Banja Luka 2011-07-16 2011-07-31 16 1.0 00:00 00:15 10:00 00:30 Auditorium DebianDay lecture Alexandar Dzombic Milorad Dodik Pregrag Culibrk Adnan Hodzic Jasmin Komic 11:30 00:15 Auditorium Welcome to Debian Day DebianDay lecture en We will explain what is Debian, what is Debian Day and provide an overview of what the day entails, the speakers and events for the rest of the day and any necessary logistical information. Also, the president of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, will give welcome to everyone. Adnan Hodzic 12:00 00:45 Auditorium DebianDay lecture en Bdale Garbee 15:00 00:45 Auditorium Snapshots of everyday life in Debian DebianDay lecture en The talk will try to give the flavour of everyday life in Debian, with stories and quotes from developers. Enrico Zini 16:00 00:45 Auditorium DebianDay lecture en Contributing to Debian is often seen as a deeply technical process which needs a lot of knowledge, experience and technical skills. This often seems to discourage interested people, while in truth there are a lot of ways to contribute to Debian with little or even none technical knowledge. We'll show many ways to contribute to Debian and how everyone - yes, we really mean everyone - can contribute to Debian. Meike Reichle Alexander Reichle-Schmehl 17:00 00:45 Auditorium Debian in Google DebianDay lecture Jesus Climent 18:00 00:45 Auditorium How Debian runs the Austrian e-health system DebianDay lecture en Insider view of Austrian E-health system that is running on Debian. Gerfried Fuchs SVC Homepage eCard Portal 10:00 00:45 Auditorium DebConf11 introductory session Plenaries lecture en This session will welcome people to DebConf11 and tell them what will be happening later in the conference. Velimir Iveljic Vedran Omeragic Andrew McMillan Bojana Borković Joerg Jaspert Milan Knezevic Zlatan Todoric Holger Levsen Adnan Hodzic Daniel Kahn Gillmor Moray Allan Gunnar Wolf Iszaevich 11:00 00:45 Auditorium State of the Union^W Debian address Plenaries lecture en Let's not break the tradition of the "bits from the DPL" address at DebConf! Shamelessly, the DPL will present some of his views on how Debian is going and what are the challenges ahead of us. Some of the topic that will be covered are: what makes Debian so special and why it's important—for the whole ecosystem of Free Software—that our Project lives long and prosper; what are the advantages and disadvantages of some of Debian peculiarities when compared to some of the other "major" distros out there; what could we do to fulfill our role in the Free Software ecosystem and to smooth some of our rough edges. Stefano Zacchiroli 12:00 00:45 Auditorium lecture en The Publicity Team can be considered as a kind of "voice of the Debian Project": it publishes announcements, a regular Newsletter (called Debian Project News), "dents" (and "twitts") via the official Debian account, and generally tries to stay in touch with the wider Debian Community. It is a lot of work for a small team, so a big part of this talk will try to recruit you for our team... Well, let us rephrase that: we will introduce our team and our work, and show you what we can do for you, how you can help us, and how you can make our job easier. The Publicity Team can be considered as a kind of "voice of the Debian Project": it publishes announcements, a regular Newsletter (called Debian Project News), "dents" (and "twitts" as the dents are forwarded to the Debian's inofficial Twitter and Facebook accounts) via the official Debian account, and generally tries to stay in touch with the wider Debian Community. It is a lot of work for a small team, and most work currently is spend on publishing the regular newsletter, which is translated into several languages. So a big part of this talk will try to recruit you for our team... Well, let us rephrase that: we will introduce our team and our work, and show you what we can do for you, how you can help us, and how you can make our job easier. Alexander Reichle-Schmehl Slides latex sources in svn 15:00 00:45 Auditorium How the Universal Operating System can lead the pack lecture en This talk will cover cryptographic authentication within debian, how we can better streamline the situation for our users, minimize code, increase freedom, and help rein in the "too big to fail" members of the Certificate Authority cartel which dominates the standard cryptographic authentication model for TLS and S/MIME. I'll talk about: * cryptographic authentication agents (both per-user and per-system) * the various forms of cryptographic certification we already support in debian * minimizing and streamlining code that handles this sensitive task * making user choice easier, more understandable, and more effective across the distro * collaboration with other distros and other operating systems Daniel Kahn Gillmor 16:00 00:45 Auditorium ftpnew lecture en Abstract: The FTP Team takes care of Debian's archive in various ways: By maintaining and developing the software powering the archive, by ensuring packages in the archive are compliant with the Debian Free Software Guidelines and are legally distributable by Debian, and many ways more. This talk gives a brief overview over the FTP Teams jobs, and shows what you can do to help us, be it with coding work or just by ensuring your packages in NEW can be easily checked (and accepted). Mark Hymers Joerg Jaspert Alexander Reichle-Schmehl 17:00 00:45 Auditorium lecture en This year's DebConf features the 7th birthday of the Debian-Women project. Since 2004 a lot of things have happened in Debian-Women and the Debian project itself, so this seems like a good time to review the development of the project so far and take stock of its current state as well as the current state of women in Free Software. This talk goes together with a Debian-Women BoF that will focus on Debian-Women's future. Meike Reichle The Debian-Women Website Recent interview on the current state of Debian Women 18:00 00:45 Auditorium bof en An opportunity to meet the Debian Technical Committee members attending Debconf in person, ask questions, and seek advice. Bdale Garbee 12:00 00:45 Round room should there be a minimal quality standard? bof After an attempt to package Hadoop for Debian I had to learn that the quality of the upstream is too low to warrant an inclusion into Debian. Should there be minimal quality standards for software to be included in Debian? What could these standards be? If such standards would exist, it would be easy to challenge an ITP for a crapy PHP content management system...? Thomas Koch 15:00 00:45 Round room bof en We will discuss the various changes planned or in progress for Ruby packaging in Debian, including: - the possible switch to 1.9 as default - the switch to the gem2deb packaging helper There's a wiki page listing all the work planned for wheezy: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Ruby/RubyInWheezy Lucas Nussbaum 16:00 00:45 Round room bof en In this BOF, we plan to discuss various QA-related topics, such as: - QA processes: MIA, orphaned packages, NMUs - QA infrastructure: PTS, DDPO, UDD, ... - QA tools: lintian, piuparts - archive-wide tests: piuparts, archive rebuilds, ... Lucas Nussbaum 17:00 00:45 Round room bof en Discussion of the current status of Lintian, the current Lintian architecture, desired future architectural and testing changes, and how you can help. Lintian is increasing in importance as a core QA tool for the Debian archive now that package uploads can be automatically rejected based on Lintian results. Its architecture has also seen significant improvements