Super Cow Powers Included Hotel Dorá Mar del Plata 2008-08-02 2008-08-18 17 1.1 09:00 00:15 11:00 02:00 Salon del mar ddhs Fun with / about our archive management software DebCamp bof en A BoF for people interested in dak, the Debian Archive Kit. Main target is discussion where we want to go, what needs to be in it, what should it do, etc. Also, if time permits (DebCamp lasts a week), also some hacking session implementing some features. A BoF for people interested in dak, the Debian Archive Kit. Main target is discussion where we want to go, what needs to be in it, what should it do, etc. Also, if time permits (DebCamp lasts a week), also some hacking session implementing some features. Joerg Jaspert 15:00 01:00 Salon del mar Continue the specification of a corporate design for talks DebCamp workshop en The BOF with the same title was intended to find a consensus about some kind of corporate design for talks using LaTeX Beamer. While there were some specifications done nothing happened regarding implementation. We should meet again and try to work on something. Last year because of unfortunate circumstances this BoF was shifted several times and thus the attendance was quite low. Let's contintue the effort and start real work this time. LaTeX beamer seems to become kind of a default for those who like to use LaTeX for their presentations. It would be just fun to have a common Debian theme to share between Debian developers. This will be a real *work* shop. I will try to present a first sketch and the discussion should lead to a common sense how we could design a Debian theme. Hopefully a lot of beamer experienced people will take part. Andreas Tille LaTeX beamer BOF from Edinburgh 18:00 01:00 Salon del mar Building on the OpenMoko framework DebCamp meeting en I'll show how to install Debian on the Neo1973/Freerunner. It's possible to run most of the OpenMoko apps on a Debian-Based system. I've packaged some of them for myself (they are all autotools based). I could also talk about OpenMoko in general (i've been involved since the first prototype were shipped). Jan Lübbe 19:00 01:00 Microcine time to open the doors to other people DebCamp Unofficial workshop en DEHS being more than four years old has only been modified to satisfy most of the current needs. Rewriting DEHS in perl with a new design, doing things at the right place (i.e. extraction of watch files), and more should be discussed and input, and code, from several people is needed. It is time to get DEHS in shape for the future. With the input from several people, teams, groups, and others, DEHS should be able to correctly satisfy the need of most of them. Aiming to do things The Right Way the whole process that starts with the extraction of watch files (getting ready for the version 3.0 source formats), checking of watch files (including the uscan utility), are to be redesigned or rewritten. Raphael Geissert DEHS View DEHS' code Wiki page BTS reports http:// 10:30 00:30 Salon del mar wt DebConf8 introductory session DebConf other en Welcome session Welcome session Mark Hymers Damián Viano Margarita Manterola Stephen Gran Martín Ferrari Joerg Jaspert 11:00 01:00 Salon del mar 15 years and counting DebConf keynote en Steve McIntyre 12:00 01:00 Salon del mar Managing the Complexity of the Open Source Infrastructure DebConf lecture en MANCOOSI (Managing the Complexity of the Open Source Infrastructure) is a just started research project funded by the European Union for addressing some of the challenges related to the "upgrade problem" of interdependent software components of which Debian packages are prototypical examples. MANCOOSI is the natural continuation of the EDOS project, which have already contributed tools for Debian (and other distributions) archive-wide Quality Assurance. The consortium behind the project consists of several European universities, commercial GNU/Linux distributions from Europe and South America; Debian is involved as a handful of Debian Developers are working in the ranks of the universities to drive and integrate back achievements into Debian. This talk will present the MANCOOSI project and its objectives, with a particular focus on how Debian is related in and can benefit of MANCOOSI's achievements. MANCOOSI is a research project started in February 2008 which aims to tackle some of the issues involved in dealing with the complexity of inter-related, but independently developed, pieces of software. You can well imagine how Debian is the perfect fit for such a scenario, and how intriguing it can be seen for it scale issues. MANCOOSI won't be yet another research project about software metrics, bugs count, yada yada, rather it will (try to) tackle 2 very specific topics which affects our everyday life of Debian users and developers. Both are related to the "upgrade" problem of packages installed on a local machine wrt the new packages available on the remote Debian repositories. The first topic is the rollback of the machine to the status which was available before the upgrade run, either because the upgrade failed for some runtime cause (e.g. postscript exit with non-zero ...), or because (possibly days later) the local sysadm wants to roll-back to the previous state because it was "better". In this talk we will briefly touch this topic, just presenting the work packages related to this task, and the people which will be working on it. Mainly those people are research from the software engineering communities which frequently face similar problems in other setting, and also other commercial distributions such as Mandriva and Caixa Magica (a small GNU/Linux distribution from Portugal). The second topic, which will be discusseed a bit more in detail, is dependency resolution. In this respect, a problem we have in the state of the art in Debian is that none of the dependency solvers we have (apt and aptitude, sbuild, pbuilder mainly) is complete; this means that in some cases a solution to the upgrade problem exists, but it isn't found by the tools we are using. As shown by some of the achievements of the former EDOS project (which will be briefly discussed as well), dependency resolution can be encoded either as a SAT solving problem (satisfiability of a logic formula) or a constrained programming problem. Several efforts in MANCOOSI will be about defining optimizations and specialized algorithms to adapt SAT solvers and automatic theorem provers to the dependency resolution problem we face daily in upgrades. Other efforts will be in the creation of a challenge for dependency solvers, in the spirit of other international challenges which each year involve several researches in the development of ever better automatic theorem provers and SAT solvers. We plan to start collecting upgrade problems from user machines, similarly to what we already do with popcon though with far more complex datasets, and publish them as challenges for algorithms. Then we will advertise the challenge and run it for the first time at some appropriate research conference. Practically, a few by products are also expected specifically for Debian, the pluggability of external dependency solvers in our package managers and, as a consequence, the possibility of sharing solvers among different package managers. Stefano Zacchiroli project homepage 15:00 01:00 Salon del mar License, Layout, and Lenny DebConf Unofficial workshop en During this work session will focus on two aspects, which should be completed by Lenny's release : Choose a license and get a new site layout. We should coordinating to be able to release a "new" Wiki when Lenny is released. e.g : 1. Choose a License for the Wiki content. This topic has been discussed many times, but was never addressed (searching "wiki license site:lists.debian.org/debian-www" or in "/debian-legal", reveals lots of discussions !) 2. The layout could be refactored. 2.a. Create/adapt the moinmoin theme (CSS) to be more "à la Debian" (either www.d.o, or pts, etc...). 