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Debian Project at OSS Symposium, LinuxTag and DebConf
The Debian project will attend the Open Source Software Symposium in Stuttgart and the LinuxTag in Karlsruhe next week, both in Germany.
June 20th - 21st Symposium OSS 2005 Ostfildern, Germany http://www.debian.org/events/2005/0620-oss2005
The Debian project will run a booth and will present the distribution at this symposium for business and public administration.. Michael Meskes will also give a talk about the use of the Debian system in companies and in public administration.
June 22nd - 25th LinuxTag Karlsruhe, Germany http://www.debian.org/events/2005/0622-linuxtag
This is the largest and most important Free Software exhibition and conference. The Debian project will maintain a booth in the exhibition area and organise a mini conference called Debian Day with the schedule below. The new and shiny release of Debian 3.1 alias sarge will be demonstrated at the booth where visitors can get pressed DVDs with the release on it for the i386, amd64 and powerpc platforms.
In addition to this, there will be several other talks that cover Free Software and Debian in particular. There will also be a keysigning party again on Saturday which requires to submit the keys before.
There will be a release party to celebrate the release of Debian 3.1 and their new Debian book at the booth of Open Source Press (B107) on Thursday 17 o'clock to which all Debian people are invited. In the evening, the new Debian release will be celebrated at the KaLUG party, starting at 20 o'clock next to the AKK.
July 10th - 17th Debian Conference Helsinki, Finland http://www.debian.org/events/2005/0710-debconf
The Debian conference aims at Debian developers and interested users who would like to know more about the inner structure of the project and the distribution. The schedule will be available shortly before the conference. In the wek before a work camp will be organised. On July 9th a public conference will be organised at the same place.
Schedule for the Debian Day
The Debian Day has been extended to two days and will take place on Thursday and Friday in room 2.05. In general the talks will be held in English if not denoted otherwise.
Thursday, June 23rd, 2005
Time | Speaker Title
------+------------------------------------------------------------- 10:00 | Norbert Tretkowski Backporting Practice 11:00 | Joey Schulze Debian Security 12:00 | Luk Claes Internationalisation & localisation 13:00 | Goswin von Brederlow Debian Archive Structure 14:00 | Martin Zobel-Helas The volatile Archive 15:00 | Meike Reichle The Debian Women Project 16:00 | Enrico Zini CDD: Current and Future
Friday, June 24th, 2005
Time | Speaker Title
------+------------------------------------------------------------- 12:00 | Yutaka Niibe Porting to the m32r Architecture 13:00 | Mike Wiesner Kerberos V5 with Debian (German) 14:00 | Stefano Zacchiroli OCaml @ Debian 15:00 | Florian Mo"llers Knowledge, Power and free Beer 16:00 | Hauke Goos-Habermann m23 Distribution System 17:00 | Michael Banck The Ubuntu Development Model
Additional talks with Debian connection at LinuxTag
Some talks will be delivered outside of the the Debian Day in the regular conference schedule or the community schedule. Several of these talks will be given in German.
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005
10:00 Fabian Franz Introduction into Knoppix (EG)
Thursday, June 23rd, 2005
13:30 Florian Schie?l Migration to Linux in Munich (UG2)
Friday, June 24th, 2005
12:00 Fernanda Weiden Free Software with a female touch (UG2) 16:00 Mako Hill Financing Free Software Projects (UG2) 17:00 Fabian Franz Introduction into Knoppix (PLF)
Saturday, June 25th, 2005
14:00 Key Signing Party (R 2.05) 15:00 Debian Developers Debian Projekt intern (UG3) 16:00 Alexander Schmehl Howto pay back (Community Forum) 16:00 Mako Hill Debian and Ubuntu: fork or not to fork (UG3) 17:00 Michael Kofler Ubuntu - The human Linux (EG) 17:00 Gregorio Robles Quo vadis, libre software? (UG3)
We invite all interested people in these areas to attend these conferences, meet Debian developers and users, exchange GnuPG fingerprints, discuss various topics on Debian and Free Software, and otherwise participate in our vibrant community.