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