2.b. Front page content : which links. The "new" front page is nicer, but the icons are meaning less. also it has too many entries... (compare http://wiki.debian.org/FrontPage?action=recall&rev=488 and current http://wiki.debian.org/FrontPage ) 2.c. Front page Layout : Once we have decided the content, pick a layout (what do we want to emphasize : News ? Projects ? Download ? Support ? DDs ? Users ? Communities ? "Get Involved" ? ) 3. Coordination : Make a planning until Lenny's release date. Franklin Piat http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/LicencingTerms/Proposals http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/LicencingTerms/RelicensingStrategy 16:00 01:00 Salon del mar Report on research in progress DebConf lecture en This presentation is about ongoing research on innovation diffusion in the Debian project. The goal is to determine the conditions under which volunteers adopt new approaches to everyday challenges and order them into a framework, which can be used prescriptively to help improve the diffusion of certain tools and foster the competition among contenders. The Debian project is a very complex social system, and its volunteer nature and associated inertia can have quite a dampening effect on the adoption of innovative techniques aiming to improve cooperation and increase efficiency. However, Debian is not the only project confronted by such issues; studies of how to diffuse novel methods into existing, complex social systems are numerous and diverse. The study looks at past diffusions within Debian and other projects in an attempt to provide a prescriptive framework to guide future diffusions and increase their success. martin f. krafft research webpage 18:00 01:00 Salon del mar veee vantts neev blood! DebConf bof en Short presentation of the results of these two surveys, and a discussion about what the results mean for Debian. http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2008/03/msg00030.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/03/msg02475.html A followup discussion on Ubuntu's strategies for attracting and training new developers and what Debian can learn from that. Also a discussion about how users transition from being purely users to helping develop Debian. Paul Wise bits from the NMs survey bits from the users survey 19:00 01:00 Salon del mar Meet the SPI Board DebConf bof en An opportunity to meet board members of Software in the Public Interest who are present at Debconf, and informally discuss the relationship between Debian and SPI, and the future of SPI. Bdale Garbee 18:30 01:00 Microcine DebConf Unofficial other Holger Levsen 20:00 01:00 Microcine Opening session/i18n infrastructure DebConf bof en Since Debconf 6, organizing a series of BOF dedicated to i18n-related topics has proven to be quite useful to all people working on i18n/l10n in the project. Traditionnally, session 1 is an open talk/round table meant to enlighten the topics to be discussed in other meetings (as well as more informal work sessions during the conference). Session 1 would be "opening session" as well as the first "work session" churro: status of server Services on churro: (listed on http://i18n.debian.net/wiki) - l10n material collection: status by nekral what does it cover (unstable/testing, po-debconf/po/?) what is using it? - Pootle. define admins bubulle: explain what's currently and what's in production D-I: direct commits to SVN. Missing projects Debconf: interaction with debian-l10n SVN, need for tools to grab l10n from SVN. Integrate in po2debconf? - DDTP: grisu gives status what about PO export/import bubulle about PO import to Pootle and perf problems ddtss: nekral? - tracking robots: status by nekral - compendia: status by bubulle - stats and graphics: status by nekral Organize this? (pointers on main l10n page?) Move stats pages to churro? Server administration and hosting: status by faw - server admin ML: use d-l-devel? - move to i18n.debian.org: blockers? Christian Perrier 22:00 01:00 Microcine Just prepare the Cheese and Wine Party DebConf Unofficial workshop en Just prepare Cheese and Wine party - there will be NO cheese and wine served at this WORKshop. Christian Perrier 10:00 01:00 Salon del mar HP and Debian DebConf keynote en Bdale Garbee 11:00 01:00 Salon del mar Introducing PET, a tool to track packages' health DebConf lecture en PET (Package Entropy Tracker) is a collection of scripts that gather information about your (or your group's) packages, based on the SVN repository, but reaching many external sources. It allows you to see in a bird's eye view the health of hundreds of packages, instantly realizing where work is needed. Maintaining one of the largest set of packages in Debian, the Debian Perl Group needed a tool for sorting the work, showing progress made by other members and easing the sponsoring of uploads, as many active members of the group aren't DDs. Based on previous ad-hoc scripts, PET was written almost from scratch with the idea of making it usable by other packaging groups, and it even is useful for individuals tracking their own packages. It separates completely presentation from data retrieval, and its modular structure allows to create easily new sources of data and checks. (For more information, see http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup/DebianQA) Today it helps a small group of people maintain over seven hundred packages (we passed the 666 mark recently, so the joke is already old) without going insane. Main functions: * track new upstream versions * show which packages prepared by non-DDs are ready for upload * highlight several problems with packages and repo organisation * follow uploaded packages' journey to the archive * and lots of information packed in one place This talk will introduce this tool, show how it's best used and a bit about its internals so you can customize it (and contribute patches!). Martín Ferrari Wiki of the project Live deployment for the Perl Group 12:00 01:00 Salon del mar DebConf bof en What worked well in Quality Assurance for lenny? What didn't? What should we do for lenny+1? The goal of this BOF is to put everybody interested in QA in the same room, to discuss: - improvements in the way we work: can we be more efficient? What needs to be changed? - which archive-wide tests/mass bug filings are people interested in doing during the lenny+1 release cycle? - MIA and Bapase, or "how to keep track of the dark corners of Debian?" - orphaned packages, and WNPP in general A short introduction on those topics will be given, so people not familiar with the works of the QA team can participate in the discussions. Lucas Nussbaum 15:00 01:00 Salon del mar and other aproaches to kill bugs DebConf lecture en A tutorial on using the SOAP interface to the BTS as well as other methods of tracking, organizing, modifying, and killing bugs in the interest of developer sanity. * Introduction to SOAP interface - Using the bts select tool to do complex selects - Using the soap interface directly - perl, python and ruby examples * Using usertags and usercategories - How to customize views - Commonly used bug tags * Triaging bugs * Using the new summary feature * Running a local mirror of the bts using new debbugs packages - Selecting bugs to mirror - Tracking changes * Finding abandoned bugs A tutorial on using the SOAP interface to the BTS as well as other methods of tracking, organizing, modifying, and killing bugs in the interest of developer sanity. * Introduction to SOAP interface - Using the bts select tool to do complex selects - Using the soap interface directly - perl, python and ruby examples * Using usertags and usercategories - How to customize views - Commonly used bug tags * Triaging bugs * Using the new summary feature * Running a local mirror of the bts using new debbugs packages - Selecting bugs to mirror - Tracking changes * Finding abandoned bugs Don Armstrong http://wiki.debian.org/DebbugsSoapInterface http://bugs.debian.org/debbugs-source/mainline/Debbugs/SOAP.pm 16:00 01:00 Salon del mar