[please keep debian-bdug-list@meetup.com in Cc as I'm trying to bridge both group together] Hello, We had our first ever Debian user meetup in Bangalore this Saturday (4th October). FSMK (Free Software Movement Karnataka) provided us space for meetup. We had about 10 people in the meetup, though larger number had RSVPed for the same. Probably people didn't show up as it was a long weekend. We had Ritesh and Deepak, DD's from Bangalore and they really did a great job. We started with introduction where every one talked why they are/want to use Debian and how they came to know about Debian. Ritesh Deepak and myself were last to tell our experience. Then I continued with my informal session on "Contributing to Debian", Ritesh and Deepak helped a lot by explaining philosophies and technical things behind Debian. We had some interesting discussion at the end where Ritesh told about kickstarting a project which can allow people to mount things, use network, or power manager irrespective of the init system. Currently after systemd became default people using non Gnome are facing issue with power-manager automounting etc. It has now become in Linux word like do it in *systemd* way or just get lost. We don't like such attitude and we want Debian to be usable by any one not just Gnome systemd, people should be able to use Xfce or KDE or even window manager of choice. @Ritesh I just tried to summarize your ideas but if I've got something wrong please feel free to jump in and correct things :). At end Ritesh talked briefly about Keys, signing process and web of trust and why people shouldn't blindly sign keys just after verifying a ID. Overall it was great meetup and I enjoyed it a lot. The slides which I used for meetup and a recording (Audio) is lying on my server at [1] People at meetup group feel free to jump in and add your experience!. Do keep debian-dug-in@lists.debian.org in Cc while replying. [1] http://talks.copyninja.info/debian/bangalore-meetup/4th_October/ Cheers, -- Vasudev Kamath http://copyninja.info Connect on ~friendica: copyninja@samsargika.copyninja.info IRC nick: copyninja | vasudev {irc.oftc.net | irc.freenode.net} GPG Key: C517 C25D E408 759D 98A4 C96B 6C8F 74AE 8770 0B7E
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