DebConf 17

Episodes

1. 20

   DebConf18 in Taiwan

   by Ying-Chun Liu by 李健秋 Andrew Lee by SZ Lin by Yao Wei (魏銘廷) At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/199/ In 2016, we had the first DebConf in Africa. In 2017, we had the first DebConf returning to a country that had not held one for ...

   Mar 18, 2020
2. 19

   DebConf 19 in your city!

   by Gunnar Wolf At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/198/ DebConf is an itinerant conference. Every year, teams interested in hosting DebConf in their countries / cities present a first version of their bids, to get the attendance ex...

   Mar 18, 2020
3. 18

   Why I (tried to) killed the LSB

   by Didier Raboud At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/181/ After many Debian stable versions trying to align Debian with LSB (or is it the reverse?), Stretch got released with a restrained support of the LSB; Buster will remove more...

   Mar 18, 2020
4. 17

   Researching Debian: The effects of gender on the lived experiences of developers and community members

   by Lesley Mitchell At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/112/ Dissertation available here: http://platypus.pepperfish.net/~dkscully/mres-sociology-impact-of-gender-women-in-debian.pdf In 2016, as part of a Master's degree in Sociolo...

   Mar 18, 2020
5. 16

   Will there be Debian in your next BMW car?

   by Aigars Mahinovs At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/33/ Modern cars are nowadays becoming very mobile computers and future average car is expected to multiple, powerful computers in it. As an open source developer I recently joi...

   Mar 18, 2020
6. 15

   Postgres and Debian

   by Michael Banck At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/54/ The pkg-postgresql team packages the core Postgres database server/client, the supporting postgresql-common infrastructure, as well as numerous extensions and 3rd party proje...

   Mar 18, 2020
7. 14

   Debian on Civil Infrastructure Systems

   by Yoshitake Kobayashi At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/101/ Debian runs on many kind of civil infrastructure embedded systems, such as industrial IoT gateways, healthcare devices, trafic control systems or power plant turbine c...

   Mar 18, 2020
8. 13

   Live Demos

   by Nattie Mayer-Hutchings At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/45/ As a companion piece to the Lightning Talks, I'm also offering Live Demos again this year. This proposal is a placeholder, and I'll expand the abstract for maximal ...

   Mar 18, 2020
9. 12

   Javascript Team Maintenance

   by Paul Gevers At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/129/ The node ecosystem; team (un)maintained packages; (very) out-dated javascript packages; jquery-goodies. Lots of stuff that isn't going very smoothly in this very loose team. ...

   Mar 18, 2020
10. 11

    Building Embedded Debian Images with Isar

    by Baurzhan Ismagulov by Jan Kiszka At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/147/ Debian has a long history in embedded usage. But today many people first think of Yocto when it comes to embedded Linux. The reasons are not only related ...

    Mar 18, 2020
11. 10

    Powering Data Center Networks with Debian

    by Roopa Prabhu At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/110/ This talk focuses on a journey to build a Debian-based network operating system distribution for data center networking hardware. While Linux networking has been deployed and...

    Mar 18, 2020
12. 9

    Early History of Debian

    by Bdale Garbee At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/83/ Ever wondered how the Debian project got started, and/or what it was like to be member of the Debian project before there was a New Maintainer process, before there was a keyr...

    Mar 18, 2020
13. 8

    Debian Cloud BoF

    by Steve McIntyre At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/26/ Discussion session for the Debian Cloud team: status on official images, tools for building our images, etc..., Room: Rex Scheduled start: 2017-08-11 17:00:00

    Mar 18, 2020
14. 7

    Reproducible builds: Status update

    by Holger Levsen by Chris Lamb At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/14/ Whilst anyone can inspect the source code of free software for malicious flaws, software in Debian is distributed pre-compiled to end users. The motivation beh...

    Mar 18, 2020
15. 6

    When Social Issues Do Not Matter In Technical Debates (and when they do)

    by Katheryn Sutter At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/134/ Collaborative software-development groups face dual demands in technical debates: analyzing participant-concerns rationally, while keeping organizational cultures healthy....

    Mar 18, 2020
16. 5

    Managing Debian's RTC services

    by Daniel Pocock At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/67/ Discuss the current status of the RTC services, opportunities for people to assist in supporting and enhancin...

    Mar 18, 2020
17. 4

    Engineering Best Practices vs. Open Source

    by r0ml At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/194/ Free Software advocates have long argued that the issues are political: e.g. freedom. Open Source advocates have argued that the issues are Engineering -- that Open Source is better...

    Mar 18, 2020
18. 3

    Scaling piuparts.debian.org to multiple architectures

    by Holger Levsen At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/121/ Currently piuparts.debian.org only tests Debian amd64. In this BoF we want to discuss how to scale this to multiple architectures and possible how to rewrite the web UI so t...

