As the Developers Conference 2017 was approaching Shelly asked me what am I doing with the openSUSE stickers and DVDs. I replied that I would distribute them to visitors when they’d come to the Installfest of the Linux User Group. That’s when Shelly came up with the idea of having an openSUSE Goodies Pack. To keep it short it’s a package containing various stickers, a bookmark, an openSUSE 42.2 64-bit DVD, and a laptop camera cover.

In total Shelly made five such goodies packs. However, I couldn’t make it to the Installfest as my presentation was on the same day. Bad timing.

I therefore decided to give away the goodies packs as prizes to questions that I would ask during my presentation.

My talk was on Microservices and I explained the same using NGINX that ran on openSUSE 42.2. That was perfect to shoot some questions about openSUSE and yes, the attendees correctly answered that packages could be installed on openSUSE using RPM, Zypper and YaST. I had a question that asked which part of the home page of lexpress.mu is a microservice. One fellow answered « the notifications » and that’s correct.

The openSUSE Goodies Pack garnered some attention on Twitter and MSP fellow Arwin Baichoo replied with a tweet showing the content of the goodies pack.

The rest of the stickers and openSUSE DVDs were distributed to attendees. Humeira gladly helped me with that.