Workflow considerations DebConf lecture en Version control systems are becoming more popular for package maintenance. In this talk, I present an overview of current practices and recent developments. I also report on the work of the vcs-pkg.org effort, which tries to identify a workflow for package maintenance which could yield better cross-distro collaboration. A lot of Debian is already using version control for the task, but everyone cooked up something of their own, more or less. We think the situation is similar in the other distros: the current approach to package maintenance doesn’t scale too well, given today’s needs (teams, offline work, increasing number of users and increased use of the bug trackers), and discussions of how to improve things are on the way, but have not yet carried fruit. Furthermore, maintainers of a specific package in all distros basically have the same task. We could benefit from each other if we joined forces: less workload, improved access to patches in use by other distros, more structured communication, a wider spread of innovation, etc.. The goal of the vcs-pkg.org project is to integrate version control with distro package maintenance. We want to recognise all involved in the process, from upstream, the package maintainers of the various distributions, their security and release teams, and power users, who aren’t afraid to fix their own bugs, and give maximum flexibility to them. vcs-pkg.org is a (D)VCS-agnostic effort, so you don't have to fear advocacy. Instead, I would like to deliver to you the status quo and hope to get your valuable feedback. We've made good progress, but we haven't reached our goal, so your input will make a difference. martin f. krafft vcs-pkg project homepage 18:00 01:00 Salon del mar Debconf-video: Software, hardware and workflow DebConf lecture en The talk will cover the hardware, software and manpower required for a typical dvswitch usecase. Some caveats and challenges regarding sound, lighting and rigging will be discussed, and live demonstration of dvswitch in use will be given. Since 2005, the talks at Debconf have been recorded on video, to be published online. Beginning in 2006, talks have also been streamed live. One of the goals is to get recordings in high quality online immediately, with little or no post-production work. The video switcher dvswitch, realized in software, and a disk-based recording workflow is bringing us closer to that goal. Tape is still used as backup in case of failures, but we expect those to become rarer as the system matures. A large part of the post production work is restoring failed recordings. Dvswitch was developed by Ben Hutchings just in time for the Debconf7 in Edinburgh. It enabled a multi-camera live production using cheap cameras and modest laptops. The laptops relays DV streams over TCP/IP. This avoids any degradation due to long cable stretches, and makes cabling cheap and convenient. The output is DV straight from the cameras, producing a very crisp master video. Dvswitch works with sources and sinks. The sources send video from a file or a firewire port to a listening instance of dvswitch, which can run on a remote machine. dvswitch listens to several sources and displays a scaled down black and white preview image of each one. One of the sources is displayed at full resolution in colour; this is the outgoing stream, which is sent to the listening sinks. Each sink may send the stream to disk or to an encoder for live streaming. It is common to do both; store the raw master to disk, and forward the master to an encoder, and subsequently to a streaming server. While dvswitch saves us a bundle in hardware, the video team is still heavy on manpower. Remotely operated cameras would help, and we are still looking for affordable solutions that work well on Linux. The talk will cover the hardware, software and manpower required for a typical dvswitch usecase. Some caveats and challenges regarding sound, lighting and rigging will be discussed. A live demonstration of dvswitch in use will be given. We would also like to offer rehearsal sessions with the demo rig for those who are interested. Eric Dantan Rzewnicki Holger Levsen 19:00 01:00 Salon del mar Strategies and improvements for dealing with large numbers of bugs DebConf bof en Don Armstrong 23:00 01:00 Salon del mar DebConf other Annual cheese and wine party The cheese party is now a traditional event for a Debconf since Debconf 5 in Helsinki. It grew up from an informal gathering of cheese lovers in the French room at Debconf 5 to a big party featuring dozens of cheese flavours and a huge quantity of undefined liquids from around the world. Christian Perrier 19:00 01:30 Elsewhere (will be announced in time) DebConf Unofficial other en W. Martin Borgert 10:00 01:00 Salon del mar Perspectives on Collaboration DebConf keynote en Perspectives on collaboration - an analysis of current patterns of collaboration between Debian and one of its largest derivatives, Ubuntu, as well as proposals for additional pathways and processes for better collaboration in general between Debian and its derivatives. This keynote reports on the current state of collaboration between Debian and Ubuntu, reports back on progress made since previous DebConf's, and looks forward to new opportunities for collaboration and development. Debian's derivatives are a powerful part of the Debian family. They bring Debian technology and, usually, Debian values to a broader audience than Debian itself will reach. At the moment, Ubuntu is the derivative with the largest reach, bringing millions of new users to GNU/Linux and Debian specifically. Ubuntu has shifted the commercial Linux landscape from one focused on RPM-based distributions to one where DEB-based distributions have much greater commercial and consumer acceptance. In this keynote, the leader of the Ubuntu project will discuss the state of current collaboration between Debian and Ubuntu developers, articulate the roadmap of Ubuntu in the coming years, and explore ways in which Ubuntu's work can improve the state of Debian. The talk will cover: * Current areas of collaboration * Toolchain, Java, Python, Debian Installer, * OpenOffice, X.org * GNOME and KDE * Security * Roadmaps and transitions * Challenges and obstacles to collaboration * Cultural and organisational differences * Divergent goals and priorities * Release management and coordination * Frameworks for collaboration * Patch management and submission processes * Package review, merging and delta management * Version control interchange * Leadership meetings and dialogue * Bug coordination and collaboration * Translation coordination and management Ubuntu is only one of many derivatives - and others are achieving tremendous success in their own ways, too. The eeePC ships a derivative of Debian, and Debian is at the heart of many excellent free software solutions. The goal of this talk will be to celebrate some of those achievements and also to look for ways to make the "family" feel more cohesive. In short, to ensure that innovation which happens in derivatives has a natural pathway back to Debian. If the leaders of other derivatives are present at DebConf, this would also be an opportunity to seek comment from them, perhaps in the form of a panel for Q&A at the end of the keynote. Mark Shuttleworth http:// 11:00 01:00 Salon del mar DebConf podium en The Debian-Derivers round-table will bring together representatives of organizations involved in producing Debian derived distributions to discuss the political, organizational, and social barriers to collaboration with Debian and with each other. The round table will include representatives of Canonical and Ubuntu, Skolelinux/Debian-Edu and a representative from the CDD community (e.g., Enrico Zini, Andreas Tille, etc). If available, it may also include representatives from any number of Spanish distributions distributions who may be in attendance (e.g., Guadalinex, Llurex, LinEx), Userlinux, and others. A complete