Re: yet another talk submitted
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 09:09:55PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
>
> It is not per se about blends. I see blends as the best and easy
> solution to jump on to make Debian more appealing to the generic
> audience, be it a science or any other user-base with given interests.
> With the talk though I want to express the opinion that Debian is
> already ready to become a distribution of choice for many user-bases
> among mortals, and that is a particularly good fit for scientific users.
> Question is: why then it hasn't become popular among them (yet)? and I
> speculate that it is simply due to the lack of visibility of
> Debian among those users and this issue could be easily addressed.
> Moreover I wanted to reiterate some issues, currently not fully
> addressed in Debian, which are somewhat specific to scientific
> user-base.
I have read your abstract exactly like this and I really like it. I
hope I will have good enough bandwidth to follow the DebConf video
stream. ;-)
Kind regards
Andreas.
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