The openSUSE Summit at OSCAL 2022 will take place on one day of OSCAL and people are encouraged to submit a talk about openSUSE and open source. There are two talks that can be submitted for the summit. One is a short talk with a 10-minute limit and the other is a normal talk with a 30-minute limit.
The summit will be a hybrid event, so people can submit talks for presentation at the event or submit a talk and do it virtually if they are unable to travel to Albania.
Some attendees who want to travel to the conference and summit may be required to apply for a visa. If an attendee requires visa approval, they can email oscal (at) openlabs.com to assist with an invitation to the conference. All attendees traveling to the conference/summit require the following:
For more information, visit Albania’s Federal Foreign Office website.
The openSUSE community has opened the call for papers for a summit that will be held in conjunction with Open Source Conference Albania (OSCAL) 2022.
People can submit a talk for the openSUSE Summit at OSCAL 2022 from now until Apr il 26 on events.opensuse.org.
Live streaming of the summit will be available on Saturday morning, 10am-1pm, at the following link:
Anton Sankov
Anton is a software engineer, currently employed by VMware Carbon Black, working with Go and Kubernetes. For the past year, his focus has been mostly on Security and building easy-to-use security products. He is passionate about writing clean idiomatic high-quality Go code and security.
Besjana Muraku
Boris Stoyanov Coursera
Boris is a Senior Software Engineer in Coursera, helping bring hands-on education to everyone. He’s focusing on observability and process work, building a system that’s robust and maintainable.
Chris Chinchilla
Tech writer for @chronosphereio . Podcaster, video maker, writer of interactive fiction & games
Dan Cermak openSUSE
Dan is creating developer tools, builds container images & works on QA at SUSE. Originally, he started out as a theoretical astrophysicist, but after becoming a contributor to various Open Source projects, he finally made this his full-time job at SUSE
Danjela Lura
Danjela is a fresh computer science undergraduate who is very keen on open source projects and communities. She has been part of the Outreachy 2020 internship program working with the Guix community on the Guix Data Service. In the past she has been involved in initiatives that improve diversity and inclusion within the tech communities that she has been part of. Danjela is a Lisp lover and has a special place in her heart for Clojure. Has recently joined Acrolinx as a Software Engineer.
Dashamir Hoxha
Dashamir is a Computer Engineer with more than 20 years experience in software engineering, Linux server administration, network configuration, technical documentation writing, etc. He always tries to automate things with scripts, in order to make difficult and complex tasks easier for everyone. He enjoys sharing his knowledge with the others by writing technical blogs and making presentations.
Douglas DeMaio openSUSE
Douglas DeMaio is a manager for the openSUSE Project. He was marketing intern for Siemens Healthcare, a Sales and Marketing Manager for microdrones GmbH and has more than 15 years of Public Relations/Public Affairs experience. He has extensive experience in all aspects of news gathering for local, national and international media. He coached Senior officials for press conferences and individual interviews and developed strategic communications, including talking points, messaging, and advising on media approaches for both controversial and non-controversial issues.
Elger Jonker
Stitch is co-organizer for the MCH2022 hacker camp. Has also helped set up SHA2017 and does all kinds of things, for example helped build the design generator, work on the permit and spend office days organizing all kinds of stuff. In the past Stitch helped set up hackerspaces Hack42 and Awesome Space in the Netherlands.
Endri Xhukellari
Endri Xhukellari, 26 years old, graduated for Computer Mathematics, Alexander Xhuvani University. Currently working as Windows SysAdmin. {Capability: Linux & Windows SysAdmin + NodeJS}. He will perform DFIR {Digital Forensics and Incident Response}. The whole laboratory will be created by him. Just take a pad and a pencil.
Engjell Rraklli
Engjell is an European Entrepreneur and serial founder based in Tirana, Albania. In 2015, he founded division5, a software development agency focused on delivering world-class software services in a fast and reliable way. He currently hold the position of CEO at the company. In 2019, division5 closed an investment and partnership deal with PIRATE.Global becoming part of the PIRATE.Global family. Through this agreement, division5 aims to extend division5’s services world-wide. From 2019 onwards, he is the Albanian Ambassador for PIRATE Summit. As Ambassador, his focus is to bridge the Albanian startup ecosystem players with Pirate Summit. In 2020, he co-founded INTRO.chat, a platform aiming to provide the networking section of remote events by bringing its participants together in a chat-roulette fashion. The vision of the platform was to bridge business people with complementary interests together. In Summer 2021, he co-founded KODO, a software academy aiming to train people with coding skills in cutting-edge technologies such as ReactJs, NodeJs or Unity3D. KODO aims to not only train developers in the latest technologies but also to bridge them with entrepreneurs aiming to fuel the startup's ecosystem with new startups. In September 2021, he took the role of Lead Organizer for Google Developers Group Albania. His duty as community lead, is to expand the community by empowering it and it's members. In 2022, he co-founded BEEZ.agency, a 3D boutique aiming to provide 3D development, design and marketing services for companies in Western Europe and the US.
Erjon Curraj
Gerjan Lleshaj Cloud68
Gerjan is a junior system administrator at Cloud68. He enjoys working with container and virtualization technologies. On the side he likes to participate in CTF-s and learn more about malware analysis
Gianluca Boiano Zextras
Giuliano Caregnato Zextras
Hila Fish Wix
Hila Fish is a Senior DevOps Engineer @ Wix. Co-organizer of DevOps-related events. DevOps Community Advocate. Mentoring and helping out wherever possible.
