Anand Kumria had (IMO) a good suggestion... How about we do a press release announcing the success of the recently-concluded DebConf 5 event? Here are some items we could cover: * its budget (USD ~150,000) * its location * the fact that it's the 6th annual conference (counting DebConf 0) * attendance figures (I don't have these) * number of sponsoring companies * names of some of the more famous sponsoring companies * number of scheduled talks, BOFs, workshops, etc. * names of some of the talks given * the fact that many of the talks are social/organizational in nature, not just technical * how we compare (favorably) to all other known distro-specific conferences, including UDU (well, I guess that name changes from conf to conf) and FUDCon I'd also collect some quotes from some luminaries in traditional press release style. In case the DPL qualifies, here's a quote you can use or excerpt as desired: "The continued growth of the annual conference of Debian developers is further evidence, if any were needed, of the increasing importance of the Debian Project and its impact on the software landscape. Our prominence as standard bearers for the Free Software community is underscored by the increasing diversity of our developer and user communities, the quantity and quality of the talks we present, the breadth of the material covered, and the enthusiasm of our attendees and sponsors." If you need something about the conference organizers: "The diligence and professionalism of our conference organizers continues to impress. DebConf occupies as increasingly important role for us, and if the attendees are the lifeblood of its success, then the organizers are its heart, getting everyone where they need to be." I'm probably going to be offline for at least 2.5 more days, so this is as much as I can reasonably expect to offer in the short term. I would hope we can decide whether or not to issue such a release shortly, as we don't want the news to get too stale. Thanks for looking into this! -- G. Branden Robinson Debian Project Leader leader@debian.org http://people.debian.org/~branden/
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