No, I'm not reverting to the commodore 64. LOAD stands for 'Linux
Open Administration Days' and is a community event targetted at
sysadmins.
This being quite obvious, as I have a talk on the schedule. It'll be
a repeat of my 'Debian Secrets' talk that I've also done at FOSDEM, in
Essen, and in Buenos Aires. Except it will be better than it was at
FOSDEM.
I'll be there the whole of saturday. Not sure yet about Sunday.
I'm now on my way back from The first miniDebCamp and miniDebconf that
happened from March 13th to March 19th in Khon Kaen, Thailand.
This even was organized locally by a team of very motivated Thai
Debian enthusiasts and contributors, such as Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
(*the* Thai DD), Neutron Soutmun, Kitt Tientanopajai, and all those whose name I'm
not remembering as of now (I hope they won't mind).
The even had kinda the structure of DebConfs, with a few days of "Debcamp"
to begin. See the full
schedule.
We were hosted in Khon Kaen University (KKU), one one the most famous
universities in Thailand, a small "town in town" in a city with a few
hundred thousand inhabitants (dunno exactly). Lodging was done in a
hotel located inside the university. Interestingly, the hotel was also
hosting youg students participating to "Summer Camps" (apparently
training systems to get good school results) gving to all this a very
young atmosphere.
The hacking lab and talks location was a 30-seat room in the
university library, and meals were brought in there very efficiently,
with the very specific way that Thai people have to transport each and
every kind of meal (in small plastic bags closed by rubber).
I arrived only in the 3rd day because I had commitments at home that
made it impossible to me to come for the first day. During these days,
people have been very busy hacking and participating to the Bug
Squashing Party. During that BSP, about 50 bugs have been touched,
without about 15 or so closed.
Other non Thai attendees were Andrew Lee from TW, Paul Wise from AU,
Daiki Ueno and Yukiharu Yabuki from JP. Organizers were expecting some
attendees from neighbouring countries such as Laos, Vietnam or
Cambodia. Unfortunately, none of them could come, including Anousak
Soupavanh, leader of Lao free software localization efforts, who I was
very impatient to meet. Transport difficulties, or visa problems, do
not make things easy in that part of the world.
On Wednesday we had a "DayTrip" as it is common for such event. We
went abotu 50 km away from Khon Kaen, to visit a nice place, close to
a dam lake, and climbed a hill surrounded by a big temple and a giant
Buddha statue. Then we had a wonderful lunch in a fish restaurant in
the very specific Thai way to share stuff: everything is on the table
and you pick your food here and there, at you rconvenience. Of course,
local advice before trying apparently innocent food is always worth it
because the fire might be hidden anywhere (for instance in that soja
plate which I tried and that set my mouth as a burning hell for 20
minutes). The journey ended by a visit of a great temple in Khon Kaen
and, very noticeably by a dinner in a very popular barbecue restaurant
in "all you can eat" style for...100Bath (so, about 2.5 euros). Maybe
only vegetarian people had more trouble enjoying the meal as it was
mostly made of various meat (and sea food).
The talk days were very intense, at least in my opinion. Probably
because I ended up giving four talks, some of them completely
improvised (about IP-over-DNS, which I was using at the hotel and
about which many wanted to learn a little bit more, and GPG keysigning
processes). It turned out that the GPG talk was well received and,
discussing with Paul later on, we agreed that such a talk, mostly
meant to explain the DOs and DON'Ts For good GPG keys signing, could
be a good idea even for Debconfs.
There were also a few talks about local initiatives and efforts to
develop (and not only promote) free software. We have no recordings of
these talks as we were infortunately missing some video recording
installation (maybe next time, Thep) just like the miniConf that was
happening in Panama at about the same time was having.
Due to local regulation on the university network, we had some limitations with
Internet access (some firewalling that for instance was preventing SIP
to work properly, which made a video-conference with a japanese user
group fail, unfurtunately).
The event ended in a round table discussion about ideas to organize
something bigger in the future. The local community in Thailand has
apparently the energy, maybe ressources and local support to be able
to organize a slightly bigger event as first try (somethign like an
Asian DebConf or something similar, targeting mostly Asian
contributors and about 50-100 people. Thailand seems to be a good
target to host such event, with many things being relatively
inexpensive (and not only beer!). And they even think about possibly
hosting a Debconf at some time in the future (actually, Martin Krafft
should also be credited for bringing this idea). That isn't as crazy
as it seems and, provided that potential organizers start involving
themselves in the current Debconfs, everything seems to be possible.
