Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 23:32:14 +0200 From: Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de> Subject: Debian Project at two exhibitions ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project at two exhibitions press@debian.org May 27th, 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Two exhibitions and conferences will start within a couple of days. The Debian project has been offered to run a booth on one and will have a developers meetin on the other. The events take place in Brazil and Japan. May 29th - 30th: Second International Forum on Free Software (Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) http://www.debian.org/events/2001/0529-fsforum The first meeting of South-American Debian developers will be held as part of this conference. We have a conference room reserved for the Debian meeting on May 30th, 14:00h - 16:00h. Five developers from Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay have already confirmed their presence. May 30th - June 1st: Linux World Expo Tokyo 2001 (Tokyo, Japan) http://www.debian.org/events/2001/0530-linuxexpo-tokyo Debian will be present with a booth as part of ".Org pavilion" sponsored by VA Linux Systems Japan. Japanese Debian Developpers are planning to show many Debian systems running on various architecture (m68k, mips, arm, sh3, hppa, etc...). A tutorial session titled "Using Debian in corporate and reducing TCO by package management system" will be held at June 1st by Susumu OSAWA. We invite everybody in these areas to attend the shows and meet Debian people and people from other Free Software projects there.