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Introduction

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/images/helsinki_complaints_choir_1.jpg

What do people complain about in Finland? Well, the Helsinki Complaints Choir will sing it to you. [http://www.ykon.org/kochta-kalleinen/complaintschoir.html The Helsinki Choir of Complaints] video can be seen [http://www.ykon.org/kochta-kalleinen/downloads/cc_hel.mov here]. Watch the video before you do anything else. Specially if you attended Debconf5 in Helsinki.

Finnish artists [http://www.ykon.org/tellervo/ Tellervo Kalleinen] and [http://home.arcor.de/oooooo/ Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen] collected the pet peeves and angst-ridden pleas of people in Helsinki and then composed this choral work around the list of complaints. While many of the complaints are universal to western urban life, many of the complaints dive deep to the heart of the [http://wiki.debian.org/HugAFinn Finnish] soul. But all the complaints end with the timeless refrain of all humanity, It's Not Fair.

I gather this has become a traveling show. The Complaints Choir invites people to complain as much as they want and to sing their complaints out loud together with fellow complainers. The first choir was organised in Birmingham ([http://www.ykon.org/kochta-kalleinen/downloads/complaints_choir_birmingham.mp3 video]) followed by the Complaints Choir of Helsinki. The Helsinki Complaints Choir premiered in March, 2006 at the [http://www.kiasma.fi/ Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art], part of the Finnish National Gallery. The project will travel to Hamburg and St. Petersburg next.

TheDebianChoirOfComplaints

What do people complain about in Debian? Well, hopefully, the Debian Choir of Complaints will sing it to you in Edinburgh during DebConf7. Some of us can sing, some of us can play the piano, we have a great [http://wiki.debian.org/DebConf5VideoLearnings Video Team], and all of us can loudly complain.

Write you complaints here, you can also add them if you don't want to sing:

Name

Nick

Email

Complaint

Can sing?

Will attend Debconf7?

Amaya Rodrigo

amaya

amaya(at)debian.org

The BTS is too slow. There are too many GRs going on right now. Too many people listed on ?DebConf7/NoJune. The python transition is too difficult to understand. h01ger has too many complaints, he is from Hamburg. Ubuntu gets all the credit for our hard work. m68k wont be released with etch. Vancouver has awful sushi. Ganneff never hugs me. Good developers go MIA. Clint's posts are impossible to understand. udev is always broken. The extremadura people never submit patches back to debian. Nobody understands what firmware really is. Sam Hocevars porn page is disappointing.

Yes

Yes

Holger Levsen

h01ger

debian(at)layer-acht.org

15000 packages are too many to find the good ones and etch wont fit on two DVDs. The release cycles are too long (or to slow). NM takes too long. There is no polygen grammar for complaints. I cant keep up with debian email. The RC bug count is too high. Flamewars happen too often. Planet gets flooded all the time and Evan never chooses a proper subject. Nobody cares about stable, everybody runs experimental. The GDFL causes too much work. The social contract is always changed.

Yes

Yes

Eric Raymond

ELER

esr@ibiblio.org

IPods dont work with linux

No

No!

If you would really like to take part organizing this pet-project, list yourself here too:

Name

Nick

Email

Choir skill

Will attend Debconf7?

Example Debianist

cutelittlename

itsme(at)email.org

Video Team

Yes

Amaya Rodrigo

amaya

amaya(at)debian.org

Sign loud

Yes