Debian Project at OSS Symposium, LinuxTag and DebConf - Fsf-friends

17 Jun 2005


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From: Martin Schulze joey@infodrom.org
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June 17th, 2005                 http://www.debian.org/News/2005/20050617
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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
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        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.
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