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DebConf16 events this morning:

• A year in the life of a DPL by Neil McGovern
• Advancing container support in Debian by Tim Potter
• Debian Roadmap BoF by Mehdi Dogguy
• Android SDK Tools in Debian by Kai-Chung Yan
• The Free Pascal landscape in Debian by Paul Gevers
• Privacy considerations on using popularity-contest data for recommendations by Lucas Albuquerque Medeiros de Moura
• Building cloud images for Microsoft Azure by Martin Zobel-Helas & Stephen Zarkos
• Improving voice, video and chat communication with free software by Jaminy Prabaharan

Join us if you are in Cape Town!

bits.d.o: Debian Perl Sprint 2016 in Zurich from May 19 to May 22 https://bits.debian.org/2016/07/debian-perl-sprint-2016.html

Thanks video team, numerous videos from the DebConf16 talks are already available for download and watch. ebConf16 continues all along the week; today is the DayTrip; talks and BoFs will resume on Thursday.

DebConf16 events this afternoon:

• Meet MariaDB 10.2 by Sergei Golubchik
• Derivative Panel by Héctor Orón Martínez
• New Members BoF by Jonathan Wiltshire
• wafer development BoF by Stefano Rivera & Neil Muller
• Live demos coordinated by Nattie Mayer-Hutchings
• Kali Linux's Experience of a Derivative Tracking Debian Testing by Raphaël Hertzog
• Find something to work on, within Debian by Asheesh Laroia
• debconf17 conference management system by Stefano Rivera
• Less passwords, more security: mass administration of MariaDB servers with socket authentication by Otto Kekäläinen
• The distro as a middleman: HPE's Debian derivative two years later by Tim Potter
• Python BoF by Piotr Ożarowski
• s390x BoF by Dimitri John Ledkov
• MariaDB/MySQL in Debian: improving packaging, security, quality and attracting new contributors by Otto Kekäläinen
• Ubuntu on z Systems (s390x) by Dimitri John Ledkov
• Ruby BoF by Antonio Terceiro
• Validating DEP5 with FOSSology by Kate Stewart

DebConf16 events this morning:

• Bits from the DPL by Mehdi Dogguy
• Putting GNU/kFreeBSD into production by Steven Chamberlain
• Debian policy BoF by Andi Barth
• dbconfig-common: taking it the next mile by Paul Gevers (continues with BoF)
• Fundraising BoF by Michael Banck
• systemd in Debian - a status update by Michael Biebl

Join us if you are in Cape Town!

The traditional Cheese & Wine party is happening tonight at DebConf16. Don't drink and dupload!

DebConf16 events this afternoon:

• We need you to release Debian by Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
• It's not LAMP: Web app packaging in Sandstorm by Asheesh Laroia
• ppc64el porter BoF by Breno Leitao
• Lightning talks (coordinated by Nattie Mayer-Hutchings)
• Debian on ARM devices by Martin Michlmayr
• BoF about Sandstorm, the GDocs alternative used by Debconf, Tor, & more by Asheesh Laroia
• DSA by Martin Zobel-Helas, et al.
• Learning from our keyring: What do our PGP keys say about the project? by Gunnar Wolf
• The Many ARMed Monster of Reproducibility by Vagrant Cascadian
• LSB: what is really needed in stretch? by Didier Raboud
• Ultimate Debian Database: current status and future plans by Lucas Nussbaum
• Continuous Keysigning Introduction by Stefano Rivera & Gunnar Wolf
• Lessons from 15 years of NBD by Wouter Verhelst
• Running an SME on Debian by Apollon Oikonomopoulos
• Next Generation Config Mgmt by James Shubin
• use Perl; # Annual meeting of the Debian Perl Group by Gregor Herrmann
• Arm Ports BoF by Steve McIntyre

Or follow the live streaming at https://debconf16.debconf.org/video/live-streaming/ 

DebConf16 events this morning:

• Surviving the Next 23 Years of Free Software by Karen Sandler
• Meet the CTTE by Tollef Fog Heen, et al.
• Software Heritage: Building the Universal Software Archive by Nicolas Dandrimont
• debci hacking for fun and profit by Antonio Terceiro

With Debconf being in South Africa, a lot of people (like me) probably weren't able to attend and are missing the cheese and wine party, mao games and general socialization that is happening there.One thing we don't have to miss, however, are the talks: as usual the video team is doing a great job recording and streaming all talks so that people can still participate a bit from their home.What they do, however, requires a lot of manpower, so if you are attending Debconf please consider volunteering to help: from my experience last year they are very nice people who are welcoming towards new contributors and they have periodical training sessions to help people getting started with the various tasks. More informations about video team meetings and training session are in the topic of the IRC channel, #debconf-video@OFTC.I don't think there are cookies involved (which just proves that the video team isn't evil), but you may get a t-shirt and you will get a warm fuzzy feeling of having helped people around the world.@Debian #debconf

DebConf16 events this afternoon:

• What is Debian? by @Bdale Garbee, et al.
• The Electronic Struggle by David Robert Lewis
• IoP – Internet of Plants by Tarek Omar
• Professional Open-Source Radio Astronomy by Jason Manley
• Ice Breaker Campus Tour by Bernelle Verster