 settle down. We'd like to get started. This is on a 20 minute slot so we'd like to use every bit of it that we can. Okay so let me introduce the Montreal DevCon 17 team. They're pretty awesome. That's Jerome, also known as LavaMind. Then it's Gabriel, known as Leloté. He's getting his hair dyed during the talk. Then there's Poyita's older brother Louis Philippe, also known as Boyo. And Alexandre, otherwise known as Avio. Welcome. All right thank you. Thanks everyone for being here. Thanks to everyone watching us from Montreal on the stream. Hi from Cape Town, South Africa. We're coming up. So basically all of us we've been really listening to feedback from last year and from DC 15. And so we're introducing today DevCon 17 in February in Montreal. So this year was just a transition slightly to so people will be able to escape the blazing heat of the Northern Hemisphere and next DevCon. But no more seriously we'd like to introduce DevCon 17 in Montreal. We're really excited to be talking to you about this today. So we'll be going quickly through the major points of next year's event and of course at the end we'll really hope we'll have some time for questions and discussions. Any concerns you want to bring up just feel free to catch me or anyone else on the team and and talk to us about it. So the official dates of DevCon 17 are the first two weeks of August 2017. DevCon July 31st August 4th. We're planning a great Debian day on August 5th and the DevCon per se on August 6th to August 12th. These are actual official dates you can book them right away. We've had great collaboration from the people on our venue. We have a great great contact with them. Of course it helps that I work there. So yeah we can already announce these dates today. So what's the weather gonna be like? Not very much like Cape Town in summer. In winter as it is right now. We're gonna have more along regular North American temperatures of daily maximum average of 25 degrees centigrade and during the night 15. So it's great weather for outdoor activities. Bring sunscreen, light clothes, bathing suits, whatever you need to hack on the Blue Sky Hack Lab. Of course what to look for in Montreal. We have lots of green spaces. The venue itself is in the city of Montreal but it's not in the downtown core. There's there's minimum concrete around us. Lots of parks and spaces really close by. So if you want to just have have a minute, have some time just away from things. Montreal is a great place for this. But the Montreal Botanical Garden, world renowned. Lots of different gardens and exhibits all year long. It's about a five minute walk from the venue. This here we're showing is the Chinese Garden. We've got also amazing greenhouses, indigenous plants gardens, the Japanese Garden which is also very very known. And we're exploring options for using the Botanical Garden as our Deptkov dinner venue. The Olympic Park again very close to the venue. Just a short walk away. What you see here is the the main stadium, Montreal Tower, largest inclined highest inclined tower in the world. There's sports installations, Olympic size pool, the football stadium. There's right next to it and as well as the planetarium. So also lots of options to visit really close to the venue. Shops and pubs were not in the middle of nowhere. Just again ten minute walk away. You can find Main Street with pubs, shops, grocery stores, pharmacy and our pubs closed at 3 a.m. all week long. We're working on that. But we we're probably not gonna not gonna need it. Nature reserves also if you want to go a little further from the city. There's great places to just go spend the day enjoy enjoy nature. And of course lots of water. Montreal is actually an island. So Saint-Lavain River is obviously something we'll want Deptkov first to have the chance to explore. Montreal also is very interesting. There's lots of free software things going on. So obviously we've been working with all of these groups and more to make sure that Deptkov 17 is is a local and not only global event. As for the venue itself. The venue is called Collège de Maisonneur. It's a very large college about 6,000 students during regular semesters. It's about two kilometers from the downtown core. The college itself is served by two metro stations, two subway stations. Very easy to get to and from. And we're holding the days of Deptkov are actually between two semesters. So we'll pretty much have the college to ourselves. Which is gonna be really interesting. So some pictures are from the venue. We have the main hall here. Great place for a job fair, booths. Just hanging around. Main talks room. We're renting this place for the entire Deptkov. It can host up to 500 people. It's a really comfortable space, comfortable seats and a really nice stage there. If people want to do actual theater or dancing during talk, everything is there to accommodate them. Of course, having a dance night on the stage, no problem. Our conference rooms, this is the secondary conference room. Again, very big space. This one can host up to 400 participants depending on the setup. We really were free to set up the room as we want. One of the things that we were looking for during the venue was a place that has lots of natural light. So as you can see, this is really something that we were getting from Kalizmezonov. So we can have natural light all through the day. Again, this is the third conference talk room. This one can host up to 150 people. One of the highlights of Kalizmezonov is the interior garden. The interior garden is a huge garden that is covered with windows. So you have lots of plant species there, lots of big trees. The interior garden is actually reserved for DeptKamp and DeptKonf. It's not planned to use it for any talks or anything specific. People will be free to lounge around, hack around, just sit on the side, sit on the floor, whatever, under a tree. This is going to be possible 24 hours a day, anytime for the whole event. We're also looking at it as a potential venue for the cheese and wine. Speaking of cheese and wine, you can import up to 20 kilograms of cheese in Canada legally per person. But that's the legal limit. So hack labs, of course, very important. We