Hi all,
We had the openSUSE Virtual Summit was May 1. Around 156 people
registered for the event, which featured 14 talks. The schdule of the
talks can be found at
https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/oSvirtsmt/schedule/events. We
will get the videos up on our Youtube channel as soon as we can.
The planning of the event took about a month from start to finish. The
event was a subsitute for the openSUSE Summit in Dublin that was
cancelled -
https://news.opensuse.org/2020/03/06/openSUSE-Summit-Dublin-Canceled/
The tool that was used for this was on opensuse.reqmagic.com. The tool
developed over a five-week period and was Minimum Viable Project still
considered to be in the Alpha phase of development. While considered an
Alpha level MVP, opensuse.reqmagic.com functioned well enough to have a
sucessful virtual summit. The interactions at the summit were great and
people had time to ask questions and discuss a variety of things online.
Feedback about the summit included the following:
Sound
End user audio quality is by far the biggest problem.
* For best quality audio a high quality stereo USB headset from Jabra
or Plantronics is recommended.
* Bluetooth *not* recommended - 2 way communications forces it to
mono, not stereo audio (stereo is essential for spatial audio).
* Local network issues are the next most common cause of bad audio -
usually WiFi is to blame. Try to use a cabled ethernet or make sure
you have a good wifi audio
* Other devices streaming content are also problematic.(Ie Netflix,
gaming, etc) - whilst these these services can tolerate network
issues because they have large caches, they can swamp available
bandwidth and cause problems for realtime audio.
The mute button did not work sporatically, which left a few microphones
open during talks. (To continue with the summit, we recommended people
mute their micrphone through their operating system)
Options to consider for the development - Muteall --force would be nice
and abiity to mute somone else.
Consider use the different icon on Mute and Live
The constant beeping, e.g. when other participants log in, ... is almost
worse, especially for hearing impaired (or sensitive) persons (with
hearing aids). A colleague therefore had to leave the presentation. Some
of which could be solved witht the features that will be improved.
Feeback for improvement.
Structure
Spread sessions apart so they are not running back to back. Feeback for
improvement.
Each presenter was to share their slides through their web browser. As a
back up plan, having links to presentations so the adminsitrator could
share the slides while the attendee could brief can be considered a best
practice. Also, links to the slides should be sent to the organzier
before the event.
The summit schedule in the tool did not show times of the talks. Feeback
for improvement.
Features
It would be nice and also helpful for understanding to see the speaker
as well, not only the presentation( like Richard did -
https://youtu.be/idZEJ0OYfWU)
Sponsorship banners were too high aboove the presentation slides. Should
try to make them closer to the presentation or create a sponsorship
frame that the presentation is inside of. Feeback for improvement.
During the summit, many people were using the Telegram group
(t.me/oSVS2020), email and phone calls to commuicate with adminstrators
and other attendees. Having a chat inside the tool would be helpful in
communicating with one another should there be technical difficulties or
to communicate delays, etc. It would be transparent and everyone can see
what is happening. Each session could also have a session chat, which
posts an automatic reminder at th end the the session is over. Feeback
for improvement.
Chatbox for chat with each others. Feeback for improvement.
Firefox seems to work without any issues, even it´s not recommended.
Positive result feeback.
Inform the people upfront, how the virtual conferece tool is working.
Not everyone was able to attend the first session that introduced the
"rules". An email was sent to help mitigate this and a session was given
to help inform people of the best practice for partiicpating in the
event - https://www.slideshare.net/douglasdemaio/virtual-summit-intro
Perhaps an introduction video for use could be one of the first things
seen to introduce people to the tool. Feeback for improvement.
Maybe a "fullscreen-mode" for (while) the presentations?
People started to update their avitar and understood the value of
updating the personal info. Positive result feeback.
Raise Hand for ask questions
Consider use the different icon on Mute and Live
Include a hashtag for Tweets. Area to show people the hastag :D
#oSvirtsmt #oSVS20
Talks
Intro to Plugin Oriented Programming -
https://pop-book.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Intro to the Virtual Summit
IT Risk Management Based on ISO 31000 and OWASP Framework using OSINT
(Case Study: Election Commission of X City) -
https://www.slideshare.net/secret/oW693cwzkvddLh
Introduction Podman for Beginner -
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UD9IGi6yEC51PFcjdyifsiYhJmfu6ztoJBKcuW5wVkU/edit#slide=id.p1
Translating Open Source Apps -
https://blog.kukuh.syafaat.id/slides/oSvirtsmt/translating-open-source-apps.pdf
Sway on openSUSE user status -
https://denisok.github.io/oSC20-openSUSEway/index.html#/
CSS containers: making websites accessible to disabled users -
https://johnrhudson.me.uk/computing/CSS_containers_presentation.pdf
Jump! Current state and upcoming challenges -
https://www.slideshare.net/douglasdemaio/jump-current-state-and-upcoming-challenges
The Current and Future strategy for openSUSE Leap -
https://en.opensuse.org/File:Osvirtsmt-2020-opensuse-leap-strategy.pdf
Keep it up and running - AKA openSUSE maintenance -
https://www.slideshare.net/deneb_alpha/opensuse-virtual-summit-2020-opensuse-maintenance-232999010
Uyuni: the solution to manage your Linux infrastructure -
https://www.slideshare.net/pgquiles/uyuni-the-solution-to-manage-your-infrastructure-233012001
openSUSE MicroOS - the OS that does "just one job" -
https://youtu.be/idZEJ0OYfWU)
Linux in the Time of COVID19
Flexible and Fast Software Delivery with the Open Build Service at Datto
- https://ngompa.fedorapeople.org/datto-obs-sw-delivery-oSvirtSummit.pdf
Limitless Potential: Using Modularity in Programming to Spur and Sustain
Open Source Innovation -
https://www.slideshare.net/douglasdemaio/limitless-potential-using-modularity-in-programming-to-spur-and-sustain-open-source-innovation
and https://pop-book.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
v/r
Doug
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