Cáceres, Extremadura 2009-07-15 2009-07-31 17 0.5 03:00 00:15 16:00 03:00 Upper talkroom Annual meeting of the Debian Perl Group DebCamp bof en The pkg-perl team will again take the opportunity to meet in person for discussing current topics and planning future work. Items for discussion and work are collected at http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup/OpenTasks Gunnar Wolf Open tasks for the Debian Perl group 18:00 03:00 Upper talkroom DebCamp workshop Luk Claes 16:00 03:00 Lower talkroom DebCamp lecture en Debugging bootloaders and kernels with JTAG is demonstrated with an ARM embedded system. Unlike application software, which can be debugged by attaching to the process, kernels and bootloaders have no software layer above them that would provide debugging facilities, so debugging them requires hardware support and special techniques. Contents: - JTAG basics - OpenOCD - Attaching to a target - Techniques for debugging Simon Richter 11:00 03:00 Upper talkroom How to work together with the others to accomplish goals? DebCamp bof en Sometimes there are bright and/or (not so) clever ideas, but either way they are far away from being easy to accomplish, so the question is: how can we work together with the others to accomplish those goals? Most, if not all, of us are volunteers and what motivates some doesn't necessarily motivate the others, what can we do to succeed then? It may be impossible to find a magic solution that works perfectly, the title might be a joke and the results may not be compared to GTD, but that doesn't mean we should not try to find some techniques to help accomplishing goals. The release team has said that not every goal is a release goal (which is fine, but tricky), so how can we use techniques such as 0-day NMUs to circumvent those maintainers who don't really care about some goals as they see them irrelevant? Bring lots of ideas, an open mind, and your experience (little, like mine, or lots of it! we want opinions). Raphael Geissert 18:00 03:00 Upper talkroom DebCamp Luk Claes 10:00 03:00 Upper talkroom understanding GNOME, Mozilla and Windows DebCamp lecture en A short run-down of component systems is given, explaining the basic concepts and some of the details necessary to use them. Both CORBA and (XP)COM are covered. Complex software is often designed as individual components working together, with each component being implemented separate from the others, which is in stark contrast to the programming models usually found in the Unix world. This talk gives a quick insight into this design approach and its strengths and weaknesses, and should help contributors to GNOME and Mozilla to understand the codebase better. Topics: - Interface driven design - CORBA and COM - Object ownership - Component isolation - The memory allocation problem - The Initial Object Reference problem - UI components - Scripting components - Examples Simon Richter 17:00 01:00 Upper talkroom Audio Video Disco DebCamp en Holger Levsen 18:00 03:00 Upper talkroom DebCamp workshop en Luk Claes 18:00 03:00 Lower talkroom DebCamp workshop en Sort out some checks requests, help new contributors (so don't be scared and attend!), etc Raphael Geissert 09:00 01:00 Upper talkroom Rafael Martín Espada OpenDay lecture es 10:00 01:00 Upper talkroom OpenDay lecture en Bdale Garbee presentation file 11:00 01:00 Upper talkroom Telefonica Sebastian Ortega Torres OpenDay lecture 12:00 01:00 Upper talkroom Diego Martínez Castañeda, COMPAREX OpenDay lecture es Ventajas de Debian y software libre en la integración con entornos empresariales. 13:00 01:00 Upper talkroom gnu/LinEx y Debian en los centros educativos extremeños OpenDay lecture es Pasado, presente y futuro del uso de Debian en el sistema educativo público extremeño. Después de un breve resumen de lo que se empezó hace casi siete años, se contará los avances, problemas y soluciones habidos durante el último curso. También se hablará de los planes existentes para la incorporación de ordenadores portátiles en las aulas: pilotos ya hechos en Extremadura y su integración con el plan del gobierno nacional para el próximo curso. Durante toda la charla se comentará el papel que Debian ha jugado para conseguir los objetivos propuestos, todo lo que hemos obtenido: software, configuraciones, ayuda, amigos, excelentes técnicos, etc. y lo que se ha aportado a Debian a lo largo del camino. José L. Redrejo 17:30 00:30 Upper talkroom wt DebConf9 introductory session DebConf other en Welcome session Welcome session Joerg Jaspert Holger Levsen Jose Antonio Recio Cuesta César Gómez Martín 18:00 01:00 Upper talkroom OpenDay es Adeodato Simó 19:00 01:00 Upper talkroom Experiencias personales OpenDay podium es Luciano Bello Enrico Zini Steve Langasek diapositivas de Steve diapositivas de Enrico diapositivas de Luciano 20:00 01:00 Upper talkroom OpenDay lecture es Miriam Ruiz Slides usadas en la charla 22:30 01:00 Upper talkroom GPG keysigning party information/discussion DebConf Unofficial other en Aníbal Monsalve Salazar Don Armstrong Andrew McMillan Keysigning @ DebConf9 10:00 01:00 Lower talkroom (FUNDECYT) OpenDay podium es Marta Quintanilla Jose Antonio Recio Cuesta FLOSSInclude http:// 11:00 01:00 Lower talkroom Cual es el tamaño de Lenny? OpenDay lecture es Francisco Rivas 12:00 01:00 Lower talkroom Así que ya eres un nuevo usuario de Debian... ¿Qué viene ahora? OpenDay lecture es So, you're new debian user, what is the next step? This talk is about Debian tools, terms, philosophys, policys, statistic, anecdotes and funny situations and we're triying to get the "debian world" to new users for make the first impression more confortable. Así que ya eres un nuevo usuario de Debian.. ¿Qué viene ahora? Esta charla es sobre herramientas, términos, filosofía, políticas, estadísticas, anécdotas y situaciones divertidas en el proyecto Debian y con ella intentamos acerca el "mundo de Debian" a los nuevos usuarios para que esa primera impresión sea más agradable. Esta charla es un compendio de experiencias propias y de recopilación de múltiples fuentes de información del proyecto Debian para que los miembros que se vayan incorporando al proyecto puedan tener una visión más general del proyecto. Se busca, principalmente, mostrar el lado humano de los que están involucrados en este proyecto, por otro, mostrar el arsenal de herramientas disponibles (herramientas de administración (aptitude), infraestructura web (wiki, bugs, documentación), herramientas para la calidad y buenas prácticas (pbuilder, etc). Está dirigida a usuarios nuevos y no pretende ser un tutorial sobre las herramientas que señalan. Hector Colina 13:00 01:00 Lower talkroom Daniel Lombraña González, IDENTIC OpenDay lecture 18:00 01:00 Lower talkroom The next bottle of beer OpenDay lecture en 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. Andreas Tille More information 19:00 01:00 Lower talkroom 3 years experience using free software OpenDay en Munich's LiMux project increases the use of free software within the 14,000 PCs of the administration. Challenges are the integration of the linux client, the availability of business applications and the migration to OpenOffice.org Munich's LiMux project increases the use of free software within the 14,000 PCs of the administration. Challenges are the integration of the linux client, the availability of business applications and the migration to OpenOffice.org The migration to OpenOffice.org is far advanced and the number of workstations using Debian GNU/Linux as operating system and mainly free software for daily business is rapidly growing. The talk is intended to LiMux interested people with and without any technical prior knowledge. It gives a short overview about the project's background, points out the current numbers and presents the technical solutions (Debian based client, WollMux as office tool). Florian Schießl official website (DE) inofficial devblog (EN) Wikipedia (DE) Wikipedia (EN) Case study at OSOR.eu 10:00 01:00 Upper talkroom presentation of the projects and their status DebConf podium en This event will gather the admins, mentors and students of the 2009 Google Summer of Code at Debian to present our organization work, the students, their projects and how they are doing. At the time of Debconf9, our students should be way into their projects. The Debian organization of the 2009 run of the Summer of Code will be presented and discussed, gathering feedback, especially in regard of the relation between the projects and the rest of the community. This event will be an opportunity for mentor and student pairs to present the projects they have been working on and update about their progress, and for the Debian community to give face to face feedback and help. Obey Arthur Liu Wiki page Google Docs Presentation 11:00 01:00 Upper talkroom How large is Lenny? DebConf Unofficial lecture en