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[arch-events] Talk proposal: Can we build a simple, cross-distribution installation framework?
by Dieter Plaetinck 06 Dec '10

06 Dec '10

Hi Wouter and friends, I'm interested in giving the following session: "Can we build a simple, cross-distribution installation framework?" Although I will think about the format further, it will probably be mostly about these two things: On one hand to explain the philosophy and implementation of the Arch Linux installation framework, and most importantly: lessons learned from it. on the other hand I want to initiate a discussion on how multiple distributions can work together maintaining an installation framework and whether it would be feasible to do so. In my experience, many issues and features are distribution-independent. Specific distributions could be supported with plugins or feature branches. Dieter

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[arch-events] Fw: [Dist2011] Talks!
by Dieter Plaetinck 04 Dec '10

04 Dec '10

distro miniconf at fosdem has a lot of open slots still. they are looking for more talks. See below Begin forwarded message: Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 16:56:27 +0100 From: Wouter Verhelst <wouter(a)debian.org> To: Dominique Dumont <domi.dumont(a)free.fr> Cc: dist2011(a)lists.fosdem.org Subject: Re: [Dist2011] Talks! For the benefit of others, I'd like to stress, though, that we really really need many more talks. There's just under a month left now, and what with christmas and similar attractions this month, I doubt that we'll be able to find many people if time runs out. If I sound desperate, it might be because I'm starting to be desperate :-) -- The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is trying to fool the system. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.html _______________________________________________ Dist2011 mailing list Dist2011(a)lists.fosdem.org http://lists.fosdem.org/mailman/listinfo/dist2011

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[arch-events] Fw: [Dist2011] Talks!
by Dieter Plaetinck 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:51:07 +0100 From: Wouter Verhelst <wouter(a)debian.org> To: dist2011(a)lists.fosdem.org Subject: [Dist2011] Talks! Hi, I'm currently aware of the following talk proposals: Title: none given yet (something about enterprise linux) Speaker: Dag Wieers (CentOS) Title: How to be a good downstream Speaker: Thomas Weber (Debian) Title: Ada in Debian and other distributions Speakers: Ludovic Brenta (Debian), Miguel Telleria de Esteban Title: Zentyal Speaker: Jorge Salamero Sanz In addition to that, I'm aware of two or three more slots that might be in the making, but there's either no details about them yet, or they haven't made them on the list here but rather in private mail. This is a start, I guess, but four is absolutely not enough. Can people please poke their respective communities a bit more to get some more talk proposals? Please also remember that the deadline is in "only" 6 weeks. As an aside, note that as far as I'm concerned sessions don't *need* to be cross-distro; I do think that such subject matters are better, but I also think that distribution-specific topics are preferable to holes in the schedule. And hey, perhaps we can even learn from eachother :-) Regards, -- The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is trying to fool the system. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.html _______________________________________________ Dist2011 mailing list Dist2011(a)lists.fosdem.org http://lists.fosdem.org/mailman/listinfo/dist2011

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[arch-events] This weekend: OpenRheinRuhr in Oberhausen (Germany)
by Pierre Schmitz 10 Nov '10

10 Nov '10

Hi all, even though we have no booth at this conference we might have a small meeting of Arch users. If you speak German see https://bbs.archlinux.de/viewtopic.php?id=17817 (guest posting is enabled) Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[arch-events] Archcon 2011
by Dieter Plaetinck 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

So, we had archcon 2010 in Toronto, Canada. http://www.archlinux.ca/archcon2010/ It went smooth, very good atmosphere, but pretty small attendance due to it being held in the middle of nowhere (Canada) ;-) So, where shall we hold the next ArchCon? And who is interested in (helping) organising it? I would suggest to do it in Europe, because there is a much higher concentration of Arch devs and users here. (I think) And I know Dusty wants to visit Europe :) Some ideas: * Maybe we can do it together with Froscon. (like opensqlcamp does their sql conference at froscon) * I know there are some local schools and businesses in Belgium (Antwerp and Ghent) willing to provide rooms for free for tech/open source conferences. Probably similar opportunities exist in other countries. * ..? Dieter

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[arch-events] photos from FrOSCon
by Roman Kyrylych 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

I uploaded most of photos taken with my camera here: http://dev.archlinux.org/~roman/froscon2010/ -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-events] FrOSCon 2010 planning
by Thomas Bächler 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

Okay, same procedure as every year, just more people: Our official team members are: * Thomas Bächler * Roman Kyrylych * Thorsten Töpper * Pierre Schmitz * Jan de Groot * Andreas Radke * Jens Adam * Dieter Plaetinck * Jan Steffens We have a developer room and a booth. I will probably be at the booth all weekend, so I'll make myself our "booth manager". I'll also make Andy our devroom manager. The devroom usually doesn't get too many visitors, but we should make it possible for them to be there. We also might have a short presentation or two at the devroom if someone wants to (if we tell the FrOSCon team that we want to make a presentation, we will get a bigger room - so a 3 or 4 hour program on Saturday afternoon would be cool if anyone volunteers). We should be able to sleep in the devroom, but it will be small and crowded. And there probably won't be any showers on Sunday morning! As usual, we need equipment. - One or two PCs for the booth, preferably Mini-ITX or equally small - and with hard drives that we can wipe as we please! If you bring a computer, don't bring your hard drive (Who has a car? Jens?). - As many monitors as we have computers. - Power sockets. - Our laptops :) - Ethernet cables (everyone bring some) - Ethernet switches/Wireless access points - CDs? - More?? This is what I intend to do: 1) Bring a 5 port switch, and two wireless access points with an integrated 5 port switch each. 2) Bring all the ethernet cables I can find. 3) Push out an updated ISO release with updated packages and based on the latest archiso git. I guess AIF hasn't gotten any or much work, so we'll just take what we have. This should be finished at the beginning of August, so I can order between 100 and 200 brand-new Arch CDs from icoco again. We can use donation money I guess, the CDs were something between 1 and 2€ a piece last year. That's all I can think of for now - maybe we can revive last year's wiki page to see if I missed something.

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[arch-events] FrOSCon and visa
by Roman Kyrylych 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

The German consulate wants to receive some kind of invitation from FrOSCon organizers to give me a visa. The girl from Business Support Team who is in charge of the visa receiving process sent an email to FrOSCon team last week, but still no reply. Does anyone know other ways to contact them (phone, mailing list, personal contact)? -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-events] FrOSCon
by Jan Steffens 14 Aug '10

14 Aug '10

Yes, I will be coming. I just totally forgot about this mailing list. :) Is there anything you still need? I've got some network equipment as well.

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[arch-events] [ArchCon] Network?
by Sander Jansen 20 Jul '10

20 Jul '10

Is there a internet connection available at the conference? Thanks, Sander -- "The sands of time were eroded by The river of constant change."

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