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Mini Debconf
- Venue suggested in Muizenberg, Cape Town
- Estimated date: August/September 2025
Options for booth at South African expo
- https://techspojoburg.co.za/sponsorship (19-20 Oct 2023 @ V&A Waterfront Cape Town)
- https://techspocapetown.co.za/sponsorship (25-26 Oct 2023 @ Hilton Sandton JHB)
- https://www.itweb.co.za/event/itweb-cloud-and-data-centre-summit-2023 (31 Oct 2023 @ Bryanston JHB)
- https://tmt.knect365.com/africa-tech-festival/africatech2023 (14 - 16 Nov 2023 @ CTICC)
- https://ictsummit.co.za (21-23 Nov 2023 @ East London ICC)
- https://www.devconf.co.za/capetown (9 May 2024 @ Century City Conference Centre)

Date & Time: 2025/01/11 15h30-21h00
Location: Protea Heights, Brackenfell 7560
Attendees: highvoltage, violet, mercury
Documented by: mercury
Activities:
- Claimed and performed ISO testing and documented results for various ISO images
- highvoltage assisted mercury with GPG key and revocation certificate creation

Date & Time: 2024/08/31 12h00-22h30
Location: Woodstock Brewery, Cape Town 7925
Attendees: highvoltage, tumbleweed, wouter, tammy, violet, mercury, marc, binarydale
Documented by: mercury
Activities:
- Updated Debian South Africa Local Group logo options presented by Tammy with discussions
- Birthday party celebration commenced: cutting and consumption of the cake, group photo taken
- Training on ISO downloading, use of matrix and wiki for testing collaboration
- Claimed and performed ISO testing and documented results for various ISO images
- Joined Jitsi call to check in with Debian UK team

See highvoltage's blog post for more details and photos!

Date & Time: 2023/09/10 - 2023/09/17
Location: Kochi, India
Attendees: highvoltage, tumbleweed, wouter, tammy, violet, mercury
Documented by: mercury
Activities:
1. Bits From the DPL presented by highvoltage
2. Cheese & Wine party with distribution of 100 bags
3. Day Trip to various interesting locations in Kerala
4. Attended/presented/volunteered in many different talks

See highvoltage's blog post for more details and photos!

Date & Time: 2023/08/26 10h30-11h30
Location: Vredekloof Heights, Brackenfell 7560
Attendees: highvoltage, violet, mercury
Documented by: mercury
Discussion Points:
1. Cheese & Wine Contributions
  - Each to bring some cheeses & a bottle of wine
  - Also consider ZA branded rusks, rooibos tea & chappies
2. Merchandise Finalization
  - 50x mousepads (25x round + 25x rectangular)
  - 100x cheese & wine branded zip tote bags
  - 10x bucket hats for ZA local team
  - 7x shirts for ZA local team (various sizes)
3. Debconf Video Team (https://video.debconf.org)
  - mercury is interested in joining
4. Debian Top Trump Cards
  - Merchandise idea for Debian packages social card game
  - Categories: Popcorn rating, size, initial release, bugs, versions

Date & Time: 2023/08/16 19h00-22h15
Location: Woodstock Brewery, Cape Town 7925
Attendees: 14 in total
Documented by: mercury
Activities:
- Debian presentation by highvoltage, see blog post
- Debian South Africa Local Group logo options presented and voted on favorites
- Birthday party celebration commenced: birthday song, cutting of the cake and socializing

Date & Time: 2023/08/12 16h15-17h45
Location: Protea Heights, Brackenfell 7560
Attendees: highvoltage, violet, mercury
Documented by: mercury
Discussion Points:
1. Debian Day 2023 ZA Preparations
  - mybroadband.co.za forum - share Debian day link (todo: mercury)
  - Ask Marc to distribute Debian day link on CLUG newsgroup (todo: mercury)
  - Book meeting room area at Woodstock Brewery (todo: mercury)
  - Finalize and order 20x mousepads (todo: violet & mercury)
  - Order Debian 30 years birthday cake (todo: highvoltage)
2. Debian Day 2023 ZA Activities
  - Mini state of the nation to be presented by highvoltage
  - Debian timeline to be presented by highvoltage
  - Dual boot setup - mercury to bring Windows 10 notebook
  - Recordings and photos for Loopy
3. Mini Debconf 2024 ZA @ Cape Town, South Africa
  - Estimated date: Nov 2024
  - Possibly schedule close to Pycon-za 2024 date
4. Debconf 2023 @ Koshi, India
  - Order more mousepads if popular at Debian Day 2023 (todo: violet & mercury)
  - Look into ordering a few cheese & wine totebags (todo: violet & mercury)
  - Cheese & wine ideas: rusks, Niknaks, Rooibos tee, Provita, Chappies
5. Debian Local Group Management
  - Lemmy for discussions (Reddit alternative)
  - element.debian.social for messaging (modern IRC)
  - Use wiki for meeting minutes
6. Debian Reimbursement Procedure
  - Discussed procedure and violet did 1st reimbursement pre-approval request

Date & Time: 2023/06/10 19h00-22h00
Location: Woodstock Brewery, Cape Town 7925
Attendees: 10 in total
Documented by: mercury
Activities:
- Debian 12 new install on mercury's notebook
- Debian release celebrations and socializing