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Sixth DebConf Ends in Success

Posted by Hemos on 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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  1. A question that has been bothering me: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Do these confrences ever end in failure?

  2. wow...RTFA! by huckda · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's most interesting with pretty much zero insight as to what made it "successful"...

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    "Just Smile and Nod." --Huck
  3. "success"? Huh? by diegocgteleline.es · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sixth DebConf Ends in Success

    Success? Could it be different; I mean, successful here means "it was not cancelled"?

  4. and their consensus... by gik · · Score: 5, Funny

    "let's use redhat as our base distro from now on!"

    (DUCKS)

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    ZERO
  5. Congratulations Debian... by pdbaby · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...on the completion of DebConf 1998!

    Ah but I do jest. Huzzah for Debian, my favourite distro

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    Global symbol "$deity" requires explicit package name at line 2. - If only $scripture started "use strict;"
  6. Re:The Utnubu Project by electrichamster · · Score: 2, Funny
    However, it has always been my personal credo that it's "all about goto 10 loops". And frankly, I think that applies to all facets of life, not just BASIC programming.
    I think you'll find thats called obsessive compulsive disorder.
  7. Re:Debian?!?!?! by iggymanz · · Score: 4, Funny

    I see dead operating systems, they're all around me, on servers shuffling traffic and packets, and they don't even know that they're dead

  8. Success! by RumGunner · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bill Gates is bankrupt, and everyone now runs Debian. Great conference everybody.

  9. Phew... by Momoru · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sixth DebConf Ends in Success

    At least it wasn't like the previous five DebConf's which ended in bloodshed.

  10. Re:Successful end? by Stauf · · Score: 2, Funny
    ~$ debconf
    Usage: debconf [options] command [args]
    ~$ echo $?
    255
    My debconf didn't end in success :(