Schedule

Saturday (02 jul)
Time	Menzies 9	Menzies 12	Elsewhere
07:30 - 09:30	Breakfast
10:30 - 11:15	Debugging the IoT - Open Hardware Panel by Bernelle Verster, et al.
11:15 - 11:45	FLOSSing for healthier society by jbothma
11:45 - 12:30	My Experience with Debian by shirish agarwal
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 14:30		Debian Installfest by shirish agarwal	Job Fair & Play Hardware
14:30 - 15:00
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 - 16:30	New to DebConf BoF by Bernelle Verster & Rhonda D'Vine
16:30 - 17:00	New to DebConf BoF by Bernelle Verster & Rhonda D'Vine
18:00 - 20:00	Dinner

Sunday (03 jul)
Time	Menzies 9	Menzies 10	Menzies 12	Elsewhere
07:30 - 09:30	Breakfast
10:00 - 10:30	Free Software, Companies and You by Karen Sandler
10:30 - 11:00	Free Software, Companies and You by Karen Sandler
11:00 - 11:30	A Billion People And Even More Phones by Keerthana Krishnan
11:30 - 12:00	What I learned from 365 days of contributing to Open Source projects by Dieter Adriaenssens
12:00 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 14:30	What is Debian? by Bdale Garbee, et al.	The Electronic Struggle by David Robert Lewis	IoP – Internet of Plants by Tarek Omar
14:30 - 15:00	What is Debian? by Bdale Garbee, et al.	The Electronic Struggle by David Robert Lewis
15:00 - 15:30	Professional Open-Source Radio Astronomy by Jason Manley
15:30 - 16:00	Professional Open-Source Radio Astronomy by Jason Manley
16:00 - 17:00	Ice Breaker Campus Tour by Bernelle Verster
18:00 - 20:00	Dinner

Monday (04 jul)
Time	Menzies 9	Menzies 10	Menzies 12	Menzies 11	Menzies 13	Elsewhere
07:30 - 09:30	Breakfast
10:00 - 10:45	Surviving the Next 23 Years of Free Software by Karen Sandler
10:45 - 11:15	Tea/Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:00	Meet the CTTE by Tollef Fog Heen, et al.	Software Heritage: Building the Universal Software Archive by Nicolas Dandrimont	debci hacking for fun and profit by Antonio Terceiro
12:00 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 14:45	We need you to release Debian by Emilio Pozuelo Monfort		It's not LAMP: Web app packaging in Sandstorm by Asheesh Laroia		ppc64el porter BoF by Breno Leitao
15:00 - 15:45	DSA by Martin Zobel-Helas, et al.	Debian on ARM devices by Martin Michlmayr	BoF about Sandstorm, the GDocs alternative used by Debconf, Tor, & more by Asheesh Laroia
15:45 - 16:10	Tea/Coffee Break
16:10 - 16:30	Learning from our keyring: What do our PGP keys say about the project? by Gunnar Wolf	The Many ARMed Monster of Reproducibility by Vagrant Cascadian			LSB: what is really needed in stretch? by Didier Raboud
16:40 - 17:00	Ultimate Debian Database: current status and future plans by Lucas Nussbaum	Continuous Keysigning Introduction by Stefano Rivera & Gunnar Wolf	Lessons from 15 years of NBD by Wouter Verhelst		(...BoF continued)
17:15 - 18:00	Running an SME on Debian by Apollon Oikonomopoulos	Next Generation Config Mgmt by James Shubin	use Perl; # Annual meeting of the Debian Perl Group by gregor herrmann	Arm Ports BoF by Steve McIntyre
18:00 - 20:00	Dinner
20:30 - 23:00	Cheese & Wine Party by Nicolas Dandrimont

Tuesday (05 jul)
Time	Menzies 9	Menzies 10	Menzies 12	Menzies 11	Menzies 13	Elsewhere
07:30 - 09:30	Breakfast
10:00 - 10:45	Bits from the DPL by Mehdi Dogguy
10:45 - 11:10	Tea/Coffee Break
11:10 - 11:30	Putting GNU/kFreeBSD into production by Steven Chamberlain	dbconfig-common: taking it the next mile by Paul Gevers	Debian policy BoF by Andi Barth		Fundraising BoF by Michael Banck
11:40 - 12:00	systemd in Debian - a status update by Michael Biebl		(...BoF continued)	(...BoF continued)	(...BoF continued)
12:00 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 14:45	Meet MariaDB 10.2 by Sergei Golubchik	Derivative Panel by Héctor Orón Martínez	New Members BoF by Jonathan Wiltshire		wafer development BoF by Stefano Rivera & Neil Muller
15:00 - 15:45	Live demos by Nattie Mayer-Hutchings	Kali Linux's Experience of a Derivative Tracking Debian Testing by Raphaël Hertzog	Find something to work on, within Debian by Asheesh Laroia		debconf17 conference management system by Stefano Rivera
15:45 - 16:15	Tea/Coffee Break
16:15 - 17:00	Less passwords, more security: mass administration of MariaDB servers with socket authentication by Otto Kekäläinen	The distro as a middleman: HPE's Debian derivative two years later by Tim Potter	Python BoF by Piotr Ożarowski		s390x BoF by Dimitri John Ledkov
17:15 - 18:00	MariaDB/MySQL in Debian: improving packaging, security, quality and attracting new contributors by Otto Kekäläinen	Ubuntu on z Systems (s390x) by Dimitri John Ledkov	Ruby BoF by Antonio Terceiro		Validating DEP5 with FOSSology by Kate Stewart
18:00 - 20:00	Dinner

Wednesday (06 jul)
Time	Elsewhere
07:30 - 09:30	Breakfast
09:30 - 18:00	Day Trip
19:00 - 21:00	Evening Braai (UCT Pub)

