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DebConf11 – Sponsored registration date has been extended

May 7, 2011

Date for end of sponsored registrations for this years DebConf11 in Banja Luka was set for May 8th, today that date has officially been extended to May 19th. Now to answer your question on “why are you extending sponsored registrations 12 hours before it ends”  here’s the answer.

Registrations are going fine, we have more then 300 attendees who registered so far, it is due to change in our monetary resources as sponsorship level has changed from one to another, and we’ve be granted to welcome more people. But it is also to give some possible attendees more time and information, as I’ve got a feeling a lot of people from this region and elsewhere have been lacking some even general information, and thus I’d like to bring everything closer to everybody.

Before anything, heading to our website might be a good start as we have immense amount of information up there. Since government of Republika Srpska is our greatest and main financial sponsor, local team has made a document for them in which we tried to explain most basic and crucial things from what DebCamp and DebConf is over logistical/statistical data to what we have planned for Fun and Free time, so checking out that document might be a good idea as well DebConf11 – Plan and Program.

Since that might be too much for somebody as the documents stretches to some ~30 pages, I’ll try to give answers to most common/asked questions.

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Debian CUT, a new rolling release?

March 18, 2011

This post is also available on/was written for OMG! Ubuntu

It looks like 2011 started well for Debian. The project won awards in two out of seven categories at the Linux New Media Awards 2011 (“Best Open Source Server Distribution” and “Outstanding Contribution to Open Source/Linux/Free Software”). Just recently Internet.com declared Debian the most influential distribution ever, stating that “~63% of all distributions now being developed come ultimately from Debian.”

However, my intention for this article is not solely to praise Debian for its recent awards, but rather to focus on a new project, Debian CUT. Don’t be surprised if you haven’t heard about CUT; it seems most Debian community hasn’t either. Then again, maybe it’s because it is only labelled as unofficial/development so far.

A bit of history

One of the greatest criticisms of Debian is that its release cycles are too long. Debian stable release is seen as often as Ubuntu’s LTS release. As a server solution this doesn’t present a problem at all, it can even seen as a pro. However, for desktop use and for your average Joe who needs to have the latest software and is unable to get it, this may well present a problem. Of course he can always turn to backports to get what he needs but by the time you have finished reading this very sentence, Joe has already moved to Ubuntu.

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DebConf11 final and official dates

November 29, 2010
If you thought you saw this post already, you’re right, since this is our second time announcing official DebConf11 dates. First time announced dates can be found on: DebConf11 official dates – deprecated (Nov 29th update)

 

Official and Final DebConf11 dates in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina are:

 

DebCamp: 17 – 23 July 2011
DebConf: 24 – 30 July 2011

On behalf of whole DebConf11 team I would like to apologize to everybody who already organized and booked their vacation after initial announcement,  reasons why these dates were altered can be found on debconf-team discussion on “Let’s decide DebConf11 final dates“.

 

These dates will be announced on Debian website as official announcement as well.

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DebConf11 official dates – deprecated (Nov 29th update)

November 8, 2010

Even though we had approximate dates from very start, I would like to announce official dates when DebConf11 will be held in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

DebCamp: 25th – 31st July 2011

DebConf: 1st  – 7th August 2011

 

We encourage you to arrive one day earlier (24th July for DebCamp, and 31st July for DebConf), final departure date will be 8th August.

Vacation, it’s in our plans to talk to travel agencies, so for those who wanted vacation after DebConf11 as its participants can enjoy shores of Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro and Greece by discount prices.

We’re already looking forward your stay on Balkans! :)

Adnan

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DebConf10 Summary & DebConf11 invitation

August 21, 2010

DebConf10 ended 2 weeks ago, I’m back in Bosnia and I needed some time to “recalculate” everything that happened to me in last month :-)

This was my third time in NYC, and NYC as a city never left me empty handed, in every possible sense! And am seriously considering option of moving back one day, whether to get my Masters/phD or just do work we’ll see what future holds for me :cute:

DebConf10

I was in organization team for DebConf10, but if you put me aside, what’s particularly interesting is that there was a total number of 7 Bosnians on DebConf10, two of which were government officials. I must note this wasn’t our complete team, and what’s most important of all is that they all pretty much volunteered as much as they could, of course, besides good will to help Debian, but also to at least somehow prepare themselves for organization of DebConf11.

It’s also worth noting that this was their first DebConf, and I as a leader of the team must say I’m proud on how well they performed. I’m sure by being highly active in volunteering they have learned as much as they could when it comes to “how it’s done” and were able to see good and bad sides of DebConf10 organization team.

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