Hi! In the last debates it was argued, that some teams could need a bit more transparency: What they are doing, why and how. Starting with that mail I'll try to that for our "pr-team". I'll try to continue with that irregulary. Upcoming events: ================ The next major events Debian will participate in are the the LinuxTag in Wiesbaden / Germany [1] and of course the DebConf in Mexico [2][3]. Coordination for LinuxTag is done by Alexander Wirt, who just send a mail asking for help to the european coordination mailinglist [4]. Links: 1: http://www.debian.org/events/2006/0503-linuxtag 2: http://www.debian.org/events/2006/0514-debconf 3: http://www.debconf.org/ 4: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu/2006/03/msg00004.html Just ended events: ================== During the last weeks the Debian project participated in some major events. Again Debian was present with a booth and a developer room at this years FOSDEM [5]. I would like to thank Wouter Verhelst for organizing that again! He wrote a bit in his blog [6]. Sumarized it was again a funny and productive event. We are all looking forward to next years FOSDEM. Videos from the talks Debian's DevRoom are available [7] at the meetings-archive. Not as big as FOSDEM but worth a honourable mention was this years Chemnitzer Linux-Tage [8]. The booth of the Debian project was (again) a success. While Debian had this year the chance for it's own small conference track. Allthough there were some interesting talks (e.g. backporting, the new-queue, etc.), there are no videos available but audio recordings from some talks will be available at [9]. Please note that all the talks and the webpage are in german. Many thanks to Noèl Köthe for organizing this years booth again! Last not least I would like to mention that Debian has been at this years CeBIT [10], too. Allthough confronted with some smaller problems, it was again an successfull event for Debian. Some smaller mistakes were made, through, so we allready started collecting ideas for next years CeBIT. Joerg Jaspert pointed out [11], that he and Alexander Schmehl were quite successfull getting in contact with potential sponsors. Alexander Schmehl promised to write a longer report about that event soon. Links: 5: http://www.debian.org/events/2006/0225-fosdem 6: http://www.grep.be/blog/en/computer/fosdem/ 7: http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2006/fosdem/ 8: http://www.debian.org/events/2006/0304-linuxtag-chemnitz 9: http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2006/vortraege/ 10: http://www.debian.org/events/2006/0309-cebit 11: http://ganneff.de/blog/2006/03/13#cebit2006 Request for speakers / invitations to other events: =================================================== Here is a short list of requests / invitations and other mails, we received to events@d.o and press@d.o. Most of it has allready been forwarded to the proper people, but some stuff is still unresolved. Please take a look at it and get in contact with us, if you think you can be of help (or know someone who could help us). - LILiK, a Free Software Lab, was looking for speakers for an convention in italy. The mail was forwarded to the [12] -devel-italien mailinglist. The list showed some activity after that, which I couldn't follow due to my lack of knowledge about that language ;) - A company in turkey asked for permission to use Debian's logo for some debian products. They were pointed to our open use logo and it's license, so we can expect some nice swirl t-shirts and mugs in turkey in the next weeks. - Similar for an company from the USA, who liked use Debian's logo during the upcoming South Pacific Linux World in Australia. They are still looking for a local contact. If you are in that area (or plan to visit South Pacific Linux World, please get in contact with us. - Organizers of the C3 Expo asked for some speakers fot their upcoming event in NYC. They especially asked for Ian Murdock for a keynote. Luckily Ian has the time and will do it. - During this years SCALE [13] Debian got asked, if it would like to get a booth during the Desktop Linux Summit [14] to be held in late april in San Diego. Sadly Debian lacks the man power to man a full time booth during a working week :( Heather MacKenzie from the DLS orga team was quite sorry about that, but send us a special registration code for Debian volunteers, so they can visit that event for free. Interested people should get in contact with me (including a small description about there Debian related work). - Debian got invited to LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Korea, which will take place from the 5th to th 7th of Junge in Seoul. Uhm... actually "invited" might be the wrong word, since I'm not sure they know that Debian is not a company but a free project... but thinking about the experience we made with other LinuxWorld Conferences [15][16], I would expect them to have an area for free project ready, but I'm not sure (they have a quite useless flash based website! ARG!) If you are in that area please feel free to get in contact with us. Links: 12: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-italian/2006/03/msg00001.html 13: http://www.debian.org/events/2006/0211-scale 14: http://www.desktoplinuxsummit.com/ 15: http://www.debian.org/events/2005/0215-lwe 16: http://www.debian.org/events/2005/1115-lwe 17: http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2006/03/msg00375.html 18: http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001 19: http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/debian-announce-2006/msg00000.html Personal stuff: =============== A couple of days ago Alexander Schmehl got added to the press@debian.org to share work load with Joey. Currently we are discussing the easiest way to improve and organize publicity work for Debian, which will hopefully result in Debian mentioned in press more often positively. Please give us a some time to organize ourself; we are trying our best and welcome feedback. Yours sincerely, Alexander
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