Debconf 2 - July 5-7, 2002, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
[Posted July 1, 2002 by cook]
| From: |
| Joe Drew <hoserhead@woot.net> |
| To: |
| debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org |
| Subject: |
| Debconf 2 - July 5-7, 2002, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Date: |
| 29 Jun 2002 02:14:57 -0400 |
| Cc:: |
| dwn@debian.org, lwn@lwn.net, editors@linuxtoday.com |
The 2nd Annual Debian Conference is set to start this coming Friday at
York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It brings to Toronto at
least 80 attendees; coming from as far away as Brazil and Japan,
participants will learn about and discuss the latest technical
developments in the entirely volunteer-driven project.
In addition to the Debian-specific talks which make up the majority of
the program, there are several non-Debian related, yet extremely
interesting and informative speakers who hope to find the Debconf
attendees a receptive audience. Friday evening Damian Conway, well-known
speaker and Perl developer will give a talk hosted by Debconf, titled
"Extreme Perl: The Horror That Is SelfGOL." More information about
Damian's free talks in Toronto can be found at
http://www.dice-con.com/damian/freetalks.html .
Michael Richardson, CEO of Lindows.com, will also be a guest speaker
during the catered dinner for Debconf attendees, graciously sponsored by
Lindows.com. (I feel obligated to mention that Lindows.com's sponsorship
of Debconf 2 came with no strings attached; Michael was available to
speak during the timeslot which coincided with dinner and so I decided
that he should speak.)
Debconf promises to be an exciting and informative weekend. I hope to
see everyone there!
--
Joe Drew <hoserhead@woot.net> <drew@debian.org>
Lead organizer of the 2nd Annual Debian Conference
Schedule for Debconf:
(All talks are held in Lecture Hall C of the Computer Science building
at York University. The dinner will be held in the Founder's Assembly
Hall.)
Friday, July 5 "Introductions"
Up to 3:00pm Arrival and registration with Hospitality York
3:00-3:30pm Introduction - Joe Drew, DPL
3:30-4:30pm Commercial use of Debian - Lindows.com, HP, etc
4:30 and later Keysigning, general talking and getting-to-know one
another
6:00-9:00 Extreme Perl - Damian Conway
Saturday, July 6 "Down to Business"
10:00-11:00am Porting Debian: Lessons Learned - Bdale Garbee
11:00-11:45am Free Software in Brazil - Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
1:00-3:00pm Security Enhanced (SE) Linux in Debian - Russell Coker
3:00pm-5:00pm debconf at Debconf - Joey Hess
6:00pm Catered dinner - Speakers: Michael Robertson, Bdale Garbee
Sunday, July 7 "What next?"
10:00am How to support users - David B. Harris
12:30pm New initscript systems - Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2:00pm The Linux Standard Base and Debian - Matt Taggart
3:00pm BSD and Debian - Andreas Schuldei
