#yasi — Public Fediverse posts
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DebConf26 – Santa Fe, Argentina
TL;DR: What a great DebConf! I managed to recharge my Debian batteries, and my talks / BoF sessions all went fine. Already looking forward to DebConf in Japan next year!
DebCamp
The evening before DebCamp started, we had a nice bbq (we taught some locals to call it a “braai” at an organiser’s house and went for a walk around the river as the sun set. It was a very peaceful lead-in to DebCamp.
- I set up and sent out the call for Forky desktop artwork:
- Had many nice discussions about various Debian topics with all the Debian people around. It’s really fun being around people who are natural problem solvers who care deeply about both technical and social issues. At one point Jonas told me “Holy shit, these people are motivated!” and I appreciate that so much too!
Debian LTS wine
- Most of my DebCamp was dedicated to preparing for my demo and main talk that followed at DebConf.
- Sadly, we had no loopy this year, I just didn’t have the time, and the people who stepped up to help last year were either overwhelmed with other issues or couldn’t make it. I’ll try to make it happen again for next year by kicking it off long before DC27.
View of Santa Fe city from hotel
DebConf
Talk – Is it even possible to build a truly universal system installer?
In this talk I do a very quick comparison of system installers based on my experience with them. It’s hard to directly compare all of them, since there are so many, and each have their own niche that they attempt to satisfy.
I also introduce Yasi – my attempt to answer the question of whether we could build a universal installer, which can also better cover advanced installations, automated installations and niche setups.
It’s very early days for the project, and I didn’t quite feel ready to share the code with the world, but it was nice that I did a quick demo where I could install a Debian system… and the resulting system actually booted up. *phew*.
This is also going to be my main focus for the mid-term future. I aim to have all the basic partitioning options working by the time Debian 14 (Forky) is released, and by the time Debian 15 is released, I have a long list of features that I aim to have working. So, my timeline for having something that’s generally useful is around a year from now, and in around 3 years it should be a fully fledged installer that should cover a very large amount of Debian use cases and architectures.
Day Trip
For the day trip, we did a tour across Santa Fe, visited Constitución de la Nación Argentina, had lunch where we tried various dishes based on local fish from the river, and then went on a boat ride on the river.
BoF Sessions:
Funding in Free Software Projects: I initially registered this BoF because I’m increasingly concerned about how upstreams are asking for donations in their software. I increased the scope to talk about funding in free software in general. It followed Marga’s talk about funding, which focussed more about how developers are funded in general. We didn’t dive very deep into this, but we certainly need some further discussion (and action) on this within Debian.
Debian Social Team: My most important issue for this team is a carry-over from last year, I want to set up barman (packaged in Debian) for live postgres syncing for our larger databases. For the smaller DBs, doing a daily dump is quite cheap. But for Matrix, it’s very expensive in terms if i/o and CPU, so it would be ideal to do less regular complete dumps and use live replication for the first line of redundancy instead.
Images Team: I wasn’t initially planning to say much during this session, I have some ideas to reduce both size and count of images, without losing any benefits, but I don’t have any work to show for that yet. I ended up talking a lot more than I anticipated, the topics covered were quite good and representative of the current state of Debian images built. I don’t have time to create a full summary, so I suggest checking the etherpad / video recording if you’re interested.
Some more wine variety during the conference dinner
Debianites in the main hacklab
Rosario
I’m spending two days in Rosario before I head home. Exploring a bit, catching up with sleep, finishing this blog post, signing keys and exploring some ideas I made note of during DebConf.
Thank you to the DebConf26 Team!
It was a little surreal not being part of any DebConf team for the first time ever, I’ve just been too focussed on getting Yasi ready for my talk (no regrets!). I hope to be more involved again next year, in the meantime, I’m very grateful to everyone who has made this happen, you did a stellar job! I hope to see many of you again next year in Japan!
#Argentina #ConstituciónDeLaNaciónArgentina #Debconf #Debian #Yasi -
DebConf26 – Santa Fe, Argentina
TL;DR: What a great DebConf! I managed to recharge my Debian batteries, and my talks / BoF sessions all went fine. Already looking forward to DebConf in Japan next year!
DebCamp
The evening before DebCamp started, we had a nice bbq (we taught some locals to call it a “braai” at an organiser’s house and went for a walk around the river as the sun set. It was a very peaceful lead-in to DebCamp.
- I set up and sent out the call for Forky desktop artwork:
- Had many nice discussions about various Debian topics with all the Debian people around. It’s really fun being around people who are natural problem solvers who care deeply about both technical and social issues. At one point Jonas told me “Holy shit, these people are motivated!” and I appreciate that so much too!
Debian LTS wine
- Most of my DebCamp was dedicated to preparing for my demo and main talk that followed at DebConf.
- Sadly, we had no loopy this year, I just didn’t have the time, and the people who stepped up to help last year were either overwhelmed with other issues or couldn’t make it. I’ll try to make it happen again for next year by kicking it off long before DC27.
View of Santa Fe city from hotel
DebConf
Talk – Is it even possible to build a truly universal system installer?