in the past year, with additional significant improvements planned. And there is always the never-ending flood of new possible tags, new types of analysis, and new issues that Lintian can help with. This BoF is for anyone interested in knowing more about the Lintian architecture, the current maintenance strategy, or Lintian's current and future capabilities. Possible topics of discussion include architectural issues and changes, documentation, the new Lintian test suite mechanism, desired tags, and how you can contribute. Niels Thykier http://lintian.debian.org/ Lintian team http:// 18:00 00:45 Round room workshop en Workshop to a.) discuss bugs detected by piuparts and b.) to hack on piuparts There are still hundreds of bugs found by piuparts which are not filed yet. Hopefully this workshop can discuss some classes of bugs, so that bugs can be filed more sensible. Another idea for the workshop is to do setups of the master-slave architecture like run on piatti.debian.org on local VMs, so that people can hack on their fancy wishlist bugs more easily. Holger Levsen 16:00 00:45 Meeting room Latest innovations in open source PostgreSQL DBMS lecture en PostgreSQL 9.1 contains many innovative features. This talk discusses each of them, to showcase the level of innovation and quality that can be achieved with open source. Simon Riggs 21:00 03:00 Elsewhere 6th Debconf C&W Social activities other As usual, DC11 will feature a Cheese and Wine party, our traditional "share and enjoy" event. Attendees are expected to bring goods from their country (with cheese being the preferred, of course). Event details will be decided during last week. The C&W is of course as good as material brought by attendees..:-) Christian Perrier 10:00 00:45 Auditorium Plenaries lecture en This will be a talk presenting views on what happened during the last release cycle and outlining plans for the next release. Neil McGovern 11:00 00:45 Auditorium where do we want to go today Plenaries bof en DSA status update and BoF [ Moved from "submission notes" -GW ] Stephen Gran Martin Zobel-Helas Peter Palfrader 12:00 00:45 Auditorium FAQs and the future Debian org related webservices lecture en Talk from the Website Team The Debian Website Team is responsible for a fair amount of websites, including but not limited to www.debian.org and wiki.debian.org. Maintaining and updating such huge efforts that spans thousands of pages and is available in dozens of languages requires a fair amount of coordination and respect for each other's efforts. This talk will shine a light on the background of the effort and tries to address some of the most frequently asked questions and give an insight into how things might be possible to move forward. Gerfried Fuchs Debian's Website Debian's Wiki 15:00 00:45 Auditorium what tool and workflow is right for you? tutorial There are at least 3 different tools (git-buildpackage, git-dpm, and gitpkg) in Debian designed to make generating Debian packages. In this tutorial I'll try to give a not too biased view of the strengths and weaknesses of these three options, and go through setting up a packaging repository including accessing upstream git and svn, using pristine-tar to keep tarballs in git, and various options for managing patches. David Bremner Slides 16:00 00:45 Auditorium lecture en By the time of DebConf, we will have six months of experience with the deployment of Multiarch in Ubuntu, and about three months in Debian itself. Take a look back at some of the lessons learned, inform developers how they can get more involved in multiarch rollout and what it means for their packages, and discuss the next steps to be taken as a project. Steve Langasek slides slides (source) 17:00 00:45 Auditorium autopkgtest and the status of DEP-8 bof en DEP-8 is a DEP (Debian Enhancement Proposal) attempting to standardize, clean up, and put in production the "autopkgtest" framework developer by Ian Jackson. Using autopkgtest maintainers can enrich their packages which "as installed" tests, that is tests that will be run in an environment in which the package has been installed, providing a more powerful and more near to the user testing framework to ensure a package is working properly. In this BoF we will briefly present the state of DEP-8 and of the underlying framework. Then we will discuss among participants the details of the specification and what can/should be improved before recommending it for widespread archive usage. If you are interested in Debian Quality Assurance, Test Driven Development and how to apply it in Debian, this BoF is for you! ... but beware, volunteer recruiting will be *the* underline tune of this BoF! Tom Marble Stefano Zacchiroli DEP-8 the "autopkgtest" package 18:00 00:45 Auditorium How to restructure the Events team bof en The Debian Events team needs to be restructured or, better, its pages (both on www.d.o and wiki.d.o) need a bit more love and must be updated to current practices. The idea is to discuss what we need and then implement ideas, if not already done during DebCamp. Two (Francesca and myself) out of the three people in the team will be at DebCamp/DebConf, as well as other people from the Publicity team, which shares some of our resources. Luca Capello Events page on www.d.o Events page on wiki.d.o Event and merchandise handling in Debian Pool for an Events BoF DebConf11 ToDo Report 21:00 00:45 Auditorium DebianDay workshop OpenPGP keysigning event. Please bring a government-issued ID and hard-copy of your OpenPGP fingerprint. Ideally, you'd submit your key information ahead of time, but we don't have a volunteer yet to coordinate the keysigning. I'll update this abstract when we have a victim^H^H^H^H^Holunteer. Daniel Kahn Gillmor 12:00 00:45 Round room bof en Debian Rolling is about providing a testing-like distribution for end-users that is constantly updated with the latest stable software. Discuss the current issues, plan the future, etc. Raphaël Hertzog 15:00 00:45 Round room social and technical limitations Debian org related webservices bof en Debian's website and wiki produces megabytes of logs per day, but noone actually looks on them. Also i often hear the website content sometimes is hard to find. * Could we use tracking information to restructure our websites to make content better findable? * I wonder how far we could go with tracking users, without collecting to much personal information about our users. * Is annonymizing the logs and using that for tools like piwik, awstats, webalizer enough? Martin Zobel-Helas 16:00 00:45 Round room Debian org related webservices bof en This is a meeting of Debian Publicity team interested people who are not yet active in our team are of course welcome to join us: Let's improve Debian by telling others how great Debian actually is! Alexander Reichle-Schmehl Debian Publicity Team Wiki http:// 17:00 00:45 Round room get it more official than now Debian org related webservices bof en backports is now an official supported service. It though is not fully integrated yet. There are several services that should still offer better support. Some places where better integration is feasible but not yet done: * The BTS doesn't has support for tracking its versions yet, or different maintainer addresses * The packages site doesn't show its changelogs * dput complaints about included orig source in +1 uploads * dpkg-genchanges doesn't include orig source in +1 uploads automatically * some lintian warnings should be silenced for backported packages (NMU check e.g.) * potentially many more ... Gerfried Fuchs Backports 18:00 00:45 Round room