Debian Conference 2014

Speaker: Bdale Garbee
An opportunity to meet the members of the Debian Technical Committee who are in attendance at Debconf, hear the status of open issues, and discuss pending and future issues with the committee.

Speaker: Piotr Ożarowski
any Python related topics, including moving DPMT/PAPT repo to git and PyPy3

Speaker: Steve McIntyre
General discussion on how things are going in the team and future plans

Speaker: Gunnar Wolf
The Debian OpenPGP keyring is a vital part of the project's infrastructure: It provides a secure way to ensure each participant's identity in a way amenable to the geographically distributed nature of the project, and is used for basically all actions requiring authentication — Package uploads, General Resolution votes, mails to the =-announce= lists, etc. For several years already, the keyring maintenance team has been pushing to migrate to more secure keys. In July 2010, the last PGPv3 keys were replaced. The current push is to get developers to migrate from older 1024D keys to (at least) 4096R keys. In this talk, we want to: - Introduce keyring-maint's work processes and policies, to get them better understood by the overall Debian community - Present the migration process to stronger keys in numbers, highlighting the migration rhythm and possible issues - Delineate a consensuated migration plan, with deadlines to be followed, to allow for a complete migration to 4096R and higher keys - Reviewing, as a group, what constitutes proper identification and what we require. - Address all of your questions regarding keyring maintenance in Debian

Speaker: Matthew Vernon
The adoption of maven is creating new kinds of dependency hell for Debian. The "download dependencies at compile time" approach is antithetical to the idea of distribution-provided libraries, and encourages authors to be slap-dash about dependency management, and API stability. If people are going to package java apps for Debian, then we need a better way to build java library packages, perhaps by enhancing maven-debian-helper. This BoF aims to propose solutions to this problem.

Speaker: gregor herrmann
The pkg-perl team will again take the opportunity to meet in person for discussing current topics and planning future work. Items for discussion and work are collected at http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup/OpenTasks

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Work on your project, conduct your ad-hoc meetings and enjoy DebConf.

Speaker: Stefano Zacchiroli
Ledger-CLI is the double-entry accounting tool for the discriminating hacker. If you are into doube-entry accounting and using Ledger-CLI for your accounting needs (personal, family, organization, whatever) this BoF is for you. Come with your Ledger-CLI experiences, work-flows, success stories, pet peeves, frustrations, and share them with other Ledger-CLI users. Note: this BoF is targeted at people who are already using Ledger-CLI. Newbies are absolutely welcome, but the event will be structured as an exchange of best practices (or rants) rather than a tutorial. A separate Ledger-CLI tutorial event could be organized in case there is enough interest.

Speakers: Tassia Camoes, Moray Allan, Martín Ferrari
DebConf organisation working group

Speaker: Kirsten Watson
Stitch 'n Geek

Speakers:
Work on your project, conduct your ad-hoc meetings and enjoy DebConf.

Speaker: Daniel Kahn Gillmor
This is a social event, where you will get a chance to meet other conference attendees and talk to them. We will discuss the nature of OpenPGP cryptographic certification, and try to encourage best practices before breaking into smaller groups that should allow people in the groups to learn more about each other.

Speaker: David Bremner
Originally inspired by the sup mail user agent (MUA), notmuch is a GPL3+ set of tools for for dealing with your mail (stored in Maildirs or similar) via searching and tagging. On top of the C bindings and a scriptable command line interface, the project directly supports user interfaces based on Emacs and VIM as well as integration with Mutt. We also support python, ruby, and go bindings. Other projects based on notmuch include curses based frontends written in python and Mercury, a fork of mutt using notmuch as a the backend, several web interfaces, and a virtual filesystem. Depending on audience demand, I could give a brief a tour of the notmuch "ecosystem", concentrating on the Emacs interface and command line tool. Otherwise, we can discuss what are the most irritating missing features, people can give demos, we can help each other configure various notmuch related things, and just generally have not much of a fixed agenda.

Speaker: Margarita Manterola
An opportunity for DC15 team to discuss ideas, tasks and who does what

Speakers:
Work on your project, conduct your ad-hoc meetings and enjoy DebConf.

Speaker: Rocky Craig
HP's public and private cloud offering, Helion, gets software reality from an internal Debian derivative called hLinux. We'll cover our constraints, goals, and mechanisms span developers to paying customers, plus a look at the future.

Speaker: Barry Warsaw
Discuss and plan team conversion from Subversion to git.

Speakers:
Work on your project, conduct your ad-hoc meetings and enjoy DebConf.

Speaker: Gunnar Wolf
The traditional DebConf Cheese and Wine party. Bring cheese, wine or any other good you think is representative from your country/region/town/borough/house/garden. No limit as long as it is: • tasty • preferrably smelly • able to survive a few days before being used. The party will be hosted at Puppet Labs, 926 NW 13th Ave, Portland, OR 97209, on Monday, August 25th.