Italo Vignoli The Document Foundation
Italo Vignoli is a founding member of The Document Foundation and the LibreOffice project, the Chairman Emeritus of Associazione LibreItalia, an Ambassador of Software Heritage, and a proud member of Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). He is a past board member of Open Source Initiative (OSI). Italo co-leads LibreOffice marketing, PR and media relations, co-chairs the LibreOffice Certification Program, and is a spokesman for the project. He also handles advocacy and marketing activities for the Open Document Format ISO standard. He has contributed to several large migration projects to LibreOffice, and is a LibreOffice certified migrator and trainer since 2014. From 2004 to 2010 he has been involved in the OOo project. In his professional life, he is a marketing consultant with more than four decades of experience in high tech PR, and a visiting professor of marketing, public speaking and PR post-graduate courses. Italo has a Degree in Humanities at the University of Milan, based on a typewritten thesis in human geography (well before the PC era) and MBAs in Marketing, Public Relations and Journalism. Italo was born on August 12, 1954, at 6PM CET, 27 years before the announcement of the IBM PC in Boca Raton, Florida, on August 12, 1981, at noon EST. Shortly after, he was hired by the second largest computer company to manage high tech PR. Coincidence, or destiny?
Joana Meraja
I studied Psychology and I'm an activist. Recently I was exposed to open source technology and I'm passionate about making video content accessible to everyone.
Johannes Segitz openSUSE
With SUSE since 2014 as security engineer, working on proactive security topics like code review, product pentesting and red teaming. Long time security nerd and open source fanboy. In my free time I’m a scout and volunteer in supporting refugees
Julita Inca Fedora
I am a Fedora Ambassador and GNOME Member Foundation since 2012.HPC Software Specialist of UKAEA, Master in HPC at the University of Edinburgh, Master in Computer Science PUCP and System Engineering degree.
Klesti Fetiu openSUSE
Klesti Fetiu is a young cyber security enthusiast with focus on red teaming. He is graduating bachelor for Computer science and currently working as a professional security engineer. You can see him and his scooter around Tirana together with his HSA's team friends and on other days in open labs hackerspace trying to break things.
Kristi Çunga
I have studied at the University of Tirana, Faculty of Natural Sciences and in 2015 I get a BA degree in Physics. Then, I changed my career path to the creative industry. Currently, I'm working as a digital designer and art director at McCann Tirana. For more than 8 years I am a political activist with a focus on digital human rights, ethical tech, artificial intelligence and open-source technology.
Lars Haefner Wikipedia
Long term Wikipedian mostly active in German Wikipedia and with strong focus on promoting Albania. Content creator and expert for Albania since almost 30 years.
Lucas Lasota FSFE
FSFE's legal project manager. Master and PhD in Law. Researcher and Lecturer at the Humboldt University of Berlin
Lum Ramabaja
Lum co-founded Open Cybernetics, an entity focused on inventing new types peer-to-peer protocols. He is also the project lead at Xfai, a DeFi startup that has come up with a brand new design for more efficient DEXs. Lum has a bachelor’s degree in bioinformatics with a specialization in machine learning from the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, and is currently pursuing a master's in artificial intelligence, with focus on invariant representation learning.
Mariana Balla phpList
Mariana holds a bachelor's and a master's degree in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) granted by the Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tirana. She is engaged in the role of a Product Owner at phpList Ltd, where she leads the development of the company's software. For the past five years, she has been a member of Open Labs Hackerspace, an organization based in Tirana that aims to promote in Albania and in the wider region free and open source technologies, open data, open standards, online privacy and the empowerment of public domain.
Martin Pluskal openSUSE
Martin is associated with both @SUSE and @openSUSE project for many years. While at SUSE he is mostly focusing on quality of released maintenance updates, at openSUSE he is responsible for the maintenance of plenty of packages, as well as membership applications.
Mike Saunders The Document Foundation
Mike Saunders is the Community and Marketing coordinater at The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice. He has been using free and open source software since 1998, starting with Red Hat Linux 5.1!
Nathan Coyle New Union
Nathan Coyle FRSA is the Director of the UK-based civic innovation organisation, New Union. Over the past 5 years, Nathan has been working on the issue of why the language around open data is so confusing and how it is affecting take up from the third sector. On open data and community outreach policy, he has worked with the Governments of the UK, Scotland, Colombia, Kenya, Germany, Romania, Slovakia, Palestinian Authority, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, and more.
Nevis Shkenza
Nevis has graduated from University of Ontario, Canada and since then has been working on startup market to apply best practices on devops culture.
Orkidea Xhaferaj
Orkidea is a knowledge advocate with a deep interest in innovation, public policy, and digitalization for development, with a focus on the use/support of evidence informed policy making; digitalization to strengthen communities; communication; knowledge management; innovation and digitalization; digital rights and project management.owledge management; innovation and digitalization; digital rights and project management.
Rei Arifi
I have been an IT professional for 3 years and a DevOps engineer professionally for 2 years. I started my career in information technology because of my passion for Linux and Open Source.