After all, if we look back to 2005, only one person (hello, Safir) was
seriously thinking that Debconf could really happen in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, right?
After this week (followed by 2.5 days of sightseeing in Bangkok for
me, plus a small meeting today with local Thai Linux corporate users
and IT company owners), I feel like the mood in Asia about Debian
development is high and full of potential. The miniconf last year in
Taiwan was already a good success, by establishing a good connection
between people.....we need to keep that alive and, hopefully, there
will be other miniconfs in this part of the world. And, well, if I can
be there, I'll be there.
Next Saturday a group of more than 20 women that work with Free Software
in Argentina and Uruguay will gather to speak at a Free Software event in
Buenos Aires, called Software
Libre, Pasi n de Mujeres.
It's your typical Free Software event, with talks related to the
philosophy of Free Software and the Free Culture in general, and also
technical talks related to using and developing Free Software. With one
important difference: all the speakers will be women.
This might sound shocking to some people and normal stuff to some
others, but the reaction created by the call for talks of this event
was definitely not something I expected. Women from all over the country
(and many also from other Latin American countries) have contacted us, to
tell us about what they do in their daily lives with Free Software and how
they would like to share their work with others.
The event is open for both men and women to attend, however, of the more
than a 100 people that have already pre-registered, more than half are
women. A ratio that is more than amazing when you have been to a Free
Software event before. I think that the fact that all the speakers are
women is really encouraging for many women to attend, who otherwise
wouldn't.
Debian will be sponsoring the event, by paying the bus tickets of the
speakers that come from the whole country, which is a great help in making
this event a big success. I really expect the event to be a fantastic
opportunity for the women in our country to finally show all the great work
they are doing... I'm very excited about it :)
PS: Somehow, I screwed up Planet Debian, filling it with old
posts. I'm sorry! :-\
Whew!
Is it karma or what? What makes me get involved in two horribly complex, two-week-long conferences, year after year? Of course, both (DebConf and EDUSOL) are great fun to be part of, and both have greatly influenced both my skills and interests.
Anyway, this is the fifth year we hold EDUSOL. Tomorrow we will bring the two weeks of activities to an end, hold the last two videoconferences, and finally declare it a done deal. I must anticipate the facts and call it a success, as it clearly will be recognized as such.
One of the most visible although we insist, not the core activities of the Encounter are the videoconferences. They are certainly among the most complex. And the videoconferences' value is greatly enhanced because, even if they are naturally a synchronous activity (it takes place at a given point in time), they live on after they are held: I do my best effort to publish them as soon as possible (less than one day off), and they are posted to their node, from where comments can continue. This was the reason, i.e., why we decided to move at the last minute tomorrow's conference: Due to a misunderstanding, Beatriz Busaniche (a good friend of ours and a very reknown Argentinian Free Software promotor, from Via Libre) thought her talk would be held today, and we had programmed her for tomorrow. No worries - We held it today, and it is already online for whoever wants to take part :-)
So, I don't want to hold this any longer (I will link to the two conferences that I'm still missing from this same entry). Here is the list of (and links to) videoconferences we have held.
37 years since I first heard Peter Gabriel's voice (Genesis' Nursey Crime, one of the first LP I ever bought) and about 34 since I first saw him on stage in what turned out to be Genesis' last show in France (St-Etienne, my home city, may 1975).
Since then, I tried to keep up with PG's appearances here and there and he has always been my favourite artist.
So, if any of this blog's readers happen to be in Latin America and enjoy PG's music, just try to go there:
Gunnar, I fully agree with your post. 
When Graham
Bell invented the telephone in 1876, he probably didn t expect
the rise of the cellphones we ve been seeing over the last 20
years. At first, there were C-net phone too huge to carry, but
mobile still, as they communicated wireless. Then, devices became
smaller, networks faster and ubiquitous, and today, the number of
cellphones sold worldwide has exceeded the population.
Much like everything else, it used to be better back then .
When phone calls were still ridiculously expensive, people were
able to enjoy their peace and life progressed slow for everyone to
think enough, not do or say without engaging their brains. Then,
when the first cellphones stuffed people s pockets, they did their
job pretty much from the start: you could make phone calls. Some
genius discovered SMS as a splendid tool to
rip off customers, so phones grew pager abilities, but other
than that, they just worked; I remember my first phone, which
didn t break in years.
