Presentations

Various events, publications and presentations with talks around/about Mercurial.

1. 2011

• Chapter 12: "Mercurial" in the book "The Architecture of Open Source Applications"

• April 12th: Article "Die neue Freiheit bei der Versionskontrolle" (in German) on Heise Developer

• April 12th: Mercurial at Wyona by Cedric Stau and MartinGeisler: Case study of how Mercurial is used at Wyona.

• January 13th: Mercurial Geek Night II by Gonzalo Casas and MartinGeisler: Experiences with Mercurial at Isonet.

2. 2010

• November 16th: Talk at Python Geek Night in Zurich by MartinGeisler (slides: PDF, online)

• November 4th: Talk "Distributed Source Control with Mercurial" in Seattle by Benjamin Pollack of Fog Creek (Video)

• October 16th: Mercurial talk at Ubucon 2010 in Leipzig by MarkusZapke (slides)

• September 16th: Talk at IBM Research - Zurich by MartinGeisler (slides).

• September 9th: Talk at Open Business Lunch Berne by MartinGeisler (slides).

• September 6th: Interview with Matt Mackall: CodePlex.com donates $25,000 to Mercurial project

• June 29th: Mercurial talk at Zurich Python User Group by MartinGeisler (slides).

• June 2nd: Interview with Matt Mackall on FLOSS Weekly open source show (video) (on youtube).

• April 27th: Mercurial presentation at UBS, Zurich by MartinGeisler (slides).

• March 24th: Mercurial Geek Night and Mercurial Kick Start at Google Zürich: slides and video.

• February 2010: PyCon 2010 in Atlanta, GA, US

  Talk by DirkjanOchtman on Modern version control: Mercurial internals (slides)

• February 2010: FOSDEM Presentation: "Tracking FreeBSD Customizations with a Local Mercurial Branch"

  Presentation by GiorgosKeramidas (slides in XeLaTeX, PDF)

• February 2010: Mercurial 1.5 Sprint (see results)

• January 2010: Video Presentation "Google Code and Mercurial Tutorial for Eclipse users" by Intland Software. Alternate link: youtube

3. 2009

• September 2009: Article "Making Sense of Revision-Control Systems" by Bryan O'Sullivan, in Communications of the ACM, Vol. 52 No. 9, Pages 56-62

• August 2009: JAOO Geek Night at Trifork, Aarhus, Denmark

  Presentation by MartinGeisler on Mercurial (slides in PDF, LaTeX)

• May 2009: Article in ACCU magazine CVu

  Article by Jim Hague: Inside a distributed version control system (PDF)

• April 2009: "Gestion de source distribué" at Salon Solutions Linux Paris 2009

  Presentation by RomainPelisse on distributed version control fundamentals and uses cases (slides: PDF)

4. 2008

• September 2008: OpenExpo in Winterthur, Switzerland

  Talk by PeterArrenbrecht on DVCS and Mercurial

• September 2008: /ch/open Workshop-Tage in Rapperswil, Switzerland (cancelled)

  Preparation by PeterArrenbrecht led to this partial introduction to Hg in German

• June 2008: Minneapolis, MN

  Talk by Ted Naleid: Distributed Version Control with Mercurial (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Merge) (intro, on Slideshare)

• May 2008: Article in German magazine c't

  Article by Oliver Lay: Offline versionieren - Von Subversion auf Mercurial umsteigen, p. 182-187 in issue 12 (2008-05-26)

• January 2008: (various sites internationally, Sun Microsystems)

  Talk by Jesse Glick: Mercurial for NetBeans Developers (slides: HTML)

5. 2007

• December 6th: Michigan Python Users Group meeting in Ann Arbor, MI, US

  Talk by Kevin Dangoor about DVCS in general and Mercurial specifically

• December 1st: 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: PDF (in Portuguese))

• November 30th: OSS Team, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, GR

  Talk by Giorgos Keramidas: The Mercurial SCM system (slides: PDF (in Greek))

• May 29th: Ruby Users of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN, US

  Talk by McClain Looney: A short introduction to Mercurial (slides: zipped HTML)

• April 12th: UtahPython meeting in UT, US

  Talk by Jonathan Ellis: Distributed source control and Mercurial (slides: PDF)

• March 22th: Presentation at the W3C

  Talk by Matt Mackall: The Mercurial SCM (slides: HTML)

6. 2006

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

  Talk by Satish Balay: An Introduction to Mercurial Version Control Software (slides: PDF)

• July 24th-28th: OSCon 2006 in Portland, OR, US

  Talk by BryanOSullivan: Painless maintenance of local changes to fast-moving software

• July 21st: Ottawa Linux Symposium in Ottawa, ON, CA

  Talk by mpm: Towards A Better SCM: Revlogs and Mercurial (slides: PDF, ODP, paper: PDF)

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

  Talk by BryanOSullivan: Achieving high performance in Mercurial (slides: PDF, video)

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

  Talk by BryanOSullivan: An introduction to Mercurial (50 minute video, slides: PDF, ODP)

• June 8th: Silicon Valley-San Francisco Bay Area Python Interest Group at Google, Mountain View, CA, US

  Talk by BryanOSullivan: Introductory talk on Mercurial (slides: PDF, ODP)

• June 2nd-4th: Joint Mercurial / Bazaar-NG sprint, London, UK

  Codename: Revenge of the SpiderGoat (Bryan's writeup)

• May 12th-13th: BSDCan 2006 in Ottawa, ON, CA

  Talk by OllivierRobert: Updated presentation about FreeBSD using Mercurial (slides: PDF, paper: PDF)

• May 3rd-6th: LinuxTag 2006 in Wiesbaden, DE

  Talk by ThomasArendsenHein: Mercurial Distributed SCM - Die verteilte Alternative zu CVS (paper: HTML)

7. 2005

• November 25th-27th: EuroBSDCon 2005 in Basel, CH:

  Talk by OllivierRobert: Presentation Switching the FreeBSD Project from CVS/Perforce to Mercurial