openSUSE Conference 2009 - Tokyo Branch

Today, openSUSE Conference 2009 - Tokyo Branch and BOF were held.

• speaker: Satoru Matsumoto
• On this time now, openSUSE conference 2009 is being held in Nürnberg
• So let's hold too in here, Tokyo.
• Part 1: openSUSE Current Topics
  • openSUSE 11.2 (the next version) will be released in 2009/11
    • The release cycle is revised as 8 months period.
    • Now: Milestone 7
  • openFATE
    • Anyone can request new features.
    • Initially, only a few Members were allowed that authorized by Board.
    • From 2009/06, anyone are allowed literally.
    • But problems are occured.
      • Conflict of default desktop environment: Gnome? or KDE?
      • Confused suggestions: Server edition, Long term support edition or openSLES edition
  • "Member" efforts to open Factory (development repository) for non-Novell users.
  • Introduction of openSUSE Build Service
    • An automatic service for building packages on cross-platform and cross-architecture
    • Requirements: sources from upstream and .spec file
    • It can build not only openSUSE/SLES but also RHEL, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu and so on.
    • CUI ready
    • openSUSE Build Service itself is open source.
  • openSUSE Build Service DEMO
  • Introduction of SUSE Studio
    • It can create customized appliance based on openSUSE or SLES.
    • LiveCD, LiveDVD, VMWare image, Xen image and so on
    • It can use each latest packages if you want.
    • Only browser for creation
    • Only browser for test
    • log-on with openID
  • SUSE Studio DEMO
• Part 2: Brainstorming – OWN & Contribution
  • When Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier came to Japan in last fall, I was asked to translate openSUSE weekly news into Japanese.
  • I tried to translate it, then it had been found by openSUSE weekly news team, and dealt as official translation.
  • At Now, translators are increasing a few
  • The volume of openSUSE weekly news had been small for English speakers.
    • They had requested increasing the volume, then accepted.
  • Now the volume is too big for non-English speakers.
    • mixture of news related openSUSE and news of the entire Linux community
  • Would we limit the translation within news related openSUSE only?
  • Similar situations in translators of other non-English weekly news
  • Similar situations in translators of other Linux distribution's weekly news

N.B. These summaries may be imprecise.