Hello, I'll be going at the: II CONGRÉS PROGRAMARI LLIURE COMUNITAT VALENCIANA http://www.lliurex.net/congresii/val/index.htm where I'll talk about how to nicely customise Free Software and Custom Debian Distribution. I'll be also kind of representing Debian-NP, at least for telling what's the status of things. I'd like to wrap up where we are now. Last thing I heard was the excellent simple-css script by Vagrant and the possibility of Free(k)box[1] to become an official release of Debian-NP. Did something happen there? Then, we're mostly inactive and waiting for some things to happen. Technically-wise, we're waiting for the release of sarge, and for more developments in the CDD infrastructure. Zufus and Vagrant are the only active developers from our group in that field, right? Less technically, one of the points of Debian-NP was helping with finding software and packaging it into Debian. About finding software, one interesting even about to happen seems to be "Social Source Commons", from Aspiration Tech[2]. This is a short description I found: Social Source Commons is intended to be a repository of software created for use in international development. SSC will collect open source software from independent developers and from government aid programs which commission this software. SSC will then work to identify deficiencies in software available and help mobilize the global community of open source developers to write code to fill these holes. (From: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/ethan_zuckerman) That could address the problem of finding the software, and leave us Debian-NP mainly working with assisting with the packaging, releasing as a Custom Debian and exchanging experiences. Is the picture I have complete enough? Is there something I left out, or something which is too much? Ciao, Enrico [1] http://www.freegeek.org/freekbox.php [2] http://www.aspirationtech.org/ -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org>
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