Re: [Debconf-discuss] Your biggest achievement during past DebConfs (aka new DebConf promoting campaign)

[Tollef Fog Heen]

]] Joey Hess 

> Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> > Are you sure the first successful installation of Debian happened during
> > DebConf3?  I remember giving a talk about Skolelinux at that conference
> > and how Skolelinux used d-i to automate the Debian installation.  During
> > the talk I ran the installation as a demonstration, and I suspect I
> > would not have tried to do this if I had not done a d-i installation
> > before DebConf3.  But my memory is flaky, so I just wanted to ask if
> > anyone remember when d-i actually was able to install Debian for the
> > first time.
> 
> d-i was being used to install Skolelinux, at least as a proof of
> concept, a little before Debconf, but not to install Debian as far as I
> know. I had certianly not seen d-i install Debian before that point.

I did the first installation using d-i a few months before DC3, iirc.
I'm currently unable to find the IRC log where I told you about it,
though.

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Re: [Debconf-discuss] Your biggest achievement during past DebConfs (aka new DebConf promoting campaign)

[Joey Hess]

Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Are you sure the first successful installation of Debian happened during
> DebConf3?  I remember giving a talk about Skolelinux at that conference
> and how Skolelinux used d-i to automate the Debian installation.  During
> the talk I ran the installation as a demonstration, and I suspect I
> would not have tried to do this if I had not done a d-i installation
> before DebConf3.  But my memory is flaky, so I just wanted to ask if
> anyone remember when d-i actually was able to install Debian for the
> first time.

d-i was being used to install Skolelinux, at least as a proof of
concept, a little before Debconf, but not to install Debian as far as I
know. I had certianly not seen d-i install Debian before that point.

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Re: [Debconf-discuss] Your biggest achievement during past DebConfs (aka new DebConf promoting campaign)

[Joey Hess]

Francesca Ciceri wrote:
> "During DebConfN I wrote $cool-software which we now use to do
> $cool-things"

At DebConf3 in Oslo, I finally met the other Debian Installer developers
gathered together in person, and after a week of challanging work, we
achieved the first successful installation of Debian with it. This
reinvigorated our team, leading to many new members, more rapid
development, and many more developer gatherings. The resulting program
has since been used to install Debian, and derivative distributions, on
tens of millions of systems.

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Re: [Debconf-discuss] Your biggest achievement during past DebConfs (aka new DebConf promoting campaign)

[Wouter Verhelst]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 04:22:02PM +0100, Francesca Ciceri wrote:
> Hi all,
> members of the Debconf Team and Publicity Team need your help!!1!! 
> 
> (nooo! don't hide!!)
> 
> We'd like to have a quote from all Debian Developers and contributors
> naming their most important technical and/or social achievement reached
> during past DebConfs.
> The quote need to be short (one or two lines) and could be something
> like:
> 
> "During DebConfN I wrote $cool-software which we now use to do
> $cool-things"

My biggest achievement at any debconf was to actually *be* at debconf5,
my first-ever debconf. At the time, I was having personal issues, and
was seriously considering resigning from the project. Someone (I forgot
whom) suggested that I could make it to debconf5 as a sponsored
attendee, and eventually convinced me.

The opportunity to see and meet all those people who were so passionate
about Debian, to see and meet them in a different setting, revived my
passion and fire for this community. I am convinced that I would not be
involved with Debian anymore today if I hadn't been at debconf5.

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Re: [Debconf-discuss] Your biggest achievement during past DebConfs (aka new DebConf promoting campaign)

[Luca Capello]

Hi there!

Please Cc: me, I am not subscribed to debian-project@.

On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:38:26 +0100, Francesca Ciceri wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 05:10:27PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
>> Francesca Ciceri wrote:
>> > members of the Debconf Team and Publicity Team need your help!!1!! 
>> > 
>> > (nooo! don't hide!!)
>> > 
>> > We'd like to have a quote from all Debian Developers and contributors
>> > naming their most important technical and/or social achievement reached
>> > during past DebConfs.
>> 
>> So where shall we send such quotes?
>
> In this thread? :)
> And I think could be better to -project instead that debconf-discuss
> (I've just set reply-to accordingly).

I would have preferred to have *all* replies to debconf-discuss@ as
well, I know of at least one of them that went to debian-project@ alone
(and no, I do not want to subscribed to yet another mailing list).

Nevertheless, I think my biggest achievement during past DebConfs is the
DebConf11 Events BoF, which generated a lot of discussion on various
mailing lists (debian-publicity@ and debian-www@ in primis) and in RL,
and it was the beginning for the Debian Events Box creation (which is
progressing slowly, but still...):

  
  

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca


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Re: [Debconf-discuss] Your biggest achievement during past DebConfs (aka new DebConf promoting campaign)

[Guido Trotter]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 16:32, Yaroslav Halchenko  wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 18:38, Francesca Ciceri  wrote:
>> (also, unrelated to me, just a suggestion for this campaign: it would
>> be good to get a quote from Eben Moglen about his freedombox talk at
>> Debconf10 and the impact it had, considering how the FreedomBox
>> foundation is heavily debian-populated)
>
> and may be also "Mark S" -- I believe U. was kinda conceived at debconf
> 2003 or so ;-)
>

That depends on the target audience... I'm not sure how many more
billionaires we'll convince to come and hire a bunch of DDs to create
their dream distro! :p Nor whether that should be encouraged! ;)

G


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Re: [Debconf-discuss] Your biggest achievement during past DebConfs (aka new DebConf promoting campaign)

