Wer ownCloud verwendet hat sich sicherlich auch schon über einen sicheren Messenger Gedanken gemacht und ist dabei bei Threema gelandet, einem sehr fortgeschrittenen, vor allem sicheren Messenger Programm. Es ist sicher eine sehr gute Wahl gegenüber Anbietern mit zweifelhafter Privacy-Strategie wie WhatsApp.

Seit einigen Wochen bietet Threema ein weiteres interessantes Feature mit dem Namen Threema Safe an, das ein automatisches Backup der wichtigen persönlichen ID, die den User in Threema kennzeichnet, und anderer Threema-Daten durchführt. Es kann so eingerichtet werden, dass die Backupdaten verschlüsselt auf der eigenen ownCloud gespeichert werden. Wie das eingerichtet werden kann, wird hier beschrieben.

Ordner zur Speicherung

Als erstes loggt man sich per Web-Browser ein und legt in ownCloud einen Folder an, in dem man das Backup speichern möchte, zb. mit dem Namen threemaBackup. Um ihn für das Backup von Threema vorzubereiten, wechselt man dort hinein und legt einen Folder mit dem Namen backups an. Das ist wichtig, denn wenn der nicht vorhanden ist, funktioniert das Backup nicht, ohne dass eine sinnvolle Fehlermeldung von Threema ausgegeben wird.

Als nächstes wird eine config-Datei angelegt, die von Threema gelesen wird. Dazu wird im Verzeichnis threemaBackup eine Textdatei mit dem Namen config angelegt, die folgenden Inhalt hat:

{
"maxBackupBytes": 524288,
"retentionDays": 180
}

Achtung, alle Klammern, Anführungszeichen und Doppelpunkte sind wichtig!

Public Share

Als nächsten Schritt erzeugt man einen passwortgeschützten sog. Public Share auf das obere Verzeichnis mit dem Namen threemaBackup.

Ein solcher Share sollte für Threema Safe verwendet werden, denn das hat einen entscheidenden Vorteil: Der Zugriff auf ownCloud soll natürlich per Passwort geschützt sein, das Threema naturgemäss zum Zugriff braucht. Es muss also dauerhaft auf dem Handy, auf dem Threema installiert ist, gespeichert werden.

Dafür sollte besser nicht der normale Account des ownCloud Users verwendet werden, denn im Falle eines Verlustes wäre ein Zugriff auf alle Daten des Users in der ownCloud möglich.

Der Public Link mit Passwort hingegen beschränkt den Zugriff im Falle eines Unglücks nur auf das einzelne threemaBackup Verzeichnis, der auch nur verwendet werden kann, wenn gleichzeitig der leicht cryptische Verzeichnisname des public Link bekannt ist.

Zum Anlegen des Public Share wird im Browser der Ordner threemaBackup selektiert und auf das Teilen-Symbol (1) geklickt. Daraufhin wird auf Öffentliche Links (2) geklickt und dann Öffentlichen Link erstellen (3).

Der darauf erscheinende Dialog wird ausgefüllt mit einem sinnvollen Passwort und den Zugriffsrechten für Upload und auch Download („Herunterladen / Ansehen / Hochladen“), da Threema ja das config-File lesen muss.

Nach Klicken auf Ok erscheint der Name des neuen Link in einer Liste, und daneben befindet sich unter anderem ein Symbol, das den Link in die Zwischenablage kopiert.

Wenn dieser betätigt wird, erhält man in die Zwischenablage einen Link der Form

https://myowncloudserver.net/index.php/s/uFvHQ4GVjuUv5xd

Den kann man im Browser verwenden, und nach Eingabe des Passwortes Daten hochladen, die dann wie gewünscht im Verzeichnis threemaBackup auf der ownCloud erscheinen.

Leider ist der Link in dieser Form nicht für Threema geeignet, da man dort das Passwort nicht interaktiv eingeben kann.

Dieser Link kann in die folgende Form umgeschrieben werden:

https://uFvHQ4GVjuUv5xd:foobar4711@myowncloudserver.net/public.php/webdav

Damit ist er verwendbar in Threema. Es wird der public-Link-Identifier uFvHQ4GVjuUv5xd als Username verwendet und das Passwort, das für den Link verwendet wurde, folgt dem Namen nach einem Doppelpunkt, beides vor dem ‚@servername‘. Wichtig ist noch, dass nach der Domain anstatt des vorherigen index.php der Zugriff über public.php/webdav in das gesharte Verzeichnis erfolgt.

