Sun, 06 Mar 2005
Arrived in Chemnitz
After a 15 hour trip (9 via plane, 6 via train), I finally made it to Chemnitz, Germany, where an other event is held. Well, I just popped in, when nearly the entire buffet of the social event was cleaned up. As said: I have a good timing ;)
At least I will have nearly two full days to recover, when I get home on Monday, before I need to depart again to Hanover for CeBIT.
Thanks again for the invitation to Beijing, it was really nice to meet all you guys there.
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Tue, 01 Mar 2005
Not as funny as...
...the other food they served us, but at least it smiles back and doesn't just stare at you:
Personal node: Traveling 9 hours to the land of the funny food, to get your lunch from Star Bucks????
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Seems I have been to pessimistic:
I finished my talk 30 Minutes ago and got three mails thanking for my "clearly explaination in [my] speech" or "the wonderful and interesting talk on what we can do to help Debian".
To do:
- collect feedback
- merge Information about QA and CDDs which where covered by own talks and therefore aren't covered in my talk
- transfer the half written TeX-Paper to sgml or xml, upload it to Debian Documentation project
- Get in contact with the guy who did a similar talk recently an CONSOL in Mexico, see what he found to be important.
- revise and upload my talk
Any other hints?
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My very own talk...
...was not really bad, but not as good as possible. Actually, I think I shouldn't use the word "good" at all.
I thought that delivering a talk about "HOW TO help Debian" would be a nice idea - especially since Debian Developers are not that common here in Asia as they are back home in Europe or in the USA.
I still think it is an interesting topic, but for various reasons I was bad prepared. As I mentioned previously so When I did the first dry run, it took my roughly 2 hours - a little bit to long for a 45 Minute talk :(
So I spend most of the night with restructuring and shortening my talk. And I fell to the other extreme - I shorted it a bit to much, removing some nice examples. Well actually I thought there would be more questions after the talk, but there seems to be a cultural difference.
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Mon, 28 Feb 2005
More funny food
After the bugs yesterday - only a squashed fried bug is a good bug - today they served amongst other things duck skin (tastes nice with sugar), duck bone soup (didn't liked that), a sweet sour fish (including hat and tail, if you turned it right, you could see his eyes) and duck brain (tastes salty and is quite small).
And they promised us more funny food for tomorrow :-)
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DAMN!!!!!!!
1 hour 'till keysigning party, and I forgot to print some additional fingerprints!
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rays installer
is the GUI installer of a Debian derivate. Stanley Peng is just talking about it. I'm, impressed: He showed some screen shots, and they look good. Even the partition dialogues seem intuitive to me. There seems to be a demo CD in the conference bag, so I need to find another test person for another "stupid unexperienced user usability"-test.
Would be interesting to knew, how large the changes are, they made to d-i for that, but since I'm not that familiar with the d-i myself, the answer would tell me much. But I'm sure, guys from debian-boot are reading this ;)
Their installer is available via svn, too:
svn co https://liberate.sw-linux.com/svn/rays-installer/
They use X for that, not the gtk/framebuffer method. Perhaps some can still be reused.
BTW: This is the first talk to be delivered in a language I can't understand, but since it is translated in real time, it is not a big problem. Interesting experience.
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Andrew Lee just finished his status report...
... about of Debian in Taiwan, and I'm disappointed. After the big flame war about Taiwan, the PRC and how to name them in debian-installer and that, I expected at least fist fight, but after his talk they did a nice small discussion, and although I didn't understand all of their topics - some don't affect me, since I can find all characters I need on my keyboard - it is interesting, how they solved problems - like hosting - here. Didn't noticed how lucky we are back in Germany...
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First Day of the first Asian Mini-Conf
After Andreas arrived yesterday we finally found Roger and the other guys. We went to a nice restaurant, serving some kind of Chinese food. Not very surprisingly it was a bit different from what they sell us at home as "Chinese food". The first we learned is, that there is no "Chinese food" as such, but many different ones - not surprisingly, too, if you imagine how big china is. We had a mix of different provinces, including insects. And yes, Martin, Andreas and I tried them - don't know how it tasted like, since I ate something "a bit spicy" before. Someone took some pictures of of us eating them, I hope he will upload them soon.
I'm still impressed by the hotel - I used to sleep in my sleeping bag in a gym or on the floor at a Debian-Guys home when visiting other events ;)
After a couple of hours sleep (which I really needed), we had a nice breakfast, and just had the first two talks. Martin explained QA work and some other problems of Debian, while Andreas did an introduction to Custom Debian Distributions.
I needed to swap my slot in the schedule with Andreas, since I still have some problems with the borrowed notebook, the "broadband Internet access" in our hotel. But so I have time to port my talk to latex-beamer.
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