Hello, All. 

General Information

The 5th Debian Conference (DebConf4)[1] will take place from May 26 to June 02 
in Porto Alegre, Brazil. 

Such a large gathering of Debian developers and enthusiasts gives the unique 
opportunity to reach a highly skilled and interested audience with a variety of 
topics. 

We'll have two talks a day and plenty of space for BOFs. We are pleased to 
invite speakers to submit proposals for a talk to be given either in the 
morning or in the evening. 

On day one there will be an introductory talk for all speakers: Public 
Speaking. Altough it's mainly directed for DebConf speakers, everyone is 
invited. 

Themes 

* General talk topics could be, but are not limited to: 
* Debian subprojects or architecture projects 
* Social and organizational topics 
* Enterprise involvement, advantages, legal issues 
* Maintainer-upstream groups and their relationships 

How to submit 

Initially, please only submit a short (about two paragraphs) description of 
your presentation and please, answer the following questions sending e-mail to 
the DebConf 4 Team - [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

* Tell us about yourself and what you have been doing for Debian or another 
Free Software Project
* Anything else we should know about you (allergies, diet, medical condition, 
special needs)
* Will you need to receive a participation fee subsidy in order to attend 
DebConf4? Why? If so, please estimate how much your round-trip travel to Porto 
Alegre will cost. Would you be able to attend without it?
* Will you need a visa to come to Brazil[2]?
* Telephone and emergency contact number(s)

If your presentation is accepted, you should send us the full paper, less than 
ten pages long in LaTeX, DocBook SGML, plain text, or any suitable format. 

Deadline 

The deadline for submissions is April, 1st. If your presentation is accepted, 
we'll contact you to send us your full paper and let us know about specific 
needs for your talk before April, 15th. 

BOFs 

Even if BOFs can be scheduled "just in time" locally, it would be nice to plan 
in advance if you would like to organize one. Feel free to send a mail for a 
BOF, as soon as you know you want to hold one.

Our growing list of sponsors already includes:

(*) HP
(*) PSL-RS (the International Free Software Forum organizers)
(*) O'Reilly
(*) Lindows

1. http://www.debconf.org/debconf4
2. http://www.debconf.org/debconf4/visa

See you at DebConf4,

        The DebConf4 Team

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Michelle Ribeiro

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