Threema Konfiguration

Der Link (natürlich aus eigener ID, Passwort und Domain zusammengesetzt) wird in die Threema-Konfigurationsmaske eingetragen. Die erreicht man in Threema im Menüpunkt<i>Meine Backups</i>. Dort wird rechts oben Threema Safe eingeschaltet, worauf das Passwort, mit dem die Backups verschlüsselt werden, eingegeben werden muss. Dieses Passwort darf nicht mit dem, das oben besprochen wurde, verwechselt werden. Jedoch muss es gut gemerkt werden, um das Backup später wieder entschlüsseln zu können.

Jetzt muss auf Experten-Einstellungen geklickt werden, um den Threema-Standardserver abzuwählen und den eigenen ownCloud Server anzugeben.

Mit dem Server Testen Button kann geprüft werden, ob alles funktioniert. Wenn ja, wird Threema von nun an die Backups auf die eigene Cloud speichern. Man kann die Backup Files auf der ownCloud im gesharten Verzeichnis sehen.

Wenn es Schwierigkeiten gibt, liegt es bestimmt nur an einem Schreibfehler in der URL, die Eingabe von der Share-ID und einem sicheren Passwort ist zugegebenerweise etwas mühsam auf der Handytastatur.

Viel Erfolg!

Hace unos años hice una mesita de noche para mi esposa. Siempre tuve la intención de hacer una para mí y otra para mi hija... y bueno, ocho años después empiezo a hacerlas.

La mesita original no tiene cajones, pero estas dos nuevas sí van a tener, uno cada una.

A lo largo de los días pasados he estado preparando la madera para todas las piezas principales; los cajones irán al final, pues las medidas del cajón salen del espacio que quede ya que el resto esté armado.

Tengo unos tablones de cedro aromático que quiero usar para las patas y para las piezas del cajón, para que al abrirlo siempre huela bonito. Los travesaños van a ser del mismo cedro; las superficies de unas tablas muy lindas de caoba que tengo por ahí.

Los tablones ya estaban cuadrados. Mi intención original era usarlos para una ventana, pero cambiaron los planes. En fin, así me ahorro el trabajo inicial de cuadrarlos.

Las patas

Primero puse el gramil a 1.25" para las patas. Las mesitas son cuadradas, y también quiero patas cuadradas. Se marca a lo largo del tablón.

Serruché lo más cerca posible de la línea, a 1 ó 1.5mm, para luego tener poco qué cepillar. Se alínea el serrucho con respecto a las dos líneas en una esquina; como dos líneas que se cruzan en el espacio determinan un plano, ese es el plano que seguirá el serrucho. Volteo el tablón regularmente, digamos después de serrucharle cada 10cm, y lo serrucho desde el otro lado para que se mantenga parejo.

Por cierto, este serrucho para corte longitudinal es una delicia. Lo afilé hace poco y le suavicé las curvas del mango, entonces es muy cómodo de agarrar. Tengo que hacerle lo mismo al mango de mi serrucho grande de corte transversal. Aquí están ambos, el de corte longitudinal arriba y ya suavizado, el de corte transversal abajo. Nótense las esquinas que llegan a lastimar.

La tira de madera que corté, la guardo, y prosigo a enderezar el canto del tablón con la garlopa. Como el corte estaba bien alineado, sólo con unas pasadas del cepillo queda derecho. De todas formas lo checo con escuadra.

Esto se repite para cada una de las 8 patas. A la mitad del proceso tengo que afilar la cuchilla de la garlopa... entre que pierde su filo y que uno se cansa, la afilada es una buena pausa. Se afila y se pule sobre cuero...

... hasta que el bisel queda lindo y brilloso.

Ahora bien, el grosor del tablón no es igual al ancho que quiero para las patas. En cada pieza, cepillo la cara recién cortada y luego marco todo alrededor con el gramil para el grosor final.

Así quedan las 8 patas, a las que nada más les falta cepillar la última cara.

De las tiras sobrantes, puedo usar las más gruesas para sacar los travesaños.

