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 next Debconf7/, in Edinburgh. 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:

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.

Yes

Yes

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 DD

exampledd

dd(at)debian.org

Video Team

Yes

Amaya Rodrigo

amaya

amaya(at)debian.org

Sign loud

Yes