Hi!
some of us might want to give talks or organize workshops there, so
let's coordinate about this. ETA for submission is June 15th.
Last year I organized a relatively general purpose BoF:
https://summit.debconf.org/debconf14/meeting/154/tails-bof/
... and most Debian folks know about Tails nowadays, so I think that
whatever we do this year should be light in terms of general
presentation of Tails, and rather focus on more specialized topics.
A BoF like
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Session:Contributing_to_Tails_by_working_on_Debian
might still make sense, but I'm not sure that even that would be
specialized enough to be interesting.
Ideas off the top of my head:
* I can check with Holger what's the status of his reusing of our test
suite framework, and if there's been any progress, then I'll
propose him to give a talk together about it. That could be
interesting technically for quite a few attendees, and would be
a good success story of Tails stuff being reused by Debian.
* Something about usability, if some of the people who are the most
involved in our efforts on that front plan either to attend, or to
contribute a lot to creating the talk that someone else would give.
Perhaps it's a bit too early, though: most the work made by
our -ux@ team hasn't reached implementation + validation in the
real-world yet. (And rehashing that usable security is important,
without an actual story about what it gives you to focus on that,
is probably a worn out topic today, hopefully.)
* A BoF about projects having both paid and volunteer contributors,
and how it can possibly work without killing your community, could
be interesting. I would definitely attend, and could help a bit
whoever feels like organizing and hosting the event to prepare it.
Maybe to be thought through with the people behind Squeeze-LTS?
(And maybe let's avoid discussing things here, that should instead be
discussed on pkg-apparmor-team@ ;)
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