Ahora falta cepillar la última cara de las patas. La forma más rápida que encontré es primero un corte grueso con el cepillo, y luego un corte fino con la garlopa. Como las patas ya están marcadas todo alrededor con el gramil, sólo hay que cepillar hasta la línea; ni siquiera hay que revisar con la escuadra.

Por fin, 8 patas listas para trabajarse. Imagínenme bañado en sudor y con brazos como de Dragon Ball.

Travesaños

Las mesitas tienen dos tipos de travesaños: unos estrechos para la parte inferior, y unos anchos para alrededor del cajón.

Los estrechos no tienen problema; ya están cortados, pues salieron de las tiras sobrantes de las patas. Nada más se alisan con el cepillo de acabados.

Los travesaños anchos funcionan como faldones de la mesita. Las tablas que tengo son más gruesas de lo que quiero, entonces marco el grosor con el gramil y primero les cepillo un bisel hasta la línea. Así no se astilla la madera al cepillarlas de forma transversal — lo que es la forma más rápida de adelgazar las tablas.

Frentes de cajones

Abajo de cada frente de cajón, queda otro travesaño. Quiero que la veta de la madera se conserve entre cajón y travesaño, entonces corto ambas partes de la misma pieza. Les dibujo triángulos con lápiz para mantenerlas siempre bien orientadas.

Por cierto, esas piezas son más gruesas que los travesaños delgados. Para poder usar ambas manos en el mango del serrucho, se me hizo cómodo sostener la madera al banco de serruchado con unos sargentos.

Todas las piezas

Y bien, he aquí el resultado de tres días de serruchar y cepillar y serruchar y cepillar y serruchar y cepillar.

Mañana comienzo con los ensambles.

Me sirvió mucho lo que leí por ahí, de terminar todas las operaciones iguales antes de pasar a una diferente. Hacer todas las marcas iguales, luego serruchar todos los cortes iguales, luego cepillar todas las caras iguales, etc. Sí que se avanza más rápido que al hacer cada pieza de forma individual.

Dos mesitas de noche:

• Parte 1: Preparar las piezas
• Parte 2: Marcar las patas
• Parte 3: Los cajones

Hace unos años hice una mesita de noche para mi esposa. Siempre tuve la intención de hacer una para mí y otra para mi hija... y bueno, ocho años después empiezo a hacerlas.

La mesita original no tiene cajones, pero estas dos nuevas sí van a tener, uno cada una.

A lo largo de los días pasados he estado preparando la madera para todas las piezas principales; los cajones irán al final, pues las medidas del cajón salen del espacio que quede ya que el resto esté armado.

Tengo unos tablones de cedro aromático que quiero usar para las patas y para las piezas del cajón, para que al abrirlo siempre huela bonito. Los travesaños van a ser del mismo cedro; las superficies de unas tablas muy lindas de caoba que tengo por ahí.

Los tablones ya estaban cuadrados. Mi intención original era usarlos para una ventana, pero cambiaron los planes. En fin, así me ahorro el trabajo inicial de cuadrarlos.

Las patas

Primero puse el gramil a 1.25" para las patas. Las mesitas son cuadradas, y también quiero patas cuadradas. Se marca a lo largo del tablón.

Serruché lo más cerca posible de la línea, a 1 ó 1.5mm, para luego tener poco qué cepillar. Se alínea el serrucho con respecto a las dos líneas en una esquina; como dos líneas que se cruzan en el espacio determinan un plano, ese es el plano que seguirá el serrucho. Volteo el tablón regularmente, digamos después de serrucharle cada 10cm, y lo serrucho desde el otro lado para que se mantenga parejo.

Por cierto, este serrucho para corte longitudinal es una delicia. Lo afilé hace poco y le suavicé las curvas del mango, entonces es muy cómodo de agarrar. Tengo que hacerle lo mismo al mango de mi serrucho grande de corte transversal. Aquí están ambos, el de corte longitudinal arriba y ya suavizado, el de corte transversal abajo. Nótense las esquinas que llegan a lastimar.

La tira de madera que corté, la guardo, y prosigo a enderezar el canto del tablón con la garlopa. Como el corte estaba bien alineado, sólo con unas pasadas del cepillo queda derecho. De todas formas lo checo con escuadra.

Esto se repite para cada una de las 8 patas. A la mitad del proceso tengo que afilar la cuchilla de la garlopa... entre que pierde su filo y que uno se cansa, la afilada es una buena pausa. Se afila y se pule sobre cuero...

