From george at ceetonetechnology.com Thu Jul 1 16:58:50 2010 From: george at ceetonetechnology.com (George Rosamond) Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:58:50 -0400 Subject: [nycbug-talk] Fwd: [announce] NYCBSDCon 2010 Call for Presentations Message-ID: <4C2D018A.7070608@ceetonetechnology.com> FYI. . . We strongly encourage everyone to sub to the list below, also. * * * The New York City BSD Conference (NYCBSDCon) is the main technical conference on the US East Coast for the BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge, to network with like-minded people, and to have fun. This event is organized by members of the New York City *BSD Users Group (NYC*BUG). The NYCBSDCon program committee is accepting submissions for imaginative, embryonic and energizing presentations surrounding the BSD operating systems. We are looking to attract a wide range of speakers and attendees; therefore, topics of interest range from the esoteric to development to practical, everyday sysadmin life. Of course, original topics are preferred in most cases. Each talk is expected to be 45-50 minutes, including a few minutes for questions and answers. All presentations will be recorded for audio and video. Presenters will have audio/visual and network connectivity. Abstracts for presentations are due July 31, 2010. Authors of accepted submissions should be able to provide the full presentation for publication on NYCBSDCon sponsored mediums. Further instructions will follow notification of acceptance. Submissions accompanied by a non-disclosure agreement or a product advertisement will be rejected. Abstract submissions should be emailed to cfp at nycbsdcon.org in text, ps or pdf format. Conference Location: Cooper Union, New York, NY Conference Dates: November 12-14, 2010 Important Milestones: Jul 01 CFP Released Jul 31 CFP Deadline Aug 15 Notification of Accepted and Rejected Presentations Do not let travel and accommodation concerns get in the way of your submissions; we may have some opportunities to subsidize speakers, but it is too early to provide any definitive answers. We encourage you to join the public mailing list at http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/nycbsdcon to keep abreast of conference happenings. For questions, concerns or comments, please contact us here: info at nycbsdcon.org. _______________________________________________ announce mailing list announce at lists.nycbug.org http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/announce From george at ceetonetechnology.com Sat Jul 10 12:35:51 2010 From: george at ceetonetechnology.com (George Rosamond) Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:35:51 -0400 Subject: [nycbug-talk] Conference organizing meeting Message-ID: <4C38A167.9090806@ceetonetechnology.com> We are planning to have a meeting exclusively dealing with organizing NYCBSDCon on Monday, July 19th at 645 pm in the backroom of Suspenders. We're going to cover the details of building the conference: publicity, organization, sponsors, etc. Meeting is open to all interested in having a role. g From nikolai at fetissov.org Sat Jul 10 19:34:25 2010 From: nikolai at fetissov.org (Nikolai Fetissov) Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:34:25 -0400 Subject: [nycbug-talk] July 2010 meeting audio Message-ID: Folks, Audio of Mark Chu-Carroll talk on Go language is available at http://fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-07-07-10.mp3 Cheers, -- Nikolai From george at ceetonetechnology.com Mon Jul 19 14:13:04 2010 From: george at ceetonetechnology.com (George Rosamond) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:13:04 -0400 Subject: [nycbug-talk] reminder: tonight Message-ID: <4C4495B0.6060106@ceetonetechnology.com> We'll be having an organizing meeting for NYCBSDCon 2010 tonight at Suspenders at 645 PM. All are welcome. g From matt at atopia.net Wed Jul 21 02:08:43 2010 From: matt at atopia.net (Matt Juszczak) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:08:43 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [nycbug-talk] Stupid mistake ... just checking :) Message-ID: Hi all, Tonight, I was coding up a script, and made a stupid mistake (toooo tired). Long story short, I ended up having something like this inside my shell script: `ssh blah.hoarf.com` (including the backticks) I spent hours debugging it after I kept getting errors that "Last" was an invalid command. Turns out that because I had the backticks, it was reading the "Last Login" output from the login, and trying to execute that locally (and failing). To make matters worse, since the command was in backticks, nothing was being printed to the screen on STDOUT... but what I was typing was actually being sent to the remote server (I have ssh keys setup, so the connection was made with no Password: prompt). I'm pretty sure I'm okay, and this was a trivial mistake. After all, I was mostly typing things like 'wtf', etc. :) No majorly bad commands. My main question is: The only possibility something would have been executed by "rogue output" would have been locally on my laptop right? The only way something would have been executed on the