Thursday (07 jul)
Time	Menzies 9	Menzies 10	Menzies 12	Menzies 11	Menzies 13	Elsewhere	UCT Pub
07:30 - 09:30	Breakfast
10:00 - 10:45	A year in the life of a DPL by Neil McGovern
10:45 - 11:10	Group Photo during Tea/Coffee Break
11:10 - 11:30	Advancing container support in Debian by Tim Potter	Debian Roadmap BoF by Mehdi Dogguy	Android SDK Tools in Debian by Kai-Chung Yan	The Free Pascal landscape in Debian by Paul Gevers	Privacy considerations on using popularity-contest data for recommendations by Lucas Albuquerque Medeiros de Moura
11:40 - 12:00	Building cloud images for Microsoft Azure by Martin Zobel-Helas & Stephen Zarkos	(...BoF continued)	Improving voice, video and chat communication with free software by Jaminy Prabaharan	(...BoF continued)	(...BoF continued)
12:00 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 14:45	The Conservancy Debian Services Agreement: One Year Hence by Bradley Kuhn	What's new in the Linux kernel by Ben Hutchings	Debian from 10,000 feet BOF by Mehdi Dogguy & Lucas Nussbaum	KERN - the radio astronomy software suite used at SKA, based on Ubuntu by gijs molenaar	autopkgtest skills exchange by Antonio Terceiro
15:00 - 15:45	Lightning talks by Nattie Mayer-Hutchings	LTTng: Kernel and userspace tracing in Debian by Michael Jeanson	Bursaries BOF by David Bremner	Using LAVA for Debian by Neil Williams	Installing dracut on your computer by Thomas Lange
15:45 - 16:10	Tea/Coffee Break
16:10 - 16:30	deb.debian.org by Tollef Fog Heen	Developing plugins for FreeRTC by Mesut Can Gurle	Cloud Images BoF by Steve McIntyre	Quality Assurance BOF by Lucas Nussbaum	GCC 6 bug fixing BoF by Matthias Klose
16:40 - 17:00	AppStream: Machine-readable metadata for all the things! by Matthias Klumpp	Debian/Linux in Developing Nations - Challenges and Rewards by Sicelo Mhlongo	(...BoF continued)	(...BoF continued)	(...BoF continued)
17:15 - 18:00	The past year in APT by Julian Andres Klode	Reproducible Builds status update by Chris Lamb	Virtualisation and Containerisation BoF by Tim Potter	Language Packaging Teams Skills Exchange by Christian Hofstaedtler	GBP skills exchange by Guido Günther
18:00 - 19:00						Dinner
19:00 - 20:00						Dinner	AppArmor Pub BoF by nicoo

Friday (08 jul)
Time	Menzies 9	Menzies 10	Menzies 12	Menzies 11	Menzies 13	Elsewhere
07:30 - 09:30	Breakfast
10:00 - 10:45	The Supreme Court of DFSG-Free? by Bradley Kuhn		ifupdown2, the ultimate Network Interface Manager : progress and status by Julien Fortin
10:45 - 11:15	Tea/Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:00	Towards the formal verification of maintainer scripts by Ralf Treinen	2 Years of Work of Paid Contributors in the Debian LTS Project by Raphaël Hertzog	GNU/screen comes to Debian Installer by Roger Shimizu	SPI BOF by Bdale Garbee
12:00 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 14:45	Software bundling sucks: Why we should embrace it anyway by Matthias Klumpp	Decentralized communications with Ring by Alexandre Viau & Simon Désaulniers	Using Debian Money to Fund Debian Projects by Raphaël Hertzog & Mehdi Dogguy	Packaging tutorial - newcomers welcome! by Alba Crespi	Secure Boot for Debian Linux by Ben Hutchings
15:00 - 15:45	Live demos by Nattie Mayer-Hutchings	Testing Debian-Installer using jenkins.debian.{net,org} by Philip Hands	Free Software Foundation Members talk about the FSF and Debian by John Sullivan	(...BoF continued)	Secure Boot BoF by nicoo & Ben Hutchings
15:45 - 16:10	Tea/Coffee Break
16:10 - 16:30	DebConf17 by Jerome Charaoui, et al.		Long Term Support (LTS) by Santiago Ruano Rincón	pristine-tar BoF by Antonio Terceiro
16:40 - 17:00	DebConf18 Proposals by Didier Raboud		(...BoF continued)	(...BoF continued)
17:15 - 18:00		OpenStack, update in Debian, Gerrit, Jenkins, and CI/CD for packages by Thomas Goirand		Future development of Wine (the Windows API) in Debian (and Ubuntu) by Jens Reyer
19:00 - 21:00	Dinner

Saturday (09 jul)
Time	Menzies 9	Menzies 10	Menzies 12	Menzies 11	Menzies 13	Elsewhere
07:30 - 09:30	Breakfast
10:00 - 10:45	Food for thought: Is free software vegan and open source vegetarian? by John Sullivan
10:45 - 11:10	Tea/Coffee Break
11:10 - 11:40	Chaoskey - A Hardware Random Number Generator for Everyone by Bdale Garbee & Keith Packard	DUCK - The Debian Url ChecKer by Simon Kainz	DebConf Handover BoF by Mehdi Dogguy	Publicly-auditable/editable services by nicoo & Nicolas Dandrimont	Cross-toolchain BoF by Ben Hutchings & Matthias Klose
11:40 - 12:00		Debsources on Mobile: all the source code in your phone! by Matthieu Caneill	(...BoF continued)	(...BoF continued)	(...BoF continued)
12:00 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:00	Closing Ceremony by Stefano Rivera
18:00 - 20:00	Dinner