Debian Conference 2014

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

Speaker: - Intrigeri
We'll give a summary of where the Tails project is at these days, the challenges its facing, and how its relationship with Debian is evolving. Then, we'll discuss the various ways there are to help Tails from within Debian. Anyone curious is welcome :)

Speaker: Paul Wise
Debian's Upstream Guide has grown organically since it was created. In this BoF we hope to improve the guide and make it more comprehensive and comprehendable. We will copy the wiki text into gobby, review the text, make changes and add new recommendations and push the changes back to the wiki. https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide

Speaker: Joey Hess
Free Software gets built by both volunteers and wealthy corporations. Not everything is about money, as we know, but people must make a living somehow. Most developers can trace their income back to proprietary sources. How can we build a more robust community-centered Free Software economy? Discuss various issues and ideas, hosted by Aaron Wolf of Snowdrift.coop

Speaker: Enrico Zini
Last Debconf Debian Contributors started to take form, and now a year has passed and we have a working site. I'm going to talk about what happened, where we are now, and where we can go with it.

Speaker: Piotr Ożarowski
* will pybuild replace dh_python and why not? * how to customize build/install/test targets? * tips and tricks useful while packaging Python libraries and applications

Speakers: René Engelhard, Martin Krafft, Margarita Manterola, Maximiliano Curia, Michael Banck
In 2015, DebConf takes place in Heidelberg, Germany. We'll offer a glimpse of the venue and our plans.

Speaker: Michael Banck
The etch release was updated halfway through with an etch 'n half release, including a new kernel and X stack. This BoF will explore the possiblity of redoing this for wheezy.

Speaker: Clint Adams
An overview of hOpenPGP and openpgp-asciiarmor, an OpenPGP implementation in Haskell; hopenpgp-tools, tools based on the hOpenPGP library; and their relevance to Debian.

Speaker: Neil McGovern
SteamOS is one of the latest Debian derivatives and is set to be hugely popular. This talk will explore some of the decisions and implementation details behind the creation of (what will hopefully be!) the biggest linux gaming platform ever. Presented by Neil McGovern (DD, Collabora) and John Vert (Valve)

Speaker: Joey Hess
Using Nix's functional package management as inspiration, let's look at Debian from a functional programming perspective. Including: The rise (and limits) of declarative configuration in Debian (triggers, control files, tendencies in debian/rules), schroot and docker, reproducible builds.

Speaker: Ian Jackson
dgit lets you clone, commit, and push to the Debian archive. Other Developers don't even need to know you're using git, but if they use dgit you share history with them. The talk will cover the basic design choices, include a demo, and go on to the current status and future plans. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ijackson/2014/debconf-dgit-talk/slides.pdf and .../talk.txt

Speaker: Paul Wise
Debian is the basis for a number of other software distributions. This BoF provides a space for representatives from derivatives and Debian to share experiences, find out what is is being worked on and discuss problems, solutions and tools. We will begin with a quick round of introductions and then begin open discussion. https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives

Speaker: Felipe van de Wiel
This is open to everybody, you don't need to be on DC14 Bursaries team or DebConf organization, you can attend to know what we do and give suggestions on the process. First part will have details and stats about DebConf14 Bursaries work on Travel, Food and Accommodation Sponsorship. Second part will present some ideas and topics for discussions and collect feedback and ideas on what to do and how to move forward.