# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE # Copyright (C) YEAR Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package. # FIRST AUTHOR , YEAR. # #, fuzzy msgid "" msgstr "" "Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n" "POT-Creation-Date: 2012-03-06 01:36+0100\n" "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n" "Last-Translator: FULL NAME \n" "Language-Team: LANGUAGE \n" "Language: \n" "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" #. type: Title # #, no-wrap msgid "Asia 2011 - Mangaluru" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "We -- Pavithran and I -- left [[Hyderabad]] in the fireworks of the Festival " "of Lights celebrated throughout India. Night train to Goa and later next " "day another more ordinary train to Mengaluru." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "Mengaluru was originally intended as my only stop in India. Local Debian " "enthusiasts organized a Mini-Debconf at a University some hours from " "Mengaluru, which I wanted to attend and stay in the area an additional " "couple of weeks to engage less formally as well with people in the area." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "But turned out all the \"local\" participants that I was in contact with via " "Internet while planning my travelling resided at other parts of India, so my " "actual trip ended up involving the two other cities Hyderabad and Bengaluru " "as well, both located one day by train from Mengaluru." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "It was a nice conference. Well organized, yet flexible enough to change " "schedule mid-way when interest in a few unplanned topics emerged. The " "hosting university provided meeting room, computer labs and accomodation " "from visitors from outside Mengaluru. One other international visitor " "attended: Christian \"Bubulle\" Perrier from France, giving a talk and a " "workshop on localization -- his specialty in Debian." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "I gave a talk on customizing Debian, clarifying the difference between " "derivative (sliding away from Debian) and blending (aiming for inclusion in " "Debian). I also gave a talk on the FreedomBox box project, and held a " "workshop on using my script \"boxer\" to build a custom distro. The " "workshop became quite a challenge: Amazing thunderstorms caused frequent " "power outages and internet connection was mostly unavailable during the " "session, leading us to spend most time constructing a creative ad-hoc " "network combining ethernet, wifi, sneakernet and 3G, to share my " "pre-existing approx cache package of Debian packages needed to use boxer." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "In addition to the formal agenda there was the usual bunch of \"hallway " "tracks\" appearing whenever enough enthusiasts are gathered..." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "Attendees from C-DAC and I looked at how their Debian derivative, BOSS " "Linux, could be more tightly integrated with Debian. Thanks to the " "Derivatives Census project and comparison work by Paul Wise, it was quick " "and easy to get an impression on the size and types of derivation resulting " "from the C-DAC development work." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "This text is part of my [[Asia 2011|asia2011]] scriblings." msgstr ""