2.0 -//Pentabarf//Schedule 0.5//EN dc10 Schedule Release 0.5 dc10 Schedule PUBLISH 677@dc10@pentabarf.org 677 Videoteam Training English en 20100729T140000 20100729T153000 01H30M00S Videoteam Training PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/677.en.html Davis Auditorium Eric Dantan Rzewnicki PUBLISH 672@dc10@pentabarf.org 672 Astronomy Stargazing English en 20100803T210000 20100803T223000 01H30M00S Stargazing At 9:00PM the Columbia University Astronomy Department will host a guided stargazing event, which includes use of several different optical telescopes on their roof. There will be astronomers on hand to answer any questions about the stars, telescopes, or any other topics of scientific interest. For more information on the Columbia Astronomy Outreach program, see http://outreach.astro.columbia.edu/ PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/672.en.html Other Location PUBLISH 581@dc10@pentabarf.org 581 R Users and Maintainers Bof Users and Maintainers of R and its related packages in Debian Meet and Greet English en 20100803T170000 20100803T180000 01H00M00S R Users and Maintainers Bof- Users and Maintainers of R and its related packages in Debian Meet and Greet R is the GNU clone of S, and is heavily used in statistics and multiple scientific disciplines. Discussion about maintenance, packaging, and usage coupled with meeting others who use R. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/581.en.html 414 Schapiro Don Armstrong PUBLISH 686@dc10@pentabarf.org 686 Rocket BOF Learning about and building hobby rockets to fly on the weekend... English en 20100803T160000 20100803T170000 01H00M00S Rocket BOF- Learning about and building hobby rockets to fly on the weekend... http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/RocketLaunch PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/686.en.html 414 Schapiro Bdale Garbee Keith Packard PUBLISH 548@dc10@pentabarf.org 548 X in squeeze English en 20100803T103000 20100803T113000 01H00M00S X in squeeze The graphics stack has once again seen massive changes in squeeze. After going for auto-configuration in lenny, squeeze introduces kernel mode setting. The input subsystem was not left alone, with support for device hotplug and multi-pointer X. This talk will cover what's new in X in squeeze, what that means for the Debian packaging, and what we can expect in the future. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/548.en.html Davis Auditorium Julien Cristau Cyril Brulebois PUBLISH 592@dc10@pentabarf.org 592 Statistical Machine Learning Analysis of Debian Mailing Lists English en 20100803T140000 20100803T150000 01H00M00S Statistical Machine Learning Analysis of Debian Mailing Lists In this talk, I will discuss the use of state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to analyze Debian mailing lists in order to discover political, social, and technical patterns that could be used to inform project decisions. I will concentrate on a class of techniques known as statistical topic models, which automatically infer groups of semantically-related words, known as topics, from word co-occurrence patterns in documents. The resultant topics can then be used to detect emergent areas of technical activity, identify subcommunities, and track trends over time. In addition to providing a brief overview of statistical topic models and their application to Debian mailing list data, I will present examples of topics inferred from Debian mailing lists, as well as some preliminary political, social, and technical findings discovered via these topics. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/592.en.html Davis Auditorium Hanna Wallach PUBLISH 588@dc10@pentabarf.org 588 Moonshot: Federated Authentication beyond the Web Free Software as a Platform for a New Technology English en 20100803T170000 20100803T180000 01H00M00S Moonshot: Federated Authentication beyond the Web- Free Software as a Platform for a New Technology The world is filled with consumer and web-focused federated authentication solutions. However as federations grow to hundreds of identity providers, enterprises begin to see strain of the current design. Moonshot combines four key security technologies (EAP, SAML, RADIUS and GSS-API) to address these scaling challenges and to bring federation to any software, not just the web browser. This talk describes the Moonshot technology as well as the ongoing community-driven free-software effort to realize the technology. One key focus is the role of Debian in particular and distributions in general in driving coherent technology evolution. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/588.en.html Interschool Lab Sam Hartman PUBLISH 578@dc10@pentabarf.org 578 Using Debian for Enterprise Infrastructure Stanford University: A Case Study English en 20100803T140000 20100803T150000 01H00M00S Using Debian for Enterprise Infrastructure- Stanford University: A Case Study A discussion of Debian as the server platform of choice for enterprise-wide infrastructure, using Stanford University as a case study. Topics covered will include packaging and package modification for site-specific needs, challenges in packaging software for local deployment, repository management and local documentation issues, and ways that Debian can better support this use case. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/578.en.html Interschool Lab Russ Allbery PUBLISH 529@dc10@pentabarf.org 529 Interesting network features of your Debian system or building blocks to design a system that will make your network administrators very nervous English en 20100803T170000 20100803T180000 01H00M00S Interesting network features of your Debian system- or building blocks to design a system that will make your network administrators very nervous Networking is still very much a domain in which big proprietary computing equipments dominate. The Linux kernel, though, has some very neat networking features, and is increasingly being used to replace those systems with something more open and more adaptable to "strange" needs. During this talk we will explore some less-known Linux networking features, such as NBMA networks over unbound GRE tunnels, policy routing, or anycast that will allow systems administrators to take control of the network, and even sometimes make something slightly crazy with it, and make some of those networking people, who only trust those closed machines on which they're certified, a bit (or a lot) nervous. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/529.en.html Davis Auditorium Guido Trotter PUBLISH 559@dc10@pentabarf.org 559 Enterprise Infrastructure BOF How enterprise technologies such as Kerberos, LDAP, Samba, etc can work better together in Debian English en 20100803T103000 20100803T113000 01H00M00S Enterprise Infrastructure BOF- How enterprise technologies such as Kerberos, LDAP, Samba, etc can work better together in Debian A BOF to explore enterprise infrastructure software such as LDAP, Kerberos, Samba etc and how these packages can work better together to make Debian be a better building block for groups of computers PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/559.en.html Interschool Lab Sam Hartman PUBLISH 587@dc10@pentabarf.org 587 Puppet BOF Group discussion of using puppet to manage systems English en 20100803T113000 20100803T123000 01H00M00S Puppet BOF- Group discussion of using puppet to manage systems From the puppet upstream site, "Puppet is an open source data center automation and configuration management framework. Puppet provides system administrators with a simplified platform that allows for consistent, transparent, and flexible systems management." We will discuss using puppet on Debian, the state of puppet and related packages in Debian, and share best practices and puppet modules. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/587.en.html Interschool Lab Matt Taggart PUBLISH 582@dc10@pentabarf.org 582 Bugs, the BOF Open discussion of bug resolution in Debian 20100803T150000 20100803T160000 01H00M00S Bugs, the BOF- Open discussion of bug resolution in Debian Open discussion about possible improvements and current issues with http://bugs.debian.org PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/582.en.html 414 Schapiro Don Armstrong PUBLISH 647@dc10@pentabarf.org 647 Using Debian to provide services to thousands a case study in the Greek Research and Technology services and the use of Debian English en 20100803T160000 20100803T170000 01H00M00S Using Debian to provide services to thousands- a case study in the Greek Research and Technology services and the use of Debian The talk will describe the services that the Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET) provides to its customers in the Greek academic community, with a target group of hundred of thousands of users. It will focus on the challenges faced when providing these services and the almost exclusive use of Debian to solve those. GRNET offers a multitide of services to its customers, both on the Internet and computing fronts, on a multi-vendor environment. Over two hundred physical servers and twice as that on virtual servers are being operated by a handful of people, all but few running Debian. Topics that will be mentioned are ranging from networking monitoring and identity to virtualization and cloud. The use and integration of multiple free software components on a Debian platform to accomplish those will be described along with a focus on high availability and automation of system administration tasks out of necessity and the ways and tools (e.g. d-i, puppet, Ganeti) to accomplish that. Faidon Liambotis is on the Server & Services team of the Greek Research and Technology Network's Network Operations Center. He is also a Debian Developer. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/647.en.html Interschool Lab Faidon Liambotis PUBLISH 535@dc10@pentabarf.org 535 Free software for replacing Skype GNU SIP Witch and peer-to-peer secure telephony English en 20100803T160000 20100803T170000 01H00M00S Free software for replacing Skype- GNU SIP Witch and peer-to-peer secure telephony The GNU Telephony secure calling project, built around GNU SIP Witch and the GNU ZRTP stack, offers the means for anyone to create and deploy network scalable and secure peer-to-peer VoIP collaboration solutions to enable privacy without the need for a central service provider, undocumented protocols, or proprietary software to achieve these goals. Our overall vision is to facilitate both solutions that are privately built, such as for organizations that wish to have secure communication as a foundation, and especially which can be autonomously assembled bottom-up directly by users over the public Internet as a full public alternative to Skype, using only free software and that depends purely on existing DNS for user lookup, rather than requiring a mediating service provider. