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8:23 am on July 29, 2010 · debian (3)

Debian Day – Columbia NYU – this Sunday 8/1 #nyc #linux

July 29, 2010 by isoc-ny

Debian Day, a free and open event to kick off the weeklong DebConf10, will take place from 9:30 AM to 6:30 PM on Sunday, August 1, 2010 at Columbia University, New York City, New York.
After ten editions in nine different countries spanning four continents, and for the first time in the United States, the Debian project is holding their annual Debian Developer conference, DebConf, at Columbia University in New York City. DebConf includes Debian Day, when it opens its doors to the general public. Debian Day kicks off DebConf, is free of charge, and open for everybody interested in Free Software. During this event, there will be a full day of talks on several subjects such as free software in government, design and free software, free software advocacy as well as string of talks about the Debian project and operating system.

* Schedule

* Webcast – http://video.debconf.org

4:56 am on July 21, 2010 · debconf10 (2), debian (3), nylug (2)

NYLUG Meeting – tonight Weds July 21 – DebConf10 update

July 21, 2010 by isoc-ny

The New York Linux Users Group will hold a general Meeting tonight Wed July 21 at IBM. Featured speaker Gabriella Coleman will talk about DebConf 10 which will be held August 1st through 7th here in New York City – the first time the conference is being held in America. She will cover some of Debconf’s history and give updates on the schedule of events and talks.

Also James Keenan will provide a brief introduction to Rakudo*, a user-friendly distro of Perl 6, and Jon Stanley will introduce some great new performance analysis features in Fedora .
You MUST RSVP for this meeting.

2:16 pm on June 14, 2010 · debian (3), nyc (130)

Debian Conference DebConf10 to be held in NYC – Aug 1-7 2010

June 14, 2010 by isoc-ny

The DebConf10 local team would like to invite you to participate in the upcoming Debian Conference which will take place from August 1 to 7, 2010, at Columbia University, in New York City, USA, in cooperation with the Columbia Computer Science department. In DebConf’s eleven-year history, this will be the first time it is being held in the United States of America.

More information here: http://debconf10.debconf.org/