 Welcome to the DEF CON 17 opening ceremony. Thanks for being here. The original title for this talk was Hastely Prepared Presentation by Steve DePauw of Hackers, but that didn't cut it with the content team. It wasn't distinct enough from the other presentations of DEF CON. Here we go. Welcome to Montreal. It's really great to see you all in our hometown. The weather forecast for this week. Severe thunderstorms, flash rainfall, overwhelming heat and humidity, and I'm only talking about this morning, so check the weather for this afternoon and the following days. No, but seriously, the weather can be sometimes a little extreme in Montreal in the middle of summer, like now. So make sure to check the weather before wandering outside the walls of the venue. And it may not matter because it shouldn't rain. You might not want to go outside. I'm told that it shouldn't rain inside most of the hack labs. I hope you got your Debian umbrella from our folks from Debian.ch. Before moving on to other subjects in this presentation, we wanted to first touch a little bit on the Debian and DEF CON codes of conduct. We realized it's a little bit heavy stuff. It's early in the morning still for some of us. But it's something we really wanted to do and it's quite important to us. If you're sitting in this room, you should really already be familiar with the DEF CON and the Debian codes of conduct. So if you're not, if you haven't heard of these before, that's really your first DEF CON assignment after this talk. The COC doesn't just apply to the DEF CON venue or with only your fellow developers. We expect everyone to abide by these rules everywhere and with everyone for this event and including towards staff at the venue and for other visitors at the venue. Let's be respectful. Sometimes you're surprised that is it okay if I am listening and being attentive to the person's response can make a big difference. Debian is a huge and diverse community and even though we're all here together now, we should keep in mind that DEF CON attendees come from a very diverse variety of cultural and social backgrounds. Let's be aware. If you notice something offensive or disrupting a behavior, please speak up. It's not up to anyone else but you to do something. Don't assume someone else will take care of it. And also we wanted to say let's be welcoming. You know DEF CON 17 could very well be the first DEF CON for many people in this room, including on the stage by the way. And we're not all here with a big group of friends. Please help everyone feel at home and find a home in the Debian community. There should always be an extra chair at our tables. If you'd like to report an incident or just let us know about something so we can just keep an eye out and be aware. Please be free to approach myself in other attendees with purple badges like myself, Nuditain, Yappie, as well as Marga. We're the local anti-harassment team. And you can also write an email to the anti-harassment at deputant.org address. So here we are. My name is Jerome Lavamine. I'm IRC for those who've seen a couple of my messages on different channels. This is Louis-Philippe, aka Poyo, Guerriel, Nuditain, Abdel, and Tiago. And we should also mention Taua. You probably met actually, you probably checked in when you came in at the front desk. And as well as Tassia, who's unfortunately not in Montreal these days. So I wanted also to begin by talking a little bit about why we decided to organize DevCom. Actually, we all lost a bet. Actually, seriously, one thing you may not know about all of us is that most of us aren't devian developers. And I really consider myself as more of a devian user than a devian developer. I'm saying this because our group here organized this conference. It reflects a lot about devian, I think. Not just devian the operating system, but devian the project and devian the community. So that means I think that should be something that you should be aware of and keep in mind. Because the project itself has so much impact outside of just the developer community. It inspired us to dedicate significant time and effort to organize this DevCom here in Orphan Town. So really well done developers, you're awesome. Please stay with us next week for the Devian Users Conference. Featuring a live stream of myself, trying to figure out how system D works. Obviously we couldn't have done this without the support from the experienced DevCom global team. Thanks to everyone who contributed to all the different teams' website infrastructure, registration, publicity, sponsorship, bursaries, and of course the video teams. And any teams I'm not mentioning because we're so excited. Also thanks, a huge thank you to all the volunteers. Even those local volunteers who showed up a few days ago, you're still awesome. And we're happy also to report that DevCom 17, the team has been burnout free until now. Hopefully it stays this way until the final report. To be hosting us, we've really had a good relationship with the venue. We hope that it continues all throughout DevCom. You can find this map at the front desk as well as online on the wiki, on the venue page. Feel free to really look at it. We understand that Gilesh Mesonov is a big place. There's lots of nooks and crannies where you can get lost, especially if you're trying to get to the showers. So look at the, check out the venue map. Don't hesitate to come see any of us if you're lost or whatever, or ping us on IRC. There should be Wi-Fi in all the areas. We've also made an area of the local points of interest. If you go on the wiki, click the map area link. We took some time to identify a couple of places around food, beer stores, bars and supermarkets and all that kind of stuff. Laundry mats, laundromats. So you can have an easier time finding your way around the immediate area. Front desk is, you've probably, you've most likely already passed by front desk. Front desk is officially open from 10 to 1 p.m. and then 2 p.m., 2.