remote server is if I would have typed it in (since there was nothing other than `ssh ` in the backtick call). Just want to make sure :) Thanks all, Matt From njt at ayvali.org Wed Jul 21 10:52:19 2010 From: njt at ayvali.org (N.J. Thomas) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:52:19 -0400 Subject: [nycbug-talk] Stupid mistake ... just checking :) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20100721145219.GG7186@zaph.org> * Matt Juszczak [2010-07-21 02:08:43-0400]: > `ssh blah.hoarf.com` > > I spent hours debugging it after I kept getting errors that "Last" was an > invalid command. Whenever you are debugging shell scripts, "set -e" and "set -x" are your best friends. Dollars to donuts you have would have found that error in 60 seconds with both of those turned on. =-) > The only possibility something would have been executed by "rogue output" > would have been locally on my laptop right? The only way something would > have been executed on the remote server is if I would have typed it in Correct. Whatever the output of "ssh host" was would have been executed on your laptop (I'm assuming it was mostly garbage that was not meaningful to your shell script); but not on the server. The only exception to this rule is if somehow "ssh host" produced textual output (like from /etc/motd maybe) to the effect of "ssh host " but that is highly unlikely, and you can double check this by running "ssh host" yourself and seeing if any such string exists. Thomas From matt at atopia.net Wed Jul 21 10:54:56 2010 From: matt at atopia.net (Matt Juszczak) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:54:56 +0000 Subject: [nycbug-talk] Stupid mistake ... just checking :) Message-ID: <302964564-1279724099-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-737096036-@bda187.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> Thanks! I was indeed using -x as I always do, but the output wasn't indicative of backticks - or at least, I wasn't interpreting the output as problematic. Matt ------Original Message------ From: N.J. Thomas To: Matt Juszczak Cc: talk at lists.nycbug.org Subject: Re: [nycbug-talk] Stupid mistake ... just checking :) Sent: Jul 21, 2010 10:52 * Matt Juszczak [2010-07-21 02:08:43-0400]: > `ssh blah.hoarf.com` > > I spent hours debugging it after I kept getting errors that "Last" was an > invalid command. Whenever you are debugging shell scripts, "set -e" and "set -x" are your best friends. Dollars to donuts you have would have found that error in 60 seconds with both of those turned on. =-) > The only possibility something would have been executed by "rogue output" > would have been locally on my laptop right? The only way something would > have been executed on the remote server is if I would have typed it in Correct. Whatever the output of "ssh host" was would have been executed on your laptop (I'm assuming it was mostly garbage that was not meaningful to your shell script); but not on the server. The only exception to this rule is if somehow "ssh host" produced textual output (like from /etc/motd maybe) to the effect of "ssh host " but that is highly unlikely, and you can double check this by running "ssh host" yourself and seeing if any such string exists. Thomas From lists at stringsutils.com Mon Jul 26 20:21:22 2010 From: lists at stringsutils.com (Francisco Reyes) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:21:22 -0400 Subject: [nycbug-talk] Files/directories by date utility? Message-ID: Before re-inventing the wheel, anyone know of a port for FreeBSD that would show dates of files by directory or something like it. In particular I am looking for the newest file per folder. If nothing like it exists thinking of using the output of: find -exec ls -l {} \; As the starting point. For quick and dirty may just throw the data into a database directory file date then I could do all the sorting/querying I could ever need.. Anyone ever dealt with a simmilar problem? From dan at langille.org Mon Jul 26 23:12:59 2010 From: dan at langille.org (Dan Langille) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:12:59 -0400 Subject: [nycbug-talk] Files/directories by date utility? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4C4E4EBB.20908@langille.org> On 7/26/2010 8:21 PM, Francisco Reyes wrote: > Before re-inventing the wheel, anyone know of a port for FreeBSD that > would show dates of files by directory or something like it. > > In particular I am looking for the newest file per folder. > > If nothing like it exists thinking of using the output of: > find -exec ls -l {} \; > > As the starting point. > For quick and dirty may just throw the data into a database > directory > file > date > > then I could do all the sorting/querying I could ever need.. > > Anyone ever dealt with a simmilar problem? I've long wanted to get a list of all files sorted by descending date modified? Why? For backups. When doing an incremental backup, a long can be spent searching for those files. It'd be great if that could be built into the OS. I am hoping this can be tacked onto ZFS: See http://dan.langille.org/2009/12/05/faster-backups/ -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ From sahil at tandon.net Mon Jul 26 23:57:26 2010 From: sahil at tandon.net (Sahil Tandon) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:57:26 -0400 Subject: [nycbug-talk] Files/directories by date utility? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20100727035726.GA36790@magic.hamla.org> On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 20:21:22 -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: > Before re-inventing the wheel, anyone know of a port for FreeBSD > that would show dates of files by directory or something like it. > > In particular I am looking for the newest file per folder. > > If nothing like it exists thinking of using the output of: > find -exec ls -l {} \; Perhaps you could expand on something like the following (very crude, currently needs to be run in each directory): # ls -ltr | tail -1 | awk '{print $6,$7,$8,$9}' -- Sahil Tandon From lists at stringsutils.com Tue Jul 27 00:08:41 2010 From: lists at stringsutils.com (Francisco Reyes) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:08:41 -0400 Subject: [nycbug-talk] Files/directories by date utility? References: <20100727035726.GA36790@magic.hamla.org> Message-ID: Sahil Tandon writes: > Perhaps you could expand on something like the following (very crude, > currently needs to be run in each directory): > > # ls -ltr | tail -1 | awk '{print $6,$7,$8,$9}' Thanks for the suggestion. That approach may be more work because one would need to keep track of the directory where one runs that. I think I will get working on this. Find will do the work of traversing so I will just have to parse the output. Also using find gives a lot of flexibility with file selection since one can tell find to find only files older/newer than a certain date. From lists at stringsutils.com Tue Jul 27 00:16:07 2010 From: lists at stringsutils.com (Francisco Reyes) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:16:07 -0400 Subject: [nycbug-talk] Files/directories by date utility? References: <4C4E4EBB.20908@langille.org> Message-ID: Dan Langille writes: > I've long wanted to get a list of all files sorted by descending date > modified? Why? For backups. When doing an incremental backup, a long I will start working on this in coming days. Still not sure if I will end up dumping the data to a table or try to do something to display some basic values from the parsing program. I actually have some very specific needs for a current project so I will tackle that first. For my current project I need to know which directories have files newer that X days old and of those I need to know on a per directory bases what is the most recent date of the most recent file in the directory. I will likely have that basic functionality this week then I will tackle trying to create something a little more flexible. Anyone that would like to be informed of this project please let me know and I will keep you updated. If there is enough interest I will put it in sourceforge. Thanks. From jkeen at verizon.net Mon Jul 26 21:56:55 2010 From: jkeen at verizon.net (James E Keenan) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:56:55 -0400 Subject: [nycbug-talk] Parrot Virtual Machine Links In-Reply-To: <5b5090780905092222o252e4ef1rf841e3d895ebb85@mail.gmail.com> References: <029AA53B-CDB3-4196-914B-3A4B72D8C6A9@verizon.net> <5b5090780905092222o252e4ef1rf841e3d895ebb85@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <334F926F-B797-4B5C-875A-B47ED2B39F24@verizon.net> On May 10, 2009, at 1:22 AM, Brian Gupta wrote: > Hey James, Parrot has been in dev for close to ten years. Is there > light at the end of the tunnel? (It's beginning to be a bit Duke Nuke > Em Forever). > Last week I was able to give Brian a more up-to-date response. Speaking at New York Linux Users Group on July 21, I gave a brief presentation on Rakudo* (pronounced "Rakudo Star"), the first distribution of Rakudo (Perl 6 on the Parrot virtual machine) intended for the average user. ("average" here meaning, early-ish adopter) Rakudo* will be released on Thursday of this week. Links to Rakudo*: http://rakudo.org/ Link to my talk of last week: http://thenceforward.net/perl/talks/ rakudostar/index.html Jim Keenan From njt at ayvali.org Tue Jul 27 10:42:18 2010 From: njt at ayvali.org (N.J. Thomas) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:42:18 -0400 Subject: [nycbug-talk] Files/directories by date utility? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20100727144218.GE91340@zaph.org> * Francisco Reyes [2010-07-26 20:21:22-0400]: > anyone know of a port for FreeBSD that would show dates of files by > directory or something like it. > > In particular I am looking for the newest file per folder. This is hugely inefficient, but seems to do what you want: for i in `find -type d`; do find $i -type f -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1|xargs ls -lt|head -1; done Thomas From sjt.kar at gmail.com Wed Jul 28 07:39:10 2010 From: sjt.kar at gmail.com (Sujit K M) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:09:10 +0530 Subject: [nycbug-talk] Files/directories by date utility? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I think you can use perl. http://www.devdaily.com/perl/edu/qanda/plqa00011.shtml Above is an specific example. http://perldoc.perl.org/File/Find.html Above is the Perl::Find Function. On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Francisco Reyes wrote: > Before re-inventing the wheel, anyone know of a port for FreeBSD that would > show dates of files by directory or something like it. > > In particular I am looking for the newest file per folder. > > If nothing like it exists thinking of using the output of: > find -exec ls -l {} \; > > As the starting point. > For quick and dirty may just throw the data into a database > directory > file > date > > then I could do all the sorting/querying I could ever need.. > > Anyone ever dealt with a simmilar problem? > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk at lists.nycbug.org > http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > -- -- Sujit K M blog(http://kmsujit.blogspot.com/) From matt at atopia.net Thu Jul 29 10:34:19 2010 From: matt at atopia.net (Matt Juszczak) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:34:19 +0000 Subject: [nycbug-talk] Off topic: S3 backups Message-ID: <1341981872-1280414063-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-573729808-@bda187.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> Hi folks, I know many of us work with cloud providers on a day to day basis. I have an urgent need to implement bucket redundancy, by other copying one bucket to another at regular intervals, or copying an S3 bucket to something like rackspace cloud files at regular intervals. Has anyone ever had to do this before? Most of the scripts I have found require the files to be downloaded first, then re-uploaded. Matt From chsnyder at gmail.com Thu Jul 29 11:46:59 2010 From: chsnyder at gmail.com (Chris Snyder) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:46:59 -0400 Subject: [nycbug-talk] Off topic: S3 backups In-Reply-To: <1341981872-1280414063-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-573729808-@bda187.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> References: <1341981872-1280414063-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-573729808-@bda187.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> Message-ID: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Matt Juszczak wrote: > Hi folks, > > I know many of us work with cloud providers on a day to day basis. I have an urgent need to implement bucket redundancy, by other copying one bucket to another at regular intervals, or copying an S3 bucket to something like rackspace cloud files at regular intervals. > > Has anyone ever had to do this before? ?Most of the scripts I have found require the files to be downloaded first, then re-uploaded. > > Matt > So you plan to transfer the bucket data from one region to another? Seems extreme, given the built-in redundancy in S3. Or is this a way to get the reduced redundancy pricing tier into play? Seems like the transfer costs would eat the savings, but maybe not. >From a data integrity angle, backing up buckets to Rackspace or some other provider makes more sense to me, since Amazon itself is a single point of failure. You could have a process running in the Rackspace cloud that backs up your S3 buckets to local storage. From chsnyder at gmail.com Thu Jul 29 11:51:17 2010 From: chsnyder at gmail.com (Chris Snyder) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:51:17 -0400 Subject: [nycbug-talk] Off topic: S3 backups In-Reply-To: <950439017-1280418556-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-899735320-@bda187.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> References: <950439017-1280418556-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-899735320-@bda187.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> Message-ID: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Matt Juszczak wrote: > Hi Chris, > > The #1 goal is to prevent someone from accidetally deleting a bucket and losing all contents. > > I agree that rackspace cloud backup would be more redundant. But that means writing a script to integrate into two APIs. > > Matt Oh. That's an easy one: http://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/#How_does_Versioning_protect_me_from_accidental_deletion_of_my_objects From matt at atopia.net Thu Jul 29 12:00:18 2010 From: matt at atopia.net (matt at atopia.net) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:00:18 -0400 Subject: [nycbug-talk] Off topic: S3 backups In-Reply-To: References: <950439017-1280418556-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-899735320-@bda187.