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News from Debian: DebConf16 closes in Cape Town and DebConf17 dates announced

Today is the last day of DebConf16. The schedule events are:

• Food for thought: Is free software vegan and open source vegetarian? by @John Sullivan
• Chaoskey - A Hardware Random Number Generator for Everyone by @Bdale Garbee & Keith Packard
• DUCK - The Debian Url ChecKer by Simon Kainz
• DebConf Handover BoF by Mehdi Dogguy
• Publicly-auditable/editable services by nicoo & Nicolas Dandrimont + BoF
• Cross-toolchain BoF by Ben Hutchings & Matthias Klose
• Debsources on Mobile: all the source code in your phone! by Matthieu Caneill
• Closing Ceremony by Stefano Rivera

Join us if you are in Cape Town!

DebConf17 dates announced:

• DebCamp starts 2017-07-31
• DebianDay on 2017-08-05
• DebConf 2017-08-06 to 2017-08-12

DebConf16 events this afternoon (later):

• DebConf17 by Jerome Charaoui, et al.
• Long Term Support (LTS) by Santiago Ruano Rincón + BoF
• pristine-tar BoF by Antonio Terceiro + BoF
• DebConf18 Proposals by Didier Raboud
• OpenStack, update in Debian, Gerrit, Jenkins, and CI/CD for packages by Thomas Goirand
• Future development of Wine (the Windows API) in Debian (and Ubuntu) by Jens Reyer

Join us if you are in Cape Town!

DebConf16 events this afternoon:

• Software bundling sucks: Why we should embrace it anyway by Matthias Klumpp
• Decentralized communications with Ring by Alexandre Viau & Simon Désaulniers
• Using Debian Money to Fund Debian Projects by Raphaël Hertzog & Mehdi Dogguy
• Packaging tutorial - newcomers welcome! by Alba Crespi
• Secure Boot for Debian Linux by Ben Hutchings + Secure Boot BoF by nicoo & Ben Hutchings
• Live demos coordinated by Nattie Mayer-Hutchings
• Testing Debian-Installer using jenkins.debian.{net,org} by Philip Hands
• Free Software Foundation Members talk about the FSF and Debian by John Sullivan

Join us if you are in Cape Town!

DebConf16 events this morning:

• The Supreme Court of DFSG-Free? by @Bradley M. Kuhn
• ifupdown2, the ultimate Network Interface Manager : progress and status by Julien Fortin
• Towards the formal verification of maintainer scripts by Ralf Treinen
• 2 Years of Work of Paid Contributors in the Debian LTS Project by Raphaël Hertzog
• GNU/screen comes to Debian Installer by Roger Shimizu
• SPI BOF by @Bdale Garbee
  

Join us if you are in Cape Town!

DebConf16 events this afternoon (later):

• deb.debian.org by Tollef Fog Heen
• Developing plugins for FreeRTC by Mesut Can Gurle
• Cloud Images BoF by Steve McIntyre
• Quality Assurance BOF by Lucas Nussbaum
• GCC 6 bug fixing BoF by Matthias Klose
• AppStream: Machine-readable metadata for all the things! by Matthias Klumpp
• Debian/Linux in Developing Nations - Challenges and Rewards by Sicelo Mhlongo
• The past year in APT by Julian Andres Klode
• Reproducible Builds status update by Chris Lamb
• Virtualisation and Containerisation BoF by Tim Potter
• Language Packaging Teams Skills Exchange by Christian Hofstaedtler
• GBP skills exchange by Guido Günther

Join us if you are in Cape Town!

DebConf16 events this early afternoon:

• The Conservancy Debian Services Agreement: One Year Hence by Bradley Kuhn
• What's new in the Linux kernel by Ben Hutchings
• Debian from 10,000 feet BOF by Mehdi Dogguy & Lucas Nussbaum
• KERN - the radio astronomy software suite used at SKA, based on Ubuntu by gijs molenaar
• autopkgtest skills exchange by Antonio Terceiro
• Lightning talks by Nattie Mayer-Hutchings
• LTTng: Kernel and userspace tracing in Debian by Michael Jeanson
• Bursaries BOF by David Bremner
• Using LAVA for Debian by Neil Williams
• Installing dracut on your computer by Thomas Lange

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