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Talks for DebianDay wanted

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:24:00 UTC

This year, DebianDay will take place in Buenos Aires, on Monday August 18th, the day after DebConf ends. We are still in need of talks for DebianDay, so, if you are coming to DebConf and you’ll be staying a few more days in Argentina after the conference, you are invited to give a talk on whatever you want as long as it’s Debian related.

Some suggestions for talk subjects for DebianDay:

Debian in Latin America
Internationalization in Debian
How to help Debian
Debian Live
Making a Debian derivative distribution
Packaging for Debian
… And anything else you feel might be interesting to people who are not DDs, but are interested in Debian.

We are planning on having two tracks, one for newbies and one for advanced talks; talks in Spanish are welcome, but don’t worry if you don’t speak the language, for talks in English, we will probably have a translator.

To submit a talk, just log in to your DebConf account and click in the “New event/Paper” link.

Reconfirmation deadline approaching

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:14:00 UTC

June 15th is the last day to reconfirm your attendance to DebConf8. If you are certain that you are coming, please reconfirm by setting the ‘Reconfirm Attendance’ box in your PentaBarf’s account.

If you have decided not to come to DebConf8, we are truly sorry about it, but we ask you to please state this by unchecking the ‘I want to attend this conference box’.

Currently, 397 people have registered for DebConf8, 340 plan to attend, but only 122 have reconfirmed (live stats).

DebConf8 Travel Sponsorship

Mon, 26 May 2008 23:49:00 UTC

I finally sent out a flood of mails to those people that applied for Travel Sponsorship for this years Debian Conference in Argentina. We have 58 people who got a position in our sponsorship queue, asking for nearly 60.000 USD in total. We are not yet sure if we are able to reimburse all of them, but we will at least try to.

We also have 24 people rejected from this queue and possibly some people haven’t been able to fill out their settings in our conference management system correctly/in time. While we are sorry for them, we can’t do much here.

Spread the word!

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:59:00 UTC

Stefano Zacchiroli proposed the idea of spreading the word about DebConf8 in a recent blog post, in a way similar to what FOSDEM did this year. So be a part of the meme! Add this HTML snippet to your blog posts and help spread the word!

<a href="http://debconf8.debconf.org">
<img src="http://media.debconf.org/dc8/images/debconf8-going-to.png"
     alt="I'm going to DebConf8, edition 2008 of the annual Debian 
     developers meeting" />
</a>

DebConf8 registration open and CfP

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:09:00 UTC

Registration is now open for DebConf8, which will take place in Mar del Plata from Sunday 10 to Saturday 16 August 2008.

To register follow one of the processes outlined below:

If you registered for last years conference, DebConf7, go to this page to login.
If you haven’t registered for last years conference you need an account in the conference management system. To register one, go to the following page and create an account. After visiting the activation URL sent to you by email, go to your user’s page and log in.

After you logged in

After you successfully logged in, please fill in at least the ‘General’, ‘Contact’ and ‘Travel’ tabs reachable through the ‘Registration details’ button on the bar on the left of the page. Please pay special attention to the ‘DebConf’ and ‘DebCamp’ boxes on the ‘General’ tab. You need to select at least the “I want to attend this conference” checkbox or your registration won’t be valid.

Note to users who have an account from last year: We did our best in making sure you do not have to reenter all your personal data again, just the conference specific changes. But please check if it is all still valid.

We suggest that attendees begin making travel arrangements as soon as possible. Some travel information has already been collected at the DebConf 8 site.

Submitting a paper/event

To submit papers, first register for DebConf as described above. Then use the ‘New event/paper’ button on this page and fill in information about your submission on the various tabs. You can use the same interface to submit papers for DebConf and DebCamp, by choosing the appropriate track.

DebConf8 dates decided!

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:49:00 UTC

After a very short meeting, the DebConf team agreed on having the next DebConf the first two weeks of August. That will be August, 2nd to August, 17th. Also, the Debian Day will be held after DebConf in Buenos Aires, just before the eigth edition of the Regional Free Software Conference, a very big event with people coming from different countries in South America. This way, we expect to reach much more people.