The openSUSE Project has rolled out a new web-based quiz application aimed at engaging conference attendees and open-source enthusiasts around the world.

The quiz platform, available at quiz.opensuse.org, offers a colorful, friendly interface with multiple curated challenges including “Kernel Ninja,” “Chameleon Fun for Kids!,” “The Ultimate YaST Challenge,” and an evolving “openSUSE Expert” mode. The app is designed for use at openSUSE booths during tech conferences, but it’s also accessible for daily use by the broader community.

Quizzes used to mean reprinting a thousand sheets when there was a typo or error, wrote Luboš Kocman in an email to the project mailing list. The change to putting the quiz online makes it sustainable, and far more fun.

Organizers can easily launch dedicated quiz instances for their events by submitting a pull request to the openSUSE/quiz GitHub repository. They can customize content, remove irrelevant quizzes, and avoid PR merges to keep deployments simple. Daily stats and winner selection are available via a built-in /stats endpoint, with optional /bingo functionality to ensure fairness in prize distributions, which will be offered at the openSUSE Conference.

The app supports offline use via npm start, which enables local quiz hosting over a private hotspot. Data is stored in local JSON files and allows event organizers to restart quizzes without losing participant scores. All content is open source, with translations managed through openSUSE’s Weblate platform. People are encouraged to contribute quiz questions and translations.

“The goal is to make the ‘Expert’ quiz never-ending and truly global,” Kocman said.

The openSUSE community plans to showcase the quiz at DevConf.cz today and the openSUSE Conference 2025 in a couple weeks.

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Tokyo is largely regarded for being the safest major city in the world. While that could very possibly be true, it is still not without it's more grimy sides. Who knows what lurks in the dark in a place where little to no one would suspect wrongdoing?
This was taken at Omoide Yokocho (and as a matter of fact, it's just a few steps back from my "Saitama" shot, that red lantern on the left is the same one). Once again, there was no discernable way to get rid of the people in the shot because as expected the corridors of this tightly compact place are never unoccupied, I don't have anything to mask or clone to go over them.
This is an urban photographer's paradise, every corner has a suitable composition for a seedy dystopian looking shot (without the added danger of getting jumped). But it's also far from a "secret" place, so prepare accordingly.