 Hello and Hello and welcome to this welcome session We decided to organize this welcome session to give everyone a basic set of tools to make the most out of the conference Both people who are new to debconf and people who have been to debconf before are welcome to participate Both people who are active in debbying and people who aren't yet are welcome to participate also people who Aren't yet Active in debbying and have no intention of being active in debbying are welcome to participate Everyone is welcome to participate We would like to create a situation in which people who don't know each other can relax and interact freely in a place That is welcoming and non-judgmental open to exchanges of opinions and experiences Everyone is free to choose how much to participate You can choose to interact or just to learn or to take some time off for yourself as you prefer And change your mind at any time This is true for this session as well as for the rest of the conference and it includes games of mal For anything that is not said here You can ask from desk any question from desk is the people over there that you probably have already met they give these things This is the debbying diversity diversity statement That Is valid for debbying and is valid for this debconf debconf The debbying project including debconf welcomes and encourages participation by everyone No matter how you identify yourself or how others perceive you we welcome you We welcome contributions from everyone as long as they interact constructively with our community And while much of the work for our project is technically nature We value and encourage contributions from those with expertise in other areas and welcome them in our community So that's the setting for that conf to which you are welcome We The idea of this moment is It's split in several steps that was step one welcome Is Right That was step zero Step one is tips and tricks that will come later and Then we have stories in which People who have been to that comes before and people who haven't can tell stories from past that comes or stories on how you got here and Then there's a getting to know each other session in which We go around and introduce each other to each other How many of you are at debconf for the first time Yes That's fantastic and how many of you have been here before so In debconf, okay, so we have stories good Good, I guess we can go on with tips and tricks So there are several resources the wiki has is very well curated How many of you have not seen the wiki that the debconf wiki yet? good So, okay, it's also reasonably well advertised and if you haven't seen it yet, you can have a look There's the mailing list. There's the debconf discuss mailing list that can be used for Anything that goes around the debconf lost and found like I lost somebody today lost Piece of cloth for the laptop that had a cheat sheet of your next things It's probably at front desk and if you look for you lost your wallet and you're looking for it or something You can post to the debconf discuss list You want to keep an eye to it because occasionally people post about Non-official debconf activities like there was one posted yesterday, which is meat for running this morning Run for a certain amount of kilometer at a specific average speed and if you keep up with the others You just make it back in time for breakfast. I Really like that one But I didn't go But there's a lot there's people going swimming people going dancing There's a lot of things that happen besides debconf because we are all Kind of I mean, I guess most of the people at debconf are used to organizing things in a way or another Related to debon or not and so things happen There's IRC there's a hash debconf Which has the bot that tells you if people arrived tells you When lunch starts and you can use it to look for people Ask if people want to join you for a round of laundry or a game some game If you're looking for someone you go there and say can anyone see that person we have an excellent spy system around the conference and For anything else medical emergency wasp by Stinks laundry tourist information practical information you can ask from desk Normally as of that that was general tips and tricks about the location Normally there is a quiet hack lab and the normal hack lab I Still haven't found out which one is which this year It seems that Paris a club is quiet But if you are in a noisy hack lab, you can ask on IRC is there a quiet hack lab ash debconf Last time I checked the only Smoking place was the beer garden tables, which is the tables outside that are long and kind of red And they have ash trays on top There might be non-smoking signs showing up in the next days But the designated areas are most kind of that's for smoking and the rest most is smoking free There is frequently asked questions about the debconf in the wiki that are quite detailed So that's also worth a look Then in terms of about person-to-person interaction There are more Non-native English speakers than native speakers so Don't worry too much about your English It's unlikely that you are speaking with somebody that grew up speaking it anyway Don't think about it too much. Don't try to leave a good impression. Don't try to be perfect. Keep it simple, but say it And if you are a native English speaker Keep in mind that there's more non-native speakers than native speakers We can beat you No, actually, it's quite important because sometimes native speakers Don't realize how fast they are talking or when they use slang words or some kind of jargon and It's very difficult to follow and it's irritating to always ask Can you repeat please can you repeat most slowly so I can understand that it's not easy for you guys to Think about talking slowly, but please do So speak slowly avoid too many slang terms or maybe double-check that the other person is still attentive Keep Moderate a bit your assertiveness if you're a natural English speaker Another person may not be able to keep up if you're very assertive They they may have to deal with your