Francisco Rivas 12:00 01:00 Upper talkroom Trying to find ideas to make the first phase of group membership easier DebConf bof en During DebConf8 two BOFs took place around the topic of team-maintaining packages. One issue defined as a common challenge for all teams was the question of how to find and integrate new members. The discussion showed that none of the present teams was using a structured approach for recruitment and induction at that time. [0] This BOF is intended to pick up the discussion of finding and integrating new members into teams where it stopped in Mar del Plata. It will focus on collecting models of good practice and developing ideas for improvement. [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2009/02/msg00006.html a) Background The number of teams in Debian [1] is rising, and "join an existing team" is often an advice given to potential new contributors. In practice it's often not so easy, neither for "newbies" nor for "old-timers", to get in touch with each other and take the first steps together until someone becomes a "regular" in some team. b) Potential questions - How can teams find new contributors -- and vice versa? - What do we expect from potential new group members? - What do potential new members expect from teams? - Which approaches and methods were successful in the past? What were the reasons for failures? c) Methods Should the proposal for the BOF be accepted, I intend to kick off the session with a very short introduction into the topic, and then try to facilitate the common discussion. Ideally the session will conclude with a summary of "best practices," ideas for improvement, and maybe plans for the future ... [1] http://wiki.debian.org/Teams Gregor Herrmann 13:00 01:00 Upper talkroom DebConf lecture en this talk will encompass: - a discussion of how maintainers of PAM module packages should integrate with the new system - a peek under the hood, at how pam-auth-update uses debconf in creative ways to provide a consistent user experience - discussion: should we be doing better at innovating when it comes to this kind of distro integration? Steve Langasek slides 18:00 01:00 Upper talkroom DPL keynote DebConf en Steve McIntyre 19:00 01:00 Upper talkroom Multiarch quick review and discussion DebConf bof en Multiarch design and implementation discussion Multiarch is an idea that has been arround many time by now. There is some people interested on bringing up all this setup. I propose to meet all together and have a talk. Some of the discussion points could be: * Multiarch design review * Multiarch addon proposal: cross building support * Implementation challenge The final goal is to have a co-installable and co-buildable system using Debian sources. Hector Oron Steve Langasek Multiarch Ubuntu Multiarch specification for karmic 20:00 01:00 Upper talkroom DebConf bof The Debian Quality Assurance team does work in a large number of areas. This BOF will be an opportunity to discuss the current state, and possible future changes, in: - Maintenance of orphaned packages - Developer tools such as the PTS, DDPO and UDD - Tracking of maintainers Missing In Action (MIA) - Mass bug filings (rebuilds, piuparts, etc) - Organization of team maintenance - etc Lucas Nussbaum 10:00 01:00 Lower talkroom DebConf Unofficial bof en BoF for kernel team and developers working closely with the kernel. BoF for kernel team and developers working closely with the kernel. Ben Hutchings 11:00 01:00 Lower talkroom 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. 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. Michael Schultheiss Joerg Jaspert Jimmy Kaplowitz Bdale Garbee Software in the Public Interest, Inc. 12:00 01:00 Lower talkroom Bringing together DDs caring for scientific software DebConf podium en The Debian Science Blend has undergone a new offspring since 2008 and is attracting more and more developers. It has shown that some questions are raised over and over and there seems to be a need to define some strategy for the project to serve our users best. This should be done in this panel discussion. Andreas Tille Michael Banck 13:00 01:00 Lower talkroom and how #debian should use it DebConf bof en This talk will briefly cover the current status of Debian end-user IRC support in #debian and how it has improved over time. The main part of the talk will be about non-#debian IRC support. Users who do not speak English usually get directed towards their specific language channel. The problem with this (especially for less popular languages) is that we do not know whether they are getting help there or whether that channel has similar guidelines like #debian. Points of contact for a particular language with a well-known background in the Debian community should be decided upon to act as a liaison between the local channel and the rest of the Debian end-user support. This could be expanded for other communities like mailing lists. Hopefully, a discussion on how to best achieve the above will ensue during and after the talk. In former years, complaints about the #debian atmosphere in general and the attitude of some of its regulars in particular were quite frequent. Over the last few years, the current #debian channel operators and regulars have mostly succeeded in providing a more welcoming, yet still highly effective end-user support for Debian users in #debian. However, with the success of i18n in Debian and Free Software in general, more and more users who do not speak English fluently (if at all) request support in #debian. Those people get pointed to language-specific channels via the channel-bot factoid database. This works pretty well to keep the main #debian channel from non-English chatter and noise, but it is often unclear to the #debian channel operators and regulars whether those users are actually helped in the channels they are sent to. Feedback on how well those channels work is difficult to obtain because the users directed there usually do not return back to #debian. Sometimes, more than one end-user support channel for a particular language exist, they are split on several networks, or change names without the #debian regulars noticing. Some channels for less popular languages are also very small and low-traffic. Moreover, there have been complaints about abusive channel operators or regulars in those language-specific channels. The Debian project might profit from general guidelines on what are acceptable and useful measures for end-user support among all of the support channels. Points of contact for a particular language with a well-known background in the Debian community should be decided upon to act as a liaison between the local channel and the Debian end-user support organizers. This could be expanded for other communities like mailing lists as well. Further discussion is needed and solicited to flesh out the above proposal. Michael Banck 19:00 01:00 Lower talkroom The road to world domination is paved by policy DebConf lecture en piuparts has been helping Debian become better since 2005. piuparts.debian.org has been testing 50000 binary packages since March 2009. How can your packages benefit from piuparts? How can you run it yourself? How can you benefit from what piuparts.debian.org does? This talk is an introduction to piuparts, taking the people from basic usage to experts in using piuparts in one short hour. Holger Levsen Lars Wirzenius http://piuparts.debian.org http:// 20:00 01:00 Lower talkroom DebConf bof en First i18n BOF Christian Perrier 23:00 03:00 Garden / Patio The traditional DebConf cheese tasting event DebConf other en The Cheese and Wine party is now a tradition in Debconfs. Debconf 9 will not fail that tradition and the goal is of course having the best and smelliest cheese party ever. No Debconf without Cheese and Wine party, that's at least true since Debconf 5 in Helsinki. So, DC9 will not be an exception and we will again have a C&W party. The event is, from what I see in Penta, officially scheduled for Saturday July 25th, 21:30 local time. Of course, that will, as usual, require participation by attendees, particularly the French gang, to bring enough material for it. The principle is easy: attendees do their best to bring *good* cheese and|or *good* wine or liquors from their own place and we all share this in the best suitable place we can find for this. If you can't bring anything....you're still highly welcome. We need many people to come and be sure that nothing is left at the end. Don't expect something very organized: everybody is free to come and join. Don't feel like you *have* to bring something to participate: we all know this is not always easy when travelling, sometimes for a long time. Cheese is still considered as dangerous material in many places and as a military weapon in some others..:-) The main rationale should be, as usual in Debian: focus