Mini-debconf in Cambridge, UK. Thursday 23rd to Sunday 26th November 2017

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)

Please thank the following nice people:

Arm are hosting the conference, providing infrastructure etc. for us. BrightSign are sponsoring food for us. Codethink are sponsoring food for us. Tiger Computing 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) and Uber operate in Cambridge too.

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!

Lunch for Thursday and Friday is sponsored by ?BrightSign.

Please ensure that you hand your name badge in as you leave the site - this is essential to help us track who is still around.

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. 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.

Please ensure that you hand your name badge in as you leave the site - this is essential to help us track who is still around.

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 talk ideas, please mail Steve or Jo.

Saturday schedule

Times are in UTC.

08:30 Front desk open for arrival and registration

09:15 Steve McIntyre - Welcome to Cambridge!

09:30 Keith Edmunds - Building a £0.5M business on Debian

10:30 Matthew Vernon - Deploying and Managing Ceph at the Sanger Institute

11:30 Thomas Lange - Creating disk images using FAI

12:30 Lunch - sponsored by Tiger Computing

13:30 Lightning talks - see below Video

14:00 Vivek Das Mohapatra - Segregated dynamic linking with libcapsule

15:00 Ben Hutchings - What's new in the Linux kernel

16:00 Leif Lindholm - Developments in open system firmware

17:00 Steve McIntyre - Close

Sunday Schedule

Times are in UTC.

08:30 Front desk open for arrival and registration

09:15 Steve McIntyre - updates

09:30 Steve McIntyre - Debian in the Cloud

10:30 Guus Sliepen - Packaging non-free video drivers for ARM devices

11:30 Thomas Lange - My two cents on d-i

12:30 Group photo

12:35 Lunch - sponsored by Codethink

13:30 Lightning talks - see below Video

14:00 DebConf Videoteam - Sprint report

15:00 Jonathan Wiltshire - Bits from the Release Team

16:00 Neil McGovern - The Free Software Desktop to 2020 and beyond

17:00 Steve McIntyre - Close

Video

We will have some of the lovely DebConf Videoteam in Cambridge, streaming live and recording presentations for posterity. They will also have a sprint before the mini-DC.

The videos are archived:

https://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2017/mini-debconf-cambridge/

and if you want to ask questions remotely, join IRC - see below.

