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August 2010: Slides uploaded and available in the main page along with the schedule.

July 2010: Schedule is available in the main page.

July 2010: Mini DebConf India 2010 registration is open!

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Mini Debian Conference

Mini DebConf is a smaller version of Debian Project's developer conference. It is organized by Debian community in a particular region.

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Mini DebConf India 2010

MiniDebConf India 2010 will be held in College of Engineering Pune on August 7th and 8th, 2010! Mini DebConf India 2010 is organized by DebianIndia in association with Uncode (Lokayat Free Software Initiative), CoFSUG (COEP Free Software user Group), FSUGP (Free Software User Group of PICT) and PLUG (Pune Linux User Group).

Registration is open now!

Event Schedule

Hall: Seminar Hall 2 (also called room 6), besides Auditorium, CoEP. This is on the right side of road, while going from Sancheti to Sangam bridge/RTO.

Lab: FOSS Lab 3rd floor, Electronics Extention Building, Boat Club side. This is on the left side of road, while going from Sancheti to Sangam bridge/RTO.

Note: We have a limitation of 50 participants per lab, so we will have parallel sessions for people with laptops. Please consider bringing a laptop, if you don't have one, talk to your friend who has a laptop but won't be coming to the workshop. We also encourage people with laptops to share it.

Day 1

09:30 am - 10:00 am - Registration (Hall)
10:00 am - 10:30 am - Inauguration - Chief guest: Dr. M Sasikumar, Director, Corporate R&D, CDAC India (Hall)
10:30 am - 11:30 am - Why Debian? Introducing the Universal Operating System - Praveen Arimbrathodiyil & Onkar Shinde (Hall) - Slides (odp/pdf)

Tea Break

11:45 am - 12:45 pm - Contributing to Debian - DD process, l10n ... - Kartik Mistry (Slides: odp, txt) & Vikram Vincent (Hall) - (Vikram's Slides)
12:45 pm - 01:30 pm - Developer's Toolbox - BTS, PTS, QA (workshop) - Kartik Mistry (Slides: txt) & Praveen Arimbrthodiyil (Hall)

Lunch Break

02:00 pm - 05:00 pm - Debian Packaging (Workshop) - Kartik Mistry (Hall), Onkar Shinde & Praveen Arimbrthodiyil (Lab)

Tea Break in between

We will have a key signing party after sessions get over, so bring in your photo id. Read more about key signing parties

PLUG meeting will happen after key signing party.

Day 2

11:00 am - 12:00 pm Debian Edu - Vikram Vincent and Raghavendra shared their experience of helping children learn with Debian Edu in Karnataka (Lab) (Vikram's Slides, Raghavendra's Slides)
12:00 pm - 01:00 pm Collaboration between Debian, Ubuntu and BOSS - discussion (Lab)

Tea Break

02:00 pm - 08:00 pm Packaging Workshop (Lab)

(Lunch and tea break in between)

(Ad-Hoc session on Communicating with Free Software Community by Pavithran, Slides by Shakthi Kannan odp/pdf)

Many thanks to our permanent sponsors:

Germany, Spain,
Poland, Brazil