Miniconf-UK/2013
[edit] Mini-debconf in Cambridge, UK. Thursday 14th to Sunday 17th November 2013
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[edit] The Plan
- 2 days for a mini-DebCamp (Thursday and Friday), with space for dedicated development / sprint / team meetings for up to 40 people
- 2 days for a more regular mini-conf with space for more general talks, up to 100 people
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[edit] The Location
We have space provided by ARM at their offices in Cambridge, UK.
 ARM offices in Cambridge, UK |
 Location — view on OpenStreetMap |
[edit] Sponsors
The following lovely companies are all contributing towards the cost of the event. Please be sure to thank them!
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ARM are hosting the conference, providing infrastructure etc. for us. |
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Boston are sponsoring lunch for attendees on Thursday and Friday. |
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Citrix and Xen are sponsoring lunch for attendees on Saturday and Sunday, plus T-shirts. |
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Codethink and Baserock are sponsoring dinner for attendees on Saturday evening. |
[edit] Getting there
Cambridge is easy for access by
- Road (M11, A14)
- Rail (as little as 45 minutes from London King's Cross station)
- Air (30 minutes from Stansted Airport Code: STN)
Once you're in Cambridge, there there are several ways to get to ARM. It's a couple of miles from the city centre or railway station, so it's walkable if you're keen or you might prefer something else.
- There are lots of taxis (if you need to call for one, Panther are normally good - +44 1223 715715)
- There are regular bus services that go along Cherry Hinton Road straight past ARM - look for the C1 or C3.
- There are also several companies offering cycle rental for easy travel around the city.
[edit] Accommodation
There are many Debian people who live in and around Cambridge, so we have lots of locals to help show people around and arrange free accommodation / crash space for a lot of visitors.
ARM is in the SE corner of cambridge, next to Cherry Hinton, a couple of miles from Cambridge City centre.
If you'd prefer a hotel or B&B over dossing /crash space, here's a map showing accommodation locations and prices where known. No URLs yet.
There are 3 hotels and 18 B&Bs within reasonable distance. Mostly clustered on Cherry Hinton Rd, about halfway between ARM and the town centre. The closest hotel is the Holiday Inn Express but it's a km or so from any evening facilities. The Sorrento is about the same distance. Hotels are £66-100, B&Bs £40-55.
There are loads more (mostly expensive) hotels in the middle of town.
[edit] Catering
We're planning on eating at the ARM campus each lunchtime. On Thursday and Friday the normal ARM canteen will be open and there is a wide range of food on offer to suit most tastes. Our friends from Boston are sponsoring these lunches; more details on the day.
On Saturday and Sunday we'll order in sandwiches, pizza or similar. There are plenty of shops within 10 minutes' walk if you would prefer to do something different, of course. We also have sponsorship arranged for the Saturday and Sunday lunches already - please say thankyou to the Citrix and Xen folks!
On Saturday evening, we have arranged a BBQ dinner for people at Steve and Jo's house in northerm Cambridge. Again, this is sponsored - thanks to the nice people from Codethink and Baserock!
For other evenings, we'll most likely organise into smaller groups at the time - 40+ people in one pub is likely to be difficult! Cambridge is quite a cosmopolitan city with all sorts of restaurants - ask if you need recommendations.
[edit] Talk to us
We'll be using the IRC channel #debconf-cambridge on irc.debian.org for chat during the mini-conf, and especially for anybody watching video and wanting to join in. We're on Twitter; connect to us @MiniDebConfCamb
[edit] Sprint sessions - Thursday and Friday
We will be hosting these in the Training Room in ARM1, the main building on the ARM Cambridge campus. Each day we will have our room available from 09:00 to 17:00. Look for the front desk in the reception area at the front of ARM1; we'll have people there from 08:30 each day. Turn up and sign in there please.
On both Thursday and Friday, Boston will be attending to show off their ARM-based Viridis server.
We will end up working on the new arm64 port and other ARM-related topics at the very least, but there's no reason to just stick to those. All are welcome!
Here is Zumbi's proposed agenda for a discussion about ARM ports etc.
Lars would also like to have a couple of round-table discussions about Automated system testing: one at the end of Thursday and one first thing Friday morning. The session on Saturday will be a summary of the discussion and some ideas for further work.
[edit] Talks - Saturday and Sunday
We will again be in ARM1 for the weekend sessions. We'll be using the big open Atrium in the centre of the building, which should give us plenty of space for both talks and some hacking. There's also a small meeting room available off the Atrium in case people want some separate space.
