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[arch-events] Archcon: Canadian prepay simcards
by Dieter Plaetinck 04 Jul '10

04 Jul '10

Hi, I'm considering to buy a prepay SIM card in Toronto. This should make it cheaper for me to get in touch with you guys (Dusty, Ricardo, Dan, Loui, ..) Unless all of you have voip/skype on your phone ;) (my phone supports it, but I never tried it) And also I would have some data traffic to use google maps and stuff, the ability to irc and email might also have benefits for communication. Any recommendations? Dieter

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[arch-events] Toronto weather in July
by Dieter Plaetinck 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

How is the weather like in Toronto? Any predictions for July? I assume that it will be somewhere between warm (20c) and hot (30c) and a lot of sun? According to wolframalpha, it's pretty damn similar to the weather in Belgium. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=wheather+toronto+vs+brussels+in+summer http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=wheather+toronto+vs+brussels+in+july So I think I'll mostly pack shorts and light, loose clothing. Dieter

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[arch-events] Places to sleep and eat.
by R. Alvez 27 Jun '10

27 Jun '10

There are many places to eat and sleep in the vicinity of Humber College. Some are very close to Humber and others are not so close. For starters Dieter, how many people are with you? Are you on your own or are you coming along with someone else? I know some people that may help us get a better rate on some of the hotels in town but I need to know how may people there would be involved. Aside from the food at Humber there are a few other places near by such as "Mr Greek" which is obviously Greek food (and BTW is great !!) and VERY affordable. It is also a nice environment. About 5 min from Humber there is also "Mandarin" with outstanding all-you can-eat Chinese food. I go to both places frequently with my wife and some of my buddies. Aside from those places, just across from Humber, there is a small mall and there is a restaurant that serves relatively decent food (this is also an oriental food place, all-you-can-eat type of restaurant) . If you want to visit Toronto I can provide you, and those of you that wish to visit, with some more detailed places to eat and visit. Naturally, these places are much further out from where we will be (say 1 hr by bus) but if you are visiting that should not be a problem. Downtown Toronto has a ton of places to visit and enjoy good food at a reasonable price. Let me know. Ricardo

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[arch-events] Archcon: when do you arrive and depart?
by Dieter Plaetinck 26 Jun '10

26 Jun '10

My idea is to come to toronto 10-14 days, to make the jetlag/long flight/.. a bit more worth it. I haven't found a companion for a road trip/tourist stuff/camping/.. for the non-conf days like i was hoping, so I will just hang around and see what happens. Anyway, I still have to choose a start and departure date, so I was wondering when you guys will come and go. So, other then 22/23 (conf talks) and 24/25 (conf tourist stuff), are there any days that anyone would want to do something? Dieter

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[arch-events] [FrosCon 2010] Same procedure as every year Pierre?
by Andreas Radke 30 May '10

30 May '10

https://callforprojects.froscon.org/

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[arch-events] [ArchCon] Times and Transportation
by David Campbell 28 May '10

28 May '10

I am currently trying to plan how I will get to ArchCon and have two questions. 1) Does anyone know from what time till what time activities will be taking place? 2) Is there anyone who will be coming from New York City or passing through that wants to ride share? -- David Campbell

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[arch-events] LinuxCon
by Roman Kyrylych 20 Mar '10

20 Mar '10

Are any devs/users from North America going to visit LinuxCon? http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon/ Looks like every similar event in North America is always missing archers. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-events] Germany - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2010 - 13. und 14. März 2010
by Andreas Radke 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

Germany Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2010 - 13. und 14. März 2010 Ok, now it's time to decide if we want to take part there and if we want a booth. I'll try to be there as every year, but because dogs are not allowed there it will be quiet hard for me be early enough there to do all the organization. So who will take part and what's your opinion about a booth? -Andy Start weitergeleitete Nachricht: Datum: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:29:56 +0100 Von: "Philipp Seidel" <philipp.seidel(a)s2005.tu-chemnitz.de> An: news(a)linux-tage.de Betreff: [CLT-News] Webseite online, Deadline für Calls und Vorfreude auf die CLT 2010 Neues Jahr – neues Outfit ========================= Mit neuem Outfit stellt sich die Webseite der 12. Chemnitzer Linux-Tage vor. 2010 wird es also wieder eine Menge interessanter Vorträge, Workshops und Projekte im Hörsaalgebäude an der Reichenhainer Straße geben. Die Themenschwerpunkte lauten dieses Mal: * Dienste und Dämonen * Neue Desktops * Embedded * Privatsphäre trotz Netz Ab sofort ist es möglich, sich mit einem Vortrag, Stand oder Workshop anzumelden, um im März 2010 das Programm mitzugestalten. Natürlich werden wie immer auch Beiträge für das Einsteigerforum gesucht. * Call for Lectures [0] * Call for Presentations [1] Neu in diesem Jahr ist die Möglichkeit, ein eingereichtes Paper im CLT-Tagungsband veröffentlichen zu lassen. Immer auf dem Laufenden ======================= Damit Fans und Interessierte nicht nur am Veranstaltungswochenende die Chemnitzer Linux-Tage live erleben, kann sich ab sofort jeder über den aktuellen Stand der Vorbereitungen, Nachbereitungen und sonstigen Aktivitäten per Identi.ca[2], Twitter[3] oder Facebook[4] informieren. Vorfreude ========= Schon jetzt kann sich jeder mit den Aufzeichnungen der CLT 2009 ein bisschen Vortragsfeeling nach Hause holen. Die Videos aus den Vortragsräumen V1 und V4 stehen ab sofort zum Download und zum direkten Anschauen bereit. [0] http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2010/vortraege/call_form.html [1] http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2010/live/call_form.html [2] http://identi.ca/clt/ [3] http://twitter.com/clt_news [4] http://www.facebook.com/chemnitzer.linuxtage -- Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2010 - 13. und 14. März 2010 http://www.linux-tage.de _______________________________________________ CLT-News mailing list CLT-News(a)linux-tage.de https://mailman.linux-tage.de/listinfo/clt-news

