February 18th, 2005
Six exhibitions and conferences that will cover Free Software and GNU/Linux will take place within the following weeks in several cities where the Debian project participates.
Debianmexico will be present with a booth in the exhibition area. Several Debian developers will be around to answer all kinds of questions, demonstrate different things or happily sign one's gpg-key. Several talks will be held as well:
| Tuesday, February 22nd | ||
|---|---|---|
| 12:00 | David Moreno Garza | Creating packages for Debian |
| 18:00 | David Moreno Garza | How to help the Debian Project |
| 19:30 | Steve Langasek | The QA crisis in Free Software |
The Debian project will maintain a developers room and Debian developers and users will run a booth as well. A number of talks will be held in the developers room:
| Saturday, February 26th | ||
|---|---|---|
| 13:30 | Gregorio Robles & Diego Barceló | Evolution of Debian GNU/Linux |
| 14:00 | Andreas Barth | The Debian Release Process |
| 15:00 | Wookey | Embedded Debian |
| 16:00 | Frank Lichtenheld | Debian Web Services |
| Sunday, February 27th | ||
| 10:00 | Michael Banck | Debian GNU/Hurd |
| 10:45 | Guillem Jover | Porting to Debian GNU variants |
| 11:30 | Hanna M. Wallach | The Debian Women Project |
| 12:15 | Matthew Garrett | Free as in DFSG |
| 14:00 | Robert Millan | Debian GNU/kFreeBSD |
| 15:00 | Thomas Lange | Fully automatic GNU/Linux installations |
| 16:00 | Jeroen van Wolffelaar | Quality Assurance |
The Asia Open Source Software Symposium (AOSSS) brings together the Asian Free Software and open source community. The first Asia Debian Mini-Conf will precede this year's AOSSS from February 28th to March 1st.
| Monday, February 28th | ||
|---|---|---|
| 09:45 | Martin Michlmayr | Systematic Quality Assurance Approach |
| 10:45 | Alexander Schmehl | How to help Debian |
| 13:15 | Andrew Lee | Status Report of Debian in Taiwan |
| 16:30 | Keysigning session | |
| Tuesday, March 1st | ||
| 09:00 | Andreas Tille | Custom Debian Distributions |
| 10:00 | Scott Dier | Mass Management of Debian Desktops |
| 11:00 | Takatsugu Nokubi | Searching and CJK |
| 13:30 | Simon Horms | The Debian Linux Kernel |
| 14:30 | Yukata Niibe | Bootstraping the M32R Architecture |
| 15:45 | Masato Taruishi | The many uses of apt-listbug |
The Debian project will demonstrate their operating system at a booth. Several Debian related talks and one tutorial will also be held during this conference:
| Saturday, March 5th | ||
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 | Torsten Werner | Debian GNU/Linux in the foreign office |
| 12:00 | Ralf Gesellensetter & Kurt Gramlich | Skolelinux/Debian-Edu in the school |
| 14:00 | Martin Loschwitz | Installing and administering Debian |
| 16:00 | Keysigning Party | |
| Sunday, March 6th | ||
| 11:00 | Martin Loschwitz | Debian and Kalyxo for a perfect desktop |
| 12:00 | Kurt Gramlich | Free Software in schools |
| 14:00 | Andreas Tille | Technical aspects of Custom Debian Distributions |
| 14:30 | Andreas Tille | Debian-Med reloaded |
| 15:00 | Silke Reimer | Debian-GIS: Chances for Debian |
| 15:30 | Martin Herweg | Live-Demo: Edu-Knoppix |
| 16:00 | Alexander Schmehl | New features in Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 |
The Debian project will be present at its own booth in the LinuxPark in exhibition hall 6 inside of booth H18. Visitors are invited to exchange GnuPG fingerprints each day at 16:00 at the Debian booth. There will be several Debian related talks in the LinuxForum as well:
| Thursday, March 10th | ||
|---|---|---|
| 15:15 | Klaus Knopper | The future of Knoppix |
| Friday, March 11th | ||
| 10:15 | Michael Meskes | Mission Critical Enterprise Services |
| 11:15 | Frank Ronneburg | Corbiz - The Business-Debian |
| 12:15 | Stefan Hornburg | Running Debian in an ISP environment |
| Saturday, March 12th | ||
| 12:15 | Andreas Tille | Custom Debian Distributions |
| Tuesday, March 15th | ||
| 15:15 | Klaus Knopper | The future of Knoppix |
| Wednesday, March 16th | ||
| 14:15 | Thomas Lange | Rollout with FAI |
| 15:15 | Klaus Knopper | The future of Knoppix |
The Debian project will run a booth in the exhibition area and will demonstrate several computers running Debian GNU/Linux as well as Debian GNU/Hurd.
We invite all interested people in these areas to attend these conferences, meet Debian developers and users, exchange GnuPG fingerprints, discuss various topics on Debian and Free Software, and otherwise participate in our vibrant community.