roster will be created once conference attendees have been settled. Participiants: Martin F Krafft <madduck@madduck.net> (vcs-pkg.org), Florian Maier <contact@marsmenschen.com> (LiMux), Cesar Gomez <cesar.gomez@gmail.com> (Linex), Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> (Debian Edu), Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>, Mark Shuttleworth <marks@debian.org> (Ubuntu), Bdale Garbee (Debian) Andreas Tille 12:00 01:00 Salon del mar Making Debian the distribution of choice for specific work fields DebConf lecture en The idea of Custom Debian Distributions was born at DebConf 3 in Oslo and has turned now into a solit toolset that can be used to organise packages targeting at a specific work field inside Debian in a quite efficient way. After five years it is time for a report about status and success as well as continuing to spread the idea amongst people to enable them to spend a minimum effort for the adoption of the tools to get a maximum effect in maintaining a CDD. One goal of Custom Debian Distributions is to form a group of Debian developers who care for a specific set of packages that are used in the day to day work of a certain user group. The fact that Debian has grown to the largest pool of ready to install packages on the net has led to the side effect that it is hard to maintain for beginners. A Custom Debian Distribution adds some substructure to the currently flat pool of 15000+X packages without a real structure. These substructures are intended to put a focus on special user interest. These substructures are not oriented on technical matters like Debian installer team, porting teams or teams that are focussing to implement programming language policies. There are some similarities to Debian-i18n which also has the pure goal to serve the needs of certain end user groups with the difference that the users are grouped not according to their field of work but according to their language. In fact it makes even sense to create CDDs for languages that require certain technical means to optimally support the language regarding direction of writing, special fonts etc. It is known that some countries in Asia builded Debian derivatives for this purpose but in principle it is not necessary to derive - the better solution is to make Debian more flexible by starting a CDD effort inside Debian. The talks will give some examples from the success of CDDs like Debian-Edu and Debian-Med. One very important outcome of the CDD effort is the ongoing reunification of Linex - the Debian derived distribution that is used in all schools in Extremadura - with Debian-Edu. This step means that Debian gets a very large implementation in all schools of Extremadura while on the other hand the effort of development for the people who invented Linex will be reduced. Debian featuring Debian-Edu now has a very good chance to become a really good international school distribution because it has roots in five countries (Norway, Spain, France, Germany and Japan) and might become attractive for many more. The success stories of CDDs would not have been possible outside Debian and thus leaving the path to build Zillions of Debian derivatives that reach a very small user base and working together inside Debian is the main idea of the talk. To make this idea more attractive in the second part of the talk a description of tools that were developed in the CDD effort will be presented. Especially the newly developed web tools that give a good overview about the packages that are useful for a certain field of work and the QA tools that enable the CDD team members to easily get an overview about packages that need some action. So if people are not yet convinced that a CDD for their purpose makes sense we will catch them by the tools they might get for free if they follow the proposed strategy. Andreas Tille Paper about CDD Overview page of Debian-Med CDD providing links to auto generated overview pages Slides available from people.debian.org 15:00 01:00 Salon del mar it's a long and winding road. and worth it :) DebConf lecture en This talk will briefly explain what Debian Edu is, how we develop our distribution, how we differ from Debian, how we work on bridging the gaps that still exist and what our plans for the future are. This talk will briefly explain what Debian Edu is, how we develop our distribution, how we differ from Debian, how we work on bridging the gaps that still exist and what our plans for the future are. In July 2007 the Debian Edu project released its third release, codename "Skolelinux 3.0 Terra". Debian Edu is probably the most widely known and most widely used Custom Debian Distribution - at least if you follow the official criteria for a CDD, which we aim to finally fulfill 100% for Lenny: all packages are taken unmodified from Debian main. This talk will explain the development process of Debian Edu and the various differences to a default Debian install. An overview of the planned features for Lenny will be given as well as a list of current showstoppers will be presented. To explain to the audience, what challenges have been overcome since Debian Edu was started, the history of how 100% inclusion in Debian was achieved, will also be explained. (Debian Edu used to be a seperate distribution! Now we have become a part of Debian!) Using wiki.debian.org to write a fine manual will be explained briefly too: our documentation is written in a wiki, then exported as docbook and translated using .po files, then transfered back into docbook, to generate html and PDFs versions, which are made available in the debian-edu-doc package, which is installed on a webserver again. In the end, releasing with Lenny will not be the end of the process of becoming part of Debian. Currently it looks like we might release with Lenny, but then do point releases on our own. Whether this is a sensible strategy or if there are others, will (hopefully) become clearer in future. Until & after the talk - it's a long and winding road! Holger Levsen 16:00 01:00 Salon del mar Strategies for building a Custom Debian Distribution DebConf lecture en The talk will give an overview of the status of the Debian-Med project and how it could work as an example for other CDDs. Considering that specific things about medical software is of quite low interest for the DebConf audience the main focus of the talk will be the way from a one-man idea to a fully grown team that is working contiuosely to enhance Debian for a specific user group. Experiences are shared how good tools and reasonable managemend can help to attract people - users and developers. The Debian-Med CDD was started in January 2002 and has evolved a lot since this time. Debian now becomes the distribution of choice for people who are working in the field of medicine. On the one hand this can be obtained from the increase of pure numbers of packages in the field of medicine. On the other hand - which is even more interesting for general Debian development - a group was formed that has developed a certain way of cooperation which might serve as an example for other teams. Debian knows a lot of technical teams focussing onto technical issues (pkg-perl, pkg-python, d-i, etc.). An important part of the project is to involve people who call themselves "pure users" or "non-developers" (whatever this might mean) as it is done at a certain amount by the i18n and Debian Edu team. So this talk is not about boring the audience by mentioning medical Free Software - it exists at a certain amount out there as other specific software does as well - but rather how to attract people to a topic where FLOSS is not common but should. It will give examples for our way to advertise Free Software in medicine which is heavily dominated by proprietary software, which tools we developed inside the CDD framework to be always up to date with our web pages that are intended to attract users to Debian and last but not least the lessons we have learned in the project that might be of high interest