Margarita Manterola
Marga has been a Debian Developer for almost 15 years, and has been serving in the Technical Committee since 2016.
She's been working in the Linux industry since 2003. Back in Argentina, she worked on a migration from Windows to Debian at a small company. She then moved to Germany to work for Google and spent almost 8 years working in the internal Linux distribution used by Google engineers. In 2020, she started working for Kinvolk, a small company from Germany, where she's focusing on Flatcar Container Linux, a successor to CoreOS.
Accepted Talks:
Meet the Technical Committee
What does the Technical Committee do? How can it work better for Debian? This year, we will do a short recap of our activities last year, but the main focus we want to give to this BoF is how to best move forward and reshape the Technical Committee in a way that works better, and thus is more useful for Debian.
Building Linux distributions for fun and profit
Marga has been working in the Linux industry for over 15 years. On top of being a Debian Developer, she was the co-head of IT of a company in Argentina that migrated from Windows to Debian, she was an engineer in the team that maintained the internal Linux distribution at Google, and she’s now working on Flatcar Container Linux (a successor to CoreOS), which is a container-optimized Linux distribution.
Each of these roles has brought on different challenges, and has meant applying different approaches to getting the results that most closely reflects user’s expectations.
This talk will explore these challenges, discuss how some approaches can serve on one problem-domain but not another and look into the future to try to figure out the relevance of the OS in the coming years.
Leadership in Debian BoF/Panel
In this session, we will host a panel of people who hold (or who have held) leadership positions within Debian.
We’ll go through a few questions for the panel and then continue with open questions and discussion.
Closing session: So long, and thanks for all the .debs!
By now, we should have conquered the hearts, minds, and bandwidths of Debian contributors all over the world. Traditionally, this is the right spot to present some statistics, give us all a final group hug. See you next year!