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Debian Developers Conference 2006 happened during FOSS.IN 2006 as a miniconference on 24th 25th and 26th Nov 2006 at National Science Symposium Centre, IISc, Bangalore, India | |||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
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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 conference to attract more participants. | ||
== | ==Day 1== | ||
===Stall setup=== | |||
We setup a system with Debian 4.0 __Etch__ RC1 (we used graphical installer in Hindi for Debian India, and in Tamil for IndLinux). 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 Indic BoF=== | |||
* Debian i18n BOF - Day 1 after noon 3pm | |||
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-odinators:[[User:Pravs| Praveen A]], [http://people.inf.in/prasad/ Prasad Kadambi] | |||
We had people working on Debian localisation for many Indian languages like Gujarathi, Marathi, Telugu, Malayalam. We discussed the current status of various Indian language translations in Debian and the challenges we are facing. There was an emphasis on the importance to reach out to the actual beneficiaries. | |||
==Day 2== | |||
== | ===GNU/Hurd BoF=== | ||
11:30am | |||
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=== | |||
* Debian User BoF - Day 2 after noon 3pm | |||
* 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? | 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. | |||
===Key signing party=== | |||
* Key Signing party - Day 2 evening | * 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. | 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. | ||
More than 10 people turned up for the key signing party including 2 DDs (Sudhakar Thaths Chandra and John Leuner who). | |||
==Day 3== | |||
* Debian Developer | ===Talk=== | ||
* [https://foss.in/2006/cfp/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=103 How to become 3rd Indian Debian Developer] - Karthik Mistry | |||
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 and official Debian Developer and contributing in various ways. He demonstarted packaging of libyahoo2. | |||
== | ===Debian Developer BoF=== | ||
* Debian Developer HOWTO for Indian wanna be DDs, NM Preparation Guidance - Day 3 after noon 4.30 pm | |||
Want to improve Debian? Want a cool @debian.org id? Want some help with your efforts? | |||
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. | |||
==Blogs/Comments== | |||
==Teams== | ==Teams== | ||
* [[Debian/Conf/06/House Keeping|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) | * [[Debian/Conf/06/House Keeping|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) | ||
* [[Debian/Conf/06/Campaigners|Campaigners]] (prepare presentations and design posters and arrange BoFs and make sure maximum number of people are aware about Debian) | * [[Debian/Conf/06/Campaigners|Campaigners]] (prepare presentations and design posters and arrange BoFs and make sure maximum number of people are aware about Debian) | ||
* [[Debian/Conf/06/Core team|Core team]] (does the actual presenations, demos, workshops...) | * [[Debian/Conf/06/Core team|Core team]] (does the actual presenations, demos, workshops...) | ||
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* [[Debian/Conf/06/Hackers|Hackers]] (sit down and fix bugs/localise and make etch the best release ever) | * [[Debian/Conf/06/Hackers|Hackers]] (sit down and fix bugs/localise and make etch the best release ever) | ||
==Calendar== | ==Calendar== | ||
[http://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=azUyY2J2cnZ1NjVkMWNodDFwaDZjbTNpbmsgZGViaWFuaW5kaWFAeWFob29ncm91cHMuY29t&tok=MTcjcHJhdmkuYUBnbWFpbC5jb21hZDBhZjNmNzFiYjFiYThkOGQzODk5NzRmZjk3ZWEwYzkyNDRiMjA0&ctz=Asia%2FCalcutta&lcl=en_US Google Calendar entry] | [http://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=azUyY2J2cnZ1NjVkMWNodDFwaDZjbTNpbmsgZGViaWFuaW5kaWFAeWFob29ncm91cHMuY29t&tok=MTcjcHJhdmkuYUBnbWFpbC5jb21hZDBhZjNmNzFiYjFiYThkOGQzODk5NzRmZjk3ZWEwYzkyNDRiMjA0&ctz=Asia%2FCalcutta&lcl=en_US Google Calendar entry] | ||
==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/Conf/06/Conclave| Debian Conclave 06]] for more details and registration. | |||
==Volunteers== | ==Volunteers== | ||