After miniDebConf Santa Fe
Last week we held our promised miniDebConf in Santa Fe City, Santa Fe province, Argentina — just across the river from Paraná, where I have spent almost six beautiful months I will never forget.
Around 500 Kilometers North from Buenos Aires, Santa Fe and Paraná are separated by the beautiful and majestic Paraná river, which flows from Brazil, marks the Eastern border of Paraguay, and continues within Argentina as the heart of the litoral region of the country, until it merges with the Uruguay river (you guessed right — the river marking the Eastern border of Argentina, first with Brazil and then with Uruguay), and they become the Río de la Plata.
This was a short miniDebConf: we were lent the APUL union’s building for the weekend (thank you very much!); during Saturday, we had a cycle of talks, and on sunday we had more of a hacklab logic, having some unstructured time to work each on their own projects, and to talk and have a good time together.
We were five Debian people attending:
{santiago|debacle|eamanu|dererk|gwolf}@debian.org. My main contact to
kickstart organization was Martín Bayo. Martín was for many years the leader of
the Technical Degree on Free Software at Universidad Nacional del
Litoral,
where I was also a teacher for several years. Together with Leo Martínez, also a
teacher at the tecnicatura, they contacted us with Guillermo and Gabriela,
from the APUL non-teaching-staff union of said university.
We had the following set of talks (for which there is a promise to get electronic record, as APUL was kind enough to record them! of course, I will push them to our usual conference video archiving service as soon as I get them)
| Hour | Title (Spanish) | Title (English) | Presented by |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00-10:25 | Introducción al Software Libre | Introduction to Free Software | Martín Bayo |
| 10:30-10:55 | Debian y su comunidad | Debian and its community | Emanuel Arias |
| 11:00-11:25 | ¿Por qué sigo contribuyendo a Debian después de 20 años? | Why am I still contributing to Debian after 20 years? | Santiago Ruano |
| 11:30-11:55 | Mi identidad y el proyecto Debian: ¿Qué es el llavero OpenPGP y por qué? | My identity and the Debian project: What is the OpenPGP keyring and why? | Gunnar Wolf |
| 12:00-13:00 | Explorando las masculinidades en el contexto del Software Libre | Exploring masculinities in the context of Free Software | Gora Ortiz Fuentes - José Francisco Ferro |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch | ||
| 14:30-14:55 | Debian para el día a día | Debian for our every day | Leonardo Martínez |
| 15:00-15:25 | Debian en las Raspberry Pi | Debian in the Raspberry Pi | Gunnar Wolf |
| 15:30-15:55 | Device Trees | Device Trees | Lisandro Damián Nicanor Perez Meyer (videoconferencia) |
| 16:00-16:25 | Python en Debian | Python in Debian | Emmanuel Arias |
| 16:30-16:55 | Debian y XMPP en la medición de viento para la energía eólica | Debian and XMPP for wind measuring for eolic energy | Martin Borgert |
As it always happens… DebConf, miniDebConf and other Debian-related activities are always fun, always productive, always a great opportunity to meet again our decades-long friends. Lets see what comes next!