in reply to Debian

Shouldn't DebConf make a clear statement that although it accepts money (sponsorship) from corporations with abominable reputations in relation to the #FreeSoftware community, there will be no tolerance of suppressing criticism of any of those corporations during DebConf?

It looks rather shocking to see Microsoft and Google logos in association with Debian, but as long as participants are "fully allowed to bite the hand feeding them", the compromise could at least be defended.

Last set of short talks for today: at 15:00 UTC in Drini: "What is DPKG_ROOT? And what is it not?" followed by "What's New in GNOME 42". In Lumbardhi, "Next steps for HA in Debian" at 15:00 UTC followed by "Outreachy Project: Yarn plugin to resolve node modules installed as Debian packages via apt", and in Ereniku the Debian Hamradio BoF will happen from 15:00 UTC until 16:00 UTC debconf22.debconf.org/schedule…

After lunch we continue at 12:00 UTC with "Scalable Support for Linux Users: A Guide for Overwhelmed SysAdmins" in Drini. In Lumbardhi room, #DebConf22 attendants will share interesting stories about travel to DebConfs in the "DebConf Travelogue" session, and the Python Team will have their BoF (discussion session) in Ereniku debconf22.debconf.org/schedule…

At 9:00 UTC we'll have the traditional talk "What's new in the Linux kernel (and what's missing in Debian)" in Drini, short talk "Building a busybox based Debian rootfs with mmdebstrap" followed by "debian/copyright improvement" at Lumbardhi and the Android tools BoF in Ereniku - to watch the live streaming, click on the room names in the schedule or from the homepage of #DebConf22 website debconf22.debconf.org/

Second half of day 4 in #DebConf22 starts at 12:00 UTC with talks "How Ubuntu and Debian GNOME work better together" and "Interoperability and the metaverse: Positioning Debian in the emerging ecosystem" at 13:00 UTC in Drini, spontaneous cross bulding BOF at 12:00 UTC and "Debian Academy BoF" at 13:00 UTC in Ereniku. debconf22.debconf.org/schedule…

Entire telecomm infrastructure of Iceland sold to private equity

Link: ardian.com/news-insights/focus…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…

During the afternoon break (and at any time with no live streaming) you can watch the sponsors loop (the video shown in between talks) spiced with some background music, some useful information (like the schedule and announcements), and... clips contributed by our lovely DebConf attendees! This is our virtual mascot Loopy Loop. Learn more about it here jonathancarter.org/2020/08/30/…