... hasta que el bisel queda lindo y brilloso.

Ahora bien, el grosor del tablón no es igual al ancho que quiero para las patas. En cada pieza, cepillo la cara recién cortada y luego marco todo alrededor con el gramil para el grosor final.

Así quedan las 8 patas, a las que nada más les falta cepillar la última cara.

De las tiras sobrantes, puedo usar las más gruesas para sacar los travesaños.

Ahora falta cepillar la última cara de las patas. La forma más rápida que encontré es primero un corte grueso con el cepillo, y luego un corte fino con la garlopa. Como las patas ya están marcadas todo alrededor con el gramil, sólo hay que cepillar hasta la línea; ni siquiera hay que revisar con la escuadra.

Por fin, 8 patas listas para trabajarse. Imagínenme bañado en sudor y con brazos como de Dragon Ball.

Travesaños

Las mesitas tienen dos tipos de travesaños: unos estrechos para la parte inferior, y unos anchos para alrededor del cajón.

Los estrechos no tienen problema; ya están cortados, pues salieron de las tiras sobrantes de las patas. Nada más se alisan con el cepillo de acabados.

Los travesaños anchos funcionan como faldones de la mesita. Las tablas que tengo son más gruesas de lo que quiero, entonces marco el grosor con el gramil y primero les cepillo un bisel hasta la línea. Así no se astilla la madera al cepillarlas de forma transversal — lo que es la forma más rápida de adelgazar las tablas.

Frentes de cajones

Abajo de cada frente de cajón, queda otro travesaño. Quiero que la veta de la madera se conserve entre cajón y travesaño, entonces corto ambas partes de la misma pieza. Les dibujo triángulos con lápiz para mantenerlas siempre bien orientadas.

Por cierto, esas piezas son más gruesas que los travesaños delgados. Para poder usar ambas manos en el mango del serrucho, se me hizo cómodo sostener la madera al banco de serruchado con unos sargentos.

Todas las piezas

Y bien, he aquí el resultado de tres días de serruchar y cepillar y serruchar y cepillar y serruchar y cepillar.

Mañana comienzo con los ensambles.

Me sirvió mucho lo que leí por ahí, de terminar todas las operaciones iguales antes de pasar a una diferente. Hacer todas las marcas iguales, luego serruchar todos los cortes iguales, luego cepillar todas las caras iguales, etc. Sí que se avanza más rápido que al hacer cada pieza de forma individual.

Al igual que hice con mi blog principal hace un par de años, acabo de mover La Viruta Rebelde al motor de Pelican.

Todos los articulos viejos se encuentran aquí.

2018 is over and 2019 starts. This is a great opportunity to look back, reflect and to try to look into the future. I predict that 2019 will be a very good year for privacy, open source and decentralized cloud software. Maybe even the mainstream breakthrough of federated and decentralized internet services!

Let me explain why:

The mainstream opinion about centralized services started to change in 2018 and I think this trend will continue in 2019. More and more people see the issue with large, centralized data silos that control more and more of our private lives, democratic processes and society as a whole. Some examples from 2018 where bad news hit the press include:

• The never ending list of Facebook scandals: Wired
• Twitter election meddling: BostonGlobe
• Amazon Alexa is listening to private conversations and is leaking the data: Heise and  BusinessInsider
• Dropbox is leaking private date: TechTarget
• Google Plus is insecure and will shut down: CNBC

This year, Europe introduced the GDPR to regulate the collection of private data. I believe it is a good start and think we ultimately we need rules as described in the User Data Manifesto
I expected that people in the US and Asia wouldn’t take the GDPR seriously and make fun of Europeans tendency to ‘over-regulate’. So I was surprised to see that the GDPR was widely praised as a step into the right direction. People in Asia and US are already asking for similar regulations in their markets, California has already announced its own variant of the GDPR with the California Consumer Privacy Act.

This clearly shows that the world is changing. People realize more and more that extensive centralized data collection is a problem. This is an opportunity for open source and decentralized and federated alternatives to enter the mainstream.