Debian org related webservices bof en Come to discuss the Debian wiki and its status, get involved in fixing currently open issues and give us feedback. Paul Wise Debian Wiki BoF agenda 15:00 00:45 Meeting room open source virtualization clusters on Debian Large-scale deployment lecture en Guido Trotter 16:00 00:45 Meeting room Practical introduction to the distributed VCS Skill exchange tutorial en Thomas Koch 18:00 00:45 Meeting room meeting en Informal meeting of people working on having Tor and its ecosystem in Debian proper. Informal meeting of people working on having Tor and its ecosystem in Debian proper. Jérémy Bobbio 19:00 00:15 Elsewhere Social activities other The group photo will be in front of Banski Dvor Aigars Mahinovs 10:00 10:00 Elsewhere Discovering Bosnia Social activities other Stefano Zacchiroli 10:00 00:45 Auditorium The traditional roundtable to seek for synergies between Debian and its derivatives Blends podium en This roundtable should tie up to the good tradition of previous DebConfs to bring together different representatives of Debian and derived distros. People who are interested in manning the podium are explicitely invited to contact me. Andreas Tille 11:00 00:45 Auditorium ... and other initiatives to improve the collaboration with derivative distributions Blends bof Various initiatives have been recently started to improve the collaboration among Debian and its derivatives. Some examples are the "Derivatives Front Desk" (a discussion place for representatives of Debian and derivatives), the Debian dErivatives eXchange program (a program to coordinated focused cross-distro collaboration initiatives to merge related derivatives patches into Debian proper), and the derivatives census. This BoF will first present a retrospective of the above initiatives and attempt a brief review of how they went. Then, the BoF will move to an open discussion among participants about how (and if) to continue the above initiatives, gathering new participants into them, as well as brainstorming about new initiatives that we can devise to improve both Debian and all its derivatives. Participants from Debian are welcome; participants from derivatives are very welcome! Stefano Zacchiroli derivatives front desk DEX derivatives census 12:00 00:45 Auditorium Debian Pure Blends as a way to structurise the project Blends lecture en Besides the technical aspect which was invented for Debian Pure Blends the idea has a strong focus on how Debian could be perceived by users. If users can be really sure that there is a team in Debian which specifically cares for their very own needs Debian becomes an advantage over other distributions which do not have such dedicated teams. In contrast to the technical aspects presented in last years this talk is rather targeting at making people aware of the less technical points like how to form a team which is visible in and outside Debian, ensuring that the target users outside really know, that Debian is actually working dedicated for their interests and how to involve upstream authors into the Blend and thus coming closer to Debian. Andreas Tille 15:00 00:45 Auditorium The how and why of packaging Haskell libraries lecture en The functional programming language Haskell is more and more failing to “avoid success at all costs”. Naturally, Debian wants to provide its users a good and thorough Haskell experience. This talk gives an overview of the Haskell ecosystems, the technical implication of static linking and cross-module inlining and how we use virtual package to guarantee a usable installations. The target audience are users (or prospective users) of Haskell on Debian, developers and package maintainers of programs built with Haskell and of course developers who want to join the Debian Haskell Group. Joachim Breitner Haskell in Debian on the Debian wiki 16:00 00:45 Auditorium lecture An introduction to the Debian kernel team and its work. Explains the packages we maintain, the workflow for the Linux kernel itself (linux-2.6 package), and interactions with other packages. Ben Hutchings Slides 17:00 00:45 Auditorium lecture en Debian, as a volunteer project, relies on donations and in-kind gifts (e.g. hardware) to maintain its infrastructure and to support various development efforts, such as funding sprints and other developer gatherings. Debian's money and other assets are held by Software in the Public Interest (SPI) in the US, Verein zur Förderung Freier Informationen und Software e.V. (ffis) in Germany and additional entities in other countries. This talk will shed light on these organizational aspects of Debian, which have previously not been discussed much. Specifically, the talk will: - Discuss the relationship between Debian and organizations that hold assets on behalf of Debian. - List the types of assets held by Debian (such as money, hardware, trademarks, and domain names) - Present the approval process employed by the DPL when it comes to using Debian's assets. - Discuss recent efforts to publish public statements about the assets held by Debian as well as inflows (donations, etc) and outflows (sprints, DebConf, etc). Martin Michlmayr Martin Wuertele 18:00 00:45 Auditorium CONGRATULATION YOU HAVE WON GBP£820,000.00 bof en The sprint program has gathered some steam this year: at the time of writing, Debian has had 12 sprints in 12 months and a few more are forthcoming. In this BoF we will first present some introductory topics about sprints: figures (typical cadence, cost, number of participants), refresh your memory about how you and your team can easily have their sprint, and discuss what has worked well and what has not in sprint organization up to now. Later on, we will open up the discussion about how we can improve sprint organization so that we can put more efficiently into use Debian money to organize development sprints. We will let the discussion wander happily to touch the recurrent topics of how to use Debian money, how much keep around to "stay safe", etc. Stefano Zacchiroli sprints page sprints HOWTO sponsoring guidelines asking (the DPL) for money 10:00 00:45 Round room Where to go from here bof en This BoF invites everyone interested in the Debian-Women project to join in on the discussion on how to revive and carry on the project. We want to collect ideas on what to do and also come up with a tangible plan of things to do for the coming months. This BoF is the continuation of my talk on the past and present of the Debian-Women project. Meike Reichle 11:00 00:45 Round room Annual meeting of the Debian Perl Group bof en 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 gregor herrmann Agenda http:// 12:00 00:45 Round room Skill exchange workshop en Gergely Nagy 15:00 00:45 Round room A Debian system for schools, university workgroups and small enterprises? Blends bof en The Debian-Edu system provides an integrated system with central user management, Kerberos authentication, Thin- and Diskless-Clients, Intranet and much more. All this works out of the box. It is provided with loads of educational packages to serve a school's needs. Except from a different package selection, the 'system'-part of Debian-Edu could be used in different environments: University research groups and small enterprises come to mind immediately. However, to serve the general case, Debian-Edu needs to be more modularized: Into a common part (networking/user management etc.) and the tuning for the final deployment. After a short presentation of the current status of the Debian-Edu system, I would like to discuss the idea of a modularized Debian-Networking