Please turn up at ARM1 from 08:30 onwards. We'll have the front desk in the reception area again. Please be sure to bring your badges from Thursday/Friday again if you already have them.
Here's the provisional schedule. Talk slots are 60 minutes long, but talks should fit into 55 minutes maximum, including questions, demos, dance routines, whatever. If talks run shorter, we will leave a gap and stick to the schedule, for the sake of any external participants.
If you have something else you'd like to talk about but not big enough for a full slot, feel free to sign up for a lightning session slot on either Saturday or Sunday lunchtime. If you're interesting enough you might even distract people from their lunch! :-)
[edit] Video
Some of the lovely DebConf video team was with us in Cambridge! During the event we set up video streaming live. Recordings of the talks are available online.
[edit] Saturday session
- 08:30 Front desk open for arrival and registration
- 09:00 Steve McIntyre - Welcome to Cambridge!
- 09:15 Enrico Zini - Debian Contributors - The doocratic hat
- 10:15 Lars Wirzenius & Daniel Silverstone - Automated system testing
- 11:15 Michael Tautschnig - Software Model Checking and Debian - better together
- 12:15 Lars Wirzenius - Black box testing Unix programs with yarn
- 13:15 Lunch - sponsored by Citrix and Xen plus lightning sessions for those interested
- 14:15 Rodolph Perfetta - vixl
- 15:15 Mark Hymers & Paul Elliott - Debian in Neuroimaging: A meandering tour
- 16:15 Lars Wirzenius - Debian: developing it wrong
- 17:15 Steve McIntyre - Close
- 17:30 End of day - prepare for dinner...
[edit] Sunday session
- 08:30 Front desk open for arrival and registration
- 09:00 Steve McIntyre - Updates
- 09:15 Wookey - arm64 bootstrap
- 10:15 Mark Hymers - data.debian.org: Where are we and why?
- 11:15 Daniel Silverstone - Gitano - Designing better tooling for Git servers
- 12:15 Ian Jackson - dgit
- 13:15 Lunch - sponsored by Citrix and Xen plus lightning sessions for those interested
- 14:15 Wookey - Crossbuilding Debian
- 15:15 Leif Lindholm - UEFI is not your enemy
- 16:15 Steve McIntyre - UEFI and Secure Boot in Debian status update
- 17:15 Steve McIntyre - Close
- 17:30 End of day - time to go home!
[edit] Lightning talks
Quick summary:
- Chris Walker - Crunching data from the LHC
- Hector Oron - Open Build Service
- Joachim Breitner - Haskell build dependencies
- Lars Wirzenius - backups
- Jo McIntyre - Happy Birthday
- James Bennet, Nick Davidson and Neil Williams - Pybit
- Neil Williams and Fathi Boudra - LAVA
- Daniel Silverstone - gfshare for keys
[edit] Photos
Andy Simpkins took some photos and they're available on his web site. He was also responsible for the group photo at the top of the page.
If you took photos, please feel free to add links here yourself!
[edit] Participants
Please fill in the table below with your details, including if you're planning on joining us for the hack/sprint sessions on Thu/Fri, the talks on Sat/Sun or both. If you have any special food requirements, make sure you let us know so we can help plan for catering. Please list all people individually, no "+1"s as we'll be using the list here to generate name badges etc.
