Daily Archive for August 24th, 2005

Debian Developers conference 2005

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The last saturday (20th Aug 2005) I attended the Bangalore Debian Developers conference at IIIT Bangalore with Dilip
. The event started at 2.30 pm with a video of Jaldhar Vyas, a Debian project leader from India and now in USA as the registration was going on. There was two Debian hackers [
Ramki (Ramakrishna) and Ganeshan ] (infact there are only two Debian developers from India right now, out of 1380 around the globe) present and shared their experiences. The next years event is already announced (19th August 2006) and we target a minimum of 20 Debian developers by that time.

The objectives of the conference were

    * Enable more Debian contributors from Bangalore (later from India).
    * Provide support for Debian developers in terms of mentoring and resources.
    * Support adoptions of Debian in the region.

I hope we will be able to fulfil it.

Ramki (Ramakrishna) and Ganeshan explained about the Debian project and their experiences with Debian. For a detailed report see this link
A report of the first Bangalore Debconf .

The presentations of Ganeshan is available in pdf and sxi formats

http://people.debian.org/~rganesan/debconf-in-rg.sxi

http://people.debian.org/~rganesan/debconf-in-rg.pdf

I met one of my Senior Anish Kumar (95 – 99 batch in REC Calicut). He is also working with HP in OpenSSI. ( LB 2003 talk on OpenSSI ).

We have a group at Yahoo DebianIndia. If you are interested in future activities come and join.