Debian Conference 2015 The annual Debian developer meeting

Speakers: Michael Banck, Margarita Manterola, Martin Krafft
The classic kickstarting session of every DebConf.

Speakers: Michael Banck, Margarita Manterola, Martin Krafft
The classic kickstarting session of every DebConf.

Speaker: Margarita Manterola
This talk is an introduction to the Go language. It will go over what Go is and what it's not. A little bit of its history, the basics of the language and a few live demos. It will also cover the state of Go in the free software world in general and Debian in particular.

Speaker: Andi Barth
This talk describes how the core debian package infrastructure parts work together, that is ftp archive, buildds, release scripts (including but not limited to "how did it evolve")

Speaker: Lars Wirzenius
Obnam is an easy, secure backup program. It de-duplicates data, and encrypts it locally before transferring the backup data to a remote server over sftp. It supports a FUSE filesystem for restoring data using normal file management tool This talk shows how Obnam is used in various cases, and covers both basic and advanced use.

Speaker: Olly Betts
Debian uses Xapian-powered search extensively, both in the software we package and in our own infrastructure. I'd like to share some thoughts on these different searches, where they work well, where they don't, and how we can improve them.

Speaker: Bradley M. Kuhn
Debian is among the oldest GNU/Linux distributions still active today. A community-led project with democratically elected leadership, Debian remains a shining example of a project that serves developers and users rather than for profit interests and wealthy trade associations that so commonly control and manipulate Open Source projects today. Debian culture embodies the ethos of software freedom and the tradition of enthusiasts and hobbyists (rather than businesses) directing the future of Free Software projects. As an independent observer and Debian user, in this keynote, I will examine the reasons why these principles have served Debian well, considered early decisions that Debian made that have assured a commitment to principle, explore how Debian can continue to help everyone, introduce future collaborations that might succeed in helping Debian in its goals, and discuss the unique role Debian can play in advancing software freedom.

Speaker: Bradley M. Kuhn
Debian is among the oldest GNU/Linux distributions still active today. A community-led project with democratically elected leadership, Debian remains a shining example of a project that serves developers and users rather than for profit interests and wealthy trade associations that so commonly control and manipulate Open Source projects today. Debian culture embodies the ethos of software freedom and the tradition of enthusiasts and hobbyists (rather than businesses) directing the future of Free Software projects. As an independent observer and Debian user, in this keynote, I will examine the reasons why these principles have served Debian well, considered early decisions that Debian made that have assured a commitment to principle, explore how Debian can continue to help everyone, introduce future collaborations that might succeed in helping Debian in its goals, and discuss the unique role Debian can play in advancing software freedom.

Speaker: Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Key Signing Best Practices

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Looking for job opportunities in a company that cares about Debian? Visit our job fair and talk with representatives of some of our major sponsors about available positions. There will also be a job corner with posters and leaflets from our sponsors.

Speaker: Christophe Siraut
Distro tracker presents us with an insightful view on Debian packages. In this talk we will introduce its design, discover how easy it is to contribute, and discuss changes and improvements.

Speaker: Norvald H. Ryeng
MySQL 5.7 contains more new functionality and improvements than any previous release. Some of these changes were made specifically to make packaging of MySQL and software that uses MySQL easier, often based on input from package maintainers in Debian and other distros. Join us for a tour of packaging improvements and challenges, and how we work with these topics upstream.

Speaker: Christoph Berg
The debian-ha group was pretty much MIA during the jessie release cycle, so the release missed pacemaker, rendering existing HA setups un-upgradeable. In the meantime, a new group has formed. This BoF discusses the current state of the HA stack and the next steps to take.

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Coffee & Snacks

Speaker: Nattie Mayer-Hutchings
They're talks. They go like lightning.

Speaker: Raphaël Hertzog
Almost anybody will acknowledge that maintaining 18000 software packages secure over 5 years is a challenge and even more so in the context of Debian where most volunteers tend to skip the parts that are not fun. Still the story of the Debian LTS team shows that it is possible. This talk will explain how we got started and where we are today.