    Mar 18, 2020
19. 2

    Python BoF

    by Piotr Ożarowski At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/94/ Python... such a nice programming language. What can we do to make it even easier for users to use it on Debian? Room: Rex Scheduled start: 2017-08-10 10:00:00

    Sep 2, 2017
20. 1

    Consensually doing things together?

    by Enrico Zini At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/92/ At DebConf Heidelberg I talked about how Free Software has a lot to do about consensually doing things together. Is that always true, at least in Debian? I'd like to explore w...

    Sep 2, 2017
21. Closing ceremony

    by Jerome Charaoui by LeLutin by Louis-Philippe Véronneau At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/185/ A full week has passed already? Is it time to wrap up and leave? The organization team will say goodbye, give some final indications...

    Sep 1, 2017
22. whalebuilder: building packages using Docker

    by Hubert Chathi At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/84/ Whalebuilder is a tool for building packages in a clean environment using Docker images. In this talk, I will talk about my motivation for writing it, compare it with other ...

    Sep 1, 2017
23. Towards Easier Security Patch Porting

    by Luciano Bello At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/166/ Supporting stable packages means porting patches back to older versions of the same code. Most of the time, that is not a direct and easy task. You have to find the patch (s...

    Sep 1, 2017
24. Make use of Debian to fight with censorship -- alternative way other than tor

    by Roger Shimizu At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/90/ I helped shadowsocks-libev, used to fight with censorship in some countries, to enter Debian archive. I'm going to introduce why it's necessary, even we already have tor ...

    Sep 1, 2017
25. cloud-init: Building clouds one Linux box at a time

    by Josh Powers At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/164/ In this talk, I will first review what happened in the cloud-init world over the last year: from the new cloud identifications feature and additional OS support to performance...

    Sep 1, 2017
26. Debian automation with Ansible

    by Gregory Colpart by Jeremy Lecour At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/172/ Ansible is a popular Open Source tool for agent-less automation and orchestration. We will briefly introduce with the state of Ansible in Debian, then we ...

    Sep 1, 2017
27. Passing the Torch: The Future of Free Software

    by Deb Nicholson At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/183/ The free software community has created a tremendously valuable resource and built an amazing community, now we just need to make sure that it lives on forever. Ideas that h...

    Sep 1, 2017
28. Scibian, a distro for industrial R&D and engineering

    by Mehdi Dogguy At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/145/ Scibian is a Linux distribution heavily based on Debian for scientific computing. The aim of this talk is to present the project, users of Scibian and how we created a Debian...

    Sep 1, 2017
29. Copyright Fair Use for Software APIs - In Light of Oracle v. Google

    by Jeffrey Kaufman At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/13/ Presented by: Jeffrey Kaufman, Open Source IP Counsel at Red Hat, Inc. and Adjunct Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. The current state of litigation be...

    Sep 1, 2017
30. Debian for Medical Software

    by André Roth At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/165/ Roche Diagnostics International Ltd is using GNU/Linux in medical instrument products and has developed “Roche Linux”, a Debian-based distribution. This talk aims to show why D...

    Sep 1, 2017
31. Bits from the DPL

    by Chris Lamb At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/63/ State of the project, ongoing activities, etc.. Room: Buzz Scheduled start: 2017-08-07 14:30:00

    Sep 1, 2017
32. Laniakea - An approach at making building Debian derivatives easy

    by Matthias Klumpp At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/38/ While founding the Tanglu Debian derivative, I did set up infrastructure to create and maintain a Debian archive (which includes Britney, Ben, Dak and friends) and maintain...

    Sep 1, 2017
33. BSP & meetings BoF

    by Chris Lamb At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/133/ There are many in-person Debian events apart from DebConfs including Bug Squashing Parties, hackathons, summits and sprints. These have not only been socially rewarding but inc...

    Sep 1, 2017
34. FreedomBox, Libre Personal Server

    by James Valleroy At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/113/ This talk is for Debian users and contributors interested in FreedomBox, which configures Debian as an easy-to-use personal server. The first part will cover the current st...

    Sep 1, 2017
35. Techniques for using git for Debian packaging

    by David Bremner by Sean Whitton At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/36/ Techniques and tools for using git for Debian packaging continue to develop, though there remain many pain points. Since last year's DebConf, dgit, in partic...

    Sep 1, 2017
36. Meet MariaDB 10.3

    by Vicențiu-Marian Ciorbaru At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/142/ MariaDB 10.3 has had its first release. 10.3 has a focus of extending existing supported SQL to support Oracle-style PL/SQL. This talk will go into what the Maria...

    Sep 1, 2017
37. Delivering Software for Memory Driven Computing

    by Keith Packard At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/206/ Memory-Driven Computing, as demonstrated in The Machine prototype, offers a radical transformation in computing hardware, breaking down old barriers between memory and stora...

    Sep 1, 2017
38. LXC with Debian

    by Senthil Kumaran S At: DebConf17 https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/30/ LXC is a userspace interface for the Linux kernel containment features. Through a powerful API and simple tools, it lets Linux users easily create and manage system or ap...

    Aug 31, 2017