At Nextcloud we have become widely recognized as one of the major alternatives. And this year was big for us, with three big releases introducing new technologies the world needs going forward. Let me name just a few:

• End-to-end Encryption. In 2018 Nextcloud launched support for full end 2 end encrypted file sync and share.
• Nextcloud Talk. Beginning of 2018 we launched Nextcloud Talk as a fully integrated self hosted, open source and decentralized chat and audio/video call solution
• Just a few weeks ago we launched Social with ActivityPub support to integrated with Mastodon and other projects of the Fediverse.
• Simple Signup. In summer we launched the Simple Signup feature to make it possible for new users to sign up at one of the Nextcloud providers directly from the Mobile and Desktop apps.
• We launched our unique Video Verification feature to become the most secure file share platform.
• In summer we announced the initiative to ship Nextcloud preinstalled on millions of NEC routers, something that will take off in 2019, you might have seen the prototype devices on social media.
• This fall we launched the Nextcloud Include program with funding from the Reinhard von König Preis for innovation. I’m happy we run this project together with my old friends from KDE.

In 2018 I traveled to more events and countries than ever before. It’s great to see how the Nextcloud community is growing all over the globe. On the company and business side we also have good news. The Nextcloud company is growing nicely in all areas. There will be separate news about this soon.

Of course it’s the mission of Nextcloud to not do everything alone. This is why we launched a lot of integration projects in 2018. For example with Rocket.Chat, Moodle, StorJ, Mastodon and others. I’m really happy to see that other open source and decentralization projects do as well as Nextcloud.

I think 2019 could be the year where open source, federated and self-hosted technology hits mainstream, taking on the proprietary, centralized data silos keeping people’s personal information hostage. Society becoming more critical about data collection will fuel this development.

If you want to make a difference then join Nextcloud or one of the other project that develop open source decentralized and federated solutions. I think 2019 is the year were we can win the internet back!

Notes:
I always write note in my laptop and put it somewhere either on disk or cloud when I think there is an interesting experience. I found this 7 years old note when I try to clear some space in my disk, and before I wipe it out from my disk I think it is an interesting story to share with you. This happened in 2011, at that time I was working to build Linux based computer labs for 500 elementary and junior high schools in Yogyakarta Indonesia. No it is not about computer and other geeky stuff. So here it is. 
Well, it is very out of topic everyone, you've already been warned 😁

During my busy weeks in implementing openSUSE Li-f-e for schools in Yogyakarta Indonesia (see the pictures below), me and one of my colleague use our free time in a Sunday afternoon to visit Borobudur, the biggest Buddhist temple in the world. One of the World Heritage preserve by Unesco. 85% of Indonesia population are Moslem and this make Indonesia the biggest Moslem country in the world. We are tolerant people and respect diversity. Our national motto is Bhinneka Tunggal Ika means "Unity in Diversity". That's why the biggest Buddhist temple stand still here. In Indonesia, kids learn about it in history and culture subject in middle schools. I still remember my history teacher told the story in front of the class and I was very amazed at that time. She said that the temple was build by Princess Pramodhawardhani the daughter of King Samaratungga from Syailendra clan who ruled Java Island in 8th - 9th century. She also told that the temple rising in the middle of the lake (when it was built) and form a lotus flower and leaf in the center of a lake. Wow .......

Busy weeks:






Some Yogyakarta city pics:






It was light rain and a cloudy afternoon. To go there we must passed the bridge in Kali Putih river (literally "kali" means river in Indonesian language), after Mount Merapi eruption in October 2010 this location always damage by the massive cold lava and volcanic material from the last eruption. We saw some very big rocks and large volume of sand beside the street. That's explain why sometime we find a big rock in the middle of flat land. The cold lava was very huge, maybe there are plenty of archaeological sites around this area still buried beneath the surface because this happened also in the past. Around 4 PM we arrived in Borobudur, parked the car, and run to the sites around 1 km to the top. It was light rain and cloudy, not a perfect condition to take some pictures and we will miss the sunset 😞
Everyone should wearing "kain/sarung batik" that we can borrow (for free) after entering the main gate. We were a bit late, the temple will close on 5 PM. Huh..... 😟

Some pics:










