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While PackagingCon has no costs for venue or catering, there are still costs associated with bringing the event online. Additionally, revenue from the event will be used for next year’s conference and to support open source scientific computer programming through NumFOCUS, a nonprofit organization that sponsors 43 Open Source Projects, and organizes community-driven educational programs for users and developers of open source scientific tools.
For this reason, we have chosen to sell tickets with a pay-what-you-can pricing model.
Software complexity is on the rise, but thanks to package managers, reusing software is easier than it’s ever been. In 2021, nearly every operating system, language ecosystem, and framework has a package manager or several. Package managers take over where your compiler left off; integrating different versions of packages and ensuring they can be installed safely, reliably, and in a compatible configuration on your system. Where compilers integrate large applications, package managers integrate software ecosystems.
Despite their success, package managers are something of a black art. Working on a package manager requires a broad range of expertise–from language runtimes, to OS deployment policy, distribution management, dependency solving and developer workflows, package managers bridge the gap between developers and last mile software deployment.
We want to understand what brings package management communities together and what sets them apart. What makes communities work together on a particular software ecosystem? Are the differences mainly in the implementation language, or are there other key distinctions to software management methodology? How can we get better interoperability and/or cooperation among package manager teams, and what’s missing/required to enable that? Is dependency solving fundamentally the same problem across systems, or does each package manager do it differently?
If any of these questions interest you, we want to hear from you! Packaging Con is a a
conference for developers of software package management software, as well as software
packagers and communities! Anyone is welcome to participate. Our mission is to bring
different software ecosystems together: from Python’s pip to Rust’s cargo to Julia’s Pkg, from
Debian apt over to Nix to conda and mamba, and from vcpkg to spack, and even
to npm, we hope to have many different approaches to package management at the
conference.
See details on submissions below.
Are you interested in helping out with the organization of PackagingCon 2021? We would love to hear from you: send us an email.
Submissions are due at 23:59 ``anywhere on Earth’’ on the specified date. Specifically, this is 23:59 IDLW, i.e., UTC–12:00. You can use this converter to figure out the deadline for your time zone.
Note: US and European timezones will be targetted for the main conference event.
We encourage submissions in a wide range of areas related to package management, including but not limited to:
This list is by no means exhaustive – any topic related to package management is welcome to attend.
The presentation length is 20 minutes with 10 minutes for Q&A right after the talk. All talks will be held live via video chat and are recorded (speakers can opt-out of the recording). We will have lightning talk sessions with lightning of max 2 minutes. There is no deadline for the submission of lightning talks. Submissions are handled by “pretalx” and will be reviewed by volunteers from the community.
In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, pledge to make participation in Packaging Con a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, disability, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, level of experience, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.
By participating in the conference you agree to abide to the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct.