Program for openSUSE Virtual Conference 2021
Authentication with Kanidm
IDM above the Sea
presented by William Brown
Authentication and Identity Management are at the core of our systems security. Everyday we all authenticate to many systems, from out phones and laptops, to websites, servers and much more.
Kanidm is a new opensource IDM system that is developing rapidly, and promises many new features previously only found in cloud and identity as a service platforms. This includes webauthn, claims, ssh ma...
more 08:00 - 08:45 Stage 2 New Technologies
Live: Using Jack and Open Broadcast Studio to improve your Calls / Talks / Streams
presented by Simon Lees
In a world of online meetings and conferences there are many things we can't do at the moment, at the same time however we are doing far more online.
So what can we do to make our experiences better whether its video conferencing, preparing talks, podcasting or recording youtube videos.
At the same time this conferences format being online provides me with the ideal environment to talk ...
more 08:00 - 08:45 Stage 1 openSUSE
*sing* %post and %pre and securiteeee
How not to get a CVE assigned while packaging
presented by Johannes Segitz
The SUSE security team often finds security issues specific to the rpm packaging of applications. This talk show you some of the findings and will give you recommendations on how to avoid creating CVEs while packaging software
09:00 - 09:30 Stage 1 openSUSE
MicroOS Desktop
Ready For Prime Time
presented by Dario Faggioli
Following a talk at oSC 2019 a small group of openSUSE community members started working on a desktop distribution that could be very easy to maintain, that not only updates itself but also repairs itself, with a base system that is always up to date with the latest upstream development and on top of which users will be able to install and use whatever apps they want.
This is the openSUSE Mi...
more 09:00 - 10:00 Workshop New Technologies
openSUSE on Arm
presented by Guillaume Gardet
This talk will cover the past year for openSUSE on Arm, mainly focused on AArch64, but it will also cover armv7 and armv6. At the end, we will have a quick look at the future and where the community could help.
09:30 - 10:00 Stage 1 Embedded Systems and Edge Computing
Break
presented by Douglas DeMaio
Stick around an socialize. Meet in the Hallway or visit the https://meet.opensuse.org/bar
10:00 - 11:00 Stage 2 Break
Break
presented by Douglas DeMaio
Stick around an socialize. Meet in the Hallway or visit the https://play.workadventu.re/@/opensuse/conference/social
10:00 - 11:00 Stage 1 Break
Uyuni - The movie
Where are we and what's next
presented by Pau Garcia Quiles
Brief introduction to Uyuni from the user point of view (how Uyuni helps in your day to day), rather than from the product features point of view.
Uyuni is a software-defined infrastructure and configuration management solution. You can use it to bootstrap physical servers, deploy and update packages and patches -even with content lifecycle management features- create VMs for virtualization ...
more 11:00 - 11:45 Stage 2 openSUSE
Security alerting made easy using Python
Sending real-time notifications to Discord and other services
presented by Peter Czanik
A common question about sudo and syslog-ng is how to send alerts to various online services. Both of these have supported sending email notifications for a long time, but more recently users have requested real-time alerting to Slack, Telegram, Discord and others. Peter’s talk will introduce you to alerting using the AppRise Python library. You will need to know a bit of Python and at least one...
more 11:00 - 11:30 Stage 1 New Technologies
"Public Money? Public Code!"
A campaign framework to promote software freedom
presented by bonnie
Do you want to promote Free Software in public administrations? Then the campaign framework of "Public Money? Public Code!" might be the right choice for you; no matter if you want to do it as an individual or as a group; if you have a small or large time budget.
