At: DebConf11
http://penta.debconf.org/dc11_schedule/events/734.en.html
https://debconf11.debconf.org/

Every year, the location for DebConf, the annual international Debian conference, is selected via a competitive bid process. Although we haven't got to DebConf12 yet, organising a conference isn't quick, so it's already time to start thinking about a location for DebConf13.

We encourage everyone to think about whether their city would make a good DebConf location, and, if it would, to start working on a proposal. (You don't have to be heavily involved in Debian to organise a bid.)

Interested? For more information see http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13

This panel will be your opportunity to describe your bid to the rest of the DebConf attendees. Although participating in the panel is not compulsory to take part on the bid decision process, it will help strongly show off the pros and cons of each possible venue.

Room: Round room
Scheduled start: 2011-07-30 17:00:00

At: DebConf11
http://penta.debconf.org/dc11_schedule/events/709.en.html
https://debconf11.debconf.org/

Report from the past of Debian Med and discussing the future

Debian Med was started in 2002 and in January 2012 will be its 10th aniversary. What did we approached so far. What do we want to approach in the next ten years?

Medicine is a real niche topic in the Free Software world because the number of user is small and quite a share of those users is conservative about the use of software and has some money left to spend for proprietary licenses. So isn't it crazy to just address this target user group with a dedicated part of Debian? Yes it is, but we used as a start this part where Free Software has several friends: In bio-medical research. So the project began to grow healthy and is now might serve as a positive example for other Blends: If it is possible to successfully establish a Blend in a niche area how much better success could be gained in other fields which are much better covered by Free Software?

Room: Round room
Scheduled start: 2011-07-30 12:00:00

At: DebConf11
http://penta.debconf.org/dc11_schedule/events/718.en.html
https://debconf11.debconf.org/

What We Did for GSoC and Our Summer Vacation

Find out the latest developments on the modularization of Java as we fit project Jigsaw to Debian Policy

Jigsaw is part of the Java upstream plan for the next release, JDK 8.
Since Tom's talk at DebConf10, "The Free Java Jigsaw Puzzle", there
has been a great deal of interest both in the Debian Java community
and with upstream to make this factorization of the JDK work with
Debian -- the distro recognized for the best dependency management
system.

The Free Java devroom community at FOSDEM 2011 also followed
this work with interest and we are pleased to announce that
Jigsaw has been selected as one of the Google Summer of Code 2011
projects for Debian. Sylvestre and Tom are co-mentors for this student
and plan to give a status report in this talk on how the packaging
for Jigsaw is going, the collaboration with IcedTea the relationship
with upstream

Success for Jigsaw in Debian promises to demonstrate the value of
synergy between a distro and upstream for such a core part of the
toolchain. We also anticipate that having a modularized JDK will lead
to performance enhancements and facilitate porting to new
architectures.

Room: Auditorium
Scheduled start: 2011-07-30 15:00:00

At: DebConf11
http://penta.debconf.org/dc11_schedule/events/776.en.html
https://debconf11.debconf.org/

Centralized naming schemes seem to be a critical weak point in global network communication.

Powerful actors can stron...

At: DebConf11
http://penta.debconf.org/dc11_schedule/events/741.en.html
https://debconf11.debconf.org/
Room: Auditorium
Scheduled start: 2011-07-30 16:00:00

At: DebConf11
http://penta.debconf.org/dc11_schedule/events/758.en.html
https://debconf11.debconf.org/

"vs" is no more

At DebConf10 a "DebConf vs Debian" BoF has been held to discuss the state of the relationships among DebConf organization and the Debian Project proper. Back then, several organization aspects were independent and it was not clear which kind of responsibility DebConf had before Debian and vice versa.

During the past year, several advancements have been made: formal ties among DebConf and Debian have been established by the mean of delegations, a work-flow for DebConf money handling has been established, goals of DebConf with respect to Debian have been published, etc. In this BoF we will present the status quo of all this, 1 year after the "DebConf vs Debian" BoF.