system as a 'generalized' Debian-Edu system. Is there interest in such a system and the synergies within a broader user- and developer-base? Is it possible? How do we start? Andreas B. Mundt Debian-Edu Wiki Debian-Edu/Skolelinux Further resources 16:00 00:45 Round room Bringing together scientists@DebConf Blends bof en This is just to continue the tradition of DebConfs to bring together all those people who are interesting to use Debian in scientific research. It will be used to find synergies, develop common policy and tools and perhaps gather new people for the Debian Science Team Sylvestre Ledru Andreas Tille Debian Science Wiki 17:00 00:45 Round room apt-xapian-index, screenshots.debian.net, distromatch, DDE and some more engine parts for high level app installers Blends lecture en Over the years, people have built several components, akin to engine parts, that can be used to build outstanding high level app installers and other distribution interfaces. Very few people however realise how easy it is, now, to put those parts together into some outstanding new killer application. As an engine builder I am not the appropriate person to design the car interiors; but I want to let everyone know what working parts are already available, because I want to see people building new, cool, radical, innovative cars. Enrico Zini AppStream project 18:00 00:45 Round room Blends bof en Apt-xapian-index, Popcon and UDD are powerful tools that can be used together for composing package recommendations, as it is currently being developed in AppRecommender [1] [2]. The main goal os this work is to help users find useful packages based on their previous choices and similar users' choices. The recommender output allow composing suggestions like: "If you like this package you may also like that one" or "Users who have package X installed also have Y in their systems". This BoF aims to open the disccussion about strategies and heuristics adopted by AppRecommender, compare it to previous initiatives (Alain Schröeder and Enrico Zini have already worked on this problem), talk about challenges of providing such a service for Debian users and how could it be adapted to a cross-distribution approach. [1] http://www.ime.usp.br/~tassia/apprec.html [2] http://github.com/tassia/AppRecommender Tássia Camões Araújo App Recommender App Recommender Git 10:00 00:45 Meeting room Hacking archive software for fun, profit and pain bof en dak BoF for anyone interested in helping to hack on the archive software. Mark Hymers 11:00 00:45 Meeting room Knitting for Beginners and Intermediates Social activities workshop Knitting is not only a very practical skill, it also trains the typing fingers, soothes the hacking mind and teaches us patience and perseverance. All this makes it the perfect past time occupation for any Debian project member! This workshop invites anyone, beginner, intermediate or expert, to join in and learn, teach, swap, and generally talk-the-yarn-talk. We will also bring some extra yarn and needles for those yet totally foreign to the art. In the spirit of true Openness this workshop is of course equally open to crocheters, spinners, macrame'ists, embroiderers and all other yarn loving denominations. Meike Reichle The Debian group at ravelry 12:00 00:45 Meeting room Skill exchange workshop en We'll discuss how the monkeysphere works, how to get started, and where it's going in the future. This was requested at http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf11/SkillsExchange Daniel Kahn Gillmor http://web.monkeysphere.info 15:00 00:45 Meeting room Hot stuff with the command line Skill exchange other en Zsh does not rock in its default configuration, but it rocks like hell once you enable some options. Zsh is a very powerful shell, providing a flexible completion system, shell prompt and tons of nifty and rocking features. In this Skills Exchange session people should get a good start with using Zsh and people who already use Zsh should learn some nice tips and tricks. Michael Prokop 16:00 00:45 Meeting room meeting en Timo Juhani Lindfors 17:00 00:45 Meeting room a free software developers dream en The idea about Basic Income is gaining traction worldwide. It is especially beneficial for free software. I'd like to present and discuss the idea. From basicincome.org: A basic income is an income unconditionally granted to all on an individual basis, without means test or work requirement. It is a form of minimum income guarantee that differs from those that now exist in various European countries in three important ways: * it is being paid to individuals rather than households; * it is paid irrespective of any income from other sources; * it is paid without requiring the performance of any work or the willingness to accept a job if offered. Liberty and equality, efficiency and community, common ownership of the Earth and equal sharing in the benefits of technical progress, the flexibility of the labour market and the dignity of the poor, the fight against inhumane working conditions, against the desertification of the countryside and against interregional inequalities, the viability of cooperatives and the promotion of adult education, autonomy from bosses, husbands and bureaucrats, have all been invoked in its favour. But it is the inability to tackle unemployment with conventional means that has led in the last decade or so to the idea being taken seriously throughout Europe by a growing number of scholars and organizations. Social policy and economic policy can no longer be conceived separately, and basic income is increasingly viewed as the only viable way of reconciling two of their respective central objectives: poverty relief and full employment. There is a wide variety of proposals around. They differ according to the amounts involved, the source of funding, the nature and size of the reductions in other transfers, and along many other dimensions. As far as short-term proposals are concerned, however, the current discussion is focusing increasingly on so-called partial basic income schemes which would not be full substitutes for present guaranteed income schemes but would provide a low - and slowly increasing - basis to which other incomes, including the remaining social security benefits and means-tested guaranteed income supplements, could be added. Many prominent European social scientists have now come out in favour of basic income - among them two Nobel laureates in economics. In a few countries some major politicians, including from parties in government, are also beginning to stick their necks out in support of it. At the same time, the relevant literature - on the economic, ethical, political and legal aspects - is gradually expanding and those promoting the idea, or just interested in it, in various European countries and across the world have started organizing into an active network. Thomas Koch 18:00 00:45 Meeting room Lets get together to talk about notmuch! bof en Micah Anderson 20:00 03:00 Elsewhere eat, drink and be merry Social activities other The traditional not-so-formal "formal dinner". Adnan Hodzic Moray Allan 10:00 00:45 Auditorium Meet the students, mentors and admins podium en This event will gather the admins, mentors and students of the 2011 Google Summer of Code and 2010 Google Code-in at Debian to present our organization work, the students, their projects and how they are doing. At the time of Debconf11, our students should be way into their projects. The Debian organization of the 2011 run of the Summer of Code and of the 2010 run of the Code-in will be presented and