hello everyone and welcome to Portland
[aplausse]
on stage we have, you should know everybody up here already but
Steve: Introduce yourself first Patty: I dont want to introduce myself
Steve: This is Patty
[aplausse]
Patty: we have Steve Langasek, Geral Turner and case cook
They are the reason for everything
that goes right
anything that goes wrong, you can blame on ??
Steve: Well, you can blame it on Steve, I dont know if you can blame him
particularly
- Thats it - thats it
ok, so Patty had the honor to welcoming you all
to portland welcome to portland, welcomo to debconf14
its so good to see you here
hows it the weather
you getting enough rain?
did it met everybody's expectations?
So, who arrieved yesterday and had the chance to...
so people started to setteling in aclimatizing... dealing with jetlag
everybody's got some farmer's market this morning
enjoying the coffee from the coffee cart
and everything.. good!
yeah, its really good to have everybody here and
hopefully you are ready for some great sessions this week
we've got quite the line up
the schedule this year is different form whats been in the past
where rather than having a debcamp beforehand and a debconf
we casted 2 separated weeks
we are doing something were kinda intertiwing the two
and so we've got a schedule that allows for a full set of talks
but also some dedicated hack time
so, take advantage of that, do great stuff
enjoy the talks, talk to people, socialize
all the goodness. hopefully you will find the format
to your liking
and if you dont, we would like to hear that feedback as well
but, enjoy the conference... what else can i say
you stole my introduction, which i was going to introduce a little bit
the local team here, so, joel turner
all-around great guy, awesome community member here in portland
where is our cheesemaster??, which is one of the reasons why you should see his face
coming up we have the cheese and wine party
the traditional social event on monday
so if you dont want the cheese to melt
on your way to the venue, you probably wanna get it to him
before the evening of monday
so there will be information going on about that
but this is gerald, thank him for all his great work
on this conference
[applause]
and case cook, whose the master mind behind
behind getting us a network
for working on this conference
as you see, we are actually embedded
on the portland state network
so you are using stardard psu network infrastructure
rather than debconf instrastructure this year
hopefully thats holding up for everybody
we also have, wired hacklabs and other stuff
as well if its not working for you but..
hes trying to pass the credit to mike tiger
who i dont see on the audience
mike, if you are here, stand up!
mike!
also part of the local team who is local and hes in seattle
where the rain actually falls
other members of the local team
if you could just stand up now and show your faces
pietro, tony,... yeah weve got
very commited team that put this conference together
and thank you all
Patty: they should be standing here with us
Steve: we dont need to punish everybody
anyway, what else can i say
i do have a list of announcements
will the owner of a white cheeves... no... ah
patty: nobody is going to get that
Steve: I think they have cars on other countries too... that joke ??
I dont know
announcements, first of all if you are sitting on this room
you are not of the off camera area
so just so you know, the set up this year
do the orientations of the rooms and what not
in order to be able to see audience members
speaking on camera as well as
effectively the actual rooms
are 100% you might be film
so, if you are concern about being filmed
you take advantage of the hacklabs
we have live streams for all of the talks, so you
be able to ?? remotely
in theory if you are concern about being
not captured on camera, you are not going to be
standing up and asking questions
hopefully, this works for everybody
if there are any concerns about it, you can come
talk to me about it and we can try to figure out
what can work for you better if thats
not a solution
adhoc talks schedulings. so part of what is going on here
is we do have, during our blocks of hacktime, we know
hacking is not a solo activity necesarily
so we want to give you the opportunity to schedule spaces
where you can sit down and have small groups discussions
and what not so all of the rooms will be availables for that
during the periods of time which are blocked as hacktime
on the schedule
the scheduling for those rooms will be done on the wiki
the pages will be open for scheduling 24 hours in advance
in order to make sure it is in fact ad hoc and not people
squating the rooms for those kind of things
but its available, so if you think
oh, geez, id be good to have a place where we can
have a meeting about this thing, thats avaiable to you as well
debconf-discuss, if you are not subscribed, it is recommended
that youd be
just in terms of ?? information during the conference
we try to get major things send out to debconf-announce
so times theres a little of delay until these things are get out
so debconf-discuss also... you know, theres a lot of information
going around that doesnt necesarily comes from the organizers
as organizers, but its useful for people to know about
so if you want to tap in whats going on
debconf-discuss, please make sure you subscribe
its a very useful resource during the conference
to keep track of whats going on
other stuff, you know, if theres anything
that you are not sure about, the frontdesk
which im not sure... any frontdesk people here in the audience?
yes, right back there theres frontdesk people
so get them a round of applause
[applause]
they do a tremendous work every year of
making sure the conference runs smoothly and they are the only
fixed point whthin the entire system where people can go to and
coordinate, so if you are not sure where something is
or someone is or whats going on
the frontdesk is there, its just down the hall
its labeled frontdesk, etc
and its a nexus... the brain of the conference right there
we have a couple of changes of the schedule which happens late
that i want to make sure people knows about
there was some confusion about available meal times
which lead to a lead change to our dinner schedule
as well as our evening talks schedule
so rather than have the last talk of the day being from 5 to 5:45
it turns out the dinners at university's cafeteria is going to be served
from 5 to 5:30, so rather than having everybody
rush to get served in a 45 minutes block after the last talk
the last talk of the evening each day is going to be from 7 to 7:45
and that takes effect starting today so we will have dinner at 5
and an after dinner talk at 7
you might have noticed as well if you are in sponsored food
that there was a bit of a problem this morning with
the branch opening times, my apologies, there was some
miscommunication issues with the university about that
we beliveve we have straighnen that out
so going forward the meal times are documented on the wiki
and on the schedule brunch starting, it should start at 11
to 13:30 i believe is the correct time
dont take my work for it. the wiki and the schedule knows better
than i do
theres also the coffee, i think i eluded to that early
we organized coffee to make available to all atendees
if you show your badge, the drip coffee and expresso
and ?? tea wich ?? latte, which is only two blocks
and im going to point the right way, two blocks that way
its a nice little coffee card, if you have never been to portland before
carts are a thing here... food carts, beverage carts
its the way to go. so theres a coffee cart under the parking garage
so its great coffee, who here had the coffee already?
