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So, I have to be honest

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I'm really honored to be here

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I don't say that to just every conference

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I care a lot about Debian

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This is my 3rd Debconf I've ever been to

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There have been a lot of them so I obviously haven't been to that many

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But I was at Debconf1

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which I just learned today that it was zero based so that it wasn't the first Debconf

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which I should have known but didn't for some reason

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but so I was at the 2nd Debconf and

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by accident somewhat because I was going to Libre Software meeting

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and just happened to book my flights so that I could be at Debconf as well

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and because it was in New York city where I was living at the time

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I gave a regular track talk at Debconf10 about the GPL v3

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and here I'm giving an invited speaker talk

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or a keynote or whatever else it is called here

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That really means a lot to me

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I'm a fan of Debian, I'm a user of Debian.

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I don't actually consider myself part of the Debian community

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because other than filing a few bugs over the years

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I haven't contributed all that much to Debian

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but I've relied on it and used it and been a fan of it for so long

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that I really love your project.

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So I am really honored to be invited to speak here

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and I really believe that Debian is a very special project

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for a lot of reasons

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First of all it has thrived for longer than almost any free software project in existence

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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