on quality. If something from your place|country|region seems worth being discovered by Debconf attendees, you can certainly bring it and share. The last C&W have already proven that Debconf attendees enjoy good food and drinks. Cheese should be the main topic of the even, along with wine, of course. This is the spirit of the event and it should remain as is. Spain is a very cheese-friendly country...so let's take advantage of this..:-) One should also remember that "cheese party" generally means "cheese AND WINE party", which generally extends to "cheese and wine and anything containing ethanol as long as this is good stuff" party. Christian Perrier 10:00 01:00 BOF room - no video DebConf Unofficial bof I would like to participate with a presentation titled "License compatibility". I think that this is a major issue to consider in the open source software legal practice. Different open source licenses create different legal frameworks for the production of software in a collective and distributed manner. I will examinate the legal interoperability of main free software licenses because software developers are confronted frequently with problems related to incompatibility of software licenses, I also want to talk about the new conflictual framework of patents versus intellectual property and how a free software license interact whith patents, the limits to the virus effects of copyleft and the closed relation of free licenses and open standards. Undestanding the principles of license compatibility, in view of the proliferation of licenses that are nowadays considered to fall under the definition of "open source", and understanding the copyleft clauses address one of the more important legal challenges of the future of the open source software. Jose Lancho 11:00 01:00 BOF room - no video DebConf Unofficial lecture en An introduction to the Openstreetmap project. Blars Blarson slides openstreetmap 12:00 01:00 BOF room - no video DebConf Unofficial other An Openstreetmap mapping party is where people get together and map an area. Bring a GPS if you have one. Blars Blarson http://www.openstreetmap.org 13:00 01:00 BOF room - no video Maemo as a generic open platform for mobile devices DebConf Unofficial bof en Presentation on Mer, a community edition of Maemo, which has as one of its goals to attempt to make Maemo a generic mobile platform. The discussion will be focused upon Mer on top of Debian in mobile devices and where the Maemo platform can help providing quality user interfaces for Debian-based operating systems on mobile devices. Demonstration of Mer on Neo Freerunner, Nokia N8x0, SmartQ5, etc will also be shown. Mer (http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer) is a maemo.org project that aims to reconstruct the Maemo platform based on principles such as open development, developer-friendliness, hackability and multiplatform support. While originating on the Nokia Internet Tablets, Mer now supports many diverse mobile architectures, including Freerunner. The Mer project sees modern mobile devices as the powerful, economical, power-efficient handheld computers they are and brings these devices into closer alignment in terms of API. Mer provides packages that implements a Maemo 5.0 API on top of the Debian and Ubuntu distributions. It is as well an attempt to limit application porting to a mobile OS to be a matter of adapting the application to the mobile use case. Carsten Valdemar Munk Website for Mer project. http:// 19:00 02:00 BOF room - no video Repairing buzz hardware bug live and for free (free as beer) DebConf Unofficial other en We will fix the Neo for you :), At DebConf9 and with Openmoko Inc support we will celebrate a "Fix it" party and we will fix you Neo live there , Armed with a good soldering station a good trained technician for this specific fix after more than 60 units and two previous Fix Parties , will be there at your disposal to fix your neo live right there, meanwhile you wait for the Neo to be fixed you can take a beer with us and the rest of Neo owners out there If for whatever reason(lack of time, too much beer...) we not can fix it then, we can pickup it, repair it at lab, and send you back the Neo wherever you want. Shipping costs will be comunicated if this situation happens You have to have to "buy"(is free so no cost) one Fix it Party ticket from the special Debconf shop Tuxbrain, at http://www.tuxbrain.com/debconf , has setup for the event with important discounts in Openmoko related products for Debconf/Debcamp assistants. Rafael Campos Las Heras David Samblas Victor Remolina Web of the company Especial discounts for Debconf Web of the comunity openmoko in spain Rafael Campos's Blog 10:00 01:00 Upper talkroom how the buildd and wanna-build changed recently DebConf en I want to reflect about what changed in the Debian autobuilding infrastructure since last Debconf. A new team has been formed around this and we took up the challenge to improve it (and not only by just being available when anything goes wrong). I will thus first and foremost talk about changes visible and important to the developers but also lay out some details behind the scenes. Philipp Kern buildd.debian.org 11:00 01:00 Upper talkroom DebConf lecture en FOSSology is a set of free software tools to facilitate the study and analysis of Free and Open Source Software. Today FOSSology is best known for finding software licenses in source code. This talk will introduce FOSSology, show a demo of the tool, and then provide a discussion how FOSSology could be used to make license analysis within Debian easier. Martin Michlmayr 12:00 01:00 Upper talkroom DebConf lecture en debhelper v7, dh sequences, pluggable buildsystems -- over the past year debhelper has added lots of new stuff while staying true to its decades-plus roots. In my first ever talk about debhelper, I will cover this new stuff, how to use it, and how it can be better than cdbs. Joey Hess 13:00 01:00 Upper talkroom Apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order, what has DSA ever done for us? DebConf bof en A BoF to discuss how DSA manage Debian infrastructure, with an emphasis on feedback from teams and users. DSA would like to hold a BoF that opens with a description of the current state of affairs, and then opens up to a more general discussion of how people use the Debian infrastructure, particularly teams. Martin Zobel-Helas Stephen Gran Peter Palfrader 18:00 01:00 Upper talkroom DebConf lecture en Ultimate Debian Database provides a central place to dig into Debian's information. It gathers data from a large number of sources into the same PostgreSQL database, allowing its users to easily access and combine all this data. This talk will provide an introduction to UDD, discuss its current status, and possible evolutions in the future. Lucas Nussbaum Ultimate Debian Database http:// 19:00 01:00 Upper talkroom DebConf lecture en The Debian Pure Blends effort has created web pages with different overviews about the packages which are in the scope of the Blend. On one hand this are so called tasks pages which assemble packages of so called tasks (fields of interest) on one page with certain metainformation. The descriptions are translated by using DDTP translations. Moreover there are bugs pages which enable a quick overview about problematic packages which are used by the Blend. The usage of UDD enables much simpler creation of these pages as well as offering new features. The talk should stress the interlinking between two different techniques inside the Debian universe. Andreas Tille More information about this talk 20:00 01:00 Upper talkroom How to update stable more efficiently? DebConf workshop en Doing and preparing point releases is still not streamlined. It would be good if website changes, draft announcements and preparation mails could get autogenerated. The current process of processing packages can probably also be improved as well as the documentation of broader changes or (solved) issues (like the ones for the installer). Luk Claes 22:00 02:00 Upper talkroom What are our goals? DebConf Unofficial bof en This is a work session mainly for the people who have been active in vcs-pkg.org so far. There is a workgroup meeting on 30 Jul at 10:00 in the morning, and we would like to prepare so that we know what we'll do and can define our expectations. Anyone is welcome, of course, but don't expect too much explanations or detail. See http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/vcs-pkg-discuss/2009-July/000633.html martin f. krafft http://vcs-pkg.org 11:00 01:00 Lower talkroom DebConf Unofficial lecture en Why, How, When, Side-effects, Counter-measures, and everything you wanted to know about the switch. Raphael Geissert Luk Claes 13:00 01:00 Lower talkroom A smart front-end to the Debian Data Hell DebConf lecture en DDE (Debian