Patty: whos desapointed with it?
Steve: oh, nobody is desapointed
or nobody will admit to it in front of patty
[laughs]
so yeah, take advantage of that its
sponsored by the conference, choice of drinks, etc,...
and they give you a discount if you want somethin other than those
basic drinks as well
okay, i need to ask about volunteers about the cheese and wine party
i just asked for volunteers for the cheese and wine party
so, im asking for volunteers for the cheese and wine party
we do need people to help with, i believe is the moving
of things and set up, so if you are going to be available on tuesday
monday, 6 pm, we want some volunteers for that
and gerald is going to be the person
to, with coordinate as well
and i believe we are going to have some announcement
mail with more details going out today/ tomorrowish
to try to ?? the details on that
last thing i have, we do have 2 hacklabs
if you have only seen this floor of the building so far
well, we have 2 hacklabs, and we have the balcony, and we have the park
and all these other wonderful spaces that are available
the psu campus where you can feel absolutely free to hack
but if you have only seen this floor
you should be aware, theres a second hacklab which is downstaris
the room numbers 238 and if you go down the stairs basically is this way
and its called the browsie launch ??
you'll see that sign first
but that is available to you
specially since this hacklab overhere which is room 333
theres some issues with the climate control in there
we have shade missing in one corner so
its getting a lot of sun in the afternoons
and its supposed to be rather warm this week
so you might find yourself getting rather warm
be aware that air conditioning is working great in room 38
as far as i can tell, so, thats available to you
and it will only cost you a short walk down the stairs or a short elevator trip to get there
theres been an announcement on debconf-announcement
i think, the late night hacklabs
this building closes at 10 pm everyday
they are keeping it open for us passed normal hours
so we are able to make use of it, it normally closes at 6pm
on sunday, we are keeping it open until 10pm
for the conference so you will have access to this space
however after 10 pm everybody have to be out of this building
which means obviosly, since hacking doesnt obey
time zones or schedules, we need to make sure that we
are providing for you and the solution we have in place is
the broadway residence hall, which is where most of the people staying on campus
are staying, that building on the second floor
which you get to through the 6 avenue entry, instead of the jackson streen entry
so not the residential entrance, but the other entrance
where you checked in, that seconf floor is basically
available for our use
there are various lunge chairs, there actually classrooms that are available
if you want a more sturdy hacking space
feel free to use that in the evenings
if you are not staying on campus, you will not be able to get into
that building on your own after 8 pm, i trust that you are all
capable of organazing a solution
ive never known debian people had any dificulty organizing around anything
so, body up with somebody that is staying in the dorms
feel free to come by
its just a matter that you will not be able to get to the building
but you are welcome to come over there and make use of that space
everybody that is coming to the conference is welcome to use that space
after... well 24h
and that is all i have, and i think
i have steve mcentire ?? had some announcement
anything else?
once again, welcome to debconf and i handle over to uncle steve
oh, this thign is on, wow
so a lot of people probably have noticed we had quite
heated discussions in debian in the last year or so
?? plenty who hasnt
theres been a lot of disccusion going on, theres some people
have got very very tired of it, theres have been some strong words
in the middle of all however, there has been at least one person
who seems to be able to keep his head, has not really
well, lost its cool at all that we can see
i know from talking to him in another venues as well
hes being going through a massive amount of stress at work
he just changed employers recently and everything
well, that hasnt spill over at all in terms on hows hes dealing with other people
in debian
and i know i have been very impressed, a lot of us have
and we have a little something to show appreciation
russ, are you here?
[applauses] please come up
so this is very much instigated from some of the folks in the uk
and in particular ?? cant be here this week so
he trusted this to me
??, my good friend from the uk as well
was responsible for doing some of the manufacturing of this
but russ, in conmemoration of your massive patience
we would like to present you with the debcon
ill let him read it outloud
russ: oh, this is great, because now i dont have to decide what to say
debcon5, discussions happens threads are short, problems get solved
threads get long, arguments are repeated
debconf4, links to threads get posted on reddit and HN,
LWN writes articles
debcon3, trolls show up, listmasters ban people
debcon2, UN security committee meets
GRs are proposed and voted on
debcon1, laser cannons are launched into planetary orbit
russ gets midly annoyed
[applause]
Steve: i think thats it for us
in preparing the welcome talk i was a bit confused
because i didnt know what to say.. and when consulting with people
turns out this it is really it
which is how i manged to actually miss the welcome talk
for the last 3 debconfs running
because is short, sweet and out of the way
so... welcome and have a good conference
[applause]