Hi, for those who don't read planet.debian.org: blogging (1-133) life; title=Small report from the meeting in Extremadura * The last five days I've spent at the combined Debian Edu, FAI and CDD meeting in [1 Mérida] in Extremadura, together with 17 others. The Debian Edu / Skolelinux crowd was the biggest, followed by FAI, followed by CDD people, though many were part of more than one project. "As usual" it was great to meet many known faces and some unknown ones and to be able to discuss stuff in [2 RL]. * Besides various small different things, I worked on the Debian Edu etch r1 release, our lenny roadmap (see the bottom of our [3 roadmap page] which also covers etch r1) and the (technical side of the) german translation of the [4 Debian Edu documentation]. Non edu related the new [5 setupharddisk2] for FAI took most of my brain activity. And I've signed all keys allready :-) * We stayed at a very nice hotel in the even much nicer city of Merida, which features a lot of roman ruins and history. For example, we walked over the biggest roman bridge in the world! The only thing that was bigger was the amount of good food we were forced to eat every day... Incredible. This was my second visit to Merida and this time I finally managed to visit the amphitheatre (with seats for 15000 people) and the Roman theatre. (Unfortunatly the english page about [6 Emerita Augusta] is a stub.) If you happen to come around that area make sure to spend some time sight seeing, it is really worth it! People living in Merida literally fear to rebuild their houses, because as soon as they start to dig, they find something historical and have to turn their property into a museum :-) * In case you have not seen it yet, you should watch this small movie from euro news about the [7 free software efforts in Extremadura]. Insightful and very good promotion, also to show around. * Many thanks to César, José Luis and the Junta de Extremdura for hosting such a great meeting! You rock! * On a unrelated note, spam has gone crazy yesterday while traveling back, 15000 mails were not catched by my so far well working setup. ARG. I still used to have a catchall setting, which was useful to give out addresses like $company@mydomain, but now I will explicitly list those addresses and disable catchall. And luckily for you I will not blog about every spam mail I got... :) Generally I dont consider spam (the source of) evil, it's money: as long as money rules the world, there will be spam. So since it's a social problem, it is hardly solvable by technology. (That is, as long as you want to receive mails from strangers, which I do.) IMO what's worse than spammers are autoresponders to spam. Most of those 15000 mails were auto-replies to spam. OMFSM. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mérida,_Spain [2] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Extremadura2007/Schedule [3] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/roadmap [4] http://wiki.skolelinux.no/DebianEdu/Documentation/Etch/ [5] http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/Setup_harddisks_2 [6] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerita_Augusta [7] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR8Oh0Js_lA -- Holger Levsen <debian@layer-acht.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:27:56 +0200
Attachment:
pgpm6a1TJFwWY.pgp
Description: PGP signature