Mini-debconf in Cambridge, UK. Thursday 10th to Sunday 13th November 2016

This page is for the 2016 event! Jump to the 2017 event.

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 80 people

The Location

We have space provided by ARM at their offices in Cambridge, UK. (Postcode: CB1 9NJ)

ARM are hosting the conference, providing infrastructure etc. for us. Codethink are sponsoring food for us. Hewlett Packard Enterprise are sponsoring food for us.

Getting there

Cambridge is easy for access by

Road (M11, A14)

Rail (45 mins to 1hr 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 C3.

There are also several companies offering cycle rental for easy travel around the city.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Sprint sessions - Thursday and Friday

We will be hosting these in the ARM3 Training Rooms. Each day we will have our room available from 09:00 to 17:30-ish. Look for the front desk in the reception area at the front of ARM3; we plan to have people there from 08:30 each day. Turn up and sign in directly in ARM3 please. BE AWARE that ARM is desperately short of parking space on site, so please do not plan to drive and park here for Thursday and Friday - there will be no spaces available for us.

We will end up working on the ARM ports and other ARM-related topics at the very least, but there's no reason to just stick to those. All are welcome!

Talks - Saturday and Sunday

We will relocate upstairs in ARM3 to the Lecture Theatre for the weekend sessions. Please turn up from 08:30 onwards. Again, we'll have a front desk in the reception area there. Please be sure to bring your badges from Thursday/Friday again if you already have them. Parking should be easy over the weekend with a mostly-empty campus.

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 who might be watching via video feed.

Also: if you have something you'd like to talk about but not big enough for a full slot, please feel free to sign up for a lightning session slot on the day on either Saturday or Sunday.

If you have another talk idea, please mail Steve.

Saturday schedule

Sunday Schedule

Video

The lovely DebConf video team came to Cambridge. There were live video streams, and the recordings are online at: http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2016/miniconf_cambridge16/

Lightning talks

To schedule a lightning talk, please talk to our lovely Front Desk people during the conference.

Photos

If you take photos, please feel free to add links here yourself!

Group photo



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Copyright 2016 Andy Simpkins CC BY-SA 4.0

Codes of Conduct and Anti-harassment

Debian and Debian event organisers are committed to a safe environment for all participants. All attendees are expected to treat all people and facilities with respect and help create a welcoming environment. If you notice behaviour that fails to meet this standard, please speak up and help to keep this event as respectful as we expect it to be.

If you are harassed and requests to stop are not successful, or notice a disrespectful environment, the organisers want to help. Please contact us at antiharassment@debian.org. We will treat your request with dignity and confidentiality, investigate, and take whatever actions appropriate. We can provide information on security, emergency services, transportation, alternative accommodations, or whatever else may be necessary. If mediation is not successful, DebConf reserves the right to to take action against those who do not cease unacceptable behaviour.

See the DebConf Code of Conduct and the Debian Code of Conduct.

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. If you're struggling to create a wiki account or to log in to add yourself here, please mail Steve and he'll help.

