Date: October 26-28 2023
Location: Berlin, EUREF Campus
PackagingCon 2023 was an amazing hybrid and in-person (first time) gathering, October 26-28th, in Berlin, one of the most open source friendly cities of the world.
PackagingCon’s mission is to bring different ecosystems together: from Python’s pip to Rust’s cargo to Julia’s Pkg, from Debian apt over Nix to conda and mamba, and from vcpkg to Spack. We highlight many different approaches to package management at the conference.
About PackagingCon
Today, practically every operating system, language ecosystem, and framework has one or more package managers. Package managers are a significant mechanism for taming software complexity, integrating various ecosystems, components, and versions and ensuring they are managed (installed/updated/uninstalled) safely, reliably, and in a compatible manner on user systems.
Because package managers bridge the gap between developers and the end user, developing them requires a broad range of expertise in multiple areas, including language runtimes, OS policies, distribution management, dependency solving, and developer workflows.
Packaging Con seeks to bring various package management communities together, as a venue to discuss challenges and exchange ideas. What makes communities work together on a particular software ecosystem? Are the differences among package managers 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 resolution fundamentally the same problem across systems, or does each package manager do it differently?
Packaging Con is a conference for developers of software package management tools, 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, from apt, rpm, and Nix to conda and mamba, and from vcpkg to spack, and from fpm to npm.
Topics
PackagingCon covers a wide range of areas related to package management, including but not limited to:
Deep dives on specific packaging systems
Software supply chains, pipelines, and security
Package build and release methodologies
Modeling software ecosystems in package managers
Modeling compatibility (semver, API/ABI analysis, etc.)
Interactions between package managers
Reproducibility in package managers
Reliability/robustness of software ecosystems
Dependency solving and management: modeling, methods, and scalability
This list is by no means exhaustive — any topic related to package management is welcome.
Code of Conduct
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.
Location
We have secured an awesome location in one of the worlds most open source friendly cities! The Wasserturm at EUREF campus in Berlin can host up to 150 people and we’re looking forward to welcome many packaging-passionate people in Berlin.
You can get your ticket now!
In-person meeting prices for early-birds (until 8 September)
Student: 150 Euro
Personal (you are paying): 200 Euro
Professional (your organization is paying): 300 Euro
In-person regular prices (after 8 September):
Student: 200 Euro
Personal (you are paying): 300 Euro
Professional (your organization is paying): 400 Euro
Virtual early bird meeting prices start at 37.50 Euro. Tickets for the one day sprint after the meeting are also available.
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PackagingCon would not be possible without sponsors. If you are interested to sponsor the biggest conference dedicated to Software Package management, please do not hesitate to reach out to our team!
PackagingCon operates under the umbrella of NumFOCUS, a US based non-profit.
COVID-19 Policy
Mask use is encouraged but not required at PackagingCon 2023. Note that this policy may change if the public health situation deteriorates between now and the conference, or if the local authorities require masking. We are not requiring proof of vaccination.