Program for openSUSE Conference

presented by Robin Edgar

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presented by Markus Feilner

You know what's cool about OpenSUSE and SUSE? Okay, a lot. We're green. Yeah. And we're not only doing good things, but we're also talking about it. Expect several striking sensational new and sentimental announcements in this keynote about good things that are happening right now.

[Spoiler!] First, the former Linux-Magazin journalist Feilner (yours truly) is now team lead of SUSE Documen...

presented by Richard Brown

This session will discuss in detail a new SUSE project and start the discussion on its potential benefits for openSUSE It'll explain some of the concepts, the thoughts behind this new approach and provide some ideas about future processes, especially those which relate to openSUSE and the adoption, support, and maintenance of code between SUSE and openSUSE

presented by Robin Edgar

After years of visiting LAN parties and similar geek events Elger decided to help nerd and geek organizations. This was home, it made him happy. Building communities has been one of his main challenges: getting the right people together to do great things. It appears to be very difficult, and even more so if you are a geek.

In this talk Elger will showcase lessons learned of his travels in b...

presented by Hans de Raad

Keynote by Aaron Seigo. He will talk about open source community management and how they are able to work together. Further information will follow soon but since OSEM requires me to add at least 80 words into this field I feel compelled to at least reach that minimum in order to be able to submit this proposal, this limit (however logical) is very annoying if you want to quickly register talks...

presented by Richard Brown

This session will be an introduction to High Availability clustering, which is available in openSUSE and the SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension. The talk will explain the basic concepts of high availability clustering, such as the Pacemaker Resource Manager, Corosync Cluster Engine, Resource Agents, Fencing Agents, and great acronyms like SBD (Storage Based Death) and STONITH (S...

presented by craig gardner

Great software simply requires superior packaging. No matter how good the software is, if you can't deliver it users in a way that even the most dim user can use it, your software is a failure. Packaging your software consistently across a multitude of user environments is what sets great software apart from the mediocre. This talk will share some information about crafting software in such ...

presented by Gábor Nyers

While probably the most prominent, Docker is not the only tool for building and managing containers. Originally meant to be a "chroot on steroids" to help debug systemd, systemd-nspawn provides a fairly uncomplicated approach to work with containers. Being part of systemd, it is available on most recent distributions out-of-the-box and requires no additional dependencies.

This talk will intr...

presented by Martin Simons

The CFEngine Roadshow is a live demonstration of bringing up an array of real servers. In the presentation part I will make a comparisson with other popular products like Chef and Puppet. The presentation gives an overview of the underlying concepts of CFEngine that will be explained by everyday examples. The second part consists of the spinning up of the data center, which cam be followed li...

presented by Tomáš Chvátal

Did you ever wonder what one has to endure as packager in openSUSE? Learn now the packaging goes. What are some common mistakes? How does the package get to Factory? What about maintenance, can anybody do it? Interested now? How about we could learn some neat tips and tricks to keep the packaging fun? Well if that is not enough you can also ask for hints and help on real issues you are having i...

presented by Robert

The Cloud and Public Cloud computing are all the rage. The Public Cloud has somewhat moved passed the hype cycle, which these days is clearly dominated by Docker, and is moving into the adoption cycle. While almost everyone uses a cloud already this talk will take a deeper look at the IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) setup of the Public Cloud.

openSUSE images are available in the major Pub...

presented by craig gardner

Managing a single system can be troublesome. Managing more than one is nightmare. Keep your systems running as you intend with Configuration Management. There are many choices, each able to satisfy a variety of needs. This presentation will show what can be done with these tools, and compare features among the various tools. And don't forget, SUSE also has a cool new opensource offering in...

presented by Lars Vogdt

You have a fundamental understanding how an openSUSE system should work? You want to step into the ring and start playing with compiler options, package dependencies, renames, cross distribution packaging and other crazy things some people do for "fun"? Then this workshop might be the right one for you. We do not expect that you can write a spec file from scratch (at least not in the beginning...

presented by Oliver Neukum

We like to be able to run our devices for as long as possible on battery and to pay less for electricity. For this to work device drivers need to manage the power their devices use. The kernel provides a generic model for devices and their interactions. Drivers need to implement a small number of callbacks to enable proper support for power management. There are a number of issues which shoul...

presented by Ramon de la Fuente

Ansible is a provisioning tool rapidly growing in popularity, mainly due to it’s simplicity. But it’s capable of more than just provisioning! In this talk, I’ll walk you through an Ansible role that can be used to deploy your projects. Those familiar with Capistrano wil recognize the method, but I’ll explain it step by step and in the end I’ll show a real-world example from a Symfony2 project: ...

presented by jos weyers

A password shouldn’t be on a post-it note. In plain view. On the console. The password to a locked door is called a key. So if a reporter wants to get the point across that certain people shouldn't have access to a particular key, would it be wise for said reporter to show that key to the world? This talk will show how not to run this story, why we should care and maybe make you rethink yo...

presented by Robert

The openSUSE Board would like to welcome all attendees to The Hague and oSC15.