for other CDDs (or potential CDDs). Examples are given for project management, attracting people by working techniques and making sure that medical software finds a good home in Debian. Andreas Tille Debian-Med Development pages Slides with code 18:00 01:00 Salon del mar DebConf Unofficial other en César Gómez Martín 19:00 01:00 Salon del mar Where will it be? What will it be like? DebConf Unofficial podium en Like each year, we will discuss possible DebConf 10 venues. Like each year, we will discuss possible DebConf 10 venues. Holger Levsen 20:00 00:30 Salon del mar DebConf lecture en There are a lot of correlations between Free Software and a Player Piano (and Pianos in general) that are reflected in copyright, patents, standards and other things. This talk is a fun talk, showing clips from maddog's collection of player pianos, nickelodeons, roller organs, etc. and how it relates (ever so loosely) to our favorite operating system. Jon Anderson Hall, Esq. 12:00 01:00 Microcine Translation debs (tdebs) DebConf bof en Since Debconf 6, organizing a series of BOF dedicated to i18n-related topics has proven to be quite useful to all people working on i18n/l10n in the project. Proposed topic: http://wiki.debian.org/i18n/TranslationDebs aka tdebs aka translation packages Christian Perrier 19:00 01:00 Microcine DebConf bof en This should be an open discussion for all people interested in free software in health care. Andreas Tille 12:00 03:00 Microcine Pseudo event to associate videos DebConf Unofficial meeting Martín Ferrari 20:30 03:00 Elsewhere (will be announced in time) cd Debian turns 15 (Meet at lobby at 20:30 to walk over) DebConf contest en The yearly conference dinner, this time as a party for Debian's 15th birthday The yearly conference dinner, this time as a party for Debian's 15th birthday Margarita Manterola Martín Ferrari Damián Viano Joerg Jaspert 10:00 01:00 Salon del mar DebConf keynote en This keynote lecture will attempt to give the overall picture of the situation of internationalization and localization in the project. Topics: - i18n team, l10n teams - situation for various regions of the world - relations/non relations with derived distributions - situation in various areas covered by i18n (WWW, packages, documentation...) - i18n infrastructure: where are we? It is not meant to be technical in any way (the i18n sessions and informal meetings are better suited for this). Christian Perrier 11:00 01:00 Salon del mar Design considerations and Tools to make packaging web applications a dream DebConf lecture en any developers of web applications seem to live in a world of their own. They pull libraries from here there and everywhere written in multiple languages, with varying licenses. They expect the database to work the way their database does, they depend on specific versions of Java, PHP, Python, MySQL or other software and the debugging details seem to go into a black hole. In this talk I will review some of the functionality in and around Debian which can help work around these issues, and I will try and produce a checklist for developers to consider when trying to see if their software is able to be packaged easily. Andrew McMillan 12:00 01:00 Salon del mar What works? What doesn't? What can we learn from each other? DebConf bof en Team maintenance for (groups of) packages is en vogue; dozens or perhaps hundreds of packaging teams care for a subset of the Debian archive in a collaborative style. This BOF offers the opportunity for members of different packaging teams to exchange their experiences, share their success and problem stories, and in general learn from each other. a) Situation During the last few years team-maintaining groups of packages has become more and more widespread in Debian; the exact number of packaging teams is unknown, estimates vary between 42 and 893 -- reality is probably somewhere in between. [0] Although the challenges for all teams are similar, there is a lack of communication between those groups which leads to a situation where many are "reinventing the wheel". b) Objectives - bring members of different packaging teams together - get an overview of different work flows, tools, and challenges - compile generally useful 'models of good practise' - define possible areas for cooperation / tasks of mutual interest c) Methods Should the proposal for the BOF be accepted, a short questionnaire covering "typical questions" for packaging teams will be prepared before Summer that allows interested participants from packaging teams to prepare a short overview of their team's situation and work flow. This will allow the BOF to begin with short and structured presentations dealing with common aspects of team packaging. From these presentations common points of interest will be collected to form the "agenda" for the next part of the BOF. Ideally the session will conclude with a summary of "best practises," ideas for improving individual groups' work flows and ideas for improved cooperation between teams. -- Findings will be made public in the hope that they will be helpful to others. [0] http://wiki.debian.org/Teams lists 42 "Packaging teams"; http://krum.ethz.ch/ddc/teams-of-2007.txt has 218 entries; http://alioth.debian.org/ talks about 789 "hosted projects", looking in /home/groups on alioth shows 893 directories in general and 387 pkg-* directories. Gregor Herrmann 15:00 01:00 Salon del mar Bridging apparently incompatible cultures DebConf bof en Ruby on Rails has become a very popular framework for Web-based applications. And, even though Rails itself is neatly packaged and integrated in Debian, supporting Rails applications (specially in a large-scale provider) can prove rather difficult. Besides the core application, we face problems such as handling plugins, concurrent versions, and the like. In this BoF session we will try and study the different problems we face, and come up with adequate solutions. I'm only familiar with Ruby on Rails - but it might be interesting to have the opinion of people working with other similar-minded frameworks. Gunnar Wolf 16:00 01:00 Salon del mar DebConf bof en We like to continue the successfull talk from Monday ... Lucas Nussbaum 17:00 01:00 Salon del mar the what and the how (the same talk that BlackHat/Defcon) DebConf Unofficial meeting en This is the same talk that I gave at Black Hat and Defcon. "Recently, the Debian project announced an OpenSSL package vulnerability which they had been distributing for the last two years. This bug makes the PRNG predictable, affecting the keys generated by openssl and every other system that uses libssl (eg. openssh, openvpn). We will talk about this bug, its discovery and publication, its consequences, and exploitation. As well, we will demonstrate some exploitation tools." http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-08/bh-usa-08-speakers.html#Bello http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-16/dc-16-speakers.html#Bello Luciano Bello 18:00 01:00 Salon del mar Integration and Cooperation DebConf bof en Debian has a lot of useful Web Services that collect and present data about Debian Development. However, they are only loosely integrated, mostly only by including links to each other (e.g. PDO <-> PTS), or by cron'ed data retrival (e.g. BTS -> DDPO, BTS -> PTS). While Debian is probably not a community that would like to loose its diversity in Services Development (i.e. One Service To Rule Them All, aka launchpad), better integration between these services is certainly possible and might lead to more efficency and usability. Some ideas that could be discussed at the BoF: 1) central usermanagment (i.e. don't force people to tell every website again and again which packages and maintainer addresses they are interested in; OpenID?) and persistent configuration (i.e. allow people to configure services via cookies, server-side stored information, centrally server-side stored information); 2) Dynamic data retrival; 3) Look (i.e. creating images and CSS that can easily