Debian/Conf/06

Background

Debian Developers Conference was initiated by Sundara Nagarajan with a goal of encouraging more Debian Developers from India. (Initial Announcement) This year the suggestion was to conduct the event as part of the FOSS.IN conference to attract more participants.

Planning Meetup aka Debian Conclave

We are meeting up at BMS College on Sunday 29th October 06 to discuss the ideas we have and finalise the plan. We will delegate tasks to different groups.

See Debian Conclave 06 for more details and registration.

Talks

Talks that are interesting for Debian Community.

• How to become 3rd Indian Debian Developer
• Project Talk: janabhaaratii: Localisation of Free/Open Source Software

Workshops

Workshops that are interesting for Debian Community.

• Indic computing workshop

BoFs

• Debian i18n BOF - Day 1 after noon

Do you know you can install Debian in Tamil? Wondering how many Indian languages are supported in Debian Installer? Would like to participate in Debian localisation? Not sure a team exist for your language?

Co-odinator: Praveen A, Prasad Kadambi

• Debian User BoF - Day 2 after noon

Do you use Debian on your server/desktop? Did you feel it something can be improved? Not happy with ease of installation? Wanna share a success story?

Co-ordinator: Pulkit Bhuwalka, Puneeth Bhat

• Key Signing party - Day 2 evening

One key step in becoming a Debian Developer, have your keys signed by a DD. So if you aspire to be a DD don't miss this chance.

Co-ordinator: Madhusudan.C.S, Naveen Kumar.B

• Debian Developer HOWTO for Indian wanna be DDs, NM Preparation Guidance - Day 3 after noon

Want to improve Debian? Want a cool @debian.org id? Want some help with your efforts?

Co-ordinator: Deepak Tripathi

Demos/Expo

• Debian live CD Demo, New Grpahical D-I Demo in Indian languages and more - all 3 days

Co-ordinators: Karthik R, Shashank Bharadwaj, Santosh.G.Vattam

Teams

• House Keeping (basically get posters printed and put up at the stall , get CDs, T shirts and other goodies ready for the stall and any organisational logistics)

Co-ordinator: Naveen Kumar.B

• Campaigners (prepare presentations and design posters and arrange BoFs and make sure maximum number of people are aware about Debian)

Co-ordinator: Puneeth Bhat

• Core team (does the actual presenations, demos, workshops...)

Co-ordinator: Karthik Mistry

• Hackers (sit down and fix bugs/localise and make etch the best release ever)

Co-ordinator: Krishna Bharadhwaj

Calendar

Google Calendar entry

Volunteers

Co-ordinator: Praveen A pravi dot a at gmail dot com +919986348565

The Co-ordinator of each BoF has to make sure the session details are well published (time, Hall no ...) in the main display as well as the Debian Expo disply. The Expo co-ordinators has to make sure there is some one at the stall every time any one visits the stall and explains any clarification he wants.

• Prasad Kadambi
• Deepak Tripathi
• Karthik R
• Shashank Bharadwaj
• Madhusudan.C.S
• Santosh.G.Vattam
• Naveen Kumar.B
• Puneeth Bhat
• Krishna Bharadhwaj
• Pulkit Bhuwalka
• Bipin kumar

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