 I would like to introduce the DEF CONV-18 Taiwan team to you. As you see, they are all locals, which is, I think, a very good sign, because I think it's always good if we share kind of all the resources we have to make a bit successful, as the Taiwanese bit has been successful last year. And, well, they're going to introduce us now to what they are working on and why we should all join the wonderful city and wonderful country next year for the next iteration of DEF CONV. I still feel a bit nervous here. Bonjour, hello,大家好. We are inviting everyone to the next DEF CONV, which will be in Taiwan, also the first DEF CONV in Asia. The trivia about the logo is that it is the restaurant chain in Taiwan and we are already using our logo on the menu. Also, thank you for last year's approval for adjustments. We're talking about Taiwan. I believe most of the Debian users are more or less related to this project. So, FCE, a desktop environment which becomes a default for a majority of Singapore computers. And Clonzida, the most popular disk cloning and imaging project. And we have much more FOSS communities, conferences and activities in Taiwan. We also give kudos to OCF Open Cultural Foundation, the organization who also becomes the trusted organization in Debian, which also means OCF can receive donations from Debian. Our venue is... That was a lot of work. Our venue is sponsored by the ZTU National Chow Dong University where our venue and accommodation will be at. This is the venue built into a slide, situated with a pool. And this is the pool of the venue built in, as you just see in my inner partition background. And these are conference rooms. The large room on the top can have 236, while the smaller rooms, like the bottom, have about 106 per inch. And we have a meeting room which may be useful for BOI activities. Our on-site accommodation is also provided by the ZTU. We have 75 to 150 rooms and four beds per room. And it is all air conditioned and we have long dramas and wired network connections. So, if you don't bring your network cable, it will be disconnected in the accommodation. These are both famous foods in Xinzhu. On the top is the Mibosu and on the bottom is the dish of stir fried rice noodles. And we are considering giving out every participant a pair of chopsticks. If you want to use other diet tools, you can also BYOD. Or it's situated close to a university called Aitimpix Mountain over Spatien Mountain. The ramps are very smooth and it's a common place for local people to travel. This is the glass museum for demonstrating glass arts and traditions. It is reachable by bus or by bicycle. If you need something electronic, we also have a place there in computer parts and electronic parts. And it is right within the working distance. It's significantly different from western countries. So, prepare yourself, your shirt and umbrella. We also prepare for possible typhoon risk. So our schedule can be pushed forward even if typhoon causes closures. For people like other events, you also need to watch out for squiddles. The power system is the same as in the US and Canada. So if you can power it from here, you can power it in Taiwan. This is the visa policy of Taiwan and we are also guaranteeing everyone an easier entry with governmental support. So, stay here with us. If that confidence already. These are limits if you want to receive for shipping by car. If we see your chargers are shown away by Taiwanese customs. These are our dates for the typhoon, and these are final. Unless... Actually, with typhoon, we have... these dates are within typhoon, with the translation, so we can push forward. You can book flight tickets right now if you want a better place. Better place. Okay, these are our local team members. And some of them are willing to work with us very much today and fix our poor English. Finally, if you have a company that is willing to support DeepCon 18, please contact us as sponsors at DeepCon staff already. See you in DeepCon 18. So, do anyone have questions? If you want to speak traditional question, what's local beer like? Local beer. So, I'll give you an action. I'll give you a question. I need a microphone. Four questions after the other microphone. Yeah, in theory that we have local beer from industry, but I think people don't like it. People like homebrew or handicapped beers. We have some local micro brewery there. I was asking that if they can brew beer for us, they say if we can provide the ingredients and recipe they can also brew the beer for us. But we need beer experts to take care of this. I'm not a beer expert. I just like to seek some assurance that there will not be any fitness related extensions made to Lentian that will force me to visit all 18 of the peaks before I'm allowed to come down to my package. You talked about wired dorms. What about the Wi-Fi in the venue? The Wi-Fi in the venue is actually there is actually Wi-Fi in the venue provided by the university, but we are also considering an alternative option by setting up by the contract. A contract, maybe sitting in the contract? Yeah. This