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Aug. 4, 2010

The tenth annual Debian Developer Conference has now opened in New York City, marking the first time the event has been held in the U.S.

The conference will explore the latest developments with the Debian Linux distribution, which underscores various other Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, CentOS, Xandros, and Chrome OS.

The world's largest GNU/Linux distribution developers conference, the show is taking place at Columbia University Aug. fisrt to Aug. 7.

The Debian Project, the team behind the free Debian GNU/Linux operating system, is inviting open source developers to participate in the conference. This year's event is sponsored by the Columbia University Computer Science Department and the 2010 conference marks the first time that DebConf has also been held in the United States.

Translated into 27 languages, and supporting a huge range of computer architectures, Debian calls itself the "universal operating system," and is the largest free software project in the world. In the U.S., Debian is backed by Software in the Public Interest, a not-for-profit public charity.

In addition to a full schedule of technical, social and policy talks, DebConf provides an opportunity for developers, contributors and other interested people to meet in person and work together more closely.

It has taken place once every year since 2000 in locations as varied as Canada, Finland and Mexico.

This year, more than 300 Linux and open source developers from all over the world, including Brazil, Argentina, Bosnia, Mexico, Canada, Western Europe, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Venezuela, and Latvia, will participate in the conference.

Every year, DebConf enables new and existing Debian project participants from around the world to assemble, share knowledge and ideas, make collaborative contributions to Debian, and build tighter community bonds.

Overall, most conference costs are largely supported by corporate sponsors who find significant interest in supporting Debian and DebConf.

More than 3,000 volunteers from all over the world work together in creating and maintaining Debian GNU/Linux, which is the operating system behind a variety of other Linux distributions. For instance, Debian spawned the popular Ubuntu Linux, as well as Xandros, Linspire, DreamLinux and a few others.

This year, DebConf will also host "tracks," featuring a new group of discussion groups linked by a common theme. These include tracks on Science/Math, Java, Enterprise Systems, Debian Community Outreach, and Media and Art in Debian.

Other talks will cover technical, licensing and community issues by a host of Debian developers and other leaders in the Free Software community.

Eben Moglen, chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center and professor of Law at Columbia University, was the conference's plenary speaker on Aug. 3 at 10 a.m.

DebConf also included Debian Day, which was held on Aug. 1st. When the conference opened its doors, anyone interested in finding out more about Debian and free software could ask questions to Linux experts. During that event, there was a full day of talks on a variety of subjects such as free software advocacy, free software usability, and a number of talks on the Debian project and operating system itself.

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