The Linux User Group of Bosnia and Herzegovina is bidding for the organization of the eleventh Debian Conference. Debian is one of the most popular and certainly amongst oldest GNU/Linux distributions, bundled with free software only, providing users with various software packages through its own APT (Synaptic) package manager.
Debian Conference is organized once a year, and Sarajevo participated in the DebConf7 bid, but the city of Edinburgh won that year. This year, DebConf is being held in New York City.
The government of Republic of Srpska, with the prime minister Milorad Dodik, has given green light and financial support for the oncoming event, which gives Banja Luka a great opportunity to win the bid. Other bidders are Germany and the city of Munich, which is known to be as one of the first cities in Europe which fully adopted GNU/Linux in government and civil services.
If you would like to support the event, you can join the Facebook fan page or join the mail list. To find more about Banja Luka and event’s organization, visit the Wiki page. To find out more about how this idea emerged, visit Adnan Hodzic’s blog.
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