have really nice rooms for hack labs, at least two different rooms to have a noisy and quite hack lab. All the facilities are there, sofas, tables, chairs. This one actually has a sink and microwaves, so very interesting facilities for us to use. The non-quite one is actually, it's adjacent to the dining hall, so it's not right next to it. So this is the dining hall, very, very big room. It can host up to a thousand people, so really no problems with seating in there. And classrooms, we're going to have about 24 classrooms all to ourselves. The classrooms are going to be very comfortable spaces to hold buffs, workshops, and any other kind of activities or things that we want to organize. We're going to also use this for shared accommodation. So accommodation at DEBCOM 17, unfortunately, our college Mesonov doesn't have, isn't equipped with student residences. So what we figured is that we're going to use these classrooms, which are in the most recently built part of the college. So it's very clean, very new. The facilities are very clean. And we have lots of windows in all the classrooms. We're aiming to host about a maximum of 8 to 10 people per room. So keep in mind, these are very big classrooms. They usually host about 40 students during normal use. Of course, we're going to try to make it as comfortable for people as possible. We're going to have themed, we're looking into dividing these rooms as themed rooms. For example, if people are usually party goers, usually sleep late at night and make noise, we're going to try to do our best to group these people together. People want a quiet space, go to sleep early, group those together. We're going to put snorers together. So yeah, family rooms. We're also partnering with hotels. We have at least one hotel nearby. We're going to get group rates to make sure that anyone who's really unable to use this kind of accommodation will still be able to come to DeptConf and have a great time. Of course, showers and lockers will be available. These are like basic facilities that we want to provide to everyone. Next, about entry requirements. We were aware that Canada isn't the most visa-friendly country in the world. Borders will be borders, unfortunately. Our border guards, unfortunately, are probably not sorry if they can find any reason to turn people away. That sucks, but we're still going to do our best to make sure that everyone who wants to come to DeptConf gets a visa, gets their documentation to be able to cross the border. Basically, we're also looking into working with government agencies to get all DeptConfers into Montreal. We'll try to do everything short of smuggling people into the country. We just wanted to make sure everyone who's worried about the visa process, the entry process, please get in touch with us, get in touch with us early, and we'll support your process. So thank you all. If you have any questions, please, we have five minutes left. If you aren't able to ask your question, please let us know. And most importantly, please send your feedback at depconf.org. We really want to make this DeptConf even one step better than this DeptConf and the DeptConf before. So we're going to need, of course, as much feedback from you guys as possible to make next year amazing. The question was for dates. So what's the alternative accommodation for people that don't want to sleep in classrooms? The main alternative is a hotel, which is located just under a kilometer away. It's on the same road, so it's really not complicated to get to and from. It's easy to bike to and from. The walk is a bit long. It's about 20 minute, 25 minute walk. But there's city buses around on the street. So people are going to be staying at this hotel. There's going to be a little bit of transportation involved. But of course, if we can make everything more simple by, for example, doing shuttles or things like that, that's something we can definitely work with. Montreal has a great bike sharing program too. So you can just rent a bike and take the bike and just put it back. And the actual hotel I was talking about is across a park. So the whole walk is crossing a park. Also on the topic of transportation in Montreal, the metro is actually pretty good. And the college being right near the metro, there's a lot of hotels within metro distance. Presentation was in English. Does it mean that English stays the official language of the dead country? You can get around pretty well in English. Yeah, Montreal is pretty much bilingual. So every shop in there in Montreal, you can you can get around with English. So yeah, we're one thing that one thing that will will definitely work on is during Debbie and day open weekend, we're going to probably plan to have a whispered translation during the talks then so that Francophone that French speaking people can can come in and listen and have translated talks available. So but I mean, there's now a depth come again, a non English speaking country. So perhaps about a few introduction lessons in French for the deaf companies. So how can you compete with the day trip options from this depthcon? One of the day trips I want to do is a pub crawl. We have we have amazing micro brews in Montreal. And it would be really nice, you know, to showcase them. Yeah, maybe biking to there is also a good trains transport system in Montreal. So you could get to de Montagne and very far within a reasonable price. So you asked about sorry, you mentioned about whisper translations. Local team, could we have volunteers for video teams who make sure we have the translations on everything? He's already on the video team. I think a whispered translation is going to be, you know, someone in the room whispering to other people, we may work with, we may work with Subtile, we may have, there's these little radio microphones you can have to, we're gonna look into it. Last question. Regarding this stuff, I know that during CCC Congress in Berlin, they have live translation of some talks. So maybe you could ask them how they are doing in technical way. I heard they had like 1000 volunteers. So if we get 1000 volunteers, maybe we're going to do the same system as CCC. But we'll see. Cool. Thank you Montreal team.