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Debconf6 day 2: Java is non-free, at last!

Monday, May 15, 2006

The first session in the morning that I attended was the BOF about Python. After an introduction to the current state by the Python maintainer (Matthias Klose) and a few other people we run overtime and the BOF was extended into another time slot. Also the session was plagued by the room switch hanging which [...]

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Debconf6 day 1: Intro

Monday, May 15, 2006

The day was started by a welcome speech from the organizers saying thanks to all (most) the helpers and sponsors. The tower room was almost full, I wonder how will it look like when the real talks start. The next talk is only planed after an hour and a half as no BOF claimed this [...]

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Deaths in Debconf

Sunday, May 14, 2006

Debconf6 this year was also the venue of an Assasination game. The idea is that there are people playing the game who are ordered in a circle. Each of them only know the name of the person in front of them – the one they have to assassinate. The killing takes place by touching the [...]

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Debconf6 day 0: Debian Day

Sunday, May 14, 2006

While most DD’s continued hacking in the hacklab, some of the Spanish speaking Debian people joined in with approximately 50-70 Mexican people for a set of Spanish language presentations about something. I have no idea what they were about as I do not speak Spanish (except manyana). The Debian Day was also the first thing [...]

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Debconf6 days -2 and -1: Internet or Inter-Net?

Saturday, May 13, 2006

There have been not too many exiting events in the real life here in Oaxtepec, Mexico. The main reason for that is the return of the drug of choice around here – the Internet. In order not to overwhelm people that were withdrawn from the cruel drug for several days, the first day the service [...]

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Some picture are up

Friday, May 12, 2006

http://www.aigarius.com/2006/05/10/debconf6-day-6.html has been updated with photos.

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Debconf6 day -3: Lower you MTU and your expectations

Thursday, May 11, 2006

Nothing much happened today, except: Internet working _barely_ if you lower your MTU to 500 or something like that. The speed is around 250 bytes per second and the delay is over 3 seconds. Luckily we have a separate IP-over-a-man-with-a-USB-key for uploads to incoming; The restaurant for the food has been changed to one closer [...]

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Debconf6 day -4: The Pyramids

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Yesterday it became clear that the daytrip during the conference will not go to the Teotihuacan Aztec pyramids as it is too far, which is a shame. For that reason a small group of people organized a separate trip to Teotihuacan (“the Pyramids” from now on). 11 people boarded 3 taxis which we hired for [...]

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Debconf6 day -5: Manyana and it is still hot

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

It is evening of the third day and we are still netless – “manyana” is all that we know and people have accepted that. Hacking is being conduced efficiently – the local network is up and there is local Debian mirror in the LAN. The mornings are very nice here – it is not too [...]

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Debconf6 day -6: Netless pooling

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

The Internet is not up yet, so the productivity of people here is very different now – some have no way to do what they want, but on the other hand some are benefiting from the lack of interruptions and disturbances and having a very productive hack session in the offline. In addition some people [...]

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