Bdale Garbee

An opportunity to discuss recent changes in and the current state and future plans for packages that are maintained by the Debian Electronics team.

In this session, we will host a panel of people who hold (or who have held) leadership positions within Debian. We'll go through a few questions for the panel and then continue with open questions and discussion.

Other people: Jonathan Carter Elana Hashman Margarita Manterola Bruce Perens Enrico Zini Steve McIntyre

An opportunity to discuss recent changes in and the current state and future plans for packages that are maintained by the Debian Electronics team.

The foundation for the immense success of free software was our shared value of enabling and maintaining end user freedom. The licenses we developed lowered the barrier between producers and consumers of software, and enable everyone to pursue their passions in collaboration with others. Participating in any of today's diverse wealth of free software communities can be immensely rewarding... and if we're doing it right, just plain fun!

In this session, Bdale will offer some advice based on his experience having fun working on free software, punctuated with examples from his propensity for eventually turning all of his hobbies into free software projects.

Bdale and Keith love to design, build, and fly high-power model rockets. They even started a small business together to manufacture completely open design hflight computers and related electronics that are now widely-known, used, and respected in the rocketry hobby. What not everyone knows is the role that Debian plays in all of this! Punctuated by many cool pictures and videos of rockets, Bdale and Keith will explain how Debian is part of every aspect of their involvement in the rocketry hobby and Altus Metrum, LLC.

Other people: Keith Packard

This session will start with an update on the state of Debian packages used for electronics work, then transition to a discussion about work needed in the future. Anyone who uses or would like to use Debian's electronics packages is more than welcome to attend, ask questions, and contribute to the discussion!

Projects like Debian can only exist in a connected world, but the immense increase in communication capability of the Internet also has a dark side. The same capabilities that enable intense technical collaboration across immense distances also make it possible for negative voices to be amplified. This session will be a panel discussion featuring some well-known, long-time contributors to Debian who are willing to share their experiences and advice on how to remain focused on what's important. Criticism is vitally important to Debian, but developers need to be able to extract the constructive elements from public discussions. Hopefully, the content of this session will help!

Other people: Chris Lamb Enrico Zini Steve McIntyre

This Panel Discussion features Debian contributors from around the world, including: * Bdale Garbee (USA) * David Prévot (Tahiti) * Jonathan Carter (South Africa) * Josué Ortega (Guatemala) * Hideki Yamane (Japan) * Nicolas Dandrimont (France) Moderated by: Hong Phuc Dang (Vietnam)

Other people: Nicolas Dandrimont Josué Ortega David Prévot Jonathan Carter Hideki Yamane Hong Phuc Dang

Opening remarks by Jen-Hui Chuang, Dean, College of Computer Science, NCTU 開幕致詞 邀請交通大學資訊學院院長 Talks: - Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) - DFSG for the General Public - Bdale Garbee

Other people: Ying-Chun Liu

Ever wondered how the Debian project got started, and/or what it was like to be member of the Debian project before there was a New Maintainer process, before there was a keyring, before the Social Contract, before there was even a stable release? Bdale was there, and is willing to answer these and other questions. Come ask and listen! And if you, too, were part of Debian way back then, come help fill in the gaps...

Debian includes a number of packages intended for designers of electronics systems. These include tools for capture, simulation, analysis, and physical realization of electronic designs. This session will start with a brief report on the current state of electronics package maintenance and some upstream changes and challenges, then move to an open discussion on whether we have the right tools packaged, how to get more people involved in maintaining them, and generally how to improve the state of the electronics packages in Debian.

Bdale and Keith have been working on the design of an inexpensive yet robust, completely open design, hardware random number generator. At Debconf in Portland two years ago, Tom Marble gave a talk about the earliest prototypes and then state of the project. Happily, we now have a design we consider worthy of taking to production. This talk will describe the hardware design, kernel device driver, and current production status of Chaoskey.

Other people: Keith Packard

Software in the Public Interest is the legal and financial umbrella organization providing services to Debian in the United States. This session will provide an opportunity to meet the members of the SPI board attending Debconf, hear a brief update on the organization's activities in the last year, and get your questions answered.

A friendly introduction to free software, open source, and Debian, with an opportunity for the audience to ask questions.

Other people: Allison Randal Neil McGovern Bernelle Verster Steve McIntyre John Sullivan

Panel discussion, aimed at the general public and more technical participants alike. The panel will discuss the open hardware movement, and how it fits in with Smart Homes. It will highlight and discuss the futurology, trends, and challenges. Challenges include security, the role of big vendors, the requirement for a more powerful platform, competing interests and the role of industrial providers. The panel will be hosted by Bernelle Verster, and panelists include Andy Simpkins and others. (Please get in touch if you want to be on the panel too)

Other people: Bernelle Verster Andy Simpkins

Are you one of the people who has never installed Skype (and never will)? Do you feel a sense of frustration every time someone asks to call you with Skype? Does the excruciating inefficiency of maintaining multiple profiles across Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn give you more pain than the sound of fingernails scratching a blackboard? Have you tried free and open source alternatives, but found their usefulness limited (or completely failed to get them working)? Would you like to see a way out of this nightmare?

This talk covers the depth and breadth of VoIP and all other real-time communications, encompassing desktop VoIP, instant messaging, social networking, microblogging, server solutions and also emerging areas like WebRTC, Peer-to-peer, privacy with FreedomBox and the mobile VoIP sector.

Despite this broad agenda, the presentations from each speaker have been tightly coordinated with a coherent focus on the challenges of making it all work together comprehensively and conveniently. The speakers have come together for FOSDEM with the goal of mapping out a strategy for free and open communications standards to finally take their rightful place as the dominant paradigm.

The speakers are the leaders in the flagship open source VoIP projects and will participate in a panel discussion and question/answer session in the telephony devroom immediately after the talk.

Other people: Peter Saint-Andre Daniel Pocock Simon Tennant Evan Prodromou Daniel-Constantin Mierla Emil Ivov

FreedomBox is a personal server running a free software operating system and free applications, designed to create and preserve personal privacy by providing a secure platform upon which federated social networks can be constructed. Software for FreedomBox is being assembled by volunteer programmers around the world who believe in Free Software and Free Society, with Bdale coordinating development of a reference implementation on behalf of the non-profit FreedomBox Foundation.

Eben Moglen articulated the need for FreedomBox in his 2011 FOSDEM opening keynote, then Bdale Garbee provided a progress update in his 2012 FOSDEM closing keynote. This year, Eben and Bdale will jointly present the development status of freedom-respecting hardware and a software stack that together represent the first FreedomBox release for end users.

Other people: Eben Moglen

FreedomBox is a personal server running a free software operating system and free applications, designed to create and preserve personal privacy by providing a secure platform upon which federated social networks can be constructed. Eben Moglen articulated the need for FreedomBox in his 2011 FOSDEM keynote, this presentation is a status update on the work done to turn Eben's vision into reality over the past year. Software for FreedomBox is being assembled by volunteer programmers around the world who believe in Free Software and Free Society, with Bdale coordinating development of a reference implementation on behalf of the non-profit FreedomBox Foundation.