---
title: Introduction to Reproducible Builds
osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/conferences/seagl2016/program/proposals/166
beginning: '2016-11-12T10:45:00.000-08:00'
end: '2016-11-12T11:45:00.000-08:00'
presenters:
- name: Vagrant Cascadian
  affiliation: Reproducible Builds, Debian, Aikidev
  osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/users/353
  gravatar_id: c1d2ee04b413cf2fbbb4d639a1862d93
  biography: Vagrant is a free software developer involved in the the Debian project,
    a system administrator for an ARM build farm for Reproducible Builds, and gets
    thrown around repeatedly as a hobby. You can find vagrant on social networks such
    as the OpenPGP web of trust and the Debian Bug Tracking system!
---

The Reproducible Builds project aims to bring us closer to a world
where binary software can be independently verified as the result of
building the provided source code, as a matter of best practices.

Without being able to verify that the software actually used is the
software produced from the source code, this leaves open the possibility of
unintentional or even malicious security vulnerabilities.

The focus will be on common examples of reproducibility issues,
tools to troubleshoot reproducibility issues, and most importantly,
ways to fix these issues.

<https://reproducible-builds.org/>
