mwilck
SUSE Music(ian) Space
a project by ralfflaxa
Once again, the SUSE band is coming together to make music and we're planning a party this time round!!! We have a band name :-)
Emacs org-mode (learning)
a project by keichwa
From the manual: "Org is a mode for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, and doing
x86 instructions decoder
a project by bpetkov
This is the tool I've been working on since HW11 and it needs more work. Actually, there's always something which could be done on it. It is basically an x86 instruction decoder with special emphasis on the kernel and decoding interesting pieces of it in order to help in the development of low-level patching techniques, among others. git repo: https://gitlab.suse.de/bp/x86d
linux antivirus engine
an idea by bmwiedemann
http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/dumb/ explained in detail that filtering badness is a dumb idea, so if we wanted to build a linux antivirus software, we would need a whitelist of programs that would be allowed to execute. We can easily use the rpm database for that. But what is missing, is a mechanism through that the kernel would check before executing $binary if it is OK to run it.
Easy openSUSE Upgrade
a project by maverick74
The idea is about an easy way to allow users to make upgrades (e.g.: changing from one major version like 15.0 to version 15.1) using a GUI and as easy as they can in Ubuntu. Something like a notification with a button to perform the upgrade with just one-click, instead of having to deal with the terminal, that frights some new users and gives them the sensation of an outdated system.
Cryptocurencies in openSUSE
a project by pluskalm
I want to create devel project for cryptocurrencies/mining tools/blockchain related stuff, fill it with packages and submit at least some of them to Tumbleweed. Lets go on as Standa took care of creating network:cryptocurrencies
Packman diet 2.0
a project by scarabeus_iv
Continuing last year tweaks of packman project we should proceed in the good work and reduce the packman to provide smallest set of packages possible on Tumbleweed (later on inherited by 43.0...). One of the cool results planned is that on stock openSUSE Tumbleweed user will be able to run most of the multimedia apps and play youtube (this is already working) and also with addition of non-free repository being able to run netflix.
integrate password manager feature into GNOME desktop
a project by fcrozat
I'm currently using LastPass as password manager but it has several drawbacks: * closed-source
Prototype new LTP upstream runltp script
an invention by metan
Currently the upstream LTP is executed by a hacked up and old runltp script that executes even worse and fairly old mess called ltp-pan which in turn actually executes the test cases. This whole thing is a unmaintainable mess that should have been replaced with something simpler a long time ago. It should also have a few more features that has been requested in the meantime and not implemented since nobody wants to touch the code. For instance executing the test cases on a different machine via ssh and writing the results locally. Another feature I've been thinking about for quite some time is a parallel test execution, since most of the test cases in fact could be executed in parallel which could easily speed up the test run twice. There are other tests that cannot, mostly stress tests, but also test cases that modify global system state, i.e. system time, make use of sysv IPC, use loop devices, etc. These kind of tests should be annotated somehow so that we do not end up with a test cases competing for a global resources in a parallel test run.
Evernote client (everpad/geeknote) for openSUSE
a record by mwilck
Evernote is a popular cloud-based note-taking application. It has the advantage of being available on many platforms, thus notes taken on an Android phone are readily available on the desktop, and vice versa. Unfortunately there's no official Evernote client for Linux. It can be used through its Web UI, but a more lightweight client would be desirable as well.
Secure keyboard
an idea by mwilck
This idea was inspired by the recent discussion on the "talk" mailing list about the (in)security of the German ID card. The Chaos Computer Club and other researchers claim that the ID card is insecure. Actual attacks that have been demonstrated are based on keyloggers. Keyloggers might be the biggest security threat for Linux users at this time. Keyloggers are trivial to write for Linux and readily installable, and a keylogger with normal user rights may read root's password. One might ask "Why are we caring about local root exploits at all as long as users run stuff like sudo in X terminals"? Keyloggers can even read the input from devices like the Yubikey.
Do something useful with the TPM
an idea by mwilck
Almost all our laptops, and many servers, feature a TPM today. The TPM doesn't have the best reputation in the community because it could be used to lock down platforms or do nasty things with DRM. Under normal conditions on PCs, the TPM is controlled by the system owner and could actually be useful for almost anything involving crypto. Unfortunately the integration of the TPM in the OS is essentially non-existent. The introduction of the TPM2.0 standard complicates matters, because we now have two different devices with different APIs. The goal of this project would be to identify reasonable use cases for the TPM, evaluate exisiting projects, and create ways how to integrate it into various workflows in openSUSE.
