Program for openSUSE Conference

presented by Henne Vogelsang

This is the warm-up party for the openSUSE Conference 2013. Meet and get to know all the other Geekos at the "Lacerta Beach Bar" inside the conference venue. Have a couple of cold ones together, listen to the DJ and prepare for together for the most awesome oSC yet! Let's see where the night ends! Who knows?!

presented by jospoortvliet

Always wanted to be a great speaker? We will help you get better with these tips and hints!

In this his short workshop you will learn a bit more about public speaking, creating a great story and depicting it in style through slides. There will be time to ask questions and go over slides you created.

presented by Georg Greve

The opening keynote will feature Georg Greve. He will talk about “Freedom in the world we live in and the value and importance of communities and Software Freedom”. In the end, it’s about creating the world I would like to live in, and working with others to help us get there.

presented by Theo Chatzimichos

Puppet is an open source central configuration management system. In this workshop attendees will get to know its declarative language, and how it operates, by doing simple tasks , like handling files, users, cronjobs and services. The overall goal is to show all the advantages on running puppet from a single laptop to a large datacenter. Attendants are requested to have the puppet package inst...

presented by Bernhard M.

Normally it is a hard task to port a whole distribution to a new CPU platform, since not all packages allow for cross-compilation. This is why openSUSE went a different way by building pseudo-native with qemu. This presentation will be about how OBS, qemu and some other tools and tricks were used to efficiently build packages for ARM (aarch64, armv7l, armv5el).

presented by Stefan Behlert

The openSUSE distribution and the SUSE Linux Enterprise products share a lot of things in common. At the same time, they vary in a lot of aspects. Some of them are caused by fundamental differences in the philosophy and the basic properties of the projects. With the upcoming CODE 12 of SUSE Linux Enterprise it's time to look at those differences and similarities, as the codebases will be cl...

presented by Tomáš Chvátal

Autotools is "simple" set of tools helping you to write perfect buildsystem for your package. In this workshop we will write clean build for one package and learn how to write the autoconf/automake macros properly. For the last part of the presnetation there will be bit of examples about libtool and reasoning behind library sonames.

presented by Angelos Tzotsos

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support the collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use. The foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community members...

presented by Hans de Raad

Talk aimed at the current state of EU cookie/privacy laws and how to utilize open source software to comply with that. As a lot of things on the web, techniques that were once invented with a pretty clear scope (or seemingly so) usually dont take long to find multiple use cases. In case of cookies, the nicest form of this is persisting session states between HTTP requests, the nastier form is...

presented by Lars Vogdt

The openSUSE Education project was one of the first openSUSE projects ever - and is providing not only packages for educational projects but also an amazing live DVD based on the regular openSUSE distribution and other repositories.

As we need you and your help to bring openSUSE into the schools, let us give you an introduction into our openSUSE-Edu Li-f-e (Linux for Education) system with...

presented by Vincent Untz

This is the session where everybody can learn about what's happening inside the openSUSE project. Each team of the project will come and report about developments in their area since last conference, and about what will come next.

Each team will have a short slot of 5-10 minutes. Questions are welcome, but would be possibly more appropriate in the town hall meeting.

presented by jospoortvliet

Always wanted to be a great speaker? We will help you get better with these tips and hints!

In this his short workshop you will learn a bit more about public speaking, creating a great story and depicting it in style through slides. There will be time to ask questions and go over slides you created.

presented by Ralf Flaxa

This keynote will focus on the making, modification, usage, and knowledge of our projects technology. Technologies such as the distribution and how it relates to its derivatives, the openSUSE tools like the Open Build Service and the openSUSE community infrastructure like our blogs, social network and other tools we use to make this happen.

presented by Keith Hollman

MySQL in development environments are most widely deployed on a Windows platform: it's a natural step. However, the Sys Admin's & DBA's tend to prefer a Linux / Unix production host for resource growth capabilities and stability. In addition to Disaster & Recovery solutions, MySQL Replication can be setup to help reduce the platform gap between the team's favourite solution, i.e. facilitate ...

presented by Ilias R.

