Knowing whom to talk to on Debconf
Hi,
this will be my first debconf where I am not busy with organizing. So I
will have time to talk to people and to cooperate with people. Earlier
this year, I was visiting MiniDebconf Hamburg and found it enlightening
to be able to directly talk to people. The MiniDebconf only had 30
people, and it was easy to find people to talk to about certain topic.
Debconf, with several hundred people, is different. Is there a
list/medium/webpage/database where people can record their skills that
go beyond their packages? I mean, when I want to talk about security, I
seek a member of the security team. When I want to talk about a certain
package, I seek its maintainer.
But what do I do when I have a question about git? Or about "which idiom
is the most pythonic"? Or about "is the new Arista datacenter switch
really THIS cool"?
For example, I would probably be one of the persons to talk to about
IPv6, in-car networking, big scale DNS, adduser, sudo, exim, aide,
network management and 1980/1990ies chart/dance music. And I would like
to talk to people knowing advanced git, advanced ansible, advanced
systemd, using KDE, booting the Raspberry Pi and living in a smart home.
Do we have support infrastructure for that? Where would I enter my
non-obvious skills that can be useful in Debian?
I am looking for a casual way to find people to talk to, for example
during meals. I could submit bofs about "my" topics, but I need to be
in the mood to talk about certain things and would not enjoy having to
do that on a schedule.
I am looking forward to my first Debconf where I can do technical work
and improve my technical skills!
Greetings
Marc
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