Agenda
Reproducible Builds Summit 2025
The following was the schedule for the 2025 Reproducible Builds Summit in Vienna, Austra.
Day 1 - Tuesday 28 October 2025
9.00 Morning beverages and pastries at venue
9.30 Opening Circle
The 2025 Reproducible Builds Summit will be called to order with a fast-paced kickoff that includes words of welcome from the organizers, brief participant introductions, along with overviews of the agenda, participation guidelines and meeting logistics.
10.15 Mapping who is in the room
- Mapping who is in the room
11.00 Break
Please note that all break times are approximate :)
11.15 Interactive Project Updates
We’ll continue the program with short question-driven updates from a range of participants on a range of projects from across the Reproducible Builds ecosystem.
12.30 Lunch
Participants are encouraged to sit with those who they have not yet met or engaged.
14.00 Collaborative Working Sessions
- Distributed verification: NOTES
- Language ecosystems: NOTES
- Low-level verification: NOTES
- Local reproducibility and user perception: NOTES
- State of RB tooling: NOTES
- Build sandboxing: NOTES
15.45 Closing Circle
The closing session will invite participants to weigh in on what has been most useful during the course of Day 1, and refine their goals and priorities for the agenda of Day 2.
16.00 Adjourn
16.15 Hack Time
The group will decide how to allocate remaining Day 1 time between working sessions and hack time.
18.00 Head to Dinner
Day 2 - Wednesday 29 October 2025
9.00 Morning beverages and pastries at venue
9.30 Opening Circle
The day will start with a summary of Day 1 outcomes and a Day 2 Agenda Overview.
9.45 Collaborative Working Sessions
- Module integrity verification through hashes - status of the patch and moving forward: NOTES
- How to make wider ecosystem aware and convinced that reproducible builds are needed: NOTES
- Rebuilderd - challenges, feature requests, and how to use it: NOTES
- Distributed verification II: NOTES
- Measuring, Comparing, Organizing of reproducibility issues: NOTES
11.15 Break
Please note that all break times are approximate :)
11.30 Peer skill and knowledge share
Participants will be invited and encouraged to request or share any skill they consider relevant to the meeting scope. The session will be structured so as to minimize group size and maximize 1-on-1 sharing opportunities.
12.30 Lunch
Participants are encouraged to sit with those who they have not yet met or engaged.
14.00 Collaborative Working Sessions
- Native Python reproducibility: NOTES
- Distributed verification III: NOTES
- Standardizing and sharing success and failure: NOTES
- Attacking and tampering with builds: NOTES
- RB Community: NOTES
15.45 Closing Circle
The closing session will invite participants to weigh in on what has been most useful during the course of Day 2, and refine their goals and priorities for the agenda of Day 3.
16.00 Adjourn
16.15 Hack Time
The group will decide how to allocate remaining Day 2 time between working sessions and hack time.
18.00 Head to Dinner
Day 3 - Thursday 30 October 2025
9.00 Breakfast at venue
9.30 Opening Circle
The day will start with a summary of Day 2 outcomes and a Day 3 Agenda Overview.
9.45 Collaborative Working Sessions
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Source tarball reproducibility: NOTES
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Web site working group: NOTES
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NIST, Governments, and standard: NOTES
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Engaging Academia: NOTES
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Python: NOTES
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RB Definition: NOTES
11.15 Break
Please note that all break times are approximate :)
11.30 Collaborative Working Sessions
12.45 Lunch
Participants are encouraged to sit with those who they have not yet met or engaged.
14.00 Mapping next conversations and next steps
The group will pause before the final session to take stock of the progress made to this point in the week and to inventory action items, next steps and other bridges to post-event collaboration.
15.30 Closing Circle
Participants will summarize key outcomes from the event, and discuss next steps for continuing collaboration after the meeting.
16.00 Adjourn / Hack Time
18.00 Head to Dinner