Data Export) is a simple interface to remotely access Debian information. It allows to explore and export data from a wide range of sources using a simple and flexible interface. It is designed to be simple to query, and to back the implementation of nice things such as package name autocompletion on all input fields in Debian web pages, or to make more data easily available to Debian utilities and package managers. On top of all that, it is a RESTful Web 2.0 middleware designed to enable AJAX mashups. What more can you ask? Come and have a look. Enrico Zini Debian DDE instance Debtags DDE interface 18:00 01:00 Lower talkroom execute your internet browser in a secure container DebConf lecture en Debian ships several tools like sudo and some UI frondends to get more privileges for subprocesses but no tool to effectively reduce such privileges, yet. The immunity tool provides a secure container to lock down any application that processes untrusted data like web browsers, their plugins and handler apps, and other multimedia apps. A ready to install Debian package is available as a proof of concept and it should work on any Debian or Ubuntu version or any other Debian derivative. The talk will show the features of immunity, describe the implementation details and elaborate on future plans. The features of the version 0.4 are: * switching to a shadow user with the name "immunity-$USER" and the home dir "/var/lib/immunity/$USER" to avoid any dangerous interprocess communication, debugging, signals, ... * switching to group "immunity" that allows easy definition of filesystem ACLs and netfilter rules * empty the set of supplementary groups * works with a vanilla Linux kernel and does not need any external modules * does not need packages not available in Debian or other major distros * depends on features of the Linux kernel and won't work with other non Linux kernels * does not need SELinux or any other complex security framework * employs polyinstantiation of the filesystem * narrows the filesystem in the container o only parts of /etc, /dev, /usr, /var and other parts of the filesystem can be seen in the container o no /boot, /home, /media, /mnt, /root, /sbin, /sys, ... o /proc will be optional in the future; /proc/bus/usb has already been disabled * disables all suid and sgid binaries * reduces number of device files to /dev/null and /dev/snd/* (alsa) * locks down all capabilities; they can't be regained from user space * implemented in Python * transfers X authorization to the shadow user; optional feature in the future * employs the X11 security extension (no screenshotting, keyboard stealing, copying + pasting); will be made optional in the future * porting to other Linux distributions should be easy Torsten Werner immunity slides 19:00 01:00 Lower talkroom How to use it, how to write your own plugin DebConf podium en An Introduction to "upgrade-advisor", a tool to analyse a system before and after a dist-upgrade. How to use it, How to contribute a plugin. This session will present upgrade-advisor, which runs in two modes : * pre-upgrade - Test the system prior to the upgrade, then display some hints to ensure seamless upgrade. * post-upgrade - Test the system after the upgrade, then display hints for emulating a freshly installed system. During this session, we'll see how to use it, and how to contribute a plugin for you package and known bugs. Franklin Piat Homepage source repository 20:00 01:00 Lower talkroom DebConf bof en Second i18n session Christian Perrier 22:00 01:00 Lower talkroom PET-devel get together DebConf Unofficial bof en BoF to discuss future developments of PET. Martín Ferrari Homepage 23:00 01:00 Lower talkroom Second BoF regarding the pkg-perl group DebConf Unofficial bof en At our first BoF (2009-07-18) we agreed to hold a second one having all the team members in Cáceres - this is it. At our first BoF (2009-07-18) we agreed to hold a second one having all the team members in Cáceres - this is it. Gunnar Wolf 23:00 01:00 Garden / Patio Christopher J. Walker 10:00 01:00 BOF room - no video DebConf Unofficial bof en Discussion of what tools are of the most help in managing large numbers of related Debian systems. Configuration management, distributed shell tools, proxy setups, apt setups, mail setups, network-related tools, automated provisioning, change control, monitoring tools, general management tools, policy enforcement, security-related tools; it's all open for discussion. paul cannon 11:00 01:00 BOF room - no video DebConf Unofficial bof en Blars Blarson 12:00 01:00 BOF room - no video DebConf Unofficial es Miriam Ruiz 16:00 01:00 BOF room - no video Discussion about people involved in the NM process en Preferably restricted to AMs, FDs, DAMs and fresh NMs, as the main point is to discuss everyday experiences. Preferably not recorded, so that real issues can be discussed without worrying about mentioning names. Some topics for the BOF: - prepare a lightning talk "Bits from the AMs, FDs, DAMs, NMs", with a list of messages to send to the rest of DDs - the templates: how do we use them? how do we change (delete, add, alter questions) them? What questions usually feel unsatisfactory? What questions feel most useful? - what extra info do AMs usually provide to NMs? (For example, I do emeritus, upgrading-checklist, maintainer scripts on debian women wiki) Enrico Zini 18:00 01:00 BOF room - no video Pick all three in the new boot system? DebConf Unofficial bof en The debian boot system have receieved a lot of attention and work the last few years, and it is time to make the improvements available in the default installation. This talk is about the current state of affairs, and will present a plan for discussion. Petter Reinholdtsen Luk Claes Ubuntu boot performance plans LSBize Debian init.d scripts Dependency based boot in Debian 19:00 01:00 BOF room - no video DebConf lecture en Since the original plan of scratchbox2, it has evolved to become a tool that has been used as the basis of Maemo SDK+. But scratchbox 2.0 is much more flexible tool, make it feasible to use even outside the maemo scope. Using scratcbox2 to crosscompile regular Debian packages will be shown. The current state and future plans for scratchbox will be explored, and the build performance and success rate will be compared to other available solutions. Riku Voipio 20:00 01:00 BOF room - no video DebConf bof en In certain environments, it is desirable to replace core parts of the distribution with alternatives. In this BoF session, a solution for a C library "switch" that allows a deriver (such as emdebian) to move the entire distribution to uClibc shall be discussed. The goal for this session is to prepare a list of implementation steps to build an uclibc based binary distribution, and, if possible, also a generic procedure for switching core components. Hector Oron Simon Richter 22:30 01:00 Upper talkroom Nice photos of conference locations and surroundings DebConf Unofficial other en At home I'm always asked how I manage to do all this traveling - people just assume that I do this strange Linux stuff to be able to travel around the world. Well I guess it is the other way around: If people invite me to report about my Free Software work I must do something right. Having seen some interesting places enabled me to entertain the other hobby of mine: Taking photos of scenes I like. If time permits I use my analog (!) equipment and take some slides. The talk will be a sequence of random places I visited in connection with a Free Software event. So just expect images, images, images ... It might be important to note that the images are *not* featuring any geeks - just nice landscape and architecture I happened to see on my travels regarding Free Software. Andreas Tille My highres uploads to WikiMedia Photos on my homepage The images which will actually be shown 22:00 03:00 Lower talkroom Dancing Geeks — since 2005 at DebConf DebConf Unofficial other The annual DebConf dance event Slightly formal dance evening Simon Richter W. Martin Borgert Nattie Mayer-Hutchings 10:00 01:00 Upper talkroom DebConf bof en The current state and future of emdebian is discussed. Topics include - emdebian Grip and Crush - cross building - multiarch integration - ... Wookey Neil Williams Simon Richter 11:00 01:00 Upper talkroom DebConf lecture en QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator, that relies on dynamic binary translation to achieve a reasonable speed. It can run OSes and programs made for one machine (e.g. an ARM board) on a different machine (e.g. your own PC). It supports emulating several hardware platforms, among others AMD64, ARM, CRIS, i386, PowerPC, MIPS, and SH4, SPARC. QEMU can be an helpful tool for Debian Developers, as it supports a good subset of official Debian architectures. Experience has shown it is able to reproduce most of the problems