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June 19th, 2012 - 06:30 pm ET by Bernd Zeimetz | Report spam
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For those who do not read Planet Debian, here is the report from the Debian
BSP in Salzburg (markdown/ikiwiki source, sorry for not re-formatting it :))


Participation and Results
-
- From June 15-17th we held a Debian BugSquashingParty in Salzburg, hosted and
sponsored by [conova communications GmbH](http://www.conova.com/). It was a
fun and busy weekend, with 15-17 people from 5 coutries being around, mainly
working on RC bugs in Testing/Unstable. Gerfried Fuchs (rhonda) also worked on
triaging the impact of RC bugs on the version in Squeeze, while Peter
Palfrader (weasel) took care of Tor related things and Debian sysadmin work,
including starting on the new bugs and udd hosts. Phillip Hug (hug) worked on
the debian.ch infrastructure.
Together with Miroslav Suchý from Red Hat Bernd Zeimetz (bzed) worked on the
packaging of the necessary libraries and daemons to add (basic) Spacewalk
client support to Debian. As soon as the packages passed NEW and
[#677871](http://bugs.debian.org/677871) was applied (thanks to the APT guys
for working on that already), managing Debian clients with Spacewalk should
work out of the box.
Of course we also had a little keysigning party :)

Statistics
pinged to retrieve necessary information or to trigger an update in the next
stable pointrelease.
Spacewalk client related packages and libapache2-mod-auth-memcookie.

Accomodation
Thanks to Debian funds we were able to provide accomodation for four
participants in the JUFA youth hostel in Salzburg.
We had paid in advance for eight, but changing to rooms with a higher category
for only 4 people would have been equally or more expensive.


Press/Media coverage
- _--
Additionally to being mentioned in the calendars on ProLinux and similar
pages, we had some press coverage by the local newspaper and online magazines:

Nachrichten](http://www.conova.com/fileadmin/use...ichten.pdf)
website](http://search.salzburg.com/news/art...1-40204916)
[meinbezirk.at](http://regionaut.meinbezirk.at/salz...commend/1/)
Photogallery](http://www.salzburg-cityguide.at/de...ova_102492)


Fun facts
We consumed 2kg of Leberkas, a big plate of "Buchteln mit Vanillesosse", about
16000cm^2 of Pizza, about 80 litres of coke, juice, beer and whine and I guess
we drank at least the same amount of water. We had coffee made of 1.5kg coffee
beans and managed to empty the (formerly well filled) icemaker in the fridge.
Also we had successful training sessions of a standard Debconf game (rules
won't be explained here obviously). Maybe we even successfully spread the game
to the employees of a commercial linux distribution ;)



Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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#1 Philip Ashmore
June 20th, 2012 - 08:40 am ET | Report spam
On 19/06/12 23:26, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
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For those who do not read Planet Debian, here is the report from the Debian
BSP in Salzburg (markdown/ikiwiki source, sorry for not re-formatting it :))


Participation and Results
-
- From June 15-17th we held a Debian BugSquashingParty in Salzburg, hosted and
sponsored by [conova communications GmbH](http://www.conova.com/). It was a
fun and busy weekend, with 15-17 people from 5 coutries being around, mainly
working on RC bugs in Testing/Unstable. Gerfried Fuchs (rhonda) also worked on
triaging the impact of RC bugs on the version in Squeeze, while Peter
Palfrader (weasel) took care of Tor related things and Debian sysadmin work,
including starting on the new bugs and udd hosts. Phillip Hug (hug) worked on
the debian.ch infrastructure.
Together with Miroslav Suchý from Red Hat Bernd Zeimetz (bzed) worked on the
packaging of the necessary libraries and daemons to add (basic) Spacewalk
client support to Debian. As soon as the packages passed NEW and
[#677871](http://bugs.debian.org/677871) was applied (thanks to the APT guys
for working on that already), managing Debian clients with Spacewalk should
work out of the box.
Of course we also had a little keysigning party :)

Statistics
pinged to retrieve necessary information or to trigger an update in the next
stable pointrelease.
Spacewalk client related packages and libapache2-mod-auth-memcookie.

