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Subject: Media Alert: FIRST TIME IN THE USA - Tenth Annual Debian Developer Conference - World's Largest GNU/Linux Distribution Developers' Conference to be taking place at Columbia University NYC Aug 1-7 New York, NY, July 27, 2010//The Debian Project, the team behind the free Debian GNU/Linux operating system, would like to invite you to participate in the upcoming Debian Conference which will take place from August 1 to 7, 2010, at New York City's Columbia University in cooperation with the Columbia Computer Science department. This year's conference is the first DebConf to be held in the United States in the 11-year history of the event. This year, more than 300 developers from all over the world, including Brazil, Argentina, Bosnia, Mexico, Canada, Western Europe, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Venezuela, and Latvia, will participate. More information here: http://debconf10.debconf.org/ Every year, DebConf allows new and existing Debian project participants from around the world to assemble, share knowledge and ideas, make collaborative contributions to Debian, and build tighter community bonds. Conference costs are largely supported by corporate sponsors who find significant interest in supporting Debian and DebConfs. For the first time, Debconf will host "tracks", featuring a cluster of talks linked by a common theme. These include tracks on Science/Math, Java, Enterprise Systems, Debian Community Outreach, and Media and Art in Debian. Other talks will cover technical, licensing, and community issues by a host of Debian developers and other leaders in the Free Software community. Eben Moglen, Chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center and Professor of Law at Columbia University will be our plenary speaker on August 3, at 10:00 AM. DebConf includes Debian Day, being held on August 1st, when the conference opens its doors to anyone interested in finding out more about Debian and Free Software. During this event, there will be a full day of talks on a variety of subjects such as Free Software advocacy, Free Software usability, and a number of talks on the Debian project and operating system itself. More information on Debian Day, including a schedule, here: http://www.debianday.org/ ABOUT DEBIAN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Debian GNU/Linux is a free computer operating system. Over three thousand volunteers from all over the world work together to create and maintain Debian software. Translated into 27 languages, and supporting a huge range of computer architectures, Debian calls itself the "universal operating system" and is the largest free software project in the world. In the United States, Debian is backed by Software in the Public Interest, Inc., a not-for-profit public charity as described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. ABOUT DEBCONF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DebConf is the Debian Project's developer conference. In addition to a full schedule of technical, social and policy talks, DebConf provides an opportunity for developers, contributors and other interested people to meet in person and work together more closely. It has taken place annually since 2000 in locations as varied as Canada, Finland, and Mexico. More information about DebConf is available from http://debconf.org/. MORE INFORMATION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ More information about DebConf10 can be found on the conference website: http://debconf10.debconf.org/ or by contacting the DebConf Global Press Team at [email protected]. _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