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/535.en.html Davis Auditorium David Alexander Sugar PUBLISH 538@dc10@pentabarf.org 538 Debian/kFreeBSD from the FreeBSD Point of View What is this FreeBSD thing anyway? English en 20100803T150000 20100803T160000 01H00M00S Debian/kFreeBSD from the FreeBSD Point of View- What is this FreeBSD thing anyway? This talk briefly introduces the history and the goals of the FreeBSD Project and its development model. For most of the history of the FreeBSD Project, FreeBSD was "the" distribution. In recent years, a number of people have taken on the task of taking the FreeBSD operating system, or in the case of Debian only the kernel, and making it part of a different project. The FreeBSD Project encourages these endeavors and is pleased to see exposure to new environments. Debian/kFreeBSD is unique in the FreeBSD distribution "ecosystem" in that it takes only the kernel and replaces the entire userspace, this poses some interesting new problems that we have not seen in the past but also brings new opportunities. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/538.en.html Davis Auditorium Philip Paeps PUBLISH 556@dc10@pentabarf.org 556 Managing Debian Installations using GOsa and FAI English en 20100803T150000 20100803T160000 01H00M00S Managing Debian Installations- using GOsa and FAI Fully Automatic Installation (FAI) is a well-known project to automatically install multiple machines using Debian. Those machines can further be kept uptodate via the "softupdate" mechanism. This has been proven very successful for big cluster installation at acedemic institutions where the adminstrators have a good Linux/Unix background. However, for small/medium business or smaller acedemic work groups, FAI might be to obscure or difficult to setup. The GOsa project provides an LDAP-based web administration tool to install, configure and administrate machines via FAI. GOsa makes furthermore possible to administrate users and groups via the same LDAP backend, and to some extent user sessions. This makes it possible for people who are no specialists to administrate smaller sets of users and machines via a centralized web frontend. This talk will present FAI and GOsa and explain how they work together and what is needed to install and adminstrate Debian machines via GOsa/FAI. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/556.en.html Interschool Lab Michael Banck PUBLISH 669@dc10@pentabarf.org 669 Debian Derivatives BoF Discuss common issues among derivatives, particularly with respect to cooperating with Debian itself 20100803T160000 20100803T170000 01H00M00S Debian Derivatives BoF- Discuss common issues among derivatives, particularly with respect to cooperating with Debian itself Debian provides a base for many derivative distributions. These distributions are often run as distinct projects with their own goals, but are nonetheless closely tied to Debian and depend on it in order to thrive. Many of them face similar challenges in building on, tracking and coordinating work with Debian itself. The purpose of this BoF is to share experiences among derivatives, identify common challenges and generate ideas for how to work better together with Debian. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/669.en.html 477 CSB Matt Zimmerman PUBLISH 545@dc10@pentabarf.org 545 "Sita Sings the Blues" Screening and Q&A An Artist Tries the Free Software Way and Wins Big (in Pupin 301, NW corner of campus, next to Shapiro) English en 20100803T193000 20100803T210000 01H30M00S "Sita Sings the Blues" Screening and Q&A- An Artist Tries the Free Software Way and Wins Big (in Pupin 301, NW corner of campus, next to Shapiro) "Sita Sings the Blues" is a popular film released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. The filmmaker, Nina Paley, consciously chose a Free license in order to achieve the same dynamics for her film as software has in the free software world, and she succeeded. By the end of 2009, "Sita Sings the Blues" was the best-reviewed new release in the country (http://moviereviewintelligence.com/index.aspx?BID=27&RID=805&CID=0) and audiences love it. We will hold a talk afterwards with the filmmaker and myself (Nina Paley is now artist-in-residence at our non-profit QuestionCopyright.org, and we helped her do the free release), both answering questions from the audience and talking about how free software methods can work for artists in general. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/545.en.html Other Location Karl Fogel Nina Paley PUBLISH 633@dc10@pentabarf.org 633 The Challenges of Licensing in Debian How empirical research can help Debian maintainers with license compliance English en 20100803T113000 20100803T123000 01H00M00S The Challenges of Licensing in Debian- How empirical research can help Debian maintainers with license compliance In this presentation I'll describe some of the major issues affecting both free software developers and Debian package maintainers, and some results that we believe can improve the license compliance of both packages and distributions, such as Debian. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/633.en.html Davis Auditorium Daniel German PUBLISH 641@dc10@pentabarf.org 641 How We Can Be the Silver Lining of the Cloud English en 20100803T093000 20100803T103000 01H00M00S How We Can Be the Silver Lining of the Cloud Freedom and privacy are endangered in the cloud, but we can save them. In this, the second part of my analysis of Freedom in the Cloud[0], I show how the Debian community can play the central role in changing the future of Net, again. Contact: press@softwarefreedom.org Software Freedom Law Center[1] (Abbreviated) Bio and link to a full version on the SFLC website[2] PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/641.en.html Davis Auditorium Eben Moglen PUBLISH 547@dc10@pentabarf.org 547 State of Debian (based) Linux live systems in 2010 English en 20100805T170000 20100805T180000 01H00M00S State of Debian (based) Linux live systems in 2010 This talk will provide an overview of the current state of Linux live systems. How do the various ways to boot a live system work and which ways exist? Which ways exist to build a live system and what steps are involved? Where are chances for improvement and what's needed for the future of live systems? What is Grml and its unit testing framework and how could it be used for Q/A stuff within Debian? PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/547.en.html Davis Auditorium Michael Prokop PUBLISH 562@dc10@pentabarf.org 562 notmuch English en 20100805T150000 20100805T160000 01H00M00S notmuch Notmuch is a mail indexer and user agent by Carl Worth that seems to have caught the fancy of several "Debian people". We will talk about and/or hack on prioritizing existing patches for the next release, identifying missing functionality and nailing down the design of some of the more complex proposed features like better maildir integration, synchronization (including ideas like tag logs). It could also be useful to brainstorm about our patch management process and in general whether technical or social improvements could be made to the development process. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/562.en.html 414 Schapiro David Bremner PUBLISH 682@dc10@pentabarf.org 682 Freeing the Cloud, one (small) service at a time Federated avatar hosting English en 20100805T113000 20100805T123000 01H00M00S Freeing the Cloud, one (small) service at a time- Federated avatar hosting Introducing a new project to provide an open and federated alternative to the centralized Gravatar avatar hosting service. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/682.en.html 414 Schapiro Francois Marier PUBLISH 573@dc10@pentabarf.org 573 Lintian BoF English en 20100805T140000 20100805T150000 01H00M00S Lintian BoF Discussion of the current status of Lintian, the current Lintian architecture, desired future architectural and testing changes, and how you can help. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/573.en.html 414 Schapiro Russ Allbery PUBLISH 543@dc10@pentabarf.org 543 Virtualization and Debian English en 20100805T093000 20100805T103000 01H00M00S Virtualization and Debian What is Virtualization? Why Virtualize? Which virtualization technology should I use? Benefits of virtualization Pitfalls of virtualization These topics and more will be discussed in this session. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/543.en.html 477 CSB Michael Schultheiss PUBLISH 553@dc10@pentabarf.org 553 Debian IRC Operators BoF English en 20100805T093000 20100805T103000 01H00M00S Debian IRC Operators BoF Discussion about #debian (and maybe #debian-devel) channel operation. What to do about non-english channels, what should be considered on- and off-topic, and how strict to enforce it, etc. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/553.en.html 414 Schapiro Michael Banck PUBLISH 589@dc10@pentabarf.org 589 FOSSology and Debian How Debian can utilize the FOSSology software analysis framework English en 20100805T093000 20100805T103000 01H00M00S FOSSology and Debian- How Debian can utilize the FOSSology software analysis framework The FOSSology Project is a Free Open Source Software (FOSS) project built around an open and modular architecture for analyzing software. Existing modules include license and copyright analysis, package analysis, meta data extraction, and MIME type identification. Presented will be an overview of how the FOSSology framework works, how Debian can benefit from it and participate in the project, and a short demonstration of FOSSology analysis of Debian. This talk may especially interest Debian package maintainers and members of the ftpmaster, legal, and QA teams. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/589.en.html Davis Auditorium Matt Taggart PUBLISH 554@dc10@pentabarf.org 554 Batch Queuing Systems BoF English en 20100805T103000 20100805T113000 01H00M00S Batch Queuing Systems BoF There are a couple of batch queuing systems in Debian or as prospective packages - Gridengine, Torque and others. However, it seems the number of people willing to maintain them is quite small among all of them. This BoF will try to get the present maintainers/prospective maintainers of batch queuing in one room and discuss the way forward - e.g. should we pick one queuing system and concentrate efforts for it? Does it make sense to standardize on some policies among them? PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/554.en.html 477 CSB Michael Banck PUBLISH 611@dc10@pentabarf.org 611 New developments in Science Packaging 20100805T160000 20100805T170000 01H00M00S New developments in Science Packaging This event will compile short presentations of new developments in basic scientific libraries/packages, or major changes in them. Please contact mbanck@debian.org if you want to take part in this event. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/611.en.html Interschool Lab Sylvestre Ledru Yaroslav O. Halchenko Adam C. Powell IV PUBLISH 692@dc10@pentabarf.org 692 Fighting the dependency nightmare What variability management can do for Debian Maintainers English en 20100805T170000 20100805T180000 01H00M00S Fighting the dependency nightmare- What variability management can do for Debian Maintainers PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/692.en.html 414 Schapiro Reinhard Tartler PUBLISH 642@dc10@pentabarf.org 642 Antifeatures English en 20100805T103000 20100805T113000 01H00M00S Antifeatures This talk provides a humorous description of an argument in favor of Debian, and free software more generally, based on what I call "antifeatures:" functionality that users hate and that technology developers will often charge users to not include. From DRM to crippled non-free operating systems to digital cameras, I will show off many of the worst antifeatures and, describe how Debian and free software both makes them impossible and helps users work around them. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/642.en.html Davis Auditorium Benjamin Mako Hill PUBLISH 533@dc10@pentabarf.org 533 DC10 runs in Van Cortland Park 20100805T173000 20100805T210000 03H30M00S DC10 runs in Van Cortland Park Some people among DebConf attendees like running. This year, having DebConf in a big city opens new opportunities to those of us who like to have a break for their fingers and thus move their legs instead. On Thursday August 5th 7pm, a local group of runners (the Van Cortlandt Track Club) is organizgin one of its X-C Summer Series 5 kilometers cross-country races. The race location is in Bronx, in Van Cortlandt Park. More information can be found on the [Van Cortlandt Track Club website]. Some of us will join there and participate to this race. Everybody who enjoys running can join in: there's nothing extra high level in this race which apparently gathers all kind of runners already. So, don't be shy: even very occasionnal runners can make it and share some good time with local runners and fellow DebConf attendees. The race registration fee is quite low (USD 5.-) and no pre-registration is needed, though having a good idea of who is participating would be good. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/533.en.html Other Location Christian Perrier PUBLISH 613@dc10@pentabarf.org 613 Patent Absurdity How software patents broke the system English en 20100805T140000 20100805T150000 01H00M00S Patent Absurdity- How software patents broke the system "Patent Absurdity: How software patents broke the system" explores the case of software patents, the history of judicial activism that led to their rise, and the harm being done to software developers and the wider economy. The film, directed by independent filmmaker Luca Lucarini and funded by a grant from the Free Software Foundation, is based on a series of interviews conducted during the Supreme Court's review of in re Bilski, a case that could have profound implications for the patenting of software. The film was produced and edited using free software tools on GNU/Linux, and is being distributed in the free Ogg Theora format. I had a part in its creation as part of my work at the FSF, and could be available to answer questions and give some background both about the process behind the film and an update on the work of the FSF's End Software Patents campaign. The Bilski decision should have come down by the time Debconf happens, so there should be much to talk about with regard to what the outcome means for patents, free software, and Debian. The film is about 30 minutes long. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/613.en.html Davis Auditorium John Sullivan PUBLISH 576@dc10@pentabarf.org 576 What if.... we could automatically test our textual instructions? Crash-test-virtual-machines English en 20100805T113000 20100805T123000 01H00M00S What if.... we could automatically test our textual instructions?- Crash-test-virtual-machines A common problem in any complex computational environments are stale instructions. Software systems change but their related instructions are left unmodified. This problem is made further complicated in Debian by the large number of human languages supported by the project. Branavan et al. (2009) describe an automated way to translate human, textual instructions into executable actions. [1] Their approach involves reinforcement learning with no human intervention, by probing alternative interpretations of the instructional text in a virtual machine. The computer learns which different actions (such as "choose third option from the menu") correspond to different English words in the instructions. Their system also learns how to re-order instructions (as text presentation doesn't necessarily imply execution order, e.g. "click done after selecting /dev/usb"). They are also making their code available (targeted towards a MS Windows VM). [2] In this talk, I will sketch their approach, show a prototype of a Debian-adapted system and seek out collaborators to put this technology to use in different parts of the project, especially in d-i and i18n. [1] Reinforcement Learning for Mapping Instructions to Actions ACL 2009 [Best paper award] S.R.K. Branavan, Harr Chen, Luke Zettlemoyer, Regina Barzilay. <a href="http://people.csail.mit.edu/branavan/papers/acl2009.pdf">http://people.csail.mit.edu/branavan/papers/acl2009.pdf</a> [2] <a href="http://groups.csail.mit.edu/rbg/code/rl/">http://groups.csail.mit.edu/rbg/code/rl/</a> PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/576.en.html Davis Auditorium Pablo Ariel Duboue PUBLISH 621@dc10@pentabarf.org 621 So you want to host DebConf12? Tell us about your DC12 proposal plans. English en 20100805T103000 20100805T113000 01H00M00S So you want to host DebConf12?- Tell us about your DC12 proposal plans. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/621.en.html Interschool Lab Jimmy Kaplowitz Gunnar Wolf PUBLISH 622@dc10@pentabarf.org 622 Travel Sponsorship BoF 20100805T160000 20100805T170000 01H00M00S Travel Sponsorship BoF Year in, year out we use a similar process to chose which attendees to give money to help offset travel expenses. There is always discussion about improving the process but when the time comes it is very difficult to do it plus improve. Let's start a year earlier this time! Anybody that helped rank people this year or previous year is expected to attend this meeting. People who requested travel sponsorship are also welcomed as their feedback about the process will also enrich the discussion. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/622.en.html 414 Schapiro Pablo Ariel Duboue PUBLISH 643@dc10@pentabarf.org 643 The Nexenta Project: OpenSolaris + apt + GNU A look at the enterprise class distribution combining the power of OpenSolaris with the usability of GNU 20100805T150000 20100805T160000 01H00M00S The Nexenta Project: OpenSolaris + apt + GNU- A look at the enterprise class distribution combining the power of OpenSolaris with the usability of GNU The Nexenta project started in 2005 as a port of Ubuntu LTS (Dapper Drake 6.06) to OpenSolaris. It is now the most popular non-Sun distribution based on OpenSolaris. It also forms the basis of multiple community and commercial distributions. This talk traces the history of the Nexenta project, it's relationship with the Debian project, and the opportunities for collaboration. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/643.en.html Davis Auditorium Anil Gulecha PUBLISH 555@dc10@pentabarf.org 555 Debian Science Round Table English en 20100805T170000 20100805T180000 01H00M00S Debian Science Round Table Scientific communities are a big part of Debian's ecosystem and one of the original driving forces of Debian and Free Software in general. This round table will bring together the leaders of the respective communities (physics, biology, chemistry, biochemistry, maths, engineering, ...). One long-standing issue is the fragmentation between the pkg-scicomp and debian-science Alioth projects. Other agenda items will be discussed prior to Debconf (and this abstract be updated). Contact mbanck@debian.org if you want to participate as panel member in this event (everybody can participate in the audience). PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/555.en.html Interschool Lab Michael Banck Sylvestre Ledru Adam C. Powell IV David Bremner Hanna Ollila PUBLISH 634@dc10@pentabarf.org 634 What git-buildpackage (hopefully) can do for you. Maintaining Debian packages in Git English en 20100805T160000 20100805T170000 01H00M00S What git-buildpackage (hopefully) can do for you.- Maintaining Debian packages in Git A distributed version control system like Git can ease common packaging tasks like importing new upstream versions or backporting. The tutorial will give an introduction into maintaining Debian packages in Git supported by the tools from git-buildpackage. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/634.en.html Davis Auditorium Guido Günther PUBLISH 604@dc10@pentabarf.org 604 Overall presentation of the Debian Science English en 20100805T140000 20100805T150000 01H00M00S Overall presentation of the Debian Science Debian is a reference in the scientific world. This distribution provides a wide range of scientific software and many fields. While some specific teams existed (Debichem, Deb Med, pkg-scicomp...), there was no generic Science Team. However, helped with Debian Pure Blend, a general Debian Science team started almost two years ago. The goal of this presentation is to present the team and its past and ongoing actions and its work on various subjects like MPI management or the improvement of the linear algebra libraries system. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/604.en.html Interschool Lab Sylvestre Ledru David Bremner PUBLISH 635@dc10@pentabarf.org 635 Upstart in Debian English en 20100805T093000 20100805T103000 01H00M00S Upstart in Debian A discussion about what needs to be done for Debian to adopt the Upstart replacement init system PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/635.en.html Interschool Lab Scott James Remnant PUBLISH 571@dc10@pentabarf.org 571 Debian: The ultimate platform for neuroimaging research English en 20100805T150000 20100805T160000 01H00M00S Debian: The ultimate platform for neuroimaging research Over the past decade the neuroimaging research community has fortunately converged on the open source software development model, with the vast majority of all widely used applications and libraries being available as source code, and a substantial proportion covered by free software licenses. Today, there exists a large code base for data collection (e.g. behavioral psychological experiments), data analysis (e.g. of functional magnetic resonance imaging; fMRI), and data visualization that is productively used in everyday research activities. A representative list of available tools is provided on the NITRC portal [0]. Initially, most of these tools were mere by-products of actual neuroscience research projects, developed by students, and scholars who are, in general, not trained software engineers. As a result, software development in this field still differs significantly from established good practices in the free and open source software (FOSS) community. Many projects start without a clear deployment or management concept, and due to lack of man-power are later on forced into an \textit{ivory tower development} model -- restricting the ``supported'' environment as an attempt to reduce the required maintenance effort. They try to decouple themselves from ongoing developments and include specific versions of all external dependencies into their source distributions. The result is too often a fork that is no longer updated with bugfixes or enhancements. Many useful projects die because it becomes too expensive to update them. However, it is hard to blame the respective developers, because the sheer number of existing combinations of operating systems, hardware, and library versions makes it almost impossible to verify that a particular software is working as intended. Restricting the ``supported'' runtime environment is one approach of making verification efforts feasible. On the other hand, development in the free software community sometimes proceeds at an enormous pace, and many projects do frequent releases with sometimes backward-incompatible changes. Forcing a dependency on an outdated release shifts the burden of maintenance and deployment onto users, as it gets increasingly difficult to have older releases available. On the other hand, continuously updating software to the latest developments is a time-consuming task for which there is no immediate scientific benefit. I will argue that Debian is the ideal solution to this problem. This talk will provide an overview of current projects and individual efforts within Debian that help researchers to maintain a fully-functional Debian-based environment for neuroscience research with minimal effort (e.g. Debian Med, Debian Science). Moreover, it introduces NeuroDebian [1] -- a platform specifically targeting the neuroscience community. I'm going to show several case examples of packaging efforts that illustrate typical problems, such as non-commercial/non-standard licenses, non-existing upstream bugtracker and unavailable version control systems. Furthermore, I will offer some evidence that a substantial migration towards Debian is already under way. Popularity statistics and personal communication indicates that a growing number of researchers see it as 1) making neuroscience software (e.g. for medical imaging) accessible to a larger user-base, and reducing the required maintenance effort on the user side, 2) improving software quality, and 3) enabling developers to spend more time on developing new scientifically relevant features. The talk will conclude with thoughts on what Debian could do to further facilitate its adoption as the ultimate platform for scientific research, such as tailored guidelines for deployment and project management, possibility to run complete regression test suites, as well as reliable usage statistics to justify funding project funding. [0] http://www.nitrc.org [1] http://neuro.debian.net PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/571.en.html Interschool Lab Michael Hanke Yaroslav O. Halchenko PUBLISH 557@dc10@pentabarf.org 557 Mathematical Software in Debian English en 20100805T113000 20100805T123000 01H00M00S Mathematical Software in Debian An open discussion about how to make Debian a better system for mathematicians. Mathematical software is software that is useful to people doing mathematics. Examples include: computer algebra packages; interactive geometry software (e.g. kig); specialized software for e.g. graph isomorphism. For much of mathematics, exact or verifiable computation is an important feature, so packages like GMP are crucial. Natural questions to discuss include what we are doing well, what we could do better, and how could we cooperate more effectively both with each other and with mathematician upstream developers. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/557.en.html Interschool Lab David Bremner PUBLISH 680@dc10@pentabarf.org 680 Debian Live Team Meeting 20100805T193000 20100805T203000 01H00M00S Debian Live Team Meeting PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/680.en.html 477 CSB Daniel Baumann PUBLISH 619@dc10@pentabarf.org 619 Cross-distro dependency resolution: reusing solvers among distros ... and its application to the plethora of Debian package managers English en 20100806T103000 20100806T113000 01H00M00S Cross-distro dependency resolution: reusing solvers among distros- ... and its application to the plethora of Debian package managers All distributions use some kind of meta-data describing relationships between packages such as Dependencies, Conflicts, Virtual Packages, etc. Existing package managers are often specific to a packaging format, or even use implicit assumptions on the meaning of package relations in the context of a distribution. This talk addresses the issue of how we can overcome this seclusion by resolving inter-package relations in a way that is independent from a specific distribution. We will present CUDF (Common Upgradeability Description Format) which permits to encode upgrade scenarios coming from different packaging systems, including in particular .deb-based and .rpm-based distributions. The format comes with a clear semantics which makes it possible to share resolution tools among distributions, and to adapt general-purpose solvers to the needs of FLOSS distributions. We also show how, in the context of the Mancoosi project, we are using the CUDF format to improve the solving abilities of state-of-the-art package managers in distributions such as Debian, Mandriva, and Caixa Magica. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/619.en.html Davis Auditorium Stefano Zacchiroli PUBLISH 681@dc10@pentabarf.org 681 CUT BoF Constantly Usable Testing exploration English en 20100806T170000 20100806T180000 01H00M00S CUT BoF- Constantly Usable Testing exploration This BoF will be used to explore the feasibility of the Constantly Usable Testing concept. Encouraged to attend: Representatives from Release Team, FTP Team, Security Team, d-i and CD teams, and Publicity Team. And anyone with an interest in forming a CUT Team. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/681.en.html Interschool Lab Joey Hess PUBLISH 684@dc10@pentabarf.org 684 GPG Key Management Best Practices BoF Managing your part of the Web of Trust English en 20100806T193000 20100806T203000 01H00M00S GPG Key Management Best Practices BoF- Managing your part of the Web of Trust AdHoc discussion on digital identity security practices, smartcards, and advanced usage. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/684.en.html 477 CSB Michael Shuler PUBLISH 688@dc10@pentabarf.org 688 MariaDB Why Debian Should Care And What Debian Can Do English en 20100806T140000 20100806T150000 01H00M00S MariaDB- Why Debian Should Care And What Debian Can Do PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/688.en.html 414 Schapiro Kurt von Finck PUBLISH 690@dc10@pentabarf.org 690 Making the FreedomBox a Reality Following up on the inspiration of Eben Moglen's talk English en 20100806T093000 20100806T103000 01H00M00S Making the FreedomBox a Reality- Following up on the inspiration of Eben Moglen's talk Inspired by Eben Moglen's vision of a small, cheap and simple computer that serves freedom in the home, we are building a Debian-based platform for distributed applications. There are a number of projects working to realize a future of distributed services; we aim to bring them all together in a convenient package. Freedom Box is about gathering the software on inexpensive hardware to give people their freedom back through aggregation and transition of cloud services to friend to friend services. Freedom Box is about: * privacy * control * ease of use * dehierarchicalization PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/690.en.html 414 Schapiro Hans-Christoph Steiner PUBLISH 691@dc10@pentabarf.org 691 Source package formats English en 20100806T103000 20100806T113000 01H00M00S Source package formats General discussion of using source package formats in Debian other than 1.0 and 3.0 (quilt), including such things as 3.0 (git). PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/691.en.html 477 CSB Russ Allbery PUBLISH 695@dc10@pentabarf.org 695 The Tor Project Overview and Q&A English en 20100806T150000 20100806T160000 01H00M00S The Tor Project- Overview and Q&A PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/695.en.html 477 CSB Erinn Clark PUBLISH 696@dc10@pentabarf.org 696 BoF documenting python plans for squeeze+1 English en 20100806T140000 20100806T150000 01H00M00S BoF documenting python plans for squeeze+1 PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/696.en.html 477 CSB Matthias Klose PUBLISH 530@dc10@pentabarf.org 530 Group photo 20100806T113000 20100806T123000 01H00M00S Group photo PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/530.en.html Davis Auditorium Aigars Mahinovs PUBLISH 539@dc10@pentabarf.org 539 DebConf11 in Bosnia Introduction and Invitation English en 20100806T150000 20100806T160000 01H00M00S DebConf11 in Bosnia- Introduction and Invitation PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/539.en.html Davis Auditorium Adnan Hodzic PUBLISH 546@dc10@pentabarf.org 546 Querying our BTS with python-debianbts English en 20100806T150000 20100806T160000 01H00M00S Querying our BTS with python-debianbts PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/546.en.html 414 Schapiro Bastian Venthur PUBLISH 662@dc10@pentabarf.org 662 Bits from the Release Team English en 20100806T093000 20100806T103000 01H00M00S Bits from the Release Team PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/662.en.html Davis Auditorium Mehdi Dogguy Philipp Kern Adam D. Barratt Felipe Augusto van de Wiel PUBLISH 596@dc10@pentabarf.org 596 use Perl; Annual meeting of the Debian Perl Group English en 20100806T170000 20100806T180000 01H00M00S use Perl;- Annual meeting of the Debian Perl Group 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 PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/596.en.html Davis Auditorium gregor herrmann PUBLISH 580@dc10@pentabarf.org 580 Debbugs New developments in the ongoing struggle against bugs English en 20100806T160000 20100806T170000 01H00M00S Debbugs- New developments in the ongoing struggle against bugs Debbugs is the software that underlies bugs.debian.org; currently has over 580,000 bugs filed in it, over 480,000 of which have been fixed. Currently in use by thousands of Debian developers and maintainers and unknown numbers of Debian users daily, it is continuously undergoing upgrades to better service the needs of Developers. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/580.en.html Davis Auditorium Don Armstrong PUBLISH 615@dc10@pentabarf.org 615 Brave new Multimedia World English en 20100806T160000 20100806T170000 01H00M00S Brave new Multimedia World PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/615.en.html Interschool Lab Reinhard Tartler Adrian Knoth PUBLISH 638@dc10@pentabarf.org 638 Hands-On DebConf Video Training A Behind the Scenes Tour English en 20100806T103000 20100806T113000 01H00M00S Hands-On DebConf Video Training- A Behind the Scenes Tour The tools we have are pretty cool. Describing them and their use in a one-way presentation is good and useful. But, the complexity of the system is better understood through getting one's hands on it PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/638.en.html Interschool Lab Eric Dantan Rzewnicki PUBLISH 623@dc10@pentabarf.org 623 Job/Gig Recruiting Session "I'm looking for work." "I need a worker." "Great, let's talk!" English en 20100806T103000 20100806T113000 01H00M00S Job/Gig Recruiting Session- "I'm looking for work." "I need a worker." "Great, let's talk!" Many highly qualified people who come to DebConf are between jobs, looking to switch jobs or home countries, or are freelancers seeking additional contracts. This is true every year, but even more so in 2010 due to the global recession. Many others work at companies that could use the professional services of DebConf attendees. This event is intended to bring the two groups together so that job or contract opportunities can be discussed face-to-face. Another potential topic of discussion is how to search for work in various unfamiliar cities or countries. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/623.en.html 414 Schapiro Jimmy Kaplowitz PUBLISH 670@dc10@pentabarf.org 670 Improving Debian's Multimedia Experience why do 3rd party multimedia archives suck English en 20100806T150000 20100806T160000 01H00M00S Improving Debian's Multimedia Experience- why do 3rd party multimedia archives suck Currently, many multimedia related packages are still unpackaged, or packaged but not in debian. Our users therefore have to choose from a number of 3rd party distributors or compile software from source which leads to a poor user experience. This BoF discusses the needs, requirements and interest of 3rd-party archives that contain multimedia related packages. The goal is to identify the current biggest multimedia related problems in debian and tries to form suggestions on how to improve the situation. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/670.en.html Interschool Lab Reinhard Tartler PUBLISH 637@dc10@pentabarf.org 637 Conference Video Herding Cats for Aiur English en 20100806T093000 20100806T103000 01H00M00S Conference Video- Herding Cats for Aiur Video recordings and live internet streams of a growing number of Gnu/Linux and Free Software conferences around the world are being produced by teams of volunteers using largely donated resources and Free Software running on Linux. This talk discusses the hardware and software used for a variety of the productions in which DebConf videoteam members have participated. The software covered includes dvswitch and tools from xiph.org. Challenges and experiences with regard to quality sound, lighting, volunteer organization and workflow management will also be touched upon. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/637.en.html Interschool Lab Eric Dantan Rzewnicki PUBLISH 627@dc10@pentabarf.org 627 Making Debian Rule, again. English en 20100806T140000 20100806T150000 01H00M00S Making Debian Rule, again. An exploration into what we are not doing well enough to make Debian the best of the best, and how we could go about making things better. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/627.en.html Davis Auditorium Margarita Manterola PUBLISH 603@dc10@pentabarf.org 603 Debian as a home TV etc. management system Getting MythTV and similar to work for the casual user English en 20100806T140000 20100806T150000 01H00M00S Debian as a home TV etc. management system- Getting MythTV and similar to work for the casual user I hope that we can have a discussion of how installation of MythTV (and related systems such as freevo) can be even better on Debian. Possibly it would be nice to investigate whether shared infrastructure is appropriate such as permitting "following" other people's recording selections, permitting social interactions in the middle of viewing, etc. Also we are in dire need of some easy way to integrate music collections properly with the multiple music managers... PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/603.en.html Interschool Lab Kristoffer H. Rose PUBLISH 679@dc10@pentabarf.org 679 Classical Keysigning Party 20100806T203000 20100806T213000 01H00M00S Classical Keysigning Party We will do the Classical Keysigning ritual at this event. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/679.en.html 477 CSB Aníbal Monsalve Salazar PUBLISH 607@dc10@pentabarf.org 607 BoF Debian Publicity Raising Debian's profile in the wider world English en 20100807T093000 20100807T103000 01H00M00S BoF Debian Publicity- Raising Debian's profile in the wider world PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/607.en.html Interschool Lab Jeremiah C. Foster PUBLISH 649@dc10@pentabarf.org 649 ARM porters friendly talk - Friendly talk among porters interested in this architecture. English en 20100807T113000 20100807T123000 01H00M00S ARM porters friendly talk- - Friendly talk among porters interested in this architecture. Debian ARM porters meeting for Open discussion on improvements Debian porters could do to Debian/ARM architecture. This talk was merged with Steve's BoF request for working on the arm/armel architecture. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/649.en.html Interschool Lab Steve McIntyre PUBLISH 552@dc10@pentabarf.org 552 Stable Release Management and the future of Debian Volatile How to get better policies and a better performance... 20100807T140000 20100807T150000 01H00M00S Stable Release Management and the future of Debian Volatile- How to get better policies and a better performance... PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/552.en.html Interschool Lab Philipp Kern PUBLISH 687@dc10@pentabarf.org 687 OpenStreetMap BOF English en 20100807T140000 20100807T150000 01H00M00S OpenStreetMap BOF PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/687.en.html 414 Schapiro Blars Blarson PUBLISH 591@dc10@pentabarf.org 591 Handling Debian bugs with SD English en 20100807T113000 20100807T123000 01H00M00S Handling Debian bugs with SD Simple Defects (SD) is a command-line distributed bugtracker. If you've heard of Bugs Everywhere or Ditz, you have the general idea. Bugs Everywhere and Ditz might be nice for tracking bugs for your own new project, but they're not very useful for working with Debian. What may surprise you is that SD is! SD has a special feature that other distributed bug trackers lack: the ability to synchronize bugs back and forth with bug trackers that are external to itself. It does this through pluggable adaptors that work with SD's "foreign replica" interface. This allows you to grab bugs matching some criteria from a foreign source, work on them locally (even offline) with all the power of SD, and then send the updates back to the centralized bugtracker. This talk will present my work on an SD adaptor to interface with our beloved Debbugs, and how it can make you, Debian contributors, more productive when dealing with bugs. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/591.en.html Davis Auditorium Christine Spang PUBLISH 645@dc10@pentabarf.org 645 Debconf closing plenary English en 20100807T160000 20100807T170000 01H00M00S Debconf closing plenary The closing plenary will be the final wrap-up from Debconf. It will be the companion book-end to the opening plenary at the beginning. It will be brief, and will include things like number of contributors (BSP/RCBC prizes; talk report-backs; bosnia presentation, thanks and...see you next time!) PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/645.en.html Davis Auditorium Stefano Zacchiroli Adnan Hodzic Micah Anderson Mehdi Dogguy gregor herrmann PUBLISH 630@dc10@pentabarf.org 630 Integrating new people in packaging teams what works and what does not work with newbies English en 20100807T103000 20100807T113000 01H00M00S Integrating new people in packaging teams- what works and what does not work with newbies I will share my experiences within the Qt/KDE team and hopefully this will lead to a discussion with other members of others teams about what worked with them and what did not work while trying to attract new members. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/630.en.html Davis Auditorium Ana Beatriz Guerrero López PUBLISH 658@dc10@pentabarf.org 658 DebConf & Debian Why is DebConf a fork & shouldn't we merge? English en 20100807T150000 20100807T160000 01H00M00S DebConf & Debian - Why is DebConf a fork & shouldn't we merge? Discuss why (and how far) DebConf and Debian are two seperate entities. Discuss future. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/658.en.html Interschool Lab Holger Levsen Stefano Zacchiroli PUBLISH 659@dc10@pentabarf.org 659 Distributed Bug Tracking BoF Discussion of distributed bug tracking including the bts English en 20100807T093000 20100807T103000 01H00M00S Distributed Bug Tracking BoF- Discussion of distributed bug tracking including the bts PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/659.en.html Davis Auditorium Don Armstrong PUBLISH 564@dc10@pentabarf.org 564 Swimming upstream Challenges packaging Koha for Debian English en 20100807T140000 20100807T150000 01H00M00S Swimming upstream- Challenges packaging Koha for Debian Debian is a huge project, with tens of thousands software packages, a thousand people, and hundreds of communication forums. Koha is large, old, somewhat crufty, free software system for running libraries (the kinds with books and stuff). Koha upstream wants it packaged for Debian, and eventually included in Debian. Because of the sizes of both projects, and the established cultures and policies and habits, things are not always straightforward. What are the challenges Koha faces? What can Koha do to make integration into Debian better? What could Debian do? What lessons can be learned to help other upstreams? PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/564.en.html Davis Auditorium Withheld PUBLISH 646@dc10@pentabarf.org 646 Lightning Talks Clouds have them, how about you? 20100807T150000 20100807T160000 01H00M00S Lightning Talks- Clouds have them, how about you? Lightning Talks are 11 five-minute talks in a 60-minute time-slot! PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/646.en.html Davis Auditorium Micah Anderson PUBLISH 572@dc10@pentabarf.org 572 Monkeysphere Fixing Authentication on the (Debian) 'Net with OpenPGP English en 20100807T103000 20100807T113000 01H00M00S Monkeysphere- Fixing Authentication on the (Debian) 'Net with OpenPGP Monkeysphere is a project to extend the OpenPGP Web of Trust into as many domains as possible, effectively supplanting hierarchical certification infrastructure like X.509, and restoring control over authentication and identification to the communications peers themselves and their own legitimately trusted introducers. We will discuss how Debian can take advantage of Monkeysphere and related ideas, and how packagers can make sure their packages can make use of it. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/572.en.html Interschool Lab Daniel Kahn Gillmor Greg Lyle PUBLISH 683@dc10@pentabarf.org 683 Debian Merchandise BoF English en 20100802T103000 20100802T113000 01H00M00S Debian Merchandise BoF Discussion about which kind of merchandise Debian-associated people/community produce, also to let people attending conferences/meetings/whatever how to get merchandise. Currently Alexander Formorer, Debian Brasil, debian.ch and Debian UK produce merchandise for Debian. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/683.en.html 414 Schapiro Luca Capello PUBLISH 531@dc10@pentabarf.org 531 The Unity Desktop Environment A New Desktop Experience for Netbooks English en 20100802T160000 20100802T170000 01H00M00S The Unity Desktop Environment- A New Desktop Experience for Netbooks Mark will present the work that Canonical has done on netbook user interfaces. The netbook is a significant force in Linux adoption, and Canonical's design team has made netbook user experience its priority. This talk will cover work done to improve the experience people have with Linux on small screen laptops, and examine the possibilities for convergence between netbook and large-screen desktop environments. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/531.en.html Davis Auditorium Mark Shuttleworth PUBLISH 569@dc10@pentabarf.org 569 Bits from the DPL English en 20100802T093000 20100802T103000 01H00M00S Bits from the DPL Bits from the DPL, you know the drill :) Some topics that will addressed: - how are we? - are we aging properly? - what's our role in the (always changing) ecosystem of FLOSS distributions? - are we doing well in (continuously) attracting new developers? - are we doing well in communicating within the project and with the external world? - how's doing the (newbie) DPL? - how are we wrt to ... ? - total world domination is *just* around the corner PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/569.en.html Davis Auditorium Stefano Zacchiroli PUBLISH 534@dc10@pentabarf.org 534 Cheese and Wine party 20100802T210000 20100802T230000 02H00M00S Cheese and Wine party This is the now traditional Cheese and Wine party of Debconf. As usual, things are simple: people do their best to bring cheese, wine and other beverages from all around the world, and share them. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/534.en.html Other Location Christian Perrier PUBLISH 567@dc10@pentabarf.org 567 Debian-Java BoF Session English en 20100802T103000 20100802T113000 01H00M00S Debian-Java BoF Session The Debian Java Maintainers [1] team has 50+ members and currently maintains close to 500 packages [2], including OpenJDK [3] and the Java Policy [4]. In this birds-of-a-feather session we will discuss issues related to Java and Debian. Anybody interested in learning more about it is welcome to attend. People who maintain Java packages outside the team maintenance umbrella are highly encouraged to attend as their feedback is most appreciated. [1] https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-java/ [2] http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/pet.cgi [3] http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/openjdk-6 [4] http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/java-policy/ PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/567.en.html Interschool Lab Pablo Ariel Duboue PUBLISH 617@dc10@pentabarf.org 617 GPLv3: Better Copyleft for Developers and Users English en 20100802T103000 20100802T113000 01H00M00S GPLv3: Better Copyleft for Developers and Users Many developers have not yet investigated the new suite of GPLv3 licenses. This presentation helps developers already familiar with GPLv2 and LGPLv2 to improve their understanding of GPLv3, LGPLv3, and AGPLv3. This presentation covers changes in the patent provisions, improved license compatibility, improved source code provision terms, the internationalization of GPL and many other changes. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/617.en.html Davis Auditorium Bradley M. Kuhn PUBLISH 574@dc10@pentabarf.org 574 Debian Policy BoF English en 20100802T140000 20100802T150000 01H00M00S Debian Policy BoF General discussion of the current state and workflow for Debian Policy, possible future changes to the document structure and workflow, and general discussion of how to get more people involved and how to help Policy evolve at the pace desired by the project. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/574.en.html 414 Schapiro Russ Allbery PUBLISH 550@dc10@pentabarf.org 550 News on Debian Autobuilding Recent changes in the world of Debian Autobuilding English en 20100802T170000 20100802T180000 01H00M00S News on Debian Autobuilding- Recent changes in the world of Debian Autobuilding PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/550.en.html 414 Schapiro Philipp Kern Kurt Roeckx PUBLISH 585@dc10@pentabarf.org 585 Debian-java policy changes English en 20100802T113000 20100802T123000 01H00M00S Debian-java policy changes Until this year Debian Java policy has been stagnant for quite a long time. With the changes in the Java ecosystem, particularly the arrival of openjdk, a lot of changes are necessary. Niels Thykier has pushed through a lot of the changes which had been discussed, but lost momentum. This talk covers those changes which have been made and lead discussion into what policy changes are further desirable. Changes that Niels made were largely to bring policy in line with current practices. We will also review what things are not in policy but which are part of current packaging practices. Discussion on future policy changes will . We will also review what things are not in policy but which are part of current packaging practices. Future policy changes to be discussed will focus on simplifying library transitions, dependencies and other issues. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/585.en.html Interschool Lab Matthew Johnson PUBLISH 640@dc10@pentabarf.org 640 Debian Wiki BoF Want a better wiki? Get Involved! English en 20100802T150000 20100802T160000 01H00M00S Debian Wiki BoF- Want a better wiki? Get Involved! You want a better wiki? You have some ideas? You want a feature... Come, Discuss, Contribute! PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/640.en.html 414 Schapiro Franklin Piat PUBLISH 570@dc10@pentabarf.org 570 Packaging Python modules and applications present and future of Python helper tools English en 20100802T140000 20100802T150000 01H00M00S Packaging Python modules and applications- present and future of Python helper tools This talk briefly introduces current and future Python packaging helper tools. Python 3.2 allows sharing source code files among multiple different versions of Python interpreter, new dh_python will take advantage of it. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/570.en.html Davis Auditorium Piotr Ożarowski PUBLISH 528@dc10@pentabarf.org 528 SPI BOF Meet the SPI Board English en 20100802T113000 20100802T123000 01H00M00S SPI BOF- Meet the SPI Board Debian is an Associated Project of SPI and this BoF is a chance to meet the SPI Board members who are present at DebConf 10 and learn more about SPI and why you should become or continue to be involved in SPI. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/528.en.html Davis Auditorium Michael Schultheiss PUBLISH 595@dc10@pentabarf.org 595 Debian GNU/Hurd Past. Present. And Future? English en 20100802T150000 20100802T160000 01H00M00S Debian GNU/Hurd- Past. Present. And Future? This talk will present the status of the GNU/Hurd OS and of the Debian port, its future, and how you can help it. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/595.en.html Davis Auditorium Michael Banck PUBLISH 568@dc10@pentabarf.org 568 Multiple repository bootstrapping creation of complex chroots and rootfs systems with multistrap English en 20100802T113000 20100802T123000 01H00M00S Multiple repository bootstrapping- creation of complex chroots and rootfs systems with multistrap Multistrap is a multiple repository bootstrapping package which uses apt to resolve the dependencies and a series of configuration files and custom scripts to prepare a complex chroot or a bootable rootfilesystem in a single process. This talk describes the current multistrap process. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/568.en.html 414 Schapiro Neil Williams PUBLISH 584@dc10@pentabarf.org 584 Packaging with javahelper English en 20100802T140000 20100802T150000 01H00M00S Packaging with javahelper Programs and libraries written in Java have a lot of special packaging requirements in common. When I started packaging Java programs I was annoyed at the lack of tools to automate some of these tasks and hence Javahelper was born. Javahelper provides tools to help with the workflow right from processing upstream releases (which can be tricky with some Java upstreams) through building packages where upstream doesn't have a sane build system to generating packaging metadata and installing files into packages. This talk gives an overview of the dh7 and cdbs integration, how to use the various helper tools available in javahelper and finishes with example packages of a selection of simple Java programs and libraries. The aim of Javahelper is to provide tooling to implement Debian Java policy, automate common tasks required by Java packages that aren't provided for by debhelper and to simplify the packaging of Java software. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/584.en.html Interschool Lab Matthew Johnson PUBLISH 558@dc10@pentabarf.org 558 The Free Java Jigsaw Puzzle English en 20100802T170000 20100802T180000 01H00M00S The Free Java Jigsaw Puzzle Extending the modularity of Free Java to match Debian. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/558.en.html Interschool Lab Tom Marble PUBLISH 577@dc10@pentabarf.org 577 The Java Packaging Nightmare English en 20100802T150000 20100802T160000 01H00M00S The Java Packaging Nightmare The talk shows the problems of packaging Java code in a way that the result conforms to minimal packaging standards. Sometimes code does not get build completely from source, sometimes non-free software gets used and sometimes the license terms are not correct. Ways to improve that situation will be shown on the example of Maven. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/577.en.html Interschool Lab Torsten Werner PUBLISH 583@dc10@pentabarf.org 583 A battle cry for a system-level JVM in Debian English en 20100802T160000 20100802T170000 01H00M00S A battle cry for a system-level JVM in Debian If you are running an ant build, trying to get it right, how many times do the Java API methods Just-in-Time compile from Java bytecodes into machine code? For every invocation of /usr/bin/ant, a JVM is spanned and relevant methods are compiled. This is a clear waste of work. Moreover, just-in-time compilation is one of the main reasons of Java perceived sluggishness. As Java is enjoying a sort of renaissance in the Free Software world after the release of OpenJDK, we can expect more and more times our system will be just-in-time compiling yet another copy of java.util.regexp.Pattern. A better solution would be to have system-wide JVM where well behaved (also known as "Debian packaged") programs and libraries can co-exist. Luckily, researchers at Sun Research Labs were working five years ago in project Barcelona [1] (now concluded) which produced a research prototype of a system level JVM (they call this a Multi-tasking Virtual Machine or MVM for lack of a more confusing name) to address this very issue. Their approach resulted in JSR 121 (isolates) [2] for JVM extensions allowing multiple Java applications (classes with a public static void main) to be executed concurrently in the same JVM. Implementing JSR 121 inside OpenJDK is clearly outside the scope of Debian but even in the presence of a JVM with isolation capabilities, there is plenty of system-specific work that needs to be tackled (what happens with /usr/bin/java? it is really system-wide or user-specific? how "well behaved" do the applications need to be?). In this talk, we will summarize relevant bits of project Barcelona's ample list of publications and focus on simple, JSR 121-alike simulations to show what can we expect from having this technology incorporated into Debian. The hope is that we can spearhead the use of isolates within GNU/Linux systems so as to contribute back this knowledge to other distros. [1] http://research.sun.com/projects/barcelona/ [2] http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr121/index.html PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/583.en.html Interschool Lab Pablo Ariel Duboue PUBLISH 636@dc10@pentabarf.org 636 Collaboration between Ubuntu and Debian English en 20100802T170000 20100802T180000 01H00M00S Collaboration between Ubuntu and Debian I would like to cover how maintainers from both projects can coordinate over patches, bug, version control systems, roadmaps, etc. I am also going to include some lessons learned about what it's like to be a derivative distro of Debian, so I will use examples from the past where things went well (or didn't go well at all!) so that both Debian Developers and derivative's from Debian can learn what works and what doesn't. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/636.en.html Davis Auditorium Jorge O. Castro PUBLISH 676@dc10@pentabarf.org 676 Videoteam Training English en 20100727T140000 20100727T153000 01H30M00S Videoteam Training PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/676.en.html Interschool Lab Eric Dantan Rzewnicki PUBLISH 678@dc10@pentabarf.org 678 Keysigning Information/Discussion Session 20100801T203000 20100801T213000 01H00M00S Keysigning Information/Discussion Session We will discuss how keysigning will work at DebConf10. You may also want to join us for the Classical Keysigning Party on the evening of August 6th. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/678.en.html Other Location Aníbal Monsalve Salazar PUBLISH 542@dc10@pentabarf.org 542 FLOSS Manuals: A Vibrant Community for Documentation Development History of a Bold Idea to produce "free manuals for free software" English en 20100801T170000 20100801T180000 01H00M00S FLOSS Manuals: A Vibrant Community for Documentation Development- History of a Bold Idea to produce "free manuals for free software" Started in 2005, FLOSS Manuals has been the locus for over 40 volunteer-produced books and ties together a worldwide community of over 1,000 people who care about free software and free documentation. This presentation describes the value of FLOSS Manuals, its development processes and leadership style, and its strengths and weaknesses as seen from its key organizers. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/542.en.html Interschool Lab Andy Oram PUBLISH 628@dc10@pentabarf.org 628 Pedagogical Freedom Debian, Free Software, and Education 20100801T113000 20100801T123000 01H00M00S Pedagogical Freedom- Debian, Free Software, and Education Educational contexts are powerful testimonies to the value and importance of free software. This panel will discuss various ways that Debian and free software are currently being used to help improve education, in the broadest sense of of the term. Free software is being used effectively across educational institutions, libraries, and grassroots advocacy efforts. We will examine various ways that new media and technology are being used to transform teaching, learning, access, and communication. * Jonah Bossewitch (http://alchemicalmusings.org), Technical Architect at CCNMTL (http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu) and doctoral student in Communications at Columbia's School of Journalism. * Mallory Knodel (http://malloryknodel.net), May First/People Link (http://mayfirst.org) * Professor Matt Curinga (http://matt.curinga.com), Adelphi University * Professor Alycia Sellie (http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/pub/Faculty_Details5.jsp?faculty=968), Brooklyn College * Ahamed Shameem (http://www.projectfedena.org), Fedena is an Open Source School Management System based on RoR technology. It is a one stop solution for all teaching and school management related issues and it helps to manage all school related activities online. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/628.en.html Interschool Lab Jonah Bossewitch PUBLISH 537@dc10@pentabarf.org 537 Google Summer of Code 2010 at Debian Presentation of the projects and their status English en 20100801T140000 20100801T150000 01H00M00S Google Summer of Code 2010 at Debian- Presentation of the projects and their status This event will gather the admins, mentors and students of the 2010 Google Summer of Code at Debian to present our organization work, the students, their projects and how they are doing. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/537.en.html Davis Auditorium Obey Arthur Liu PUBLISH 541@dc10@pentabarf.org 541 Steps to adopting F/OSS in government Establishing and carrying through a commitment English en 20100801T103000 20100801T113000 01H00M00S Steps to adopting F/OSS in government- Establishing and carrying through a commitment This talk looks at both successful and unsuccessful attempts to adopt open source software (the term is preferred to "free software" in government) and lays out some principles for people inside and outside government agencies to promotes its use. In particular, I will discuss the assessment of costs and benefits done for the city of Munich in Germany, the creation of Forge.mil by the Department of Defense, and the process used to choose OpenOffice.org for the state of Massachusetts (a project that was defunded). The importance of using explicitly political arguments for the adoption of open source software, and for agency managers to understand the community and workings of open source at a deep level, will be stressed. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/541.en.html Davis Auditorium Andy Oram PUBLISH 644@dc10@pentabarf.org 644 Debconf opening plenary Welcome to Debconf! English en 20100801T193000 20100801T203000 01H00M00S Debconf opening plenary- Welcome to Debconf! The opening plenary would be the first thing that would be scheduled to kick-off Debconf (after debcamp). It would be the general welcoming to the conference, providing a opening cohesion and hitting a few key things. Ideally the plenary would be scheduled first thing, and not in competition with other things. It would be brief (30 minutes probably). PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/644.en.html Davis Auditorium Gabriella Coleman PUBLISH 563@dc10@pentabarf.org 563 Debian at a large Dutch University English en 20100801T140000 20100801T150000 01H00M00S Debian at a large Dutch University The paper and and presentation I propose will concentrate on the importance of Debian products for the University of Groningen, one of the major Dutch Universities. To summarize: - The university's Center of Information Technology (CIT) is responsible for the correct functioning of the University's Information Technology facilities. This involves making available `standard working environments' for its 5000 staff members and 20,000 students, monitoring and maintaining the integrity of its 10Gb Internet connection as well as the computers that are responsible for providing the facilities that are considered essential for the university. The University uses various means to protect and monitor the well-being of its computers. Among other means the Stealth File Integrity Control program, a Debian package, is used to monitor the file integrity of its core computer systems. - The standard working environment offered by the university to its employees and students has always been a non-Linux system. Fortunately that has changed by now and Linux systems are now deployed in more and more departments of the university. This `Linux Working Place' (LWP) as it is affectionately called is strictly speaking not Debian but Ubuntu, but the close links Ubuntu has with Debian result in a de-facto use of Debian (see also below). In addition to this `official' acceptance of Linux, several departments (Astronomy, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, to name a few) have been using Debian Linux for a long time. - Various programming languages are actively being taught by the University. Since the mid-80s I have organized a course on the C programming