be reused by many services instead of all the more or less different instances we currently have); etc. Frank Lichtenheld 16:00 01:00 Microcine Building an i18n team DebConf bof Since Debconf 6, organizing a series of BOF dedicated to i18n-related topics has proven to be quite useful to all people working on i18n/l10n in the project. This session's topic could be about building an "official" i18n team Christian Perrier 18:00 01:00 Microcine How can we make them even cooler in Debian DebConf Unofficial bof en BoF for ThinkPad users and developers A BoF to get ThinkPad users and developers together, to share issues, and try to lay some plans on what we could do to get even better support for ThinkPads in Debian and the Kernel. Henrique de Moraes Holschuh 14:00 01:00 Elsewhere (will be announced in time) DebConf other en Tiago Bortoletto Vaz 16:00 03:00 Elsewhere (will be announced in time) Getting Lenny Into Shape DebConf Unofficial bof en We will try to meet daily to squash bugs that are blocking Lenny's release. Coordination will take place in #debian-bugs. We will meet in the lower quiet hacklab (the one in the restaurant). Philipp Kern #debian-release on irc.oftc.net RC Bugs in Lenny (bts.turmzimmer.net) #debian-bugs on irc.oftc.net 19:00 02:00 Elsewhere (will be announced in time) Expanding the Web of Trust DebConf contest en The yearly keysigning event. Sometimes called "passport-giggling party". Don't have a GPG Key? Don't have enough signatures? Sign up for the yearly KSP! Don Armstrong GnuPG Howto Keysigning Party Guide PGP Pathfinder Keysigning Details 08:00 01:00 Elsewhere (will be announced in time) Attention: It really starts at 8:00 DebConf Unofficial other es We basically intend to gather all people interested in a morning run. The running speed will be the slowest person's speed and the distance will be what can be sustained by general agreement (expect something between 5 and 10km?) It is *no* joke that the running starts at 8:00 - Penta just does not enable us to schedule that early ... Christian Perrier 10:00 01:00 Salon del mar DebConf Unofficial bof en Saving power is a hot topic across the computer industry. For some, saving power means getting a longer battery life on their mobile devices, be it laptops or handhelds. For others, saving power means reducing costs and increasing efficiency in their data centers. For all of us its about reducing the impact of computing on our planet. LessWatts.org is about how you can save real watts, however you use Linux* on your computer or computers. LessWatts is about creating a community around saving power on Linux, bringing developers, users, and sysadmins together to share software, optimizations, and tips and tricks. You can get tips, software, and tuning from this site and its forums, but we also want your input and involvement! Share your best tricks, test the software under development, contribute code, report bugs or issues, or simply help out other people who have questions. Sulamita Garcia 11:00 01:00 Salon del mar DebConf lecture en This talk delivers a progress report of the policy process in Debian, tocuhing the new version control, BTS usetags and user categories, and the progress made in rewriting policy in docbook XML. This can be shorter than an hour if needed, though I can certainly find material to fill the hour. Manoj Srivastava 12:00 01:00 Salon del mar what we can learn about it? DebConf Unofficial bof en Luciano Bello 15:00 01:00 Salon del mar Xen, KVM, VirtualBox, VMWare, QEmu DebConf lecture en There are now many virtualization and emulation packages available on Debian. This talk will give an overview over the different approaches, their pros/cons and current states. I will also show where each of them is heading and what that means for Debian. As an introduction i will explain the diffrent approaches to virtualization (system-/container-virtualization, hardware based, paravirtualization, emulation/recompilation) and how the packages use these. The linux kernel now has explicit support for virtualization using the paravirt-ops interface. The detailed part will focus on KVM, Xen and QEmu. These are probably the most popular free virtualization tools. An interesting new project is libvirt, which will provide a consistent interface to different virtualization tools. Ubuntu has recently choosen KVM as their main package and will ship it in 8.04 (Hardy Heron), Red Hat is working on forward porting Xen to a recent linux kernel. How will these influence Debian? Jan Lübbe 16:00 01:00 Salon del mar World domination one node at a time DebConf Unofficial bof en Enrico Zini's talk about world domination was missing an important step: clusters and supercomputers. Yes, lots and lots and lots of number-cruching monsters, with hundreds of GBs of RAM and TBs of hard-disk space. From kernel patches to single packages to whole projects, how can we benefit from things like Oscar on Debian[0], OpenSSI[1], Debian Cluster Components [2], and vice-versa. This BoF is about what can we do to make our beloved distro run flawlesly on those beasts Fabricio Cannini 18:00 01:00 Salon del mar Turning Debian into the distribution of choice for scientists DebConf Unofficial bof en The huge pool of packaged software inside Debian has the consequence that it also contains a large number of software which is used in day to day work of scientists. But the pure fact that packages are available is not enough to attract scientist who frequently tend to so called "easy to install" distributions and just are not aware which profit they might gain from Debian. Debian-Science has the goal to make Debian really attractive for scientists. After a talk at DebConf 5 in Helsinki three years ago the Debian-Science mailing list[1] was created and there is a Wiki page[2]. It is basically about adding scientific FLOSS software to the Debian package pool. The more than six year experience in the Debian-Med project has shown that just adding packages to the Debian pool is nice but users deserve more than just packaged software. Debian does a poor job in advertising the technically good job that is done. Many users do not have an idea about the available software inside Debian featuring a high level of quality and robustness. It is observed quite often that scientists just choose a distribution that claims to be "easy to use" and once they have got a nice shiny desktop environment they start to compile the software they need for day to day work from scratch. So the task for a Debian-Science project is to make Debian the distribution of choice for scientist which includes proper advertising (i.e. listing software packages that are useful for scientific work), reasonable preselection of packages, convey inter-package relations - in short: Turning Debian into a scientific workbench that scientists are keen on using. From a technical point of view the Custom Debian Distribution framework could be helpful to approach this goal. It simplifies the the task to care about scientific software inside Debian in an organised manner. Currently there is no structure in the scientific packages inside Debian - they just exist. In principle a general science CDD is probably not the best solution and a more fine grained structure would do better. The problem is that in fact there is nobody who currently wants to do the grunt work to actually do something into this direction. There exist some specific efforts for Chemistry and GIS related software but currently except for Debian-Med which covers also all Biology related package these are rather packaging teams than efforts to turn Debian into the distribution of choice for Chemists and people who are working with geographical information. A Debian-Science CDD is about answering the questions: - Who will define a list of software that should be included into Debian to support a specific field of science even better? - Who will keep an eye on the bugs scientific software packages are gathering? - Is there any solid group maintenance and QA effort