Debian project at conferences and expos in Europe

October 15th, 2004

Seven exhibitions and conferences that will cover Free Software and GNU/Linux will take place within the following weeks in several cities in Europe.

October 16th - 17th: Mini Italian Debconf, Sesto S. Giovanni, Italy

This mini Debian conference is dedicated to talks, workshops, development and translations with the common interest to contribute to the Debian project.

Saturday, October 16th
14:00 Mattia Monga Introduction to the project Debian
15:00 Carlo Contavalli Introduction to TLA
16:00 Stefano Melchior User Mode Linux (UML) for debugging
17:00 Stefano Zacchiroli OCAML programming and packaging
18:00 Question from the audience, answer by Debian Developers
Sunday, October 17th
10:30 Marco Presi Custom Debian & Debian NP
11:30 Enrico Zini Debtags and guessnet
14:00 Key Signing Party
16:00 Installation party, questions and answers
October 18th - 22nd: Systems, Munich, Germany

The Debian project will be present in booth 534 in a special area dedicated to Free Software projects in exhibition hall A2. Skolelinux / Debian-Edu will also have a booth.

October 22nd - 23rd: Berlinux, Berlin, Germany

The Debian project and its subproject Skolelinux / Debian-Edu will both run a booth in the exhibition area. There will be additional talks with Debian related topics:

Saturday, October 23rd
10:00 Frank Ronneburg Software management with Debian GNU/Linux
12:00 Nico Golde Creating Debian packages
13:00 Alexander Schmehl News about Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Sarge
October 22nd: OS04, Graz, Austria

Debian will be represented with a small booth and an introduction talk about the Debian project and the Debian GNU/Linux distribution given by Gerfried Fuchs.

October 26th - 28th: LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

The Debian project, its subproject Skolelinux / Debian-Edu and the Debian based X-Box-Linux project will be present with booths in the .org pavilion and show their distributions. There will be additional talks with Debian related topics:

Tuesday, October 26th
18:00 Jens Kühnel XBox-Linux
Wednesday, October 27th
18:00 Alexander Schmehl Debian Sarge - before and beyond
October 30th: Linux-Info-Tag, Dresden, Germany

The Debian project and its subproject Skolelinux / Debian-Edu will both run a booth in the exhibition area. There will be additional talks with Debian related topics:

Saturday, October 30th
10:00 Simon Richter Creating Debian packages (workshop)
10:00 Christian Perle Knoppix remastering (workshop)
15:00 Alexander Schmehl Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Sarge
18:00 Konrad Rosenbaum Keysigning Party
October 30th: Practical Linux, Gießen, Germany

The Debian project and its subproject Skolelinux / Debian-Edu will both run a booth in the exhibition area. There will be additional talks with Debian related topics:

Saturday, October 30th
13:30 Wilhelm Dolle Government Desktop ERPOSS
14:30 Martin Herwig EduKnoppix
16:30 Jens Kühnel Linux for the Xbox

We invite all interested people in these areas to attend these conferences, meet Debian developers and users, exchange GnuPG fingerprints, discuss various topics on Debian and Free Software, and otherwise participate in our vibrant community.