openSUSE project @ FOSDEM 2006

The sixth Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (commonly known as FOSDEM [1]) took 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 participated at FOSDEM with the openSUSE 'DevRoom' (Developer Room) and a small booth.

Pictures of the openSUSE team @ FOSDEM 2006

The gallery is online at http://gallery.openSUSE.org/fosdem2006/.

Talks from the openSUSE DevRoom

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Saturday, February 25th

Time	Topic	Description	Presenter	Slides	Audio/Video
13:00 - 14:00	openSUSE--Motivation, Goals, and Opportunities	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.	Sonja Krause-Harder, Michael Loeffler	File:Opensuse generic FOSDEM michl skhv2.pdf	audio.ogg vid_384.ogg vid_720.ogg
14:00 - 15:00	Introducing the openSUSE Build Service	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.	Adrian Schroeter, Cornelius Schumacher, Andreas Bauer	File:FOSDEM Build Service.pdf	audio.ogg vid_384.ogg vid_720.ogg
15:00 - 16:00	SUSE Linux Power Management--One Step Ahead!	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.	Timo Hoenig, Holger Macht	File:One step opendesign.pdf	audio.ogg vid_384.ogg vid_720.ogg
16:00 - 17:00	SUSE Linux 10.2--Quo vadis?	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.	Michael Loeffler, Christoph Thiel	File:SUSE Linux 10.2 -- Quo vadis.pdf	audio.ogg vid_384.ogg vid_720.ogg
17:00 - 17:30	Q & A	Questions and Answers Session	Everybody	-	-

Sunday, February 26th

Time	Topic	Description	Presenter	Slides	Audio/Video
10:00 - 11:00	Packaging Tutorial - The Bricks We Build With	The journey from a spec file to a distribution. An introduction to RPM packaging for openSUSE and the tasks that come with it.	Hendrik Vogelsang	File:The bricks we build with.pdf	audio.ogg vid_384.ogg vid_720.ogg
11:00 - 12:00	Cross-Distribution Building with the openSUSE Build Service	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.	Michael Schroeder	File:Buildservice xdist.pdf	audio.ogg vid_384.ogg vid_720.ogg
12:00 - 12:30	Speed Talks	drpmsync	Robert Schiele	File:Schiele talk drpmsync.pdf	audio.ogg vid_384.ogg vid_720.ogg
		download.openSUSE.org	Christoph Thiel	File:Download.openSUSE.org.pdf	audio.ogg vid_384.ogg vid_720.ogg
		XML File proposal	Houghi	File:XML File proposal.pdf	audio.ogg vid_384.ogg vid_720.ogg
12:30 - 14:00	Writing Your Own YaST Module in a Few Hours	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.	Stefan Hundhammer	Tutorial	audio.ogg vid_384.ogg vid_720.ogg
14:00 - 15:00	The SUSE Security Process	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.	Marcus Meissner	File:FOSDEM security process.pdf	audio.ogg vid_384.ogg vid_720.ogg
15:00 - 16:00	SUSE Linux LiveCD Tutorial	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.	Steffen Winterfeldt	File:LiveCD.pdf	audio.ogg vid_384.ogg vid_720.ogg
16:00 - 17:30	Q & A	Questions and Answers Session	Everybody	-	-

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