FOSDEM2006

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openSUSE project @ FOSDEM 2006

The sixth Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (commonly known as FOSDEM [1]) will take place during the last week-end (25&26) of February 2006 in the city of Brussels, Belgium. It's an annual 2-day event hosting talks, tutorials, and booth for the free software/open source community. It is organized by volunteers at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. Access to all parts of FOSDEM is free of charge (but donations and sponsors are welcome to help fund the event).

The openSUSE project will be participating at FOSDEM with an openSUSE 'DevRoom' (Developer Room) and a small booth.

Tentative schedule for the openSUSE DevRoom

Saturday, February 25th

13:00 - 14:00 openSUSE--Motivation, Goals, and Opportunities (Sonja Krause-Harder, Michael Loeffler)

Why did Novell start the openSUSE project? What is different from other projects? Get a short overview of our motivations and plans for the future of the openSUSE project as well as tell us your opinions and discuss with us where openSUSE can go in the future.

14:00 - 15:00 Introducing the openSUSE Build Service (Adrian Schroeter, Cornelius Schumacher, Andreas Bauer)

Learn how the openSUSE Build Service works and helps you build packages. Get an overview of the tools and functionalities that the openSUSE Build Service offers.

15:00 - 16:00 SUSE Linux Power Management--One Step Ahead! (Timo Hoenig, Holger Macht)

Power management for SUSE Linux. Suspending the whole system was the first step. Now it is time for runtime power management to paralyze devices that shorten your battery life time on the road.

16:00 - 17:00 SUSE Linux 10.2--Quo vadis? (Michael Loeffler, Christoph Thiel)

What's new and cool in SUSE Linux 10.1? What are the features and highlights? We answer these questions and discuss goals and focuses for SUSE Linux 10.2 and beyond.

17:00 - 17:30 Q & A

Sunday, February 26th

 First 100 participants on the first talk on Sunday get a free voucher for a SUSE Linux 10.1 Box!

10:00 - 11:00 Packaging Tutorial--The Bricks We Build With (Hendrik Vogelsang, Marcus Rueckert)

The journey from a spec file to a distribution. An introduction to RPM packaging for openSUSE and the tasks that come with it.

11:00 - 12:00 Cross-Distribution Building with the openSUSE Build Service (Michael Schroeder)

The openSUSE Build Service is not limited to build packages for SUSE Linux, but offers the possibility to build a package for other distributions (such as Mandriva, Fedora, or even Debian). This talk presents methods to make packages built for multiple distributions.

12:00 - 12:30 "Speed Talks" (various topics)

This slot is reserved to present various topics in 5-10 minute talks.

• download.openSUSE.org
• drpmsync unleashed Image:Schiele talk drpmsync.pdf

12:30 - 14:00 Writing Your Own YaST Module in a Few Hours (Stefan Hundhammer)

Powerful configuration options are what set many OS projects apart from commercial software. Why not go all the way and offer an easy-to-use GUI for configuration--on top of existing configuration files? YaST provides a powerful framework to do just that and it is simple and efficient enough to write your own YaST module.

14:00 - 15:00 The SUSE Security Process (Marcus Meissner)

This lecture gives an introduction into the work of the SUSE Security Team. If you ever wanted to know how SUSE approaches releasing security updates or looking at new security critical packages, this is the place to listen and ask questions.

Image:FOSDEM security process.pdf

15:00 - 16:00 SUSE Linux LiveCD Tutorial (Steffen Winterfeldt)

This tutorial introduces the SUSE Linux LiveCD script, which transforms a SUSE Linux installation source into a CD or DVD image that hosts a live version of SUSE Linux, which can be used without the need to install it onto a hard disk first.

16:00 - 17:30 Q & A