The new openSUSE Board is looking forward to welcoming everyone to the openSUSE Conference. With a look back and a look ahead we will invite others to join us on stage to show how under the theme of "Flexibility through diversity" we work together around the globe to keep the openSUSE heart beating. In 2014 the fi...

presented by Jeroen Baten

Business and Outcome track: LibrePlan is a collaborative tool to plan, monitor and control projects and has a rich web interface which provides a desktop alike user experience. All the team members can take part in the planning and this makes possible to have a real-time planning . LibrePlan is open source and you can download, install and customize it for free. It is usual that you need to m...

presented by Floris van Geel

As we all know, Drupal is great for building web platforms, but now we can also manage real buildings with it. Not just facilitation management with modules as rooms or availability calendars, but the actual building itself. This is done with a Building Information Model (BIM) in which all the geometry and relevant metadata for constructing the building is stored. We’ve been able to expose this...

presented by Henne Vogelsang

Learning Rails is fun, and Rails for Geekos allows you to get your feet wet with the popular open source web application framework written in Ruby. You're going to learn how to install Ruby and Rails, Ruby programming language basics and how to create a basic Ruby on Rails web application. All you need to bring with you is a laptop with openSUSE 13.2, basic understanding of the Linux console an...

presented by Kristoffer Grönlund

Hawk is a cluster configuration and management tool implemented as a Ruby on Rails app which runs on Linux HA clusters. It includes features for monitoring clusters, configuring new cluster resources, simulating changes to the cluster, setting up access control lists and more. This session is an introduction to High Availability clusters in general, focusing on using the Hawk web interface to i...

presented by Hans de Raad

Brenno de Winter is a well known Dutch research journalist and a firm believer in open source/free software. He will talk about his personal experiences on the importance of being able to freely communicate in a world that has become increasingly non-free.

Since 1993 de Winter has developed software for commercial applications. Since 1995 he focuses on projects with open source software as a...

presented by Robert

Docker is all the hype these days. In this short talk I will take a look at some of the not so pleasant issues that come along with containers that not many appear to want to acknowledge or talk about. This is not a Docker tutorial nor will we discuss any technical details about the tools or how Docker functions. Rather in this talk we will explore side effects of container building and what th...

presented by tgoettlicher@suse.de

Alfred is a system administrator of a real world data center. He faces the reality of systems nobody knows about, people making mistakes and forgetting about best practices, or not riding the latest DevOps trend. SUSE has started an open source project to help Alfred to keep his sanity and fill the gaps current tools don't address yet. The project is Machinery (http://machinery-project.org) and...

presented by Jan Krupa

This talk will give you introduction to SUSE Studio, what you can use it for and how you can build openSUSE based appliances with just a few clicks on the web. Our team added quite a lot of new features over the past two years. I'll try to cover all of them and give you more details about what we improved. You can look forward for a live demo as well as information on how to join the community ...

presented by Michael

Proxy bridging, tunneling, and routing are some of the most useful and least understood networking techniques that novice users can leverage in their daily work. We'll consider use cases for connecting OpenSUSE clients over SOCKS5 proxies generically as well as examine the topic of cross platform client anonymization and how the onion router achieves a high degree of communications protection b...

presented by Douglas DeMaio

Organizations should be designed to endure but can only do so through strong core activities and a strong brand. The open source community might not view branding as important, but there are reason to have consistent branding. From Mozilla to Libre Office or VLC to Blender, successful open source projects have created consistency with branding and messaging of products and services. This presen...

presented by Richard Brown

This session will be serve as an introduction to openQA and demonstrate how it can be used to write tests for more than just openSUSE and it's distributions. Using the example of Fedora Linux, this session will describe a methodology for designing an openQA test suite and give an guide on how attendees could go about building their own openQA test suites. Attendees do not need any past experie...

presented by Jean-Daniel Dodin

It's very easy nowaday to take photos, but as it's nearly free, any people takes lot of them. It is necessary then to store them, backup them, edit them, spread them to the parents and friends. Linux is very good at making this, all the necessary tools are here, but some organization is necessary. I will share my workflow including writing scripts to make the process easy. This workshop can a...

presented by Hans de Raad

Radically Open Security is the world's first not-for-profit computer security consultancy company. We're a collective of hackers who aim to disrupt the computer security market with our ideals - we give 90% of our profits to charity (the NLnet Foundation), work with volunteers, release all our tools/templates into the open-source, invite customers to actively participate in pentest teams, and g...

presented by craig gardner

How do we get more rock-star programmers in the industry? How do we take our opensource message to the next level? We would do well to start teaching opensource to the young, building their knowledge, interest, and expertise early in the lives of our budding programmers. Opensource principles liberate people, liberate ideas, and liberate code from the oppressive control. Sure, there are ind...

presented by Hans de Raad

The Machinery team is looking for feedback! If you have some time Sunday afternoon at OSC15 and want to help us out by taking a simple usability test, please let us know and we'll get in touch. We're looking forward hearing from you!