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> Message-ID: <40f470bbb1ce394ca420d693d1770ec5.squirrel@www.atopia.net> > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Matt Juszczak wrote: >> Hi Chris, >> >> The #1 goal is to prevent someone from accidetally deleting a bucket and >> losing all contents. >> >> I agree that rackspace cloud backup would be more redundant. But that >> means writing a script to integrate into two APIs. >> >> Matt > > Oh. That's an easy one: > http://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/#How_does_Versioning_protect_me_from_accidental_deletion_of_my_objects but does that stop someone from logging in and accidentally deleting the bucket? :) From mterenzio at gmail.com Thu Jul 29 12:05:40 2010 From: mterenzio at gmail.com (Matthew Terenzio) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:05:40 -0400 Subject: [nycbug-talk] Off topic: S3 backups In-Reply-To: <40f470bbb1ce394ca420d693d1770ec5.squirrel@www.atopia.net> References: <950439017-1280418556-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-899735320-@bda187.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> <40f470bbb1ce394ca420d693d1770ec5.squirrel@www.atopia.net> Message-ID: > > but does that stop someone from logging in and accidentally deleting the > bucket? :) > > I believe all objects in a bucket must be deleted before a bucket can be deleted. At least with the library I use to work with the API. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From matt at atopia.net Thu Jul 29 11:49:14 2010 From: matt at atopia.net (Matt Juszczak) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:49:14 +0000 Subject: [nycbug-talk] Off topic: S3 backups Message-ID: <950439017-1280418556-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-899735320-@bda187.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> Hi Chris, The #1 goal is to prevent someone from accidetally deleting a bucket and losing all contents. I agree that rackspace cloud backup would be more redundant. But that means writing a script to integrate into two APIs. Matt ------Original Message------ From: Chris Snyder To: Matt Juszczak Cc: talk at lists.nycbug.org Subject: Re: [nycbug-talk] Off topic: S3 backups Sent: Jul 29, 2010 11:46 On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Matt Juszczak wrote: > Hi folks, > > I know many of us work with cloud providers on a day to day basis. I have an urgent need to implement bucket redundancy, by other copying one bucket to another at regular intervals, or copying an S3 bucket to something like rackspace cloud files at regular intervals. > > Has anyone ever had to do this before? ?Most of the scripts I have found require the files to be downloaded first, then re-uploaded. > > Matt > So you plan to transfer the bucket data from one region to another? Seems extreme, given the built-in redundancy in S3. Or is this a way to get the reduced redundancy pricing tier into play? Seems like the transfer costs would eat the savings, but maybe not. >From a data integrity angle, backing up buckets to Rackspace or some other provider makes more sense to me, since Amazon itself is a single point of failure. You could have a process running in the Rackspace cloud that backs up your S3 buckets to local storage. From matt at thehour.com Thu Jul 29 12:11:08 2010 From: matt at thehour.com (Matthew Terenzio) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:11:08 -0400 Subject: [nycbug-talk] Off topic: S3 backups In-Reply-To: <40f470bbb1ce394ca420d693d1770ec5.squirrel@www.atopia.net> Message-ID: On 7/29/10 12:00 PM, "matt at atopia.net" wrote: > but does that stop someone from logging in and accidentally deleting the > bucket? :) I believe all objects in a bucket must be deleted before a bucket can be deleted. At least with the library I use to work with the API. From george at ceetonetechnology.com Thu Jul 29 13:41:36 2010 From: george at ceetonetechnology.com (George Rosamond) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:41:36 -0400 Subject: [nycbug-talk] DefCon Message-ID: <4C51BD50.4050904@ceetonetechnology.com> Anyone going to DefCon? Hit me offlist pls. . . g From brian.gupta at gmail.com Thu Jul 29 21:43:19 2010 From: brian.gupta at gmail.com (Brian Gupta) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:43:19 -0400 Subject: [nycbug-talk] "Debian Day" this Sunday, Aug 1st, at Columbia University from 9:45am-9:15pm and kFreeBSD preso on Tuesday August 3rd Message-ID: My apologies if this offends anyone, but since this is a once in a lifetime event, I figured that crossing the isle this one time might be ok. Hey guys, this Sunday is Debian Day!! Schedule here http://www.debianday.org/ All you need to do to register is send an email to debianday at debconf.org!! As another interesting tidbit, Debian has a port of their OS that uses the FreeBSD kernel and there will be a presentation on it during the conference proper: http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/538.en.html this will be on Tuesday at 3:00pm. Thanks! -Brian P.S. - Please help spread the work.. there will be general interest speakers and topics: http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/day_2010-08-01.en.html ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: DebConf Press Team Date: Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:56 PM Subject: [Press Release] Media Alert: FIRST TIME IN THE USA - Tenth Annual Debian Developer Conference - World's Largest GNU/Linux Distribution Developers' Conference to be taking place at Columbia University NYC Aug 1-7 To: DebConf-Team List FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. 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