discussed, gathering feedback, especially in regard of the relation between the projects and the rest of the community. This event will be an opportunity for mentor and student pairs to present the projects they have been working on and update about their progress, and for the Debian community to give face to face feedback and help. Obey Arthur Liu Ana Beatriz Guerrero López Sylvestre Ledru Debian GSoC 11:00 00:45 Auditorium Build on Debian, run anywhere. lecture en Bdale Garbee and Keith Packard ship open hardware and open source avionics solutions for hobby model rockets. A key feature of these products is that the ground station software works identically across Linux, Windows, and MacOS clients. All software build and release processing is run on Debian. This talk will explain the approach taken to achieve these results, and the build system components used. Bdale Garbee AltOS 12:00 00:45 Auditorium lecture en news from buildd/wanna-build side from the last year (wanna-build priority changes, autosigning, ...) Andi Barth 15:00 00:45 Auditorium Porting, news and discussions bof en The Debian ARM port(s) are rapidly becoming more and more important, with lots of active development and more and more users. Let's see how things are going and where we are hoping to get to. Steve McIntyre 16:00 00:45 Auditorium Cyclic dependencies, staged builds and cross-compiling lecture en Debian is extremely difficult to bootstrap for a new architecture or a new ABI, and every time someone does the work it's incredibly painful. We have a lot of cyclic build-dependencies which means there is no valid build-order, and many packages don't cross-build properly, where at least some of the packages must be cross-built for a new port. We also don't have tools to manage such bootstrap-builds. In practice people tend to use some other system to get started, then try to turn it into Debian. We really ought to be able to bootstrap ourselves. This talks explains the issues (with pretty graphs!), shows how to fix them, which packages and tools are affected, and covers the current state of this work. It also explains why people want/need this functionality, and what affected package maintainers need to do to keep things bootstrappable. Making all this work makes Debian useful in various places where currently it isn;t very useful, which is why engineering effort is available from various companies. Lets take the opportunity to fix it properly. There is a real need to bootstrap Debian from sources when doing new ports or flavours. Every new architecture or optimisation flavour needs to do this at least once, and making it easier than the current 'really very hard' would be great. It is also very useful for cross-compiling to new or non-self-hosted architectures, and for a genuinely new arch at least part of the system (toolchains+build-essential) has to be cross-built until there is enough to become self-hosting. Recent new bootstraps have been done for sh4, armhf and avr32. More are coming down the line. Subarch flavoured rebuilds (e.g. to optimise for a particular CPU) are particularly useful on ARM and MIPS architectures. Bootstrapping is also helpful when bringing a lagged architecture up to date. Currently people tend to use non-debian tools (such as Yocto/gentoo/OpenEmbedded) to get a basic rootfs image of the target arch/ABI then do native building within that. This works but needs a great deal of manual loop-breaking and we really out to be able to bootstrap our own OS. Putting the necessary bootstrapping metadata and build rules into the packages themselves in an orderly fashion enables the info to be maintained easily. QA tests to report on breakage will help enormously here. It also makes for a repeatable and deterministic process. This work does need build-system and policy changes, to allow 'staged' or 'bootstrap' package builds which untangle cyclic dependencies. And then preferably some automated analysis, QA and buildd tools. Wookey Bootstrapable Debian - Breaking cyclic dependencies 17:00 00:45 Auditorium Upgrading 11.000 Boxes in One Night lecture en When deploying Debian in large environments, certain limiting factors start to need special attention. These include but are not limited to bandwidth sharing, unattended upgrades, reliability, traceability, error handling and reporting back. This talk aims to make these issues visible, discuss possible solutions and how things could get improved. Gerfried Fuchs 18:00 00:45 Auditorium bof en A discussion about what is needed for better mass deployment of Debian. What are the general topics when doing mass installation? What are current problems when doing mass deployment? Which tools are used? Are deb packages available? Which problems arise when scaling to huge numbers of machines? Exchange of experiences with mass deployment. Thomas Lange 10:00 00:45 Round room how can we improve DPL-related processes in Debian? Debian ⁄ Society bof en A poor DPL newbie---like yours truly in April 2010---has to go through quite some bumps before being able to be actually useful to the Debian project. What the "DPL job" is about has little documentation and is most likely very personal too. In this BoF I'd like to share and review my experiences as DPL, explaining what the "DPL job" is about to wannabe DPLs or simply to the curious Developer willing to know more about it. I'll describe what a typical "DPL day" looks like and some of my personal strategies to deal with "leader@d.o" mail and keep track of what happens in DPL land, to inform the Project at the next "bits from the DPL" mail pulse. We'll then let the discussion go, asking for comments on how the strategies have worked on and for suggestions on how to improve them further. Can we come up with a set of "best practices" that, in the interest of the Project, will be suggested for adoption to future DPLs? In my experience, that could be a little, but very valuable treasure for future DPLs! ... needlessly to say, participation of other past DPLs, or DPL helpers willing to share their experiences would be more than welcome! Stefano Zacchiroli 11:00 00:45 Round room Reality check of the New Maintainer Process Debian ⁄ Society bof en Tentative current draft BOF todo-list (subject to change) - new site - feature complete replacement of old site - template from http://kalleswork.net/projects/debian/git/debtemplate/ ? - minechangelogs redone by indexing changelogs (possibly in a dak hook?) - light version: put all changelogs in a single file - dm_list integrated with ftp-master - new FD blood. mmh, blood. - state of things - do we need separate templates for non-uploading DDs? - find a place/workflow for publishing some interesting/useful replies to NM questions, with permission Enrico Zini 12:00 00:45 Round room Investigation into performance of teams inside Debian Debian ⁄ Society bof en In this BoF I would like to give a report of the current state of the according GSoC project "Measuring Team Performance in Debian Pure Blends" (but it is not restricted to Blends only). It should not be expected real results. These will be presented at next years DebConf hopefully. The intend of this event is just to collect some additional ideas which might have been overlooked by me as mentor or the student. Sukhbir Singh Andreas Tille Wiki page of GSoC project GSoC project page 15:00 00:45 Round room You win some, you lose some Debian ⁄ Society lecture en The debian-mentors list is most of what new contributors see in Debian; it is where they send "Request For Sponsorship" emails and get help with package questions. This talk discusses the culture of