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Thank you for coming with us! So...

All right. How many have heard about the Google
Summer of Code?

Already, if you are not aware, I could be
introducing more about what is it and

and then talk more about what we are going
to do in the session

So, can you raise the hand

if you are already aware of the Google Summer of Code?

OK!

Thank you - I think most of you are aware,

it's bringing the student developers

into the open source community, it's all about that

So, the session is going to be

mostly the students introducing their projects

and getting the feedback, and discussing with their mentors.

If they are getting any questions from IRC, they can discuss

How they can improve the project in their

...Their ongoing projects.

OK. so let me introduce about myself. I am Jaminy,

So, I come from Sri Lanka

I am one of the coordinators for
Google Summer of Code with Debian

So, Debian has been participating in the Google Summer of Code

from 2005, and

it has been 13 years it has been participating,

and we had a break in 2017

and now we are back in 2018 with Google Summer of Code

and these are the teams for GSoC coordination

I am representing the team

Daniel Pocock, Alexander, and it's me

This year, we have accepted 25 students

And that's the link for the projects

that are ongoing this year

So, there is an interesting GSoC statistic this year

this year we have selected

I mean, this was from the Google Open Source blog,

and they said there are three students

Four students accepted from Kosovo

And...

The three students are from our Debian community, and they are here joining us

joining with us,

to introduce more about their project

I hope that, without wasting more time,

I could give the chance for the students to introduce,

to talk more about their projects.

Arthur, can you...

[ audience clapping ]

So, you hear me? OK?

Yes? Nice.

So...

Hello, my name is Arthur del Esposto

I am going to talk about my GSoC project

that is titled "Improving Distro Tracker to better support Debian teams"

My mentor is Lucas Kanashiro and my co-mentor is Raphael Hertzog.

I will provide you some context about why we are doing this.

So, basically,

Debian teams used to rely on Packages Entropy Tracker

with the assistance that basically got some information about

the package from Debian, from Alioth,

and display some kind of information

inside tables and some categories.

And we also had inside our Debian infrastructure

the tracker.debian.org, which you probably have used before,

that basically gathers the same sort of information from several sources inside Debian

and puts this in a Web application.

So, for example, you have the base

of a specific package, the Web defaults,

and you can get all the information related to that package.

And what we want to do, because...

that has not been maintained anymore

and also, he used to track the

package repository from Alioth.

And what we really want to do

is just continuing to support Debian teams
to track the health of the packages and to

and to prioritize their work efforts

by migrating the PET features

to Distro Tracker, and also

we want to track Salsa repositories instead of Alioth.

So, what are the results we have so far?

So, basically...

if you enter a team page,

of anything inside Distro Tracker

you are going to get this kind of table

so basically you have the first column

with the package name

the second column with the changelog version

and the VCS of that package,

the third column with the archive version,

we also are tracking the bugs here

and the last column

has the upstream version.

OK, of this package.

And, another interesting feature

that we are providing you is that if

you pass the mouse over

one of those fields, you are going to get

more detailed information about that specific field.

OK, so for example here we have

the information links to BTS

related to the bugs

that exist for the package.

We also provide some categories

so basically we could have

more than one category of package tables

for example, you could have like

packages with RC bugs,

packages that have a new version

in the upstream, and we have

specific pages where each of these

package tables. OK?

And we have

a large number of teams

inside Debian, inside this specifically
inside the Distro Tracker,

so we also provide this

autocomplete text field

so you can easily find

your team, the team that you are interested in.

And...

that was my resource, and so far we have

faced some challenges,

first is that Distro Tracker

has a generic purpose architecture

because it should be used by several

distros, so it's also being

used by the Kali community, so basically

everything you are going to do you have
to make it extensible, have to design it

to be extensible by this specific application

that implements that specific features from

their distros.

Also, the database design is challenging, because

we have to collect all this data from several

database tables

and some of these

context is realized in JSON fields inside the database

so it's not easy to get these. And also,

we have faced some problems,

some performance problems, because we are

we are handling a large number of table cells

dynamically, so basically we are building

it of these table cells

in run time.

And, until the end of GSoC, I plan to

create a cache mechanism, I am already

working on that, proposed a merge request on it,

to try to improve the performance of

table rendering

I also want to have all my

merge requests accepted

inside Salsa

We also want to provide more

package tables with new categories

and also provide a new feature that

you could be able to sort the team

for content based on columns, for example

I want to sort my

my table based on

on the number of bugs, for example.

