2025-11-19 –, Room 6-7 (breakout)
Daan will take you along the implementation of an open source office/collaboration stack that was POCced at government client.
DAWO stands for Digitally Autonomous Workplace Overheid (Government), or DAWG in English 😉. He will go into
- The process of reanimating old hardware to run it.
- The amateur-hour stuff that cost a bunch of time if only he knew in advance
- What it takes to run the open source version of it (DAWN, mainly based on SUSE and other European software) yourself.
He will attempt to speak manager, but engineering questions are more than welcome. Most will probably be answered with skill-issue.
The stack we'll go into from top to bottom is Ancient hardware, Proxmox VE on that ancient hardware. On top of that we'll go into my experience using OpenSUSE Leap as a server with 0 previous knowledge about SUSE software. Those servers run RKE2, one Rancher cluster and one DAWO/DAWN cluster that runs Nextcloud and the software around it.
We will talk about the process of installing all of the above and the friends we made along the way.
We will conclude with the knowledge pre-requisites you (or your artificially intelligent agents) need to set this up yourself based on the manifests that are opensourced by the project.
Daan is a highly curious newcomer in the open-source world. Emerging from a background of systems integration and writing testtooling. Having been introduced to enablement around an OpenShift implementation, he's taken the leap to HCS-Company to learn as much about containerisation as he can. Recently, he has taken the green and is learning a ton about the SUSE stack, which he's willing to share.