So, I have to be honest
I'm really honored to be here
I don't say that to just every conference
I care a lot about Debian
This is my 3rd Debconf I've ever been to
There have been a lot of them so I obviously haven't been to that many
But I was at Debconf1
which I just learned today that it was zero based so that it wasn't the first Debconf
which I should have known but didn't for some reason
but so I was at the 2nd Debconf and
by accident somewhat because I was going to Libre Software meeting
and just happened to book my flights so that I could be at Debconf as well
and because it was in New York city where I was living at the time
I gave a regular track talk at Debconf10 about the GPL v3
and here I'm giving an invited speaker talk
or a keynote or whatever else it is called here
That really means a lot to me
I'm a fan of Debian, I'm a user of Debian.
I don't actually consider myself part of the Debian community
because other than filing a few bugs over the years
I haven't contributed all that much to Debian
but I've relied on it and used it and been a fan of it for so long
that I really love your project.
So I am really honored to be invited to speak here
and I really believe that Debian is a very special project
for a lot of reasons
First of all it has thrived for longer than almost any free software project in existence
in a lot of ways. There are top 10 lists of projects that Debian is certainly on as far as longevity goes, maybe the top 5