Daily blurbs Nov. 2006

22 Nov 2006 (Wed)

06:59:51 # Life Tokyo Debian Meeting meets Kansai. On 19th Nov, we had a Debian meeting in Osaka. approx. 20 people attended. It was hosted by Osaka Electro-Communication University. Details follow:

• We discussed the homework. The homework was to devise a question. We discussed about Debian in general. We discussed differences between Debian, FreeBSD, and Fedora Core.
• I talked about using sid. There was a mention about apt-listchanges. People didn't know, but it is possible to configure apt-listchanges to show the changelog and ask what the changes are going to be before installation. The default is just to send an e-mail after the fact, and that default isn't too useful, when using sid.
• I talked about using the BTS. The discussion went into gory details behind the scenes, and might have been too deep for the members present.
• Iwamatsu talked about packaging. He took cairo-dock as an example. Naturally, everyone present should now able to make Debian packages.
• Enkai happened in "One's" in Kyobashi. It took 40 minutes by train to go to Kyobashi from the University site, but we didn't get people lost, which is good.

19 Nov 2006 (Sun)

13:27:22 # Life Debian BOF at Kansai Open Source. Yesterday we had a BOF at Kansai Open Source. Around 30 people in the Kansai region gathered to meet. From Tokyo, Iwamatsu, Yamane, and I went there to represent Debian JP.

15 Nov 2006 (Wed)

06:56:50 # Life Server moves. Netfort.gr.jp is going to be relocated. Mail / Web may experience a bit of downtime.

1 Nov 2006 (Wed)

01:03:09 # Life pbuilder maintenance. It has long been that I'm the sole maintainer. lool has been active lately, which is a very nice change. My time is mostly used up by apt-listbugs maintenance these days.