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[arch-events] Fw: [FOSDEM-Dist2010] Post mortem: feedback please!
by Dieter Plaetinck 13 Feb '10

13 Feb '10

Begin forwarded message: Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:14:15 +0100 From: Wouter Verhelst <wouter(a)debian.org> To: dist2010(a)lists.fosdem.org Subject: [FOSDEM-Dist2010] Post mortem: feedback please! Hi all, Since this is the first time we had a multi-distro devroom at FOSDEM, I agreed to have a post-mortem chat with Pascal Bleser and Matthias Guns to see if and what we could improve towards next year. To do that properly, we will need feedback from as many people as possible: distro coordinators, visitors, speakers, everyone. Please be so kind as to let us know what you thought of the distro devroom. Even if you send us a mail which consists of nothing more than something like 'I love it, please do so again' or 'it was crap, I hate it, please do the distro devrooms again next year', it would be valuable to know that. Also, it would be nice if people could forward this request in their respective communities. Things I'll note already: - I need to ask for moderators a bit more early :-) - More volunteers from other distributions would be nice. As it is, the Debian crowd did almost everything, from moderating to manning the cameras to cleaning up after the fact. There was some help from other distributions (most notably from Dominique Dumont who did video in H.1302), but not as much. - People have asked for longer breaks in between talks. We'll think about that for next year. - If the devroom will be open on Saturday morning again, we don't need a whole hour for set-up. We would need to know about that significantly before the event, however. 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 _______________________________________________ Dist2010 mailing list Dist2010(a)lists.fosdem.org http://lists.fosdem.org/mailman/listinfo/dist2010

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[arch-events] Fw: [arch-dev] Information on myself
by Dieter Plaetinck 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

Begin forwarded message: Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:21:47 +0100 From: Dennis Herbrich <dennis(a)archlinux.org> To: Development Discussion for Arch Linux <arch-dev(a)archlinux.org> Subject: [arch-dev] Information on myself Instead of hijacking the other thread, I'd rather start a new one if you don't mind, and elaborate a bit. My nick on the forum is "Gyroplast", registered since September 2002. My activities pretty much ceased when creating the Wiki became the next hot thing, roughly around the 0.8 Voodoo release, and rasat took over the migration. The last installation guide I personally took care of was for the 0.7 Wombat release, which is still floating around in various forms on the net. Usually, about 2 weeks before official release, Judd threw a beta/alpha iso my way to try out and document in advance, and I invested about a week and a dedicated machine with all kinds of strange old hardware (tiny SCSI drives, modems, ISDN connections, various CD drives, etc.) to find and document any issues and compatibility problems people may stumble upon. Fixed a couple rare and stumping bugs that way. In addition to the guide, I maintained a FAQ[1] covering some "special" setups or the common (at that time) problems in more detail than the guide should. I wrote two Colorboot howtos and created a working i586 port before someone else "beat" me to it.[2] Last thing I remember doing was an attempt on unifying and improving the Arch documentation systematically[3], a project I quit when the Wiki approach became an apparently much better option in the long run. It's a strange feeling, seeing this assumption from years ago prove itself. :) All this stuff is heavily outdated now, usually because the issues at hand became obsolete through better code (bootsplash) or other projects doing the same thing, but better (i586 port, documentation). Winter 2004 my studies were in full swing, a move to a different part of Germany was on the radar, my now-wife still was my girlfriend, and I simply was overwhelmed with OTHER stuff to do, thus let Dusty and Rasat silently take over whatever needed to be done and vanished, lurking in the shadows for the last couple years, watching Arch grow like weed, developers come and go, and waiting for my life to settle. :) I could never decide to "officially" leave, as I always thought things would get better Real Soon Now™, but they never were. Until now, that is. I was relatively active in the newbie corner of the forum, simply because I knew the common pitfalls people always fell for during installation and had some solid, broad experience under my belt in most relevant fields concerning linux, networking and Arch in particular. This has not changed by much, save for the fact that I've got a BA in theoretical CS. I'm working as a JAVA (meh) developer of university administration software used by more than 230 of germany's universities, for 2+ years now. Cutting a long story short, I consider myself as a jack of all trades with a tendency to type too much, so taking care of the installation guide at a time when nobody seemed to care about it at all except for Judd, who had enough other things to do, was an obvious choice, and just when I attempted to do what I can do best, standardizing and sorting out the mess that was documentation, real life took over brutally, putting an end to my beloved beancounting ways. Well, enough for now, nobody's going to read all this anyway. I wanted to offer the takeover of xfce if nobody else is available. Of course I expect you all to treat me as if I were an absolute nobody, which I effectively *am* after all, archlinux.org mail address or not. If you're irked by the idea of giving somebody control over a vital package like xfce just because he asks for it, I'm totally with you. :) Either way, I'll dive into the existing codebase and see if I find anything striking my fancy, just like 8 years ago, and things will work out just fine for me. No need to drag me into devhood at all from my POV. Kind regards, Dennis PS: My mail address is still being correctly forwarded. [1] - http://archlinux.veloxis.de/faq/ [2] - http://archlinux.veloxis.de/ [3] - http://archlinux.veloxis.de/docguide/docguide.html -- "Den Rechtsstaat macht aus, dass Unschuldige wieder frei kommen." Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble, Bundesinnenminister (BRD) 0D21BE6C - F3DC D064 BB88 5162 56BE 730F 5471 3881 0D21 BE6C

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