Hi We can setup a channel on our Mattermost server for this. We are sponsoring Debconf anyhow. Cheers Erik Mols
31 May 2025 06:24:49 Andrew McMillan <[email protected]>: > Hi Marc, > > I look forward to meting you at DebConf and talking about Smarthome > stuff, building multi-OS applications in Dart+Flutter, embedded > systems, Apache Pulsar, Philosophy, Startups, Golf, IPv6, OpenWRT or > even Debian and DebConf. > > This will be my first DebConf since Banja Luka when I had to take some > time away from Debian because my wife had cancer (TL;DR: she's fine) > and then I was overworked through a series of startups and multi- > nationals until retiring recently. > > As other's have said: talking while in queues is a great way. Also, > when people are chatting it's great if they leave a gap in the circle > to silently invite others to join so three people talking, leave a gap > for a fourth, and so on - body language can be powerful. Similarly, > some kind of indication on badge or something for people who are > stressed by indiscriminate bonhomie would be helpful, because I don't > want to pressure anyone. > > If you see a clique who look like they're having fun, and you'd like to > join but you don't know them *do* introduce yourself. One of the > greatest joys of DebConf is meeting all of the new people who come each > year, and just as I remember at my first DebConf in 2004. > > In a way, I'll be a newbie again too, since I'm sure plenty has changed > in the last 13 years while my family were growing up and my employers > weren't going to pay for me to go. So I look forward to catching up > with everyone and figuring out where I can best help the project out > going forward. > > Regards, > Andrew McMillan. > > On Fri, 2025-05-30 at 19:58 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> Hi, >> >> this will be my first debconf where I am not busy with organizing. So >> I will have time to talk to people and to cooperate with people. >> Earlier this year, I was visiting MiniDebconf Hamburg and found it >> enlightening to be able to directly talk to people. The MiniDebconf >> only had 30 people, and it was easy to find people to talk to about >> certain topic. >> >> Debconf, with several hundred people, is different. Is there a >> list/medium/webpage/database where people can record their skills >> that go beyond their packages? I mean, when I want to talk about >> security, >> I seek a member of the security team. When I want to talk about a >> certain package, I seek its maintainer. >> >> But what do I do when I have a question about git? Or about "which >> idiom is the most pythonic"? Or about "is the new Arista datacenter >> switch really THIS cool"? >> >> For example, I would probably be one of the persons to talk to about >> IPv6, in-car networking, big scale DNS, adduser, sudo, exim, aide, >> network management and 1980/1990ies chart/dance music. And I would >> like to talk to people knowing advanced git, advanced ansible, >> advanced systemd, using KDE, booting the Raspberry Pi and living in a >> smarthome. >> >> Do we have support infrastructure for that? Where would I enter my >> non-obvious skills that can be useful in Debian? >> >> I am looking for a casual way to find people to talk to, for example >> during meals. I could submit bofs about "my" topics, but I need to be >> in the mood to talk about certain things and would not enjoy having >> to do that on a schedule. >> >> I am looking forward to my first Debconf where I can do technical >> work and improve my technical skills! >> >> Greetings >> Marc > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Porirua, New Zealand +64 (27) 288 6741 > > Though a superhero, Bruce Schneier disdains the use of a mask or secret > identity as 'security through obscurity'. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