Obviously, if you re a phone manufacturer, you don t like that,
because once you sell a phone that works, the customer won t come
back to give more monies in ten years. Clever as you are, you
devised two schemes to ensure your cash flow: make phones more
brittle and crap, so that they break within a year, at most two;
and drag ever younger people into the debt
trap. For the truly stupid, sites and services offer ring tones
and games and what not, and the lesser challenged you keep close by
the continuous addition of new features that noone needs.
So these days, almost every phone can play music files, which is
mighty convenient to spice up your work commute with some tunes,
but our youngsters are overburdened by that, it seems.
I almost soiled myself laughing at a group of five Italians at
Ezeiza Airport in Buenos Aires, who were sitting around waiting for
a bus, every one of them ear plugged and grooving to the beats (you
know how dorky it looks when people silently sing along rap
songs?). That s not the funny part. The funny part is that every
minute, one of them would say something, which would cause the
others to unplug one ear, and form their lips to bleat what
(making sure to add just a little bit extra of the tone of general
disinterest, which is cool ). This elicited one of two responses:
either the original speaker would say oh, nothing and everyone
nodded, or he d repeat his wisdom, causing everyone to laugh and
nod before in both cases they replugged and returned to luff
themselves. I wonder how they made it to the airport themselves,
and why they travel as a group.
Worse than that, however, is that cellphone manufacturers
remembered that their phones had speakers (for fancy ringtones) and
consequently added the ability to blast tunes through them. As a
result, groups of kiddies walk around or sit in trains, with one
(or more) of those cellphones blaring into the environment.
Apart from being generally inconsiderate, what I don t
understand is how they put up with the sound quality. It s mostly
hip-hop music you know that genre that makes some homies out
there install 5000 watt subwoofers into their cars so make sure the
windows rattle with the base but these phones have a frequency
spectrum comparable in width to that of your grandfather s, way
further up the scale (meaning they just don t do base). Playing
hip-hop through those is like putting a flute concerto on a
subwoofer, just worse, because high-pitch tones are harder to
filter by those who don t want to hear them.
And yet, I see it all over the place, kiddies listening to
music through cellphone speakers. Is it because silence would kill
them?
NP:
65daysofstatic: The Fall of Math
Sorry, ever since Debconf I've been busy, ill and otherwise
distracted. I'm still catching up... Stuff that's happened:
Dude, you're married! For the second year running,
I had to leave Debconf a day early to attend a wedding party. My good
friend Matthew married Oxana last Monday. I've just put my photos of the
happy event online today.
After a successful Debconf where I managed to evade the normal
plague, it hit hard on the Tuesday morning and I've been struggling
with it ever since. Just about over it now, but I've
been feeling crap for over a week.
On the way to Buenos Aires to catch my flight back to England, I
received a text message telling me the sad news that my uncle, John
Bolton had passed away. This means that the eldest two of my mum's
three brothers have died this year, in the space of just a few months,
and it's been a very hard time for the family. The funeral happened
earlier this week, so I was away and mostly off-line for a couple of
days travelling there and back.
I'm trying to get back up to speed on a whole host of different
things at the moment; if you're waiting on a response from me about
Debian-related stuff, please feel free to prod me via email or
IRC.
As I start this blog post, I'm on the train between Amersfoort and
Osnabr ck, on my way to Kiel, where there'll be a meeting of the m68k
porters, kindly organized by m68k kernel maintainer Christian Steigies.
I took the 8:40 train in Mechelen this morning, and if all goes well,
I'll be arriving in Kiel at 17:22 tonight. Some train trip... but I
certainly prefer that to any flight.
Anyway. The days of Debconf were very nice. Debconf is a lot
of things to me. Travel. Hacking. Mao, evolving into a drinking game.
Beer. Attending talks. Giving talks. Meeting people.
Face-to-face non-flaming. Gesturing for an extra knife at luunch.
Hangover. Whiskey. Talking to the person next to you—over IRC.
Getting killed before knowing what the rules of the assassins game are.
Filing bugreports in person. Pictures. Kilts.
Streaming video. Not being sick, hopefully. Name badges.
Flying. Sleeping. Yes, sleeping.
Most of all, though, this year, Debconf was just great.
Thanks. You know who you are.
After debconf, I flew to Buenos Aires, where I slept for one night in
a Youth Hostel somewhere downtown. They were affordable, but the bed
wasn't great—the mattress sorely needed replacement. Since I had a
day in BA, and since there were apparently not enough people on the
schedule, I'd agreed to hold a talk, and came up with the idea of a
'debian secrets' talk—about Debian-specific commands, such as
dpkg-divert and update-alternatives etc—so that people could learn
how to use their Debian system more efficiently.
