Sixth DebConf Ends in Success 112
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. "
Congratulations! (Score:3, Insightful)
You just described the formula for a successful meeting!
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.
Define Success (Score:3, Insightful)
Why not just say "Sixth DebConf Ends" instead of "...Ends in Success" when the additional words are meaningless?
Re:oh my fucking god. (Score:5, Insightful)
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).
Successful end? (Score:3, Insightful)
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