DebConf11Banja Luka2011-07-162011-07-31161.000:0000:1510:0000:30AuditoriumOpening Ceremony with Government OfficialslectureAlexandar DzombicMilorad DodikPregrag CulibrkAdnan HodzicJasmin Komic11:3000:15AuditoriumDebian Day opening PlenaryWelcome to Debian DaylectureenWe 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 Hodzic12:0000:45AuditoriumUnderstanding DebianlectureenBdale Garbee15:0000:45AuditoriumLife in DebianSnapshots of everyday life in DebianlectureenThe talk will try to give the flavour of everyday life in Debian, with stories and quotes from developers.Enrico Zini16:0000:45AuditoriumHow to contribute and get involvedlectureenContributing 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 ReichleAlexander Reichle-Schmehl17:0000:45AuditoriumDebian in Enterprise: A Google Case StudyDebian in GooglelectureJesus Climent18:0000:45AuditoriumAustrian e-health systemHow Debian runs the Austrian e-health systemlectureenInsider view of Austrian E-health system that is running on Debian.Gerfried Fuchs
SVC Homepage
eCard Portal
10:0000:45AuditoriumWelcome talkDebConf11 introductory sessionlectureenThis session will welcome people to DebConf11 and tell them what will be happening later in the conference. Velimir IveljicVedran OmeragicAndrew McMillanBojana BorkovićJoerg JaspertMilan KnezevicZlatan TodoricHolger LevsenAdnan HodzicDaniel Kahn GillmorMoray AllanGunnar Wolf Iszaevich11:0000:45AuditoriumBits from the DPLState of the Union^W Debian addresslectureenLet'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 Zacchiroli12:0000:45AuditoriumThe Publicity Team and YoulectureenThe 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
15:0000:45AuditoriumDebian as though cryptographic authentication matteredHow the Universal Operating System can lead the packlectureenThis 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 systemsDaniel Kahn Gillmor16:0000:45AuditoriumftpnewYou, the FTP Team and the NEW queuelectureenAbstract: 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 HymersJoerg JaspertAlexander Reichle-Schmehl17:0000:45AuditoriumDebian-Women - The Past and the PresentlectureenThis 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
18:0000:45AuditoriumMeet the Technical CommitteebofenAn opportunity to meet the Debian Technical Committee members attending Debconf in person, ask questions, and seek advice.Bdale Garbee12:0000:45Round roomQuality requirements for software in Debianshould there be a minimal quality standard?bofAfter 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 Koch15:0000:45Round roomRuby in DebianbofenWe 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/RubyInWheezyLucas Nussbaum16:0000:45Round roomQuality Assurance BOFbofenIn 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 Nussbaum17:0000:45Round roomLintian BoFbofenDiscussion 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://
18:0000:45Round roompleasure & pain: packages, policy and piupartsworkshopenWorkshop to a.) discuss bugs detected by piuparts and b.) to hack on piupartsThere 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 Levsen16:0000:45Meeting roomPostgreSQL InnovationsLatest innovations in open source PostgreSQL DBMSlectureenPostgreSQL 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 Riggs21:0003:00ElsewhereCheese and Wine party6th Debconf C&WotherAs 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 Perrier10:0000:45AuditoriumBits from the Release TeamlectureenThis will be a talk presenting views on what happened during the last release cycle and outlining plans for the next release.Neil McGovern11:0000:45AuditoriumDSAwhere do we want to go todaybofenDSA status update and BoF
[ Moved from "submission notes" -GW ]Stephen GranMartin Zobel-HelasPeter Palfrader12:0000:45AuditoriumTalk from the Website TeamFAQs and the futurelectureenTalk from the Website TeamThe 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
15:0000:45AuditoriumDebian Packaging with Gitwhat tool and workflow is right for you?tutorialThere 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
16:0000:45AuditoriumMultiarch in Debian: 6 months (or 6 years) onlectureenBy 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)
17:0000:45AuditoriumTest Driven Development in Debian BoFautopkgtest and the status of DEP-8bofenDEP-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 MarbleStefano Zacchiroli
DEP-8
the "autopkgtest" package
18:0000:45AuditoriumDebian Events BoFHow to restructure the Events teambofenThe 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
21:0000:45AuditoriumOpenPGP keysigningworkshopOpenPGP 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 Gillmor12:0000:45Round roomDebian Rolling BofbofenDebian 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 Hertzog15:0000:45Round roomTracking website userssocial and technical limitationsbofenDebian'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-Helas16:0000:45Round roomPublicity BoFbofenThis 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://
17:0000:45Round roombackports improvementsget it more official than nowbofenbackports 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
18:0000:45Round roomDebian Wiki BoFbofenCome 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