assertiveness and the language and they may be able to keep up with your assertiveness in their native language, but With both things could be quite daunting give some time to people to Understand and reply there was a kind of interesting Rule of thumb that when you've finished when you when you have finished saying something count to three Before saying something else and yeah, but that kind of leaves a pause for the other person to Finish parsing the audio that was buffered in streaming Build the syntax tree navigated compile optimize understand figure out a reply and say Um Yeah, some of us need multiple passes Don't be afraid to go and give a person positive feedback be it on their tabion work their talk or their funny t-shirt a Very good way to be in the center of things is to volunteer as video team from desk It's easy. It's fun. You can do it an hour a day You get to know interesting people You may get a t-shirt so yay with a special color And Feel free to get out of your comfort zone Don't spend time only with people from your Your own your own nationality or only with people you already understand, but you can go and experiment There's loads of us So if you stay in your group of 20 mates You may miss the remaining 580 and Then you go home and you're like, oh my god. I was like it's so many wonderful people and I have no idea who they were I would be ashamed But no means no so whenever you have been out of your comfort zone too much feel free to go and have a walk along the river or Go back with your friends and have a drink and If possible did the Default language of the conference is English so If you are with people where speak your own some you're speaking some other language and Another person who's not speaking it joins you Try to switch to English So that kind of include others in the conversation Then other activities if you like card games keep an eye on my players Generally a cluster of people around the table playing at night and saying silly things Do not ask about the rules But feel free to join There are games of assassin. It's not literal There are games of werewolf There are other board games That again, you may join you may ask The IRC channel helps. Yeah, they're cycling swimming dancing running Key signing Key signing as an interesting way to get to know each other and I think that was mostly it for tips and tricks Questions see Yeah, can I register for the other scenes game? I haven't seen it yet. I Heard people talk about assassins, but I never played it. I mean I played it once And I was like, okay, I played it. No, but because you said it is but I haven't found the answer to Yes Three days ago and nobody knew nobody knew perhaps there is no assassins game That would be a shame a real shame. It could be that this assassin's game was from during the camp from The other group was also in the hostel. So it could be. Oh, well Or you can organize one So stories you mean the game are trying to make everyone lose the game now Okay stories We need volunteers to tell stories of past step coms Who would like who would like to be the first to tell a story about a past that come vagrant About 11 years ago. I went to my first step comp. I was invited to go It was the first time I left the country in such a way that I needed a passport and only previously been to Canada It was a long haul on a flight to Brazil Had some interesting adventures getting a visa to get to Brazil and And then I get there and there's this swarm of people with like names I've recognized that I sort of have kind of been lurking on Debian channels Sort of seeing all these people and they're all like they seem to kind of know each other and they're talking to each other and and We walked to this little this dinner event and I started just kind of shutting down. I could barely even think straight. I was having trouble figuring out what to eat and I just kind of collapsed mentally like there was this this resounding cacophony of Languages and accents and I couldn't even distinguish what was a language and what was an accent and I I Just sort of kind of collapsed on the table just with my head down I was just kind of losing it and Some of the people who invited me there as a kind of a part of a group as the deputy nonprofit project They kind of just you know asked me what was wrong. You know, I wasn't even speaking and they're just you know comforting but not pushing too hard and This happened a few more times throughout the conference. I recovered. We got some really cool work done I met some really amazing people and then you know, I would occasionally collapse and Just I don't know culture shock maybe But eventually I recovered and got some great things done and I've been coming back ever since anyone New to that come through the story of how they got here. You got here So I'm you here I couldn't do much but I'm really happy now that this tap confidant My home and my brother studied here at the university and I was very nervous to come here But I'm happy when I arrived at the youth hostel and saw the front desk people and it was empty the room I came in not much people there yesterday Afternoon and I'm happy to be here and it's very interesting the talks and Everything Hello, I'm Luna and I'm kind of shy except when I'm outspoken those kind of very This is my third deaf conf. I'm still kind of in the outskirts I'm not I'm like just a little bit involved in the beyond but I've been using it since about 2001 something like that My first one was was in Oslo. That was Maybe three and and I was I was really afraid of going I had been using Debian for some time already and my boyfriend was a Debian developer And so we went to Oslo. It was a horribly host week and I was like also like tired from the traveling and And I came there and people asked me like well, what do you do for Debian? And I was like I was really embarrassed. I was like I use it And then people went like yeah, we have a user like how cool we have a user And it was a really nice week I ended up talking about The bugs that I had reported and talking about the