Program for openSUSE Conference 2024

presented by Douglas DeMaio

Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen (“DP”) is Chief Executive Officer of SUSE and a member of the Management Board of SUSE S.A. DP will provide a short video to conference attendees.

presented by Santiago Zarate, Oliver Kurz

openQA is one of the key elements that ensures the delivery of updates and new versions of operating systems, it is the heart of openSUSE's effort to deliver stable systems for our users, and SUSE's quality gate, used to ensure that updates and new releases of the operating systems aren't breaking operations of customers; however it is growing outside openSUSE, Fedora and SUSE, expanding to oth...

presented by Marcus Meissner, Johannes Segitz

End of March 2024 we faced the biggest supply chain attack we seen so far in the Open Source Ecosystem. A dedicated attacker had launched a multi year effort to backdoor the xz compression library.

openSUSE Tumbleweed contained the backdoor for 3 whole weeks before an outside researcher found it.

We will give a report on this attack, our reaction on it and also go into some future conside...

presented by Hans de Raad

Panelists:

Brian Osborn Jeffrey McGuire Hans de Raad Jos Poortvliet Others!

In a world where open source is both a passion and a paradigm, understanding its economic imperatives and exploring adaptive business models are important for survival and success. The panel unites open source and business experts to discuss the dual themes of financial sustainability and business model divers...

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...

presented by Lubos Kocman

The very first project on the new SUSE code-base Leap Micro 6.0 is out, what's new, what was it like to put it together?

Leap 15.6 is out which implies that Leap 16.0 is entering the development phase. Let's discuss the plan, new challenges, and opportunities.

presented by livdywan

If you are neurodivergent or looked into the topics ADD and Autism, if ADHD Under The Sea or A day in the life of an ADHD Woman is relatable, this might be the session for you. This will be largely an open chat with liked-minded individuals.

I'll bring some fidget toys, talk a little...

presented by Alexandre Vicenzi

Secure boot on x86_64 is mostly taken for granted, as it is a mature feature in UEFI. When it comes to Arm, the Secure Boot implementation can differ on each platform as there's no standardization.

In this session, we will learn the general approach used by vendors to implement a complete chain of trust and how you could use it in openSUSE for your next embedded project.

presented by Luca Di Maio

With the advent of Atomic and Transactional systems like Aeon, our development workflow has to adapt to newer paradigms

One of which is the use of containers for development.

We will see a little introduction to what Aeon is, what Distrobox is, and how to cover all our use cases with it, so to feel at home, in our new containerized environment.

[Presentation link](https://github.com/u...

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...

presented by Tobias Görgens

The Steam Deck has revolutionized the gaming handheld market. With the Linux-based immutable SteamOS, Valve has fostered an active community developing mods and alternative systems for this platform. Other manufacturers distribute Windows-based mobile consoles. However, time and time again it has been shown that they lag behind Linux in terms of software support.

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presented by Johannes Segitz, Marcus Meissner, Dirk Müller

After the XZ backdoor it becomes clear that the OSS ecosystem and openSUSE project in interaction with it needs to change.

SUSE has been working on supply chain security improvements, others have too.

This workshop is meant to discuss proposed solutions or ideas from SUSE or outside and collect workable ideas for the openSUSE project.

Here's a collection of topics based on a brainstorm...

presented by Ancor González Sosa, Josef Reidinger

Agama is a new experimental installer for openSUSE and SUSE. Although it is under heavy development, it can already install openSUSE MicroOS and Tumbleweed, configuring several aspects of the system like networking and several storage technologies.