More than 200 organisations, and more than 29,000 individuals demand that publicly financed software should be made publicly avai...
more 12:00 - 12:30 Stage 2 Open Source
Break (30 Minutes)
presented by Douglas DeMaio
Stick around an socialize. Meet in the Hallway or visit the https://meet.opensuse.org/bar
12:30 - 13:00 Stage 2 Break
Break (30 Minutes)
presented by Douglas DeMaio
Stick around an socialize. Meet in the Hallway or visit the https://meet.opensuse.org/bar
12:30 - 13:00 Stage 1 Break
Public Cloud Watcher
presented by asmorodskyi
In this presentation I would like to talk about Public Cloud Watcher https://github.com/SUSE/pcw. Tool used by SUSE SLE QE team to monitor Public Cloud providers ( Azure , AWS , GCE ) for testing leftovers and delete them. I will describe: 1. tool itself ( internal architecture and features it provides ) 2. how we maintain running instance of PCW ( it is deployed in 3 docker containers mai...
more 13:00 - 13:30 Stage 1 Cloud and Containers
Live: Getting your changes to SUSE Linux Enterprise and Leap
presented by Lubos Kocman
What needs to happen to get your change into SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 and related openSUSE Leap.
13:00 - 14:00 Stage 2 openSUSE
How do I get my package tested with openQA?
presented by Cris Dywan, Dan Čermák, Santiago Zarate, Oliver Kurz
In this workshop we'll be looking to discuss questions around how openQA is used with openSUSE beyond, including aspects like
- Is my favorite package tested with openQA?
- What do test results mean and how do I check them?
- How can I add an openQA test?
We'll also look at questions from participants. Wether you're totally new to openQA or already have some experience you can bring up ...
more 14:00 - 15:00 Workshop Open Source
The path to sweeter image builds with KIWI
How Datto uses KIWI to simplify building appliance images
presented by Neal Gompa
One of the more heavily underrated openSUSE projects is the KIWI image builder. In the last few years, Datto has started using KIWI to replace the patchwork of custom image build tools to provide a consistent toolchain for producing various appliance images.
This talk introduces the KIWI appliance image builder, outlines some of Datto's ...
more 14:00 - 14:45 Stage 1 Cloud and Containers
Break (30 Minutes)
presented by Douglas DeMaio
Stick around an socialize. Meet in the Hallway or visit the https://meet.opensuse.org/bar
15:00 - 15:30 Stage 1 Break
Break (30 Minutes)
presented by Douglas DeMaio
Stick around an socialize. Meet in the Hallway or visit the https://meet.opensuse.org/bar
15:00 - 15:30 Stage 2 Break
Live: Keynote by Alex Lee and Zlatan Todoric from shells.com
presented by alexlee, zlatan
Alex Lee is the Chief Executive Officer at Shells. Shells' mission is to bring powerful computing to classrooms and homes across the World, removing barriers to the tools necessary to provide aspiration to the next generation of innovators.
15:30 - 16:00 Stage 1 Open Source
Keynote by Sheng Liang from SUSE
presented by Douglas DeMaio
Sheng Liang is the President of Engineering & Innovation for SUSE and is the Co-Founder of Rancher Labs. He has a PhD from Yale University in Computer Science and did his undergraduate degree at the University of Science and Technology of China.
16:00 - 16:30 Stage 1 Open Source
Fedora Community Outreach Revamp
presented by marianab
The Fedora Project has been a diverse project since its advent. Fedora has been shipping Workstations, Servers, Cloud, and IoT operating systems as well as many more amazing things to engage developers, users, and innovators worldwide. In earlier years, Fedora outreach was primarily executed by a group of people referred to as Fedora Ambassadors. The Ambassador Program has had many success stor...
more 16:30 - 17:00 Stage 2 Open Source
Break
presented by Douglas DeMaio
Stick around an socialize. Meet in the Hallway or visit the https://meet.opensuse.org/bar
17:00 - 18:00 Stage 1 Break
Break
presented by Douglas DeMaio
Stick around an socialize. Meet in the Hallway or visit the https://play.workadventu.re/@/opensuse/conference/social
17:00 - 18:00 Stage 2 Break
Live: Cross Collaboration Panel
How projects work together and improve open source together.