And there is also that we

got good results so far, and

I have received valuable feedback from the Debian community

and I have a lot of ideas to continue

working on this after the GSoC as well

The GSoC has been

an amazing experience, I have been learning a lot,

which Kanashiro has had to log all the
community members

I look into contributing to Debian

of course

Thank you to the Debian community to

provide me this opportunity to come here to DebConf

to present my work.

Lets get moving on, and thanks.

[ audience clapping ]

So, my project is called

"Port Kali Packages to Debian"

and my mentors are Raphaël Hertzog
and Gianfranco Costamagna.

Unfortunately, they didn't come to

this year's DebConf, and

we are from the pkg-security

tools packaging team, so this is

something I have been working on

for the past one year and a half

I think I started packaging

on 2016

and in 2017 I started

working on the security tools packaging

because this is something that really

interests me, so

What actually is Kali Linux?

Kali Linux is a digital
forensics and pentesting distribution

that has like lots of packages

is by far

the most used distribution

for "capture-the-flag" competitions

and is based on unstable

and the thing is that Kali has

a more relaxed policy

than Debian's, so that's the reason

of the

differences between the packages

I mean, the packages that Kali has and Debian hasn't

so, at first

I did gather some information about

what packages can I work on

and what are the problems

that it should rather get them on Main

So, I first started using

this dashboard from Kali Linux, and they have

also used the tracker system that we
use on Debian

and this is a special dashboard

where we can see how many

packages are on Kali Linux that

aren't on Debian

at the time, and this is for today, so there are

477 packages

but this includes dependencies

and lots of packages are not

that really important, and

some of them are not installed by default on Kali

So, the first thing,

I already knew some packages that

I really would like to see on Debian, and

the first one was Metasploit

because it's one of the most used

frameworks for pentesting

I have started by looking at

what should I do

and it was a really tough job

because Metasploit is currently

bundling all their gem dependencies

Because of, this is a huge problem

there was a big discussion

n the Debian mailing lists about that,

but whatever, I use repology

in order to see what distros

were already packaging this stuff

and at the end, there should

be around 40 packages

that I had to package in order

to see if it would work, because

you have the version problem, because

bundling the distro version, and

we decided not to do that

during this project, so I

had to look for other packages

and I didn't want to

do this manually, so I

developed a

kind of big shell script

it shouldn't be a shell script, it should be in

a programming language, but

got big worked on, and to this

scripts I give

I input it a list of packages, and it

cloned all the Kali

Git repositories for this package,

build each one of them, and did

some basic checks, like if

it is a default

Kali package, if it's

buildable, because some of the packages

are not buildable because we don't have

the build dependencies in Debian right now,

it checks if it is DEP5 compliant already,

if we need manpages, if we need

hardening, if

it is bundling some gems, and if

there are [?], there is about

twenty or thirty something

columns on here

so you have lots of info

and in order to know

which are the most important issues

Raphaël gave me the idea to

look for the number of uploads that

the package had since

it hit Kali, so I

can only

just sort for the number of uploads

and I have the most important ones.

This made the process

really easy, like a lot more

easy, and I

am publishing this on our team's

wiki page, and I will keep using this

like, forever

because it really helps other people that

want to contribute to our team, and

this is another software

that I tried, how many time do I have?

OK

another package that I really want to

see on Debian is zaproxy, and

for zaproxy,

I had to do a manual checking, because it is

a Java program, and

Java has... I really don't like Java, so

they bundle like

...zaproxy is great software, but

they bundle some

libraries, and I

talked to upstream, and they are very

receptive, and they

want to help us, but

I didn't manage to package it yet,

I think I will do it after GSoC

but there are

some packages that we need to introduce

on Debian. Some of the packages that zaproxy

upstream is thinking about

dropping them, and putting just
on the extensions, because

the core doesn't need them
and some of the packages are old

and stuff like that, we have

there is a lot of problems
that you can have

like... there was a

package which was GPL licensed

but it was linking against

OpenSSL, and in order

to do that, you have to either add

a license exception to your license

And I talked to upstream, and

it cooperative upstream,

it is a software which is used

to break

WiFi password,

like, doing offline cracking

and upsream decided to change its license

to BSD license

so we could release that on Debian. I

can't remember right now if it's on the NEW queue

or if it already hit

unstable, but I think is on the NEW queue.