Agama supports both interactive and unattended installations and can be controlled through a modern web interface, a powerful HTTP API and a conv...

presented by Bo Maryniuk

Ultimately, packaging is the right way to distribute and run software maintenance. But at the same time, there are very good reasons why in the Embedded world, images are often before package repositories. These reasons evolved over a very long time and did not change since. A number of typical problems, such as software bloat, configuration drift, broken updates etc are unacceptable in embedde...

presented by Lubos Kocman

Let's sit together and come up with some drafts ideas for Leap 16.0 wallpaper collection and bootsplash screen. https://github.com/openSUSE/branding/issues/135

presented by jh23453

In the last years we worked hard at automating (technical) IT processes. In the talk I'll reflect what we did, what went well and what didn't work out. We now see that the next big challenges won't be the technical stuff - that's s "solved problem". We face a couple of challenges:

• Reducing manual overhead in planning/preparing
• Integration in ITSM processes especially change and inciden...

presented by Filippo Bonazzi, Denys Kondratenko

openSUSEway is a Desktop Environment based on Sway - a tiling Wayland compositor. In this talk we would like to present the state of the project, what is our vision, what tools we include and why. We will then go through the new features and improvements that were added by the community in the past couple of years, what we have learned from other si...

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...

presented by Alfonso Hernandez

Midori features by being a light, fast and secure browser but in recent years it has become the epicenter of open source and free software services, with a focus on privacy, OpenSUSE is our center for the construction and distribution of Midori.

We want to present Midori to the entire free software and OpenSUSE community as a tool for the protection of privacy, for security, also as a vehicl...

presented by Aulona Kolicaj, Rei Arifi, Fadel Dia-Eddine

Today we will talk about Linux Mirrors.

What do people use them for? Why they could use a (tiny bit) of modernization? What are the security implications? Where are we now and where do we plan to go?

We will show you what we have done to take care of these concerns, how far we’ve gotten and our vision for the road ahead.

We want to hear about everyone's opinions on what we’re doing ...

presented by Santiago Zarate

It has been a while since we have given an openQA talk and shown how test to automate tests, but a lot has changed, and openQA itself has evolved, but there is no straightforward way to start, this talk is for those who are willing to learn, but don't want to suffer the pain of the past.

We will cover: - openQA setup - Modifying one test and testsuites - Scheduling products to test - Tes...

presented by Josef Reidinger, Ancor González Sosa

The goal of this session is to foster a conversation about the new installer developed by the YaST Team and how it can fit in the future plans for openSUSE.

First, we will provide a high level view of Agama, the new experimental installer that you can see in action at a separate session at openSUSE Conference 2024.

Then we will dive into several specific topics like concrete featu...

presented by rickspencer

Rick Spencer has a passion for leading teams in the creation of amazing software. He strives to create clarity of vision, passion for quality, and user-centered decision making to both small and large software development teams. Rick is a General Manager with SUSE since January 2024. He has held positions at InfluxData, Canonical Ltd. and Microsoft.

presented by Richard Brown, Robert Sirchia

openSUSE is a project with a long proud heritage, however at it's heart we've always had a recurring problem. openSUSE is not SUSE. This session will investigate the problems that the Project and Companies shared names have caused both over the years. Assumptions will be challenged, expectations will be broken, and the session will kick off a grass roots effort from a number of community memb...

presented by Peter Czanik

Why is central logging so important? Convenience, availability and security. Convenience, as you have a single place to check instead of many. Availability, as you can check log messages, even if the sending host is unavailable. Security, as logs leave hosts as soon as they are produced, so an attacker has no chance to modify them. Developers, operators, and security have a single view of the w...

presented by Douglas DeMaio

This is a workshop to focus on what can be the next steps for updating brands. Let's use this document to go over the topic.

https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/oSC24branding

REPLACEMENT Please note that this talk replaces Preventing Data Breach for AI/DataSci Projects

presented by Dan Čermák

To ease the pain of testing container images, we've developed the pytest_container plugin for pytest. The plugin makes it possible to use pytest to perform tests on containers and software inside containers. You don't have to take care of pulling images, building them, or picking ports on the host. You just describe your co...

presented by Rudraksh Karpe

The exponentially growing AI/ML and LLMs advancements bring concerns about privacy, as there is a risk of data exposure to online LLMs service providers. Setting up LLMs in-house requires a high computational cost which is a major obstacle for businesses across various sectors such as Retail, Healthcare, Finance, etc. These industries seek to leverage the power of LLMs to drive ...