As a part of my MSc Thesis i study the various aspects of openSUSE Project (repositories,mailing list,bugzilla) and extract information that could be used and evaluated by the openSUSE Project and any FOSS project in general (as an example). This talk aims to show the activity in openSUSE Project by using FOSS tools that measure various aspects of participation (mailing list , bugzilla , etc).

presented by Michal Hrušecký

Releasing new openSUSE version is a complex process. There is plenty of people working on it and it consists of various actions from different fields. This talk will present how the release is done, what are all the actions needed to get new openSUSE out and how can you pitch in.

presented by Bernhard M.

Raspberry Pi is a small and inexpensive ARMv6 based embedded device, which you can also use like a big Linux computer. It has interfaces to attach various existing or yet-to-be-built hardware getting it on-par with Arduino. This workshop session can be a place where people bring their Raspberry Pi and help each other to get started with it, including - getting an openSUSE Linux image onto th...

presented by Richard Brown

We recently launched the Local Coordinator program to improve the promotion of openSUSE, and to establish local users, communities and contributors for openSUSE around the world. This session will introduce attendees to the program, explain its purpose, and go in to detail about the duties and benefits of becoming an openSUSE Local Coordinator.

presented by Sleep_Walker

Enlightenment 0.17 finally reached openSUSE 12.3. Although the integration into openSUSE is not ideal and there is still (always) room for improvement, it is ready for daily use already and I'd like to show you why you want to use it. Shortly - what can E17 offer you as desktop environment - philosophy - cool features - difficulties - what should be done for better openSUSE integrati...

presented by jospoortvliet

How to prepare for, set up and staff an openSUSE booth? This community manager has visited countless booths all around the world and shares his best tips and tricks with you!

In the second half he'll present our new merchandising plans. SUSE used to send out merchandising (mostly DVD's) to the community of ambassadors around the world. This process was costly, yet not very effective. A plan...

presented by Torsten Rahn

openSUSE has got many software gems that cover a wide range of interests. The virtual globe Marble is certainly one of the highlights - and it's a true allrounder! It's not only suitable for mapping and navigation but also for science and education. Using openSUSE we show how Marble can be used to teach and learn about geography, world history and earth sciences - in a fascinating and playful w...

presented by Tomáš Chvátal

Show up various LibreOffice features in the 4.1 release (which itself is refining the core changes which happened in 4.0). Further on we shall look upon the new candies that are done for version 4.2 planned for release in late November this year. And in the end of the talk we will look upon various contribution stats/qa-reports/bugzilla stats, which everyone of course loves.

presented by Vincent Untz

The town hall meeting will be the live project meeting at the conference. Come here if you want to discuss any topic related to the project, ask any question about what's happening, or need answer from board members on board stuff. This is a once-in-a-year opportunity, so don't miss it!

presented by jospoortvliet

Always wanted to be a great speaker? We will help you get better with these tips and hints!

In this his short workshop you will learn a bit more about public speaking, creating a great story and depicting it in style through slides. There will be time to ask questions and go over slides you created.

presented by jospoortvliet

This keynote will focus on the governance, achievements and people of our community and project. Expect topics like the openSUSE Board, Ambassador program, openSUSE Team at SUSE and other topics which have influence on our project. How did you we do in the last year? Where are we heading? What makes us tick?

presented by Lars Vogdt

Providing an overview about the hardware, the software, the team and the policies behind the openSUSE infrastructure. If you ever want to know how many servers and administrators are needed to provide the current amount of services that keep the openSUSE distribution alive and the community connectect, this might be one of the main sessions you like to attend.

presented by Bernhard M.