things that were working well and the things that were confusing and Got to know a lot of people and then of course when Debian Came to my backyard in Helsinki, then I went again and now I'm here And I'm a little bit more involved and little bit well Yeah, not any less of a user though, but anyway, yeah So so don't be afraid even if you have never contributed anything you are contributing by being here You are contributing by talking to people. You are contributing by voicing your opinions You you are contributing more than you're imagining so New to that comf Okay, hi, I'm here for the first time No, not only a first time at that comfort also first time in this town I've been told that it's a very nice tone. So I will see later. Hopefully Yeah, it's great to be here. Um, actually, I don't really recall how I got to know about this conference. I mean I Think I've seen a flyer at another conference. So yeah, I basically ask everyone else if they would also come here and Yeah, apparently there is even another student coming. So I'm studying actually She will come from Vienna on Monday. I'm very proud to also have her here then. So, yeah, thank you very much There was another hand. Hello everyone. My name is Indie bio on IRC. I Realized that a thing like Debian exists. I think last August My boyfriend is a Debian developer now since two days ago and Him and his friends managed to talk me into organizing the next step come with them in Cape Town next year So I'm here to try and figure out what the hell I'm doing So I think I didn't count it but it's my tense step con for I took part in depth con zero and the one in Bordeaux and People asked me what my background of my computer is. Maybe some people see it. It is A world map and I have made stripes wherever I was. So it's kind of Debian travel I would call it is there are many depth cons and so so if you are invited to some places because you are Active you can see the whole world with Debian. This is really cool Thank you. Apologize. I can't do a first time at dub comp story tonight For those of you haven't met me my name is BDL I Am now one of the longest continuous tribute contributors to the Debian project I Unfortunately missed dub comp zero and one because they were held in Bordeaux on weeks Which conflicted with a week that my family used to get together as a large group at a beach house and do family things But I've been to every deb comp since deb comp number two Which was the year that I was the Debian project leader. I've been actively involved in the project ever since I'm still a member of the Debian technical committee. I'm president of software in the public interest, which is the Financial and legal umbrella for Debian's activities in the United States And I just wanted to tell all of you how thrilled I am to see so many new faces this year I understand that we either have or are likely to set a new record for tenants a deb comp Which for a project that I have been personally involved in since 1994 is just really really cool So thank you all of you Particularly those of you who are here for the first time or thinking this was something you wanted to come spend some time doing And if you see me or other people who look like they've been around for a long time and seem to be deep in Conversation and you're worried about interrupting us or something Please just come up and join the conversation and say hello and tell us who you are and ask questions because That's what this is all about One other little detail I Work for HP by day. I'm very pleased that over the years HP has Ended up being one of if not the largest overall contributors to the financial sponsorship of deb comp The first year that HP provided financial sponsorship for the conference was deb comp three and Helsinki and We haven't always been the biggest Sponsor in any given year, but this year we are and we have been for many many years Even though I took early retirement in 2012 and then allowed my arm to be twisted last year to go back and Try and do some work for HP again It's really cool for me to not only have been able to be personally involved for a long time But to have been able to help motivate Financial sponsorship that's made a travel support for some of you possible over the years So please feel free to come by and say hello. I will look forward to talking many of you this week. Thanks Okay third part and Sorry, I am the introverted one of the two. So I'll talk very slowly and I'll be very embarrassed so For the third part we wanted to set up a game that helps breaking the highs between people and The idea is that and of course you can decide to not participate. It's okay the the point is to Exit a little bit from your comfort zone, but not too much if it's stressful feel free to avoid it and it's okay So the idea is you take a piece of paper and a pen Pens are very important because from the reception and they want all of them all 45 of them back. So please please The idea is you divide the paper in four sections and In the first one you should try what brings you to that comfort in general What you do in that and if you're a contributor or what you do? Computer-related because I'm assuming here that you're probably here because you're interested in free software And you do something in free software or you're just very interested in it. So first part is that I'll probably repeat it. So I Look for some more Can you pass on That's quite a lot of people here. I didn't realize Yeah, so first sections What brings you to that comes or what you do in Davian what you do in the free software world It's just something about you that is Davian or free software related basically Second part. No, okay. I'll wait. You just tell me when I can go. I Was actually going to just please the man So Those of you who have a pen use it because we only have 45. I Realize this for the way they are very precious and Bring them back and I have pens raise your hand if you miss a pen pass them on Here in fall it in four This is just quite Improvised so we are not sure out of Erica. I'll do that