Petteri Räty

This talk will gather together Gentoo developers, users and other interested parties for a bof. After the session we will head for the traditional Gentoo dinner.

Several distribution projects have existing initiatives and programs in order to coordinate and/or fund local communities as well as shipping or producing promotional material, going to events to promote the project, etc... Some projects are currently looking into setting up something like this, and others are rethinking their current model. Those programs all have their differences, but achieve pretty similar goals. In this session, we will bring together a bunch of people from different projects who are in charge or actively participating in such initiatives, in order to briefly present what they are currently doing in their project and, more importantly, share experience about what has worked well and what hasn't in an open discussion session. Let's learn from each others' ideas and mistakes.

Other people: Christoph Wickert Donnie Berkholz Kostas Koudaras Laura Czajkowski Oliver Burger Stefano Zacchiroli

Gentoo uses versioning in the package manager script format. EAPI is the contract between ebuilds (Gentoo's packaging scripts) and the package manager. The version currently in use is 4. This session is about looking over features in the pipeline for the next version and hopefully having a discussion on them and others. Traditionally multiple council members have attended FOSDEM so this is your chance to influence the technical direction of Gentoo package management.