for scientists done by scientists inside Debian? [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/ [2] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience Andreas Tille Debian-Science Wiki Tasks package from CDD tools (link might change) 19:00 01:00 Salon del mar kickstartig synergy effects DebConf bof en A meeting with two developers (and aspiring DD's, also ;-) of the Munich's LiMux team to share and discuss some details of our implementation of an open source desktop based on the fantastic Debian distribution. Discussion of possible synergy effects (it would be nice to get some kind of joint effort going). Everybody interested is welcome! Florian Maier LiMux homepage LiMux planet 20:00 01:00 Salon del mar modern, bottom-up, stateless network interface configuration DebConf lecture en This presentation introduces netconf, a network configuration management system designed with modern network infrastructures and the needs of roaming users in mind. The talk describes netconf's architecture and reports on the progress to date. On Linux systems nowadays, network configuration happens in one of two ways: by way of a distro-specific solution, or using NetworkManager. Neither of these two approaches are really suitable for today's requirements, which include roaming laptops and wireless networks, VPNs, LinkLocal networks, etc. The distro-specific methods usually employ hooks to configure everything beyond the simple IP interface, but the solutions are quite brittle in the event of errors or exceptional situations. And while NetworkManager does a splendid job with wireless networks, it suffers from a number of limitations, such as the inability to store more than one static address configuration. In addition, its GUI-centric approach often leaves advanced users with a feeling of lack of control, and imposes unneccessary dependencies for minimal systems. netconf aims to address these problems. It is a daemon designed from the bottom up with only minimal functionality. It uses an event-driven model and well-defined, bidirectional interfaces, which make it possible to integrate advanced functionality: link and location autodetection; configuration of printers, smarthosts, proxies, etc. from DHCP data; LinkLocal addressing; wireless LAN; VPN; firewalling; advanced routing and traffic control, including bridging, various user interfaces (including the NetworkManager GUI), and so on. netconf was developed for Debian systems but its design makes it trivial for other distributions (even using non-Linux kernels) to deploy it without the need to adopt Debian's network configuration paradigms — in fact, the compatibility with Debian's well-established ifupdown is implemented as an extension to the netconf core. It is currently in alpha state and implemented in Python, but with a the eventual porting to C in mind. This presentation assumes experience with Linux network configuration management. Previous exposure to complex network infrastructures would be a bonus to the attendant as well as the speaker. martin f. krafft netconf homepage 16:00 01:00 Microcine Debian on embedded devices DebConf meeting en Emdebian GUI configuration and touchscreen support, root filesystem installation methods, remaining issues in cross building Debian and extending the package set and device support. How to configure Emdebian installations and GUI configurations / touchscreen for embedded devices using Emdebian as well as how to bring Emdebian to new devices and/or new package sets. Demo of Emdebian on a Balloon3 board and outline of how to build root filesystems, customise packages and outline of how to extend Emdebian to armel and i386. Also includes the preparations for an Emdebian 1.0 release following Debian Lenny 5.0, including the relationship between Emdebian and Debian. Neil Williams Autobuilder report http:// 20:00 01:00 Microcine Status of the DDTP/Prepare Extremadura DebConf bof en In this meeting, we could make a discussion about the status of the DDTP and further developments. We could as well prepare the next i18n meeting in Extremadura. Christian Perrier 19:00 01:30 Elsewhere (will be announced in time) Experience the brazilian game DebConf Unofficial workshop en Capoeira is a fight, dance and game created by african slaves in Brasil, with a lot of elements from the african culture. The idea is to start with a small talk about the history of Capoeira, do some basic moves, and then make a Roda, in which everyone can play. Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva Wikipedia's capoeira page 10:00 01:00 Salon del mar The road to release DebConf keynote en With the archive now frozen, the Lenny release isn't far away. What does this mean for the average developer? This talk introduces the Release Team, the policies behind freezes, removals, binNMUs and general release management. Neil McGovern 11:00 01:00 Salon del mar DebConf lecture en "Sustainable Computing" is a hard fact in a lot of places around the world. It is often hard to have a computer, or even an Internet connection for a single person, so often computers are shared in many ways. There are many elements of "sustainable computing", and this talk looks at some of the issues, and discusses some possible answers. Jon Anderson Hall, Esq. 12:00 01:00 Salon del mar A report from the Secretary DebConf bof en This will be a quick update of devotee functionality update to handle clone proof STV voting for multiple winners, which degenerates to our current process for single winner votes. This also serves as a bits from the secretary talk. Manoj Srivastava 15:00 01:00 Salon del mar DebConf bof en In-person meetings, such as the ones organized by Extremadura, are a great opportunity for Debian. However, many participants to the various meetings held in the past feel that the way they were organized is suboptimal. For example, some participants prefer to use those meetings for discussions rather than usual Debian work, but then it's difficult to get some other people involved in the discussions. Ideally, the outcome of this BOF will be an HOWTO about how to organize successful meetings. With requirements, tips and tricks to get people involved, etc. Lucas Nussbaum 16:00 01:15 Salon del mar 4 to 5 minutes talks about anything DebConf lightning en http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Talk 4 to 5 minutes talks by various people combined in a set of 10 talks in one hour. You can present a strange idea, your nifty program, a cool project, some hardware you like, ... Coordination is done in the wiki: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Debconf8/LightningTalks Noèl Köthe Coordination wiki page 18:00 01:00 Salon del mar Open Avionics for High-Power Model Rockets DebConf lecture en This is just a fun talk of our beloved former leader who just wants to leave the surface of the earth sometimes. ;-) Bdale Garbee 19:00 00:30 Salon del mar GoodBye and see you at DebConf9 DebConf meeting en Close the conf properly Close the conf properly, say thanks to volunteers, ask for cleanup help, ask for feedback Mark Hymers Holger Levsen Damián Viano Andreas Tille Martín Ferrari martin f. krafft Margarita Manterola Romanella Di Ferdinando Joerg Jaspert Sebastian Montini Stephen Gran Maximiliano Curia 12:00 01:00 Microcine Continuation of part 1 DebConf bof en Gregor Herrmann 16:00 01:00 Microcine Meet the code DebConf Unofficial bof en I will present netconf's code in an effort to get people interested and make it easier for them to start hacking. martin f. krafft netconf homepage 17:30 00:30 Elsewhere (will be announced in time) Not beeing afraid of cold water DebConf Unofficial contest en Be sharp at 17:30 at the beach, bring a towel!! Andreas Tille 10:00 01:00 DebianDay - Etch DebianDay lecture es Hay una duda muy común al contemplar nuestro trabajo, que mucha gente puede dar por obvia: ¿Qué es el software libre? ¿Qué hay detrás de nuestro movimiento? ¿Qué implicaciones tiene? Posiblemente ya has asistido a pláticas que te presentan las