Mon, 05 Dec 2011
Bug Squashing Party in Hildesheim is over
Alexander has already announced the final results of this weekend's BSP, but I'd like to add my personal thanks. So, kudos to all attendees, for helping to make the BSP such a success and also to my employer for the generous budget and my colleagues, especially Wolfram to whose initiative we owe this BSP, for helping out before, during and after the party.
All in all it's been an event well worth repeating!
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Fri, 18 Nov 2011
Reminder: BSP in Hildesheim, Germany, 2-4 Dec 2011
We still have some free spaces in the Hildesheim BSP, which is scheduled in two weeks. (Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th of December). If you need any additional information or want to come by please check the wiki page.
Posted at: 11:38 in /english/debian
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Mon, 24 Oct 2011
BSP in Hildesheim, Germany, 2-4 Dec 2011
My generous employer has kindly offered to host the first Bug Squashing Party of the now commencing Wheezy Release BSP Marathon. Yay!
We'll meet during the first weekend in December (Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th) in Hildesheim, Germany. There's a wiki page listing all important information. Please also use this page to sign up if you want to join us.
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Fri, 29 Jul 2011
Slides of my talks
I attached the slides of my talks to penta but they don't seem to show up so here are a couple links:
Posted at: 11:18 in /english/debian/events
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Thu, 05 May 2011
Finally finished my registration for DC11
Let's see ...
- Got the application for leave filed and accepted at work
- Registered my talks
- Booked the trip
- Got a working plan for (my day at) DebCamp
- Wrote my abstracts
... I guess I am going to DebConf :D
Posted at: 10:59 in /english/debian/events
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Thu, 28 Apr 2011
What it's like to do Debian Press Work
A few days ago I did an interview for the People Behind Debian series that, among other things, covered my Debian press work and asked what it's like to do that kind of work for Debian. Here's a little addendum:
Sometimes Debian Press Work is great: All these people do all this amazing stuff and it's a pure pleasure to talk about it. Our last release was such an experience for example. I was clamped to my laptop for almost 20 hours straight and I had a great time! There was this great common feeling of community, achievement and pride in our work and I was proud and happy to be a part of it.
And then there are times like the last few days, where Alex and I went
South for 4.5 precious and long-awaited days of vacation and ended up
spending the first two of them working on an obituary for a dear and
much valued member of our community and once this was done spent the
remaining days of our holidays nervously watching the net and drafting and
re-drafting press announcements because some <bleep> thought
it might be oh-so-hilarous to send out faked cease and desist
orders to a Debian user, ostensibly as a funny
prank but along the
way causing a huge amount of completely unsubstantiated FUD that we'll
probably spend weeks clearing up.
Somewhere in between these events is what Debian press work is like.
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Sun, 06 Feb 2011
Squeeze Release Live Dent Finished
That's it! Squeeze is released and the website's new design is in place. What a great day! In addition to the usual announcements on the website and mailing lists we decided to also do a live coverage of the whole process using identi.ca this time!
Alex and me have been doing a live coverage of Debian's release process for almost 19 hours straight and, although we're dead beat now, I think it was well worth it! People seemed to enjoy being included in the process and many expressed their admiration for Debian's well-coordinated and purposeful proceedings.
Congratulations to all involved: the FTP team, the release team, the CD team, the www team and the publicity team! Great work everyone!
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Sat, 05 Feb 2011
Squeeze Release Live Dent
The Debian Press Team will provide a live coverage of today's squeeze release (Yaaay!) via identi.ca. Follow us at http://identi.ca/debian.
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