detected on real hardware, and thus can be used to debug architecture specific problems. Compared to the Debian Developer accessible machines, it allows the user to have full access to the "machine", either to install new packages or to debug low level packages such as the kernel. Compared to real hardware, it is usually slower (though for some architectures, it may be faster than easily available cheap hardware), but as it is only a piece of software it can be available anywhere. Imagine having access to half a dozen of architectures while working on a laptop in a plane! Rough plan of the talk: * Porting for Debian architectures: emulated versus real machines * Emulating machines with QEMU * A quick look at QEMU internals: CPU and devices emulation * Status and future of QEMU for the different Debian architectures * How to get it working on your computer * Live demo Aurelien Jarno 12:00 01:00 Upper talkroom Creating a policy and procedures DebConf bof en The stable release (including point releases), volatile (including volatile-sloppy) and backports.org all have their goals and rules. Having a common policy which clarifies the interactions and borders of each of them will hopefully increase their use and cooperation. This BOF's goal is to get ideas about what should be included in the common policy and procedures. Luk Claes 13:00 01:00 Upper talkroom Provide better hardware support to our users. DebConf lecture en Hardware support implies two different points : Providing a Driver and configuring the system. We need a tool to collect information to improve both situation. - When Debian/Stable is prepared, we need to improve the devices support by improving the drivers and packages (identify most used devices, devices without driver, etc..) - Once Debian/Stable is released, the users needs some documentation : How a given system or device is supported by Debian/Stable and what extra configuration is needed to use it at it's best . The presentation will first list what DDs and users need, regarding hardware report. Then we'll review the situation in Lenny and list needed improvements. We'll then review existing tools, list pros and cons and explained what tool(s) we decided to use. Current situation[1] : Have been done, what goals are achieved (by July). We would probably have two packages : one for manual reports with comments, a second one that makes automated report (might be merged in popcon). The website to view reports will probably be quite light by July. Future improvements / Related works : - Improve the web interface. - Suggest software according to plugged hardware [P.Reinholdtsen] - Consolidate figures with other Linux distributions to ask support from hardware vendors. - Yours Ideas ? -> Volunteers are welcome -> The data are available, you can use it in your tools ! Franklin Piat Information extracted from Debian Kernel (note how the list of devices for individual devices are extracted from kernel data) linking to wiki pages, automatically Project Homepage 18:00 01:00 Upper talkroom DebConf en Adeodato Simó 19:00 01:00 Upper talkroom DebConf lecture en The set of Debian packages and their inter-package relationships is a very interesting graph. Unfortunately, it is too big to be visualized using naively graph visualization techniques: it would be about 25'000 package nodes with more than 400'000 inter-package relation edges. Nevertheless, that graph contains interesting hidden structures which grasp semantic inter-package relations. One of such relation is "strong dependency", i.e., the inability of a package to be installed without another companion package (note that such relationship is not the usual dependency relation, due to alternative dependencies and virtual packages). In the context of the Mancoosi project, which has just finished is 1st year of existence, we have studied such relationship which has turned out to have interesting properties. On one hand it can help in establishing Quality Assurance metrics that pinpoint important packages on which a lot of other packages rely. On another hand it can be used to graph concisely inherent sub-structures of our package archive. The talk will present the strong dependency notion and showcase fancy package graphs representing relevant cluster of packages which exist, sometime without us knowing that, in the Debian archive. Stefano Zacchiroli 20:00 01:00 Upper talkroom Bring DebConf home! DebConf podium en Every year, the location for DebConf, the annual international Debian conference, is selected via a competitive bid process. Although we haven't got to DebConf9 yet, organising a conference isn't quick, so it's already time to start thinking about a location for DebConf11. 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 before making a bid.) There will be a chance to present your proposed location at DebConf9 in Spain in July, but don't worry if you can't be there -- proposals will be accepted until the end of the year, and a final decision will be made early in 2010. Interested? For more information see http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf11 This panel will be your opportunity to show your bid to the rest of the DebConf attendees. Although participating in the panel is not strictly a precondition to take part on the bid decision process, it will help strongly show off the pros and cons of each possible venue. Jimmy Kaplowitz Adnan Hodzic Joerg Jaspert 10:00 01:00 Lower talkroom its proplems and how to maybe fix them DebConf bof en This BoF will focus on the problems perceived with the debian-devel mailing list. Quite a number of Debian Developers have unsubscribed over the years for several reasons. This BoF will start with an overview of the current problems of the debian-devel list (soliciting the feedback of the participants as well) and then review some other FLOSS communities' approach to development lists (again, soliciting experience from the audience). Finally, the most of the part of the BoF shall be reserved for a guided discussion on what can be done to make debian-devel be again a better place and the central point of Debian development. Michael Banck 11:00 01:00 Lower talkroom DebConf Unofficial other en The Debian FTP Team, a history and a description of the work and the people behind it. A history about the FTP Team, a description of the workload and how people can help with it. Joerg Jaspert Ftpmaster page 12:00 01:00 Lower talkroom DebConf Unofficial lecture en In an era of cheap terabyte hard drives and gigabyte memories, it is still useful to pack data in order to be able to access and update it in a reasonable amount of time. This talk describes techniques I use. While the examples will be in Perl, the techniques will apply to many other languages. Blars Blarson http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Trapi 13:00 01:00 Lower talkroom Getting more people involved in bug triaging DebConf Unofficial bof en Don Armstrong 15:30 01:00 Lower talkroom DebConf Unofficial bof en Matthew Johnson 19:00 01:00 Lower talkroom DebConf lecture en Libvirt provides a stable C API to different virtualization solutions. Bindings for several languages (e.g. Python, Ocaml, Ruby) are available. This makes it easy to write reusable tools to manage virtual machines running under KVM, Xen, QEMU, OpenVZ and others. Topics covered in this talk are: * a quick run through the API including virtual machine creation, network and storage management and device enumeration * readily available graphical and commandline tools such as virtinst and virt-manager Guido Günther Slides 15:30 02:00 Garden / Patio How will we save the planet and the penguins? DebConf Unofficial bof en Who is working in the field of renewable energies? Who is not, but just interested in the issue? In which projects related to free software and renewable energies are we involved? Which free software in the field of renewable energies exist? Which of this software is worth integrating in Debian? (How) can free software help in the adoption of renewable energies? W. Martin Borgert 17:30 00:30 Garden / Patio DebConf other Aigars Mahinovs 19:00 01:00 Garden / Patio DebConf bof en Third i18n session Christian Perrier 21:00 03:00 outside the venue fd Yearly DebConf not-so-formal dinner DebConf contest en Jose Antonio Recio Cuesta César Gómez Martín Joerg Jaspert 10:00 01:00 BOF room - no video DebConf bof en As every year I would like to invite all people interested in using Debian for tasks in health care to this open discussion about how we can have even better support for users in medical care. The event will not feature a longish talk just a short status report of mine and I hope for a living discussion - perhaps recruiting some new members for the crew. Andreas Tille 11:00 01:00 BOF room - no video DebConf bof en Discussion about changes to DJ policy, new packaging tools