Thanks to this change we FTPMasters can now allow Debian Maintainers to
also use our various upload queues[2] for their uploads. You are no
longer bound to ftp-master only.

Note that DAK learns about changes in the keyring during dinstall, so
there can be a delay of up to 6 hours before a newly added key is fully
working. As DAK sends a mail with a summary of changes it learned, it is
safest to wait until you saw this mail appear on debian-projects@l.d.o.

[1] It is now a similar handling as for the other keyrings. There DAM
tells keyring-maint who to add/remove.
[2] With the exception of security. DMs continue to be unable to do
security uploads, as that archive has no knowledge of DMUA status of
packages.

– bye, Joerg Ganneff: Im confident in your ability to create flamewars.

Thanks to strong sponsorship from HP, Junta de Extrematura, Telefonica,
Linux Magazine, Google, Collabora, Canonical, Qt, maemo.org, Comparex,
Intel, Ayuntamiento de Cáceres and others, the conference’s catering,
facilities, accomodation as well as abundant computing power were free
of charge to all early registrants and inexpensive to other attendees.
Additionally, this allowed many active Debian contributors from both
inside and outside Europe to receive travel subsidies to make their
attendance possible. The Junta de Extrematura’s support in planning and
organising the conference helped to make the event go smoothly and leave
a professional and hospitable impression.

Much like the Debian project itself, the conference organisation team
consists only of volunteers. The combination of their hard work and
support from the sponsors helped DebConf9 to be highly productive,
achieving several seminal results. Debian Project Leader Steve McIntyre
concluded: “This has been one of the most productive conferences we have
ever held. Our developers and teams achieved a great deal during this
short period, and this will surely have a big impact on the upcoming
release of ‘Squeeze’.”

Among the many notable talks were the release team’s keynote, presenting
the release goals and further plans for Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 “Squeeze”
as well as the new timed freezes release policy, and the Project
Leader’s keynote, which prompted discussions about motivating the
project’s developer base in the future to work further towards Debian’s
motto of being the “universal operating system”.

In all, over 130 different sessions took place during the conference,
ranging from formal talks to numerous spontaneously scheduled meetings.
For most of these sessions, live video streams were made available over
the internet. This allowed participation of non attending Debian
contributors, who could additionally participate in discussions via
special chat channels. As with recordings of previous Debian
conferences, the videos will be made public at
http://debconf9.debconf.org/video once they have been processed and
edited.

The next Debian Conference [1] will take place in 2010 in New York City,
USA. The DebConf website contains much more information about DebConf
[2], as well as several pictures [2] from this year’s conference.

1: http://debconf10.debconf.org
2: http://www.debconf.org
3: http://www.debconf.org/gallery/debconf9

About Debian
————

Debian GNU/Linux is a free computer operating system. Over three
thousand volunteers from all over the world work together to create and
maintain Debian software. Translated into 27 languages, and supporting a
huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the “universal
operating system”.

About DebConf
————-

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 Canada, Finland, and
Mexico.

Contact Information
——————-

For further information, please visit the DebConf web pages at
http://www.debconf.org/ or send mail to .

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Debian won’t be Debian without some breaking news. This time at first the Release Team announced to switch to time-based releases, but then revisits its decision after enormous community protests. I’m curious about when the freeze for squeeze will happen

* Annual Debian conference to take place 24-30 July 2009
* Hosted at UNESCO World Heritage city Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain
* General public invited to open conference day, Friday 24 July
* Events streamed live over the Internet
* Unique wine available pressed from Extremadura grapes

The conference takes place at Residencia Muñoz Torrero, Ronda de San
Francisco, 2. The event is sponsored by HP, the government of
Extremadura, Telefonica and many other supporters. Registration is
required to attend this free event.

On Friday 24 July, the conference opens its doors to host talks and
presentations geared at the general public. Developers and users will be
on site to answer questions. No registration is required to attend the
open day, and everyone is welcome. Admission is free of charge.

More information is available from the conference website,

http://debconf9.debconf.org.

“The government of Extremadura is very supportive of free software,”
says César Gómez Martín, a civil servant from Cáceres and one of the
local organisers. “In addition to our gnuLinEx initiative, a complete
computer software solution for all Extremadura schools and official
institutions built on Debian, we are keen to support free software
projects and events. We are happy to sponsor DebConf, and excited to
host the conference in the beautiful city of Cáceres.”

Prior to the conference, more than a hundred contributors to the Debian
Project gathered on-site to cooperate in solving problems and adding
features to the the computer operating system.

The personal interaction at such an event trumps Debian’s usual
round-the-clock, global collaboration over the Internet. “The main
benefit of meeting in person regularly is improved communication due to
the better bandwidth through real-life interaction, a technology which
is also becoming quite popular in the wider Debian community” says
Debian developer Holger Levsen.

