Floschi’s Blog

Yesterday the possible bids for the upcoming selection process presented themselves at DebConf 9 in Cáceres.

Beside the bid from Bosnia there are 3 german regions competing for one german bid until end of this year, of course our pulsating capital Berlin, the Rhein/Ruhr area and Munich.

Our Munich entry slide:

Impressions from Munich

Then we described some facts and figures about Munich and ended up with a statement by City Mayor Christian Ude, welcoming Munich’s bid:

C. Ude

“The City of Munich uses free software and open standards. Both are an essential base for our information technology. I would be pleased to welcome the worldwide developer community of Debian GNU/Linux in Munich in 2011.”

At the moment we’re the onliest only region with such a strong political committment and support. Great.

I think it is really important for Munich to host recognized open source events to show the broad support for openess and freedom in Bavaria’s capital. Political support is one success factor, but politicians everywhere imho slowly realize nowadays, that there’s no future for being dependend or locked-in to special vendors. Fine

Some thoughs about dc9 will follow the next days.

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