summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/blends/asia2011/mangaluru.da.po
blob: 7d33d1891c6c42dbe149c4a0aba39b5c6d0eaa34 (plain)
  1. # SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
  2. # Copyright (C) YEAR Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  3. # This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package.
  4. # FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
  5. #
  6. #, fuzzy
  7. msgid ""
  8. msgstr ""
  9. "Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
  10. "POT-Creation-Date: 2012-03-06 01:36+0100\n"
  11. "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
  12. "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
  13. "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
  14. "Language: \n"
  15. "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
  16. "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
  17. "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
  18. #. type: Title #
  19. #, no-wrap
  20. msgid "Asia 2011 - Mangaluru"
  21. msgstr ""
  22. #. type: Plain text
  23. msgid ""
  24. "We -- Pavithran and I -- left [[Hyderabad]] in the fireworks of the Festival "
  25. "of Lights celebrated throughout India. Night train to Goa and later next "
  26. "day another more ordinary train to Mengaluru."
  27. msgstr ""
  28. #. type: Plain text
  29. msgid ""
  30. "Mengaluru was originally intended as my only stop in India. Local Debian "
  31. "enthusiasts organized a Mini-Debconf at a University some hours from "
  32. "Mengaluru, which I wanted to attend and stay in the area an additional "
  33. "couple of weeks to engage less formally as well with people in the area."
  34. msgstr ""
  35. #. type: Plain text
  36. msgid ""
  37. "But turned out all the \"local\" participants that I was in contact with via "
  38. "Internet while planning my travelling resided at other parts of India, so my "
  39. "actual trip ended up involving the two other cities Hyderabad and Bengaluru "
  40. "as well, both located one day by train from Mengaluru."
  41. msgstr ""
  42. #. type: Plain text
  43. msgid ""
  44. "It was a nice conference. Well organized, yet flexible enough to change "
  45. "schedule mid-way when interest in a few unplanned topics emerged. The "
  46. "hosting university provided meeting room, computer labs and accomodation "
  47. "from visitors from outside Mengaluru. One other international visitor "
  48. "attended: Christian \"Bubulle\" Perrier from France, giving a talk and a "
  49. "workshop on localization -- his specialty in Debian."
  50. msgstr ""
  51. #. type: Plain text
  52. msgid ""
  53. "I gave a talk on customizing Debian, clarifying the difference between "
  54. "derivative (sliding away from Debian) and blending (aiming for inclusion in "
  55. "Debian). I also gave a talk on the FreedomBox box project, and held a "
  56. "workshop on using my script \"boxer\" to build a custom distro. The "
  57. "workshop became quite a challenge: Amazing thunderstorms caused frequent "
  58. "power outages and internet connection was mostly unavailable during the "
  59. "session, leading us to spend most time constructing a creative ad-hoc "
  60. "network combining ethernet, wifi, sneakernet and 3G, to share my "
  61. "pre-existing approx cache package of Debian packages needed to use boxer."
  62. msgstr ""
  63. #. type: Plain text
  64. msgid ""
  65. "In addition to the formal agenda there was the usual bunch of \"hallway "
  66. "tracks\" appearing whenever enough enthusiasts are gathered..."
  67. msgstr ""
  68. #. type: Plain text
  69. msgid ""
  70. "Attendees from C-DAC and I looked at how their Debian derivative, BOSS "
  71. "Linux, could be more tightly integrated with Debian. Thanks to the "
  72. "Derivatives Census project and comparison work by Paul Wise, it was quick "
  73. "and easy to get an impression on the size and types of derivation resulting "
  74. "from the C-DAC development work."
  75. msgstr ""
  76. #. type: Plain text
  77. msgid "This text is part of my [[Asia 2011|asia2011]] scriblings."
  78. msgstr ""