events

The Debian project hosts a Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg/Austria, taking place from April 5th to April 7th 2019. A Bug Squashing Party is a come-together of developers, contributors and enthusiasts who try to fix as many bugs as possible.

We’ve been invited to join the Bug Squashing Party and since Grml is an official derivative of Debian we’re more than happy to take this opportunity. This is the perfect time and place to meet with fellow Grml and Debian developers, contributors and friends, to make the next Debian- and Grml-Release the best ever! :)

The key facts:

• Location: conova communications GmbH, Karolingerstr. 36A, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
• Date: 2019-04-05 (Friday) until 2019-04-07 (Sunday)

If you want to join us please visit wiki.debian.org/BSP/2019/04/Salzburg for further information. If you’ve any questions feel free to reach out to us.

PS: For the ones of you who can’t join us in Salzburg, feel free to join us during the Bug Squashing Party on IRC (#grml on irc.freenode.org)!

This year we're celebrating 10 years of Grml. I wrote some words about those ten years of Grml in my personal blog.

The Grml team wishes you Merry Christmas to the ones of you who celebrate it and a Happy New Year! We hope to see you in 2015!

The hackathon for next Grml release took place on 4th and 5th november 2010 in the fantastic hackerspace Metalab in Vienna/Austria.

Some highlights of this amazing event:

• formorer started to work on the new Grml Homepage and it looks great so far. Maybe it is finished for the new release
• ch organized the location and social event and closed many bugs
• jimmy implemented a special update-grub feature for integrating Grml ISOs in usual hd installations during the meeting and debugged several issues
• gebi designed and started to develop a framework for non free tools like Raid controller or truecrypt (yes truecrypt is non-free!)
• rhonda started to use Zsh and will be looking for fast mirrors outside of Europe.
• mika was just amazed about the donations and what was achieved during these two days. Thank you!

Find more details about the meeting in the Minutes of the Grml Developer Meeting 2010.

Several Grml team members will be present at FrOSCon in Sankt Augustin/Germany on August 21st/22nd 2010. We will have some gadgets like Grml USB pens with multiboot setup of the Grml release (32 and 64-bit), coffee cups,... So make sure to visit us, grab some CDs and USB pens while they are hot, and share your experience with Grml. See you at FrOSCon!

Grml Developer Ulrich Dangel will give a german talk about Grml on 10th of June at the Net Culture Lab (NCL) in Dornbirn (Bertollini - Haus, Marktstrasse 4, 5. Stock, Dornbirn).

The talk will cover Grml and its possibilities for data rescue and networking debugging as well as an overview about the powerful and extensible boot process.

Grml tools like grml2usb, grml-terminserver and grml-live as well as the powerful and flexible default shell Zsh will be shown.

You will have the possibility to get some Grml CDs with the current release 2010.04 Grmlmonster as well as multiboot USB keys (32 and 64bit).

Several Grml team members will be present at Linuxdays in Graz on Saturday, April 24th 2010. If you ever had any questions - this is the time to contact us in real life! :-)

Thanks to data rescue specialist Attingo (AttingoDatenrettung) we can offer free Grml CDs to every visitor. The CD contains the upcoming version 2010.04 of Grml, codename Grmlmonster. We also have Grml USB pens with multiboot setup of the Grml release (32 and 64-bit), posters and even coffee cups.

Project leader Michael Prokop will give a talk about Deployment and Disaster Recovery with Grml. Make sure to visit us, grab some CDs and USB pens while they are hot, and share your experience with Grml. For people not familiar with the shell and the console based workflow Sven Guckes will give a workshop about console programs using Grml for it.

If you ever wanted to to get in contact with team members and users of Grml, learn something about console tools, simply meet interesting people or just listen to informative talks visit us and the other projects at Linuxdays in Graz and have a good time.

At the grml booth at FrOSCon we had a contest for the best release name, feature request,... for grml. Out of 16 contributions we elected the first five places. That's the result:

1. Sebastian Harl: Release-Name: "Grmlmonster"
2. Axel Beckert: Release-Name: "Hello Wien"
3. Axel Beckert: zsh should set terminal title to previous jobtitle instead of 'fg'
4. Christian Vervoorts: choose i386/amd64 automatically depending on the architecture
5. Christian Bricart: ship libsmbios-bin for flashing BIOS

The winner (Sebastian Harl) will receive a special grml USB pen and a copy of the german LinuxUser magazine edition (2009/08) featuring the Grml-DVD. Places 2 to 5 receive a copy of the german LinuxUser magazine edition (2009/08). Thanks to all contributors for participating and hope to see you at FrOSCon 2010!

Several core developers of the grml team will be available at FrOSCon (Free and Open Source Software Conference) on 22nd and 23rd of August 2009 in Sankt Augustin/Germany. We'll have a grml booth featuring grml CDs, usb pens with multiboot ISO setup, grml t-shirts, flyers.... Mika will present some nifty tips and tricks what you can do with grml (including topics like useful bootoptions, Zsh, USB booting and remote access via iSCSI) in his german talk "grml - das Schweizer Taschenmesser der Linux-Notfallsysteme". Please come and visit us!

You can meet several core developers of grml at the grml booth at Grazer Linuxdays 2009 on 25th of april in Graz/Austria. We'll have multi-ISO usb devices with us and present some nifty features of the upcoming grml release. Hope to see you there!

Some stats for the bugsquashing party on 2009-02-12:

• starting at 223 open bugs
• finished at 199 open bugs
• filed 3 new bugreports
• overall result: closed 27 bugreports

Participants (alphabetically):

• Alexander 'z3ttacht' Steinböck
• Andreas 'jimmy' Gredler
• Frank 'ft' Terbeck
• Henning 'lazyboy' Sprang
• Michael 'mika' Prokop
• Ulrich 'mrud' Dangel

Thanks for your contributions!

On 2009-02-12 starting at 02:00p.m. (with open end) a grml bug squashing party takes place via IRC. Coordination takes place on channel #grmldev on freenode. Everyone is welcome to join. Further details are available at the bug squashing party in the grml-wiki.

Several grml developers met at the Grazer LinuxDay (Austria) on 19th of april 2008. Alexander held a talk about Nagios3, Jimmy talked about Backups, Gebi held a talk about "Lockless Multithreading using Erlang" and I (Mika) was talking about "Systemadministration++ - What really helps". Check out the gallery to get an idea of the event. Oh, and at the grml-booth we had a Lenovo X300, running grml of course. :)

Several grml developers will be at the Chemnitzer linuxdays 2008 on the following weekend (1st and 2nd of march). We would highly appreciate to meet grml users at the grml booth. We will present the new stable releases (CDs are being printed right now!), will sell grml-on-USB pens, a demo system and will have a developer meeting. If you have any questions, feature requests or feedback please meet us at the grml booth!