As an additional highlight a wine made from organically grown
Tempranillo grapes in Extremadura has been produced by the DebConf9
organisers to celebrate this event, and the use of free software in the
world. Debian and wine are made and enjoyed worldwide, as expressed in
the sentiment written on the bottle: “Share the wine, share the
software.”

While DebConf is mainly focused on direct communication and
collaboration, participation for people abroad is also possible via live
video streams and IRC (Internet Relay Chat). As has been happening since
2006, the world will be able to follow along as the talks happen, and
recordings will be made freely available for download for those who miss
the live sessions. See http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf9/Streams for
more information.

About Debian
————

The Debian Project is an association of Free Software developers who
volunteer their time and effort in order to produce the free operating
system Debian GNU/Linux. Over three thousand volunteers from all over
the world work together to create and maintain Debian software.
Translated into 27 languages, and supporting a huge range of computer
types, Debian calls itself the “universal operating system”.

For more information about Debian, please visit the project’s website:

http://debian.org/

About DebConf
————-

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 Canada, Finland, and
Mexico.

DebConf9 starts on Friday 24 July, and ends Thursday 30 July 2009. The
conference will be held in Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain.

DebConf will be preceded by DebCamp, from Thursday 16 July to Wednesday
23 July 2009. DebCamp is a smaller, less formal event giving an
opportunity for group work on Debian projects.

On Friday 24 July 2009, DebConf Open Day will take place at the site.
The Open Day is a short conference aimed at Debian users, and others
interested in learning more about free software.

More information about DebConf9 can be found on the conference website:

https://debconf9.debconf.org/

Contact Information
——————-

For further information, please visit the DebConf web pages at
http://www.debconf.org/, send mail to or call

English: Spanish:
Martin Krafft Anto Recio
Tel: +41 32 5119511 Tel: +34 617806594

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For €249 incl. 16% VAT (deductable upon presentation of a valid EU
VAT ID), you can pre-order:

– a “buzz-free” Openmoko Neo Freerunner phone (A7)
(“buzz-free” means it’s free of the infamous “buzz” bug)
– an extra battery
– a headset
– a debugging board (v3)

to be handed over at the conference. Please note that at the moment,
we can only offer the 900MHz version (EU, not US), but we are trying
to get our hands on a few A6s which will have the buzz fix applied.

This offer is limited to registered attendees who pick up the phone
themselves at the conference. There’s one phone per attendee. We
will not mail the phone, nor let others pick it up for you. Tuxbrain
are shouldering a lot of logistics, costs, and efforts to make this
offer possible, without any margin to themselves, so we have to take
these measures to prevent them from serving as a public charity.

Still excited? Then log in to Penta

https://penta.debconf.org/penta/submission/dc9/person

and follow the link in the left pane, “Freerunner for DebConf
attendees”. The rest is between you and the web shop.

Please note that you have to order this well in advance of the
conference. The deadline for orders is 30 June.

If you have any problems, please contact David Reyes Samblas
Martinez (david–tuxbrain-com).

*************************************
About Tuxbrain, http://tuxbrain.com :
*************************************
Tuxbrain was born by David Samblas and Víctor Remolina as a vehicle
to innovate through collaboration. The company develops knowledge
and fosters its exchange with the FOSS community. Its business aims
to enable to offer affordable hardware products to help further
spread Open Source on these.

All of the products distributed and supported by Tuxbrain are also
supported by Debian; the OpenMoko NEO Freerunner phone works with
the pristine Debian “arm” port, and can boot different Debian
flavours.

Furthermore, Tuxbrain promotes and contributes to two Debian
derivatives optimised for the Freerunner phone:

Hackable1 — http://hackable1.org — is based on the GNOME Mobile
platform and aims to be a quickly deployable development platform.

FYP — http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Fyp — uses LXDE and Zhone
and has the goal to provide a user-friendly, fully-featured
desktop environment that fits into 256Mb of flash memory.

– .”`. martin f. krafft : :’ : DebConf orga team; press officer `. `’` `- DebConf9: 24-30 Jul 2009, Extremadura, ES: http://debconf9.debconf.org the early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese in the trap.

The details for DebConf and DebCamp registration are described in

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/03/msg00004.html

Also please note: if you need a visa to attend DebConf9 and need help
getting one, mail visa@debconf.org – do NOT delay this, do this the
same moment you register!
Requests for help with visa stuff will not be processed if received after
April 30th, so hurry up, do this now!

Regarding the Call for Papers – it has the same deadline as registration!
(All the info is available one paragraph below the next.)

DebConf Open Day – Call for Papers!
———————————–

Also please consider whether you could give an interesting Debian related
talk targeted at a wider audience, which we invite in for DebConf Open Day!
If you have something that fits that criteria we would love to hear from you!

