSE distribution.

The community around these projects came up with the i...

presented by Ana Maria Martinez Gomez

In this short talk, we will present to the community the data that we have about usage of the OBS. This data show a clear trending in the user behaviour, and is used currently to make important decisions about our future as a Free Software project.

presented by Ancor González Sosa

In this talk we will briefly explore all the mechanisms and workflows used by the YaST developers in order to share as much code as possible between all the SUSE and openSUSE distributions, while ensuring the quality of all the different YaST modules.

Learn how Rake, unit tests, Github, Jenkins, Travis, OBS and even Docker are used to deliver the developer's work to the already released prod...

presented by bgeuken

OBS provides a wide range of feature that help packagers to ship their software to their users. This talk is showing some of the key features of OBS and how they help packagers to make their life easier. For example, did you know that you can setup OBS to fetch package sources directly from GitHub and build them?

OBS is a Rails-based web application, with a perl backend, that allows users to...

presented by Simon Peter

http://speakerdeck.com/probonopd/opensuse-conference-2017-obs-b-appimage

Speakers: Simon Peter, AppImage Adrian Schröter, SUSE

Providing desktop applications to multiple Linux-based target systems (distributions) can be cumbersome. Whereas upstream application authors have always had the possibility to offer downloads for Windows and macOS, distributing packages for Linux has traditiona...

presented by Marco Varlese

NFV is a complex world made of hardware technologies and software stacks. A key component is the NFV infrastructure which provides the environment on which the Virtual Networking Functions run. The ecosystem of software/hardware for the NFVI is growing day-by-day making end-users life very difficult: Which platform to buy? Which stack to deploy? Which Virtual Networking solution should be adopt...

presented by Hernan Schmidt

There many reasons why, when it was first introduced in 2001, the original Apple iPod got so popular. Even though it was simpler, it had fewer features and it was more expensive than other MP3 players in the market, people loved it and it sold like hotcakes. The main reason for its popularity was that it was a pleasure to use: easy, fast, intuitive.

Unfortunately, compared to commercial prod...

presented by zyga

Snaps are a new packaging format that allows unmodified binaries to run across a wide variety of distributions. Snapd is the software that manages snaps on a running system. Learn about the basics of snaps, snapd and what is needed to port snapd to OpenSUSE.

Presentation: https://www.slideshare.net/zkrynicki/snaps-on-open-suse

presented by Wolfgang Engel

SUSE Package Hub is a central repository for openSUSE packages for SUSE Linux Enterprise. In this workshop you will learn and understand the basic concepts of SUSE Package Hub and how to contribute.

Since the project is based in OBS (Open Buildservice), you will also learn the process of submitting packages to Package Hub with all the rules and policies along the way.

presented by Arvin Schnell

The YaST team is currently redesigning the storage code, down from the library up to the UI. This will allow many new features, e.g. btrfs multi device support, encrypted root, bcache and whole disk usage. We will explain the new internal design allowing much more flexable setups than in the past and some of the features for end users.

presented by Marco Varlese

Performance testing is very important in various different deployments and scenarios however in the NFV (Network Function Virtualization) it is even more meaningful. With a growing umbrella of projects and hence infrastructure NFV and SDN represent a very complex environment to test and, as a result, to give the correct interpretation to figures gathered through performance testing. Is my resul...

presented by David Disseldorp

Test kernel changes in a matter of seconds using Rapido - a glorified wrapper for Dracut and QEMU.

This talk will walk through the process of taking a kernel source repository and turning it into a testable VM. For those who would like to play along on their own machine, please bring: - a laptop with openSUSE Leap or Tumbleweed installed - Kernel source (mainline master) - https://git....

presented by Emiel Brok

The new SUSE Academic Program explained! As a leading open source company, SUSE supports schools, higher learning institutions and the academic community in getting free access to our extensive experience and knowledge. Many IT-students still get trained in software stacks that are not the highest in demand by the labor market. In many cases IT-infrastructure classes are still dominated by pr...

presented by FrankKarlitschek

The privacy and the personal data on the internet are under attack by hackers and international espionage programs. It is important to keep data safe and secure to protect the privacy of the users.

Open source software like Nextcloud and openSUSE are key to provide the necessary tools to the users to protect their data and run their own infrastructure.

But to provide the expected securit...

presented by Ana Maria Martinez Gomez

The workshop will start with a short introduction of RedCore, the assembly-like programming language used in CoreWar. Then some time would be given so everybody can write its virus/warrior. And then we will organise a virus competition! If there is time enough we will organise two rounds, so you will be able to modify your first virus and give it another try.

pMARS will be used, you can down...

presented by Stefan Haas

Kubernetes is an open source project for orchestrating containerized applications. But how to containerize your workload? How to bring your containerized application into Kubernetes?