Speaker: Olly Betts
Xapian is used to provide fast search in several parts of the Debian infrastructure (lists.d.o, packages.d.o, search.d.o, wiki.d.o, debtags.d.n) and is also used by dozens of packages in the archive, from aptitude to zeitgeist-core. It's installed on 95% of machines reporting to popcon. This BoF is an opportunity for the maintainers and developers of these packages and services to get together and discuss all things Xapian.

Speaker: Enrico Zini
Front Desk members, Debian Account Managers, Application Managers, current or prospective New Member applicants are invited to ask questions, tell stories and exchange tips about everything related to handing out Debian Developer hats.

Speaker: Steven Chamberlain
An overview of how GNU/kFreeBSD works, and what it can do. We present a rationale for porting work within Debian, and think about the future. There will be a live demo of a jessie-kfreebsd system.

Speaker: Daniel Pocock
Is there a genuinely free alternative to Skype, or is there hope that we can create one? This talk provides an introduction to Free Real-Time Communications technologies, including SIP, XMPP and WebRTC, the possibilities with free software and why this is important.

Speaker: Robert Edmonds
The Domain Name System (DNS) protocol is widely used by Internet-connected hosts, including Debian systems. It is most commonly associated with the "hostname to address" lookup service needed by many Internet protocols, but it has an extensible design and is capable of distributing many types of information. The DNS has a highly componentized architecture and no individual package in Debian is responsible for implementing DNS support as a whole. This talk will introduce the DNS architecture and explain how individual packages in the Debian archive together implement this architecture. Other topics covered will include: - The DNS data model. - The broad history of the protocol, and likely future developments. - How the DNS is commonly deployed on the Internet. - How Debian's DNS support compares to other operating systems like Fedora and FreeBSD. - Privacy, security, and governance considerations.

Speaker: Jan-Marek Glogowski
Technically started in 2005, Munich's LiMux project was officially and successfully finished in 2013; albeit with a long delay, compared to our initial project plan, as much more work croped up. Nevertheless the work on our Linux client(s) continues. New releases get rolled out, bugs get fixed and new features are implemented to improve the client, adapt it to the changing needs of the municipal IT, and support our users. This talk will put the spotlight on the current situation and does a quick glance on the history, the technical tools used to manage our 33 000 users and 18 000 clients and a little future outlook.

Speakers: intrigeri, Andres Gomez
Tails is a Debian GNU/Linux based live system that aims to preserve user privacy and anonymity. This talk gives an overview on the technical details behind Tails, how privacy, anonymity and security are enforced on top of Debian. We will explain the challenges that Tails faces. This talk also presents the current Tails project roadmap and future goals, and the evolution of the relation with Debian, from a technical point of view.

Speakers: Bdale Garbee, Didier Raboud, Andi Barth, Steve Langasek, Keith Packard
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: Andreas Tille
Since 2008 I'm working on graphing data about teams in Debian. In 2011 a GSoC project "Teammetrics" established some better infrastucture and some additional measures were added. The last addition was a number of maintainers per packaging graph which also creates some enlightment how good a team works together. Besides measuring how teams are working together I'd like to explain ways how to gain new team members by lowering the entry barrier. This is done in the Mentoring of the Month project for Debian Med. I was also running a Mentoring of the Month for Women by droping the constraint of medical software. It was a specific challenge for me to introduce an outsider into a team I'm no member of and where I was unaware of the specific team policy.

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Why Children need an open source community and what they contribute

Speakers: Enrico Zini, Francesca Ciceri
A bof especially targeted at DebConf first timers, from DebConf old timers. What to expect, how to communicate effectively, how to get the most from this experience.

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The Debian project turns 22 - let's celebrate!

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From Mannheim, bellsparx will be playing in the downstairs disco. Their music is Free and might be described as experimental rock. Please follow the link(s) to get more information