Hi all, Apologies for the software related post. This summer the pkgsrc[1] project is holding its annual developer conference in London at the British Computer Society in association with the Open Source Specialist Group[2] on Saturday the 1st of July and a hack day at the London Hack Space[3] on Sunday the 2nd of July. While the conference is primarily about pkgsrc, it's on the topic of building & packaging open source software in general. I'm currently contacting different communities to raise awareness of the event & to ask folks to submit talks on such topics if they are interested.

There will be a formal announcement for attendees soon (it's free & open to all) but in the meantime, if you would like to give a talk on the subject of building or packaging open source software (the more technical the better) please send your submission to sevan@NetBSD.org (including a title, abstract and a short bio in the submission (for the website)).

For those not familiar with pkgsrc, it's a cross platform packaging system by the NetBSD project, originally forked from FreeBSD ports but with a portability twist added to cover a diverse range of operating systems. It enables you to have such things as the same version of software built with matching set of patches across a wide range of operating systems and to use the same workflow on said operating systems.

At OSHUG #55 - "FPGA projects past, planned and possible", the framework I was demonstrating in the "Deploying your FPGA toolchain consistently regardless of your development environment" talk was pkgsrc.

Regards,

Sevan [1] http://pkgsrc.org [2] http://ossg.bcs.org/ [3] https://london.hackspace.org.uk