In this talk I do a very quick comparison of system installers based on my experience with them. It’s hard to directly compare all of them, since there are so many, and each have their own niche that they attempt to satisfy.
I also introduce Yasi – my attempt to answer the question of whether we could build a universal installer, which can also better cover advanced installations, automated installations and niche setups.
It’s very early days for the project, and I didn’t quite feel ready to share the code with the world, but it was nice that I did a quick demo where I could install a Debian system… and the resulting system actually booted up. *phew*.
This is also going to be my main focus for the mid-term future. I aim to have all the basic partitioning options working by the time Debian 14 (Forky) is released, and by the time Debian 15 is released, I have a long list of features that I aim to have working. So, my timeline for having something that’s generally useful is around a year from now, and in around 3 years it should be a fully fledged installer that should cover a very large amount of Debian use cases and architectures.
Day Trip
For the day trip, we did a tour across Santa Fe, visited Constitución de la Nación Argentina, had lunch where we tried various dishes based on local fish from the river, and then went on a boat ride on the river.
BoF Sessions:
Funding in Free Software Projects: I initially registered this BoF because I’m increasingly concerned about how upstreams are asking for donations in their software. I increased the scope to talk about funding in free software in general. It followed Marga’s talk about funding, which focussed more about how developers are funded in general. We didn’t dive very deep into this, but we certainly need some further discussion (and action) on this within Debian.
Debian Social Team: My most important issue for this team is a carry-over from last year, I want to set up barman (packaged in Debian) for live postgres syncing for our larger databases. For the smaller DBs, doing a daily dump is quite cheap. But for Matrix, it’s very expensive in terms if i/o and CPU, so it would be ideal to do less regular complete dumps and use live replication for the first line of redundancy instead.
Images Team: I wasn’t initially planning to say much during this session, I have some ideas to reduce both size and count of images, without losing any benefits, but I don’t have any work to show for that yet. I ended up talking a lot more than I anticipated, the topics covered were quite good and representative of the current state of Debian images built. I don’t have time to create a full summary, so I suggest checking the etherpad / video recording if you’re interested.
Some more wine variety during the conference dinner
Debianites in the main hacklab
Rosario
I’m spending two days in Rosario before I head home. Exploring a bit, catching up with sleep, finishing this blog post, signing keys and exploring some ideas I made note of during DebConf.
Thank you to the DebConf26 Team!
It was a little surreal not being part of any DebConf team for the first time ever, I’ve just been too focussed on getting Yasi ready for my talk (no regrets!). I hope to be more involved again next year, in the meantime, I’m very grateful to everyone who has made this happen, you did a stellar job! I hope to see many of you again next year in Japan!
#Argentina #ConstituciónDeLaNaciónArgentina #Debconf #Debian #Yasi -
Yasi Hofer - Between the Lines
Harmonie Bonn, Dienstag, 20. Oktober um 20:00 MESZ
📢 Konzert-Verlegung: Yasi Hofer – Between the Lines 🎸🎶
Leider müssen wir euch mitteilen, dass das Konzert von Yasi Hofer – Between the Lines am 13.03.2025 in der HArmonie Bonn aufgrund einer Erkrankung des Drummers auf den 20. Oktober 2026 verschoben werden muss.
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Yasi Hofer ist eine der beeindruckendsten Gitarristinnen der deutschen Rock- & Prog-Szene. Bereits im Alter von nur 12 Jahren wurde ihr Talent von Gitarren-Legende Steve Vai entdeckt – heute zählt sie zu den gefragtesten Musikerinnen Europas und darüber hinaus.
Mit ihrem neuesten Album „Between the Lines“ (bereits ihr 4. Studioalbum!) zeigt sie eindrucksvoll, warum sie als eine der innovativsten Gitarristinnen gilt. Das Album wurde vom Magazin Gitarre & Bass als Platte des Monats (März 2023) ausgezeichnet und vereint virtuose Rock-Elemente, bluesige und jazzige Vibes sowie kraftvolle Gesangsparts, die von Yasis einzigartigem Gitarrensound dominiert werden.
🌎 Neben ihrem Yasi Hofer Trio arbeitet sie derzeit in Los Angeles an einem weiteren spannenden Projekt – unter der Leitung von Holly Knight, einer der erfolgreichsten Songwriterinnen der Welt.
🔥 Auf ihrer „Between the Lines“-Tour wird Yasi Hofer mit ihrer Band ihr neuestes Werk sowie weitere energiegeladene Kompositionen präsentieren. Ihr Spiel begeistert mit raffinierter Technik, starken Melodien und hypnotischen Grooves, die sowohl eingefleischte Gitarrenfans als auch Liebhaber moderner Rockmusik begeistern.
🎶 Freut euch auf ein intensives und unvergessliches Live-Erlebnis – am 20. Oktober 2026 in der Harmonie Bonn!
Danke für euer Verständnis & eure Geduld! 🙏 Wir sehen uns bald wieder! 🎸🔥
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Datum: Dienstag, 20. Oktober 2026 - 20:00 Uhr (verlegt vom 13.03.2025)
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