Accomodation
Thanks to Debian funds we were able to provide accomodation for four
participants in the JUFA youth hostel in Salzburg.
We had paid in advance for eight, but changing to rooms with a higher category
for only 4 people would have been equally or more expensive.


Press/Media coverage
- _--
Additionally to being mentioned in the calendars on ProLinux and similar
pages, we had some press coverage by the local newspaper and online magazines:

Nachrichten](http://www.conova.com/fileadmin/use...ichten.pdf)
website](http://search.salzburg.com/news/art...1-40204916)
[meinbezirk.at](http://regionaut.meinbezirk.at/salz...commend/1/)
Photogallery](http://www.salzburg-cityguide.at/de...ova_102492)


Fun facts
We consumed 2kg of Leberkas, a big plate of "Buchteln mit Vanillesosse", about
16000cm^2 of Pizza, about 80 litres of coke, juice, beer and whine and I guess
we drank at least the same amount of water. We had coffee made of 1.5kg coffee
beans and managed to empty the (formerly well filled) icemaker in the fridge.
Also we had successful training sessions of a standard Debconf game (rules
won't be explained here obviously). Maybe we even successfully spread the game
to the employees of a commercial linux distribution ;)



Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer
http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org
GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F




Sounds like it was a lot of fun!

Has anyone thought about starting a hangout at Google+?

It would be a lot more convenient (especially for newbies)
than Internet Relay Chat (IRC), something I never took to.

Regards,
Philip Ashmore


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#2 The Fungi
June 20th, 2012 - 10:50 am ET | Report spam
On 2012-06-20 13:34:22 +0100 (+0100), Philip Ashmore wrote:
[...]
Has anyone thought about starting a hangout at Google+?


[...]

Sounds intruiging. Is there a Debian package in main so I can run a
Google+ server easily? Setting up my own IRC servers is already
pretty trivial, but if all the cool kids are installing Google+
servers these days...
{ IRL(Jeremy_Stanley); WWW(http://fungi.yuggoth.org/); PGP(43495829);
WHOIS(STANL3-ARIN); SMTP(); FINGER();
MUD(:6669); IRC(#ccl); }


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#3 Philip Ashmore
June 20th, 2012 - 07:00 pm ET | Report spam
On 20/06/12 15:48, The Fungi wrote:
On 2012-06-20 13:34:22 +0100 (+0100), Philip Ashmore wrote:
[...]
Has anyone thought about starting a hangout at Google+?


[...]

Sounds intruiging. Is there a Debian package in main so I can run a
Google+ server easily? Setting up my own IRC servers is already
pretty trivial, but if all the cool kids are installing Google+
servers these days...


No, I meant using Googles Google+ as an alternative to setting a
location, arranging accommodation, setting aside X number of days for
the trip, getting to and from there...

Some bugs triaging may require participants to reboot their PC (not
everyone has laptops) so a bug squashing hangout would allow members to
come and go.

The thought of setting up personal (or even Debian-wide) Google+ servers
never occurred to me.

Regards,
Philip Ashmore


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#4 Paul Wise
June 20th, 2012 - 11:00 pm ET | Report spam
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Philip Ashmore wrote:

The thought of setting up personal (or even Debian-wide) Google+ servers
never occurred to me.



I think you might have missed the point. Google+ is a proprietary SaaS
used for selling your eyeballs to advertisers. It is unlikely that
Google will ever let it be installed on other servers, let alone
release the source code under a free license. Debian should avoid
using such SaaS offerings and promote the free alternatives that exist
and the movements that support them, some links:

http://autonomo.us/
http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox
http://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html

bye,
pabs

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#5 The Fungi
June 21st, 2012 - 08:10 am ET | Report spam
On 2012-06-21 10:53:19 +0800 (+0800), Paul Wise wrote:
I think you might have missed the point.


[...]

Partly my fault--I should know better than to employ rhetorical
subtlety on technical mailing lists with an international audience.
Wordplay does not translate well, if at all, and is often lost on
the reader as a result. Apologies!
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