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-Kern;;;28 April 2010 at 19:15 CET
+kern;;;07 August 2010 at 21:55 CET 
+
+                      Bacula Developer's Conference
+                          27-28 September 2010
+                            Yverdon-les-Bains
+                               Switzerland
+
+Are you interested in:
+
+- Meeting the Bacula developers in person.
+- Learning how we maintain the source code.
+- Hearing presentations about Bacula from the developers.
+- Learning about and helping define the Bacula roadmap.
+- Giving feedback or ideas directly to the developers.
+- Learning more about Bacula Systems.
+- Hearing from Bacula users.
+
+If so, you should know that there will be a Bacula Developer's conference in
+Yverdon, Switzerland (about 1.5 hour by train from Geneva Airport) on the 27th
+and 28th of September.  In addition, Bacula Systems will hold an Open House on
+Sunday the 26th beginning at noon where you can meet most of the Bacula
+Systems founders and key Bacula developers person.
+
+This conference will be most appropriate for developers and advanced Bacula
+users, but it is open and free for everyone interested in Bacula.  If you are
+or have been a contributor to the Bacula project, the project may be able to
+sponsor part of your trip -- please ask.
+
+
+Sunday 26 Sept.  
+  Bacula Systems Open House.  Visit the Bacula Systems offices and meet the
+  Bacula developers and the Bacula Systems founders.  Totally informal and
+  optional.
+
+
+Day 1: Monday 27 September 2010
+  Presentations by Bacula developers and anyone else who would like to give a
+  formal presentation (30 to 45 minutes)
+
+  Tentative program:
+  - Swisscom sharing our experiences with Bacula (SAP backup, ...)
+  - DassIT new Bacula conf file GUI editor
+  - Bacula in Brazil
+  - Linux Bare Metal Recovery
+  - Bacula development process
+  - Bacula Roadmap
+  - Bweb
+
+Day 2: Tuesday 28 September 2010
+  Birds of a feather meetings:
+  Informal direct conversations with the developers, planning, 
+    organizing, ...
+  - Using git
+  - How patches are integrated
+  - Regression testing
+    - CDash regression dashboard
+  - Release cycle
+  - Roadmap discussion and input
+  - How Bacula plugins work
+    ...
+
+Your input needed:
+
+We are still in the process of organizing the presentations and the time with
+the developers, so if you are planning to attend and you would like to make a
+formal presentation, or if you have some particular subjects that you would
+like us to address, please let us know as soon as possible.
+
+
+;;;;
+Kern;;;06 August 2010 at 19:15 CET
 We have released Bacula Version 5.0.3 to Source Forge
 
 This 5.0.3 version is significant bug fix update to version 5.0.2.