events

I just finished work on the 'grml 22c3 release'. The 22nd Chaos Communication Congress (December 27th to 30th, 2005) will take place in Berlin/Germany. I'm not on the event (lacking time), but several grml team members and beta-testers will be there! 'grml 22c3' is not a public release, it is only available for beta-testers and people at 22c3. It's a preview release of the upcoming grml 0.6 which will be available in january 2006.

grml shouldn't be only a distribution with good hardware recognition and "lots of the right tools" but also be comfortable to use. Running usability tests should help us to improve handling of grml.

I'm interested in your opinion regarding what kind of tests might be useful for grml. I already wrote down some basic steps but would like to get your feedback.

Last but not least: I'm searching for people in Graz/Styria who would like to be part of the usability study. It does not matter whether you are a sysadmin or texttool-user, I'm searching for people from all kinds of background. It won't take longer than 30 minutes per person and you will get one of the limited special-edition CDs of the grml 0.5-release for free.

Don't hesitate to contact me.

Jimmy and me were at Linuxdays Vienna 2005 on thursday and friday (the community days on 26th and 27th of mai). I had another talk about grml:

The german slides are available online: grml-wien05.pdf [454k].

A more detailed, german report about the event is availablein my personal blog.

BTW: I won the hacktivity show on friday evening and now I'm proud owner of a SuSE box. 8-)

Yesterday Grazer Linuxdays 2005 took place. Several grml-developers (Mika, Jimmy, Gebi, Martin and Alfie) have been there, grml has had a booth between the Debian and the Gentoo guys. Flaming was fun of course. ;-)
Mika presented the upcoming grml release 0.4 in his talk. At the grml-booth we could provide >150 grml-CDs, thanks to our sponsors Sevian7 and Agami!

I nearly forgot to mention the developer-meeting at beginning of march 2005. Several grml-developers have been on Chemnitzer LinuxTag 2005. Some us of met each other for the first time in reallife. :-)