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 * ---[[http://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartySqueeze/USA/NewYork|Squeeze Release Party this Sunday]]

There are many Debianistas in New York City. If you are interested in Debian or Free Software, get in touch with us.

Upcoming Events

To be informed of these events, join our mailing list. Consider subscribing to the event calendar as well.

Event Calendar

Subscribe to our public web calendar so that all of our upcoming events will appear in your calendar automatically. This calendar can be used by any calendar application that supports the iCalendar format, including Evolution, Thunderbird, Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, Apple iCal, and many others. See here for details or view the calendar in your browser.

What do we do?

Debian Workshops

In order to build a community, we occasionally hold workshops for the NYC area. They vary from things for total beginners, to users of Debian, to advanced topics. Check /Workshops for more information, including a list of all past workshops.

Novice Nights

Novice Nights are a night where we explicitely invite newcomers to get help installing, configuring, or learning about Debian. See DebianNYC/NoviceNights for more information, they are currently still in the tentative/planning stages and none have happened yet.

Social nights

Occasionally, we'll gather in a bar to hang out and have fun.

DebConf10

The Debian-NYC team was successful in getting the bid for DebConf10, in 2010, for New York City. The website is/was http://debconf10.debconf.org and our planning occurred via the DebConf wiki. There were separate (but heavily overlapping) DebConf10 mailing list and IRC channel.

DebConf10 is all wrapped up and done now. It was lots of fun.

Visiting NYC

As part of our plan to take over the world, we encourage visitors to come by so that we can share knowledge, stories, and fun. If you'll be around the area, let us know by mail or IRC (above). We can arrange social events or keysignings while you are here.

Travel / Accommodations

There is a lot of information on our DebConf10 wiki page or our bid page. Also, just ask us via IRC.

Hostels/Hotels:

Airports:

  • LGA most convenient for domestic flights. Walk outside the terminal (arrival/baggage claim level), follow the signs to "public buses" (only visible outside). You will come to the MTA bus stop. You want the M60 bus to get to Columbia/Morningside heights area, but other buses connect to subways in Queens. You need to buy a metrocard before you get on: go inside the terminal to the metrocard vending machine there (or, they accept exact change in quarters).
  • JFK and EWR (Newark) are about equally convenient for getting to the city, but from JFK can be cheaper if you take a longer route to the city.

Past Events

Members of Debian-NYC

  • Brian Gupta
  • Kevin Mark [KevinMark]

  • Richard Darst
  • Hans-Christoph Steiner
  • (fill in names here)