Re: First batch of approved talks for DebConf18!

[Mehul Patel]

Hello Team,

When will be the next batch of approved talks for DebConf18 announced?

Thank you.
-- Mehul Patel













Mehul Patel
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On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 11:39 PM, Gunnar Wolf  wrote:

> 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/
>
> 
>   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
> 
>
> 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 D

Re: Tourism in Taiwan

[Louis-Philippe Véronneau]

Thanks for all the nice suggestions!

I wrote to the people at Taiwan Adventures [1] to get some price + ideas
of hikes.

If anyone cares to join me it would be very nice! I'm not sure I'll be
able to afford a guide alone...

Their High Mount Hikes [2] look nice, but I'd be up to anything if
others want to do something easier.

Worst case scenario, I guess I'll try to find a room not to far from
Shei-Pa National Park or Taroko National Park and do a bunch of 1-day hikes.

[1] http://taiwan-adventures.com/
[2] http://taiwan-adventures.com/hikes-and-trips/high-mountain-hikes/
[3] http://www.spnp.gov.tw/v2/Article.aspx?a=1FOSCzcnIeU%3d&lang=1
[4] https://www.taroko.gov.tw/en/Tourism/TrailList

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 `. `'`  po...@debian.org / veronneau.org
   `-
On 2018-06-17 05:17, Andrew Lee wrote:
> Yes, east-coast is the most beautiful place on the island.
> 
> You could visit the taroko national park:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUqYreF1ucA
> 
> And you could and should attend the course at the hunter school for survive
> skills in wild:
>   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBpvbDw1gQQ
> 
> And there are a lot of nature hot springs in the wild around the island:
>   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BptaQ6UBd2U
> 
> And you may want to hiking on the trails with the survive skills you learnt
> from the hunter school:
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43dEkW2qvOI&list=PLFHiboGdZSVmpSusr8ZnH7-PE3oF3S1UP
> 
> And you may dive in the Lanyu Island (Orchid Island) where has 30-50m
> visibility under water:
>   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in031Nj29lg
> 
> And there are festivals of Pangach tribals during that time. They are
> dancing like a Debian swirl:
>   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpYIJcTHZ-k
> 
> And we could meet and drink together with the author of the song of Seediq
> Bale:
>   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvgRrOUeSCk
> 
> Best regards,
> -Andrew
> 
> 2018-06-17 15:22 GMT+08:00 Thomas Goirand :
> 
>> On 06/17/2018 05:39 AM, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> My plane lands in Taiwan on July 8th and I'm planning to go around and
>>> enjoy Taiwan as much as possible before DebCamp starts.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any recommendations of things I should do? I speak a
>>> good enough mandarin to get around fine by myself and I can read and
>>> write simplified characters as well as a seven-years-old child would.
>>>
>>> I'm not big on very touristy places or large cities and I vaguely plan
>>> to get off the coast as fast as possible and go hiking in the mountains.
>>> If possible I'd like not to die in a mudslide too :o
>>>
>>> I also enjoy good tea.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your suggestions!
>>
>> Hi there!
>>
>> You shall not miss one of the great evening food market in Taipei, it's
>> famous all around the world. There, you just select food (often, live
>> sea food in aquariums), and ask for it to be cooked by the minute.
>>
>> I have never been there, but the east of Taiwan is said to be the
>> prettiest part of the island. If I had the available time (which I
>> probably wont have this year...) I personally would like to go in
>> Hualian (where Andrew Lee lives) and do hiking in the mountains around.
>>
>> I hope this helps,
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Thomas Goirand (zigo)
>>
>>
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Re: Deadline for eCode for VISA is Jun 13

[Daniel Pocock]

On 14/06/18 02:40, shirish शिरीष wrote:

> The only lesson we can draw from this is we have to be extra careful,
> judicial when sending  messages on a public platform.  From the

There is at least one more lesson to be learned - it may have been
better to have people submit the details at the same time as
registering, so I opened a wishlist bug for that to be changed[1] in the
software that displays the form.

Regards,

Daniel



1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=901891

Re: Deadline for eCode for VISA is Jun 13

[Daniel Pocock]

On 10/06/18 12:24, ChangZhuo Chen (陳昌倬) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are about to submit the eCode [eCode] request for people not eligible
> for visa-exempt entry [Visa-Exempt Entry] to Taiwan. If you need an
> eCode for your VISA, please send the following information to
> v...@debconf.org before Jun 13. We will compile the list and send it to
> the government. 
> 

Can you please clarify the status of the eCode / eVisa processing?

I looked at the information page[1] but it doesn't say how long it
takes.  People have received bursary notifications last week and they
may not want to pay for flights until the eVisa is confirmed.

Regards,

Daniel


1. https://www.taiwanembassy.org/kn_en/post/2767.html

Debian Package of the Day videos at DebConf

[Jonathan Carter]

Hi Debconfers

Do you remember Debian Package of the Day[1] that ran in the mid 2000s?

Well, recently I started a new video version of that series that you can
either view on YouTube[2] or on my video website[3].

If there's enough interest, then I'd like to do a few package of the day
videos with either package maintainers or upstream at DebConf/DebCamp.

These videos tend to be short, less than 10 minutes, and shouldn't take
a lot of time to put together.

If you're interested, then please mail me back with a package (or a few
potential ones) that we could cover during DC along with the times that
you would likely be available.

Thanks and see you soon at DebConf!

-Jonathan

[1] https://debaday.debian.net
[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIbuTLE8Wih4pBd8S9UjGDGQQXG4-a6Yw
[3] https://highvoltage.tv/categories/debian-package-of-the-day

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