After that (brief!) presentation we will open up to discussion among Debian and DebConf team representatives to review what has been done and brainstorm about what still needs to be done.

Room: Round room
Scheduled start: 2011-07-30 16:00:00

At: DebConf11
http://penta.debconf.org/dc11_schedule/events/781.en.html
https://debconf11.debconf.org/

Debian depends on a large group of package maintainers without upload rights (or with limited upload rights) and a smaller group of Debian Developers that check their work and upload it to Debian. In this BOF we'd like to discuss technical and social ways that this process could be improved. Potential topics include the new debexpo site, whether having some formal process or team to sponsor would help, how we can make sure that reasonable packages get reviewed, whether we should explicitly "reject" requests for package sponsorship, how to encourage more DDs to become involved, and how to channel more new contributors into maintaining existing packages.

Room: Auditorium
Scheduled start: 2011-07-30 17:00:00

At: DebConf11
http://penta.debconf.org/dc11_schedule/events/783.en.html
https://debconf11.debconf.org/

Lightning talks are a series of tightly-timed 5-minute talks. We'll schedule 7 or 8 of them for the 45-minute period. ...

At: DebConf11
http://penta.debconf.org/dc11_schedule/events/797.en.html
https://debconf11.debconf.org/

How it works and can we do better

Every year, there are many criticisms about the DebConf travel sponsorship process. However...

At: DebConf11
http://penta.debconf.org/dc11_schedule/events/733.en.html
https://debconf11.debconf.org/

goodbye and see you at DebConf12!

Close the conference, thank volunteers, ask for help cleaning up and feedback

Room: Auditorium
Scheduled start: 2011-07-30 19:00:00

At: DebConf11
http://penta.debconf.org/dc11_schedule/events/703.en.html
https://debconf11.debconf.org/

Software in the Public Interest is a US-based non-profit organization that provides legal and financial existence services for Debian and many other Free Software projects.

Room: Auditorium
Scheduled start: 2011-07-30 10:00:00

At: DebConf11
http://penta.debconf.org/dc11_schedule/events/740.en.html
https://debconf11.debconf.org/

This talk is meant to be a (maybe quite scarce) summary update about activities by the fonts packaging team. Fonts packaging is usually a quite "easy" packaging task, very suitable for beginners who want to learn about packaging processes without difficult packaging techniques. This talk is meant to give an update about the font packaging team activities, status about the yet-tp-be-published font packaging policy, etc.

Room: Round room
Scheduled start: 2011-07-30 10:00:00

At: DebConf11
http://penta.debconf.org/dc11_schedule/events/707.en.html
https://debconf11.debconf.org/

Q&A session with the DPL

A'town hall' style question and answer session for the DPL. He won't have sight of the questions b...

At: DebConf11
http://penta.debconf.org/dc11_schedule/events/756.en.html
https://debconf11.debconf.org/

Debian is relevant for desktop users, but there is still many itches that require a local Debian geeks. Let's make a list, and see where and how we could improve the situation.

Debian is a relevant platform for desktop environments:

• For people that just want to work with their computer, stable
  releases are very beneficial. They take habits that can last.
• Major desktop environments are well integrated in Debian, with all their
  nifty features.
• Our installer is simple and capable.

Unfortunately, users that install Debian on their own will have to
call their local Debian geek at one time or another. It's all minor issues, but
there are still default settings that require strange command lines, or
knowledge of pretty technical terms.

This BoF would be about trying to list as many as possible of these annoyances.
For each of them, we would discuss if it would be desirable and possible to
change the current situation for the benefit of our less technical users.

Example of such issues: the installer asks for "domain name"; fsck does not
use -y by default; there is no way to update from oldstable to stable
from the graphical user interface.