15:0000:45Meeting roomGaneti SkillExchangeopen source virtualization clusters on DebianlectureenGuido Trotter16:0000:45Meeting roomGIT SkillsExchangePractical introduction to the distributed VCStutorialenThomas Koch18:0000:45Meeting roomTor ecosystem in DebianmeetingenInformal 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 Bobbio19:0000:15ElsewhereGroup photootherThe group photo will be in front of Banski DvorAigars Mahinovs10:0010:00ElsewhereDaytripDiscovering BosniaotherStefano Zacchiroli10:0000:45AuditoriumDerivatives RoundtableThe traditional roundtable to seek for synergies between Debian and its derivativespodiumenThis 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 Tille11:0000:45AuditoriumDebian dErivatives eXchange (DEX) BoF... and other initiatives to improve the collaboration with derivative distributionsbofVarious 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
12:0000:45AuditoriumBlending DebianDebian Pure Blends as a way to structurise the projectlectureenBesides 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 Tille15:0000:45AuditoriumHaskell in DebianThe how and why of packaging Haskell librarieslectureenThe 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
16:0000:45AuditoriumThe Linux kernel in DebianlectureAn 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
17:0000:45AuditoriumCare-taking of Debian finances: assets and processeslectureenDebian, 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 MichlmayrMartin Wuertele18:0000:45AuditoriumSprint (and money) BoFCONGRATULATION YOU HAVE WON GBP£820,000.00bofenThe 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
10:0000:45Round roomDebian-Women BoFWhere to go from herebofenThis 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 Reichle11:0000:45Round roomuse Perl;Annual meeting of the Debian Perl GroupbofenThe 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/OpenTasksgregor herrmann
Agenda
http://
12:0000:45Round roomPackaging for beginnersworkshopenGergely Nagy15:0000:45Round roomDebian-Edu: Current Status and Development Ideas for the next Decade.A Debian system for schools, university workgroups and small enterprises?bofenThe 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
16:0000:45Round roomDebian Science RoundtableBringing together scientists@DebConfbofenThis 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 TeamSylvestre LedruAndreas Tille
Debian Science Wiki
17:0000:45Round roomBuild your own modern app installerapt-xapian-index, screenshots.debian.net, distromatch, DDE and some more engine parts for high level app installerslectureenOver 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
18:0000:45Round roomApp recommender in DebianbofenApt-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/AppRecommenderTássia Camões Araújo
App Recommender
App Recommender Git
10:0000:45Meeting roomdak BoFHacking archive software for fun, profit and painbofendak BoF for anyone interested in helping to hack on the archive software.Mark Hymers11:0000:45Meeting roomDebiyarnKnitting for Beginners and IntermediatesworkshopKnitting 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
12:0000:45Meeting roomMonkeysphere BoF/Skill ExchangeworkshopenWe'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/SkillsExchangeDaniel Kahn Gillmor
http://web.monkeysphere.info
15:0000:45Meeting roomZsh - beyond the standard configurationHot stuff with the command lineotherenZsh 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 Prokop16:0000:45Meeting roomkfreebsd BoFmeetingenTimo Juhani Lindfors17:0000:45Meeting roomBasic Incomea free software developers dreamenThe 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 Koch18:0000:45Meeting roomnotmuch BoFLets get together to talk about notmuch!bofenMicah Anderson20:0003:00ElsewhereConference banqueteat, drink and be merryotherThe traditional not-so-formal "formal dinner".Adnan HodzicMoray Allan10:0000:45AuditoriumGoogle Summer of Code 2011 and Code-in 2010 at DebianMeet the students, mentors and adminspodiumenThis 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 LiuAna Beatriz Guerrero LópezSylvestre Ledru
Debian GSoC
11:0000:45AuditoriumDelivering Multi-Platform ApplicationsBuild on Debian, run anywhere.lectureenBdale 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
12:0000:45Auditoriumbuildd/wanna-build updatelectureennews from buildd/wanna-build side from the last year (wanna-build priority changes, autosigning, ...)Andi Barth15:0000:45AuditoriumARM BoFPorting, news and discussionsbofenThe 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 McIntyre16:0000:45AuditoriumBootstrapable DebianCyclic dependencies, staged builds and cross-compilinglectureenDebian 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
17:0000:45AuditoriumIssues with Deployment in Large EnvironmentsUpgrading 11.000 Boxes in One NightlectureenWhen 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 Fuchs18:0000:45AuditoriumMass deployment BOFbofenA 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 Lange10:0000:45Round roomthe DPL wannabe (and HOWTO) BoFhow can we improve DPL-related processes in Debian?bofenA 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 Zacchiroli11:0000:45Round roomNM/AM/FD/DAM BOFReality check of the New Maintainer ProcessbofenTentative 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 permissionEnrico Zini12:0000:45Round roomMeasuring Team PerformanceInvestigation into performance of teams inside Debian bofenIn 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 SinghAndreas Tille
