DebConf 11, the annual Debian conference opened its doors today in Banja
Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. As with previous
conferences streams of most sessions will be made available, allowing
contributors who couldn’t attend the conference to still participate and
send in questions and comments via specific IRC channels. The easiest way
to do so is via the DebConf Watch [1] website, which also contains
several useful other tabs.
1: http://debconf11.debconf.org/watch.xhtml
Yesterday the conference already commenced with the DebianDay, a
conference day aimed at a wider, local audience. It featured talks on
“Understanding Debian”, “Debian in Enterprise: A Google Case Study” and
“How to contribute and get involved”. It was a great success, not only
bringing the Debian Community nearer to local contributors, but also by
catching the interest of the wider society as has never happened before.
So the opening ceremony was not only attended by Culibrk Predrag,
General Manager of m:tel, the biggest local internet and phone provider,
but also by Jasmin Komic, the Minister of Science and Technology and
Aleksandar Džombic, the Prime Minister. In a moving speech Milorad
Dodik, the President of Republika Srpska, who supported the idea of
DebConf11 in Banja Luka for the last two years, told the audience that
he is proud to see that Banja Luka and Republika Srpska succeeded to
have DebConf11 here, even though there was some fierce competition.
Adnan Hodzic, local organizer, is hoping that DebConf will attract the
public’s attention in Republika Srpska and Bosnia and Herzegovina about
what GNU/Linux and Debian systems are.
DebConf will last until July 31 and feature a 78 session program (not
including spontaneous “adhoc” sessions) which will include talks and
workshops on Multiarch, Ports to new architectures, and better
collaboration with derivative distributions, as well as an extensive
social program. This year’s conference is attended by over 400
participants from 50 countries.
The Debian Project would also like to thank the sponsors who made this
conference possible:
The Government of the Republika Srpska [2]
m:tel [3]
Google [4]
Canonical [5]
HP [6]
Linaro [7]
Matanel
ProfitBricks [8]
Credativ [9]
ARM [10]
Renesas [11]
Thomas Krenn AG [12]
Wavecon [13]
Gestman
Univention [14]
Brandorr [15]
2: http://vladars.net/
3: http://mtel.ba/
4: http://google.com/
5: http://canonical.com/
6: http://www.hp.com/
7: http://www.linaro.org/
8: http://www.profitbricks.com/
9: http://www.credativ.com/
10: http://www.arm.com/
11: http://www.renesas.eu/
12: http://www.thomas-krenn.com/
13: https://www.wavecon.de/
14: http://www.univention.com/
15: http://www.brandorr.com/