# Name E-Mail Nick Arrival Departure Confirmed (Long) PGP ID Thu Fri Sat Sun Dietary reqs (NOT prefs!) Notes 01 SteveMcIntyre 93sam@debian.org Sledge Lives in Cambridge Yes 587979573442684E Y Y Y Y 02 ?JoMcIntyre joanne@einval.com Randombird Lives in Cambridge Yes 2B99275E9EA6BD5E Y Y Y Y 03 ChrisLamb lamby@debian.org lamby Thursday 10th Sunday 13th Yes C2FE4BD271C139B86C533E461E953E27D4311E58 Y Y Y Y 04 MarkBrown broonie@debian.org broonie TBD TBD 90% 3F25 68AA C269 98F9 E813 ?A1C5 ?C3F4 36CA 30F5 D8EB Y Y Y Y 05 Steve Capper steven.capper@gmail.com ?SteveCapper Lives in Cambridge Yes ? ? Y N 06 Hui Zhou cnychou@gmail.com Lives in Cambridge Yes N N Y N 07 08 ChrisBoot bootc@d.o bootc Thu Fri 90% 8467 53CB 1921 3142 C56D C918 ?F5C8 3C05 D9CE EEEE Y Y Y Y Nut Allergy 09 NicolasDandrimont olasd@d.o olasd Wed evening Mon morning Y 791F 1239 6630 DD71 FD36 4375 ?B8E5 0877 6647 5AAF Y Y Y Y 10 Thomas Stewart thomas@stewarts.org.uk 12/11/2016 13/11/2016 Yes 217D 695D ACE2 AE40 F9FE ?B0C0 85C8 5556 CD61 7CF2 N N Y Y # Name E-Mail Nick Arrival Departure Confirmed (Long) PGP ID Thu Fri Sat Sun Dietary reqs (NOT prefs!) Notes 11 BalramP balbbrl@gmail.com Balu Menon Wed Evening Mon Morning Yes D3BC A1AE BF70 5FAE 1FD5 ?B8A3 13AA 27DD 0B0F ?E5A6 Y Y Y Y Veg Talk and demo session on IPA designed for Debian 12 Ivo De Decker ivodd@ ivodd TBD TBD Yes Y Y Y Y 13 AndySimpkins rattusrattus@d.o RattusRattus Lives in Cambridge Yes C0E6 366A 2050 781B 72A8 2ED5 BB41 D457 70EF 06F7 Y Y Y Y Video Team 14 Francesca Ciceri madamezou@d.o madamezou TBD TBD 90% A197 3520 49C1 BDBD A18E 763C DB68 6C92 ?D9D5 9F61 ? ? Y Y none video team 15 Jonathan Wiltshire jmw@d.o jmw Wed (late) Sun 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC 74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51 Y Y Y Y none 16 EdwardMacnaghten eddy@edlsystems.com eddymac Thursday Sumday Y Y Y Y none 17 ?DavidMcBride david+debian@dwm.me.uk dwm Lives in Cambridge Lives in Cambridge Yes N N Y Y none 18 LucyWayland aardvark@fnord.org.uk Aardvark Lives in Cambridge Yes 7132 F404 C283 9A37 3D82 A35C B1E1 F0A4 DD24 BF75 Y Y Y Y No meat Gopher 19 Andrew Shadura andrewsh@d.o andrewsh 10/11/2016 14/11/2016 Flights booked ? ± + + none 20 Martina Pospíšilová 10/11/2016 14/11/2016 Flights booked ? ± + + none # Name E-Mail Nick Arrival Departure Confirmed (Long) PGP ID Thu Fri Sat Sun Dietary reqs (NOT prefs!) Notes 21 Guus Sliepen guus@d.o guus 6/11/2016 14/11/2016 Yes 4D1B 7796 C03E 0831 991B DD42 3F49 0DEB 871E F9FA Y Y Y Y none 22 Anders Roxell anders.roxell@gmail.com 11/11/2016 14/11/2016 Flights booked N N Y Y 23 Jaminy Prabaharan jaminy02@gmail.com Jaminy Thursday morning Sunday evening No 105B 51A6 5AFB EFAC 9548 D63A 82F3 B237 F787 FFCE Y Y Y Y none 24 Reuben Thomas rrt@sc3d.org Reuben Saturday morning Sunday evening No 4C8EF3DA3FD37230 N N Y Y none 25 LarsWirzenius liw@liw.fi liw 2016-11-10 2016-11-13 Y 44E17740B8611E9C Y Y Y Y diabetic BACKUPS 26 James Cowgill jcowgill@d.o jcowgill Saturday Sunday Y AEED6158020EAFFF N N Y Y 27 Sam Pablo Kuper samxxpabloxxkuper_at_risexxup.nexxt (remove "xx") sampablokuper/modem_down TBD TBD TBD 13A99BBA9DF28B43 TBD TBD TBD TBD 28 Mike Crowe mac@mcrowe.com mac Lives in Cambridge Y E4936970D0972DF3 N N Y Y No cheese. 