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Sixth DebConf Ends in Success
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on Mon Jul 25, 2005 10:47 AM
from the great-news-for-debian dept.
from the great-news-for-debian dept.
fabbe writes "The 6th annual Debian Developers Conference (DebConf) was held in Helsinki, Finland from July 10th to July 17th 2005. With over 300 registered participants from around 40 countries, this was the largest DebConf to date. More than 20 sponsors provided DebConf with a total budget of around 125,000 euros. The conference featured talks, workshops, demonstrations, coding marathons and round table discussions on various aspects of the Debian Project. The presentations were captured by the DebConf5 Video Team and are available online at at Debian's site. "
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A question that has been bothering me: (Score:1, Funny)
The Utnubu Project (Score:4, Informative)
Link:i nux-Ball-Utnubu.html [joachim-breitner.de]
http://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/archives/59-L
I think Debian can learn a lot from the rapid success of Ubuntu, and hopefully this project will help heal some of the growing rifts between the two camps.
wow...RTFA! (Score:3, Funny)
(Last Journal: Sunday January 21 2007, @06:32PM)
oh my fucking god. (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:oh my fucking god. (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.lazylightning.org/)
Get a grip and grow up.
For those of you that don't want to download the video: It's the opening slide for "Women in Debian and Free Open Source Sofware" by Magni Onsoien and Erin Clark (7/15/05).
"success"? Huh? (Score:3, Funny)
Success? Could it be different; I mean, successful here means "it was not cancelled"?
Success! (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.mrmcfeely.com/)
and their consensus... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://marglar.com/)
(DUCKS)
Define Success (Score:3, Insightful)
(http://theari.com/)
Why not just say "Sixth DebConf Ends" instead of "...Ends in Success" when the additional words are meaningless?
Congratulations Debian... (Score:2, Funny)
Ah but I do jest. Huzzah for Debian, my favourite distro
I'm glad it was successful (Score:1, Troll)
(http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~maw48/)
oblig torrent (Score:2)
(http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ | Last Journal: Wednesday May 11 2005, @07:34PM)
Question (Score:1)
Re:Question (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.nixnuts.net/ | Last Journal: Monday November 01 2004, @01:43PM)
As a member of the Debconf video team, the guy that took all of the video home to finish processing, a Debian Developer and a Free Software nut, I'm probably as well qualified as anyone to answer this question.
In a nutshell it's mpeg rather than Theora because none of the people arguing now, after the fact, that it should have been done in Theora were volunteering to help when the actual work was underway. Ffmpeg is GPL, it's in Debian main, and it has no problem encoding to mpeg-1. There are enough stupid software patents to be relatively certain that both Theora and mpeg-1 infringe on some. If there is a valid freeness issue against mepg-1, file a bug against the ffmepg package.
Mpeg-1 allows anyone on any platform to view the files with minimal fuss. The results look remarkably good at the low bitrate used and AFAIK no one is running around suing over the use of mpeg-1. For a low bitrate encoding, what exactly does Theora add?
It's even more comical that some are saying we should have used Theora while others are arguing that we should make DVD images (mpeg-2, where patents are actively enforced.) You really can't please everyone.
Still, for anyone who wants the wholesome buzzword goodness of Theora, wait until we're finished processing the videos and Theora versions will be made available.
Successful end? (Score:3, Insightful)
(http://www.ubasics.com/adam | Last Journal: Wednesday August 06 2003, @01:01PM)
Sixth DebConf Ends in Success
Ok, so how exactly can a conference be unsuccessfully ended? Is this where the attendees launch a sit-in and prevent the conference from ending, or what?
It just seems like a hollow success.
"What was good about the conference you jsut attended sir?"
"Well, it ended. I'm quite thrilled by how well the organizers were able to get everyone to pack up and go - it was quite a success."
