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 Adrian Schröter

A team report how the Open Build Service(OBS) team sees the current state of OBS in openSUSE. It will also outline our goals for this year. The talk is a good opportunity to sync the point of view between OBS developers and users. We are happy to discuss any issues our goals afterwards.

OBS is the central infrastructure behind the openSUSE distribution. It is used to build, collaborate and t...

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 Ludwig Nussel

SUSE Linux Enterprise is the work horse for mission-critical Linux use. The operating system and selected major components on top are maintained and supported via SUSE's commercial offering. The openSUSE project on the other hand provides thousands of free and open source software packages maintained by volunteers via openSUSE Tumbleweed. Many openSUSE contributors also run SLE in production an...

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 Hans de Raad

In the last six months LibreOffice has launched on a host of new platforms making it available more widely than ever before. Come and see demos of the brand new Android editor prototype, the just-announced LibreOffice Online, and hear what major under-the-hood changes are making these new apps possible. Not a pixel-pusher? Be introduced to LibreOfficeKit -- the lean, mean, API-accessible 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 Christian Boltz

PostfixAdmin is a webinterface to manage your mailserver and can manage things like domains, mailboxes and aliases. Besides that, the admin can allow the users to administrate their mailbox or domain - which means the admin can relax ;-)

The webinterface is only half of the truth: PostfixAdmin 3.0 comes with a Commandline client ("CLI") which can be used to create, edit or delete everything ...

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 Jean-Daniel Dodin

Take video footage with any tool (camcorder, DSRL, smartphone), convert it, make a gallery. We will use kdenlive to edit footage, export it to mp4 files, write scripts to make them fit dvd or internet and upload them. This workshop can accomodate 3 to 10 people. It's necessary to come with a computer and some footage of your own (can be done with nearly any source, including a smartphone), th...

presented by Robert

The first round of booth box material has been distributed around the world with our last supply used during FOSDEM earlier this year. More booth box material is on teh way and we will be ready for the rest of the year to ship material where it is needed.

There is an application to request a booth box for a given event.

There will be an initial presentation about how we got to where we ar...

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 DavorG

Linux Server is optimized for average workloads. With most servers you can gain much by optimizing performance. Last year we discussed about optimizing old stuff, now we have 10 GB networks, new kernels and new hardware. How can we improve everything in our servers. We have virtualization on different platforms like KVM, XEN and Hyper-V, what is the best optimization for guest machines? We also...

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 Bron Gondwana

The Cyrus IMAPd server is one of the oldest open email servers, and after a few quiet years, we're making good progress towards releasing a revialised 3.0 at OSCON in Portland this July.

I'll be talking about the history of Cyrus and the project, outlining what's new, releasing the first alpha of the 3.0 release, and asking for help and feedback.

I will also talk about the new JMAP protoc...

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 Michael

WARNING: THE PRESENTATION PART OF THIS SESSION IS REPLACED WITH AN INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION OF OPENSUSE IOT WHERE ALL ARE ENCOURAGED TO CONTRIBUTE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

Misconceptions of the Internet of Things and OpenSUSE are cast away as we consider OpenSUSE's role in a hypothetical IoT system including sensors, actuators, mechanical nodes, and development boards. We connect an OpenSUSE cli...

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 Hans de Goede

The linux-sunxi community has been slowly but steadily working on getting Allwinner SoCs like the A10 supported in upstream u-boot and the kernel.

This talk will present the current status of Allwinner support upstream.

Which SoCs are supported and which ones are not (yet) supported? Which blocks of the supported SoCs are supported, and which are not? Why are some SoCs / blocks not suppor...

presented by Hans de Goede

This presentation will discuss the plans to move Xorg to use libinput too through an input driver called xf86-input-libinput, as well as the status of this move. xf86-input-libinput is scheduled to be the default Xorg input driver for Fedora 22.

Currently xorg uses a 1 driver per input device model, this makes it impossible to do things like middle button scrolling on the trackpoint on lapto...

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...