Reanimate djmount
a project by mwilck
djmount is a neat idea - see UPnP/AV resources in your directly in the file system. Unfortunately the code hasn't been maintained for ~10y, and - at least for me - seems to by plagued by various bugs causing crashes and what not. There's currently no official openSUSE package. This project aims to pick up the code, fix bugs, and make the tool actually useful again. The code itself seems to be in quite a good shape, so this should be doable.
Virtual fibre channel HBA support in qemu/kvm guest
an idea by lin_ma
The idea is to present a virtual fc HBA to qemu/kvm guest, The frontend implementation is virtio-fc, the backend is a physical fc HBA with npiv support.
Using BCC to snoop Wifi or Bluetooh status
a project by acho
BPF Compiler Collection (BCC)
Jeedom House automation with SLES on RPI
a project by cbosdonnat
I recently got Jeedom working on SLES for Raspberry Pi. However, I'ld love to play more with it like controlling my window shutters. This hackweek could also be an occasion to get as much as possible of the jeedom plugins to work on SLES and openSUSE.
Compare & implement a simple way to startup an open SIS
an idea by bear454
Washington state is a leader in Alternative Learning Experiences, public schools that teach in unique ways. In order to manage the requirements imposed by the State office of public education, ALEs must use some form of a Student Information System (SIS). Most ALEs in the state subscribe to a closed-source SIS: Wings; most school districts and program administrators have either no knowledge of open source SIS, or are the subject of FUD from vendors like Wings.
Better Boot Screens with BPAEngine (Plymouth)
a project by mdeniz
This project is about hacking and pushing further an engine called BPAEngine written in plymouth that enable people to develop better boot screens without much effort. Having those new boot screens in our distributions would be great. Plymouth is a "basic" scripting language for developing boot screens (See some Fedora examples running). Our openSUSE distributions have their own plymouth themes packaged on the branding-openSUSE package. And in my opinion they are very basic..., just a dot moving in 3 positions with the nice background and a logo.
Study and play with Machine Learning
a project by wanghaisu
I am HA developer, don't have any experience on machine leaning field. Recent years, many topics like "Data Analysis, Data Mining, Data Science, Machine Learning, and Big Data, etc... (I don't forget AI, but in not this time)" become more and more popular and seems interesting to me. I also want to know how high availability function implemented in some distributed system for the core part. Google TensorFlow1.0 just released, it is the time to play on it.
Reverse engineer memory layout
an invention by mkoutny
TL;DR Use convolution to find type candidates, then solve system of equations to refine the result. You are given a set of memory regions. And set of types (structures) that can possibly be present in the regions.
Fast bugzilla search
an invention by alnovak
The Problem
The first thing one should do when resolving a bug is to find out, whether that bug wasn't encountered and perhaps even fixed before. Using our internal Bugzilla's search, that can be long and painful task. I don't know if I'm querying it wrong, or if the problem is the amount of bugs (> 1M and growing quickly), or the number of users, or simply the Bugzilla itself. Also another problem is that some bugs have wrong metadata, which makes the efforts to narrow the search a bit harder.
GeekoScreen: Building an open-source based whiteboard
an invention by TBro
GeekoScreen - an open-source based whiteboard
Idea
Write a personal Telegram bot
a project by imanyugin
The goal is to reduce the number of applications installed on the mobile phone (which consequently reduces the number of ads and spyware) and transfer some of the functionality of the commonly installed apps to a personal Telegram Bot. Bots are a great way of implementing integration with external services, and, to this end, we expect the following functionality:
Support verification of digitally signed PDFs in Evince
an idea by mkoutny
PDF format allows inclusion of digital signatures. Unfortunately, Evince can't provide these metadata to the user. There's an upstream bug and actual implementation resides in poppler. The integration is still incomplete though.
Distillery (aka OpenDOC)
a project by sven15
SUSE has lots of information in a jungle of tools within the company network. We want to create a platform to extract and refine (distil) the available information and display it in a meaningful manner. The overarching goal is to make available data more accessible. The initial idea sparked in a Knowledge management workshop for the SUSE Documentation Team. A first, refined version was presented as OpenDoc at openSUSE Conference 2016
Analyze supportconfig data with ELK (elasticsearch, logstash, kibana)
a project by kwk
We all pant for customer data. Which hardware do customers run ? Which packages are installed ? Which services are running ? etc. pp. A lot of this data is in the supportconfig. But this is neither collected, nor centralized, not easily accessible.