This time I want to search Manohara in scuplture/stone relief in level 1. Borobudur consist of 3 level and the first (named Kamadatu) and second level (named Rupadatu) are full of stone relief. Manohara is a Kinnari, half woman and half bird creature while Kinnara is half man and half bird. The stories, where she roles as a heroine, is compiled in the Dvijavadana anthology (from sanskrit word means Glorious Heavenly Acts, wow .....). Manohara married with the Prince Sudhana in that story, the story about how to act heavenly.
I took some pictures here and there but I'm not sure that was Manohara 😀
In the end I'm not sure I found Manohara because I'm not well prepared, belief me I enjoy reading epic, history and cultural literature. I'm not just a linux freak 😅
My colleague told me that better I took photograph of stewardess because they usually pretty and always fly (like Manohara) 😆

Actually I never found this "Manohara" stewardess maybe because I'm not a prince. I found a woman that give me a magic feeling though, but she can't fly for sure 😂

Sculpture - Stone relief:








In 5 PM, the site guards ask everyone to leave Borobudur because they will closed. I asked one of the guides there how to transfer the rain water from the top to the ground below, the drainage system of this temple. Borobudur lie in the hill, beneath the rock surface there should be the hill. How to avoid the water not  infiltrate to the hill behind the relief-rock? If the water go directly to the hill inside the rock then Borobudur can collapse. This can be a really challenging task. Restoration team engineers found the solution and make a drainage system beneath the temple floor and transfer the water from the top to the ground outside the temple. Originally the rain water was transferred using gargoyle in the corners but now it is not use anymore because it can damage the temple.

Drainage and wall section:





 

These are some of my suggestions if you visit Borobudur:

• Early in the morning, so you can see the sunrise. I think it is not possible because the sites open at 8 AM. But maybe you can arrange it for special condition. Well, I don't know.
• Do not visit it between 11 AM - 2 PM becuase it can be very hot. It is located in equator area 😀
• Try to be there between 2 PM- 3 PM, so you have time to explore the relief/sculpture in Kamadatu and Rupadatu.
• If possible visit it in dry season between May - September, don't go there in rainy season you can miss the best moment to see the sunset.
• Because the site is closed in 5 PM, you should ask the guides or the guard if you can wait a little longer to take some pictures.
• Don't forget to bring your hat and umbrella. It can be very hot or very wet 😅
• If you like photography bring your wide-angle lense.

So everyone, when do you visit Yogyakarta? I can show you how we implement openSUSE in schools and as a bonus you can see one of the greatest world heritage 😃

Additional notes;
After openSUSE.Asia Summit 2016 in Yogyakarta Indonesia, we had one day tour to Borobudur temple and Prambanan temple. Prambanan is a Hindu temple on the east of Yogyakarta, it is also a beautiful Unesco World Heritage. We had a lot of fun!



 

Churches generally have no budget for technology and frankly, I don’t think that a church should really avoid spending on technology as much as possible. I’m sure this isn’t a view many people share but it is my view. I believe it using whatever is available whenever possible and only making upgrades or purchasing new … Continue reading openSUSE Linux on a Dell Inspiron 3646 | Low Budget Multimedia Configuration for a Small Church →

Year 2018 is a remarkable year for the Indonesian openSUSE community. There are quite a lot of our achievements as a community that make us proud. As a long time person in this community, I feel that there are quite a lot of young people who can be role models for future generations. Even though the dominance of "you again" cannot be denied, because the same people are also activists in BlankON, LibreOfficeID, Glib, and other communities, it does not reduce my admiration for their militancy towards the spread of FOSS use in Indonesia.



One of openSUSE community friend once said to me, the first step is the most difficult. When I started using Linux in 1997 no one used it at my workplace. I have been using Unix for about 2 years and it happens that many GNU software is also used on both operating systems so the commands are not so weird for me. But it is very difficult to find people to have direct discussion at that time. At present the obstacles that I felt before seemed to be gone. There are many places for people to ask as long as there is intention.

It is also quite encouraging about the openSUSE translation. Unlike some other language versions, which are some of it translated by SUSE, the translation into Indonesian language is purely community work. Many thanks to the translation team, I have to name a few here, Arif Budiman, Kukuh Syafaat, and "primbon ijo" (green sacred book) bot manager, Yan Arief. Of course thank you also for all members of the translation team, there are 30 people. I don't mention them one by one, nevertheless you are all great 🙂.

There are some people who were accepted as openSUSE members in 2018, which I remember were Kukuh Syafaat, Dhenandi, Estu Fardani, Yan Arief. Some more people have applied for membership registration applications, I am sure they are eligible, and just a matter of time to be approved. If you are interested, please submit by following the instructions on the wiki page.

