This wiki space will be used for the development of the "Printing Debian" project, and all surrounding ideas.
Lightning talk
OdyX presented this idea during one DebConf15 lightning talks session, please see:
Core idea
The main idea is to transform the incredible amount of humanity knowledge deposited in the Debian source into something tangible, lasting, and a demonstration of the volume of what powers everyone's lives these days.
Satellite ideas
Given the craziness and the beauty of this idea, many people have proposed interesting ideas related to it, let's list some of them here:
- debian.net service to serve any Debian package as PDF, using snapshot.debian.org as backend
"Bring me anywhere in the Debian source code" - Web-based emulation of "randomly picking a book and reading the source code" → web-based infinite scrolling, see the Google advice on how to make this search-friendly
- Debian Radio - Listen to the sound of Debian - Automated and random radio stream of all sounds present in the Debian archive
- Debian Source Radio - Listen to the sound of Debian - Automated text-to-speech of the complete source code of Debian, think of "From now on, and for the next two years, we will be listening to the Firefox source code"
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