-Adam
Sixth? (Score:2, Interesting)
(http://users.utu.fi/tmwire | Last Journal: Thursday February 15 2007, @04:22PM)
Re:Sixth? (Score:4, Informative)
(http://triplehelix.org/~joshk/)
Phew... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.ausedcar.com/ | Last Journal: Monday August 22 2005, @10:29PM)
At least it wasn't like the previous five DebConf's which ended in bloodshed.
Questions on current Sid (Score:4, Interesting)
(http://www.reanimality.com/)
I am well aware that all these questions could be directed to a package manager, yet when it's broadcast to a higher level audience more attention helps overcome the inertia in place which always causes those package manager to accelerate their updates and/or be more pro-active on such concerns.
[Note: I would assume when municipalities adopt the OSS model they plan on having both wired and wireless options accessible to their employees that could only help us regular users in seeing improvements to a vitally overlooked section of networking]
Re:Questions on current Sid (Score:4, Informative)
What is the status on KDE 3.4.1 and accompanying addons becoming current with X.org currently kludging its way through Sid?[alioth hasn't updated its 3.4.1 packages since early June, long before Branden submitted X.org into Sid.]
Everybody is working on the transition from GCC 3.3 to GCC 4. A big pile of packages have still to be rebuild. During that time the X Strike Force is working on getting Xorg to compile on all architectures. Once all that is in place. KDE 3.4.1 will be uploaded, and the bug squishing on that will begin. I'm guessing a month or so before a fully working KDE 3.4.1 is in sid, give a couple of months/take a week.. ;)
In the meantime you can still use Alioth KDE 3.4.1 packages with sid and xorg (Yes, Really!). You need to delete all aspell and libjack packages from sid, and get libaspell and libjack from testing, then KDE will install without problems. And hold off on upgrading once you have something that works, unless you are prepared to sort out the dependency issues that are bound to arise
Re:Questions on current Sid (Score:4, Informative)
(http://deadbeast.net/~branden/)
[alioth hasn't updated its 3.4.1 packages since early June, long before Branden submitted X.org into Sid.]
Correction: I didn't upload the X.Org X11 packages to unstable (sid). David Nusinow did. David has taken the lead on X.Org X11 responsibilities, as I have recently acquired others.
Doesn't stop me from helping out and doing commits, but I've been distancing myself from the actual package uploads over the past year or so. For example, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto handled most of the XFree86 4.3.0 uploads.
More info on Available Videos (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.labowicz.com/blog/ | Last Journal: Tuesday June 28 2005, @04:04PM)
no roiting or violence is good (Score:2)
(http://www.achacha.org/)
Good lord. (Score:4, Informative)
(Last Journal: Friday November 21 2003, @06:04PM)
Downloading Debian CD images with BitTorrent [debian.org]
Re:Did it help this issue ? (Score:3, Insightful)
1) 100 programmers are hired full-time to reverse-engineer drivers;
2) More than a handful of manufacturers actually open up their specs;
3) Linux freezes its ABI, which I for one am not particularly in favour of.
None of these have happened, to my knowledge. Oh, and Linux Desktop has bigger problems than drivers, but those that can plausibly be solved via hard work are rapidly being addressed.
SAT-Style Analogy (Score:1)
Re:wow, no torrents.. (Score:2)
(http://www.electrichamster.net/)
Re:Debian?!?!?! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I am an end-user: Debian sucks (Score:2)
Taxiiiii
Re:Success? (Score:1)
"Damn, Mr. Reaper. That was right on time. Another minute and it would have been really bad timing."
What WOULD failure be for this? They declared surrender and changed the base to Red Hat/Fedora Core? They decided that the new policy was too fast and people can't live at these speeds and we need to go back to the "when Hell freezes over" method of updates?
What the hell is failure for a Debian Conference? Most not getting drunk after hours at the bar with their friends? No one gets lucky with a geekette? What was the definition of success?
Seems weasel-worded to me. I think it would be better to say that the conference "went well" or "went wonderfully" or "narrowly avoided raid by local police".
Re:You are using "testing" or "unstable"? (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Tuesday April 22 2003, @12:52AM)