Various events and presentations with talks around/about Mercurial

1. 2008 Events

• September 2008: Talk by PeterArrenbrecht at [http://www.openexpo.ch/openexpo-2008-zuerich/konferenz-programm/technology-track-1/ OpenExpo in Winterthur, Switzerland] (cancelled [http://www.ch-open.ch/wstage/08/ws7.html workshop] led to this [http://arrenbrecht.ch/mercurial/german-hgbook.htm partial introduction to Hg in German]).

• June 2008: Minneapolis, MN - Talk by Ted Naleid [http://naleid.com/blog/2008/06/03/distributed-source-control-with-mercurial-presentation/ Distributed Source Control with Mercurial] - contrasts with centralized systems like SVN, other DVCS systems and gives an overview of hg commands.

• May 2008: Article "Offline versionieren - Von Subversion auf Mercurial umsteigen", p. 182-187, by Oliver Lau in [https://www.heise.de/abo/ct/pdfs/08/inhalt-ct0812.pdf issue 12] (2008-05-26) of German magazine [http://www.heise.de/ct/english/ c't]

• January 2008: (various sites internationally, [http://www.sun.com/ Sun Microsystems])

  Talk by Jesse Glick: Mercurial for NetBeans Developers (slides: [http://wiki.netbeans.org/attach/HgTrainingMaterials/preso.xhtml HTML])

2. 2007 Events

• December 6th: [http://groups.google.com/group/michipug/web/index-2 Michigan Python Users Group] meeting in Ann Arbor, MI, US

  Talk by Kevin Dangoor about [http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2007/12/03/michigan-python-users-group-december-2007-meeting/ DVCS in general and Mercurial specifically]

• December 1st: [http://www.tchelinux.org/ The 2nd Tchelinux Seminar of Software Livre] in Porto Alegre City, BR

  Talk by Douglas Schilling Landgraf and Fabio Olivé: The Mercurial SCM system (slides: [http://tate.cathedrallabs.org/~landgraf/palestras/Mercurial2007-12-01.pdf PDF (in Portuguese)])

• November 30th: [http://rainbow.cs.unipi.gr/projects/oss/wiki/EventTwo OSS Team, University of Piraeus], Piraeus, GR

  Talk by Giorgos Keramidas: The Mercurial SCM system (slides: [http://rainbow.cs.unipi.gr/projects/oss/attachment/wiki/EventTwo/mercurial-keramida.pdf PDF (in Greek)])

• May 29th: [http://www.ruby.mn/ Ruby Users of Minnesota] in Minneapolis, MN, US

  Talk by McClain Looney: A short introduction to Mercurial (slides: [http://www.loonsoft.com/~mml/hg_pres.zip zipped HTML])

• April 12th: [http://utahpython.org/ UtahPython] meeting in UT, US

  Talk by [http://spyced.blogspot.com/ Jonathan Ellis]: Distributed source control and Mercurial (slides: [http://utahpython.org/data/dscm-hg.pdf PDF])

3. 2006 Events

• October 17th: LANS Weekly Seminar in Argonne, IL, US

  Talk by [http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/~balay/ Satish Balay]: An Introduction to Mercurial Version Control Software (slides: [http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~leyffer/listn/slides-06/mercurial.pdf PDF])

• July 24th-28th: [http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2006/ OSCon 2006] in Portland, OR, US

  Talk by ["BryanOSullivan"]: [http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2006/view/e_sess/9370 Painless maintenance of local changes to fast-moving software]

• July 21st: [http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/ Ottawa Linux Symposium] in Ottawa, ON, CA

  Talk by ["mpm"]: [http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/view_abstract.php?content_key=194 Towards A Better SCM: Revlogs and Mercurial] (slides: [attachment:ols-mercurial.pdf PDF], [attachment:ols-mercurial.odp ODP], paper: [attachment:ols-mercurial-paper.pdf PDF])

• July 4th: EuroPython, CERN, Geneva, CH

  Talk by ["BryanOSullivan"]: [http://indico.cern.ch/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=29&sessionId=49&confId=44 Achieving high performance in Mercurial] (slides: [http://indico.cern.ch/materialDisplay.py?contribId=29&sessionId=49&materialId=slides&confId=44 PDF], [http://indico.cern.ch/materialDisplay.py?contribId=29&sessionId=49&materialId=video&confId=44 video])

• June 19th: Google, building 43, 11am, Mountain View, CA, US

  Talk by ["BryanOSullivan"]: An introduction to Mercurial ([http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7724296011317502612 50 minute video], slides: [attachment:google.pdf PDF], [attachment:google.odp ODP])

• June 8th: [http://baypiggies.net/ Silicon Valley-San Francisco Bay Area Python Interest Group] at Google, Mountain View, CA, US Talk by ["BryanOSullivan"]: Introductory talk on Mercurial (slides: [attachment:mercurial-overview.pdf PDF], [attachment:mercurial-overview.odp ODP])

• June 2nd-4th: [http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2006-May/008165.html Joint Mercurial / Bazaar-NG sprint], London, UK

  Codename: Revenge of the SpiderGoat ([http://www.serpentine.com/blog/software/mercurial/hg-bzr-sprint-1.html Bryan's writeup])

• May 12th-13th: [http://www.bsdcan.org/ BSDCan 2006] in Ottawa, ON, CA

  Talk by ["OllivierRobert"]: [http://www.keltia.net/freebsd Updated presentation about FreeBSD using Mercurial] (slides: [http://www.keltia.net/BSDCan/slides.pdf PDF], paper: [http://www.keltia.net/BSDCan/paper.pdf PDF])

• May 3rd-6th: [http://www.linuxtag.org/ LinuxTag 2006] in Wiesbaden, DE

  Talk by ["ThomasArendsenHein"]: [http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/de/besucher/programm/freies-vortragsprogramm/donnerstag-talkid-271.html Mercurial Distributed SCM - Die verteilte Alternative zu CVS] (paper: [http://intevation.de/~thomas/mercurial-lt2006/ HTML])

4. 2005 Events

• November 25th-27th: [http://www.eurobsdcon.org/ EuroBSDCon 2005] in Basel, CH:

  Talk by ["OllivierRobert"]: [http://www.keltia.net/freebsd Presentation Switching the FreeBSD Project from CVS/Perforce to Mercurial]