| N | Name | Arrival | Departure | Confirmed | PGP ID | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | Food | Notes | T-shirt size (if added before 25th October) | |
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| 1 | Steve McIntyre | 93sam@debian.org | Lives in Cambridge | Yes | 3442684E | Y | Y | Y | Y | XXL | |||
| 2 | Wookey | wookey@debian.org | Lives in Cambridge | Yes | A86F9E47 | Y | Y | Y | Y | M | |||
| 3 | Dmitrijs Ledkovs | xnox@debian.org | Thursday 12:08 | Sunday 18:20 | Yes | 8B3C16AE | Y | Y | Y | Y | M | ||
| 4 | Colin Watson | cjwatson@debian.org | Lives in Cambridge | Yes | 4917A514 | Y | Y | ? | ? | M | |||
| 5 | Ian Campbell | ijc@hellion.org.uk | Lives in Cambridge | Yes | 79074FA8 | XL | |||||||
| 6 | Enrico Zini | enrico@debian.org | TBD | TBD | Yes | 797EBFAB | In need of crash space | L | |||||
| 7 | Sebastian Reichel | sre@debian.org | STN 2013-11-13 19:20 (FR3633) | STN 2013-11-17 19:45 (FR3634) | Yes | C83BFA9A | Y | Y | Y | Y | No restriction | Stays at "Hamden Guesthouse" | L |
| 8 | Hector Oron | zumbi@debian.org | TBD | FR8321 STN 20:15 Nov 17 | Yes | 76E2AC7B | Y | Y | Y | Y | No restriction | Arrange my own | XL |
| 9 | Javi Merino | vicho@d.o | Lives in Cambridge | Yes | 768D3824 | Y | Y | Y | Y | No restriction | M | ||
| 10 | Adam D. Barratt | adsb@d.o | Yes | Y | Y | Y | Y | Sledge's | L | ||||
| 11 | Neil Williams | codehelp@d.o | Lives in Cambridge | Yes | 8143B682 | Y | Y | Y | Y | XL | |||
| 12 | Joerg Jaspert | joerg@d.o | B12525C4 | Need sleeping space | XXL | ||||||||
| 13 | Ben Hutchings | benh@d.o | Lives in Cambridge | Lives in Cambridge | Y | 95861109 | ? | ? | Y | Y | vegetarian | M | |
| 14 | Lars Wirzenius | liw@liw.fi | Wed | Sun | Yes | 5E8511F9 | Y | Y | Y | Y | none | ||
| 15 | Mark Hymers | mhy@d.o | Fri | Sun | Y | N | N | Y | Y | L | |||
| 16 | Daniel Silverstone | dsilvers@digital-scurf.org | By car (Wed evening) | By car (Sun evening) | Y | 3CCEBABE206C3B69 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Salad/fruit *please* even if I have to sponsor it | Will find a hotel | XXL+ (prefers caravan-covers) |
| 17 | Simon Richter | sjr@debian.org | CBG 2013-11-13 21:35 (F7553) | CBG 2013-11-17 18:45 (F7552) | Y | 18A0CC8D5706A4B4 | Y | Y | Y | Y | May need crash space | L | |
| 18 | Chris Boot | debian@bootc.net | Thursday | Sunday | 100% | FB099999 | Y | Y | Y | Y | No nuts! | L | |
| 19 | Simrun Basuita | simrunbasuita@gmail.com | 25A742AC | Y | Y | XL | |||||||
| 20 | Daniel Richman | main@danielrichman.co.uk | 15E1C92A | M | |||||||||
| 21 | Jon Ward (Aardvark) | aardvark@fnord.org.uk | Local to Cambridge | Yes | Y | Y | Y | Y | Pescetarian | L | |||
| 22 | Andrew Shadura | andrewsh@debian.org | STN 2013-11-13 22:30 (FR2317) | STN 2013-11-18 6:15 (FR2314) | Pretty sure | 6EA4D2311A2D268D | Y | Y | Y | Y | Om nom nom nom | Need sleeping space | L |
| 23 | Albin Tonnerre | lutin@debian.org | TBD, Thu morning | TBD, Sun afternoon | Yes | 5BB6E4A5 | Y | Y | Y | Y | M | ||
| 24 | Edward Macnaghten | eddy@edlsystems.com | Thursday AM | Sunday PM | Pretty Sure | Y | Y | Y | Y | XXL | |||
| 25 | Mike Crowe | mac@mcrowe.com | Lives in Cambridge | Y | E4936970D0972DF3 | N | N | Y | Y | No cheese. | L | ||
| 26 | Konstantinos Margaritis | markos@debian.org | not coming | not coming | No | 6437124C | N | N | N | N | L | ||
| 27 | Adam Conrad | adconrad@debian.org | TBD | TBD | Yes | C6CEA0C9 | Y | Y | Y | Y | I like food | M | |
| 28 | Riku Voipio | riku@d.o | Wed PM | Sun PM | Yes | CAEAAF03 | Y | Y | Y | Y | S | ||