famosas «cuatro libertades» y te presentan al Software Libre desde un punto de vista técnico. En esta plática, más bien, intento responder a estas dudas dando un énfasis diferente: elaboro sobre del Conocimiento Libre, y en el software como una expresión del conocimiento, de la ciencia, del desarrollo histórico de la humanidad. Gunnar Wolf 11:00 01:00 DebianDay - Etch DebianDay podium es Dydier José Rojas Guerrero 12:00 01:00 DebianDay - Etch Recorriendo las posibilidades de Debian, el sistema operativo libre y universal, en organizaciones de cualquier objeto y tamaño DebianDay lecture En esta breve presentación se introducirá al participante en las aplicaciones empresariales de Debian, el sistema operativo libre y universal, y como puede una organización de cualquier objeto (pública, privada, académica, defensa, ONG) aprovecharse del modelo de desarrollo colaborativo que caracteriza a la distribución de software libre más grande del Mundo. Se visitarán casos de estudio en América Latina y otras regiones, delineando una estrategia de acercamiento para los participantes que deseen implementar Debian en sus organizaciones. La charla durará entre 45 y 60 minutos, y será realizada en castellano. In this brief presentation participants will be introduced to enterprise applications of Debian, the free and universal operating system, and how an organization of any type (public, private, academic, defense, NGO) might take profit from the collaborative development approach featured by the biggest free software distribution in the world. Study cases from Latin America and other regions will be visited, scaffolding an approach strategy for those participants willing to deploy Debian in their institutions. The talk will take between 45 and 60 minutes and will be given in spanish. The following submission note is given in english so everyone can comment on the talk proposal: This talk is the result from those experiences being a Debian speaker in international events at Venezuela and India, as well as other Debconfs, as well as being involved in several Debian implementations in Venezuela. The target of this talk are decission makers and prospective users/developers approaching Debian from their perspective as proprietary software users. The proposed contents are: 1. Why change? 1.1 Benefits of deploying free and open source software 1.2 Benefits of the Debian collaborative development approach 1.3 Benefits of changing people's way to do things 2. Usage patterns 2.1 Deploy a secure, low maintenance backend 2.2 Reduce proprietary and commercial license usage 2.3 Derive an operating system from Debian 2.4 Develop new business strategies 3. Study cases 3.1 Venezuela's Migration Process (derived distributions, end user migration processes with tens of thousands of Debian users, new backends, et al) 3.2 LatAm Debian derivatives (why?, how they work?) 3.3 Debian as a business strategy (OpenMoko, Asus eeePc, HP support) 4. Getting involved 4.1 Defining a target and achieving it with Debian 4.2 How to interact with Debian José Miguel Parrella Romero 16:00 01:00 DebianDay - Etch Pero algunas son más seguras que otras. DebianDay lecture es En esta charla vamos a explicar como funcionan las protecciones que ofrece el kernel de Linux contra los ataques de desbordado de pila en general, y como configurarlas y usarlas en Debian. Vamos a centrarnos en la implementación que provee PaX de ASLR (randomización de la configuración de las direcciones de memoria usadas por los procesos), tecnología de punta para prevención de ataques de desbordado de pila comparable a lo mejor que hay implementado en kernels de otros sistemas operativos al día de hoy. Usando esta tecnología podemos, en particular cuando usamos Linux como servidor empresarial u hogareño, ahorrarnos varios dolores de cabeza a la hora de lidiar con ataques a vulnerabilidades en el software que corremos. Pedro Varangot 17:00 01:00 DebianDay - Etch DebianDay lecture es César Gómez Martín 18:00 01:00 DebianDay - Etch Arma tu propio webserver DebianDay lecture es Durante esta presentación se explicará cómo configurar un servidor web con bases de datos y un gestor de contenidos utilizando Software Libre (CMS: Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal o Wiki). Además, se explicará la configuración de los servicios de dns dinámicos para poner en marcha un servidor web con una PC y conexión a internet hogareña. La idea de la charla es mostrarle al publico newbie/novato que con un poco de ingenio, una tarde libre y un debian recien instalado se puede tener un "hosting casero", suficiente para albergar esos blogs que tenemos dando vueltas por ahi, o para hacer algunas pruebas de lo qe estemos desarrollando. Intentare demostrar la simplicidad de esto y como no hacen falta muchos conocimientos tecnicos; como se puede reutilizar un poco de hardware viejo que tengamos por ahi tirado, una conexion de internet casera (adsl/cablemodem) para poder ahorrarnos unos pesos de la factura de nuestro hosting. Sebastian Montini 10:00 01:00 DebianDay - Lenny An Inside Look at the Debian Project DebianDay lecture en A brief history of the Debian project and description of how the key elements of the project evolved and work today, from the perspective of someone who has been involved nearly since the beginning. The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating system. The primary goal of this talk is to explain how that happened, identifying key milestones in the project's history that resulted in the foundational documents and key processes that led to the project we know today. Key elements that make Debian different from other operating system distributions and other large free software projects will also be discussed. The talk will conclude with information on how anyone can join the Debian project and help with our continuing work, and some thoughts about what the future may hold for Debian. Bdale Garbee 11:00 01:00 DebianDay - Lenny The position of Debian in the Free Software world - sorry, there is no beer served in this talk DebianDay lecture Sometimes the meaning of 'free' remains vague and unclear for outsiders. There seem to be different prices for something that is free which is confusing. The talk tries to find an answer to the question: What the hell will I get if I buy a box labelled "Debian GNU/Linux"? What is Free Software? What is a distribution of Free Software? Why do I have to pay something if people tell me it is free? What exactly do I get for my money? How can I find the things I really need in the jungle of Free Software? These questions might be asked by people who heard something in the news about Linux, Firebird etc. but do not have a concept about the ideas behind it. The talk tries to give reasonable answers while beeing careful with the usual polemic about this topic. The talk might be interesting for two types of people: 1. People who are asking the questions above. 2. People who tried to answer the questions above (for instance to their grandmother) but failed. Andreas Tille Talk in Edinburgh (Slides, Paper and Video) 12:00 01:00 DebianDay - Lenny Using Debian specific features to their full potential DebianDay lecture en Useful unknown tools that can make the Debian User's life easier. Wouter Verhelst alternate slides location 15:00 01:00 DebianDay - Lenny La experiencia de Extremadura con Debian DebianDay lecture es César Gómez Martín 16:00 01:00 DebianDay - Lenny DebianDay lecture en From the first use by Mahmut the Conqueror to guard his harems in the mid-15th century to the modern use of Linux to create firewalls, people have been using Unix not only to guard precious resources, but to also run supercomputers, embedded systems, servers and last (but not least) their desktop applications. This talk will delve into some of the interesting uses and case studies of Linux use around the world and why various countries are moving towards Free Software. Jon Anderson Hall, Esq. 18:00 01:00 DebianDay - Lenny DebianDay lecture es Maximiliano Curia