Christian Perrier wrote: > I know this may sound a little bit rude or inappropriate to send such > a call, but please let me explain the context why I finally decided to > do this anyway. > > Pema Geyleg, the lead developer of the DzongkhaLinux distribution > (distribution developed for use in Bhutan), was planned to attend > Debconf and present their project as "Bhutan's journey to free software". > (see http://www.debian.org/News/2006/20060719) > > However, for visa reasons, he could not make it to Scotland. > > Il will however attempt to hold this talk on his behalf, with the > indirect help of Frans Pop. That will happen on Sat 24th, 09:45BST, > Basement Talk Room). > > The talk will indeed be attended through video stream by the staff in > Bhutan's Department of Information and Technology and we hope some > interaction with them (as much as allowed by the low bandwidth in the > country). > > For that reason, I'd be delighted if attendees of the conference do > their best to show up and attend that talk. That would indeed be the > best sign to give from the Debian Project that we are really > interested in this Dzongkha Linux project (which indeed gave Debian > much coverage all over the world). > > Please note that, for unfortunate reasons, the talk collides with the > "Social Comittee" Bof, which may drive several proeminent members in > the project. I however still have a hope that some of you will be > interested anyway..:-) > > PS: also expect a few nice pictures from the place over there. For > sure, we didn't went in space, but that still deserves some attention...
Is not like everybody is called Mark... -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