| 29 | Rhalina (Franziska Lichtblau) | rhalina@old-forest.org | not coming | not coming | No | 91EC5CD5 | N | N | N | N | Prefer veg (not strict) | 0% | M |
| 30 | Carl Chenet | chaica@debian.org | TBD | TBD | Yes | 8CD736E2 | Y | Y | Y | N | eat everything | M | |
| 31 | Joanne McIntyre | joanne@einval.com | Lives in Cambridge | Yes | Y | Y | Y | Y | eat most things | XXL | |||
| 32 | Fathi Boudra | fabo@debian.org | TBD | TBD | Pretty sure | 6AA572F7 | Y | Y | Y | Y | L | ||
| 33 | Y_Plentyn (Arne Wichmann) | aw@linux.de | not coming | not coming | No | B80D4B3E | N | N | N | N | Prefer veg (not strict) | 0% | XL |
| 34 | Lisa Baron | adsb@d.o | Yes | Y | Y | Y | Y | Gluten free | Sledge's | S | |||
| 35 | Philip Hands | phil@hands.com | Yes | 0125D5C0 | Y | Y | Y | Y | may need crash space | XL | |||
| 36 | Holger Levsen | holger@d.o | I won't attend | I won't attend | No | 069AAA1C | N | N | N | N | vegetarian | I won't attend | none |
| 37 | Cleto Martín | cleto@debian.org | Friday night | Sun. (train to Bristol) | Yes | 00EF5DFB | N | N | Y | Y | B&B | M | |
| 38 | Andy Simpkins (RattusRattus) | andy-debian@koipond org uk | local to Cambridge | yes | 51FA8E9C | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Can offer crash space (taken enrico) | XXL | |
| 39 | Peter Green (plugwash) | plugwash@debian.org | Thursday lunchtime | Friday teatime | Yes | 0C48EA2A7A8FFD7B | Y | Y | N | N | XXL | ||
| 40 | Joachim Breitner (nomeata) | nomeata@debian.org | TBD | will stay in Cambridge | Yes | 4743206C | N | N | Y | Y | yes, please | M | |
| 41 | JonathanWiltshire | jmw at debian | Thu AM | Sun PM | Yes | 0xD3524C51 | Y | Y | Y | Y | please | B&B | M |
| 42 | ChrisWalker | c.j.waler@qmul.ac.uk | TBC | TBC | No | please | TBC | XL | |||||
| 43 | Will Deacon | will.deacon@arm.com | Lives in Cambridge | Yes | 3E542FD9 | Y | Y | Y | Y | M | |||
| 44 | Ivo De Decker | ivodd@d.o | TDB | TDB | pretty sure | 0217E8D8 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | L | |
| 45 | Daniel Glassey | wdg@d.o | Lives in Cambridge | Yes | AF060C5A | N | N | Y | Y | M | |||
| 46 | Leif Lindholm | leif.lindholm@arm.com | Lives in Cambridge | Yes | ? | ? | Y | Y | XL | ||||
| 47 | Steve Capper | steven.capper@gmail.com | Lives in Cambridge | Yes | ? | ? | Y | Y | XL | ||||
| 48 | Alexander Clouter | alex+debconf@digriz.org.uk | Crashing at friends place | Yes | ? | ? | Y | Y | L | ||||
| 49 | Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo | mafm@d.o | Living nearby | Yes | 7F7606A445DCA80E | Y | Y | Y | Y | Dairy-free, preferably spice-free | L | ||
| 50 | Marc Zyngier | maz@misterjones.org | Living nearby | Yes | D13D7A43 | N | ? | Y | Y | No restrictions | M | ||
| 51 | Ian Jackson | ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk | Living nearby | Yes | ? | ? | Y | Y | L | ||||
| 52 | Andrew Wafaa | awafaa@opensuse.org | Living nearby | Yes | 3A36312F | Y | Y | Y | Y | No Restrictions | L | ||
| 53 | Vincent Sanders | vince@debian.org | Live locally | Yes | Y | Y | Y | Y | Vegetarian | XL | |||
| 54 | Michael Tautschnig | mt@debian.org | Living nearby | Yes | 76D52AC4 | N | N | Y | Y | No restrictions | L | ||
| 55 | Pawel Moll | web@pawelmoll.com | Living nearby | Yes | 5F5DAE4F | N | N | Y | Y | No restrictions | M | ||
| 56 | Paul Elliott | omahns.home@gmail.com | Fri | Sun | Y | CAD2BDBF | N | N | Y | Y | M | ||
| 57 | Teemu Hukkanen | tjhukkan@iki.fi | Fri | Sun | Yes | 9C2001D0 | N | N | Y | Y | Vegetarian | Need crash space | M |
| 58 | Brett Parker | idunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk | Yes | N | N | Y | Y | Need crash space | XL | ||||
