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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. "

5 of 112 comments (clear)

  1. Congratulations! by hobotron · · Score: 3, Insightful


    You just described the formula for a successful meeting!

    --
    There is truth in humor.
  2. Re:Did it help this issue ? by ssj_195 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    The only possible things that could help with this are:

    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.

  3. Define Success by ari_j · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For some, success is holding a conference on schedule with no deaths or maimings. For others, it is deciding exactly what the goals are for the next release. The blurb does not tell us what success the conference actually met, and from the other comments so far it appears that the article doesn't, either.

    Why not just say "Sixth DebConf Ends" instead of "...Ends in Success" when the additional words are meaningless?

  4. Re:oh my fucking god. by garcia · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's amazing that "women in software" (of any kind) should raise a comment like "oh my fucking god." and "whoa. just whoa". You wonder why they shy away... A bunch of horny geeks getting excited over something completely mundane.

    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).

  5. Successful end? by stienman · · Score: 2, 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