etc Matthew Johnson 12:00 01:00 BOF room - no video .vdi to .deb DebConf Unofficial bof en The city of Munich has, for their LiMux client, developed a system to distribute virtual box images. The system images are shared by all users, immutable and updateable, and a small persistent virtual disk for the data is generated on the fly. This BoF introduces this solution to anyone interested and invites you to join a discussion about the pros and cons of this approach. Robert Jaehne Joachim Breitner Source code 13:00 01:00 BOF room - no video DebConf Unofficial bof en Meeting of all people interested in publicity work. Some of the topics to be discussed: * making times.debian.net an official thing * How to go on with the Debian Project News ** Getting them translated in time * Sending out more announcements on what's going on in Debian to the official mailing list * Whatever you come up with Alexander "Tolimar" Reichle-Schmehl 15:30 01:00 BOF room - no video DebConf Unofficial bof en If you wish to participate, you need to sign up at http://cacert.org *before* the event. You have to bring at least one piece of official identification to the event, two is better. You also need to fill out a bunch of the WoT forms (https://www.cacert.org/cap.php) -- three will do for a start. Hector Colina 19:00 01:00 BOF room - no video My life outside of Debian DebConf Unofficial workshop en My glamorous day (and often, night) job is working on finding the genes which cause Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) and in a separate project, determining how arteriovenous malformations (AVM) in the brain occur. Being able to reproduce the research that I've conducted in the past is of critical importance, especially when dealing with millions of datapoints in projects spread over years. The utilization of tools such as R and Sweave, which enable the production of publication-quality plots, tables, and even text in articles that are tied to the raw data (using make), allows researches such as myself to be able to replicate an analysis in the future, and know precisely where we've found mistakes. In this talk, the basics of R and Sweave will be presented, as well as a set of examples, ranging from simple to relatively complex. - Basics of R - basic datatypes (lists, vectors, matrices) - basic operations - basic functions - basic plotting - devices - time - basic modeling - Basics of Sweave - embedding R in LaTeX - tricks for keeping everything in sync - Examples - Regenerating the RC bug graph - Examining expression differences in AVM - Genes associated with SLE Don Armstrong Presentation Examples http:// 20:00 01:00 BOF room - no video DebConf Unofficial lecture en A framework for extending control file syntax that allows compilation of policy-compliant control files from the extended variant is presented, and common use cases (embedded Debian, backports, toolchain packages) are discussed. The control file format is designed to be purely descriptive, with only minimal text substitution functions. While this is generally a good design approach, it significantly limits reuse of source packages across different distributions. There are three major use cases that are not handled at present: - backports: after an ABI change, it is desirable to use a versioned build-dependency in sid to force buildds to use a version after the change, while a backport might want to use the old ABI in order to pull in less new packages - embedded Debian: for cross-compilation, build dependencies need to be split between host and target side dependencies, which is not supported in Debian - toolchain packages: these packages need to be compiled multiple times for different target architectures, while Debian requires all built binary packages to be listed in the control file. The xcontrol framework handles these by allowing the format to be extended in a modular way, and allows developers to generate a policy compliant control file. Simon Richter 10:00 01:00 Upper talkroom Don't panic! DebConf bof en A few packages within Debian, that also happen to be big packages (Mozilla, OpenOffice.org...) suffer from a serious lack of hands, which is a problem for the maintainers, for Debian, and for the users. This BoF intends at presenting those packages, the typical maintenance tasks, what currently can't be done due to lack of hands, and to tentatively get some more people involved. Mike Hommey 11:00 01:00 Upper talkroom Introduction of the new look DebConf other en The Debian Redesign -> testing ;) Being one of the most common linux distributions worldwide, Debian never really made its qualities visible to the outside world. In order to change that, I have been working on a campaign as my diploma, but this is going to be just the beginning. To continue and realize the project, helping hands with graphical skills are welcome and needed. For now, just stay tuned for the nice surprise that is going to be shown at the Debconf. Cheers, Agnieszka (pixelgirl) Agnieszka Czajkowska 12:00 01:00 Upper talkroom new features, changes and tips DebConf lecture en The bug tracking system is where all bugs that affect Debian are filed. New features, including the affects, summary, and local debbugs mirror will be presented and demonstrated. Some of the underlying architectural changes to the codebase in debbugs to make it more maintainable and deployable are also outlined. Finally, a set of tips and tricks that can be used to make the BTS easier to use are presented. - New Features - affects - summary - local debbugs mirror for offline work - New SOAP - full text search - filtering bugs - multi-distribution/arch status - control changes at submit@ time - Code Architecture Changes - Modularization - Control abstraction - release to experimental - Tips and Tricks - Full text search - Using the new options limits - Usertags - Getting users to triage their bugs Don Armstrong Debian BTS http:// 13:00 01:00 Upper talkroom no pasaran! DebConf workshop en a workshop to improve piuparts. should be held after the talk about piuparts. piuparts could perhaps be improved a bit. It is a bit slow, maybe, and the log file output requires some experience to be interpreted properly. It might do some more testing. Or some less testing, in some cases. It might test different scenarios. What do you think? Come tell us your gripes, wishes, and experiences with piuparts and help drive its development into a brighter, better future. Our 60 minute mission: to boldly test what no-one has tested before! Holger Levsen Lars Wirzenius 17:00 01:00 Upper talkroom other en Mario Lang Sam Hartman Debian Accessibility List http:// 18:00 01:00 Upper talkroom A preview of next year's DebConf in New York City, USA DebConf lecture en Jimmy Kaplowitz Michael Schultheiss DebConf10 wiki page DebConf10 IRC channel DebConf10 mailing list 19:00 01:00 Upper talkroom DebConf bof en Using Debian as a platform for electronic design and micro-controller programming is completely reasonable, as proven by the success of projects such as those at http://altusmetrum.org. This session is envisioned as an opportunity for sharing best practices and identifying improvements in Debian that would benefit hardware designers. Bdale Garbee 20:00 01:00 Upper talkroom How to give a good install experience on devices that are not PCs DebConf lecture en Network Storage Devices (NAS) are are gaining popularity and are available quite inexpensively. For most customers, they are basically just a hard drive that you connect to the network for file storage. In reality, these devices are complete, even if fairly low-end, computers - and Debian can be installed on some of them. Recently, there has also been a lot of interest in supporting other devices, such as netbooks and more embedded devices. This talk will: - Briefly introduce the NAS devices we currently support in Debian. - Explain how Debian and the Debian installer support NAS devices in a very easy way. - Share the experience gained working with users (i.e. what works, what doesn't). - Look at future devices that would be nice to support and a number of other features that users have requested. Do you need more than the abstract? If so, please email me and I'll add something Martin Michlmayr 10:00 01:00 Lower talkroom DebConf bof en Steve McIntyre 11:00 01:00 Lower talkroom How does everyone make their Debian-based products? DebConf bof en Toby Churchill Ltd is just one company basing their products on Debian and using cross-building to do it. The process has provided some challenges, including a transition from Familiar to Debian/Emdebian. I hope that others using the cross-tools and repository and build management tools would like to share experiences of how they build things, manage chroots and manage packages, to find out the better ways others are doing things, and what functionality really is missing. Managing