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Now that you will be downloading and watching DebConf16 videos for a while, what about transcribing them (and maybe translating)? Join the DebConf Subtitle taskforce!

All recorded DebConf16 sessions have already been reviewed and published by our video team, you can find them here: http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2016/debconf16/

New DDs and DMs in May and June 2016. Congratulations! https://bits.debian.org/2016/07/new-developers-2016-06.html

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!