DebConf17 closes in Montreal and DebConf18 dates announced

[Laura Arjona Reina]

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DebConf17 closes in Montreal and DebConf18 dates announced
pr...@debian.org
August 12th, 2017 https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20170812
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Today, Saturday 12 August 2017, the annual Debian Developers and
Contributors Conference came to a close. With over 405 people attending
from all over the world (see the DebConf17 group photo [1]), and 169
events including 89 talks, 61 discussion sessions or BoFs, 6 workshops
and 13 other activities, DebConf17 [2] has been hailed as a success.

1: https://annex.debconf.org/debconf-share/debconf17/photos/aigarius/debcond17%20group%20photo.jpg
2: https://debconf17.debconf.org

Highlights included DebCamp with 117 participants, the Open Day [3],
where events of interest to a broader audience were offered, talks from
invited speakers (Deb Nicholson [4], Matthew Garrett [5] and Katheryn
Sutter [6]), the traditional Bits from the DPL, lightning talks and live
demos and the announcement of next year's DebConf (DebConf18 in Hsinchu,
Taiwan). The schedule [7] has been updated every day, including 32 ad-
hoc new activities, planned by attendees during the whole conference.

3: https://debconf17.debconf.org/news/2017-08-05-open-day/
4: https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/183/
5: https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/177/
6: https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/134/
7: https://debconf17.debconf.org/schedule/

For those not able to attend, talks and sessions were recorded and live
streamed, and videos are being made available at the Debian meetings
archive website [8]. Many sessions also facilitated remote participation
via IRC or a collaborative pad.

8: http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2017/debconf17

The DebConf17 [9] website will remain active for archive purposes, and
will continue to offer links to the presentations and videos of talks
and events.

9: https://debconf17.debconf.org/

Next year, DebConf18 [10] will be held in Hsinchu, Taiwan, from 29 July
2018 until 5 August 2018. It will be the first DebConf held in Asia. For
the days before DebConf the local organisers will again set up DebCamp
(21 July - 27 July), a session for some intense work on improving the
distribution, and organise the Open Day on 28 July 2018, aimed at the
general public.

10: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf18

DebConf is committed to a safe and welcome environment for all
participants. See the DebConf Code of Conduct [11] and the Debian Code
of Conduct [12] for more details on this.

11: https://debconf.org/codeofconduct.shtml
12: https://www.debian.org/code_of_conduct

Debian thanks the commitment of numerous sponsors [13] to support
DebConf17, particularly our Platinum Sponsors Savoir-Faire Linux [14],
Hewlett Packard Enterprise [15], and Google [16].

13: https://debconf17.debconf.org/sponsors/
14: https://www.savoirfairelinux.com/
15: http://www.hpe.com/engage/opensource
16: https://google.com/


About Debian
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The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly free
community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of the
largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of
volunteers from all over the world work together to create and maintain
Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a huge range
of computer types, Debian calls itself the "universal operating system".


About DebConf
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DebConf is the Debian Project's developer conference. In addition to a
full schedule of technical, social and policy talks, DebConf provides an
opportunity for developers, contributors and other interested people to
meet in person and work together more closely. It has taken place
annually since 2000 in locations as varied as Scotland, Argentina, and
Bosnia and Herzegovina. More information about DebConf is available from
https://debconf.org [17].

17: https://debconf.org/


About Savoir-faire Linux
------------------------

Savoir-faire Linux [18] is a Montreal-based Free/Open-Source Software
company with offices in Quebec City, Toronto, Paris and Lyon. It offers
Linux and Free Software integration solutions in order to provide
performance, flexibility and independence for its clients. The company
actively contributes to many free software projects, and provides
mirrors of Debian, Ubuntu, Linux and others.

18: https://www.savoirfairelinux.com/


About Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise [19] is one of the largest computer companies
in the world, providing a wide range of products and services, such as
servers, storage, networking, consulting and support, software, and
financial services.

19: http://www.hpe.com/engage/opensource

HPE is also a development partner of Debian, and provides hardware for
port development, Debian mirrors, and other Debian services.


About Google
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Google [20] is one of the largest technology companies in the world,
providing a wide range of Internet-related services and products as
online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, software, and
hardware.

20: https://www.google.com

Google has been supporting Debian by sponsoring DebConf since more than
ten years, at gold level since DebConf12, and at platinum level for this
DebConf17.


Contact Information
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For further information, please visit the DebConf17 web page at
https://debconf17.debconf.org/ or send mail to <pr...@debian.org>.