This talk will show how we transferred our application to Kubernetes. - This includes containerizing the application (based on an openSUSE docker image) - How to expose your application services via Kubernete...

presented by Andreas Färber

This talk will follow-up on the corresponding 2016 talk with an update on new ARM boards enabled in openSUSE.

presented by Jan Krupa

This talk will give you introduction to Sigfox network and show differences between Sigfox and other IoT networks. It will also demonstrate examples on how you can process collected data. Live demo will be displayed on stage.

presented by Aleix Pol

We often have the impression that while we keep working things don't seem to get solved. In this presentation we will discuss the development process, then will go over what the KDE community has been up to in terms of QA and will bring some ideas so that we can create, together, better solutions.

presented by Antonio Larrosa

This talk will explain how the KDE packages were prepared and submitted to Package Hub so SLE users could enjoy them. Missing dependencies, rpmlint complaining about valid packages, not fully available dependencies, missing branding packages... It wasn't an easy path to travel but it was worth it. This talk will explain the problems found and how they were solved with the hope to make it easier...

presented by Stephan Kulow

The Legal Review happening in the Factory development process is a black box for many, even though it's very important for keeping openSUSE away from danger. But many only know the downside of this requirement: if the review takes "too long".

This presentation is trying to shed light into the black box and show the processes and applications used. Explaining the challenges and pitfalls - and...

presented by Chris Ellis

Most software engineers use kanban boards for task management, often these are physical boards using post-it notes. These physical boards are often great for visibility and enjoyable to use. However they are very disconnected from the digital side of the software development world.

What if we could use moving physical kanban cards to update our digital systems, bridging our physical and digi...

presented by Philipp Marmet

Over a year ago we setup a public repository mirror. Until now we're officially listed as a mirror for the following distributions (https://pkg.adfinis-sygroup.ch/):

• Arch Linux
• CentOS
• Debian
• EPEL
• OpenSUSE
• Ubuntu

This talk will give an overview what is required to quickly setup a new package mirror and shows how we manage our mirror with Ansible, which automates the in...

presented by Bruno Friedmann

Whenever you are curious about how sources become an installable software in Leap without additionnal repository, or think about contributing to openSUSE project with some packaging stuff, this talk will retrace the journey of gcompris-qt package from its upstream source to the final package that will be natively available in openSUSE Leap 42.3.

I will explain in details the different steps ...

presented by Simon Lees

The packaging team at SUSE would like to run a packaging workshop to introduce people to the concepts behind packaging and OBS, while I am organizing this workshop I will be helped by other members of the packaging team. We will start with the basics then potentially move to some more advanced areas. To make the most of the workshop participants will need to bring a laptop.

We could probably...

presented by Theo Chatzimichos

Once again, the team behind the administration, support and maintenance of the openSUSE infrastructure is here to present services, machines and people, and all of the improvements after the renaming of the team on oSC16.

presented by Ladislav Slezák

This is a short introduction to the Atom text editor (https://atom.io/). The authors describe it as "A hackable text editor for the 21st Century". It is an open source editor originally developed by GitHub but with large community around.

In this talk I will describe my experience with the editor and highlight some interesting features. I will also briefly mention what the "hackable to the c...

presented by markseger

Collectl was developed over a dozen years ago as a very lightweight yet highly detailed system monitoring tool, capable of collecting hundreds system performance metrics as frequently as every second. Its companion tool colplot, provides an easy to use web-based plotting package capable of displaying detailed statistics for multiple systems at the same time. Think of colmux, a third tool, as to...

presented by Richard Brown

Containerised Application technologies like AppImage, Snappy and Flatpak promise a brave new world for Linux applications, free from the worries of shared libraries and dependency issues. Just one problem, this is a road long travelled before, such as in the application dark ages of Win32 applications and DLLs. And it worked out so wonderfully there... Do we risk a future where, like the resurr...

presented by craig gardner

DevOps is one of the Industry's great buzz words. You've heard that DevOps (or ITOps, or WhateverOps) will solve all your development-to-deployment problems and how agile processes can increase the velocity of your projects. But you also likely know that it's not a silver bullet that solves all problems. This session will discuss how DevOps helps, what the pitfalls are, and how to avoid failure...

presented by Douglas DeMaio

Like every year, the last session will be a meeting with the openSUSE Board.