presented by Douglas DeMaio
This open-source community panel will discuss cross collaboration between projects. It will offer a Q&A session. Moderator will be ddemaio
18:00 - 19:00 Stage 1 Open Source
Multimedia inside openSUSE
music and video with openSUSE Leap
presented by Ivo Grimaldi
Use some multimedia programs to create a professional video. Also explain how professional streaming can be done with remote direction. Some multimedia programs: Audacity, Qsynt, zyn-fusion jack for audio Obs-Studio, kdenlive, inkscape, gimp video image / video
19:00 - 20:00 Workshop openSUSE
Confidential Virtual Machines with AMD SEV-ES and openSUSE Tumbleweed
presented by joro
openSUSE Tumbleweed recently gained full support for running encrypted virtual machines using the AMD SEV-ES technology. This talk will give an overview of Confidential Computing and SEV-ES and shows how users can start and experiment with encrypted virtual machines today on openSUSE Tumbleweed and Leap 15.3.
19:00 - 19:30 Stage 2 New Technologies
Live: Rescue and renew a project
How to get legacy open source projects unstuck
presented by Sumana Harihareswara
You depend on scores of open source applications, frameworks, and libraries. One hasn't released for years. Another is struggling with a big rewrite or a difficult maintainer.
How do you get a legacy OSS project unstuck? Especially if you don't already maintain it? I've done it and I'll share how.
I've helped get several OSS projects unstuck. I'll share success stories (one only took 15 h...
more 19:30 - 20:00 Stage 2 Open Source
Game Night
presented by Douglas DeMaio
Join us for some gaming. We plan to have games Urban Terror and SuperTuxCart. Get the info for the games at https://en.opensuse.org/UT
20:00 - 21:00 Workshop
openSUSE on the Mainframe
The Future of community distributions on IBM Z
presented by Sarah Julia Kriesch
openSUSE Tumbleweed is available for the s390x architecture again. openSUSE Leap exists as the first version for IBM Z, too. What will we continue? In this presentation, you will hear the background of openSUSE on Z and what is planned for the future in the next steps.
08:00 - 08:30 Stage 1 openSUSE
Enabling new client operating systems in Uyuni
How difficult can it be
presented by Pau Garcia Quiles, Jack Aboutboul
When Uyuni started, it only supported SLES and RHEL as clients. In late 2018, Ubuntu was added. From there, it all went uphill: SLES Expanded Support, openSUSE, CentOS, Oracle Linux, Debian, Alma Linux, Amazon Linux, Alibaba Cloud Linux and Rocky Linux. As of today, Uyuni supports all the major enterprise Linux distributions. How difficult was that? Pau Garcia from Uyuni and Jack Aboutboul from...
more 08:00 - 08:30 Stage 2 Open Source
Multi-build Python
Shipping modules for multiple version of Python, all at once
presented by StevenK
openSUSE Tumbleweed now provides the Python interpreter and packages built for Python 3.6, 3.8 and 3.9. In this talk, I'll go through broadly how the interpreter is packaged, how module packages are built, how packagers can use the provided macros to their benefit, some sharp edges to watch out for, and what future plans we have.
Please note: I am on the East Coast of Australia, so please be...
more 08:30 - 09:00 Stage 1 openSUSE
openSUSE documentation: Tame the beast, make it a friend
Everything you didn't know you wanted to know about the openSUSE documentation
presented by Adrien
Technical documentation is like the box of bandages in your bathroom cupboard: you don't know it exists unless you actually need it. And as it happens, it's when you need it the most that you find it half empty...
In this presentation we tell you everything you didn't know you wanted to know about the openSUSE documentation. You'll embark on a journey into the wild, from luxurious wikis to a...
more 08:30 - 09:00 Stage 2 openSUSE
openSUSE Leap 15.3 retrospective feedback review
presented by Lubos Kocman
Let's go through some of the feedback that we've received from the community for openSUSE Leap 15.3.