Boot system from Ceph RADOS Block Device
an idea by dmdiss
Write a new Dracut module which adds support for booting a system where the root filesystem resides on a remote RBD image. * Pack keyring and ceph.conf (monitor address) in the initramfs image
Learn and use meson
a project by JonathanKang
meson[0], a replacement to autotools, is very popular nowadays. It's a lot faster than autotools as far as what I hear and see. Besides lots of GNOME projects has been ported to meson. As one of the maintainers of GNOME Logs[1], I need learn meson and try to port Logs to meson for faster building. *[0] http://mesonbuild.com/
SUSEGo - A knowledge search engine
a project by jcavalheiro
Why Knowledge is only useful if it is accessible.
Rocket.Chat Protocol Plugin for Thunderbird
an idea by mook_work
While SUSE still runs mainly on IRC, we still need to interact with others, some of which occurs on Slack and Rocket.Chat. I'd like to have one chat application with a good overview of all the various channels I'm in, across the different servers. Sadly, Pidgin isn't a choice here because they don't have a built in web browser, which is required for SAML logins with Rocket.Chat.
crash-python
a project by jeff_mahoney
New Development In previous hack weeks, the first few days ended up being wasted on just getting it working. I'm pleased to share that the code quality has improved dramatically since the last hack week and there are now extensive test cases for both unit testing and testing against real vmcores, and we'll use both mypy and pylint (if installed) to perform static analysis. Packages for those are available in openSUSE or as part of the crash-python OBS repo for SLE15. It has been tested with kernels from 3.0 to 5.1.
retro-gtk: Support Hardware Rendering
a project by aplazas
retro-gtk is a toolkit for GTK+-based Libretro frontends. It is mainly used by GNOME Games to play retro games via Libretro gaming console emulators. Currenly retro-gtk supports only software rendering. There are two ways hardware rendering can be used in retro-gtk:
Learn (machine) learning
an invention by mwilck
I'd like to gain practical knowledge about machine learning / TensorFlow / scikit by trying out simple examples.
Scripts and recipes for setting up VMs with multipath and other compex storage stacks
a project by mwilck
Customers are using complex storage stacks such as LVM over dm-crypt over MD RAID over multipath over iSCSI and FC with LOTs of LUNs, and we're facing problems in that area which are usually very hard to reproduce. It's also hard to guard against regressions. Being able to quickly and reliably set up VMs with various types of storage / multipath is a key part of testing multipath. It's doable, but cumbersome and has a steep learning curve. I want to create easy-to-understand manual recipes plus scripts that are both easy to understand / customize and deploy.
Check out hamster-lib time tracking tool
a record by mwilck
I'm using hamster time tracker for personal time tracking and project accounting, and have volunteered to be the maintainer for openSUSE. Unfortunately both hamster 1.x and hamster 2.x are basically unmaintained. The project has been undergoing a major refactoring for a year already, transitioning to a new architecture based on [hamster-lib]. I'd like to explore this, and to check whether it's ready to be packaged for openSUSE to reach a broader audience (I fear not).
Create a DRM driver for Matrox desktop cards
an invention by tdz
(was: Create a DRM driver for Matrox G200) Even after 20 years, the Matrox G200 series is still an excellent 2d graphics card. Unfortunately, there's only an fbdev driver and a user-space driver. Both are obsolete, as modern Linux uses the DRM framework for managing graphics cards. There already is a DRM driver for the G200 server series. This driver is under-maintained and doesn't work with desktop chips.
Self Encryption Drives support in openSUSE
an idea by michael-chang
Self Encryption Drive (SED) is used to achieve hardware based full disk encryption provided by hard disk drive vendors. The project is aiming to use openSUSE to build the package necessary to enable the device, notably a more intuitive way to build Preboot Authentication (PBA) Image and deploy it to unlock the device at boot time.
play with coreboot
a project by bmwiedemann
We got two old mainboards and hope we can get at least one of them to boot linux from coreboot. 1. ASUS M4A785TD-V SPI flash with DIP-8 socket
A naive idea to compromise confidential level of embargoed vulnerabilities
an idea by zhangxiaofei
Disclaimer: I have zero knowledge on security studies and very little knowledge on our internal security workflow. The idea popped out from the observation on my daily work which includes backporting security fixes, occasionally a couple of which are embargoed. Lashes are welcome if you find the idea stupid. When an embargoed vulnerability reaches SUSE, the related bugs / fixes are usually only exposed to a small group of people including maintainers of the affected package. While bugzilla can made an issue private for that purpose, For OBS I'm unaware of an option like "private project / package" that blocks unwanted access (please correct me if it does exist).
Emulate MEN FPGAs in Qemu
an invention by morbidrsa
For testing some of the upstream Linux drivers we maintain it is necessary to emulate the hardware as we're getting bug reports for the upstream drivers but have no chance to test fixes. Once the upstream drivers can be emulated we could focus on emulating hardware where only downstream drivers do exist and then write new drivers to be upstreamed.
