{"id":364,"date":"2009-07-11T11:11:53","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T09:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=364"},"modified":"2009-07-11T11:11:53","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T09:11:53","slug":"slides-from-rmll-and-much-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"Slides from RMLL (and much more)"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I’m back from the Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre<\/a>, which took place in Nantes this year. It was great to see all those people from the french Free Software community again, and I look forward to seeing them again next year in Bordeaux (too bad the Toulouse bid wasn’t chosen).<\/p>\n

The Debian booth, mainly organized by Xavier Oswald and Aur\u00c3\u00a9lien Couderc, with help from Rapha\u00c3\u00abl, Roland and others (but not me!), got a lot of visits, and Debian’s popularity is high in the community (probably because RMLL is mostly for \u00c3\u00bcber-geeks, and Debian’s market share is still very high in this sub-community).<\/p>\n

I spent quite a lot of time with the Ubuntu-FR crew, which I hadn’t met before. They do an awesome work on getting new people to use Linux (providing great docs and support), and do very well (much better than in the past) at giving a good global picture of the Free Software world (Linux != Ubuntu, other projects do exist and play a very large role in Ubuntu’s success, etc<\/em>). It’s great to see Free Software’s promotion in France being in such good hands. (Full disclosure: I got a free mug (recycled plastic) with my Ubuntu-FR T-shirt, which might affect my judgement).<\/p>\n

I gave two talks, on two topics I wanted to talk about for some time. First one was about the interactions between users, distributions and upstream projects, with a focus on Ubuntu’s development model and relationships with Debian and upstream projects. Second one was about voting methods, and Condorcet in particular. If you attended one of those talks, feedback (good or bad) is welcomed (either in comments or by mail). Slides are also available (in french):<\/p>\n