 I welcome you to this session. It's called new to DubConf. The session is for those who are new to DubConf but also for the people that have been to DubConf before. You're all welcome to participate in this session and in DubConf in general. The session is also for those people that are active within Dubian and also for those who are not active in Dubian. You're all welcome to participate. For those who are not active, whether you want to get involved, whether you don't plan to get involved, you're still welcome to join this session. And it is also up to you how much you, how you would like to participate if you want to participate actively, if you want to participate quietly, which is also called lurking. You're very welcome to be here and also during the rest of DubConf. Here you see the Dubian diversity statements which also sets this very clear. The Dubian projects welcomes and encourages participation by everyone, which means 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. While much of the work in our project is technical by nature, we value and encourage contributions from those with expertise in other areas and welcome them in our community. The Dubian project is quite diverse in the way it's set up. It's not just a technical project like all the artwork you see and other things. This is also part of what makes up the Dubian community or the translation work and we value all these people very much on a similar level. We are attending a DubConf. You are agreed to the Dubian Code of Conduct, so if you don't see the Dubian Code of Conduct, you will receive a paper with a map in the Code of Conduct in press, so you should read it. Yeah, DubConf is committed to be a safe and welcoming environment for all participants. Like that, you can see the DubConf Code of Conduct and also the Dubian Code of Conduct for more details. It's part of your welcome back and also visible on various places across the venue. At the front desk, we put on the wall. Maybe we should introduce ourselves. I'm Adriana, I'm part of the local team and I'm part of the harassment team for DubConf this year and I'm also contributing with translation from English to Portuguese. My name is Ronda, my pronouns are she and her and I've been with Dubian since about 20 years now and I recently started with the diversity team which is the aim to make it more visible to the outside that Dubian doesn't just have the diversity statement but also lives up to it and we want to increase the visibility of the diversity that Dubian represents to make it clear that Dubian is welcoming everyone. If you have any issues, if something might happen, there is the anti-harassment team you can contact under either under anti-harassment at debian.org or here on site either Adriana, Steve McIntyre or myself and we will see how to make it more comfortable for you in case anything happened. Let's start off with a short question. Who of you for whom in the audience is this the first DubConf? Please raise your hand. That's a fair amount. Very welcome and who has been to DubConf before? You're also very welcome. This is where the first two parts of this session that we started off with welcoming everybody and also speaking about the diversity statement and the code of contact. We will continue with speaking about some ticks and trips, how you can get most out of DubConf for yourself and how you can enjoy the rest of the week and also after that we will speak a bit of yeah how a bit more and also at the end then hear a bit stories from people who have been to DubConf before and also from those who come who are new to DubConf. First for the site information, there's the cursor. For those who have been to the welcoming session in the morning, you already know this map. It's also inside your badge. So if you take the paper out and unfold it, you have this map inside your badge every time all the time with you. We are now in the room four which is the big talk room next to it in the room five is the mini auditorium which is the next talk room and the third bigger talk room which also has video coverage is the video conferencia room number six and behind that is the front desk where you all got your badges from so you probably know it already. You can always turn to the front desk if you have any questions. You can always also turn to people with blue shirts that are that local team. The people with the orange shirts are people that are part of the welcoming team which always will also be around for you to be there for questions that might arise. We have several headlamps. Eight is the quiet headlamp and behind that nine is the noisy headlamp which also can be quite quiet at some times but the quiet headlamp is specifically aimed to be quiet. In the noisy headlamps you can sit together and work on stuff and chat with each other without having any bad thoughts to disturb anyone else. Behind the front desk is the job fair which might still be going on or sort of just today. It was just today. Behind that is the restaurant which is our food gathering for lunch and dinner during the week times for tonight and tomorrow lunch and dinner the food will be prepared in the Hotel international in which is when you exit at the top at the number one and also go in the opposite direction of the arrow you come to the block where the hotel is where there is the food for the weekend but also on the 13th and on the 12th floor there is additional headlamps and that's the main venue where people are staying. Yeah and you can check the catering the food menu at week catering page. They we wrote all the options in the schedule for breakfast lunch and dinner so you can check to have more information about food in general. Yeah on the Deccon wiki which is wiki debion org slash Deccon slash 19 which is the entrance page for the Deccon wiki for this year you can find not just the catering and food page but also about the day trip and a lot of other information you have an FAQ there and a lot of other things that are valuable if you want to look it up there. There are two mailing lists one you probably very likely are subscribed to it because it's the Deccon announced mailing list we're sending out daily mails about what's going on during Deccon information for the coming day then there's also the Deccon discuss mailing list in which people discuss various things like I want to make a tour through the city someone likes to join in or something else and it's for for unmoderated information discussion between people attendees here at Deccon. There are some more communication channels one is on IRC which is in hash Deccon that's the main discussion channel you also have a schedule but there which will remind you about upcoming talks and you can also ask on that channel has someone seen a person you're looking for so you can sort of play a little big brother through communication on IRC if you want to hang out with someone or chat about a certain bug report or anything like that that's where IRC comes in handy it's since last year people also started to create a channel on Telegram which is unfortunately a non-free service but if you'd like to chat on there with others feel free to join the Telegram channel too. Yeah this is yeah here you see all the announcement of the DC schedule bot and some other people hanging out and chatting along and about communication with others the Debian conference, DebConf is a very social event it's not just a conference but there is a lot of other stuff going on along and it really really helps to communicate with to talk to a lot of people because it changes completely the way you read the next mail from the same person when you just communicate electronically you don't really have a feeling for the person behind it and here at DebConf you have the chance to talk with with a lot of people involved in Debian and get to know them and get a feeling for how their mail might be read and the next time you might not get something in the wrong throat and get angry about a mail or something like that so try to speak with as many people as you wish or as you feel comfortable with keep in mind most people here at