looks great. How can we leave located art hotels for people who want other accommodation? There is one nearby hotel, but the price is very expensive. The other options are there is one close to the university of the nearby university which is stick to each other. We have more hotels in the city centre, but a drop distance is a little bit far away. Follow-on question to that. Are you aware of Airbnb hosting in the area? I actually haven't seen that Airbnb information, but from what I understand, it's a university near a science park, so it's a little distance from the city. Science Park has more western trained professionals. I have restaurants a little bit, but I don't know that hotel. How far is the next beach? How cold is the water there? Beach and water. Actually, you can take a bus to there because Taiwan is very small, and it's surrounded by the sea, so it's easy to get there by a bus. There's just a port. You can add the row of bridges there. It's actually not very far. Actually, the sea is not very far from any place in Taiwan, so you don't worry about it. But just if you want to jump into the sea and swim, you have to pick a better place. This is an industrial area, so the beaches nearest aren't the best places. Given that we are in Sintu, and in Sintu there are a lot of hardware manufacturers that most of us have heard, can it be an opportunity to go and meet and have strategic meetings and stuff and get a lot of nice things started? And persuade them to open source their drivers. Yeah, this is actually one of our purposes of proposing and of coming to Taiwan. To meet the manufacturers. Okay, vegan and vegetarian options are easy because we have vegetarian restaurants right fit into vegan restrictions. But considering about food restrictions, the more difficult one is actually gluten-free because Taiwanese people don't eat gluten-free. So maybe if we have gluten-free people, we need to have cooked by ourselves or consulting a catering service for these restaurants. The local rice noodles is rather than wheat noodles, but then there are concerns about the sauce on the noodles. How about transportation in Sintu? So about transportation, the most difficult thing is from the airport to the venue because there is no public transport. So what is the size? Can we hitchhike from the airport? Actually, okay. From the airport to the venue is actually possible. By taxi or Uber, if you take together, it is not expensive anyways. So you can also, by taking multiple transportation via high-speed railways plus bus or taxi, it will take about $250 to $580 or per person depending on how many people you take taxi. So we will post the information about public transport in a week. Recommending that people coordinate with Wiki pages for traveling together? Yes. How far is the closest hot spring? Hot spring? Just take a bus to Taipei. Yeah, actually, from Sintu to Taipei is the one-hour bus. Yeah, the bus from Sintu to Taipei. The bus stop just in front of the campus exit. So just take the bus there. In Taipei, you have everything including hot spring or something. How many people are planning to go? How many people really want to and are not sure they can? Still very few. Questions about how serious the concern might be about typhoons? Can you explain typhoons? How people live in typhoons? Okay, actually, the buildings are pretty strong, so just close your window and don't mind the noise. Everything, and stay in accommodation, everything will be fine. You said the dates were fixed, so typhoons are not allowed. You know, actually, for our local people, we actually go out shopping and watch movies in Taipei because we have vacations during Taipei. So it's not really that scary. Also, Taipei is outside very loud, so it's good for singing karaoke at home and drinking beer. Some media, and I am wanting very badly to move to Taiwan for some months to teach English and to improve my Mandarin. So if anyone, I've been learning how to read and I can't talk, I can hear it. And so if anyone else is interested in going there and combining resources to research places to be, they say there's a very high demand for educated native English speakers. Because they all learn to speak English, but the pronunciation, they really like to have a conversation. And universities will pay for you to be there just to talk to students. So if anyone would like to compare notes on how to do that, I'd love to hear about it. One more question just came through from a friend at IMC. What's it like for people in wheelchairs? Wheelchairs. Accessibility access. Wheelchairs? What's it for? Yeah, for the venue. Actually, I invested the wheelchair. The wheelchair accessibility can be, I believe it can be okay. The university is excited to have the conference there. They want to make it a good thing. Is this true that I've been told that the university is providing many free resources because they really wanted to happen? They want Debian developers to come to Taiwan, so I think accommodations sounds like they'll be a friendly audience for customers. For free? Absolutely free.