 We just have to walk into a room right okay. Hi, we have admin now, so let's get started First I'd like to on behalf of all the debcom team I'd like to welcome everyone to debcom 11. I know a lot of you had long journeys to get here Some of you including long waits at borders to be allowed through Some of you including police escorts from the border to the venue I'd also like to thank all those of you who've come from nearer I know some of you are from Banu Luka itself, and we're happy also to meet you and to Introduce all of you to our community Of course, this is actually the 12th debcon because being geeks. We start counting at zero And I've been kind of addicted to debcom by myself since I stopped West went first at debcom 3 Which was in Norway I then got fooled into organizing debcom 7 in Scotland later on and then I've kind of stayed involved in the organizing team since then So just before I hand over to is this disappearing off my ear Before I handing over to Adnan for a few words. I want to give you kind of an introduction to where this debcom came from So a long time ago Back in the midst of debcom time Um Saffir who's also at this debcom in fact started working on a Bosnian the idea of a Bosnian debcom You can see Ganev here appreciating the idea But despite looking at various options somehow it never quite worked out at the time and then Saffir got kidnapped somehow and taken off to Canada And it was all kind of looked as if maybe it would just never happen, but then the idea got picked up by Adnan So you have to understand here one thing So break once he kind of realized this was something that needed to happen Adnan got to work and he found a solution to make debcom happen and to find the kind of compelling bid that couldn't be turned down Couldn't be beaten by anything else So he started off he just had the idea and then went around with his sales pitches to various people which I guess it worked out of course despite sending Photos with the president and prime minister and science minister and mayor of Banyaluka and however some of us kind of were Skepticals were saying well, yes, they want photos with you, but maybe maybe they just like how you look or something I mean we can understand that but are they actually promising us something concrete here So and then went back to work Background the mayor background the prime minister background the president background all these people Even so I mean partly just due to our Cyrillic and us Serbian and Bosnian and Croatian not being that good Some of us were still a little skeptical So probably actually really the main reason we were skeptical in this case is kind of silly But because it seemed too generous that the government simply promising us so much money and so many things that we're saying well Either is I don't just make it up or otherwise. What is that and I promise them with Kind of worrying so in the end a few months ago Holger and I also came over and We kind of to do a little fact-checking ourselves. I mean you're still kind of skeptical Yeah, we've gone to some office and there's some guy in a big in a smart suit there and his assistant offered us Drinks and biscuits or whatever, but yeah, I mean anyone can do that. Maybe it's just Adnan's friend who's So yeah, we also we said well come on. We've got to see the venue as well. That's important Yeah, so we got a tour of the building and so any kind of eventually we kind of we're still struggling Struggling to understand how it all worked and we still don't really know what the promises were and how many of us will Actually be allowed home at the end of that conference. Yeah, but But anyway by the end of the by the end of this visit everyone I'm just kind of sorted out that it's it's working so Yeah, I mean just before I hand over to Adnan to say a few words and to thank the sponsors I'd like to say Thank you to all the local team people I mean Adnan's obviously been big here But there's a lot of other people from the region who've been working on this so I don't know maybe all those people can just stand up and Adnan So yeah, I did pick up the bid first for my first up comb was actually that comes seven after Last bid to Edinburgh and I was there only as a spectator. I was actually still using slack word back then I was trying to do, you know maintain packages and all of that But you would need to go through one guy to upload anything which was just insane then I get to debcom and There's this whole community and then it's the idea struck me You know, I need to show this in Bosnia, you know Because we have all these great people really smart people at least and They don't have a clue about this and back then we still couldn't travel and all of that so we couldn't you know Go to the world. I said, you know, I'm gonna bring the thing over here, you know, Bosnia and that that's when idea started Yeah, as more it said it was yeah, it was a lot of a lot of work I think in the end I will try to write it some kind of handbook or something like that for People who are interested in in making debcom for success and future and all of that But generally I'm just enjoy debcom. I don't know what else to say. Oh right and And I would like to thank our sponsors Should I listen to them? Okay? Government being our biggest sponsor. They are I'm told HP Google and narrow canonical Sarnad arm all those people So, yeah, you can see I'm not the male profit bricks Thomas Cranon. Creditive. Yeah, thanks So that's it that's it from us for the introduction session Welcome to debcom. Enjoy the conference. The next talk will be here at 11 will be Stefano with our DPL about the status of Something probably Debbie in or so so have fun