Tássia Camões Araújo
Tassia is a Debian contributor since the early 2000's, when from the server's room at her university, she and her friends decided to change the world. Since then she works in this "project" and Debian is likely among her contributions of greatest impact to the world. She became a DD in 2014, and since 2018 teaches computer science at Vanier College, Montreal.
Accepted Talks:
DebConf 101
This is aimed to be an ice-breaker session and introduction to the DebConf culture. Especially put together for newcomers to DebConf, but will (hopefully) make longterm participants laugh and enjoy good memories of the old days when they were the newbies. For first-timers, this should be a good opportunity to get to know a few faces, and for the oldies, come and share what you wish you had known before your first DebConf that no one told you!
Debian Contributors BoF
Everyone interested in the Debian Contributors service at contributors.debian.org can join in a discussion about how it works, the current status and how it can be improved.
Debian Installer Usability Tests - Take 2
This talk describes the process and results from usability tests with installing Debian using the standard installer (netinst) vs the Calamares installer (live image). Our goal was to find out if there was any correlation with the difficulty level experienced by the users with the type of installer used. We wanted to examine whether simpler installers would give users a different perspective of the process.
This study covers the different sections of installing Debian, such as, downloading the ISO, flashing a USB key, and the actual process of installation that follows. It also uncovers the different challenges encountered by users as well as their perspectives on the difficulty of the process while comparing the two installers.
Fostering collaboration for academic teaching and research on, in, with and around our distribution
This is the mashup of two related sessions, both trying to push Debian in academic settings — one for teaching, one for research. Their abstracts follow:
Teaching
Debian-based courses have the potential to create Debian users in “batches”, and from those, a few might even become Debian contributors! Teachers, students, parents, everyone is welcome to discuss how Debian is being used in educational programs. Come and share experiences and strategies to make Debian known and be chosen by those who decide which distro will be installed in school computers.
Research
While reviewing the talks for DebConf, I noticed we have several people presenting advances (or gathering further data) on the research we are doing for our postgraduate studies. There are several academic researchers of different fields active in our community.
In this talk, I would like to gather us all, roughly present each other our interests, and possibly help weave international collaboration networks that will benefit our various research projects, and of course, each of us as an academic.