cross-dependencies in a derived distribution set of build chroots is particularly difficult - discussion of how to fix this would be really useful. TCL have based their product on Familiar for several years. They are in the process of moving to Debian, probably in the form of Emdebian Grip. They use dpkg-cross, apt-cross, schroot, and some home-grown scripts for the build process, keeping parallel native and cross-build environements functional. They use reprepro for package management of releases. They do not yet have something wanna-build-like to keep arches in sync, and really should do. All this stuff is really cool but there are still issues. pbuilder manages native build dependencies really well, but there is no equivalent to manage cross-build dependencies. Well there are (emdebian-tools, apt-cross), but there are real issues as soon as those deps come from a local repository as well as from Debian. I'd like to discuss this and issues that others have found in order to determine how we should best support people trying to do this sort of thing. Debian and Emdebian should be a marvellous base for cross-building specific apps on top of, and building systems out of, but there is a little more work needed to make this process reliable and manageable. I think a session to discuss the tools and mechanisms, comparing different people's approaches and issues would be really useful. Wookey 12:00 01:00 Lower talkroom Should lilo be removed? DebConf bof en It was proposed to remove lilo, because of know problems with some configurations. But also grub (and grub2) cannot be used for some configuration. In this BoF I will explain the boot sequence, the status of the main boot loaders (lilo, grub, grub2, extlinux) for i386 and amd64 arch, the upstream plans, and the feature (focusing on the missing features) of the various boot loaders. Then the real discussion: lilo should be really removed? How to "move" configuration of one boot loader into an other, in most transparent way? Giacomo Catenazzi draft of the concept 13:00 01:00 Lower talkroom DebConf bof Fourth i18n session Christian Perrier 19:00 01:00 Lower talkroom License, Layout, and Lenny, what next DebConf bof en By this summer, the wiki should have a new license and layout (and CSS hopefully). We will discuss what we want to to next... some ideas: - How to implement i18n? - Structure the wiki by kind of documents (Hardware support, proposals, knowledge base...)? - Some ideas? Franklin Piat The Debian Wiki A draft for the next Debian Wiki Statistics (esp. for relicensing the content) 22:00 03:00 Garden / Patio DebConf Unofficial other en Aníbal Monsalve Salazar Andrew McMillan Christian Perrier Don Armstrong Keysigning @ DebConf9 11:00 01:00 BOF room - no video DebConf Unofficial bof en ikiwiki is a wiki compiler Lots of us are here, so a bof seems like a good idea. Joey Hess 12:00 01:00 BOF room - no video Next steps for improving the gaming experience with Debian DebConf en Since its creation in January 2006, the Debian Games Team has been working on making Debian a better platform for a gaming experience. Having among its goals the collaboratively maintenance of games, to take advantage of the "Scale economy" benefits of maintaining similar games in a similar way, discussing problems and facts relative to game packaging and in general to improve the state of the games in Debian, and also to provide a way towards a larger involvement in Debian project for people by starting maintaining just one or few games, the opportunity for the members of the Team of meeting in person (and also for people that not belonging to the Team are anyway interested in helping and/or suggesting ideas) can be used to plan the next steps towards the total world domination, also in the gaming world. Miriam Ruiz Debian Games Team Packages overview for Debian Games Team Debian Games Team in Alioth 16:00 01:00 BOF room - no video DebConf Unofficial bof en This is a discussion amongst the involved security people at Debconf. It is not a presentation, but rather a work group discussion. The focus will be around improving the existing security work in Debian. This BOF will discuss things such as the following: - more members for testing-security, how do we get new people in? I think we have becoming pretty good in maintaing the tracker recently but we really lack of people who also fix bugs and write patches - testing migration, almost no one cares about testing migration at the moment which is one of the reasons we don't have security support for testing at the moment - testing security support, what needs to be done and how can we solve the current problems. - Debian as a CNA, while we can assign CVE ids the current workflow is far from perfect, we have large delays sometimes getting CVE ids and I think binding this to one person is a rather bad idea. - how to push for enabling more hardening compile options in squeeze - moving infrastructure to the new KVM instance (currently the testing-security infrastructure is spread over three non debian.org hosts) - tracking of packages that got into testing/unstable from proposed upgrades (and how to detect if the maintainer uploads a vulnerable version again) Micah Anderson 17:00 01:00 BOF room - no video status of open issues and plans for the future DebConf Unofficial bof en This BOF will actually be in the shaded area just outside the main/front door of the facility, *not* in the so-called "BOF room". Bdale Garbee 19:00 01:00 BOF room - no video DebConf Unofficial bof en A forum for ideas that might not have been thought through entirely, and bored people looking for interesting projects. This BoF is aimed at people who - think they may have a good idea, but are not entirely sure - have a good idea, but not enough time - are looking for new ideas - feel the urge to stop some of the more interesting things from happening. Simon Richter 20:00 01:00 BOF room - no video in multiplatform continuous integration DebConf Unofficial workshop en - Setting up Git shared repository and cloning it. - Setting up Buildbot master instance and couple of slaves. - Setting up Trac instance. - Linking all stuff together. - Resolving bugs by commits - Resolving and reopening bugs by testing (TDD elements) - Issuing tickets by testing (more TDD) - Metrics: release(aka milestone, aka branch) and target platform During this workshop we will share ideas on how to set up a combined centralized/distributed ecosystem consisting of code and software build artefacts repositories, automated multiplatform software build and test system, and an issue tracker. All folks involved or interested in (non-Debian) release/software_build/configuration management are welcome! Aleksey Nikolov 10:00 01:00 Upper talkroom discussion of the miscelany of tools that build debian installations DebConf Unofficial bof en Many tools all essentially install Debian, in some capacity, form or fashion. This would be a discussion of the various tools in Debian used to install Debian chroots, virtual servers, physical hardware, etc. and what common issues and workarounds are currently needed, with an eye towards developing more common code to share between projects. people interested in the following tools or similar tools would be valuable to the discussion: debian-installer debian-cd simple-cdd debian-live xen-tools util-vserver pbuilder simple-cdd cdebootstrap debootstrap LTSP FAI Vagrant Cascadian 11:00 01:00 Upper talkroom Debian chemistry subproject DebConf bof en Meeting of all people interested in chemistry applications packaging within Debian. A status overview will be given, and then a couple of points discussed, including (i) whether and how to make debichem a full-blown pure blend, (iii) how to (better) interact and cooperate with other scientific packaging projects, most notably debian-science and pkg-scicomp, (iii) how to approach, interact and integrate with ubuntu-motu-science for chemistry packages, (iv) what SCM system to use in the future, (v) how to attract more developers. Michael Banck 13:00 01:00 Upper talkroom Research results revealed DebConf lecture en I've conducted a study among Debian contributors to identify the influences that shape our decisions when it comes to adopting or rejecting a new tool/technique into our workflows, or the workflows of teams to which we belong. In this talk, I present some of the findings and offer hints and suggestions for tool/technique supporters to increase the adoption rate in the project. I have been involved with the Debian Project for over a decade. At first, it was only a hobby; then teaching Debian to others and planning Debian deployments became my main source of income. Along the way, my fascination with the project kept building up and I documented what made Debian so special in my book The Debian System. I am an active and prominent contributor to date. The