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The Debian Project https://www.debian.org/
DebConf20 online closes press@debian.org
August 30th, 2020 https://www.debian.org/News/2020/20200830
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On Saturday 29 August 2020, the annual Debian Developers and
Contributors Conference came to a close.
DebConf20 has been held online for the first time, due to the
coronavirus (COVID-19) disease pandemic.
All of the sessions have been streamed, with a variety of ways of
participating: via IRC messaging, online collaborative text documents,
and video conferencing meeting rooms.
With more than 850 attendees from 80 different countries and a total of
over 100 event talks, discussion sessions, Birds of a Feather (BoF)
gatherings and other activities, DebConf20 [1] was a large success.
1: https://debconf20.debconf.org
When it became clear that DebConf20 was going to be an online-only
event, the DebConf video team spent much time over the next months to
adapt, improve, and in some cases write from scratch, technology that
would be required to make an online DebConf possible. After lessons
learned from the MiniDebConfOnline in late May, some adjustments were
made, and then eventually we came up with a setup involving Jitsi, OBS,
Voctomix, SReview, nginx, Etherpad, and a newly written web-based
frontend for voctomix as the various elements of the stack.
All components of the video infrastructure are free software, and the
whole setup is configured through their public ansible [2] repository.
2: https://salsa.debian.org/debconf-video-team/ansible
The DebConf20 schedule [3] included two tracks in other languages than
English: the Spanish language MiniConf, with eight talks in two days,
and the Malayalam language MiniConf, with nine talks in three days. Ad-
hoc activities, introduced by attendees over the course of the entire
conference, have been possible too, streamed and recorded. There have
also been several team gatherings to sprint [4] on certain Debian
development areas.
3: https://debconf20.debconf.org/schedule/
4: https://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/
Between talks, the video stream has been showing the usual sponsors on
the loop, but also some additional clips including photos from previous
DebConfs, fun facts about Debian and short shout-out videos sent by
attendees to communicate with their Debian friends.
For those who were not able to participate, most of the talks and
sessions are already available through the Debian meetings archive
website [5], and the remaining ones will appear in the following days.
5:
https://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2020/DebConf20/
The DebConf20 [6] website will remain active for archival purposes and
will continue to offer links to the presentations and videos of talks
and events.
6: https://debconf20.debconf.org/
Next year, DebConf21 [7] is planned to be held in Haifa, Israel, in
August or September.
7: https://wiki.debian.org/DebConf/21
DebConf is committed to a safe and welcome environment for all
participants. During the conference, several teams (Front Desk, Welcome
team and Anti-Harassment team) have been available to help so
participants get their best experience in the conference, and find
solutions to any issue that may arise. See the web page about the Code
of Conduct in DebConf20 website [8] for more details on this.
8: https://debconf20.debconf.org/about/coc/
Debian thanks the commitment of numerous sponsors [9] to support
DebConf20, particularly our Platinum Sponsors: Lenovo [10],
Infomaniak [11], Google [12] and Amazon Web Services (AWS) [13].
9: https://debconf20.debconf.org/sponsors/
10: https://www.lenovo.com
11: https://www.infomaniak.com
12: https://google.com/
13: https://aws.amazon.com/
About Debian
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The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly free
community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of the
largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of
volunteers from all over the world work together to create and maintain
Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a huge range
of computer types, Debian calls itself the "universal operating system".
About DebConf
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DebConf is the Debian Project's developer conference. In addition to a
full schedule of technical, social and policy talks, DebConf provides an
opportunity for developers, contributors and other interested people to
meet in person and work together more closely. It has taken place
annually since 2000 in locations as varied as Scotland, Argentina, and
Bosnia and Herzegovina. More information about DebConf is available from
https://debconf.org [14].
14: https://debconf.org/
About Lenovo
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As a global technology leader manufacturing a wide portfolio of
connected products, including smartphones, tablets, PCs and workstations
as well as AR/VR devices, smart home/office and data center solutions,
Lenovo [15] understands how critical open systems and platforms are to a
connected world.
15: https://www.lenovo.com
About Infomaniak
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Infomaniak [16] is Switzerland's largest web-hosting company, also
offering backup and storage services, solutions for event organizers,
live-streaming and video on demand services. It wholly owns its
datacenters and all elements critical to the functioning of the services
and products provided by the company (both software and hardware).
16: https://www.infomaniak.com
About Google
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Google [17] is one of the largest technology companies in the world,
providing a wide range of Internet-related services and products such as
online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, software, and
hardware.
17: https://google.com/
Google has been supporting Debian by sponsoring DebConf for more than
ten years, and is also a Debian partner sponsoring parts of Salsa [18]'s
continuous integration infrastructure within Google Cloud Platform.
18: https://salsa.debian.org
About Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) [19] is one of the world's most comprehensive
and broadly adopted cloud platforms, offering over 175 fully featured
services from data centers globally (in 77 Availability Zones within 24
geographic regions). AWS customers include the fastest-growing startups,
largest enterprises and leading government agencies.
19: https://aws.amazon.com
Contact Information
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For further information, please visit the DebConf20 web page at
https://debconf20.debconf.org/ or send mail to <press@debian.org>.
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