Room: Round room
Scheduled start: 2011-07-30 11:00:00

At: DebConf11
http://penta.debconf.org/dc11_schedule/events/791.en.html
https://debconf11.debconf.org/

The how and why of packaging Haskell libraries

The functional programming language Haskell is more and more failing to “avoid success at all costs”. Naturally, Debian wants to provide its users a good and thorough Haskell experience. This talk gives an overview of the Haskell ecosystems, the technical implication of static linking and cross-module inlining and how we use virtual package to guarantee a usable installations. The target audience are users (or prospective users) of Haskell on Debian, developers and package maintainers of programs built with Haskell and of course developers who want to join the Debian Haskell Group.

Room: Auditorium
Scheduled start: 2011-07-28 15:00:00

At: DebConf11
http://penta.debconf.org/dc11_schedule/events/739.en.html
https://debconf11.debconf.org/

An introduction to the Debian kernel team and its work. Explains the packages we maintain, the workflow for the Linux kernel ...

At: DebConf11
http://penta.debconf.org/dc11_schedule/events/710.en.html
https://debconf11.debconf.org/

Bringing together scientists@DebConf

This is just to continue the tradition of DebConfs to bring together all those people who are interesting to use Debian in scientific research. It will be used to find synergies, develop common policy and tools and perhaps gather new people for the Debian Science Team

Room: Round room
Scheduled start: 2011-07-28 16:00:00

At: DebConf11
http://penta.debconf.org/dc11_schedule/events/769.en.html
https://debconf11.debconf.org/

Debian, as a volunteer project, relies on donations and in-kind gifts (e.g.
hardware) to maintain its infrastructure and to support various development
efforts, such as funding sprints and other developer gatherings. Debian's
money and other assets are held by Software in the Public Interest (SPI) in
the US, Verein zur Förderung Freier Informationen und Software e.V. (ffis)
in Germany and additional entities in other countries. This talk will shed
light on these organizational aspects of Debian, which have previously not
been discussed much.

Specifically, the talk will:

• Discuss the relationship between Debian and organizations that
  hold assets on behalf of Debian.
• List the types of assets held by Debian (such as money, hardware,
  trademarks, and domain names)
• Present the approval process employed by the DPL when it comes
  to using Debian's assets.
• Discuss recent efforts to publish public statements about the
  assets held by Debian as well as inflows (donations, etc) and
  outflows (sprints, DebConf, etc).

Room: Auditorium
Scheduled start: 2011-07-28 17:00:00

At: DebConf11
http://penta.debconf.org/dc11_schedule/events/750.en.html
https://debconf11.debconf.org/

apt-xapian-index, screenshots.debian.net, distromatch, DDE and some more engine parts for high level app installers

Over the years, people have built several components, akin to engine parts, that can be used to build outstanding high level app installers and other distribution interfaces. Very few people however realise how easy it is, now, to put those parts together into some outstanding new killer application.

As an engine builder I am not the appropriate person to design the car interiors; but I want to let everyone know what working parts are already available, because I want to see people building new, cool, radical, innovative cars.

Room: Round room
Scheduled start: 2011-07-28 17:00:00

At: DebConf11
http://penta.debconf.org/dc11_schedule/events/766.en.html
https://debconf11.debconf.org/

CONGRATULATION YOU HAVE WON GBP£820,000.00

The sprint program has gathered some steam this year: at the time of writing, Debian has had 12 sprints in 12 months and a few more are forthcoming.
In this BoF we will first present some introductory topics about sprints: figures (typical cadence, cost, number of participants), refresh your memory about how you and your team can easily have their sprint, and discuss what has worked well and what has not in sprint organization up to now. Later on, we will open up the discussion about how we can improve sprint organization so that we can put more efficiently into use Debian money to organize development sprints. We will let the discussion wander happily to touch the recurrent topics of how to use Debian money, how much keep around to "stay safe", etc.

Room: Auditorium
Scheduled start: 2011-07-28 18:00:00