29 Daniel Pocock pocock Y ? ? Y Morning 30 Thomas Preissler tom@preissler.co.uk Tom Saturday Lives in Stevenage Y E3839138A11FFD2A N N Y N None # Name E-Mail Nick Arrival Departure Confirmed (Long) PGP ID Thu Fri Sat Sun Dietary reqs (NOT prefs!) Notes 31 Peter Green plugwash@d.o PlugWash TBD TBD Most likely 0C48EA2A7A8FFD7B ? ? ? ? 32 Phil Morrell debian@emorrp1.name emorrp1 Thursday morning Sunday evening Yes Y Y Y Y Low dairy, no peanuts 33 Bruno Magalhaes bruno@bfmags.com bfmags Saturday Lives in London Y ? ? Y Y 34 Ivan Dolgov ivan@dolgov.fi seismic Friday evening Monday morning Y 61726E19C6D5BA72 N N Y Y Millet allergy 35 Bob Easthope me@roberteasthope.co.uk Lives in Cambridge Y N N Y Y 36 Javi Merino vicho@d.o vicho 2016-11-11 2016-11-13 Y F434 1949 6DC7 B967 C36C 20FA 07B4 8452 768D 3824 N N Y Y 37 Adam Barratt adsb@d.o adsb Wednesday evening Sunday Y 7203 630E 2C8E 7272 5168 4FEB C5CE 5DC2 C542 CD59 Y Y Y Y 38 Lisa via adsb Jeffity Wednesday evening Sunday Y Y Y Y Y Coealiac (gluten free) 39 James Clarke jrtc27@jrtc27.com jrtc27 Lives in Cambridge Yes B193770C186A1C7D N N Y N 40 Iain R. Learmonth irl@debian.org irl ? ? Y 76D58093F540ABCD Y Y Y Y # Name E-Mail Nick Arrival Departure Confirmed (Long) PGP ID Thu Fri Sat Sun Dietary reqs (NOT prefs!) Notes 41 Ana Custura ana@netstat.org.uk ana.c ? ? Y 95146A1CBA141817 Y Y Y Y 42 Sam Morris sam@robots.org.uk Saturday Sunday Y CAAA AA1A CA69 A83A 892B 1855 D20B 4202 5CDA 27B9 N N Y Y N/A 43 Thomas Preud'homme robotux@d.o robotux Saturday Sunday Y 5F35 F67B AFA8 ?B6D5 81CA 08EB D003 852F BD52 529E N N Y Y N/A 44 Andrew Cater amacater@d.o amacater Weds eve Sunday Y Y Y Y Y 45 Daniel Silverstone dsilvers@digital-scurf.org Kinnison Weds eve Monday morn Y Y Y Y Y 46 David Leggett david-debconf@asguard.org.uk Serbitar Thurs eve Sun eve Y N Y Y Y 47 Rebecca Palmer rebecca_palmer@zoho.com Lives in Cambridge N N Y Y Vegan 48 Ian Jackson ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk Diziet Lives in Cambridge Yes Y Y Y morning 49 Steve Platt svp2@cam.ac.uk Splatt Saturday Saturday Y 2bddaefa3fe51495 No No Yes No n/a 50 Daniel Glassey wdg@d.o glasseyes Lives in Cambridge Y 049B 1033 AF06 0C5A N N Y Maybe # Name E-Mail Nick Arrival Departure Confirmed (Long) PGP ID Thu Fri Sat Sun Dietary reqs (NOT prefs!) Notes 51 Mark Rutland mark@markrutland.co.uk null Lives in Cambridge Y 8E4D C2D8 66B2 F832 A03E 1FCF DF7B 9865 F149 6248 N N Y Y 52 Stefano Rivera stefanor@d.o Wed Mon Y Y 8B5B D33F 542B C3FC 03D5 5A9A 5110 6DF5 CD92 D072 Y Y Y Y 53 Holger Levsen holger@d.o h01ger Sat Sun Yes Yes n n Y Y vegetarian 54 Dimitri John Ledkov xnox@d.o xnox Friday night Sun Yes Yes n n Y Y sushi & sake 55 Vince Sanders vince@d.o kyllikki n n Y Y Vegetarian 56 Christopher Walker chrisw@chiark.greenend.org.uk chrisw n n Y Y

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