So, in the end,

the results are, I made the script,

which is going to be used by

some time. There are some

fixes that can be

We have to do on the script to
make it better

to make the checking better, because

we still have some corner cases where

it doesn't work really well,

we got some new packages in Debian,

which is really good. I have to

make some upstream contributions, because

for some packages I wrote

their manpage, and I sent it

to upstream, there was this

company of software that

changed its licensing to be like

correctly compliant with

OpenSSL license, and

and we got now a better

Kali and Debian for its users, because

when a package is just

in Kali, they don't like

to do hardening,

that's one example of things that

gets better when the package hits Debian

because when we enable hardening

sometimes we see problems that makes
the package to

fail to build, and then we fix that,

upload to Debian, and when the package hits

unstable, Kali starts

taking this package from Debian, and

they can use our infrastructure

to do some QA

and stuff like that, and they

there are two people from Kali that I know at least,

Raphaël and Sophie, and they work

on Debian also, on our team, so

when there's a new release, they upload

the release on Debian,

so Debian users win

by that also, and

they already did lots of work

on their packages, so

yes, I think that's

the summary of the results

Thank you.

[ audience clapping ]

Hello, I am Enkelena Haxhiu

I am from the Republic of Kosovo, and

I am here to represent my Google Summer of Code

project. My mentors are

Bruno Milena and Gabriela.

So, my project is

a Mozilla Firefox

web extension to

give free and...

to give free software alternatives

to the apps on the Internet, so to have

avoiding non-free

apps and sites.

So, the goals for this project

were that

while the user is surfing

on the Internet, the moment that he

uses a non-free

software,

my extension will detect it

and then give an

alternative to it, a free software alternative.

The user should be able

to stop it when it's annoying,

and the notifications should be

only once per session,

and we wanted to have like a

database through self-hosted

API, or to use

a free software device

and then all this database

show it on our Web page.

I started by making

the user experience design,

based on that, because

should work like, should work fine,

I made some sketches and mockups

and then the persona

and then the finding the bad habits of apps,

like research, and

I started implementing it by

coding it, I used Mozilla

API to make my extension

communicate with the Web browser API

I created a

JSON data file, it's like

a proof of concept to just take

the data, because this is going to be

later in a real database.

So the code

logic, do

select and display the alternatives

based on the current

active website, is that

we should get the URL,

identify it by sending...

Identify it, and then to send

to that JSON file, check

and, based on

that, to give an alternative.

If it exists, of course. We did

We don't want to annoy the user

like, to show too much notifications

so we made it only once

per session for the current app,

and it has the ability to

stop and start it. We use the

local storage to hold the

user settings

and then we have to present this

free software list through

a web page that is generated by

that database.

This is like a simple diagram

of basically what I just said.

These are some screenshots with words

for example, Dropbox is a nonfree

software, and this is

the notification that it gets

it says, "Dropbox has open source alternatives

like seafile",

and then, I have here

the web page that it gets

the extension popup

and all these things. This is how it looks like.

And then, i made a project website

which holds all the data

I made the design of it and

the frontend and the data generation.

I plan to leave this open

so developers can add stuff there

to the database, and then

generates it, and

it goes, like, right away to the

to the project website.

I don't need to hard-code...

hard-code it or something.

Then I made the documentation of it,

I split it into three sections,

in the information about the project,

general things,

what's the purpose, how it works, and

the second one is the contribution,

how can developers contribute

to it, and the third one

is about

the technical aspects, like

debugging, and cloning the repo for new

developers. So this is like

an example of it.

And for the future,

I plan to continue my

project, even after GSoC

the first thing I need to do

like, probably now, I am

going to put it in the

Mozilla Firefox market,

and later I can make it

for other browsers like Chromium

but we need to change the

API there, and I thought

the package could get in Debian, because

while I was here, I learnt about

packaging and

upstreaming and all that stuff, so

I think I am probably going to do that

but not for now, because I want

my users to be

like, all Internet users, not just

Debian operating system users.

Another thing is that I want

it to be integrated with other free

software services, like SUSI

artificial intelligence, and

Thunderbird in upstream

SUSI is a

speaking and texting artificial

intelligence that gives you responses

and I plan to use

that giving the suggestions

by speech.

On my extension,

with Thunderbird I felt it to be

like, to work

like in Mozilla, but, you know, when a

user gets an e-mail from a non-free side,

then it should

send a suggestion,

"use this, don't use this", like

I just basically explained,

and with upstream, I thought that

all my database should be

there, to put it there, and

it could help upstream, and it can

it could help me.

Here, I have my

experience with Debian, I heard about Debian

last year, in a girl's hackathon

and then later

in Tirana, in Albania, where

in a Debian bugs squashing party,

a DD was there, and

we planned on

-- sorry --

working a bit more than

With Daniel Pocock we had

we made...

