Debian micronews

We have organised a small Poetry Event in #DebConf21 during the evening break (18:45 UTC). If you have some poems you'd like to share (yours or from a poet you like, no matter the language), follow the instructions to join us https://debconf21.debconf.org/talks/111-poetry-event/

From 14:50 UTC through 16:00 UTC #DebConf21 pauses for a break. Do you want to have a look at two DebConf21 songs, written by Andrew Cater? http://flosslinuxblog.blogspot.com/2021/08/if-you-do-it-twice-its-tradition-says.html

"डेबियन समुदाय आणि डेबियन सोबत माझा अनुभव" (My experience with Debian community and Debian, in Marathi) explains how mentors and community members help to learn debian packaging, on channel two at 14:30 UTC, https://debconf21.debconf.org/schedule/venue/2/

The short talk "Debian for Open Science" (14:00 UTC) is intended to put forth the idea and the means for Debian packages for Open Science and "Looking Forward to Reproducible Builds" (14:30 UTC) will highlight some recent developments, with an eye to what might happen as Debian embarks upon the "Bookworm" development cycle. Both talks on channel one, https://debconf21.debconf.org/schedule/venue/1/

The short talk "Debian for Open Science" (14:00 UTC) is intended to put forth the idea and the means for Debian packages for Open Science and "Looking Forward to Reproducible Builds" (14:30 UTC) will highlight some recent developments, with an eye to what might happen as Debian embarks upon the “Bookworm” development cycle. Both talks on channel one, https://debconf21.debconf.org/schedule/venue/1/

The talks for 13:30 UTC slot have been cancelled too, sorry for the inconveniences. #DebConf21 will continue at 14:00 UTC https://debconf21.debconf.org/schedule/?block=5

Unfortunately the short talk "हिंदी में अनुवाद करने के लिए कार्यप्रणाली" (How the translation workflow for Hindi works) has been cancelled. We apologise for the inconveniences, keep an eye on the schedule for last minute changes https://debconf21.debconf.org/schedule/?block=5

On channel two, the Hindi track continues at 13:00 UTC with three short talks: "हिंदी में अनुवाद करने के लिए कार्यप्रणाली" (How the translation workflow for Hindi works), "Gaming in Debian" explaining the ease of developing games in Debian (13:30), and डेबियन में योगदान कैसे करें (How to Contribute to Debian) at 14:00 UTC, https://debconf21.debconf.org/schedule/venue/2/

At 13:00 UTC on channel one, two short talks: "Latest updates about fabre.debian.net - Finding untouched bugs" targetted to contributor or maintainer who want to fix bugs which are not related to packages they maintain, followed at 13:30 UTC by "proposing a new d-i disk preparation tool, 'growlight' ", https://debconf21.debconf.org/schedule/venue/1/

The last day at #DebConf21 online starts at 12:00 UTC with a talk about "GoVarnam, a new 'Intelligent' Input Method for Indian Languages in Desktop & Mobile" and, on channel 2, the first of a series of talks in Hindi: "कोई भी मोबाइल उपयोगकर्ता मुक्त/स्वतन्त्र सॉफ्टवेयर में कैसे स्थानांतरित कर सकता है "(How can any mobile user migrate to free software), https://debconf21.debconf.org/schedule/?block=5