Re: [Publicity] Debconf 13 draft blog post

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 27/08/13 17:29, Ian Jackson wrote:
> I've saved this in wordpress, but here is a copy to read:
>
> Ian.
>
>
> I've recently returned from the Debian Conference, <a
> href="http://debconf13.debconf.org/";>Debconf 13</a>, in Vaumarcus in
> Switzerland.  My colleague Ian Campbell joined me there.
>
> We had an excellent time and spent rather too much of it staring at
> the amazing view of Lake Neuchatel.  Debian's 20th birthday party was
> not to be missed either.
>
> This year's Debconf found a substantial offering of cloudy topics on
> the schedule.  One major theme was the ways in which Debian are
> working on better integration with the big public clouds, for example
> by providing ready-to-use images.
>
> Of particular interest for Xen was <a
> href="http://penta.debconf.org/dc13_schedule/events/1031.en.html";>Thomas
> Goirand's talk on the integration between OpenStack's various
> components</a>.
I think I would put the link just around "talk", or perhaps just around 
"integration between Openstack's various components".
Overall it seems a bit boring; but I can't quite figure out why, as it 
does have some interesting stuff.
There seems to be quite a bit in here that's just about your experience, 
which people who don't know about you won't really care about very 
much.  I think maybe if you gave a bit more facts -- what is debconf? 
who comes?  what goes on there?  and maybe a few more examples of how 
Debian is working for better integration with big public clouds.
 -George

> OpenStack is a complicated piece of software which has
> been difficult to install and get running.  Thomas, who runs a
> Xen-based <a href="http://www.gplhost.com/";>public cloud provider</a>,
> has been working to make the installation process smoother using
> Debian's configuration management systems.
>
> For me, an interesting topic was the continuing difficulty of
> integration between the Debian archive (Debian's primary software
> repository) and git, and after a session in the bar with Joey Hess and
> others I wrote <a href="http://packages.debian.org/sid/dgit";>a tool to
> help with that</a>.
>
> Debconf is always a highlight of my year and I look forward to next
> year's in Portland.
>
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