At: DebConf10
https://debconf10.debconf.org/
Room: Davis Auditorium
Scheduled start: 2010-08-07 16:00:00

At: DebConf10
http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/658.en.html
https://debconf10.debconf.org/

Why is DebConf a fork & shouldn't we merge?

Discuss why (and how far) DebConf and Debian are two seper...

At: DebConf10
http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/646.en.html
https://debconf10.debconf.org/

Clouds have them, how about you?

Lightning Talks are 11 five-minute talks in a 60-minute time-slot!

Maybe you've never giv...

At: DebConf10
http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/552.en.html
https://debconf10.debconf.org/

How to get better policies and a better performance...

Room: Interschool Lab
Scheduled start: 2010-08-07 14:00:00

At: DebConf10
http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/564.en.html
https://debconf10.debconf.org/

Challenges packaging Koha for Debian

Debian is a huge project, with tens of thousands software packages,
a thousand people, and h...

At: DebConf10
http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/649.en.html
https://debconf10.debconf.org/

• Friendly talk among porters interested in this architecture.

Debian ARM porters meeting for Open discussion on improvemen...

At: DebConf10
http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/591.en.html
https://debconf10.debconf.org/

Simple Defects (SD) is a command-line distributed bugtracker. If you've
heard of Bugs Everywhere or Ditz, you have the general idea.

Bugs Everywhere and Ditz might be nice for tracking bugs for your own
new project, but they're not very useful for working with Debian. What
may surprise you is that SD is!

SD has a special feature that other distributed bug trackers lack: the
ability to synchronize bugs back and forth with bug trackers that are
external to itself. It does this through pluggable adaptors that work
with SD's "foreign replica" interface. This allows you to grab bugs
matching some criteria from a foreign source, work on them locally (even
offline) with all the power of SD, and then send the updates back to the
centralized bugtracker.

This talk will present my work on an SD adaptor to interface with our
beloved Debbugs, and how it can make you, Debian contributors, more
productive when dealing with bugs.

Room: Davis Auditorium
Scheduled start: 2010-08-07 11:30:00

At: DebConf10
http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/572.en.html
https://debconf10.debconf.org/

Fixing Authentication on the (Debian) 'Net with OpenPGP

Monkeysphere is a project to extend the OpenPGP Web of Trust into as
many domains as possible, effectively supplanting hierarchical
certification infrastructure like X.509, and restoring control over
authentication and identification to the communications peers
themselves and their own legitimately trusted introducers.

We will discuss how Debian can take advantage of Monkeysphere and related ideas, and how packagers can make sure their packages can make use of it.

Debian relies on the OpenPGP Web of Trust as a decentralized mechanism
for public key distribution for many critical tasks, including
developer identification, NM and DM advocacy, GR proposals and
seconds, voting, and package uploads. Despite this well-established
distributed key management infrastructure, the Debian project uses
centrally-managed (or un-managed) keys in other situations, including
the web and ssh, where OpenPGP has not traditionally been available.

Monkeysphere is a project to extend the OpenPGP Web of Trust into as
many domains as possible, effectively supplanting hierarchical
certification infrastructure like X.509, and restoring control over
authentication and identification to the communications peers
themselves and their own legitimately trusted introducers. We have
functional tools for authenticating peers over the World Wide Web and
SSH, with plans for more protocols.

This workshop will cover how the Monkeysphere could enable the use of
OpenPGP in other parts of Debian infrastructure, and how Debian
developers can ensure that their packages are capable of taking
advantage of the Web of Trust we all rely on.

Room: Interschool Lab
Scheduled start: 2010-08-07 10:30:00

At: DebConf10
http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/630.en.html
https://debconf10.debconf.org/

what works and what does not work with newbies

I will share my experiences within the Qt/KDE team and hopefully this will lead to a discussion with other members of others teams about what worked with them and what did not work while trying to attract new members.

Room: Davis Auditorium
Scheduled start: 2010-08-07 10:30:00

At: DebConf10
http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/659.en.html
https://debconf10.debconf.org/

Discussion of distributed bug tracking including the bts

Discussion of distributed bug tracking systems and current progress

Room: Davis Auditorium
Scheduled start: 2010-08-07 09:30:00

At: DebConf10
http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/681.en.html
https://debconf10.debconf.org/

Constantly Usable Testing exploration

This BoF will be used to explore the feasibility of the Constantly Usable Testing concept. Encouraged to attend: Representatives from Release Team, FTP Team, Security Team, d-i and CD teams, and Publicity Team. And anyone with an interest in forming a CUT Team.

Room: Interschool Lab
Scheduled start: 2010-08-06 17:00:00

At: DebConf10
http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/596.en.html
https://debconf10.debconf.org/

Annual meeting of the Debian Perl Group

The pkg-perl team will again take the opportunity to meet in person for
discussing...