Wiki page of GSoC project
GSoC project page
15:0000:45Round roomReports from changing the debian-mentors cultureYou win some, you lose somelectureenThe 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 Laroia16:0000:45Round roomDebian for Shy PeopleHuman factors to make us more productivebofContributors 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 Laroia17:0000:45Round roomFreedombox Progress ReportUsing Debian to Create and Preserve FreedomlectureenThe 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
18:0000:45Round roomDebian: coding for human rights? meetingenDebian: 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 ValenciaRafael Ernesto Rivas Méndez11:0000:45Meeting roomGerrit - Code Review is funlectureMost 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
- NotificationsThomas Koch12:0000:45Meeting roomEffective Emacs habbits / configurationstutorialenEmacs 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 BeckertKan-Ru Chen15:0000:45Meeting roomPuppet in Debian environmentsSkillsExchangebofenChristian Hofstaedtler16:0000:45Meeting roomPET BoFThe Package Entropy Tracker and YoubofenAnsgar Burchardt17:0000:45Meeting roomArchive testingtutorialHave 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 Nussbaum18:0000:45Meeting roomMobile UXes (Handset, Tablet, Notebook)Plasma Active, MeeGo UXes ? What is wise to get packaged in Debian ?bofenThere 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 Raboud18:1502:30ElsewhereBicycling Tourthrough or around Banja LukaotherA 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 Beckert10:0000:45AuditoriumSPI BOFbofenSoftware 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
11:0000:45AuditoriumAsk the LeaderQ&A session with the DPLpodiumenA'town hall' style question and answer session for the DPL. He won't have sight of the questions beforehand!Neil McGovern12:0000:45AuditoriumDebConf12 NicaragualectureenIntroducing DebConf12 NicaraguaMembers of Nicaragua Local Team will be presenting DebConf12 NicaraguaMarcelo Martin Gutierrez Cabezas15:0000:45AuditoriumJigsaw Progress in DebianWhat We Did for GSoC and Our Summer VacationlectureenFind out the latest developments on the modularization of Java as we fit project Jigsaw to Debian PolicyJigsaw 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 MazoyerTom MarbleSylvestre Ledru
Jigsaw in Debian GSoC 2011
jigsaw-dc11.pdf
16:0000:45AuditoriumDebian Games BoFbofenEvgeni Golov17:0000:45AuditoriumThe Debian sponsoring processbofDebian 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 Bremner18:0000:45AuditoriumLightning TalksLightning 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 Gillmor19:0000:15AuditoriumClosing ceremonygoodbye and see you at DebConf12!otherClose the conference, thank volunteers, ask for help cleaning up and feedbackGunnar Wolf IszaevichLeandro GómezAdnan HodzicHolger LevsenEduardo Manuel Rosales DiazMoray AllanNorman Garcia Aguilar10:0000:45Round roomFonts packaging BOFmeetingenThis 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 Perrier11:0000:45Round roomCould we make desktop users need their local Debian geeks less?bofenDebian 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 Bobbio12:0000:45Round roomDebian Med BoFReport from the past of Debian Med and discussing the futurebofenDebian 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
15:0000:45Round roomDistributed Naming BoFbofCentralized 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 Gillmor16:0000:45Round roomDebConf in Debian BoF"vs" is no morebofenAt 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 AllanHolger LevsenStefano ZacchiroliGunnar Wolf Iszaevich17:0000:45Round roomDebConf13 in your citypodiumEvery 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 LevsenMoray Allan18:0000:45Round roomDebConf Travel SponsorshipHow it works and can we do betterbofenEvery 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
10:0000:45Meeting roomJava Team MeetingbofNiels Thykier11:0000:45Meeting roomLanguage Skill ExchangebofenLet'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 Mascellani12:0000:45Meeting rooma 'standard' Git workflow for teams?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/GitPackagingWorkflowLucas Nussbaum15:0000:45Meeting roomAccessibility in Debconf BoFHow to make sure it happensThis 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 Araújo16:0000:45Meeting roomAccessibility BoFCurrent status, how to test yourself at home, future projectsbofenAccessibility 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.netMario LangSamuel 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
17:0000:45Meeting roomDebbugs Skill ExchangeworkshopenColin Watson18:0000:45Meeting roomEclipse Packaging BoFbofA BoF for people interested in helping with packaging eclipse or plugins to it.
Niels Thykier