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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
  

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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

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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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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

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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

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