A speech together, we gave under

in the biggest open source conference

in the whole Balkans, it was about

Free Software. And about my project,

I read a whole book to

understsand it a little bit more, to be

more prepared. And I want to

thank the Debian people for giving me this

opportunity to talk here, in front of you,

and I hope I'll be a DD soon.

Thank you!

So... Yeah, it's working.

So, before... My name is Elena

Elena Gjevukaj, and I come from Kosovo.

Before I start,

to present my project, I want to mention that

this year in the GSoC is the first time

that our country is participating.

It was funny, because even when we had

applied for the GSoC, we had

to ask Google to add

our country in the list, so

you know how...

We thought that we didn't

have any more opportunities

or any...

we just thought they aren't going to accept us.

But hopefully for us, we have

a great mentor,

Daniel Pocock, I think many of you

guys know him,

and he helped us

with everything that we needed

for all of the applications

and everything else.

So, going back to my project,

My project

is basically what I just said

right now. So, knowing that

newcomers to the open source have a lot

of problems to,

to just set up

a development environment

and

that's why we wanted

to create...

to create a GUI

so my project is a new contributor...

contributor wizard

and is basically a GUI that

could be distributed as a

package, and

to help the newcomer

to Debian and open source

to start their work

on the open source projects.

For example, if you want to

apply in GSoC or Outreachy

or other programs like this

you will need a lot of things

because if you are a new person,

you are newcoming to Debian, or

any other version of

Linux, you will have a lot of

problems to start up, so

what we want to do with this

is to help students

to run this computer

program in their desktop

and have to understand

everything that they need, for example

they will need for sure, how to use

IRC, they will need

basically a blog to explain

their work or add portfolio on it,

so they will need

a PGP or

other things like this

that we usually use in open source

so, my part of the project

in this

in this month of

the Google Summer of Code,

was the blog module,

basically, I created

a module that will

generate automatically

...build dynamic and static websites.

And the other part

of it was that I did a lot of

research on what students

need for...

and we should include in the research

Another thing that I want to

mention is that students

don't know that much...

They have problems using the terminal

or installing

programs when they have usually installed Debian,

I will make sure

add that type of tutorials, or

for example

description of something

that will help them, how

to proceed and apply, and

maybe be a successful applicant

for GSoC. So, that's it.

Thank you!

[ audience clapping ]

Hello everyone!

My name is Diellza Shabani

and I also come from Kosovo,

I am a student of Computer Science

and Engineering,

I'm finishing my studies

this year hopefully,

so I am also doing

a Google Summer of Code project,

I haven't prepared any slides,

because I

didn't see it necessary,

so, my project's name is

"Click to dial up from

Linux Desktop", and

my mentor is Thomas Levine,

he couldn't join us

at the conference this year,

so, what I have been

working on this project is that

we are three students

in this project, because it's really

a big thing, we started

working in this last year

in the [?] hackathon,

in [?],

we started doing the project

in Python first,

we did some

pop-ups and some really basic things,

...So,

we thought to continue that, but

now that the project is

bigger, and there are three students

doing this, it is separated

in two different things, and

the two other students

are doing something else,

and we plan to do

something like mobile

application,

but still haven't figured it out.

For the moment, we are

doing only a website,

a Web application,

and

we are working on

the existing projects

that Google Summer of Code students have

done before, like Omnitel

and Lumicall

I am basically working on them

and making changes, an doing

task classes

and methods, so...

After we finish that, I think

we will continue with the website, and

hopefully,

because the GSoC is really

coming to an end,

and we have not very much time

left. But...

After this, we will probably be working

in doing the mobile app.

However, this is

all I have to tell

right now about my project

the opportunity to be here and to

present for you guys.

Thank you.

[ audience clapping ]

OK, so... Can you hear me?

So, hi everyone!

I am not actually a Google Summer of Code student,

but I have been an Outreachy intern

around one year ago.

So, first

before continuing my

talk, I'd like to ask

how many of you are coming from

a social background, and has not
finished for computer science or

science-related?

OK, great.

So we got three other people

in the audience. So

I am Kristi Progri, and I am actually,

I finished my university for

international affairs and diplomacy

and in the beginning I thought

that this was exactly the school,

that I'd never ever find something

to do with my life,

but then, I thought that, OK,

probably it would be nice

if I could just merge it with

something that is tech-related,

and free software, since during that time

I was also part of the

free software community

I ended up in the end having a diploma

thesis for on-line diplomacy,

and this was

what kind of opened

the doors further to

continue, and to get

to know more

for political and Internet.