Lightning talks

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

Maximum 5 minutes talk time

Maximum 3 slides

Photos

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

Group photo



MCC17_GroupPhoto.jpeg

Copyright 2017 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, organisers reserve 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 Andrew Shadura andrewsh@d.o andrewsh Thu Mon certainly ? ? Y Y Y 04 ?LeifLindholm leif@eciton.net unixsmurf Lives in Cambridge Yes ? ? ? ? 05 ?JonathanWiltshire jmw@debian.org jmw Wed Sun Yes Y Y Y Y 06 VipulAgarwal va@vagarwal.net vagarwal Sat Sun Yes 3A740339DA6402DC N N Y Y 07 ?ReubenThomas rrt@sc3d.org rrt Sat Sun Yes 4C8EF3DA3FD37230 N N Y Y 08 Keith Edmunds talk to jmw - ?FriEve Sat Yes - N N Y N 09 Thomas Stewart thomas@stewarts.org.uk Pelalil Sat Sun Yes 85C85556CD617CF2 N N Y Y 10 Sam Morris sam@robots.org.uk - Sat Sun Yes 1855D20B42025CDA N N Y Y # Name E-Mail Nick Arrival Departure Confirmed (Long) PGP ID Thu Fri Sat Sun Dietary reqs (NOT prefs!) Notes 11 DanielSilverstone dsilvers@digital-scurf.org Kinnison Thu Sun Yes 3CCEBABE206C3B69 Y Y Y Y ♫ ♪ ♬ 12 EdwardMacnaghten eddy@edlsystems.com eddymac Thu Sun Yes Y Y Y Y 13 AndySimpkins rattusrattus @ d.o rattusrattus Lives in Cambridge Yes BB41D45770EF06F7 TBC TBC Y Y ?VideoTeam 14 ?JaneSimpkins jane-debian @ koipond.o Lives in Cambridge Yes N N Y Y FrontDesk 15 ?IsabelleSimpkins via Jane Lives in Cambridge Yes N N Y Y FrontDesk 16 Phil Morrell debian@emorrp1.name emorrp1 Sat Sun No 453F8D999F113609 N N Y Y Low dairy, no peanuts 17 ChrisBoot bootc@d.o bootc Wed Sun Yes F5C83C05D9CEEEEE Y Y Y Y Tree nut allergy 18 ?ThomasLange lange@d.o Mrfai Thu Sun Yes 2BF8D9FE074BCDE4 Y Y Y Y 19 LucyWayland aardvark@fnord.org.uk Aardvark Lives in Cambridge Yes B1E1F0A4DD24BF75 Y Y Y Y Pesco-veggie Coffee goblin 20 ?AndersRoxell anders.roxell@gmail.com roxell Fri Sun Yes N N Y Y # Name E-Mail Nick Arrival Departure Confirmed (Long) PGP ID Thu Fri Sat Sun Dietary reqs (NOT prefs!) Notes 21 MatthewVernon matthew@debian.org Sat Sat Yes 12F4D21C8F6A63C8 N N Y N 22 Javi Merino vicho@d.o vicho Lives in Cambridge Yes 07B48452768D3824 N N Y Y 23 NicolasDandrimont olasd@d.o olasd Mon 20th Mon 27th Yes B8E5087766475AAF Y Y Y Y 24 Mark Holmes j.m.holmes@me.com 3arn0wl Lives in Cambridge Yes ? N N Y Y 25 StefanoRivera stefanor@d.o tumbleweed Sun 19th Tue 28th Yes 51106DF5CD92D072 Y Y Y Y 26 PhilHands phil@hands.com fil Thu Sun Yes D04BA3A00125D5C0 Y Y Y Y 27 Guus Sliepen guus@d.o guus Mon 20th Mon 27th Yes 3F490DEB871EF9FA Y Y Y Y 28 Wookey wookey@d.o wookey Lives in Cambridge Yes FB863251A86F9E47 Y Y Y Y 29 James Cowgill jcowgill@d.o jcowgill Sat Sun Yes AEED6158020EAFFF N N Y Y 30 ?EdwardBetts edward@4angle.com edward Lives in Cambridge Yes 9605A1098C63B92A N N Y Y # Name E-Mail Nick Arrival Departure Confirmed (Long) PGP ID Thu Fri Sat Sun Dietary reqs (NOT prefs!) Notes 31 LouisPhilippeVeronneau pollo@debconf.org pollo 19th 27th Yes 7AEAC4EC6AAA0A97 Y Y Y Y Coming for the videoteam sprint 32 Ivo De Decker ivodd@d.o ivodd Mon Sun Yes Y Y Y Y 33 JamesClarke jrtc27@d.o jrtc27 Lives in Cambridge Yes B193770C186A1C7D N N Y Y 34 Niels Thykier niels@thykier.net nthykier Wed 22nd Mon 27th yes 054B BB9F 7D80 6442 Y Y Y Y 35 ?JulianGilbey jdg@debian.org jdg Sun Sun yes 59D03CC92BA0FEAE N N N Y bring my own 36 ?DavidLeggett david-debian at asguard . org dot uk Serbitar Sat Sun Yes N N Y Y Likely to bring cake 37 ?MikeCrowe mac ta mcrowe dotcom mac Lives in Cambridge Yes ?E69E606C22D84704 N N Y Y No cheese 38 ?RebeccaPalmer rebecca_palmer@zoho.com rnpalmer Lives in Cambridge ? ? Y Y Vegan 39 GuillaumeTucker gtucker@collabora.com gtucker Lives in Cambridge Yes 84C533B16770F683 Y ? N N Vegetarian 40 ?VivekDasmohapatra vivek@etla.org fledermaus Lives in Cambridge Yes E016D87C776DA51F N N Y Y # Name E-Mail Nick Arrival Departure Confirmed (Long) PGP ID Thu Fri Sat Sun Dietary reqs (NOT prefs!) Notes 41 BenHutchings benh@d.o bwh Wed Sun Yes Y Y Y Y Vegan 42 NattieMayerHutchings nattie@d.o nattie Sun 19 Sun Yes Y Y Y Y 43 NeilMcGovern neilm@d.o Maulkin Lives in Cambridge Yes 0x7F55BB12A40F862E N N Y Y 44 ?DavidMcBride david+debian@dwm.me.uk dwm Lives in Cambridge Cancelled 0x755DB828469F7FD8 N N N N 45 IanJackson ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk iwj Lives in Cambridge Yes Y Y Y Y 46 ?RichWareham rich.debian-wiki@richwareham.com rjw57 Lives in Cambridge Yes N N Y Y 47 ?JulienCristau jcristau@d.o jcristau 22nd 26th yes 7B27A3F1A6E18CD9588B4AE8310180050905E40C y y y y 48 ?VincentSanders vince@d.o kyllikki yes Y Y Y Y Enforced Veggy 49 AdamBarratt adsb@d.o adsb Wed Sun Yes 7203630E2C8E727251684FEBC5CE5DC2C542CD59 Y Y Y Y 50 CyrilBrulebois kibi@d.o kibi Wed Sun Yes B60EBF2984453C70D74CF478FF914AF0C2B35520 Y Y Y Y # Name E-Mail Nick Arrival Departure Confirmed (Long) PGP ID Thu Fri Sat Sun Dietary reqs (NOT prefs!) Notes 51 Christian Dreihsig christian.dreihsig@t-online.de n30dg Wed Mon Yes Y Y Y Y 52 Sebastian Humenda shumenda at gmx dot de moomoc Thu (evening) Sun Yes Y (late) Y Y Y 53 Neil Williams codehelp@debian.org codehelp Sat Sun Likely Y 54 Punit Agrawal punit@d.o punit Sat Sat Yes BD9E4CEC13FC34495682074EF5392FD213FBFEDD Y 55 Martin Michlmayr tbm@d.o tbm Sun Sun Yes N N N Y 56 Christopher J. Walker chrisw@chiark.greenend.org.uk Chris Sat Sun Yes N N Y Y 57 John Sturdy jcg.sturdy@gmail.com John Sat Sun Yes N N Y Y

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