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. The hours are, we're going to make our, do our best to have longer hours, obviously. But we, you can be sure that there's going to be people there at these hours. We've got, we've got a whole bunch of items, some items for sale, like power adapters. If you forgot your towel or whatever, we can, we're really front desk is the place to be if you need anything in any instance. Also, we'd like to remind you that the venue is a public place, a public space. So please don't leave your laptops or any sort of valuables unattended to prevent theft. If you need somewhere to stash valuables, you can use the lockers on the first floor near the garden entrance. These are here for, for our use. You just need to have a padlock or a combination lock. We're also happy to announce that DevConf is providing free childcare for attendees, for the children of attendees. In this partnership with Montreal Child Care Collective. So thanks also to all the workers who are going to be with us throughout the week. Lots of the waste produced here is recyclable. Please separate the waste from any other recyclable matter. The green, green is for the cans and blue is for the paper. But really the really important stuff is just not to throw in recyclable in the waste. So we've got a 24, 24-7 coffee station down in the internal garden. And another one in the cafeteria. There's volunteers assigned for quality insurance. If you notice anything missing, let us know. Alcohol consumption. We have a bar that's open in the evenings from six to one in the morning. We ask that people stay in the garden or in the recs room where we have alcohol permit as alcohol is permitted outside of these spaces on the venue. We also want to thank our caterer who is a local caterer here in the neighborhood who has accepted the huge challenge of feeding DevConf attendees for the week. We understand that issues might come up. We'll do our best to address them. And so far the catering team has been really responsive and listening to our concerns. So if anything also regarding the food, please do let us know. So the conference schedule of course is available. You can check it out on the website. Do recommend that you use Gigidi or a Confluent or another mobile application to organize your program, your stay at DevConf. There is self-scheduling available. Lots of space, lots of time slots for self-scheduled sessions. There's a grid right next to front desk with the instructions. There's a link to instructions that you can check out. We ask that people simply register their talk on the conference system before they get scheduled on the spot in the official schedule. All the talks on the schedule will be streamed. The talks that are going to happen in Buzz, Bo and Rex. And also we encourage everyone participating via remote, via IRC to join us to watch the live streams. Also in the program Social Activities. There's a job fair that's going to be happening today at 2.30 in the main hall. The cheese and wine party is tomorrow evening, August 7th. We remind people who brought donations for the cheese and wine party to come see us at front desk to make sure we can have that chill. The day trip is on Wednesday. We remind also to sign up on the wiki for the different options. If you want to help lead any group or whatever, you can also come see us and help us get all of this done. There's a conference dinner also not to forget on August 10th. We're going to have a special dinner in the cafeteria and followed by a party at the Montreal Tower above the Montreal St. which is right next to here. So it's really promising to be a great evening. And we hope you will join us. We want to also just give a quick shout out to the wiki media people who are on town. There's a big wiki media foundation conference happening in Montreal this week. So, if hello to anyone who's from the wiki media outside and obviously if you want to check out their event, you're welcome to do so. Thank you also to our many sponsors without whose support this conference would not be possible. So yeah, finally if you're looking to contact anyone from the organizing team, you can reach us at IRC on the DevConf team channel on IRC.oftc.net. The front desk number is open 24 hours at this number. You can send SMSs as well. Please also obviously use it separately during after hours. And obviously the mailing list is also devconfteam at list.devconf.org if you have anything to share, any concerns or feedback about this event. So thank you. That's all for us for now. And we hope to see you everyone else all during the week. Thanks. Just keep in mind when you send your flames to devconfteam at list.devconf.org that that's a public list and it's archived. And no, Listmasters won't help you fix your life choices. But private feedback, you can send us feedback at devconf.org and it also should end up that you play people who are just setting it up right now. Alright, thank you.