09:00 - 10:00 Workshop openSUSE
Live: Building a Language Server for Salt States
presented by Dan Čermák
Build a Language Server for Salt States
The Language Server Protocol
A language server is a piece of software that speaks a JSON RPC protocol (called the Language Server Protocol, abbreviated LSP) to provide text editors with code completion, diagnostics, documentation, etc. There are [several editors](https://microsoft.github....
more 09:30 - 09:45 Stage 1 Open Source
Being inclusive and embracing diversity
presented by Cris Dywan
- Do you like ice cream like everyone else?
- Announcing pronouns in an unobtrusive way
- Avoiding gendered language
- Inclusive terminology in technical contexts
- Should you care? Why should you care?
- Being inclusive can be a heated topic
See also my blog post on the topic!
09:45 - 10:00 Stage 1 Community
Samba Client Group Policy for Winbind and SSSD
Managing Linux Clients via Active Directory
presented by David Mulder
Samba can now seamlessly replace Vintela's proprietary Group Policy (VGP) for linux clients. This includes Host Access, Sudoers, Files, OpenSSH settings, Symlinks, MOTD/Issue, etc. This includes recently added samba-tool commands for administering these policies.
09:45 - 10:00 Stage 2 openSUSE
Break
presented by Douglas DeMaio
Stick around an socialize. Meet in the Hallway or visit the https://play.workadventu.re/@/opensuse/conference/social
10:00 - 11:00 Stage 2 Break
Break
presented by Douglas DeMaio
Stick around an socialize. Meet in the Hallway or visit the https://meet.opensuse.org/bar
10:00 - 11:00 Stage 1 Break
Free Software in Healthcare
presented by Axel Braun
Health is a very special 'good', and it deserves special attention in terms of security and privacy. But what is the reality? This talk gives an overview about the status of free/libre systems in healthcare, the difference in development & procurement compared to proprietary solutions - and how openSUSE supports healthcare software 'the safe way'
11:00 - 11:30 Stage 2 Open Source
Live: 20 Years FSFE
The long way for software freedom
presented by Matthias Kirschner
"Public Money? Public Code!", Router Freedom, Radio Equipment Directive, simple help with licensing, or Free Your Android. These are some of the activities with which the Free Software Foundation Europe has been working since 2001 to empower users to control technology. The talk will give a short overview of the work of the FSFE, with some examples from the areas of: public awareness, policy wo...
more 11:00 - 11:30 Stage 1 Community
MirrorCache - future backend of download.opensuse.org ?
MirrorCache - mirror redirector
presented by Andrii Nikitin
In past months an alternative approach for the backend of download.opensuse.org has been investigated. MirrorCache shows promising results so far and it may become live as the backend of download.opensuse.org in Summer 2021. Please join this short talk to briefly hear about the reasons behind the change, how you can prepare for it and how you can help it.
11:30 - 11:45 Stage 1 openSUSE
Early integration testing with environs framework
Shareable scripting cross-product scenarios
presented by Andrii Nikitin
Do you know difference between starting mariadb vs postgres server as a regular user? Or apache vs nginx? Or maybe want to know specifics of working example of starting rsync server?
There is no difference and no specifics - just use generated start / status / stop scripts. And there is more: (spawn as many services as needed(*), configure ssl for cluster, build services from source, ...) ...
more 11:45 - 12:00 Stage 1 Open Source
openSUSEway is a full Wayland DE based on Sway
presented by Denys Kondratenko
In this talk I would like to update ppl and gather some feedback on the state of Sway tiling Wayland compositor running as primarily desktop environment (DE) on openSUSE.
openSUSEway tries to be full DE that is built around Sway and I would share what issues are there and what is the path to the future.
