MiniDebconf Cambridge - ARM, Cambridge 1115 8 November

Just had a really good couple of sessions: one from the DPL including Q&A, then a good overview of reproducible builds and where we are today  from Holger Levsen (h0lger) and Chris Lamb (lamby)

Then a 2 minute silence at 11.00 as is customary in the UK on this date.

Now Lucy Wayland - who says she has a brainful of IEEE754 from a few years ago working on safety-critical systems so she's unburdening by sharing with all of us - everything you wanted to know about floating point but were afraid to ask (and including a primer on signed/unsigned and fixed point as part of the explanation)

Steve Capper's Java presentation is unfortunately not going to take place, so this afternoon's live stream schedule will be different.

Coffee going down well.

Debian MiniConf Cambridge - ARM, November 8 0930

Auditorium fairly full - waiting for Bits from the DPL talk to kick off proceedings.

Thanks to ARM staff for getting me in, sat down, with coffee and ready to blog. Front desk friendly as ever ... and here we go.

Debian miniconf, Cambridge - ARM, 1430 7 November

A couple of good quick lightning talks from Dmitri Ledkovs, Daniel Silverstone and Phil Hands

A good talk on mass-deployment of Debian for Durham University's workstations. Cue a small huddle of people talking similar topics and exchanging useful information

Lars Wirzenius is now talking about how to speed up Obnam, his backup program.

Auditorium in silence - some of us heads down, hunched over  laptops, but laptop keyboards are silent these days.

Debconf, ARM, Cambridge - 1250 7 November

Lunchtime - full talks over for the minute. Lightning talks may happen soon-ish.

Isolated knots of people chatting: Video Sprint folk chatting about how much can be done in time for Debconf 2016 in South Africa in the break out room.

Three or four people on laptops immediately behind me. Activity never stops

Thanks go to ARM for the venue in a good auditorium space, and also to the other sponsors who have sponsored our lunches or other expenses - and the  staff here on the weekend / out of hours which I would guess is unusual.

Mini Debconf ARM Cambridge 1115 7 November

Between talks - coding and testing going on in the row infront of me - vmdebootstrap rework for Debian Live CD still going on.

Beaglebone SBC hanging from a Thinkpad in the row behind

Others talking - most getting coffee

Next up - Daniel Silverstone on Lua

Mini Debconf ARM CAmbridge 7 November 1022

Now watching Neil Williams (codehelp) on testing, continuous integration, ARM diversity and the problems of a huge spectrum of small ARM devices.

Mass testing == better for everyone using ARM but it's hard.

Betty Dall presented on HP Enterprise's The Machine as the first session: very interesting and dependent on ARM SoCs and Debian Linux. Linux running everywhere, even on huge hardware still being built.

Mini Debconf 2015 ARM Cambridge - ARM, 7 November

Belated thanks to the ARM folk who arranged car park spaces for me for Thursday and Friday. I'm mobility impaired so this made a huge difference.

Today is the more open day - not so much programming, more presentations and talks. Also being live streamed. http://video.debconf.org:8000/minidebconf.ogv

Schedule is slightly changed but the wiki is correct

The auditorium is pretty full even at 0925

Thanks as ever to front desk and the ARM security staff who have wekcined ** welcomed us. Here's to a good day

** typing on laptop balanced on lap