I'm finding it surprisingly hard to find speakers for the Debian Community
Outreach
track. You'd think there would be dozens of people in New York, or within easy
travel distance, who could talk. And I think there are, but my contacts are not
finding them.
I've tried half a dozen people, and I'll
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 02:59:32PM +0200, Frank B. Brokken wrote:
> looked around a bit myself and although I generally get favorable reactions to
> the concept of organizing a DCO track, people find it much more difficult to
> commit themselves to Debconf 10. Of course, my immediate environment i
Please do update the page. It's a wiki and I don't feel I own the
page. In fact, my thoughts were off-the-cuff, and you probably
have some deeper background to offer.
I wrote to four other people who are prominent in open source,
and a couple offered to tell their contacts and spread the word
furt
Dear Andy Oram, you wrote:
>
>
> I'm finding it surprisingly hard to find speakers for the Debian Community
> Outreach track.
> ...
> Meanwhile, I did create a page for the track.
>
> http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/Outreach
Nice page. I'm considering adding some remarks about the Open
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 07:32:46AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> * Debian and Wall Street (financial industry and related)
I do know of at least one hedge fund using Debian rather than
Ubuntu. Assuming that they'd be willing to speak publicly at
all, what might one want to suggest to them?
Hi Anthony--
Sorry, i just got this message right now (not sure why, but maybe the
debconf-team queue was backlogged?)
On 04/30/2010 05:32 PM, Anthony Towns wrote:
> So there are two tracks I think would be really interesting:
>
> * Debian on mobile devices (phones, slates, netbooks)
> * Deb
Here's what I've done recently.
LWN.net just posted something about an educator who looks like a good candidate
for the panel. I wrote to ask whether she'd be interested and to send a bio.
One paragraph of the article (which is subscriber-only at this point) is below.
I edited your wiki page to
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 05:10, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
wrote:
> As you may know, we are trying to organize some thematic groupings of
> talks at debconf 10. We're calling these groupings "tracks".
>
> i put a call out on planet.debian.org recently asking for people to
> coordinate a track if they're
Hey Folks--
As you may know, we are trying to organize some thematic groupings of
talks at debconf 10. We're calling these groupings "tracks".
http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/Tracks
i put a call out on planet.debian.org recently asking for people to
coordinate a track if they're intere
