Hello world!
DebConf 18 is drawing near! Most of us are already making plans — How
to get there? Do we need a visa? What teams do I want to work with?
How to structure my days at DebCamp?
But as in any conference, and DebConf will not be different, probably
one of the most important points is... What do I expect to take part
of? What talks will we see?
The Call for Papers¹ is still open. The following list is –by far– not
final; if we are to follow other years' trends, I'd expect to see
around three times the number of talks we are currently approving.
¹ https://debconf18.debconf.org/cfp/
So, we have the following list of 36 approved talks.² Of course, it's
still pending confirmation by the submitters (some of them have not
yet bought their travel tickets)!
² https://debconf18.debconf.org/talks/
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1. News from the APT team - Julian Andres Klode
2. Report from the Debian EFI team about the support of Secure Boot on Debian - Helen Koike
3. "AppArmor in Debian: let's share feelings, technical feedback and skills!" - intrigeri
4. Reproducible Buster and beyond - Holger Levsen
5. Bits from the DPL - Chris Lamb
6. Debian Policy BoF - Sean Whitton
7. Meet the Technical Committee - Gunnar Wolf
8. How Debian helped translating thousands of articles in Wikipedia! - Kartik Mistry
9. dgit and git-debrebase workshop - Sean Whitton
10. git-debrebase - new tool for managing Debian packaging in git - Ian Jackson
11. FAI.me - A Build Service for Installation and Cloud Images - Thomas Lange
12. Debian Diversity Team discussion session - Rhonda D'Vine
13. Learn how to triage bugs - Solveig
14. Ignoring Negativity - Bdale Garbee
15. "Cryptsetup in Debian: tips, tricks, and future plans" - Guilhem Moulin
16. "Docker & Go packaging, an overview of the challenges" - arnaudr
17. Live Demos - Nattie Mayer-Hutchings
18. Lightning Talks - Nattie Mayer-Hutchings
19. Tools inside Blends framework - Andreas Tille
20. Rethinking font packages—from the document level down - Nathan Willis
21. Debian on Mobile Devices - W. Martin Borgert
22. R pkg BoF - Andreas Tille
23. "MariaDB and MySQL in Debian - next steps in packaging, automation and quality" - Otto Kekäläinen
24. Delta upgrades revisited - Julian Andres Klode
25. Autodeb: Automatic Packages for Everything - Alexandre Viau
26. Securing Debian Software Updates with Skipchains and Verified Builds - nikirill
27. Gnuk+GnuPG Explained for Debian Developers and Users - NIIBE Yutaka
28. Making Games Work Better on Debian - Keith Packard
29. Autodeploy from salsa - Enrico Zini
30. Debian Go Packaging Team BoF - Alexandre Viau
31. Segregated Dynamic Linking (keeping the peace between incompatible dependencies) - Vivek Das Mohapatra
32. That's a free software issue! - Molly de Blanc
33. Electronics BOF - Bdale Garbee
34. Status of Japanese (and CJK) typesetting with TeX in Debian - Norbert Preining
35. Analysing Debian packages with Neo4j - Norbert Preining
36. "Debian Desktop, for the elderly" - Georges Khaznadar
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Your talk is not listed? Don't fret! It will probably be accepted, but
we cannot *yet* announce it.
Haven't submitted your talk? Have an idea you think is important for
Debian to discuss? Don't delay! Remember the deadline for including
your talk in the official schedule is *June 17*.
Finally, regarding the CfP - Although DebConf is quite near already,
remember an important part of CfP is suggesting invited speakers! Do
you know of somebody who can give an interesting topic at our
conference, even if they are not (yet?) directly related to Debian?
Mail contact@debconf.org and lets talk about it!
- Gunnar Wolf
On behalf of the Content team