| 59 | Dererk | dererk@debian.org | Fri from London City | Sun ~21hs LHR | Yes | EBE2D002 | N | Y | Y | Y | Yes, please. | XL | |
| 60 | Jelmer | jelmer@debian.org | Friday evening | Sunday evening | Yes | D729A457 | N | Y | Y | Y | prefer vegetarian | M | |
| 61 | Andy Cater | amacater@debian.org | N/A | N/A | Not coming | 1DD2DE8D | Y | Y | Y | Y | Can't make it now :( | XL | |
| 62 | Olly Betts | olly@d.o | Thursday am | Saturday evening or Sunday morning | Y | 3BAD2B07 | Y | Y | Y | N | Veggie | L | |
| 63 | Federico Ceratto | federico.ceratto@gmail.com | Friday afternoon | Sunday evening | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | Veggie | L | ||
| 64 | Vin Everett | vheverett@gmail.com | live nearby | N | N | Y | Y | XXL | |||||
| 65 | Bob Easthope | Bob.Easthope@arm.com | live nearby | Yes | N | N | Y | Y | XXL | ||||
| 66 | Rodolph Perfetta | Rodolph.Perfetta@arm.com | live nearby | Yes | N | N | Y | ? | |||||
| 67 | Stefano Rivera | stefanor@d.o | Wed (in London) | Mon | Yes | 0xCD92D072 | Y | Y | Y | Y | easy | XL | |
| 68 | Daniel Medina | dani.dmo@gmail.com | Wed | Mon | Yes | Y | Y | Y | Y | No restriction | L
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| 69 | Mark Brown | broonie@debian.org | Wed | Mon | Yes | 30F5D8EB | Y | Y | Y | Y | No restriction | L | |
| 70 | Jeffrey Yu | Jeffrey.Yu@boston.co.uk | Yes | N | Y | N | N | No restriction | |||||
| 71 | James Hopwood | James.Hopwood@boston.co.uk | Yes | Y | N | N | N | No restriction | |||||
| 72 | Aniuska Dominguez | adom23@hotmail.com | Yes | N | N | N | Y | No restriction | |||||
| 73 | Nick Davidson | nicholas.davidson@gmail.com | live nearby | Yes | N | N | Y | Y | No restriction | ||||
| 74 | James Bennet | james@james-bennet.com | live nearby | Yes | N | N | Y | Y | No restriction | ||||
| 75 | Steve Cotton | steve@s.cotton.clara.co.uk | live nearby | Yes | Y | ? | N | ? | No restriction | ||||
| 76 | Edward Betts | edward@4angle.com | live nearby | Yes | N | N | N | Y | No restriction | Sorry about late registration | |||
| 77 | SImon Carter | smescrater@me.com | Friday night | Sun. (train to Manchester) | Yes | N | N | Y | Y | Allergic to prawns and chicken | B&B | XXL | |
| 78 | John Sturdy | jcg.sturdy@gmail.com | Lives locally | Lives locally | Yes | N | N | Y | Y | Any OK |
[edit] Annotated group photo
(Please fill in / correct!)
Name - aka / IRC nick
- Steve McIntyre - Sledge
- Jo McIntyre - Randombird
- Lisa Baron - Juff
- Daniel Silverstone - Kinnison
- Andy Simpkins - RattusRattus
- Mike Crowe - mac
- Daniel Glassey - Glasseyes
- Sebastian Reichel
- Edward Betts
- Nick Bane
- Enrico Zini - enrico
- Cleto Martin - cleto
- Malcolm Parsons
- Phil Hands - fil
- Chris Walker
- Riku Voipio - suihkulokki
- Neil Williams - codehelp
- Edward Macnaghten - eddy
- Wookey - wookey
- Fathi Boudra - fabo
- Vincent Sanders - kyllikki
- Paul Elliott - omahn
- Ian Campbell - ijc
- Ben Hutchings - bwh
- Joachim Breitner - nomeata
- Steve Capper
- Chris Boot - bootc
- Lars Wirzenius - liw
- Hector Oron - zumbi
- Adam Conrad - infinity
- Stefano Rivera - tumbleweed
- Nick Davidson - nickd
- Colin Watson - cjwatson
- Ian Jackson - Diziet
- Andrew Shadura - andrewsh
- Alexander clouter - jimdigriz
- Simon Richter - GyrosGeier
- Adam Barratt - adsb
- Leif Lindholm - leiflindholm
- Jonathan Wiltshire - jmw
- Natalie Mayer-Hutchings - nattie
- Mark Hymers - mhy
- James Bennet
- Jon Ward - Aardvark
- Javi Merino - vicho
- Mark Brown - broonie
- Ivo De Decker
- Jelmer Vernooij
- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo - mafm
- Aniuska Dominguez
- Dmitrijs Ledkovs - xnox