that mailing list, and the past year's successes and failures in improving package review and decreasing unanswered threads. It also includes suggestions based on review processes used by other projects. In the past year, I have been attempting to improve the culture of the Debian mentors email list in a few ways: * With Niels Thykier, we attempted to answer all debian-mentors emails within four days. * With a team of contributors like Andrey Rahmatullin, I have been working on the Debexpo software replacement for mentors.debian.net. * Debian-Women organized a "Build it" event to make people aware of their opportunities to contribute to Debian. These strategies have had some success. I will discuss specifically: * Mailing list metrics that show the "Four days" experiment worked, and then dropped off; and how we can create lasting change, * The highly transparent and participatory Maemo package review system, * What to celebrate about "Build it" (such as the attendee count), what other outreach events we can run, and ideas on how to retain those participants. I am also quite interested in feedback from other participants in the debian-mentors list as to what cultural aspects need change, and how we can make that happen. Asheesh Laroia 16:00 00:45 Round room Human factors to make us more productive Debian ⁄ Society bof Contributors to Debian are sometimes stymied by a failure to ask questions. (I know I've been there.) In this Birds of a Feather session, we'll discuss our experiences with hostile or otherwise unhelpful situations that make us less excited about working on Debian. I will also name some positive characteristics I have seen on Debian mailing lists. After discussing problems, we will discuss concrete actions we can take individually to improve the culture. Asheesh Laroia 17:00 00:45 Round room Using Debian to Create and Preserve Freedom Debian ⁄ Society lecture en The Freedombox Foundation is a non-profit organization started by Eben Moglen with the objective of building a Debian-based software image that will help create and preserve freedom by enabling broad adoption of federated, distributed alternatives to the current wave of commercial social networking sites. In addition to his roles in Debian and SPI, Bdale is a member of the Freedombox Foundation board of directors, and chairs the technical advisory committee. This session will provide an update on the Foundation's activities, particularly as they relate to Debian. Bdale Garbee Freedombox Foundation 18:00 00:45 Round room Debian ⁄ Society meeting en Debian: coding for human rights? Astrid Valencia Belissa Guerrero Rivas 1.Justification It is not a secret that computers and their programs control almost all the spheres of our modern life. Indeed, we can establish that every day our life depends more on informatics codes. In this scenario free software acquires vital importance for accomplish human rights and this is even more valid for those who live in poverty and social exclusion. Human Rights defenders (¨human rights world¨), often don’t reflect in the role of informatics in human rights promotion, as a tool to reach fully access to certain rights or as a tool for policy actions. Debian is a protagonist actor in the free software arena, and its volunteer’s produces tools that habilitate the exercise of human right, yet, are they aware of it? Are we, as human rights defenders, aware of it? Are the impacts and scope of the Debian product systematized and properly analyzed? Free software, often is related with access to knowledge, culture and information, one could not agree more on that, but our premise is that its contribution goes beyond. This paper intends to identify and analyzed the ¨windows¨ that Debian´s projects helps to open in the human rights field and to explore how Debian´s volunteers acknowledge and recognize their role in the promotion of human rights. 2.Methodology. In order to gather all the information required to accomplish this papers goal, we will apply the following researches techniques: A. Interviews The interviews will be the primary source of information for this analysis. The Debconf gathers a huge number of people related with the development of free software, especially Debian´s products. That to say, the interviews will be carried out to the following actors. · Interviewing Debian’s Leads · Interviewing Debconf partipants that contributes in specific projects · Interviewing Debconf participast selected ramdonly B. Secondary sources Academic research regarding free software, Debian projects and human rights: · Past Debconf reports · Journals · Articles Etc. 3. Submission of the research report The report elaborated with the information gather will be send to the Debian Project Leader for its distribution among Debian´s volunteers. The research will finalize on October 2011. Astrid Valencia Human Rights Lawyer. With 9 year of experience. Currently working as Policy Officer for Oxfam America office for Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean. Belissa Guerrero Rivas Human Rights Lawyer. Currently studying a MA in Human Rights Practice (Gothenburg University, Roehampton University and Tromso University). In the past, she was a Human Rights Specialist in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Astrid Maria Valencia Rafael Ernesto Rivas Méndez 11:00 00:45 Meeting room lecture Most people may have heard of the distributed version control system GIT by now. It already became the most popular VCS and many teams switch their projects from the old centralized subversion to the new and shiny GIT with it's endless possibilities. Google built Gerrit on top of GIT for it's Android project. It provides - Code Review - User Management and Access control - Notifications Thomas Koch 12:00 00:45 Meeting room Skill exchange tutorial en Emacs is the extensible, customizable, SelfDocumenting real-time display editor. People jokes about Emacs being the ultimate operating system by itself. We will talk about from the basic Emacs operations, working with Buffers/Windows, Editing blocks, search/replace, etc. to advanced customizations like how to organize the configuration files, write macros, browsing filesystem and file handling. Axel Beckert Kan-Ru Chen 15:00 00:45 Meeting room SkillsExchange Skill exchange bof en Christian Hofstaedtler 16:00 00:45 Meeting room The Package Entropy Tracker and You bof en Ansgar Burchardt 17:00 00:45 Meeting room tutorial Have you ever dreamed of becoming one of the top bug submitters in Debian? Well, this is your chance. During this tutorial, Lucas will describe the processes that resulted in more than 6000 RC bugs being filed since 2007, and explain how you can join the fun. We will also discuss the coordination of those mass bug filings for wheezy, for FTBFS, installation/removal/upgrade, and maybe lintian RC bugs. Lucas Nussbaum 18:00 00:45 Meeting room Plasma Active, MeeGo UXes ? What is wise to get packaged in Debian ? bof en There are currently several free software stacks for mobile interfaces are currently under developpement: * MeeGo has multiple ones; * from the KDE project: Plasma Active, Plasma netbook; * Maemo (GTK+) * … Credible mobile user interfaces have certainly their place in Debian and there is currently a (perceived ?) lack of those. This BoF will be focused on evaluating mobile user interfaces (often named "Mobile UXes") for Debian, in particular : * knowing what stacks are currently available in Debian (and their state/useability); * knowing what stacks are currently _not_ available in Debian (and why?); * knowing what work it would take to