Hibernate encryption and authentication adapt to user land util and keyring
a project by joeyli
Intel Chen Yu developed a user land utility: Introduce the in-kernel hibernation encryption
Create a web interface for the Bard music manager to stream music locally (and other improvements)
a project by alarrosa
The Bard music manager is a command line tool to organize local music I've been developing over the last years (in Hackweek 15 it was called finddupmusic). It parses your local music collection and stores the metadata in a sqlite database, then it can generate audio fingerprints and recognize similar/duplicated songs. It can also be used to play music (using internally mpv), set ratings, fix metadata, etc. The purpose of this project would be to create a web interface for Bard, so users can use their browsers to get music streamed to their computers/phones (with format conversions on-the-fly). Probably it should implement the AURA protocol for this.
Securing EMail communication with hardware tokens (e.g. YubiKey)
a project by bigironman
From a user perspective there are many ways to secure email communication with pgp. Especially the key handling is still challenging non tekkis. This project investigates processes techniques that are easier to handle for users by introducing hardware tokens for storing the private key.
User assisted udev rules
an idea by sbrabec
udev is a perfect tool for applying hardware based rules. But there are some devices that are indistinguishable by its identification and even by probe. Such devices need user assistance to get them properly identified.
openSUSE package of Waterfox
a project by lproven
Since Firefox 57, SUSE's default browser no longer supports XUL extensions. This is a problem for those of us who customized Firefox extensively with multiple addons. There are other Firefox forks out there, but Waterfox is based on v56, the most recent version of Firefox before the switch to Quantum -- https://www.waterfoxproject.org/en-US/
Little systemd utilities improvements
an invention by mkoutny
Some ideas from the list: Small ones:
Explore replacements for genksyms/modversions for kabi checks
a project by Jessica Yu
There are some interesting and promising new tools for kabi checking that have been developed in the past 2-3 years (e.g. abidiff/libabigail, kabi-dw) . See if any of them prove to be viable alternatives to our current dependence on the brittle genksyms/modversions infrastructure in the kernel.
bugzilla nick completion privacy extension
an idea by AndreasStieger
Bugzilla supports automatic username completion. This project is to extend this feature to allow restriction of the nick completion feature by user and on the data returned.
get ibus-deepspeech speech recognition engine for IBus working on openSUSE
an idea by aspiers
As described in https://hackaday.com/2018/01/17/speech-recognition-for-linux-gets-a-little-closer/ Michael Sheldon created an IBus plugin that lets DeepSpeech work with nearly any X application. He’s also provided PPAs that should make it easy to install for Ubuntu or related distributions. Would be great to get this working on openSUSE!
Machine Learning: Participate in a competition on Kaggle
a project by mdinca
The goal is to learn about Kaggle and Machine Learning. Resources:
SLE-15 virtualization server tuning - make it faster
an idea by oertel
Investigate on our virt setup. Some things we found with sle12 might no longer be true, new I/O schedulers exist, network setup might have room for speedups as well.
AI Piano
an idea by lin_ma
- Software involved: SLES 15 SP1 ARM + Tensorflow
- Hardware involved: HUAWEI taishan 2280 + Raspberry Pi 3 + Solenoids + Piano
Give avahi some love
a project by e_bischoff
Avahi is (among others) a domain names auto-configuration system for Linux compatible with Bonjour. The project is to dig into avahi source code to modernize it if possible and fix bugs.
libuitest - a generic GUI testing library
a project by dancermak
Testing GUIs is hard: unit tests require a tremendous amount of mocking and often don't capture the exact user input anyway, integration tests on the other hand are difficult to setup as they often require a dedicated infrastructure with virtual machines.
libuitest should become something like the image recognition part of openQA: it receives a video or image stream from some source and searches for matches (e.g. button found, sound played). It should also be able to send clicks, key presses, strings, etc. back via an abstract API to a backend.
nvme monitor: continuous discovery and connect to discovered subsystems
a project by ematsumiya
Project Description
Work on "nvme monitor" proposed command (see Resources).
Opencv and Face recognition
a project by XGWang0
Learn opencv and Face recognition related knowledge to build Face recognition project on raspberry 4b
Project Description
Update nvme-dem to match/support current NVMe-oF features
an idea by ematsumiya
Project Description
In need to test distributed NVMe over TCP, I'll hack on nvme-dem.
Enable full-disk-encryption key sharing for bootloader -> kernel
an idea by ismaell
Project Description
Full disk encryption currently requires each stage to gain knowledge of the keys independently, which means asking the user or bundling the key (in the initramfs).
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