The Call for Papers has ended and the schedule is now up for the four in one event that is gonna take place soon in Prague. The full schedule of all the co-hosted conferences can be found here! Don’t forget to register!
Gentoo Miniconf: It will take place on Saturday and Sunday with a plethora of amazing talks by experienced Developers and Contributors, all around Gentoo, targeting both desktop and server environments!
On Saturday morning Fabian Groffen, Gentoo Council member, along with Robin H. Johnson, member of the Board of Trustees, will give us a quick view of how those two highest authorities manage the whole project. Afterwards there are going to be a few talks regarding various topics, like managing your home directory, the KDE team workflow, the important topic of Security and a benchmarking suite, all performed by important people for the project. A cool Catalyst workshop will be next, followed by a workshop regarding Gentoo Prefix, and at the end we’re going to participate on BoFs regarding the Infrastructure and the Gentoo PR, which will cover hot topics, like the Git migration and our website.
On Sunday we’ll see how a large company (IsoHunt) uses Gentoo, the tools it has developed and the problems it has encountered. Then, a cool talk about 3D games and graphic performance is going to take place, followed by a presentation on SHA1 and OpenPGP, which is the precursor of the Key Signing Party!! The second part of the Catalyst workshop is next, along with a Puppet workshop. At the end there are again two BoFs, the first about automated testing and the second about how we can grab more contributors and enlarge our cool project.
And a sneak peek on the other co-hosted conferences:
Future Media, which will be held on Saturday is a special feature track talking about the influence of developments in technology, social media and design on society. It will have talks like the future of Wikipedia and Open Data in general by Lydia Pintscher or using FOSS and open hardware for disaster relief by Shane Couglan.
The first day in the openSUSE Conference, Michael Meeks will tell you all aboutwhat’s new in LibreOffice, Klaas Freitag will give everyone a peek under the hood of ownCloud and for the more technical users, Stefan Seyfried will show you how to crash the Linux Kernel for fun and backtraces. Saturday night there’ll be a good party and the next day musician Sam Aaron will talk about Zen and how to Live Program music like he did during the party. Later, Libor Pecháček will explain the process of getting software from the community into commercial enterprises and at the end of the day Miguel Angel Barajas Watson will show us how a computer could win Jeopardy using SUSE, Power and Hadoop. The openSUSE event continues on Monday and Tuesday with many workshops and BoF sessions planned as well as a few large-room discussions about the future of the openSUSE development- and release process.
On Saturday the LinuxDays track features a number of Czech talks like an introduction to Gentoo by Tomáš Chvátal with his talk titled “if it moves, compile it!” (‘Pokud se to hýbe, zkompiluj to!’). Fedora is represented by Jiří Eischmann & Jaroslav Řezník later in the day. There also few real ninja-style talks about low-level programming like Petr Baudiš about low level programming and Thomas Renninger on modern CPU power usage monitoring (these both are in English). During the Saturday there will also be track of graphics workshops in Czech (Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus) followed by a 3D printing workshop (reprap!). Sunday is kicked of by Vojtěch Trefný explaining how to use Canonical’s Launchpad as a place to host your project (CZ). Those interested in networking will be taken care off by Pavel Šimerda (news from Linux Networking) and Radek Neužil who explains how to use networks securely (both CZ). You can also learn all about how to set up a Linux desktop/server solution for educational purposes (EN) and follow Vladimír Čunát talking about NixOS and the unique package manager this OS is build on. The LinuxDays track will be closed by Petr Krčmář (chief editor of root.cz) and Tomáš Matějíček (author of Slax) talking about future of Slax (CZ).
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