2015 03 nllgg-event organizing duoconferences
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Organizing duo conferences
openSUSE Conference 2015Kolab Summit 2015
Both between 1 and 4 May 2015The Hague NL
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About us
● Robin Edgar (EdgarBV)– International (security) consultancy
– Owner SaaS hosting company > 10 years
– Open source user and contributor > 15 years
● Hans de Raad (OpenNovations)– International open source and security consultancy
– Clients in government, SME's and enterprise
– Open source user and contributor > 15 years
● Both are project leads for openSUSE Conference 2015 and Kolab Summit (in The Hague).
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openSUSE?
● Linux distribution, active since mid '90s.● Sponsored by SUSE Linux GmbH● Pretty much the Fedora for SUSE● Various tools for general purposes:
– Open Build Service
– Open Source Event Management
– SUSE Studio
– OpenQA
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OpenSUSE?
● Home of the Geeko!● Previous conferences in Nuremberg, Prague,
Thessaloniki, Dubrovnik● Striving for ~ 200 / 300 participants● Devrooms, Bofs, talks, social events.
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Kolab?
● Groupware suite (email, calendar, todo, file storage)
● Originally built in Germany by the BSI– Because they didn't trust Lotus Notes.
● Home of developers of Roundcube, KDE Kontact and other open source solutions.
● First summit since the projects inception!
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Advantages of duoconferences
● Facilities can be shared– Networking
– Catering
– Social events
● Public has more options– More parallel sessions
– Diversity in audience
● Speakers have more opportunities– Multiple talks
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Disadvantages of duoconferences
● Risk of confusing community identities– If big differences exist between communities.
● Issues with surges on facilities– Try to spread out lunches/program pauze moments ,etc
● Conflicts of interests between projects● Conflicts in program
– Speakers have to be planned careful
– Risk of recycling talks.
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Preparations
● Set a date– Both communities have to be on
the same page
● Select a venue– For oSC and KS over 65 venues were approached....
● Organize the project structure– Both communities will have volunteers
– How to manage them both on overlapping tasks?
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Preparations
● Announcements– Press releases
– Promotion
– Speaker invites
● Combined or separate?– Carefully discuss this with both projects.
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Tooling: openSUSE
● OSEM– Built for openSUSE, reusable for other projects
– Hosted on Github
● Features– CfP handling
● Speaker profiles, talk abstracts, voting
– Home page for conference
– Attendee registrations
– Preconfigured authorization profiles
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Tooling: openSUSE OSEM
● Advantages– Quite simple, one purpose tool
– Proven in earlier conferences
● Disadvantages– Not very feature rich or configurable.
● Home page is preconfigured, as are listings, etc.
– Some features had to be developed during project organization.
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Tooling: openSUSE Redmine
● Project management● Issue tracking● Planning● Documentation● Wiki
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Tooling: openSUSE Redmine
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Tooling: Kolab Summit → Drupal
● Conference organization distribution● Originally developed for DrupalCon● E-Commerce integration● Content management
– Configurable content types
● Authorisation management● Built in search● Configurable theming
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Tooling: Kolab Summit COD
● Issue tracking wasn't required, but is possible– Drupal Issue tracker module
– One tool for both project organization and website
● CfP handling– Speakers profiles, voting, planning
● Configurable timeslots for planning– Generic planning items (like breaks, etc)
● Flexible listings through Views module.
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Tooling: Kolab Summit COD
● Advantages– Extremely flexible and configurable, just as Drupal
– Offers a great CMS and social functions out of the box
– Great mobile-first themes available
● Disadvantages– Drupal can be a little
complex.
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Lessons learned OSEM, Redmine, COD
● Usability for team members is a key factor– Volunteers will not use complex systems.
● Custom built tools aren't necessarily better● Theming is important to give the conference an
identity● Don't overprepare
– Large lists of issues scares peoples
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Let's go over some of the talks in the program!
● openSUSE Conference● Kolab Summit
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openSUSE Conference
● Keynotes by Aaron Seigo and Markus Feilner● MySQL Secure deployment● Linux server performance optimization● Testing distributions with OpenQA● High availability clusters, monitoring and distributed
storage (Ceph)● RPM Packaging workshow (whole day)● Server administration with Puppet, Ansible, CFEngine
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openSUSE Conference
● Developments on Yet Another Setup Tool (Yast)● Docker and other container technologiess (best
practices, security, etc).● Cyrus mailserver and JMAP, postfix● Linux disaster recovery practices● Lockpicking● Community branding and publicity ● Ruby and RoR workshops
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Kolab Summit
● Keynotes by Georg Greve, Jeroen van Meeuwen and Brenno de Winter
● The future of Roundcube webmail.● Community building and policitcs● Cyrus 3.0 and scaling mailservers● LibreOffice groupware server collaboration● OpenChange, Kolab and MAPI● Security workshops● Docker talks and workshops
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Social events!!!
● Awesome retro!– Vintage computers
● Music, beer, dj's, etc● Lockpicking workshop● Sleepover facility
at the venue!
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When was that again?
● 1 – 4 May The Hague NL● http://conference.opensuse.org● http://conference.kolab.org● 2 conferences for the price of 1
free....
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Questions?
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