So, I applied

in Mozilla

in a team for taking part

in the Outreachy, working with the

diversity and inclusion team there,

building up the

strategy for conducting

first language interviews, since

one of the barriers that we had during

all this time was that

people coming from different...

different countries

and not speaking

everyone by default English, so

trying to have a strategy

on how to conduct the language...

On how to conduct interviews, and

to grow up communities in the local

aspect, to really help to

take further steps to

all the free software initiatives, and

everything that's regarding to that.

So

this was

kind of the aspect from the field

doing on the Outreachy. For those

who don't know Outreachy, it's

exactly... It is an intership that

that lasts for three months,

it happens twice per year,

it has

kind of the same ideology

as the Google Summer of Code, but

it's also for people that

are not students but have

finished their

studies.

and besides Outreachy and

the Google Summer of Code, there also

are initiatives that

help out students

to continue and

getting on more knowledge regarding

the free software, such as

Rails' Girls Summer of Code,

I don't know if you have heard about that, it is

an internship happening on the

during the summer, it lasts

for three months,

three months I think,

and it's actually

only regarding coding. But

until now, I think, for as far

as I know, Outreachy is the only one

that can,

that requires also people that do not have

technical

skills, or at least that have

not finished for it,

any technical

subject or degree.

So, this was also

my short presentation

to say, and the

last one I think for the session, so

there is anyone in the audience

who'd like to make a question, any

suggestion or comment, please feel free

and thank you very much for

being here.

[ audience clapping ]

[Delib:] Hello. Jaminy,

So many of us are so interested in the

the edges of Debian,

and who is coming, and are they
staying

and you have met

so many mentees,

and talked with so many mentors. Could you share

with us a little bit about

what is working well and

what might work a little better

in the future?

[Jaminy:] So, there are many newcomers

coming from Google Summer of Code,

I think the main thing

that actually happens is they should be

keep motivated and keep working on

after the Google Summer of Code,

I feel that would be one of the

major things they have to do

even after the Google Summer of Code

[Delib:] Do you have ideas of how

community members or the mentors

could do things differently, so that

they could stay more motivated?

Stay more interested?

[Jaminy:] I think the mentors, it's all about the communication,

I think they should keep communicating

with the students and keep them

giving suggestions

and advising

them, how can they improve further on

their projects,

and how they can keep moving

keep... Moving on

further with the project.

[Delib:] So, listening to what their interests are,

and giving them ideas on how to

pursue those interests?

[Jaminy:] Yes.

[Tassia:] I have a question: Is it

...I have the impression that I might be wrong, so

[Jaminy:] Do you have questions for me, or

for students? [Tassia:] For you.

[Jaminy:] OK.

[Tassia:] Sorry [both laugh]

But just, for

what I've been following, for

the past years, I thing that when students

enter work with a team

my impression is that it's easier

for them to continue working afterwards.

Is it

in comparison when

there are ad-hoc projects

that some times don't

continue being developed,

and I think,

then the motivation might probably...

Do you perceive it? Or

you don't think it makes sense?

[Jaminy:] Currently I'm not, but I hope

to continue after my...

Now I'm currently doing early career,

so I would prefer continuing

later.

[Tassia:] No, sorry, I think you didn't understand my question.

It was about the projects

within teams,

like, lets say, the students that work with

the Perl team, or that work inside

another team

in comparison with just

one mentor and one

mentee

and if that

reflects on the

motivation of the student to continue

doing work for Debian

afterwards. Do you thing there is

a relation, or not?

[Jaminy:] Yes, I think there

is, I mean, the

mentor-mentee relations keeps

going on?

Eventually they get your question probably?

[Delib:] Do you think it's easier for students

to be part of a team, instead of

just one mentor?

[Jaminy:] Yes, I think they

get valious knowledge, so it's better to

be in a team

than sticking to one mentor.

[Andreas:] Do we have some

statistics? How many of

the students have entered Debian?

or not? Because I have had three

GSoC students, and three Outreachy

students, and

none of them

really remained there. They are intererested,

they are using Debian, but

my experience

or the result of my experience

was that I tried to give them tasks

which are easy to end,

which are small tasks,

and if they go, then that's not

... How many people stayed in Debian?

[Jaminy:] You mean...

You mean, from the past?

[Andreas:] How many people stayed in Debian?

of the students?

From the past, yes.

[?:] I think you can answer

after the session, because

we run out of time.

[Jaminy:] OK. I'd like to take this opportunity

to thank all the mentors

who made this program successful.

And you can feel free to talk to students

after the session, and give them

suggestions or feedback.

Thank you!

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