Hello fellow Debian contributors, I'm relaying this information in hope we'll have interested folks to contribute to this shared devroom. \_o< On 11/1/18 6:42 PM, Brian (bex) Exelbierd wrote: > > The Distributions devroom will take place Sunday 3 February 2019 at > FOSDEM, in Brussels, Belgium at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. > > As more and more workloads are being considered for containerization in > the future and are finally landing in virtualized environments today, > distributions remain a critical success factor and are more important > than ever. Containers, like virtual machines, are not magical and > rely on piles of software being assembled in a way that is repeatable, > reliable, and functional. This is at the very heart of the problem that > distributions have always solved. > > Each distribution is responsible for building, testing, and releasing > software as well as managing the lifecycle of each application in the > collection. Additionally, distributions do very important work in ensuring > that various versions of upstream software work well together and can > co-exist. Distributions are also, often responsible, for "de-vendoring" > upstream software so that security fixes can be applied more quickly. > > We welcome submissions targeted at contributors interested in issues > unique to distributions, especially in the following topics: > > # Topics and Areas of Focus > > ## Focus Areas > > - The ways that distribution technologies can be leveraged to allow > for easier creation of a multi-verse of artifacts from single source > trees. This includes the increasing move toward self-contained > applications and providing multiple non-parallel installed versions > of software. > > - Efforts being made in shared environments around Build/Test/Release > cycles. > > - Topics related to the delivery problem as it impacts updates in > terms of both size and rollback/reliability are expected to be featured. > > ## Additional Topic Ideas > > - Distribution and Community collaborations, eg: how does code flow from > developers to end users across communities, ensuring trust and code > audibility > > - Automating building software for redistribution to minimize human > involvement, eg: bots that branch and build software, bots that > participate as team members extending human involvement > > - Cross-distribution collaboration on common issues, eg: content > distribution, infrastructure, and documentation > > - Growing distribution communities, eg: onboarding new users, helping > new contributors learn community values and technology, increasing > contributor technical skills, recognizing and rewarding contribution > > - Principals of Rolling Releases, Long Term Supported Releases (LTS), > Feature gated releases, and calendar releases > > - Distribution construction, installation, deployment, packaging and > content management > > - Balancing new code and active upstreams verus security updates, back > porting and minimization of user breaking changes > > - Delivering architecture independent software universally across > architectures within the confines of distribution systems > > - Effectively communicating the difference in experience across > architectures for developers, packagers, and users > > - Working with vendors and including them in the community > > - The future of distributions, emerging trends and evolving user demands > from the idea of a platform > > Ideal submissions are actionable and opinionated. Submissions may > be in the form of 25 or 50 minute talks, panel sessions, round-table > discussions, or Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions. > > Dates > ------ > Submission Deadline: 02-Dec-2018 @ 2359 GMT > Acceptance Notification: 7-Dec-2018 > Final Schedule Posted: 14-Dec-2018 > > How to submit > -------------- > Visit https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19 > > 1.) If you do not have an account, create one here > 2.) Click 'Create Event' > 3.) Enter your presentation details > 4.) Be sure to select the Distributions Devroom track! > 5.) Submit > > What to include > --------------- > - The title of your submission > - A 1-paragraph Abstract > - A longer description including the benefit of your talk to your target > audience, including a definition of your target audience. > - Approximate length / type of submission (talk, BoF, ...) > - Links to related websites/blogs/talk material (if any) > > Administrative Notes > ---------------- > We will be live-streaming and recording the Distributions Devroom. > Presenting at FOSDEM implies permission to record your session and > distribute the recording afterwards. All videos will be made available > under the standard FOSDEM content license (CC-BY). > > If you have any questions, feel free to contact the > devroom organizers: distributions-devroom@lists.fosdem.org > (https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/distributions-devroom) > > Cheers! > > Brian Exelbierd (twitter: @bexelbie) and Brian Stinson (twitter: > @bstinsonmhk) for and on behalf of The Distributions Devroom Program > Committee > -- > Brian (bex) Exelbierd | bexelbie@redhat.com | bex@pobox.com > Fedora Community Action & Impact Coordinator > @bexelbie | http://www.winglemeyer.org > >
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