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On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:05:58 +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > As previously confirmed on this list [1], on May, Wednesday 21st and > Thursday 22nd, at the LinuxDays 2008 [2] in Geneva (Switzerland), > Debian will be present with a booth and also a talk about the > Debian-Med subproject [3]. Some words about the LinuxDays 2008. General information as well as some PDFs and recordings for various talks are available at the LinuxDays website [1]. [1] http://www.linuxdays.ch/index.php/fr/Téléchargements Disclaimer: I spent most of my time at the Debian booth, except when talking about the Debian-Med project. This was the first conference I was in charge of and while tiring I consider it as a success for the Debian project (but read below for some negative notes). The Debian presence was managed by debian.ch, but because of work constraints all the other debian.ch members couldn't come. However, I wasn't alone since Arne Wichmann from Munich kindly offered his help and I thank him very much. The booth was setup on Wednesday morning, just before the beginning of the conference: we had one big table with a big board behind us. In terms of hardware, there was a PIII desktop machine (Debian Etch-and-a-half) and Arne's and my laptops (which OTOH we didn't need for demos). As merchandise, we gave away Debian flyers (around 15, in French and English [2]) and sold around 25 debian.ch T-Shirts [3]. After previous agreement [4], Debian CDs were available at the Swisslinux.org booth, but AFAIK only 1/2 CDs were distributed. [2] http://debian-flyers.alioth.debian.org/ [3] http://lists.debian.ch/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/2008/msg00117.html [4] http://lists.debian.ch/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/2008/msg00177.html The booth experience was good: there wasn't a massive participation, but enough to keep us working. There were different types of questions, varying from technical one (e.g. missing firmware for ipw2200) to more general (e.g. what Debian is). On Wednesday there was a friendly discussion with various people about the SSL problem, which then turned into "how Debian interact with upstream": similar to what Noèl reported for the Linuxtag 2008 [5], I don't remember anyone really angry about that (and the OpenBSD booth was just in front of our...). Pictures of the booth were taken by the Swisslinux.org people and available at [6]. [5] http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu/2008/06/msg00001.html [6] http://luca.pca.it/photos/geneve_ch/LinuxDays2008/Swisslinux.org/ My talk about Debian-Med went smoothly: however, because of a concomitant talk by Microsoft, only 4 persons were present. While their comment were positive, at least one of them was expecting something more general about Debian (philosophy, infrastructure, etc.). The PDF as well as the LaTeX sources are available at [7]. Many thanks to Andreas Tille for guidance as well as the English version of the same talk [8]. [7] http://people.debian.org/~gismo/talks/20080521.22_LinuxDays2008/ [8] http://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/200707_lsm_med/index_en.html The most negative aspect was the distinct separation between the associations (Debian, OpenBSD, Swisslinux.org, and SliTaz [9]) and the commercial companies (international and local [9]), especially given the fact that the latters were more centrally placed that the formers. [9] http://www.linuxdays.ch/index.php/fr/Exposants Finally, I'd like to thank again all the people involved: - Michaël Dupont (and Linalis) for the invitation - Andreas Tille for the Debian-Med talk - debian.ch for the support - all the Swisslinux.org crew for having shared the experience - Arne Wichmann for his help and presence Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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