 time to meet the DevConf 16 team who are going to tell us about next year's DevConf in Cape Town. Thank you. So our team, all hiding in the corner here, you've met us all already. Some more pictures of us if you can't see the people really hiding in the corner. We have dates for DevConf 16. It says preliminary but we're pretty confident about these dates. We haven't signed contracts yet so that's the only reason they are preliminary but we assume that everything should be fine. This does put DevConf in the middle of winter but winter doesn't mean snow in Cape Town. It just means it might be quite rainy and the rain might go sideways. It doesn't mean there's no wasps or bees or ants or mosquitoes. Wasps don't tend to be a problem but basically the insects are not there in winter. That's good. If we're lucky we'll have a nice rain free week and it'll be spectacular. If we're unlucky it'll be raining all week. So do bring a raincoat and hope for the best. Temperatures should be fairly comfortable. You certainly don't need snow clothes. It's already going set to be in Cape Town so I don't have to sell you on why DevConf is going to Cape Town but I do have to tell you why you're coming to DevConf in Cape Town. It's a spectacular venue. We're on the university up on the side of the mountain with a view out over the city. The buildings on the front are the two residents. Well we're going to have one of them as a residence that people can stay in and our lecture polls will be up in some of the buildings to the left. Just out of view on the right is the pub. We'll come back to that later. Also there's hiking routes going up directly behind the building where the lectures are so you can go hiking all the time. The university is surrounded by three sides by National Park that just extends up the side of the mountain. If you want to go for a run around the mountain before breakfast you're welcome to. Cape Town also has some other pretty views. This is Greenpoint Stadium that you might have seen from our World Cup. The university is around behind Devil's Peak which is the mountain you see on the left. So by the way some people didn't know what this line was on the badges. That's the outline of our mountain and being Cape Townian we thought the whole world knew this. That was really funny. So now you can see why. You will learn the names of all our mountains if you come to DevConf 16 in Cape Town. We have a lot of very good wine farms in the area. This one is about 10 minutes drive away from the university. There were others maybe more like 20 minutes to half an hour's drive. I'm sure we're going to have day trips to Wine Lens. That is a summary view probably but you can have days like that in winter. There are very good botanical gardens about five minutes drive or walking distance even from the university. There's a contour path between the university and the botanical gardens. You can easily spend days here. It's very beautiful. And of course there's shopping centres and restaurants and everything that you'd expect from a major world city. And animals. We have penguins. So the team had a bit of bike shedding in which animals to include. Penguins seem like a no brainer for the most popular animal. We don't have raccoons but we do have penguins. You can't. You can walk and swim with them if you're lucky. They do bite. You probably want to stay away. And they smell a lot. They make a noise like a donkey which is why they call jackass penguins. We have sharks and whales. This will be perfect whale watching season by the way. So we might have a day trip to to a seaside town that you can watch whales on. Not that Cape Town isn't a seaside town but the whales go up the coast. Deb Conf isn't the only like-minded group in the area. There are other people. There are locals who should be interested and come and join us. We have a strong Python community that many of us are part of and Ruby and many other things. Let's talk a bit more about our venue. We're using the new engine. Well the new Snape building which is next to the new engineering building at the University of Cape Town. This is a brand new building with brand new lecture halls that look like that. Each desk has a power plug which we thought was awesome. They all accept your euro plugs. And we have some lots of bathrooms and hack labs that look pretty comfortable. There's some other space. There should be some outside hack labs that can double the smoking areas. And this space here is above the really big lecture theatres that see 300, 400 people if something goes really wrong and lots of people turn up like this Deb Conf. But we're thinking that there might be some big events happening in this area. There are ATMs just next to that area. You can draw money on venue. And there is a pub. We'll probably be serving food here. More views of the pub. It has a fireplace. In winter a fireplace is very nice. And armchairs. Unfortunately they're probably not enough for everyone. Well, they should be during Deb camp. Because that pub can comfortably host between 100 and 140 people. So we are considering just moving the whole Deb camp there. Have beer all the time. Let's talk a little bit about accommodation. What went wrong here? That's weird. Running out of beer could possibly go wrong. But I'm sure we could solve that. It is a student. The accommodation on campus is going to be single bedroom dorms. They don't have attached bathrooms. But each group of bedrooms has I think a toilet on each floor and shared showers for that group of 10 rooms. We will also have some other we'll try and organize some family accommodation nearby. It might be a five minute or 10 minute walk away. Not two minute walk. And there are hotels about 15 minutes walk distance and lots of third party bed and breakfast. That's the residence building. They're the ones that's