Yesterday evening was incredible fun. I met Matt Hope and Pascal Hakim in town and they then gave me a lift to the venue where we had DebSIG. Various people there fed me with beer and then made me gave a little speech. I was supposed to talk about contributing to Debian without maintaining packages (or about becoming the Debian Project Leader without being a big package maintainer). It was actually more of a discussion then rather than a speech, and we talked about New Maintainer, the Debian trademark and other stuff which is being discussed at the moment. Later, I had a chance to talk to Jeff Waugh of GNOME fame about release management. Still later, (after making me slightly drunk) they made me play pool so they could take over as DPL for a week (more on that below). Fortunately, due to the help of Anand we won the first game; we lost the second one, though.
So what's the deal with me losing at pool anyway you may wonder. Well, look at the DebSIG announcement:
From: akumria@debian.org Subject: DebSIG: (this) Wednesday 3rd September Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 16:27:42 +1000 To: debian-au@lists.linux.org.au Cc: leader@debian.org, announce@lists.slug.org.au Hi All, Only a few weeks ago was Debian 10th Birthday; this week we are fortunate to have Martin 'tbm' Michlmayr -- Debian Project Leader -- up in Sydney. To celebrate, we've decided to make this DebSIG a week early. In order to meet as many Sydney based Debian developers as possible Martin has thrown down the gauntlet and challenged all who come to three games of pool. Anyone who is able to beat him (at pool) can take over as DPL for a week. Plus if you bring your key you might get it signed. Martin will give a number of talks on topics such as 'how to effectively bribe the DPL' and 'contributing to Debian without being a package maintainer' and 'my favourite Australian beers'. Summary: WHAT: DebSIG WHO: Martin Michlmayr, Debian Project Leader WHEN: Wednesday 3rd September from 18:30 WHERE: Wooloomooloo Bay Hotel, downstairs courtyard WHY: Challenge Martin for DPL! Also get your key signed Remember to bring your GnuPG key and fingerprint to get it signed.