Floschi’s Blog

OK, so now it’s time to go home after one week diving into the Debian GNU/Linux community at DebConf9 in Cáceres, Spain. Marsmensch, Roert and me represented “the City of LiMux (Munich)” (quote from Marsmensch).

At first: Cáceres, the capital of Extremadura, is quite hot in the summer. Really quite hot. So every day starts before noon, ends shortly after noon and restarts again in the early evening. Siesta time between.

I gave a talk (slides) at Debian OpenDay, the first day of DebConf targeted at an Debian interested audience. Many Debian Developers attended, imho because the other talks were held in spanish. And the feedback was great. Fine

DebConf was for me an new experience, I have never before attended such a real community event. Wow, great. Wifi nearly everywhere, even at the beer pub located in the recreation park beside the venue. Highly motivated developers, hacking and discussing nearly the whole day (and night, of course).

Roert gave a talk about one of the topics he is working on at LiMux, how to distribute and manage applications in VirtualBox Images (slides). Great work and very interesting discussion afterwards. Don’t think about virtualization, get your streaming up and you’re done. We’ll discuss this next week.

We want DebConf11 to be in Germany, especially in Munich. I blogged about this some days ago. Strong support from our City Mayor, very good.

The official GroupPhoto with nearly all attendees (some slept during the meeting) is online.

Debian won’t be Debian without some breaking news. This time at first the Release Team announced to switch to time-based releases, but then revisits its decision after enormous community protests. I’m curious about when the freeze for squeeze will happen

I also enjoyed the discussion with the developers from our cooperation partner, the German Federal Foreign Office. We have a lot of common tasks to do, but we finally have to start working together on a technical base. We’ll see and I’ll blog.

To conclude: thank you attendees, thank you organizers and thank you everyone who wants my thanks.

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