Hi all,
I've had some recent visits to Kosovo and there are some exciting things
happening there.
Chris Lamb got there first for Software Freedom Kosova[1] 2016.
At the Digital-born Media Carnival[2], I met some students, Albiona and
Qendresa Hoti, who invited me to visit and asked me if I could provide
some support for their hackathon in Prizren. I went there and gave a
talk at the Innovation Center Kosovo[3] in July and went back for the
hackathon[4] in August.
A MiniDebConf is now being organized for 7 October. The Prishtina
hackerspace[6] is a possible venue but this hasn't been finally
confirmed yet.
Kosovo has also been discussed in the bug tracker recently, there is a
first Debian mirror[7] there and there is discussion about how to give
Kosovan users a better experience[8] using the Debian installer.
Like Albania[9], there are really good signs for diversity in Kosovo and
it looks like the MiniDebConf may achieve a gender ratio that hasn't
been seen before in Debian events, with the exception of those that were
exclusively organized for women.
Regards,
Daniel
1. http://sfk.flossk.org/sfk16/
2.
http://www.shareconference.net/en/defense/digital-born-adventures-kotor-and-lessons-carnival
3. https://ickosovo.com/
4.
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/ks/2017/CoderGalsHackathonForGirlsPrizren
5. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/ks/2017/MiniDebConfPrishtina
6. http://www.prishtinahackerspace.org/
7. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=867255
8. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=872867
9. https://www.openlabs.cc