As I was sitting in Andreas' talk, who was right before me on the
schedule, suddenly Dag walked up to
me and said hi. This was unexpected; Dag is a fellow Belgian, who's
involved with the CentOS project, and who maintains a positively huge
RPM repository at his site—if you maintain an RPM-based system
somewhere, you'll probably know about that site. So while I recognized
him, I immediately wondered what he was doing there.
Turned out he was invited to hold a talk at the Free Software event
to which Debianday was attached (and which would not start for another
day or two), and that when he saw my name on the schedule, he decided to
attend. Fun. He learned a thing or two from my talk, and was talking
later about writing some tools for RPM-based systems that would perform
the same or similar functionality implemented by some of the Debian
tools I talked about. Great. We had a picture together (in front of the
DebConf banner—hah) that I still should upload, and then went out
for lunch together with some other CentOS guys.
The talk itself seems to have been well-received, and I'm glad about
that; I only gave it because there was a need for more talks, not
because I felt confident I was very knowledgeable about that subject. In
fact, I did have to ask on the debconf-discuss mailinglist for some
input (which I received) so that I could make sure the talk would
actually be useful to people. That helped a lot, I guess.
After that, we played some mao in the lobby of the DebianDay venue.
While doing so, I overheard Dag talking about CentOS, advocating it to
some of the people there, which I must say felt pretty weird on a Debian
event. Not that there's anything wrong with it, of course. Except that
Dag was supposed to be writing his talk slides. How did that work out,
Dag? ;-)
Eventually, I got in a cab to the EZE airport, and flew home. That
wasn't fully without
issue, but I did get there.
And now, I've been, eh, overloaded. Still have to follow up on a
question a customer asked me, but I've barely been home or at the
office, just enough to sleep really. Should do something about that, I
guess...
Two days ago, I also managed to forget my camera somewhere. For 12
hours, I was worried, even though I had a pretty good idea of where it
was; but since I'm getting quite good at taking pictures now, and since
I really like doing so as well, I really didn't want to lose my camera.
Fortunately, when I called this morning to the place where I thought I'd
lost it, they told me it'd been found, and where to get it. In other
words, it's safe, it's taken care of, Philip went to get it, and I just need to
arrange to get it when I get back. Which is a relief.
Let's not be so stupid anymore in the future...
Finishing up now, a day later, and I'm at Christian's office, playing
with his and my coldfire board. As it happens, it appears that Freescale
has brought out a new BSP for these boards, so that's nice. Let's see
whether we can get those to boot again...
I'm back (for several days now) from Argentina and DebConf 8 to
Portland. Too long a journey and too short a trip, as always. It was
great to see everybody again as well as to meet a number of new folks
from the local community. Here's hoping that DebConf 8 inspires more
involvement in Debian from Argentina!
It was my first time to this wonderful South American country, which
made it even more melancholy to have to leave after such a short time
and to be making this trip without Patty.
Random observations about Argentina, for posterity:
Some interesting two days have just passed. I took the airplane from
Mar del Plata to Buenos Aires on the 17th, slept one
night in a hostel on a mattress that felt like stone, and went to the
'Circulo del Officieles de la Mar' (or some such, I don't know spanish)
where I had to give a talk.
The oral feedback I've gotten so far indicates that people did
appreciate it, which is good.
I had originally planned to do some sightseeing in Buenos Aires after
my talk, but me being tired and not immediately finding anyone else to
go with me changed those plans. Instead, I just stayed at the C.O.M.,
where we played some Mao. Amongst other things.
About an hour before I left the place, Holger Levsen gave me a tripod,
with the request to take it with me to Belgium, and keep it until
FOSDEM. As that would also give me the use of an tripod, and being the
photography hobbyist that I am, I was too happy to oblige. There was
just one problem: the suitcase that contained my luggage already had a
bulge from here to tokio, so adding it was a no-no.
No problem, I thought. I'll just keep it in my carry-on luggage.
There's some space left there, and I certainly didn't have 5kg of
carry-on luggage yet. Problem solved. The 'security' in EZE is a joke;
the security officer doesn't even look at the screen while
X-raying my luggage. Well done.
So I fly from EZE to MAD on the first, 11-and-a-half-hour leg of my
flight. Madrid Barajas is a crazy airport, with its own private metro.