Debian Project is a highly successful project, run entirely by over 2'000 volunteers, and possibly the largest FLOSS project. It produces several computer operating systems the most popular of which (Debian GNU/Linux) provides over 20'000 software packages for eleven different hardware architectures. Furthermore, the Debian System is the basis for around 150 derivative distributions, such as the popular Ubuntu distribution, and large-scale, localised installations, including Guadalinex and Limux. At 15 years of age, it is evident that some of the project's processes did not scale to meet the tremendous growth we've seen over the years. Endeavours, such as library transitions, currently require dozens of contributors to work hand in hand, and often stall because of bottlenecks or lack of coordination. Day-to-day tasks consist of tedious and thus error-prone tasks, which are anything but integrated: keeping track of patches, triaging bugs, follow policy changes, and work with upstream and derivatives, to name just a few… Looking at the way these processes are currently handled, it seems strange that contributors of a system as technically sound and universally applicable as Debian are still doing by hand what the computer should be doing for them. Tasks like the aforementioned could be streamlined and optimised to avoid redundancy and points of failure due to brittle integration. For instance, a bug report should only be marked as done as soon as but only when the patch fixing the issue has been signed off and appears in the repository. Some efforts in this direction already exist, but they are not being adopted as readily as they should be. Because the Debian Project is made up entirely of volunteers, noone can be told what to do or how to approach their tasks. Instead, Debian contributors prefer to choose their own methods, based on criteria which range from technical benefits to ideology, from pragmatism to sheer stubbornness. In addition, once settled, a developer is often unwilling to change his/her methods at a later point in time, or may only be able to do so through considerable additional effort without the ability to assess whether the effort will pay off. For coordinators, integrators, or tool designers, no guidelines exist that could help them frame these criteria and properly cater to everyone in the target group. Instead, everyone is on their own when trying to spread a new tool or technique. This impedes upon progress: some ideas may be good, but never manage to convince more than a handful, who fail to communicate them to the majority, because they do not understand others' decision behaviours. As a result, those ideas cannot rise to become competitors with existing methods, people will have no reason to change, and progress is halted. A framework of the salient influences to adoption decisions among Debian package maintainers helps everyone figure out what is necessary to enter competing ideas into the field, and prevents stagnation due to unsuccessful "marketing". With healthy competition, only the best tools and techniques will emerge as winners. And because competition drives progress, the project should be able to scale better as a result. martin f. krafft Research webpage 19:00 01:00 Upper talkroom Present an idea in 5 minutes DebConf lecture en Simon Richter 20:00 00:30 Upper talkroom cc GoodBye and see you at DebConf10 DebConf meeting en Close the conf properly Close the conf properly, say thanks to volunteers, ask for cleanup help, ask for feedback Holger Levsen Joerg Jaspert César Gómez Martín Jose Antonio Recio Cuesta 10:00 01:00 Lower talkroom A tool for simplified, declarative unit testing of shell scripts DebConf Unofficial lecture en We will introduce the reasoning for developing a high-level functional unit testing tool for shell code named Shaft (Shell Advanced Functional Tester) geared towards the GNU Bash shell. We will also provide some key highlights of its advantages and features. The tool was developed at Igalia as part of the testing environment used in some of our projects. Adrián Pérez de Castro 11:00 01:00 Lower talkroom (a cluster of debian machines on your own laptop) DebConf lecture en Ganeti is a cluster virtualization platform I help devloping at Google, which can help scheduling virtual machines on clusters of physical nodes, using various virtualization technologies, like KVM and Xen. With this talk I'd like to tackle the "for developer" aspect of Ganeti, and how I use it personally, on a platform which is most probably far away from what it was originally targeted to: my laptop. The talk will feature an introduction of Ganeti 2.0 as a tool in general, the differences with the previous version (included in Debian Lenny) and its usage on a cluster of servers. Then I'll take a look at how you can use it on your personal development machines, for testing/building packages, testing network servers and protocols, and more. There will then be time for feedback, in which I hope to get suggestions from Debian people about how to do things better, or about features they would find useful for the development of this software. Guido Trotter Main ganeti open source page Talk outline/example commands 12:00 01:00 Lower talkroom Results from an empirical study of the Debian project DebConf Unofficial lecture en I will talk about my master thesis about the Debian project. For my thesis I gathered an extensive dataset about all sorts of Debian developement activities (mailinglist, bug reports, uploads, ...). I used this dataset first for some descriptive analysis of the project activity. I studied the growth of the project over time, the distribution of the workload among developers, the impact of releases on project activity, the impact of the creation of Ubuntu on various aspects of project activity and the distribution of the work done on Debian over weekdays and hours of the day. In a second part I verified the hypothesis that reputation and status attained through work done for the project "pays-off". Bug reports submitted by high-status contributors are fixed significantly faster and with a higher probability. Further information about my research in german (including the full text of the thesis) is available on http://gaudenz.durcheinandertal.ch/thesis/. Gaudenz Steinlin Further information about my research in german Full text of the masters thesis in german 13:00 01:00 Lower talkroom DebConf en At the end of DebConf8, the Debian freesmartphone.org team released the first official version of an automatic installer for the Openmoko Neo FreeRunner, the first public smartphone developer with free software in mind. Since then, Debian has been working in a very close relationship with the freesmartphone.org community, helping developing what is intended to be a full framework for smartphones based on the freedesktop.org specifications. This talk will give an overview of the situation. Luca Capello Team wiki page End-user wiki page Debian freesmartphone.org project on Alioth 19:00 01:00 Lower talkroom How to spend more of Debian's money DebConf Unofficial bof en Debian has quite a large amount of money held in trust at SPI and elsewhere. Probably too much. What do you think we should be doing with that money? Any bright ideas? Steve McIntyre 10:00 02:00 BOF room - no video Drafting a roadmap for vcs-pkg.org DebConf workshop en The vcs-pkg.org project aims to improve package maintenance in version control by providing both best practices and tools to support those practices. While there has been valuable discussion on the merits of various approaches to parts of the problem, the project lacks a clear plan of how it aims to achieve these goals. This workgroup will discuss the current state of the project, and come up with a proposal for a roadmap for the project which the project as a whole can then approve. Aiming to provide a set of tools and workflows that work for most people, while remaining distribution and VCS agnostic is laudable, but requires solving many problems to achieve. Our knowledge of the available techniques and the problems to solve is still limited, and so the path from the current point to the final goal is unclear. Breaking the problem up and deciding which parts to tackle first will allow the project to move towards the target, and if done correctly will mean that there is useful output before the final goal is reached. The workgroup will asses the problem as we understand it today, and decide which problems to solve first, without attempting to solve the problems, though debate will certainly arise. As vcs-pkg.org is a cross-distribution project, and the choice of DebConf means that the workgroup will be almost entirely formed of people from Debian and Debian-based distributions, the output will be a proposal to take back to the rest of the project. James Westby vcs-pkg.org http://