Sixth DebConf Ends in Success

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. "

oh my fucking god.

[Anonymous Coward]

whoa. just whoa. [debian.net]

Re:A question that has been bothering me:

[Darkon]

Do these confrences ever end in failure?

This one [sco.com] might well do given the current climate.

Sixth?

[bioglaze]

If this was sixth, was the first one 0th?

Mark Shuttleworth gave a talk on Ubuntu

[Anonymous Coward]

Mark Shuttleworth gave a talk about the purpose of Ubuntu [debian.net].

The video server is still responsive; there should be a mirror or two of that video, btw.

Questions on current Sid

[tyrione]

Some questions (if these were addressed at the conference my apologies for asking here):

• 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.]
• When the hell is GNUstep going to get rebuilt against Freetype 2.1.10?
• When will the Debian Java Policy become standard and agree upon?
• Should I just build my own local debs for Eclipse 3.1 or will they be released before 2010?
• What is the status, or if a plan even exists, regarding Debian working on a seemless Wireless config subsystem similar to say OS X? [waproamd, ndiswrapper, etc are ductape building blocks]*

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]