DebConf9 Call for Papers
————————
We invite submissions of proposals for papers, presentations, discussion
sessions and tutorials for DebConf9. Submissions will be accepted until April
15th.

To submit papers, first register for DebConf as described in the mail
registration previously mentioned. Then use the ‘New event/paper’ button
on https://penta.debconf.org/penta/submission/dc9 and fill in information
about your submission on the various tabs. You can use the same interface
to submit papers for DebConf, DebCamp and DebConf Open Day, by choosing the
appropriate ‘track’.

Looking forward to welcoming you to Cáceres in July,
the DebConf team

About DebConf
————-
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 Canada, Finland, Mexico, Scotland, and
Argentina.

DebConf9 will take place in Cáceres from Friday 24th until Thursday 30th
July.

DebConf will be preceded by DebCamp, from Thursday 16th until Thursday 23rd
July. DebCamp is a smaller, less formal event giving an opportunity for
group work on Debian projects.

If you are interested in helping by working as a volunteer during DebConf,
please contact debconf-team@lists.debconf.org

If you or your company are interested in sponsoring DebConf by donating money
or lending equipment, please contact the sponsorship team at
sponsors@debconf.org

More information about DebConf9 can be found on the conference website:

https://debconf9.debconf.org/

About Debian
————
The Debian Project is an association of Free Software developers who
volunteer their time and effort in order to produce the free operating system
Debian GNU/Linux.

About Cáceres
————-
Cáceres (pronounced like Katheres, with an accent on the a) is the capital of
Cáceres Province. There have been settlements near Cáceres since prehistoric
times. Evidence of this can be found in the caves of Maltravieso and El
Conejar. The city was founded by the ancient Romans in 25 BC.

The old town, or Ciudad Monumental, still has its ancient walls; this part of
town is also well known for its multitude of storks’ nests. The walls
contain a perfect medieval town setting with no outward signs of modernity.
For this reason many films have been shot here. The Universidad de
Extremadura and two astronomical observatories are also located in Cáceres.

Cáceres was declared a World Heritage City by UNESCO in 1986 because of the
city’s blend of Roman, Islamic, Northern Gothic and Italian Renaissance
styles, fruit of the many battles fought here throughout history. An amazing
30 towers from the Muslim period still stand in Cáceres, of which the Torre
del Bujaco is the most famous.

For more information please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cáceres,_Spain
which this text was based on.

This year submission of a formal written paper for the conference proceedings
is again optional, though encouraged. Providing a written paper in advance
means that interested people can attend your session ready with ideas for
discussion, and especially helps those who find it hard to follow rapid
English speech.

DebConf talks will be broadcast live on the internet where possible, and
videos of the talks will be published on the web along with the presentation
slides and papers.

To submit papers, first register for DebConf as described in the mail
registration send to debian-devel-announce@l.d.o today. Then use the ‘New
event/paper’ button on https://penta.debconf.org/penta/submission/dc9 and
fill in information about your submission on the various tabs. You can use
the same interface to submit papers for DebConf and DebCamp, by choosing the
appropriate ‘track’.

Looking forward to welcoming you to Cáceres in July, the DebConf team

About DebConf
————-
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 Canada, Finland, Mexico, Scotland, and
Argentina.

DebConf9 will take place in Cáceres from Friday 24th until Thursday 30th
July.

DebConf will be preceded by DebCamp, from Thursday 16th until Thursday 23rd
July. DebCamp is a smaller, less formal event giving an opportunity for
group work on Debian projects.

If you are interested in helping by working as a volunteer during DebConf,
please contact debconf-team@lists.debconf.org

If you or your company are interested in sponsoring DebConf by donating money
or lending equipment, please contact the sponsorship team at
sponsors@debconf.org

More information about DebConf9 can be found on the conference website:

https://debconf9.debconf.org/

About Debian
————
The Debian Project is an association of Free Software developers who
volunteer their time and effort in order to produce the free operating system
Debian GNU/Linux.

About Cáceres
————-
Cáceres (pronounced like Katheres, with an accent on the a) is the capital of
Cáceres Province. There have been settlements near Cáceres since prehistoric
times. Evidence of this can be found in the caves of Maltravieso and El
Conejar. The city was founded by the ancient Romans in 25 BC.

The old town, or Ciudad Monumental, still has its ancient walls; this part of
town is also well known for its multitude of storks’ nests. The walls
contain a perfect medieval town setting with no outward signs of modernity.
For this reason many films have been shot here. The Universidad de
Extremadura and two astronomical observatories are also located in Cáceres.

Cáceres was declared a World Heritage City by UNESCO in 1986 because of the
city’s blend of Roman, Islamic, Northern Gothic and Italian Renaissance
styles, fruit of the many battles fought here throughout history. An amazing
30 towers from the Muslim period still stand in Cáceres, of which the Torre
del Bujaco is the most famous.