bring a credible Mobile UX to Debian (e.g. on the N900). Didier Raboud 18:15 02:30 Elsewhere through or around Banja Luka Social activities other A bicycling tour for those who don't want to go running or want to have exercise in addition to running. Start will be at 18:30 at Cycling Shop Banja Luka (OpenStreetMap: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=44.776212&lon=17.201473&zoom=18&layers=M) We'll have one group leaving earlier to check the bikes and one group leaving around 18:15, walking from the venue to the Cycling Shop. Probably 2-3h of comfortably cycling around, seeing some more of the city than just the area around the venue. We plan to rent some bikes from the Cycling Shop Banja Luka close to the stadium. They have 15 bicycles to rent and we have to order them one day in advance. So I guess I should have at least an approximate number of participants without own bicycles (15 at most :-) on Day after lunch. Axel Beckert 10:00 00:45 Auditorium bof en Software in the Public Interest is a US-based non-profit organization that provides legal and financial existence services for Debian and many other Free Software projects. Bdale Garbee Software in the Public Interest 11:00 00:45 Auditorium Q&A session with the DPL podium en A'town hall' style question and answer session for the DPL. He won't have sight of the questions beforehand! Neil McGovern 12:00 00:45 Auditorium lecture en Introducing DebConf12 Nicaragua Members of Nicaragua Local Team will be presenting DebConf12 Nicaragua Marcelo Martin Gutierrez Cabezas 15:00 00:45 Auditorium What We Did for GSoC and Our Summer Vacation lecture en Find out the latest developments on the modularization of Java as we fit project Jigsaw to Debian Policy Jigsaw is part of the Java upstream plan for the next release, JDK 8. Since Tom's talk at DebConf10, "The Free Java Jigsaw Puzzle", there has been a great deal of interest both in the Debian Java community and with upstream to make this factorization of the JDK work with Debian -- the distro recognized for the best dependency management system. The Free Java devroom community at FOSDEM 2011 also followed this work with interest and we are pleased to announce that Jigsaw has been selected as one of the Google Summer of Code 2011 projects for Debian. Sylvestre and Tom are co-mentors for this student and plan to give a status report in this talk on how the packaging for Jigsaw is going, the collaboration with IcedTea the relationship with upstream Success for Jigsaw in Debian promises to demonstrate the value of synergy between a distro and upstream for such a core part of the toolchain. We also anticipate that having a modularized JDK will lead to performance enhancements and facilitate porting to new architectures. Guillaume Mazoyer Tom Marble Sylvestre Ledru Jigsaw in Debian GSoC 2011 jigsaw-dc11.pdf 16:00 00:45 Auditorium bof en Evgeni Golov 17:00 00:45 Auditorium bof Debian depends on a large group of package maintainers without upload rights (or with limited upload rights) and a smaller group of Debian Developers that check their work and upload it to Debian. In this BOF we'd like to discuss technical and social ways that this process could be improved. Potential topics include the new debexpo site, whether having some formal process or team to sponsor would help, how we can make sure that reasonable packages get reviewed, whether we should explicitly "reject" requests for package sponsorship, how to encourage more DDs to become involved, and how to channel more new contributors into maintaining existing packages. David Bremner 18:00 00:45 Auditorium Lightning talks are a series of tightly-timed 5-minute talks. We'll schedule 7 or 8 of them for the 45-minute period. Keep it short and engaging. People can come find you afterward to follow up. Daniel Kahn Gillmor 19:00 00:15 Auditorium goodbye and see you at DebConf12! Plenaries other Close the conference, thank volunteers, ask for help cleaning up and feedback Gunnar Wolf Iszaevich Leandro Gómez Adnan Hodzic Holger Levsen Eduardo Manuel Rosales Diaz Moray Allan Norman Garcia Aguilar 10:00 00:45 Round room meeting en This talk is meant to be a (maybe quite scarce) summary update about activities by the fonts packaging team. Fonts packaging is usually a quite "easy" packaging task, very suitable for beginners who want to learn about packaging processes without difficult packaging techniques. This talk is meant to give an update about the font packaging team activities, status about the yet-tp-be-published font packaging policy, etc. Christian Perrier 11:00 00:45 Round room bof en Debian is relevant for desktop users, but there is still many itches that require a local Debian geeks. Let's make a list, and see where and how we could improve the situation. Debian is a relevant platform for desktop environments: * For people that just want to work with their computer, stable releases are very beneficial. They take habits that can last. * Major desktop environments are well integrated in Debian, with all their nifty features. * Our installer is simple and capable. Unfortunately, users that install Debian on their own will have to call their local Debian geek at one time or another. It's all minor issues, but there are still default settings that require strange command lines, or knowledge of pretty technical terms. This BoF would be about trying to list as many as possible of these annoyances. For each of them, we would discuss if it would be desirable and possible to change the current situation for the benefit of our less technical users. Example of such issues: the installer asks for "domain name"; `fsck` does not use `-y` by default; there is no way to update from `oldstable` to `stable` from the graphical user interface. Jérémy Bobbio 12:00 00:45 Round room Report from the past of Debian Med and discussing the future Blends bof en Debian Med was started in 2002 and in January 2012 will be its 10th aniversary. What did we approached so far. What do we want to approach in the next ten years? Medicine is a real niche topic in the Free Software world because the number of user is small and quite a share of those users is conservative about the use of software and has some money left to spend for proprietary licenses. So isn't it crazy to just address this target user group with a dedicated part of Debian? Yes it is, but we used as a start this part where Free Software has several friends: In bio-medical research. So the project began to grow healthy and is now might serve as a positive example for other Blends: If it is possible to successfully establish a Blend in a niche area how much better success could be gained in other fields which are much better covered by Free Software? Andreas Tille Debian Med homepage 15:00 00:45 Round room bof Centralized naming schemes seem to be a critical weak point in global network communication. Powerful actors can strongarm the existing Domain Name System (or proprietary/centralized services like facebook, twitter, and github) and effectively remove a group from the publicly-visible 'net without even touching any of the associated machinery. There are some promising new tools that allow for massively decentralized, distributed naming, and many of them are being made available within Debian. This BoF is for implementors, packagers, integrators, critics, and the generally curious to talk about how to make these concepts work across all of debian. Come share problems, brainstorm fixes, collaborate, and learn! Daniel Kahn Gillmor 16:00 00:45 Round room "vs" is no more bof en At DebConf10 a "DebConf vs Debian" BoF