The 2nd Annual Debian Conference is set to start this coming Friday at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It brings to Toronto at least 80 attendees; coming from as far away as Brazil and Japan, participants will learn about and discuss the latest technical developments in the entirely volunteer-driven project. In addition to the Debian-specific talks which make up the majority of the program, there are several non-Debian related, yet extremely interesting and informative speakers who hope to find the Debconf attendees a receptive audience. Friday evening Damian Conway, well-known speaker and Perl developer will give a talk hosted by Debconf, titled "Extreme Perl: The Horror That Is SelfGOL." More information about Damian's free talks in Toronto can be found at http://www.dice-con.com/damian/freetalks.html . Michael Richardson, CEO of Lindows.com, will also be a guest speaker during the catered dinner for Debconf attendees, graciously sponsored by Lindows.com. (I feel obligated to mention that Lindows.com's sponsorship of Debconf 2 came with no strings attached; Michael was available to speak during the timeslot which coincided with dinner and so I decided that he should speak.) Debconf promises to be an exciting and informative weekend. I hope to see everyone there! -- Joe Drew <hoserhead@woot.net> <drew@debian.org> Lead organizer of the 2nd Annual Debian Conference Schedule for Debconf: (All talks are held in Lecture Hall C of the Computer Science building at York University. The dinner will be held in the Founder's Assembly Hall.) Friday, July 5 "Introductions" Up to 3:00pm Arrival and registration with Hospitality York 3:00-3:30pm Introduction - Joe Drew, DPL 3:30-4:30pm Commercial use of Debian - Lindows.com, HP, etc 4:30 and later Keysigning, general talking and getting-to-know one another 6:00-9:00 Extreme Perl - Damian Conway Saturday, July 6 "Down to Business" 10:00-11:00am Porting Debian: Lessons Learned - Bdale Garbee 11:00-11:45am Free Software in Brazil - Henrique de Moraes Holschuh 1:00-3:00pm Security Enhanced (SE) Linux in Debian - Russell Coker 3:00pm-5:00pm debconf at Debconf - Joey Hess 6:00pm Catered dinner - Speakers: Michael Robertson, Bdale Garbee Sunday, July 7 "What next?" 10:00am How to support users - David B. Harris 12:30pm New initscript systems - Henrique de Moraes Holschuh 2:00pm The Linux Standard Base and Debian - Matt Taggart 3:00pm BSD and Debian - Andreas Schuldei
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