Register here please: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1TgfASfKtABDwdYIWbOkY02LAUxfxUl3EgVYDhZvuHAw/viewform

To learn more about machinery, attend this ta...

presented by Gratien D'haese

Linux Disaster Recovery exercises are not every day tasks and most system engineers lack experience how to practice them. This talk will describe the basic knowledge about Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity (BC) and go deeper into the different aspects of each. However, we will also show you how to start up DR plan and explain some handy tools, such as Relax and Recover (rear) so ...

presented by craig gardner

It is incumbent upon each system administrator to ensure that each system in the infrastructure is as secure as possible. One compromised system can endanger all. It's the simple principle of "a chain is only as strong as its weakest link." The principles presented in this talk will reduce the risk of vulnerability. The principles are based on years of expertise shared among the various dis...

presented by Hans de Raad

We'll host a security devroom on the Sunday afternoon with some industry experts doing all kinds of interesting stuff!

presented by Georgi Kodinov

Securing your installations is becoming increasingly important in this day and age. Specially in the light of the recent major security flaws announced. The MySQL server is an integral part of site's attack surface. And we all know that your defences are as good as the weakest link into them. Securing your database server is as imporant as securing the other parts of your infrastrcuture. Sp...

presented by Darix

The only constant in the world is change. That said it might be time to revisit one of the staples of our linux infrastructure. See what has changed and how we can or maybe even need to adapt our configuration. We will cover things to improve your server and client configuration. But also newer things like server and client certificates. If you lock yourself out from your SSH server in the end ...

presented by Marcus Meissner

openSUSE is developed with security in mind. This talk will provide an overview of the processes and technologies to develop and maintain openSUSE in a secure way. The talk will put light on the secure development processes and automatisms we use during Factory development. As package maintainer you will probably already have stumbled over various rpmlint checks, tarball signing and similar wei...

presented by Michal Hrušecký

Short introduction to ZeroMQ stack and related tools. If you were ever interested in writing a network application and if you would like to see nice and easy way how to do so, come and see. Apart from ZeroMQ, we will take a look other related projects being developed under the same umbrella: * CZMQ - high-level API for ZeroMQ * zproto - protocol and state machine generator using GSL templatin...

presented by Hans de Raad

On behalf of Aaron Seigo, Georg Greve and the other Kolabians here you are all invited to a special super secret Kolab Announcement in openSUSE Main room!

Thanks to the flexibility and open mindedness of the great openSUSE Community Kolab is welcoming you to come to a very special super secret project in the openSUSE Main room.

The social event will start after this session!

Again thi...

presented by Robert

As has been customary at the openSUSE Conference we once again hold a live project meeting (town hall meeting.) Hosted by the openSUSE board, as our IRC project meetings, the live project meeting gives us a chance to discuss topics as a community in a face to face setting. We realize that unfortunately not everyone can make it to The Hague for oSC15 and thus we will also keep an eye on the IRC ...

presented by Martin Čaj

Workshop about current video streaming and recording software and hardware tools: What kind of software are we using and why (Its really all Open-source). Quickly streaming or recording in full quality, how to deal with it. Advantage and disadvantage of 3-partty streaming server. Overview of our hardware equipment on OpenSUSE conference and talk about possible replacements. Redesign our ...

presented by Michal Hrušecký

Web development is nowadays done in modern cool and hyped languages like RoR or Node.js. But what if you are old school programmer who doesn't need to be trendy? What if you don't try every new language out there but stick to the classics you are good at? Yes, you can do that and do web applications at the same time with ease. There is C++ web development framework that you can use to develop a...

presented by Coly Li

Cold data storage is more and more important in Cloud computing and big data infrastructure. Like Amazon Website Service, Facebook, Alibaba, many cloud and internet service providers invest more and more on high durability, low cost cold data storage system. In open source world, there is a few project is specifically built for cold data storage. This talk explains how an open source distribute...

presented by Michal Hrušecký

I got a new job last year and one of the problems we faced in the new job was how to build Debian packages. We looked at the recommended way how to do Debian packaging, but found it quite insane. So we decided to go with OBS. Nowadays we are building not only Debian packages, but also whole images from Debian. In the talk I would like to share my experience from deploying OBS in house, learning...

presented by Josef Reidinger

In this presentation targeted to developers in general, Josef Reidinger will show how the YaST source code has evolved from autogenerated YCP-based code to common Ruby that can be understood and improved by any Ruby developer. He will also demonstrate the new tools and possibilities that Ruby has brought to YaST and how these tools are used to ensure that the source code quality improves with e...

presented by Sunny

We had the first openSUSE.Asia summit on 2014, and we would like to continue this event in the future, so we will take this opportunity to introduce our summit and some local openSUSE events. In the meanwhile, we would feedback from you about how to promote openSUSE. This workshop is quite flexible, we invite you to share your local openSUSE community, openSUSE events and openSUSE promotion in...