has been held to discuss the state of the relationships among DebConf organization and the Debian Project proper. Back then, several organization aspects were independent and it was not clear which kind of responsibility DebConf had before Debian and vice versa. During the past year, several advancements have been made: formal ties among DebConf and Debian have been established by the mean of delegations, a work-flow for DebConf money handling has been established, goals of DebConf with respect to Debian have been published, etc. In this BoF we will present the status quo of all this, 1 year after the "DebConf vs Debian" BoF. After that (brief!) presentation we will open up to discussion among Debian and DebConf team representatives to review what has been done and brainstorm about what still needs to be done. Moray Allan Holger Levsen Stefano Zacchiroli Gunnar Wolf Iszaevich 17:00 00:45 Round room podium Every year, the location for DebConf, the annual international Debian conference, is selected via a competitive bid process. Although we haven't got to DebConf12 yet, organising a conference isn't quick, so it's already time to start thinking about a location for DebConf13. We encourage everyone to think about whether their city would make a good DebConf location, and, if it would, to start working on a proposal. (You don't have to be heavily involved in Debian to organise a bid.) Interested? For more information see http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13 This panel will be your opportunity to describe your bid to the rest of the DebConf attendees. Although participating in the panel is not compulsory to take part on the bid decision process, it will help strongly show off the pros and cons of each possible venue. Holger Levsen Moray Allan 18:00 00:45 Round room How it works and can we do better bof en Every year, there are many criticisms about the DebConf travel sponsorship process. However, allocating this amount fairly is quite a hard problem. There are also many considerations, such as budgeting uncertainties, getting people motivated to do the rating and allocation early, and deciding what criteria to even use in allocations. This BOF is designed to lead to an improvement for DebConf12, but that improvement will not come from talking now, but by acting early next year. For BOF planning, please see outline and contribute at http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf11/TravelSponsorshipBOF Philip Hands Whiteboard to plan the subjects to discuss 10:00 00:45 Meeting room bof Niels Thykier 11:00 00:45 Meeting room Skill exchange bof en Let's take this occasion to learn something of each other's languages! This time languages doesn't range over C, Ruby or Haskell, but Italian, Finnish or Chinese! :-) Someone invents a list of some English phrases and everyone translate them into their own language, briefly telling something about its feature (which word is the verb, which one is the noun, ...; of course I'm not pretending this is valid for all languages: if your language is completely different from English, this is even more interesting). For example, is the phrase to translate is "Debconf is wonderful", I'd translate in Italian as "La Debconf è fantastica", explaining that "è" is the verb "is", "fantastica" means "wonderful" (and it's feminine) and that "la" is the article, which is necessary in this case, otherwise people would understand we're talking about a person (most precisely, a girl, since "fantastica" is feminine). I find it interesting to understand how other languages work. Of course people who speak Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian are mostly welcome! :-) Giovanni Mascellani 12:00 00:45 Meeting room It seems that many different teams have recently switched to Git, or are considering switching. But each of them seems to re-implement the wheel by designing their own Git workflow. I think that it would be fantastic if we could collaborate on defining a common Git workflow. Pros: - build on the experience of other teams - easier for maintainers who are active in several teams - share the documentation work, get better documentation Cons: - might require a migration when switching to that 'standard' workflow I'm mostly interested in teams that maintain a large number of easy packages with at most a handful of patches, not in teams that maintain a few, complicated packages. I'm not sure if we can find a workflow that suits both (but if we can, that's great, and I don't want to exclude those teams from the discussion). People from the Ruby, Perl and Java teams already expressed interest. If you are interested in participating (which doesn't mean that you commit on behalf of your team to switch to that workflow, just that you want to participate in the discussions), add yourself (and your team) to http://wiki.debian.org/GitPackagingWorkflow. If more than 3 teams are interested in a BOF at DC11, I'll try to organize one on saturday (all the video-broadcasted slots are taken, but we will make sure to take notes). If the BOF doesn't happen, I'll contact interested people to see how to continue. I realize that it's unlikely that we will find a unique workflow that fits everybody. But we can probably converge on many things, and then document the few widely-used alternatives for the rest. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/07/msg00771.html and http://wiki.debian.org/GitPackagingWorkflow Lucas Nussbaum 15:00 00:45 Meeting room How to make sure it happens This BoF aims to bring to Debconf agenda the discussion about the accessibility of Debconf facilities to attendees with special needs. Discussing about bads and goods from past conference editions is a good start to ensure that next Debconfs' orga teams understand what are the issues that must me taken into account when planning the conference. Tássia Camões Araújo 16:00 00:45 Meeting room Current status, how to test yourself at home, future projects bof en Accessibility is an important matter in basically all of Debian and its derivatives. We will first give a short introduction on accessibility ; for a longer introduction, please see the slides of a previous presentation as well as the transcript of the presentation. We will then talk about the current status of Debian: the Debian installer, text and graphical applications. We also want to give attendees an opportunity to give a try at testing a few things themselves. Make sure to have brltty, kvm and gnome-orca (and gnome desktop) installed, as well as a recent wheezy GTK installer image on your machine for the installer part. More details are available on the debian installer accessibility wiki, and in the (old but still useful) accessibility and application accessibility HOWTOS, and the text application accessibility HOWTO. Last but not least, we would like to talk about the future projects, as listed on our accessibility-devel wiki : some packaging of course, but also liveCD support, documentation and inclusion into the NM process, debtags, debbugtags, ... Your ideas are welcome of course! Notes are in dc11-accessibility document in gobby-0.5 -c gobby.debian.net Mario Lang Samuel Thibault Previous talk about Accessibility Latest d-i daily build Accessibility HOWTO Accessible text application HOWTO Accessible application development HOWTO Debian accessibility-devel wiki Debian-Installer accessibility wiki Transcript of previous talk 17:00 00:45 Meeting room Skill exchange workshop en Colin Watson 18:00 00:45 Meeting room bof A BoF for people interested in helping with packaging eclipse or plugins to it. Niels Thykier