Somewhere between gates R-something (where IB6844 from EZE arrived) and
J40 (where the flight to BRU will depart from), we need to go through a
security checkpoint. Strange, since I hadn't had to do that on my way in
from BRU to EZE; but of course you have no choice, so I comply.
As I've gotten used to by now, what with the mess of cabling in my
laptop bag and the other metal objects there, I get a baggage check. The
security officer who goes through my very messy bag asks me to open the
bag containing the tripod, so he can see it. He then promptly decides
that it is a "sharp" object, and that it is "not acceptible". Here the
fun begins.
Of course, trying to argue with a security guard isn't the best idea
if you want to be allowed on any flight, ever, so I don't even try that.
I ask him 'can I check that in, instead?' and he tells me how to go
back, to the exit, and to the departures hall where I can have that
little tripod get checked in. So I go there. The lady at the check-in
desk tells me that she cannot check the tripod in, because the flight
has already been closed and I'm too late. I tell her I'm from a
connecting flight, and that I can't help that. She says she knows. So I
ask her what my other options are. She tells me I could try to get on
the next flight to Brussels, which is at 20:00 (rather than the 16:20
flight that I was booked on). I consider that an acceptable compromise,
so ask her how to get that done, and she refers me to the ticket sales
desk, some 10 meters to my left.
Unfortunately, the 20:00 flight turns out to be completely
booked, and there are no other flights on the same day. The best
alternative he can give me is a flight to Amsterdam at 19:20, which
would cost 'a little more'. I ask him 'how much more'. He starts looking
up things in his computer, and after a few minutes tells me that he
cannot refund my ticket for the 16:20 flight and that a flight to
amsterdam would cost me 429. At this point I get somewhat angry, and
tell him that this is not acceptable. He refers me to the customer
service desk right across.
The lady at the customer service desk is friendly, but firm: she
cannot help me. Either I leave the tripod behind, or I pay whatever the
ticket service asks me—she takes my word that it is 429, because
she cannot check it, and cannot change it, either. I get more agitated,
and ask to see the supervisor. She points me to a lady a little across
who can 'call' the supervisor. At this point it is 15:55
As I reach that lady, apparently someone else had just asked for the
same thing, and starts arguing with a guy in black uniform, who
appears to be the supervisor, about the fact that he's got more
than 30kg of luggage which he isn't allowed to take along with him.
Dude, not a single airline will let you do that, no matter how
much you argue. I let them argue for about 10 minutes, all the while
nervously looking at my watch, but then I interrupt with 'please, I
don't have much time left before my flight leaves'. That gets his
attention. In our two-minute conversation, the guy in black backs up
everything the other three people have told me, adding that '429
is reasonable; your luggage is already on the flight, and it
will cost Iberia a lot of money to delay the flight and get it off'. I
curse. He also seems surprised at the notion that I'm not allowed to
take a tripod in my carry-on luggage.
Hmm.
Figuring I have nothing to loose, I curse one more time, and make a
run for it. When I reach the security checkpoint, I ask to be allowed to
skip the queue in front of it, on the grounds that I have only 15
minutes left before my flight leaves. Mind you, this is not the same
security checkpoint as the one where I was rejected about an hour
earlier; this is the security checkpoint between the departures hall and
the secure area, whereas the other security checkpoint was one between
two different terminals. I am granted my request, and quickly throw
everything in the X-ray boxes. They need to go through my bag again. I
help them, showing where everything conspicuous is, and opening my flute
box so they know what's in there. He looks at everything, and signals
that I can move on.
Hang on, I think. This can't be right.
'Okay,' I ask?
'Yes,' he says.
I run for the nearest info desk, show them my boarding pass, and tell
them 'please, my flight leaves in 10 minutes, can you tell me where to
go?' They are quick and efficient. Gate J40. I make a run for it again,
and just make it in time. Of course, I could forget about my
plans of finding a power outlet, plugging in my cell phone and calling
my parents, but that's not a big deal—there's a train station at
Brussels Airport.
So what have we learned? Security on airports is random, arbitrary,
non-standardized, and utterly stupid. Items that pose no danger at
all—plastic bottles containing more than 100ml of water, small quantities
of yoghurt that are over 100grammes but not over
100ml, tripods—are not allowed, while on the other hand I've
occasionally gotten through security carrying knives and tools
that are clearly forbidden by the rules.
We've also learned that the rules very much depend on the particular
person checking you. If you're refused for an item that is not a knife
or a gun or something else similarly problematic, it may help to just
find a different security checkpoint and try again. It's not as
if they make any sense, anyway.
