Debian Conference 2014

Speaker: Stefano Zacchiroli
Arguably, Free Software has never been more successful than these days. Free Software is common place in many contexts, from embedded devices to supercomputers, ... including the space (with the ISS) and beyond! Free Software is also more and more common in education, it is subject of ad-hoc legislation around the world , and thanks to our friends at NSA it is also being looked with increasing interest by privacy-conscious citizens. Taking issue with such an optimistic view of the (Free) world, a pessimistic speaker is gonna argue that we are, on the contrary, about to enter the so called "Dark Ages of Free Software", where the user freedoms we have accrued over the past 30 years are at risk of being taken away by reckless technological trends. Unsatisfied with his own pessimism, the speaker will try to induce some of it into the audience, but only shortly before bringing the good news that distributions—and Debian in particular—have a fundamental role to play in Free Software's path toward a new enlightenment.

Speaker: Anne Christine Spang
Debian made me who I am. If I hadn't started using Debian in high school, I wouldn't have become a hacker, I wouldn't have gone to MIT, I probably wouldn't have started a company. (At least not the one I started.) This is my story. Come and hear how this crazy worldwide organization changed my life. Perhaps it'll be a reminder that this is all worthwhile.

Speaker: Wookey
The use of stable in our infrastructure and understandably conservative rules for backports, stable updates and infra changes make it very difficult to even test something like Build Profiles (or Mulitarch builds) (which need changes in build tools and core infra), never mind get them into widespread use, without waiting for a whole stable release cycle (these are just recent examples - it's a general problem). So this also means that it takes 2-4 years to make a change, which hampers progress. This session is a discussion on whether we can do anything to be a bit more nimble than this?

Speaker: John Sullivan
Debian and the Free Software Foundation, along with its GNU Project, share many goals and ideals. They are two of the most mature and dedicated organizations working in the free software movement. Debian is not on the FSF's list of endorsed GNU/Linux distributions. Why is this? Should something be done about it, and if so, what? Much attention has been focused on the question of full endorsement. But there are other opportunities for the FSF and Debian to work together, whether full endorsement becomes a reality or not. Let's review the history of this cooperation, and talk about some future possibilities. FSF executive director (and Debian Developer) John Sullivan will give a presentation about the current state of things as the FSF sees it, and will leave plenty of time for discussion as well.

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

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

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

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

Speaker: Bdale Garbee
Software in the Public Interest is the legal and financial umbrella organization providing services to Debian in the United States. This session will provide an opportunity to meet the members of the SPI board attending Debconf, hear a brief update on the organization's activities in the last year, and get your questions answered.

Speaker: Holger Levsen
What is the Debian LTS, what are the experiences so far, what are the plans and expectations?

Speaker: Nicolas Dandrimont
This joint session will be the occasion for this year's crop of Debian Google Summer of Code students to present the work they have done in Debian this summer. The planned presentations so far are: - debmetrics: powering metrics.debian.net — Joseph Bisch - Recursively Building Java Projects and their Dependencies — Andrew Schurman - WebRTC — Juliana Louback - Lil'Debi-Running Debian on Android — Kumar Sukhani

Speaker: Nicolas Dandrimont
This joint session will be the occasion for this year's crop of Debian Google Summer of Code students to present the work they have done in Debian this summer. The planned presentations so far are: - debmetrics: powering metrics.debian.net — Joseph Bisch - Recursively Building Java Projects and their Dependencies — Andrew Schurman - WebRTC — Juliana Louback - Lil'Debi-Running Debian on Android — Kumar Sukhani

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

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

Speaker: Lucas Nussbaum
Discussion of the State of the Union^HProject

Speaker: Nattie Mayer-Hutchings
If you would like to show off your project, here is the place! (Demonstrators are requested to attend a setup session beforehand in order to make sure they have the correct settings for the projector.)

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: 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: 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