Kevin,

The debian day talks are being handled separately, so the information in
the standard allocation system does not apply.


It still seems silly to evaluate a small subset of the papers at such a
later date.


Debian Day is not intended for that purpose. The aim of debian day is to
give more of a picture of Debian to the outside world who do not have
much/any knowledge of Debian but would otherwise be interested.
Technical specifics which are discussion points are better aimed at Debian
Developers in the main conference itself.


Anyone who wants to learn about Debian should also learn about Ubuntu at the
same time, and my talk is subtitled "An outsider's perspective on Ubuntu and
Debian." If you are shooting very low and assume no one knows anything about
Debian, or even computers, etc. then maybe my talk isn't relevant, but I
doubt that many such people would randomly show up to Edinburgh.
Furthermore, I see no talks on how to install Debian, walkthroughs of Etch
features, so maybe that is an old version of that day's motto--this is your
7th conference.

I suspect a fair number of people want to know more details about Debian,
and how it relates to Ubuntu, and my talk is the only one discussing this,
and should be understandable by non-developers. I can focus on that even
more: I assume people know what X.org means, but I can assume less if anyone
wanted me to. I suggested Debian Day because It is the day when your
partners and others will be there, and I think it might be good for a
slightly more diverse audience to be aware of these issues. I try to catalog
a lot of them in a concise package. FWIW, I think of this talk as much more
appropriate for a Debian conference than an Ubuntu conference.

-Keith
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