Presentations

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

Contents

1. 2013

October 6th: Talk at PyCon DE 2011: Mercurial Migration im großen Stil (in German) by MarkusZapke
June 30th: Mercurial The Easy Way (Spanish) Campus Party Colombia 04
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.
January: Mercurial: Fast, Scalable Version Control by MartinGeisler, Aaron Digulla, and Klaus Bucka-Lassen: article in the German magazine OBJEKTspektrum.

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

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)

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)

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)

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)