Debian Conference 2015 The annual Debian developer meeting

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Important announcements and a raffle.

Speaker: Niels Thykier
The Release Team will be reflecting on the Jessie and the Stretch release cycle.

Speaker: Niels Thykier
The Release Team will be reflecting on the Jessie and the Stretch release cycle.

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: 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.

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Debian women wiki @ edit a thon

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FPGA hacking

Speaker: Asheesh Laroia
Volunteer economics is the notion that even though contributors frequently work without financial cost to a project, there are social, personal, and technical costs that affect their ability to do that work. These costs relate heavily to the question of which projects can sustain themselves on volunteer energy. We’ll dive into three stories: * The demise of cdn.debian.net: How http.debian.net outcompeted it, through a technical structure that enabled it to grow with fewer people having to collaborate. * Why no one uses “apt-get” to install web applications: Although many server, command line, and desktop software packages are available in Debian, very few of today’s open source web applications are. This section provides a brief overview of Debian’s attempts to make web applications packageable, and an examination of where the efforts have & haven’t succeeded, and considers how volunteer incentives to maintain desktop software don’t apply cleanly to web applications. * The rise of reproducible builds in Debian: What binary-reproducible builds mean, and within 18 months, how a community member was able to create the volunteer energy required to make 80% of all packages truly verifiable. We’ll conclude by re-visiting some common, cliche questions people ask of free software — “where are all the designers?” “where are all the documentation writers?” — and consider if these stories provide any answers. The talk assumes no particular background with Debian or maintaining Linux systems. Some of the topics have technical content, but we will provide the necessary background as part of the talk. (For what it's worth: This is also a talk I gave at Open Source Bridge 2015, compressed somewhat since I expect more familiarity with the topics at Debconf.)

Speaker: Emmanuel Kasper
Vagrant: on demand virtual machines for every day use Vagrant is a command line tools which allow you to create, manage, script, and share VMs with a single command. In this talk we will quickly demo: * share a ready to use development environment. Example for Mediawiki development, Datascience, Crosscompilation for Atari ST * how to use Vagrant to deploy VMs to a cloud platform cf https://github.com/telcat/vagrant-proxmox

Speaker: Jonathan Carter
An introduction to AIMS, the AIMS Desktop derivative (which is currently an Ubuntu derivative) and using Linux in the 3rd world. AIMS Desktop is currently used in university centres in South Africa, Ghana, Camaroon and Tanzania as well as individuals around the world.

Speaker: Steve SCHNEPP
With Munin, we are lucky to have very nice packager relationships, specially with Debian. It has several advantages, but also some hidden drawbacks. This is to list & help addressing them.

Speaker: Holger Levsen
Let's make some good example packages reproducible. (Or work on changes to dak or do some other reproducible hands on hacking.)

Speaker: Niels Thykier
This talk will touch on the following subjects: * What makes the problem(s) "hard" * What in turn makes the problem(s) highly tractable in practise. * Various tricks to reduce the problem even further.

Speaker: Nattie Mayer-Hutchings
Show off your project! NB: It will be mandatory to set up your laptop before the session, in order to assure a smooth transition between speakers.

Speaker: Steve McIntyre
Discussion of the state of our installation and other images we build, and planning for the future.

Speaker: Paul Wise
check-all-the-things is a verbose tool for developers to run many tools that can check various things (lintian, duck etc). In this BoF I'll quickly introduce the tool, its history and ask for suggestions on what other check tools could be run. If we get time we will also ask participants to help write check commands for new tools.

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Fortran 90 modules BoF

Speaker: Guillem Jover
A view on the past, present and future of dpkg. Its defining traits, and how those affect its usage and evolution.

Speaker: Christoph Berg
While the Debian archive only contains a single PostgreSQL version per distribution, upstreams supports five concurrent branches plus the devel/beta versions. The apt.postgresql.org repository extends the Debian packaging of the PostgreSQL server packages to cover the full cross product of all branches times seven Debian and Ubuntu releases times currently two architectures. On top of that, various PostgreSQL extension packages are built. This talk is about the lessons learned while maintaining this package set and how automated testing helps to ensure high quality. Ingredients are pg_regress, jenkins, jenkins-debian-glue, autopkgtest, dpkg and reprepro tweaks, and automation tools from postgresql-common.

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

Speaker: Paul Wise
Got brain overload due to DebConf!? Dump your ideas here. Crazy ideas, hard ideas, easy ideas, impossible ideas, forgotten ideas, we want them all. Bring your creativity! There is no such thing as a bad idea and no idea is too crazy to say out loud.

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Backups as a default service in Debian BoF

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Cloud in general & OpenStack particularly BoF

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Linux kernel BoF

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Alioth git replacement BoF

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Javascript / Ruby

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DAK BoF

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Coffee & Snacks

Speaker: Neil McGovern
PPAs have been on the horizon for a long time, but have been stalled. Let's talk about how we can unblock this and get them implemented!

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GBP skills exchange

Speaker: Andreas Tille
People interested in software for biology and medical care should meet in one room and we should talk about the current status of Debian Med and future developments. This is the usual Debian Med meeting at DebConf.

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Debian Welcome Team BoF & work session

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MTL DC17 bid

Speakers: Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl
systemd provides a range of tools to debug boot and shutdown problems, failing services, and optimize boot time. This "hands-on" talk introduces the most important use cases with some live demos and leaves time for answering questions about your favourite systemd related problems.

Speaker: Michael Prokop
jenkins-debian-glue allows you to build Debian & Ubuntu packages directly from the Jenkins Continuous Integration system. It's used by several open source projects (FreeRDP, Grml, Kamailio, LLVM, PostgreSQL, Scilab, Wikimedia) and can be set up within a few minutes. It retrieves package sources from a version control repository, adjusts debian/changelog (handle version number + mention changes that took place) and builds according source and binary packages out of it. Its lintian, autopkgtest (DEP8) and piuparts integration provides Q/A reports about the resulting source and binary Debian packages. In this BoF session we will provide an opportunity to meet developers and contributors of the jenkins-debian-glue project, discuss issues for improvements, discuss upcoming new features and get your questions answered.

Speaker: Stefano Rivera
Overview of DebConf16, in Cape Town

Speakers: Martín Ferrari, Tássia Camões Araújo, Giacomo Catenazzi
Interested in having DebConf17 in your city? Come and show us your early plans!

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Screening of the award winning documentary Citizenfour movie.