Testing an Operating System from bootloader through installer to the applications of the installed system is a lot of hard work and doing this daily is rather exhausting and boring, so I made openQA (using my OS-autoinst test-engine) to do it all for me... or rather us openSUSE users. This has meanwhile been running since 2010 and found many many bugs, some of which would surely have made it i...

presented by Manu

We will be discussing our GSoC Experiences over the past 3 years, show where we failed and where we succeeded. We will also discuss the challenges that lie ahead for future successful GSoC participants. We will discuss the both a mentor's and student's perspective and some statistics that give a good overview of where we are today.

presented by Shawn Chang

Security issues are becoming more importantly than ever before. When you want to deploy your own application, hardening is a inevitable problem that you have to consider about. GNU/Linux itself providing a lot of hardening techniques, including conventional hardening techniques such as non-executable stack/Relocation read-only/ASLR/PIE in GCC/glibc level, and confinement technologies, such as S...

presented by jospoortvliet

The openSUSE Travel Support program aims to support contributors representing openSUSE at events, conferences and hack-fests with their travel and hotel costs. The program pays up to 80% of the travel and/or hotel costs for contributors who could not afford going to these events otherwise. In turn the contributors make a worthy contribution at the event and report back to the openSUSE community...

presented by Thomas Schmidt

Geeko Run – A jump and run game framework built completely in javascript and CSS. It is released under the terms of Creative Commons 3.0, that means it’s open source and you are free to use and modify it. I will give an introduction in the technical background of the game engine (level-rendering, collision-detection, enemies, controls), and show you how to customize the game with your own level...

presented by Robert

Introduce the location and the organization team for oSC14. Following oSC13, oSC14 will be the second community organized event and the leader of the organization team will present some interesting details about the oSC14 location. Join this session to learn more about next year's conference location and get an early jump on the information.

presented by Michal Hrušecký

Travelling to the conferences poses significant challenges on what to take with you and how to pack your luggage. This short talk is intended to give some basic guidance on how to proceed to reduce number and size of your bags.

presented by Bernhard M.

Did you know that userland filesystems (FUSE) allow to do crazy things without the risk of crashing the kernel? Many people know sshfs to mount remote files over ssh, but that needs an account on the remote machine. I created curlwwwfs to read-only mount standard remote HTTP directories for fun. With this you can peek into remote iso images (using fuseiso) or do other cool stuff.

presented by Christos Bacharakis

Our motto is "the web is the platform" and our goal is to change the web for another time in history. That's why we are presenting you Firefox OS the new mobile operating system brought to you by Firefox. Built entirely using HTML5 and other open Web standards, Firefox OS is free from the rules and restrictions of existing proprietary platforms. For the past 15 years, we’ve been instrumenta...

presented by Sam Tuke

We all want to change the world, and The Document Freedom Day team are no different. To succeed we must identify and empower community leaders and volunteers. We've been doing that for the last five years in order to promote Open Standards around the globe, but what hurdles stood in our way? How can you overcome the same hurdles when you encounter them? And how did a team of only two staff and ...

presented by Michal Hrušecký

Do you want to get your key signed? Do you want to have SSL certificate signed? Not that everybody will trust it, but at least quite some people will. Are you planning to participate in key signing party but not sure what to do afterward? This talk is meant for beginners and will show you some basics and will prepare you for the party (the key signing one).

presented by Theo Chatzimichos

There will be a keysigning event at oSC13. It will happen on $DAY at $TIME. It will be held at the $ROOM. There is no central key registry for this keysigning. Instead it will simply be a keyslip exchange. What to bring: Yourself Paper slips with your key id, fingerprint, name & emails. Something to identify yourself. Usually government-issued identification, such as a passport. Multiple p...

presented by Richard Brown

This workshop will give an opportunity for people to work on and learn how the openSUSE branding packages are put together, tested, and submitted to the distribution. These packages are responsible for all of the openSUSE specific themeing and artwork, as seen in our various desktop environments (KDE, GNOME, XFCE, etc), our bootloaders (Grub/Grub 2), and during the Installation process

presented by Hans de Raad

When developing and deploying web applications, the final result is a collection of software all carefully combined to offer a coherent platform. This platform however consists of several loosely coupled items which can, on various levels, offer possibilities of manipulating the deployment.

This session offers an analysis of these items and offers some insight in the possible attack vectors...