DebConf but in general are not native English speakers so if you use some slang terms if you are a native speaker and speak very fastly it might be an issue for others to understand you and it might sometimes be a barrier to to ask people to speak slower and so try to think about that not everyone here in fact most people here are not native English speakers and also that might take a bit of a shyness from you because don't try to be perfect in your English people will understand you nevertheless and if you are trying studying something and need help you can talk to people or send a message on Irish channel requesting help people probably will help you like Bernadette mentioned before already we need volunteers to run this service here especially the video team stay in the room afterwards if you want to have video team training if you want to get to know how to operate this to make it also possible for people who are not here to attend DebConf through the video streaming but also there are more than one tracks besides each others and you might want to also see sometimes sessions in multiple rooms so the video team is very helpful with that because all the talks in the videos rooms are also recorded and you can watch them later and you can check the tasks here and apply for example here we don't have volunteers but you can check the dates in which kind of work you would like to do yeah it's on DebConf 19 DebConf org slash volunteers and you can sign up there for specific tasks and and find your way into helping out and making this a success you might also happen to notice on the 13th floor of the hotel there's also a bar which is opening at the evening bring your own cup with you because the disposable cups are out that's every one of you had a cup in your goodie bag so bring it along if you want to have beer there might also be people around to play cards there's a card game called Mao which is quite famous in different grounds don't ask about the rules just join in the sessions and try to enjoy it but you don't feel obliged to try it if you don't like to that's fine too tomorrow there will be the key signing session if you signed up with your fingerprint in the registration form tomorrow at three in the afternoon there will be the session about key signing where the checksum of the file which already has been sent to the DebConf discuss mailing list will be read so check your fingerprint in the file check the checksum of the file read the mail that was sent to DebConf discusses if you take part in the key signing is there any questions so far do the university has a schedule for the hotlabs opening and closing times the university here if someone would like to stay after the talks in the hotlabs it will be closed here in the university building there we have the noise hack lab room B and quite hack lab as well but we will open at nine and close at seven and we will move to the hotel hack lab hi thank you hey about the key signing party it's happening only today or for the rest of the week it will happen throughout the rest of the week but tomorrow at three there will be a public reading of the checksum of the file so that everyone can assure that they have the same file and that the fingerprint information there in but it will be explained in details tomorrow during the session thank you and one more information if you would like to schedule a meeting we have a meeting room at 12 floor at hotel not knowing hotel we can use if you have any idea for any ad hoc session that hasn't been in the schedule yet just head up to the front desk they are willing to help you to set that up and get the information out thank you for the introduction about the key singing in the instructions says but we should print the file and I was wondering if you know where can we print the file personally I haven't printed the file since a few years I always use my laptop yeah you can whatever works for you printed is usually more convenient because you just check it off and then do it later at home but whatever works for you thank you okay so I would like to hear some stories probably we start out with someone who has been to that come before might talk about the first impression of that come for how the came to it someone willing to do that my name is Andrea still I was even on Deppcon zero in Bordeaux but I skipped some I have not really a story but what you said privacy that it's helps if you read an email of a person you know in person from a Deppcon it works also the other way around sometimes you have read emails from people and then you are happy to meet this person and maybe it the person looks different than you expect or so but it's easier if you have read something from them so if you read the mailing this it also helps the other way around but I fully agree as you said and if you want to have questions about other depth comes just ask me well when I have a start to attend Deppcon in 2012 in Manawa Nicaragua it was very exciting because I could met for the first time too many devian maintainers and developers and also people contributing in another way and this was possible because I met to Wunnar Wunnar Wolff in Mexico City because of a teacher I studied sociology in the Mexico so I was doing a research for my bachelor degree thesis about the devian project and then I got deeper in the technical way and I realized that I I like more to work with computer stuff in a technical way than in the social sciences and then I start to contributing doing some translations from English to Spanish in the devian Spanish localization team and also organizing some events in Mexico or helping to organize them like the devian day or some release or install party and then I I am learning how to do devian packaging and well in the future maybe helping the reproducible builds team so well this is my my story and how I arrived to Deppcon and I'm very happy to be here always as possible sharing nice experiences thank you thank you someone for whom this is the first step com who might want to share what the experience so far is impression what they plan to do hey first of all when I when Deppcon started I arrived to here using Arch Linux and now I am using Debian so yeah that's the first thing and so I'm here because a friend of mine have been to the last one to the last Deppcon and he said it's super nice that we could meet people like super nice people and we could learn lots of new things and so I came and I'm I'm still I'm not that connected with the free software community at all I'm starting like this path right now so I liked it very much because I I'm able to talk to so many people that can like help me and tell me what they do and and then I I have like so many paths to to go I I mean even like oh my god what do I do because I want to contribute but there's so many things to do and so I thought it's pretty nice and congratulations for everything because the organization is also someone else maybe I think since I'm here might as well say something so she mentioned that you know when you start out there's all these paths and all these exciting directions you can go into and so many projects you want to get involved with and you don't know which way to go to and once you go down one route you find two or three more it doesn't it never gets better there's just more stuff but it's awesome and you'll love it so I think it's good continue and find something you like and stick with it if you don't like something don't stick with it for too long because there's so many other things that you can work on so there's no reason to to to get stuck in something and be unhappy with it if you really don't like something just try something else because there's so many places where you can contribute and where your contributions will be welcomed so yeah go for it I think with that we somehow can sort of conclude this session we can stay here chat exchange stuff with each other unless someone has some some pressing question left that they want to put out so thank you all for having being here to this session but thank you even more for being here at Debcon and I wish you a very nice conference