[openSUSEway sources...
more 11:45 - 12:00 Stage 2 openSUSE
Break (30 Minutes)
presented by Douglas DeMaio
Stick around an socialize. Meet in the Hallway or visit the https://play.workadventu.re/@/opensuse/conference/social
12:00 - 12:30 Stage 2 Break
Break (30 Minutes)
presented by Douglas DeMaio
Stick around an socialize. Meet in the Hallway or visit the https://meet.opensuse.org/bar
12:00 - 12:30 Stage 1 Break
Live: Meet the Board
presented by Axel Braun, Neal Gompa, Gertjan Lettink, Simon Lees, GeraldPfeifer
Question and answers session with the openSUSE Board
12:30 - 13:30 Stage 1 openSUSE
Break (30 Minutes)
presented by Douglas DeMaio
Stick around an socialize. Meet in the Hallway or visit the https://meet.opensuse.org/bar
13:30 - 14:00 Stage 2 Break
Break (30 Minutes)
presented by Douglas DeMaio
Stick around an socialize. Meet in the Hallway or visit the https://play.workadventu.re/@/opensuse/conference/social
13:30 - 14:00 Stage 1 Break
Live: Avahi / Zeroconf: Some magic sauce that's about more than files and printers
Hand editing config files for local deployment? Say hi to Avahi.
presented by Patrick Fitzgerald
Avahi: free configuration for your network service. _(Live demo included)
If you've wondered how your Desktop Linux machine "discovers" items on your network, such as printers and file shares, this session will explain Avahi: the network service advertises resources across a LAN.
The open source version of Apple's Bonjour/Zeroconf, is a very flexible way to enable discovery of ser...
more 14:15 - 15:00 Stage 1 Open Source
End of Year Survey - Top 10
The things we learned from the survey
presented by Douglas DeMaio, Adrien
The End of Year Survey provided us great insight to users of openSUSE and how they view the project. We will give a Top 10 view about the things we learned from the survey and will provide a summary on how we are proceeding.
14:30 - 15:00 Stage 2 Community
Doing OpenBanking with FOSS
Openbanking in an open and fashionable way.
presented by Andres Tello Abrego
Openess have reached the banking. From opensource, to openhardware and now openbanking, but, does OpenBankig is OpenSource? The answer is not so much. The OpenBanking specification is open, but here are no OpenBanking Implementation.
Do we can make a OpenBaking implementation only with OpenSource? Definitivealy yes.
We will explain what OpenSource tools do we used to implement Openbaking...
more 15:00 - 15:30 Stage 2 New Technologies
Live: Firebird: the high performance database that you didnt know was already on your system.
Installed with Libre Office, Firebird is a vastly capable RDMS.
presented by Patrick Fitzgerald
Following on from the brief introduction at the LibreOffice Summit, I will re-introduce Firebird, the open source version of Interbase, the original embedded systems database.
Firebird is a high performance, small footprint database with a long (and interesting) history.
Firebird features Stored Procedures, Transactions, Encryption, multi user access, and is SQL-92 compliant, and can hand...
more 15:00 - 15:45 Stage 1 Embedded Systems and Edge Computing
Going green (or how to become one with Geeko!)
Going from CentOS Linux to openSUSE Leap
presented by Neal Gompa
Due to recent events in the Enterprise Linux space, people are looking for another rock-solid option for powering their Linux systems. Obviously, openSUSE is a strong contender with openSUSE Leap, especially with openSUSE Leap 15.3!
However, making the jump to openSUSE can be difficult, especially if you're used to or built around tooling typically seen on the red side of the fence. But fret...
more 15:30 - 16:30 Workshop openSUSE
Break
presented by Douglas DeMaio
Stick around an socialize. Meet in the Hallway or visit the https://meet.opensuse.org/bar
16:30 - 17:30 Stage 1 Break
Break
presented by Douglas DeMaio
Stick around an socialize. Meet in the Hallway or visit the https://meet.opensuse.org/bar
16:30 - 17:30 Stage 2 Break