As speaker: =========== # Develop a YaST module in the 21st century way It was a very specific topic and, as a result, it was not the most attended workshop ever. But focusing on the relevance instead of the quantity, I'm happy because the people there was the right one - those who work on YaST modules maintained out of the YaST team itself. It was a nice opportunity to explain them where do we want to go and the techniques we are trying to adopt, to train them a little bit in RSpec, to listen to their complains, etc. It was worth it, I would say. See Josef's mail for more concrete feedback. # YaST: from the repository to the distributions I tried to give a full overview in just 15 minutes. I would say most people got the overall idea. We even got requests from modules (not maintained by the YaST team) to adhere to the same workflow. So, as the workshop, this was useful to sync the team and other YaST developers out there. A attendee: =========== # Limux: the loss of a lighthouse Quite interesting insights from someone very involved in all the politics around the adoption of free/propietary software in the public administration. Tagline: don't focus too much on the success/failure of Limux (the Munich initiative), there are plenty of other success/failure stories in administrations all around the globe. # How openQA works Bad schedule from my POV. The talk was focused on implementation details of openQA. It should have not been the first openQA-related talk in the event. Discussing about the algorithm used to recognize needles is of course interesting, but probably distracted people from other openQA topics that are more relevant for the openSUSE project. # openQA Developer and User Meeting Actually a Q&A session for the previous talk. Too focused on image-matching and stuff like that and too little on many other more important aspects (IMHO). As said, I would blame the schedule for that. # OBS - Development Roadmap Interesting view on the new and future features of OBS. Specially the kiwi-powered customization options for images, allowing to use previous images as starting point with a gallery-style selection page. Looks like OBS is getting ready to become a full replacement for SUSE Studio. In my opinion, the speakers could have sold that better, but they were simply too fast. # Moving beyond infrastructure as code Too ambiguous talk, in my humble opinion. Historic background to highlight the fact that now we deploy more application and services at a faster pace (the usual pets vs cattle metaphor). Much else could have been told in one hour of talk. # Adding Salt to AutoYaST Quite good and down-to-earth presentation (in contrast with the previous one) from Imo, including nice demos. Definitely YaST2-cm looks like the way to go for YaST in this new DevOps-centric world. # Open Source projects and product management A good summary of many of the problems that a product manager can face when working with open source projects... but not a single idea on how to tackle those problems. # YaST News Very good summary from Josef about the last year of YaST activity. Kind of a summary of the blog posts we publish regularly. It worked very well, I would say. # Next generation storage for YaST Another YaST presentation that worked very well. Everybody got a clear idea on why are we rewriting libstorage and how the new library is designed. Worth watching before diving into storage-ng. # Coloring IT Students green Nice introduction to the SUSE Academics program. The speaker did a great job and clarified many points about it. Still, he got a lot of questions at the end, which shows many people find the program to be interesting and exciting. It was kind of surprising to know that there are no plans from SUSE to promote the program. Still, I plan to forward the information (and the recorded talk) to some Canary organizations. # openSUSE mentoring status update Great summary from Christian about Google Summer of Code and other programs in which openSUSE is involved, although I missed the beginning of the talk (checkout at the hotel, etc.) # openSUSE Legal Review Process It's hard to imagine how painful is the work of those taking care of legal review in a Linux distribution. Coolo provided a very interesting description of the problem with "funny" examples and presented the tools and mechanisms that are used in openSUSE to deal with it. Surprisingly, the main tool is still not open source, but they are working to fix that. # openSUSE Heroes fighting the villains Nice and dynamic overview on all the work done and planned in the openSUSE infrastructure. The fact that Theo mentioned me several times made me realize that there are still quite some pieces depending on me or on my knowledge... which is not good news for me or the project. # Annual meeting with the openSUSE Board Not big news or revelations this year. Basically that next openSUSE conference will be in Prague. Those were all the talks I managed to attend. I used most of my time to hang out with people. There will be a separate mail about that. Cheers. -- Ancor González Sosa YaST Team at SUSE Linux GmbH -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: yast-devel+owner@opensuse.org