Debian micronews

The afternoon at Méridienne will be dedicated to the organization of the upcoming DebConf! At 14:00 DebConf Time (12:00 UTC) you will be able to meet the Debconf committee during the "DebConf Committee BoF", at 15:00 the DebConf25 team will meet the team that will organize the next DebConf to share their experiences and help with the knowledge transfer in the "DebConf 26 BoF", then at 16:30 in the session "DebConf 27: In your city?" the DebConf team will discuss possible locations for DebConf27! https://debconf25.debconf.org/schedule/venue/1/ #debian #debconf25 #debianfrance #brest

At 11:30, the short talks "QGIS and Debian: Making Geospatial Data Accessible Through Free Software" in Méridienne and "wcurl - one year later" in Petit amphi will close the morning session #debian #debconf25 #debianfrance #brest

In Grand amphi two talks and a BoF: at 9:30 DebConf Time (7:30 UTC) the talk "How Embedded C/C++ Toolchains Work", at 10:30 the"Debian Social BoF", and the short talk "What I Learned while rewriting the d/copyright file for rsync" at 11:30 https://debconf25.debconf.org/schedule/venue/2/ #debian #debconf25 #debianfrance #brest

This morning, at 9:30 DebConf Time (7:30 UTC), we start in Méridienne, with the talk "Approaching the speed of light with Debian: Debians' role in the worlds largest particle accelerator" followed by the "Debian Science Team BoF" at 10:30. In Petit amphi, two talks on Debian and the Linux kernel are being held: "Rethinking Cryptography in the Linux Kernel: Preparing for the Post-Quantum (PQC) Era" at 9:30, then "What's new in the Linux kernel (and what's missing in Debian) at 10:30. https://debconf25.debconf.org/schedule/?block=13 #debian #debconf25 #debianfrance #brest

It's the sixth and last day of DebConf25. Find the day's program on the page https://debconf25.debconf.org/schedule/?block=13 #debian #debconf25 #debianfrance #brest

The fifth day of DebConf25 is over. Join us for the final day tomorrow at 9:30 AM. In the meantime, you can watch the conference videos at https://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2025/DebConf25/ #debian #debconf25 #debianfrance #brest

- 08:48 < hacker > My water bottle opened in my backpack and I think I just killed my laptop
- 08:48 < hacker > I will wait a bit but might need a presentation laptop at 11:30 for my talk
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- 10:48 < hacker> my laptop is alive \o/ thanks another-hacker for the tools that allowed me to remove some water from it
"What's the best place to have your waterbottle destroying your laptop? DebConf25!"
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At 16:30 DebConf Time, a talk will present "Project ESSTRA : A software suite to enhance software transparency and traceability in the software supply chain" which will be followed by "Finding bugs where nobody has found before: helping cURL to avoid patch releases" at 17:30, while in Petit amphi, after the "Jabber/XMPP BoF session" (no stream), the "Electronics BOF" will conclude the afternoon session" https://debconf25.debconf.org/schedule/?block=12 #debian #debconf25 #debianfrance #brest

In Méridienne, after the talk "Free Software, creation & ownership: a designer's perspective" which will be held at 16:30 DebConf Time (14:30 UTC), you will be able to talk with three women who have contributed to Debian doing artwork in the session "Meet the people behind Debian Artwork" at 17:30 https://debconf25.debconf.org/schedule/venue/1/ #debian #debconf25 #debianfrance #brest

After lunch, there will be two BoFs in Méridienne about package building and CI: "cross building BoF" at 14:00 DebConf Time and "ci.debian.net/autopkgtest BoF" at 15:00, and, at the same time, two talks in Grand amphi: "Free as in Bytes" followed by "How we maintain 1000+ servers : from security updates to newer Debian releases" https://debconf25.debconf.org/schedule/?block=12 #debian #debconf25 #debianfrance #brest