Debian Conference 2015 The annual Debian developer meeting

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Important announcements and a raffle.

Speaker: Jacob Appelbaum
Closing keynote by Jacob Appelbaum

Speaker: Jacob Appelbaum
Closing keynote by Jacob Appelbaum

Speaker: Gaudenz Steinlin
The "Lernstick" is a Debian derivative built with Debian Live for Schools in Switzerland. It exists in two variants. The original variant is intended as a mobile learning environment on an USB stick. Students can carry their personal computing environment in their pocket thanks to a Live system installed on the stick. The second variant is called "Lernstick exam environment" and is a stripped down version for "Bring your own device" exams. This version provides a restricted environment for exams which can be carried out using the students own computers without compromising the integrity of the exam. The goal of this talk is to give an overview of the Lernstick system and to show how it leverages Debian and Debian Live to provide a Linux distribution targeted at schools. I will also talk about further collaboration possibilities with Debian (eg. Debian EDU/Soklelinux, Debian Blends). While the Lernstick project has always been Free Software we have only just begun to make the project more accessible to outside contributors. We would like to encourage more contributions in the future. The Lernstick distribution is developed by a unit of the University of Applied Sciences of Northwestern Switzerland. I work part time as a freelancer on the technical implementation of the Lernstick.

Speaker: Samuel Thibault
The graal of accessibility is that it should be ready to be enabled everywhere, all the time. Some of the Debian desktops are very accessible, but most of them are not. In this talk, I will present how the accessibility stack is packaged in Debian, how it works, and what desktop maintainers need to do to make sure that their desktop is accessible.

Speaker: Lucas Nussbaum
Over the recent years, a number of packaging tools have been improved to include "automated packaging" features, to facilitate the packaging of software also distributed through CPAN, Pypi, rubygems, etc. The goal of this BOF is to discuss the existing tools, discover opportunities for improvements in each tool, and opportunities for collaboration between those tools.

Speaker: Andreas Tille
This is the usual Debian Science meeting at DebConf. If you are a scientist and have some interest in scientific packages please show up and try to contribute ideas how Debian Science could enhance. Items to discuss in this meeting - Debian Science team policy - Status of citation usage - Maintaining Blends tasks (Sponsering of Blends) - More specific Blends (dedicated to Mathematics, Physics, Electronics, etc.) - Screenshots - Snapshots of specific versions This is just a continuation from previous DebConfs considering recent development

Speaker: Paul Wise
The Debian derivatives census is generating source package debdiffs between Debian and our derivatives. We'll review how it works, get stuck into reviewing patches and finish up with a brain dump of what we saw, possible issues in the patch generator and future plans for derivatives patches.

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Packaging tutorial! Newcomers welcome. Mentors needed! Note: continues into lunch!

Speaker: Thomas Lange
FAI, the Fully Automatic Installation is a network installation system for the installation and configuration of the operation system and all your applications on all your hosts. The whole installation only takes a few minutes without any interaction necessary. The FAI project startet in 1999 as a bare metal provisioning tool for Debian GNU/Linux only. Today it's also used for deploying different Linux distributions like Ubuntu, CentOS, Scientific Linux or Suse on real hardware or virtual hosts. For FAI there's no difference in installing a real machine, a virtual machine, setting up a chroot environment or creating a Live CD. Configuration files are shared among groups of similar computers using the class concept, so you need not create a configuration for every new host. Besides network installations, FAI also supports installation from CD or USB stick and can be extended easily. The talk will show why FAI is the universal deployment tool.

Speakers: Paul Wise, Steve McIntyre
We will share knowledge about wiki work and do some work on the wiki, probably in these areas: * existing bug reports * known issues * moin bug reports/etc * wiki pages about the wiki * general wiki content Please join us if you would like to help out with the wiki or learn more about it. If there is enough interest we may hold more sessions.

Speaker: Antonio Terceiro
In this talk I will present a project I have been working on to allow end users to easily install and basically configure server-side applications with the need for technical knowledge such as database and web server administration.

Speakers: Agustin Henze, Ulises Vitulli
In this talk, we will be presenting a Flight Log of our experience on designing, building and hacking around satellite and communication technologies. This process gave birth on Jun 2014 to BugSat-1, aka Tita (greeks `Theta` Θ), a 22Kg Satellite carrying, between others things, six Debian On-Board computers in charge of dealing with the satellite's Payload and Flight Mission. We will be diving through the technology hacked to make Debian able to cope with high latency bandwidth, and also we'll be introducing ddpatch, a debian package minimalization tool intended to optimize communications throughput. Enjoy!

Speaker: Andi Barth
Current state and updates about the buildd / wanna-build infrastructure / system (and discussion - this is a BoF)

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Bursaries BoF

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

Speakers: Helmut Grohne, Mattia Rizzolo, Holger Levsen
Defining what need's to be done to move jenkins.debian.net to DSA maintenance jenkins.debian.net exists since more than 2.5 years now and has been proven useful to many teams since them. To ensure its future it should be moved to a DSA maintained .debian.org machine with the Jenkins setup being under team maintence by a group of people. This session should ideally come up with a list whats needs to be done, and probably bugs filed to track them.

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Emacs Addon wrapup

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i18n BoF

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Coffee & Snacks

Speakers: Michael Banck, Margarita Manterola, Martin Krafft
Good bye to Heidelberg... See you in Cape Town!