<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Debian Developers' Workshop – Program Details
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Saturday April 8, 2006 2:00pm-6:00pm</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">at the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">International Institute of
Information Technology, Bangalore</b> (<a href="http://www.iiitb.ac.in/">http://www.iiitb.ac.in</a>)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">The Debian Developers' Workshop is planned as a get together of those who are either contributing to the Debian Project as developers or in the path to contributing to this project.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">The objective of the workshop is facilitating face-to-face interaction among developers and therefore substantial time is allocated to hands-on work.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>During this time, you can show the problems you are facing and potentially seek help from others or demonstrate your work and generate feedback and more participation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Several links are added to the DebianIndia Yahoo! group</span><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'"><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DebianIndia/">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DebianIndia/
</a> to support your preparation to participate.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">This event is planned to be in the workshop format, meaning all participants will present their work and interest in the Debian Project.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><u>Limit the presentation plus demo plus Q&A to about 15 minutes</u> per package.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The presentations are expected to follow the broad template as follows:
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">What is the scope of the work?</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Packages (if applicable), sub-projects (e.g., Debian.IN
)</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Sharing your progress and experience.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Challenges, hurdles.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Support required.</span></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><u><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Please load your presentations at the "Files" section in the DebianIndia group before the workshop</span>
</u><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Key-signing</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">
:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The two Debian Developers, Ganesan Rajagopal and Ramakrishnan M. have agreed to participate and support key signing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>If you are interested to make use of this opportunity for key signing, please contact them expressing your interest
<u>in advance</u> with the following details of yours by e-mail (Name, contact details, GPG key ID and fingerprint.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>You are expected to bring <u>two photo IDs identifying yourself.
</u><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Please bring the originals and hand over a copy to the developer with whom you are interacting.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">This workshop is not a training or tutorial program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>If you are not working with Debian as a developer in the project (
<a href="http://www.debian.org/devel/">http://www.debian.org/devel/</a>) nor are interested to grow into one, you are unlikely to benefit from participating in the workshop.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Registration</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Please visit the DebianIndia group: <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DebianIndia/">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DebianIndia/</a> and respond to the poll about your participation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>There is no registration fee.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Agenda</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'"></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">1:45pm-2:00pm</span></p></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Registration/Introductions</span></p></td></tr>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">2:00pm-2:10pm</span></p></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Welcome & Workshop Plan – S. Nagarajan</span></p></td></tr>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">2:10pm-3:30pm</span></p></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Presentation and remarks by Ramakrishnan M. and Ganesan Rajagopal.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Followed by:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Presentation by Debian Developers (Requires pre-registration.)
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Laptop computers will be available with Debian loaded for any demo.</span></p></td></tr>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">3:30pm-3:45pm</span></p></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Coffee/Tea break</span></p></td></tr>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">3:45pm-4:45pm</span></p></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Presentations (continued)</span></p></td></tr>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">4:45pm-5:45pm</span></p></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Key signing along with hands-on interaction time.</span></p></td></tr>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">5:45pm-6:00pm</span></p></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Follow up action planning and close of the day.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Courtesy</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'">
:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Bangalore is providing the support for this workshop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The Debian India team is grateful for the support and encouragement of IIIT-B.
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