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Debian Developers Conference was initiated by Sundara Nagarajan with a goal of encouraging more Debian Developers from India. | Debian Developers Conference was initiated by Sundara Nagarajan with a goal of encouraging more Debian Developers from India. | ||
([http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DebianIndia/message/1 Initial Announcement]) | ([http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DebianIndia/message/1 Initial Announcement]) | ||
This year the suggestion was to conduct the event as part of the FOSS.IN conference to attract more participants. | |||
This year the suggestion was to conduct the event as part of the FOSS.IN (http://foss.in/2006) conference to attract more participants. | |||
==Day 1== | ==Day 1== | ||
* Stall setup - Morning | |||
We setup a system with Debian 4.0 RC1 (Etch) (we used new graphical installer in Hindi for Debian India and in Tamil for IndLinux stalls). We got some nice comments for the Hindi interface. Prof Rahul De of IIMB apreciated our work and was happy to see the interface in Hindi. | We setup a system with Debian 4.0 RC1 (Etch) (we used new graphical installer in Hindi for Debian India and in Tamil for IndLinux stalls). We got some nice comments for the Hindi interface. Prof Rahul De of IIMB apreciated our work and was happy to see the interface in Hindi. | ||
* Debian i18n BOF - 3 PM | |||
* Debian i18n BOF - | |||
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? | 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? | ||
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==Day 2== | ==Day 2== | ||
* GNU/Hurd BoF - 11:30 AM | |||
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We discussed the current status of the Debian port to GNU Hurd. Kapil has been using GNU/Hurd from last 3 years and he narrated the steps he had to take in installing using crosshurd and how he could not get it working when he had to move to a new hardware. We concluded that for GNU/Hurd to get more people it has ro run on the current hardwares if not the cutting edge one's. Ongoing work of writing glue code to Linux/FreeBSD device driver framework is a step in the right direction. We hoped to demo Xorg 7.0 working with GNU/Hurd but the k14 snapshot was not ready by that time. We hope it will be available soon. | We discussed the current status of the Debian port to GNU Hurd. Kapil has been using GNU/Hurd from last 3 years and he narrated the steps he had to take in installing using crosshurd and how he could not get it working when he had to move to a new hardware. We concluded that for GNU/Hurd to get more people it has ro run on the current hardwares if not the cutting edge one's. Ongoing work of writing glue code to Linux/FreeBSD device driver framework is a step in the right direction. We hoped to demo Xorg 7.0 working with GNU/Hurd but the k14 snapshot was not ready by that time. We hope it will be available soon. | ||
* Debian User BoF - 3 PM | |||
* Debian User BoF - | |||
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? | 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? | ||
We had users from days of potato and woody and it was exciting to listen to their stories of installation using floppies. We also discussed the problems we had to face with the Xorg migration. Some issues with apt-proxy like failing to get a package without restarting apt-proxy at times. | We had users from days of potato and woody and it was exciting to listen to their stories of installation using floppies. We also discussed the problems we had to face with the Xorg migration. Some issues with apt-proxy like failing to get a package without restarting apt-proxy at times. | ||
* Key Signing party - 4:30 PM | |||
* Key Signing party | |||
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. | 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. | ||
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==Day 3== | ==Day 3== | ||
* Talk | |||
* [https://foss.in/2006/cfp/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=103 How to become the 3rd Indian Debian Developer] - Kartik Mistry | |||
* [https://foss.in/2006/cfp/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=103 How to become the 3rd Indian Debian Developer] - Kartik Mistry - 11 AM | |||
That number is confusing as some DDs of Indian origin are staying outside India and some DDs of foreign origin are staying in India. He discussed the steps in becoming an official Debian Developer and contributing in various ways. He demonstarted packaging of libyahoo2. | That number is confusing as some DDs of Indian origin are staying outside India and some DDs of foreign origin are staying in India. He discussed the steps in becoming an official Debian Developer and contributing in various ways. He demonstarted packaging of libyahoo2. | ||
* Debian Developer BOF - 4.30 PM | |||
* Debian Developer - 4.30 PM | |||
We shared our experinces and tips to contributing to Debian. Kapil talked about the response from upstream with specific example of pngcrush and cdrtools/Joerg Schilling. Kapil also suggested about some useful packages like devscripts. Kartik and John expressed their views regarding Debian Development processes. | We shared our experinces and tips to contributing to Debian. Kapil talked about the response from upstream with specific example of pngcrush and cdrtools/Joerg Schilling. Kapil also suggested about some useful packages like devscripts. Kartik and John expressed their views regarding Debian Development processes. | ||