Heyho! On Wednesday 25 August 2010 22.32:07 Patricio López S. wrote: > My name is Patricio López and i'm from Chile, well i write to this list > because here in my country the Debian community is pretty "silent" so I > and some other Debian users started a new community some days ago. Welcome! What kind of community is this? Web? Local group? Mailing list? > Also since we are getting close to the squeeze release i wanted to know > where can i get news about the date of it's release, so we can organize > an event for the day Squeeze comes out. Squeeze is frozen, the release should happen "any time now", which translates to probably this hear. I don't think anything closer than that is known. Personally (and I mean this, this is in now way official) I feel local user groups should be as "thin" as possible, and bring people in contact with the Debian project. For example, I'm a member (and, as it happens, co-founder) of debian.ch, and while we do have a web page and a mailing list, we almost only do local stuff (event coordination, ...) on our mailing list and our #debian.ch IRC channel, while most technical Debian stuff happens on the general Debian channels (lists.debian.org, #debian-devel IRC channel, ...) There are two reasons for this: first, the local group is not "just a few people", but is really part of the whole Debian project (for example: you could point people at the existing spanish and/or english language mailing lists/IRC channel/web forums... instead of having a new channel/forum that is silently waiting to attract new users) and second, there is no danger of the Debian community fracturing in local groups where one group doesn't know what other groups do. (Why do I write all this? From your question about the release date, it seems that you're not very familiar with the "inner workings" of the Debian project yet. To get your new community up and running, you may want to get involved with the worldwide Debian project to some degree. I believe there are a few Debian developers in Chile, you may want to get in touch.) cheers -- vbi -- featured product: the Apache web server - http://httpd.apache.org
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