The saddest day for the community in 2018 is when we lose Muhammad Rafi in February 2018. I do not know him closely, but I've met him a couple of times, on the August 2017 Bekraf Habibie Festival, openSUSE 42.3 release party and some other events. On that occasions I knew him as a passionate and very humble young man. All our prayers for the late Rafi.

On March 23-25, ​​2018 Indonesia openSUSE Comunity / openSUSE received an invitation to open a booth at the Indonesian LibreOffice Conference. Thank you to the LibreOffice Indonesia Community for giving us the opportunity to participate in the event. openSUSE has always supported LibreOffice since the start of the project. Furthermore, please read how go-oo has been stopped and integrated into LibreOffice.

On May 21, 2018, we made a ticket in openSUSE progress to improve the status of community-managed repos to become openSUSE official mirror repository. On May 22, 2018, Per Jessen, one of the openSUSE Heroes Team members replied and said our repo officially entered the official openSUSE mirror repo. Hopefully this can help provide a fast and up-to-date update for the Indonesian openSUSE community.

openSUSE Leap 15.0 was released on May 25, 2018 during openSUSE Conference 2018 in Prague. KLAS Surabaya was the first to hold a Leap 15.0 release party in Indonesia on June 2, 2018. Thank you Darian Rizaluddin and friends for the initiative. We can count on you 🙂. In collaboration with Glib, openSUSE Indonesia also held a release party in Bogor on July 1, 2018. You are all cool!

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2018 was held in conjunction with GNOME.Asia Summit 2018 and COSCUP in Taipei 11-12 August 2018. In 2018 there were quite a number of colleagues from openSUSE Indonesia Community who attended the event both as speakers and participants. Good to you all. If you want to go abroad and to be paid up to 80% of your travel cost, don't hesitate to join the community and submit a proposal, who knows if you are selected 🙂.





During openSUSE.Asia Summit 2018, registration for Call for Host for a similar event in 2019 also opened. India and Indonesia volunteered to become candidates for the host. Finally, after the voting was held, on October 5, 2018 Bali, Indonesia was appointed as host of the openSUSE.Asia 2019 Summit.



The core committee for openSUSE. Asia Summit 2019 has already started the preparation work, there are Kukuh, Dhenandi, Ary, Yan Arief, Estu, Rania, Rifki. They have conducted a survey in Bali and the plan is openSUSE.Asia Summit 2019 will take place in the Information Technology Department, Faculty of Engineering, Udayana University in October 2019. Thank you for Putu Shinoda, our community member who also a lecturer in Udayana University who has been willing to become the host. The committee will definitely need a lot of help and support, and awaited the participation of all the Indonesian openSUSE community members.

The Indonesian openSUSE community contributes to the design of mugs for openSUSE GSoC mentors. There are 3 people who submitted the designs, Ahmad Romadhon (Rania), Pramasta, Tamara. Pramasta's design was finally chosen. Aris Winardi also made a poster for the openSUSE Board Elections that will be held in February 2019. Thank you all.

There is one thing in 2018 that Indonesian openSUSE community cannot fulfill, namely participation as student for Google Summer of Code under the openSUSE organization. I and Ana (openSUSE Board member) since 2017 have planned to promote GSoC to attract more students from Indonesia to this event. Unfortunately, from 3 people who expressed their interest in 2018 they could not go further. I noticed the weakness of our young people was not to start by doing research on the project in the first place, even though the openSUSE project that is included is very open, it can be seen on github! Also they're waiting until the last seconds to submit the proposal. You should prepare as early as possible, do PR if you see an opportunity for improvement, make it as exercise and warm up while showing your abilities to the mentor, and at the same time preparing your proposal. Well, some of them did a good job but the selection process sometimes is way too hard.

For GSoC in 2019, let's try again, there's still a chance, although from what I heard it is not sure yet that openSUSE will participate in GSoC in 2019. There are already 2 students who expressed their desire to participate. Prepare yourself from now on. For others if you are interested, stay tuned!


Thank you openSUSE Indonesia community for remarkably year 2018. Hopefully in 2019 many new young people will come and join to contribute to openSUSE, disseminate the use of FOSS and spread goodness to others.

Have a lot of fun! 

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