really slow on the contract by the way. Those are the general accommodation options. Unfortunately some of you are going to require visas to come to DebConf. We wish that we were hosting it in a country where they accepted everyone in without paperwork. But sadly South Africa does like a bit of bureaucracy. You are required to have two blank pages in your passport. Because if you don't they will send you away at the border. This happens to a lot of people and it's really stupid. They're also going to require that you have some money and tickets back home. Obviously we'll provide letters of invitation to anyone that needs them just like DebConf always does. You might need some fever certificates if you come from other interesting parts of the world. And if you bring children you have to bring unabridged birth certificates. This is a very new thing. So we're hoping that they will review it or take it away again by next year but we're not sure. Yeah it caused a whole lot of trouble for people and doesn't seem to have been a big benefit. I think that's very sad. Here's a map of countries that require visas. If you're a green country you can come for three months without a visa. If you're orange country well light orange you can come for a month without a visa but I can't actually see any of those on the map. And dark orange you're probably going to need a visa. But most of you in Europe and America should be able to visit without a visa. Talk to us or read the Wikipedia page that has all this information on it. No I said some people will need visas. So the normal audience from North America and well probably all of America and Europe probably don't need a visa but I think there's being a deep conflict in Africa we would like to pay special attention to people who's from the not normative areas and they are the ones unfortunately that seem to require visas most of the time. So I know there were colleagues from Kenya and India and they would require visas. That might be an accident of the projector. I think that's green but I do yeah there seem to be two multiple greens. She is complaining that the key of the map doesn't match the colors on the map. I would recommend you visit this page on Wikipedia because it's all there. Maybe our slides on missing something. Let's continue. And that is the end. We'll see you in Cape Town. Well we'll see you again. Any questions? Do you have some good local beer? We have some good local beer. We have excellent local beer. We have excellent mass produced local beer which my crafty friends might disagree with. But we also have very excellent craft local beer. Some of the less popular mass produced local beer will be at the local pub. They don't actually have any craft beers at the pub. At the moment but when I asked them they said they are looking into it and they are willing to negotiate with us to bring in beers if we want to organize it which we certainly will. In the local Linux community there is a brewer if we persuade him he might get some beer. It's really cheap though the beer is really cheap. Silly question. Does the venue have aircon? The lecture theatres will have aircon. The rims probably don't. But it's winter. In South Africa there generally isn't heating in houses. People just get cold. Yes. It's not quite cold enough to need heating except for the few days a year when you do. Australia should sort your out for generally. Then there's a buff tomorrow at 2 o'clock in our thinking room where we can brainstorm so any crazy or wild whatever ideas or suggestions or recommendations or critiques or comments that you have for DEBCOMF16 please join us there. There's also our IRC channel or email. We're looking forward to hear your ideas about how to make a DEBCOMF in Africa work very well. In addition to that we know that some people won't be able to join us and we would like to explore ideas on how to make remote participation a good idea. Obviously in person is always based but there's ideas on how to make it really good for everyone. There will be a good internet connection so you can expect good video streams. We'll just need some IRC question forwarders. So what ideas do you have for the day trips? You've already mentioned the wine lands. I mean I'm assuming a trip up the mountain that kind of thing. So there was a safari trip. A lot of people asked about animals. Definitely a whale or probably a whale trip to Hermonus possibly ending at Marks Farm in where these liners run brewery. There was a hike up. There was possibly a trip to Cape Point Nature Reserve which is the most southwestern point of Africa. A gullis takes southern point but it's pretty damn close. My favorite trip you go down the Cape and you stop off and you see the penguins and then you go down to Cape Point and you can hike out. It's like the southernmost point of yeah yeah and back down again yeah and and if you're really lucky you get to stop at the funky Cuban restaurant on the way back if you have time. There's a lot so we'll probably go with um we'll probably load them all up there and see what happens do a mini survey and there's just too much to do. There were some good wild animals in that game reserve in Cape Point as well. Obviously a wine farm trip. You'll probably see an ostrich. You'll probably see some baboons. If you're lucky you'll see something else. Yes and definitely a wine trip. Baboons are everywhere yes. Don't feed them please. I'm sorry to ask that but what about general security in the town and walking at night and walking during the day? Walking during the rain is not a problem for me. I still don't own a raincoat and I'll be living in Cape Mountain in ten years. The security thing do I want to take that to someone else? I can take it. Anyone can take it. We knew we were going to get a security question of course. I would say it's like any major