language, augmented with C++ since the early 90s. The addition of C++ resulted in the `C++ Annotations', which became the main text-book for that course. The C++ Annotations have also found their way into Debian and are used by many individuals and organizations on a world-wide basis for teaching and honing knowledge about C++. - Students reaching the advanced levels of the C++ course use a parser generator specifically designed to be used with C++ when when designing and implementing their own grammars. This parser generator is Bisonc++, also a Debian package. - Students of my class `Information Security' use classes and templates of my `Bobcat' software library to implement algorithms requiring computations with integral values of unlimited sizes. They usually prefer using these specially designed classes over the raw use of the underlying OpenSSL library functions. Bobcat is not only used in this context, but many C++ programs developed during the C++ course or used by the C++ course students rely on Bobcat. Bobcat is also used in other sections of the University. The departments of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence customarily have Bobcat installed on their systems as well. - Various generic tools (Icmake for program development, Xd for fast directory changes and other Debian-based tools) are used by students and staff-members to simplify their daily activities. Spin-offs of these projects were developed or are being developed right now by others, like `ccbuild' (Bram Neijt) and `flexc++' (Jean-Paul van Oosten, Richard Berendsen, and myself). Moreover, the Debian Developer George Danchev visited us last fall when the CIT organized a course on Debian Package Construction. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/563.en.html Interschool Lab Frank B. Brokken PUBLISH 597@dc10@pentabarf.org 597 Beyond Sharing: Open Source Design What are the challenges for the collaborative design process? English en 20100801T150000 20100801T160000 01H00M00S Beyond Sharing: Open Source Design- What are the challenges for the collaborative design process? Keywords: design, collaboration, interface, community “Design by committee”, “too many cooks in the kitchen” and other terms have been used derogatively to imply that the creative process breaks when it involves too many individuals. At the same time, the software world has been completely revolutionized by the open source, networked collaborative process. When it comes to graphic and interaction designs (two fields critical to software development) Open Source software seem to lag behind the more conventional production models. It seems like in design the Open Source community have not managed to nourish robust collaboration models. One could argue that even successful free software design projects like Firefox or Ubuntu are often developed in a more traditional process. What are the challenges of networked collaboration in the creative process? Can and how might they be solved? Or is it just that designers don’t like to work together? I will be tackling these questions in the light of my collaborative work as founding designer of ShiftSpace.org and my educational research leading the Open Source Design class at Parsons’ AAS Program in Graphic Design. 6mins version of this talk is available here: http://www.mushon.com/2009/12/18/shortaudio-my-open-source-design-slides/ *Disclaimer: I am not a Debian community insider, that's a part of what I want to talk about. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/597.en.html Interschool Lab Mushon Zer-Aviv PUBLISH 620@dc10@pentabarf.org 620 Debian for Shy People English en 20100801T150000 20100801T160000 01H00M00S Debian for Shy People Debconf attendees love Debian. For some, our pride in the project combines with self-confidence to become a sense of empowerment. For others, we fear we are not quite worthy. Let's discuss how prospective contributors feel welcomed or scared-off by the new maintainer process and debian-mentors, how existing contributors see Debian, and what we can do to help technically-sharp but socially-shy people give Debian their best. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/620.en.html 414 Schapiro Asheesh Laroia PUBLISH 609@dc10@pentabarf.org 609 RC bug fixing + NMU = Fun how to have fun via NMU campaigns and RC bug fixing English en 20100801T113000 20100801T123000 01H00M00S RC bug fixing + NMU = Fun- how to have fun via NMU campaigns and RC bug fixing In recent release cycles, it has become more and more evident that a "selfish" approach in which maintainers only care about their own (team maintained) packages does not scale. To keep up with our principle of releasing RC-bug-free software we all need to care about the packages of other, in particular when they are RC-buggy. That, of course, involves actions such as NMU-ing properly, but timely too. This BoF aims will bring together people that care about keeping the RC bug count low not only for what concerns their own packages, but also when it comes to packages of other fellow DDs. Topics of discussion include: - How to spot packages that need NMU from other maintainers. - Official guidelines for when and how do NMUs (devref §5.11.1). - Best practice and invidual work-flow for NMU campaign (the guidelines used by the BoF proponent are in the links section). - How (and if?) communicate about NMU campaigns to get other fellow developers involved. - How to train new/forthcoming Debian developers to care more about packages other than theirs. - etc. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/609.en.html Davis Auditorium Stefano Zacchiroli PUBLISH 663@dc10@pentabarf.org 663 Project Caua: Private Sector, Environmentally Friendly Jobs with Free Software English en 20100801T150000 20100801T160000 01H00M00S Project Caua: Private Sector, Environmentally Friendly Jobs with Free Software Project Caua is an Open project to create millions of private sector, environmentally friendly jobs in urban areas of Latin America utilizing FOSS, with implications of creating hundreds of thousands of jobs in North America and millions more around the world. In addition, Project Caua will open an avenue for free (as in beer) wireless Internet to help defeat the digital divide, and to provide low-cost training to get even more people off unemployment and create taxpayers. The specifications for Project Caua can be found at www.projectcaua.org. While Project Caua is distribution neutral, Debian would be a natural choice as the underlying distribution and sample implementation. This talk will outline Project Caua and hopefully open the discussion for actual implementation details. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/663.en.html Davis Auditorium Jon Anderson Hall Esq. PUBLISH 664@dc10@pentabarf.org 664 Why is GNU/Linux Like a Player Piano? English en 20100801T170000 20100801T180000 01H00M00S Why is GNU/Linux Like a Player Piano? One of the first programmable devices was the Jacquard loom, which used "punched cards" to control fabric designs. One of the next main programmable devices was the player piano (pianola) that used a spool of punched paper to control a mechanical device. There are a lot of similarities between Free Software and the Player Piano, and a lot of lessons to be learned about copyrights and patents, including the person who first invented spread-spectrum radio. This talk illustrates these similarities and lessons, leading up to a discussion of the Opus I organ at Trinity Church on Wall Street, perhaps the greatest organ in the world, driven by GNU/Linux. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/664.en.html Davis Auditorium Jon Anderson Hall Esq. PUBLISH 544@dc10@pentabarf.org 544 Supporting Debian machines for friends and family Notes and tricks from an amateur sysadmin English en 20100801T103000 20100801T113000 01H00M00S Supporting Debian machines for friends and family- Notes and tricks from an amateur sysadmin How to provide friends and family with reliable Debian-based machines without spending all of your evenings maintaining them. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/544.en.html 414 Schapiro Francois Marier PUBLISH 614@dc10@pentabarf.org 614 FSF's campaigns for freedom Activism, development, and education English en 20100801T140000 20100801T150000 01H00M00S FSF's campaigns for freedom- Activism, development, and education The FSF works for user freedom on several fronts, including activist political campaigns, educational resources, and support for software development. All of these areas intersect with Debian -- activist campaigns like Defective by Design, PlayOgg, and Windows 7 Sins are supported by many Debian participants and relate to the goals and values of the DFSG. Resources like the Free Software Directory, Hardware Database, and Licensing & Compliance Lab provide important information for free software users and developers. Through the GNU Project and the High Priority Projects list, the FSF directly supports upstream free software development. As the Operations Manager at the FSF, I can give an overview of these projects, and focus on the most timely ones. It's labelled as a lecture, but I would hope to have a significant amount of discussion, including thoughts about our existing efforts and suggestions for what more we could do. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/614.en.html 414 Schapiro John Sullivan PUBLISH 673@dc10@pentabarf.org 673 Debian Day opening Plenary Welcome to Debian Day! English en 20100801T094500 20100801T103000 00H45M00S Debian Day opening Plenary- Welcome to Debian Day! Welcoming people to Debian Day PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/673.en.html Davis Auditorium Gabriella Coleman Hans-Christoph Steiner PUBLISH 674@dc10@pentabarf.org 674 How Government can Foster Freedom in Technology English en 20100801T160000 20100801T170000 01H00M00S How Government can Foster Freedom in Technology Hon. Gale A. Brewer, former Chair of the Committee on Technology in Government, current Chair on Committee on Governmental Operations will discuss the ways that government can foster freedom in technology. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/674.en.html Davis Auditorium Hon. Gale Brewer PUBLISH 671@dc10@pentabarf.org 671 Day Trip to Coney Island sun! sand! food! rides! 20100804T090000 20100804T220000 13H00M00S Day Trip to Coney Island- sun! sand! food! rides! We will all be going to Coney Island for fun and adventure. Explore historic Brighton Beach! Ride the Cyclone rollercoaster! Swim in the ocean! See the circus sideshow! Enjoy a baseball game! Fly kites! Eat food! Play Frisbee! Or do none of the above and just hang out with your friends outside and have a good time. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lecture /dc10_schedule/events/671.en.html Other Location Clint Adams