For more information please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cáceres,_Spain
which this text was based on.

To register follow one of the processes outlined below:

- If you registered for last year’s conference, DebConf8, go to
https://penta.debconf.org/penta/submission/dc9/person to login.

- If you didn’t register for last year’s conference you need an account in
the conference management system. To register one, go to
https://penta.debconf.org/penta/user and create an account. After visiting
the activation URL sent to you by email, go to
https://penta.debconf.org/penta/submission/dc9/person and log in.

After you logged in
——————-
After you successfully logged in, please fill in at least the ‘General’,
‘Contact’ and ‘Travel’ tabs reachable through the ‘Registration details’
button on the bar on the left of the page. Please pay special attention to
the ‘DebConf’ and ‘DebCamp’ boxes on the ‘General’ tab. You need to select at
least the “I want to attend this conference” checkbox or your registration
won’t be valid.

Note to users who have an account from last year: We did our best to make
sure you do not have to reenter all your personal data again, just the
conference-specific changes. But please check if it is all still valid.

Travel Sponsorship
——————
We hope to obtain enough sponsorship to help some people attend who would not
be able to pay for their own travel. We intend to allocate travel sponsorship
money between April and June. We will make travel sponsorship reimbursements
as soon as possible, but unfortunately sometimes in the past it has only been
possible quite long after DebConf.

If you would like to apply for travel sponsorship, please fill in as much
information as you can on the registration pages. Even if you have not
arranged your travel when you apply for sponsorship, we need to know which
days you intend to spend at the conference.

The deadline for sponsorship applications is April 15th.

(This is also the case if you apply for accomodation and food sponsorship,
without travel sponsorship.)

DebCamp Attendance
——————
DebCamp is a smaller, less formal event than the main conference, giving an
opportunity for group work on Debian projects. It will again be held in the
week before DebConf, from Thursday 16th until Thursday 23rd July. In an
effort to make DebCamp a little more organised we ask everyone who wants to
attend DebCamp to fill in an additional textfield describing their work plans
for the Camp.

Cost of attendance
——————
As multiple attendees of past conferences suggested that we make it easy for
attendees to make a contribution towards the cost of their DebConf
attendance, we are again offering a way to do this.

As in the past the conference is free, and we will try our best to offer food
and accommodation sponsorship to everyone who registers before April 15th. We
also offer two additional registration options, “Professional” and
“Corporate”. The Professional category, EUR 300.00, is meant for every
individual or company who want to help the conference by making a
contribution to reflect the cost of their attendance. The Corporate
category, EUR 1000.00, is intended for companies who pay their employees’
attendance fees. If you register as a Corporate attendee, we will list your
company on a special page on the conference website.

We encourage everybody to help making DebConf a success by selecting the
Professional or Corporate registration category.

Attendees that register late (after April 15th) will need to pay at least the
Professional fee (EUR 300).

Looking forward to welcoming you to Cáceres in July, the DebConf team

About DebConf
————-
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 Canada, Finland, Mexico, Scotland, and
Argentina.

DebConf9 will take place in Cáceres from Friday 24th until Thursday 30th
July.

DebConf will be preceded by DebCamp, from Thursday 16th until Thursday 23rd
July. DebCamp is a smaller, less formal event giving an opportunity for
group work on Debian projects.

If you are interested in helping by working as a volunteer during DebConf,
please contact debconf-team@lists.debconf.org

If you or your company are interested in sponsoring DebConf by donating money
or lending equipment, please contact the sponsorship team at
sponsors@debconf.org

More information about DebConf9 can be found on the conference website:

https://debconf9.debconf.org/

About Debian
————
The Debian Project is an association of Free Software developers who
volunteer their time and effort in order to produce the free operating system
Debian GNU/Linux.

About Cáceres
————-
Cáceres (pronounced like Katheres, with an accent on the a) is the capital of
Cáceres Province. There have been settlements near Cáceres since prehistoric
times. Evidence of this can be found in the caves of Maltravieso and El
Conejar. The city was founded by the ancient Romans in 25 BC.

The old town, or Ciudad Monumental, still has its ancient walls; this part of
town is also well known for its multitude of storks’ nests. The walls
contain a perfect medieval town setting with no outward signs of modernity.
For this reason many films have been shot here. The Universidad de
Extremadura and two astronomical observatories are also located in Cáceres.

Cáceres was declared a World Heritage City by UNESCO in 1986 because of the
city’s blend of Roman, Islamic, Northern Gothic and Italian Renaissance
styles, fruit of the many battles fought here throughout history. An amazing
30 towers from the Muslim period still stand in Cáceres, of which the Torre
del Bujaco is the most famous.

For more information please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cáceres,_Spain
which this text was based on.