Me and Ail arrived at Buenos Aires on saturday. A member of the local team was waiting for people at Ezeiza, and we gave away our 2130 bus reservations in order to take a combi to Mar del Plata with Clint, four fellow german debianites and some venezuelans. The trip was quite long, around six hours IIRC. We arrived in the early morning, and slept past noon.
I have no words to describe my particular experience with this year’s conference, but I do agree with our DPL: this has been the best DebConf I’ve ever attended. In general, the Annual Debian Conference is one of the most attractive events for me, since it provides us with the opportunity to share and define a little bit of the future of the universal operating system. I use, develop for and work with this operating system, so there’s the importance of this conference for me.
That said, DebConf is a unique event. Some people that I know back in Venezuela are used to a different, more academic style of event, which features a tight schedule and no specific provision of group networking. They are not used to an event like DebConf, and when they attend it they feel they’ve lost their time in an event they don’t understand. And they ask for a participation certificate :) In that respect, besides the very interesting talks and events in the conference, DebConf offers an excellent opportunity for group development and general networking.
On the other hand, both the local team and the venue have striked me in many good ways. I’m aware of LatAm limitations for some of the particularities of DebConf such as connectivity, provision for special food needs, special usage of the venue and general receptivity for a bunch of 24/7 geeks. The local team has made a huge effort putting this together in such a special and organized way. I don’t think the Venezuelan DC8 Bid would have made this much success in the same timeframe. Congratulations, Argentina!
We will leave Mar del Plata on saturday (at 2200) and then we will spend some more days in Buenos Aires, particularly to attend Debian Day, where I’ll be giving a talk in spanish. Therefore, we’ll be writing a little more (in spanish) about Argentina later, since we loved our time in this country.
python-debian
Well, not unexpected news, but since I've been rather quite
lately it is worth reminding that I'm now at DebConf8, enjoying the
DebCamp. I've arrived today after a quite long trip made of
unexpected extra plane stops in Madrid (thanks Iberia for not
declaring it and letting me ponder about how can it possibly take
16 hours from Barcelona to Buenos Aires, now I know the reason ...)
and shaky bus hours.
First tiny teeny achievement of DebCamp (among a handful of
beers already) is an upload of python-debian
0.1.11, implementing among other things support for
parsed dependencies and a major overhaul changelog parsing
(thanks to James Westby). Unfortunately we are going to miss Lenny
with this release, but after all it is a package mostly meant for
Debian Developers, so it is probably not a big deal.
Sure, that sounds fairly formal to send a report for holidays, doesn't it?
Anyway, as I have a few (often Debian/FLOSS related) friends around
the world who are reading my blog entries, this might interest them so that's indeed a report..:-)...and I have time for it, so...
I'm currently going back from Cahors to Maurepas (home), on my way to Debconf. We spent 10 days in Cahors with Elizabeth and the girls, finally joined by Jean-Baptiste on Sunday. We had great time over there, enjoying the richness of Quercy:
Finally got my shit together and got a flight to Argentina for DebConf!
Perth -> Sydney -> Auckland -> Buenos Aires -> Mar del Plata.
That is quite a bit of flying and a long bus trip ending quite early on
the 4th. It will definitely be worth it if DebConf7 was anything to go on.
Hopefully by DebConf I can get my hands on an OpenMoko FreeRunner to do
some Debian porting work during DebCamp and possibly mapping out the
streets of Mar del Plata for OpenStreetMap. Of course I need to work on
completing analysis of the results of the Debian user and new contributor
surveys and figure out what to say about synfig
if I get the chance to do a lightning talk about it.
/me now officially excited
This year, DebianDay will take place in Buenos Aires, on Monday August 18th,
the day after DebConf ends. We are still in need of talks for DebianDay, so,
if you are coming to DebConf and you’ll be staying a few more days in Argentina
after the conference, you are invited to give a talk on whatever you want as
long as it’s Debian related.
Some suggestions for talk subjects for DebianDay:
This will be my first DebConf ever and I'm excited. I just booked my
flights together with nomeata:
2008-08-03: Frankfurt (10:20) -> Buenos Aires (19:05) [LH510] 2008-08-03/04: Buenos Aires (21:30) -> Mar del Plata (3:20) [Bus] 2008-08-17: Mar del Plata (12:00) -> Buenos Aires (18:00) [Bus] 2008-08-18: Buenos Aires (20:55) -> Frankfurt (15:00) [LH511]
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