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 18:38, Francesca Ciceri  wrote:
> (also, unrelated to me, just a suggestion for this campaign: it would
> be good to get a quote from Eben Moglen about his freedombox talk at
> Debconf10 and the impact it had, considering how the FreedomBox
> foundation is heavily debian-populated)

and may be also "Mark S" -- I believe U. was kinda conceived at debconf
2003 or so ;-)

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Re: [Debconf-discuss] Your biggest achievement during past DebConfs (aka new DebConf promoting campaign)

[Guido Trotter]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 18:38, Francesca Ciceri  wrote:

> In this thread? :)
> And I think could be better to -project instead that debconf-discuss
> (I've just set reply-to accordingly).
> Or, if you prefer send me a private reply at madamezou@d.o
>

During Debconf9 I gave a talk about our project. Then one of the
developers present found it could be used to solve some of their
problem at work.
Soon his organization became one of the most active contributors in
our community.

(also, unrelated to me, just a suggestion for this campaign: it would
be good to get a quote from Eben Moglen about his freedombox talk at
Debconf10 and the impact it had, considering how the FreedomBox
foundation is heavily debian-populated)

Thanks,

Guido


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Re: [Debconf-discuss] Your biggest achievement during past DebConfs (aka new DebConf promoting campaign)

[Kevin Mark]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 04:22:02PM +0100, Francesca Ciceri wrote:
> Hi all,
> members of the Debconf Team and Publicity Team need your help!!1!! 
> 
> (nooo! don't hide!!)
> 
> We'd like to have a quote from all Debian Developers and contributors
> naming their most important technical and/or social achievement reached
> during past DebConfs.
> The quote need to be short (one or two lines) and could be something
> like:
> 
> "During DebConfN I wrote $cool-software which we now use to do
> $cool-things"
> 
> Obviously, your best achievement could be also a patch, an important
> translation or a special BoF/talk/round-table.
> We want to use your responses to show the extreme variety of DebConf
> attendees and why this event is important for the FLOSS ecosystem.
> 
> Your quotes will be used to promote DebConf via identi.ca, the website,
> and official DebConf documents.
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> Francesca and Moray,
> for the Publicity and the DebConf Teams

I'm a FLOSS advocate who wanted to help Debian by helping make Debconf in NY
run smoothly and I volunteered to do Front Desk, Registration, etc.
It was great to work and socialize with other Debian contributers.

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Re: [Debconf-discuss] Your biggest achievement during past DebConfs (aka new DebConf promoting campaign)

[David Bremner]

On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:38:26 +0100, Francesca Ciceri  
wrote:

> > > We'd like to have a quote from all Debian Developers and contributors
> > > naming their most important technical and/or social achievement reached
> > > during past DebConfs.

After talking about the conversion for several years on mail and IRC,
with a little bit of preparation the Debian Perl team managed to convert
almost 2000 packages from a monolithic subversion repository into
individual git repositories.  Being together in Banja Luka made it
possible to fix the few wrinkles that arose, and to develop some new
tools to keep the team working smoothly.


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Re: [Debconf-discuss] Your biggest achievement during past DebConfs (aka new DebConf promoting campaign)

[Karolina Kalic]

Hi Francesca,

During DebConf11 I've met my new, permanent, sponsor (Guido Trotter)
and we have a great collaboration since then!

Karolina Kalic

Is this good?

Greetings,
Karolina


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Re: [Debconf-discuss] Your biggest achievement during past DebConfs (aka new DebConf promoting campaign)

[Christian PERRIER]

Quoting Francesca Ciceri (madame...@debian.org):
> Hey Axel, 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 05:10:27PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Francesca Ciceri wrote:
> > > members of the Debconf Team and Publicity Team need your help!!1!! 
> > > 
> > > (nooo! don't hide!!)
> > > 
> > > We'd like to have a quote from all Debian Developers and contributors
> > > naming their most important technical and/or social achievement reached
> > > during past DebConfs.
> > 
> > So where shall we send such quotes?
> > 
> > Regards, Axel
> 
> In this thread? :)
> And I think could be better to -project instead that debconf-discuss
> (I've just set reply-to accordingly).
> Or, if you prefer send me a private reply at madamezou@d.o

In DebConf4, I spent days and nights improving the Debian Installer
localization infrastructure. Eight years after, most of these
achievements are still used to help translating the installation
system in more than 70 languages.



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Re: [Debconf-discuss] Your biggest achievement during past DebConfs (aka new DebConf promoting campaign)

[Francesca Ciceri]

Hey Axel, 

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 05:10:27PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Francesca Ciceri wrote:
> > members of the Debconf Team and Publicity Team need your help!!1!! 
> > 
> > (nooo! don't hide!!)
> > 
> > We'd like to have a quote from all Debian Developers and contributors
> > naming their most important technical and/or social achievement reached
> > during past DebConfs.
> 
> So where shall we send such quotes?
> 
>   Regards, Axel

In this thread? :)
And I think could be better to -project instead that debconf-discuss
(I've just set reply-to accordingly).
Or, if you prefer send me a private reply at madamezou@d.o


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Re: [Debconf-discuss] Your biggest achievement during past DebConfs (aka new DebConf promoting campaign)

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Francesca Ciceri wrote:
> members of the Debconf Team and Publicity Team need your help!!1!! 
> 
> (nooo! don't hide!!)
> 
> We'd like to have a quote from all Debian Developers and contributors
> naming their most important technical and/or social achievement reached
> during past DebConfs.

So where shall we send such quotes?

Regards, Axel
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