The installation process of whole compute clusters tends to be error prone and struggling work. Warewulf[1] aims to make this work more reliable and fast. This achieved by using containers to install the compute nodes.

[1] hhtps://github.com/hpcng/warewulf

https://github.com/mslacken/oSC-24

presented by David Duncan, Neal Gompa

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

presented by Lasse Fister

The Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) is an annual meeting on free and open source software for graphics. It has a history since 2006, but it suffered from the pandemic and faced the troubles of a generational shift of the organizers. This year, 2024, the first proper edition was held again in Rennes, France, to get it back on track after the 2019 edition in Saarbrücken and two online editions. Now,...

presented by Douglas DeMaio

This talk will focus on providing an update about the Geeko Foundation. It will provide people insight as to how the foundation has progressed and give a view on where it is heading.

presented by Douglas DeMaio

Meet in the beer garden for the group photo.

presented by Douglas DeMaio

Stick around for the BBQ and a bit of desert for the release of Leap 15.6. Planned for outside, but if it rains, we will be in Saal.

presented by Richard Brown

With immutable OS products like MicroOS and Aeon, openSUSE now offers a very different model of system management, one which emphasizes automation, hands-off management, and system self-care. It could be said that such products take the idea of "never touch a running system" and turn it into an operating model. This session will explore some of consequences of such a model, and encourage the s...

presented by Douglas DeMaio

This should consist of nine short 4-minute talks by users with 1 minute for handover.

Users do not need their own laptop, but instead link their resources on https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/lightning-talks-osc2024

Topics can be

a project the presenter made or uses that might be useful to other Geekos a relevant topic where you look for others to join a discussion etc

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...

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 ...

presented by Ishaan Bhimwal

Robotics stands at the forefront of technological advancement. It has had a great impact on both industries and our day-to-day lives, and with the recent advancements in AI technology, robotics will only get more important. Open source principles have been instrumental in driving progress in various fields, and it is true for robotics as well. A lot of software used in the field is open source,...

presented by Dan Čermák

Let's have a small meetup open to everyone, not limited to Fedora contributors. We'll have a chat about Fedora, contributing to Fedora or just about anything and get the opportunity to catch up with people. This is your chance to meet Fedora contributors face to face and find out who is behind that FAS nick

presented by Sunny, Yang Peng

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, ...

presented by Tobias Baader

Infinite Scale is ownCloud's new file-sharing application, rewritten in Go and designed with a scalable microservices architecture. It can run efficiently on your Raspberry Pi at home or in a large-scale Kubernetes deployment with 1M+ users.

In this talk, we’ll give you:

• An overview of the benefits and building blocks of Infinite Scale
• Real-World example: How Infinite Scale is curren...

presented by Robert Sirchia

Tech communities, like any other communities out there, face similar challenges around awareness, adoption, and management. But with open source communities we are typically designing and building software, all with the idea that if we build it they will come. However, we believe we know what our users want, because we are also users of the software that we build. But what if we build all of it...

presented by Santiago Zarate

As the project evolves, it is important to know the people we work and interact with on a regular basis.

This session wants to bring together the openQA backend developers, test engineers, community members and users of openQA to discuss ideas, bugs, improvements and so on. Newbies to openQA or any interested persons are welcome to join and share ideas, questions, etc.

presented by Bernhard M.

I want to tell about past and future challenges that I found in making the openSUSE Slowroll distribution - a derivative of Tumbleweed.

presented by Douglas DeMaio

Join us for an exciting and dynamic Open Source Panel Discussion, where the conversation and the panel itself are driven by the community!

Kick-Off by Douglas DeMaio: Douglas DeMaio will kick off the panel discussion. Douglas will start by selecting the first panelist to join him on stage. This first panelist will then select the next person to join the panel, creating a chain reaction of s...

presented by Douglas DeMaio

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