Re: Debian History

[stappers@stappers.nl (Geert Stappers)]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 07:58:16PM +0200, Pierre Riteau wrote:
> 
> Oh, I'm sorry. This might explain the enumeration problem.
> 
> 2000: July 5.-9. Bordeaux, France
> 2001: July 2.-5. Bordeaux, France
> 2002: July 5.-7. Toronto, Canada
> DebConf3 - 2003: July 18.-20. Oslo, Norway
> DebConf4 - 2004: May 26.-June 2. Porto Alegre, Brazil
> DebConf5 - 2005: July 10.-17. Helsinki, Finland
> 
> We need to be precise in the text : we are talking about the annual
> conference and not about the debconf series.
> Why debconf started counting with the second conference ?

Programmers start counting at zero.

debconf0 is the first
debconf1 is the second
debconf5 is the sixth


Cheers
Geert Stappers


P.S.
Thanks for updating the history of DPLs