Debian Conference 2015 The annual Debian developer meeting

DebConf15 — Heidelberg, Germany
15–22 August 2015

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  • IT Support Group Electrical Engineering ETH Zurich
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Debian in the Social, Ethical, Legal, and Political Context

Saturday 17:00 - 17:20 CEST
Free Communications with Free Software -- Daniel Pocock
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.

Tracks:
  • Debian in the Social, Ethical, Legal, and Political Context
Berlin/London
Sunday 11:00 - 11:45 CEST
Debian and the FSF: Ending disagreements by solving problems at the source -- John Sullivan
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. Last year at DC14, FSF executive director (and Debian Developer) John Sullivan presented a list of joint initiatives that the FSF and Debian could work on together to advance the cause of free software, even without Debian being officially recommended by the FSF. As a group, we also talked about some of the reasons that Debian is not on the FSF's list of endorsed GNU/Linux distributions. I will give an update on the status of these joint initiatives, especially about progress on the h-node.org database of hardware that is compatible with Debian main and the FSF's endorsed distributions (a cooperative initiative that was announced shortly after DC14), and about the import of package info from Debian main into the FSF's Free Software Directory. I'll talk about the thorny problem of navigating between, on one side, recommending nonfree software to users, and on the other side, giving them a distribution that won't work on the laptop they currently use -- and what we could do together in order to get out of this jam. Finally, I'll present some new ideas for us working together and continuing to strengthen our relationship, and hope that you do the same.

Tracks:
  • Debian in the Social, Ethical, Legal, and Political Context
Heidelberg
Sunday 15:30 - 16:15 CEST
Philosophy of Free Software -- Allison Randal
Speaker: Allison Randal
As a community, Debian is driven by many passions, but none so deep and lasting as the philosophy of Free Software. Born in an era of increasing social freedom but increasing political and corporate conservatism, Free Software didn't begin as a rebellion against an entrenched proprietary majority, but more as a jolt of surprise that earlier attitudes of open collaboration were disappearing. Academic experimentation gave way to the "Big Business" of software, and to economic motivations to lock down legal ownership. Until the 1970's, the United States considered software as a "utilitarian good" and granted it no copyright protection. Free Software and proprietary software grew more-or-less at the same time, in response to new ideas of software as a creative work, due the same treatment as other forms of property. Free Software has always been firmly planted in the ideals of freedom, liberty, equality, and a society of individuals working toward a common good. These concepts are steeped in a heritage stretching back centuries, including Socrates, Plato, Scotus, John Locke, Thomas Paine, Thomas Hill Green, and numerous others. This talk explores the philosophical roots of Free Software, for a deeper understanding of the movement today.

Tracks:
  • Debian in the Social, Ethical, Legal, and Political Context
Heidelberg
Monday 14:00 - 14:45 CEST
Debian Trademark Team BoF -- Richard Hartmann
Speaker: Richard Hartmann
The Debian Trademark Team invites all interested parties to join and discuss with us.

Tracks:
  • Debian in the Social, Ethical, Legal, and Political Context
Amsterdam
Monday 20:30 - 21:00 CEST
Enrico's semi serious stand up comedy -- Enrico Zini
Speaker: Enrico Zini
I will ramble freely about Debian and everything else I care about. I will cover topics including, but not limited to, anarchism, relationships, sex, violence, society stereotypes and expectations, and it will really all be about Debian. I expect that this talk will be both unsuitable and insightful for pretty much any kind of audience I can think of.

Tracks:
  • Debian in the Social, Ethical, Legal, and Political Context
Heidelberg
Tuesday 11:30 - 11:50 CEST
Debian: A giant with a tiny voice? -- Cédric Boutillier
Speaker: Cédric Boutillier
The Debian Publicity team's motto is "Make Debian famous" and this means to try to spread the word about Debian to a wider audience but also spread the word inside the Debian community about the cool things that happen. This talk will show an overview of the different services that the Publicity Team handles, and how can people get involved.

Tracks:
  • Debian in the Social, Ethical, Legal, and Political Context
Heidelberg
Tuesday 14:00 - 14:45 CEST
Developing products in the open -- Andy Simpkins
Speaker: Andy Simpkins
Over the last couple of decades the world of product development with embedded systems has changed considerably. Changing to Open Source (for hardware as well as software) is not easy. The world resists change, this is a brief history of where I have succeeded, where I have failed and the lessons learned. This is a not a technical talk, more a collection of observations.

Tracks:
  • Debian in the Social, Ethical, Legal, and Political Context
  • Embedded Debian and Hardware-Level Systems
Heidelberg
Tuesday 15:00 - 15:45 CEST
Debian Publicity: what can we do better? -- Cédric Boutillier
Speakers: Cédric Boutillier, Ana Guerrero Lopez
The Debian Publicity team's motto is "Make Debian famous" and this means to try to spread the word about Debian to a wider audience but also spread the word inside the Debian community about the cool things that happen. The Publicity work is kind of transversal to each other Team in Debian, but there are some areas in which collaboration with Publicity is key to success: outreach/diversity/newcomers, DebConf and MiniConfs, Release, collaboration with other entities In this BoF, we will discuss how we can improve the services handled by the Publicity team, which new tools or services can be created, and how can people get involved.

Tracks:
  • Debian in the Social, Ethical, Legal, and Political Context
Amsterdam
Saturday 11:00 - 11:45 CEST
Thanks for maintaining a desktop environment. But is it accessible? -- Samuel Thibault
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.

Tracks:
  • Debian in the Social, Ethical, Legal, and Political Context
  • Debian Packaging, Policy, and Infrastructure
Heidelberg

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