Hi there! As previously announced [1], Debian was present at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2011 [2] on the week-end of 19th and 20th March.
[1] <http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/%3c201101301351.48735.waja%40cyconet.org%3e> [2] <http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2011/live/691> Three different talks were given by Debian people, but they were not specific to the Debian ecosystem: the first was about "one year with OpenStreetMap" from an user point of view [3], while the two others showed various UNIX command-line helpers [4] and useful tools [5]. [3] <http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2011/vortraege/636> [4] <http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2011/vortraege/607> [5] <http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2011/vortraege/608> At the booth there was a demo machine running BabelBox [6], thus showing the Debian Installer in different languages, and also xpenguins [7], which had the interesting effect of pulling visitors to the booth. [6] <http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/BabelBox> [7] <http://packages.debian.org/xpenguins> No less than 13 Debian people were at one point or another helping out at the booth, either showing the merchandise available (e.g. the new black SpaceFun/squeeze T-Shirt [8] or mugs) or answering questions of any kind: from general ones (what is new in Debian, etc.) to very specific problems users were encountering. The presence of friends from debianforum.de [9] just next to our booth was of a great value when answering particular "difficult" questions. [8] <http://debian.ch/merchandise> [9] <http://debianforum.de/> The two Linux New Media Awards 2011 ("Best Open Source Server Distribution" and "Outstanding Contribution to Open Source/ Linux/Free Software") Debian recently won at CeBIT [10] at the beginning of this month were sitting on the booth desk [11]: they attracted a lot of attention and, because of that (but surely not only), we also received a lot of "thanks for Debian" statements from visitors, which is quite an encouragement to continue working on our distribution. [10] <http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/%3c20110304122236.GA19593%40melusine.alphascorpii.net%3e> [11] <http://www.flickr.com/photos/95546688@N00/5544198840/in/photostream/> Thanks to the German LinuxUser magazine [12], an official 32-bit DVD-Rom for Debian 6.0.0/squeeze was available for our beloved users: beside being labeled with the SpaceFun artwork [13], the DVD-Rom was produced with the environment in mind, given that it features the EcoDisc technology [14] to reduce carbon footprint. [12] <http://www.linux-user.de/> [13] <http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/SpaceFun#Box_and_Label_for_CDs_or_DVDs> [14] <http://ecodisc.org/> Two blog posts from booth staff are available in German [15][16], together with one Flickr photostream [17]. Please check the CLT webpage about pictures and blog posts [18], too. [15] <http://blog.waja.info/2011/03/20/small-announcement-chemnitzer-linuxtage-2011/> [16] <http://noqqe.de/archives/1538> [17] <http://www.flickr.com/photos/95546688@N00/tags/clt/> [18] <http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2011/info/fotos/> The booth staff would like to thank all the organizers for the immense care they put in this event and also all the people that in one way or another helped during these two days. Finally, thank all the users that support Debian: it was a pleasure to meet old and new friends from Debian and other Free Software communities, we recommend future occurrences of this event to all interested people. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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