First Debian Mini Conference to be held in Taiwan

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The Debian Project                                http://www.debian.org/
First Debian Mini Conference to be held in Taiwan       press <at> debian.org
September 23rd, 2009            http://www.debian.org/News/2000/20090923
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First Debian Mini Conference to be held in Taiwan

The Debian Project, the team behind the free Debian Linux operating
system, proudly announces the first Debian Mini Conference in Taiwan
which takes place 26th-27th September at Technology Building, Taipei
City, Taiwan(R.O.C.) during International Conference on Open
Source(ICOS) 2009 [1].  The ICOS 2009 is organized by the Software
Liberty Association of Taiwan (SLAT) [2]. Its aim is to bring
international FLOSS projects and developers together, so that they can
share experience, introduce projects and get in touch with local
developers and users.

  1: http://icos.org.tw/en
  2: http://www.slat.org/

Participants from many Asian countries like China, Indonesia, Japan,
Taiwan, Thailand and overseas from Europe and Australia ranging from
Debian users, to contributors and official Debian Developers will gather
together to exchange knowledge and further improve Debian for their
specific needs.  Topics include a "peak behind the curtain of Debian's
archive" by Debian's FTP Master, Jörg Jaspert; an "introduction to
embedded development using Embedded Debian [3]" by Hector Oron; as well as
"Personal experience on 'how to help Debian'" by Andrew Lee (李健秋). A
Special topic of interest is Skolelinux / Debian Edu, a Debian pure