At: DebConf10
http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/615.en.html
https://debconf10.debconf.org/
Room: Interschool Lab
Scheduled start: 2010-08-06 16:00:00

At: DebConf10
http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/580.en.html
https://debconf10.debconf.org/

New developments in the ongoing struggle against bugs

Debbugs is the software that underlies bugs.debian.org; currently has
over 580,000 bugs filed in it, over 480,000 of which have been fixed.
Currently in use by thousands of Debian developers and maintainers and
unknown numbers of Debian users daily, it is continuously undergoing
upgrades to better service the needs of Developers.

• Overview of how the BTS works
  • process, service
  • web frontends
  • soap, etc.
• New features
  • user values
  • action-required sorting (maintainer and submitter views)
    • priority sorting (uservalue)
  • merging of merged bug reports and threaded view
  • control in messages to submit@ and nnn@
  • usertag/uservalue/usercategory duplication/replay
  • rss feeds for packages and bugs
  • remote attachments
  • new spool storage format
  • better statistics
• Old features that may be unfamiliar
  • fun with bts select
  • full text searching with HE
  • local-debbugs
• A bald plea for more assistance

Room: Davis Auditorium
Scheduled start: 2010-08-06 16:00:00

At: DebConf10
http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/670.en.html
https://debconf10.debconf.org/

why do 3rd party multimedia archives suck

Currently, many multimedia related packages are still unpackaged, or packaged but not in debian. Our users therefore have to choose from a number of 3rd party distributors or compile software from source which leads to a poor user experience.

This BoF discusses the needs, requirements and interest of 3rd-party archives that contain multimedia related packages. The goal is to identify the current biggest multimedia related problems in debian and tries to form suggestions on how to improve the situation.

Room: Interschool Lab
Scheduled start: 2010-08-06 15:00:00

At: DebConf10
http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/539.en.html
https://debconf10.debconf.org/

Introduction and Invitation

Room: Davis Auditorium
Scheduled start: 2010-08-06 15:00:00

At: DebConf10
http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/603.en.html
https://debconf10.debconf.org/

Getting MythTV and similar to work for the casual user

I hope that we can have a discussion of how installation of MythTV (and related systems such as freevo) can be even better on Debian. Possibly it would be nice to investigate whether shared infrastructure is appropriate such as permitting "following" other people's recording selections, permitting social interactions in the middle of viewing, etc.

Also we are in dire need of some easy way to integrate music collections properly with the multiple music managers...

Room: Interschool Lab
Scheduled start: 2010-08-06 14:00:00

At: DebConf10
http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/627.en.html
https://debconf10.debconf.org/

An exploration into what we are not doing well enough to make Debian the best of the best, and how we could go about making things better.

In the past Debian was held as one of the best GNU/Linux distributions. Currently, even though there are people still happy with our results, more and more are getting frustrated by the many bugs and the lack of innovation. Is it possible to make Debian rule once again?

This talk aims to show the most important problems that we are facing and try to find a way that might help us become once again the greatest GNU/Linux distribution.

Room: Davis Auditorium
Scheduled start: 2010-08-06 14:00:00

At: DebConf10
http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/619.en.html
https://debconf10.debconf.org/

... and its application to the plethora of Debian package managers

All distributions use some kind of meta-data describing relationships between packages such as Dependencies, Conflicts, Virtual Packages, etc. Existing package managers are often specific to a packaging format, or even use implicit assumptions on the meaning of package relations in the context of a distribution.

This talk addresses the issue of how we can overcome this seclusion by resolving inter-package relations in a way that is independent from a specific distribution.

We will present CUDF (Common Upgradeability Description Format) which permits to encode upgrade scenarios coming from different packaging systems, including in particular .deb-based and .rpm-based distributions. The format comes with a clear semantics which makes it possible to share resolution tools among distributions, and to adapt general-purpose solvers to the needs of FLOSS distributions.

We also show how, in the context of the Mancoosi project, we are using the CUDF format to improve the solving abilities of state-of-the-art package managers in distributions such as Debian, Mandriva, and Caixa Magica.

Room: Davis Auditorium
Scheduled start: 2010-08-06 10:30:00

At: DebConf10
http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/637.en.html
https://debconf10.debconf.org/

Herding Cats for Aiur

Video recordings and live internet streams of a growing number of Gnu/Linux
and Free Software conferences around the world are being produced by
teams of volunteers using largely donated resources and Free Software
running on Linux. This talk discusses the hardware and software used for
a variety of the productions in which DebConf videoteam members have participated.
The software covered includes dvswitch and tools from xiph.org. Challenges
and experiences with regard to quality sound, lighting, volunteer
organization and workflow management will also be touched upon.

Room: Interschool Lab
Scheduled start: 2010-08-06 09:30:00