19 Dec 2006 (Tue)

06:43:36 # Life Tokyo-area Debian Monthly Meeting for December. 23rd meeting was held last Saturday. The main topics were: a report on Bug Squashing Party in Japan, and reflection on the Debian Meeting for this past year. 15 people attended.

• We discussed the homework; which was the propose the new style for next year's Debian Monthly Meeting. Some current good points were raised, such as 'the meeting has been useful for documenting the current status-quo.' There was request to do some hands-on style workshop so that it's easier to not forget. The homework for October was 'Please show us your /etc/network/interfaces' and that was very exciting, and similar kind of homework will arouse more discussion and active development. There was concern about too-technical nature of the meeting, and having a log to facilitate later questions was suggested, but the implementation of such log is not quite determined.
• gotom and iwamatsu reported about Bug Squashing Party that was held the other day. In this BSP, most remaining bugs for etch were very hard-core bugs, and it was pretty hard to do. To facilitate the process gotom announced the BSP to be focused on fixing old bugs maintained by Japanese maintainers. There was suggestion on having a list of problems dished out before the actual BSP, which may facilitate the process of getting things fixed. This time, BSP was held in an IRC channel, but for future, we would like to have a physical BSP. To find a good location it was suggested to send out a call for information in the mailing list every two months.
• I reported this year's activities. 7 meetings were held in the 'usual place', and 6 meetings were held alongside some other event. We may proceed in similar manner next year. In January, the plan for 2007 will be discussed.
• Enkai was held in 'Usagi'.