[linux-elitists] Potential conference for 2015?

[Don Marti]

A huge opportunity in the open-source mindshare space
has opened up for 2015. An important challenge for
Linux desktop user experience and for key crypto
infrastructure is outlined in the two groundbreaking
documents below.

Bug 731927 - Warning message when using gpg
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=731927

Issue1656: Warning message when using gpg
http://bugs.gnupg.org/gnupg/issue1656

Clearly, there is a need for an event/media
opportunity to bring together the core developers for
these critical software components in order to enable
next-generation interoperability for the future.

If we start now, we might be able to get actor David
Herman to give the opening keynote.

Distributions have a role in this event as well.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760102

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1121447

Perhaps a GNOME/GnuPG Interoperability Summit could
be part of Linux Plumber's Conference, or LinuxCon?
UX and crypto are both hot, so it should be pretty
doable to round up travel sponsors for the relevant
experts. (I can volunteer to do some sponsor calling
and event wrangling, and draft a press release about
whatever the resolution is and why it means Open
Source Wins So Hard Everyone Else Can Go Home Now.)

[a***@bavariati.org]

On 2014-12-28 09:07, Don Marti wrote:
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Post by Don Marti
Bug 731927 - Warning message when using gpg
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=731927
Issue1656: Warning message when using gpg
http://bugs.gnupg.org/gnupg/issue1656
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760102
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1121447

Mmmm-mmm, that's some good buck-passing. I count 4:
* gnome-keyring throws error, no code change, gnupg's fault.
* gnupg code change to expose possible bad behaviour by gnome-keyring,
fix gnome-keyring config/build.
* gnome-keyring config/build is a packaging issue.
* gnome-keyring should be replaced with seahorse-agent anyway, is
distro issue.

So yes, maybe a bit of this (in conference form) would help:
http://xkcd.com/438/

It's a shame this doesn't have the entertaining complications of office
politics and corporate internecine warfare to really up the
gore-and-popcorn factor.
Oh wait, it's not a shame, it's actually really awesome. :)

Living on Linux since 2000,
Aaron

[Don Marti]

Post by a***@bavariati.org
It's a shame this doesn't have the entertaining complications of office
politics and corporate internecine warfare to really up the gore-and-popcorn
factor.
Oh wait, it's not a shame, it's actually really awesome. :)

Don't worry, it's got the usual "most important link
in the chain is least well funded" problem, anyway.

http://www.propublica.org/article/the-worlds-email-encryption-software-relies-on-one-guy-who-is-going-broke

The man who built the free email encryption software
used by whistleblower Edward Snowden, as well as
hundreds of thousands of journalists, dissidents
and security-minded people around the world, is
running out of money to keep his project alive.