Hi all, These are my impresions about some talks during the openSUSE Conference '17. If you are interested in any talk, check them in https://events.opensuse.org/ conference/oSC17/schedule where you can find videos and slides for many of them. ## Technical Writing for Non-Writers https://events.opensuse.org/conference/oSC17/program/proposal/1372 Really interesting workshop by Tanja Roth about writing technical stuff. In the final part of the workshop, we were working on a text[1] in order to improve it. As Tanja commented, there's no single right solution, so she just proposed one[2]. I will try to find out where the slides are available, as this talk was not recorded. [1] http://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/tech_writing_workshop_osc17 [2] http://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/tech_writing_workshop_osc17_proposal_taroth ## openSUSE Kubic A presentation about the new openSUSE Kubic product (based on CaaSP). We already had some ideas about the project, so it was a nice talk to have a better overview of what is going on there. ## Bridging openSUSE and SLE gap https://events.opensuse.org/conference/oSC17/program/proposal/1294 This one was a follow-up by Frederic Crozat of another talk from previous oSC edition about syncing GNOME in openSUSE and SLE trying to use the same SRPMS. A lot of collaboration was needed to solve some issues like integration changelogs from openSUSE and SLE in order to not loose any valuable information (CVE/FATE/BSC numbers). I would expect another similar talk for next year with some updates. ## Transactional updates with Btrfs https://events.opensuse.org/conference/oSC17/program/proposal/1258 Thorsten Kukuk presented a tool to perform transactional updates with Btrfs. The tool was already presented in mailing lists and it is available in Tumbleweed. This tool allows you to perform atomic system updates without interferring with the running system and allowing to rollback if something was wrong. There are still some rough edges, but it looks promising. ## Moving Beyond Infrastructure as Code https://events.opensuse.org/conference/oSC17/program/proposal/1318 This talk from Thomas Hatch (SaltStack, Inc.) was pretty interesting. But, to be honest, sometimes it was too abstract stuff for me. ## YaST: from the repository to the distribution https://events.opensuse.org/conference/oSC17/program/proposal/1266 Ancor presented how the YaST code goes from the repositories on Github to the final products. Usual stuff: Travis, Jenkins, OBS... presented in a straigth- forward and clear way. ## Open Source Projects and Product Management - Need, Pain or Useless? https://events.opensuse.org/conference/oSC17/program/proposal/1462 This talk opened some interesting questions about product management in open source products. I was really interested because, with Jangouts, we face some problems in that area. However, the questions were not answered at all and I missed some discussion about them. ## YaST News: Summary of the last year https://events.opensuse.org/conference/oSC17/program/proposal/1298 Nice presentation by Josef summarizing what we have done during this year. Kudos to the team because we have done a lot of pretty interesting things :) ## Next Generation Storage for YaST https://events.opensuse.org/conference/oSC17/program/proposal/1228 Arvin talked about the new storage layer. It was a pretty good presentation that helped me to understand some of the ideas behind the new design and which advantages it will bring to YaST. ## Coloring IT Students Green https://events.opensuse.org/conference/oSC17/program/proposal/1364 Emiel Brok talked about the "SUSE Academic Program". It looks like an interesting tool to introduce SUSE product on academic institutions. As you may know, we are in contact we few of them, so we'll try to move it forward. ## openSUSE Legal Review Process https://events.opensuse.org/conference/oSC17/program/proposal/1374 Stephan Kulow presentation was about Licencing Hell and how they are trying to improve the situation. He talked briefly about licenses, challenges we face and presented a tool they're developing/using for that (called CAVIL). ## The Atom Editor https://events.opensuse.org/conference/oSC17/program/proposal/1356 Ladislav presented Atom in a nice way and convinced me to give it a try :) It looks like an easy to hack editor, so I would like to have a deeper lock into it. Regards, Imo -- Imobach González Sosa YaST team at SUSE LINUX GmbH Blog: https://imobachgs.github.io/ Twitter: @imobachgs