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- Teus Benschop (teusbenschop)
- Nick Morrott (nickm)
- Ondřej Kobližek (kobla)
- Clément Hermann (nodens)
- Gordon Ball (chronitis)
- Nikos Tsipinakis
- Joan Lledó
- Baptiste Beauplat
- Jianfeng Li
- Keng-Yu Lin (kengyu)
- Judit Foglszinger (urbec)
- Hans van Kranenburg
- Scarlett Moore
- Jean-Philippe Mengual (jpmengual)
- Taowa Munene-Tardif (taowa)
- Georg Faerber (georg)
- Kyle Robbertze (paddatrapper)
- Andy Li (andyli)
- Michal Arbet (kevko)
- Sruthi Chandran (srud)
- Alban Vidal (zordhak)
- Denis Briand (denis)
- Jakob Haufe (sur5r)
- Bobby de Vos
- Jongmin Kim
- Bastian Germann
- Francesco Poli
- "The metaverse, gaming and the metabolism of cities" by Bernelle Verster
- "O Projeto Debian quer você!" by Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana
- "Protecting Your Web Privacy with Free Software" by Pedro Barcha
- "Bastidores Debian - Entenda como a distribuição funciona" by Joao Eriberto Mota Filho
- "Caninos Loucos: a plataforma nacional de Single Board Computers para IoT" by geonnave
- "Debian na vida de uma Operadora de Telecom" by Marcelo Gondim
- "Who's afraid of Spectre and Meltdown?" by Alexandre Oliva
- "New to DebConf BoF" by Rhonda D'Vine
- Saif Abdul Cassim
- Katerina
- Jean-Baptiste Favre (jbfavre)
- Andrius Merkys (merkys)
- Christian Ehrhardt
- Aniol Marti
- Utkarsh Gupta
- Nicolas Schier
- Stewart Ferguson
- Hilmar Preusse
- Create branches in the webwml repo,
- Agreed on the new or modified content (started already during the sprint), and work on them further after the sprint
- Review a lot of related open bugs to see if we can address them with the new content (done during the sprint)
- Create bug reports for the things that cannot be solved quickly to keep them tracked (started during the sprint)
- We agreed we should get further help from web designers/information architects (pending)
- Once the English version is more or less settled, call for translations on the branch (pending)
- If we have English and the main translations ready, merging into the master branch (pending)
- We will try to have at least the homepage and the download section ready for the Buster release.
- Continuous Integration for biological applications inside Debian
- Debian Continuous Integration: user experience improvements
- Reproducible Builds
- Cloud and containers
- Debian Blends
- Debian in Science
- Embedded
- Introduction to Free Software & Debian
- Packaging, policy, and Debian infrastructure
- Security
- Social context
- Systems administration, automation and orchestration
- To active Debian contributors.
- To promote diversity: newcomers to Debian and/or DebConf, especially from under-represented communities.
- Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana (phls)
- Unit 193 (unit193)
- Marcio de Souza Oliveira (marciosouza)
- Ross Vandegrift (rvandegrift)
- Romain Perier
- Felix Yan
- Abhijith PA (abhijith)
- Philippe Thierry (philou)
- Kai-Chung Yan (seamlik)
- Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)
- Daniele Tricoli (eriol)
- Molly de Blanc (mollydb)
- Nicolas Mora
- Wolfgang Silbermayr
- Marcos Fouces
- kpcyrd
- Scott Martin Leggett
Debian welcomes its new Outreachy interns
On Fri 29 November 2019 with tags announce outreachyWritten by Daniel Lange, Laura Arjona Reina
Artwork by Outreachy
Debian continues participating in Outreachy, and we'd like to welcome our new Outreachy interns for this round, lasting from December 2019 to March 2020.
Anisa Kuci will work on Improving the DebConf fundraising processes, mentored by Karina Ture and Daniel Lange.
Sakshi Sangwan will work on Packaging GitLab's JS Modules, mentored by Utkarsh Gupta, Sruthi Chandran and Pirate Praveen.
Congratulations, Anisa and Sakshi! Welcome!
From the official website: Outreachy provides three-month internships for people from groups traditionally underrepresented in tech. Interns work remotely with mentors from Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) communities on projects ranging from programming, user experience, documentation, illustration and graphical design, to data science.
The Outreachy programme is possible in Debian thanks to the efforts of Debian developers and contributors who dedicate their free time to mentor students and outreach tasks, and the Software Freedom Conservancy's administrative support, as well as the continued support of Debian's donors, who provide funding for the internships.
Join us and help extend Debian! You can follow the work of the Outreachy interns reading their blogs (they are syndicated in Planet Debian), and chat with us in the #debian-outreach IRC channel and mailing list.
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (September and October 2019)
On Tue 26 November 2019 with tags projectWritten by Jean-Pierre Giraud
Translations: ca es fr pt sv vi zh-CN
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
Congratulations!
Debian Donates to Support GNOME Patent Defense
On Mon 28 October 2019 with tags debian gnome patent trolls fundraising donationWritten by Sam Hartman
Translations: es fr it sv
Today, the Debian Project pledges to donate $5,000 to the GNOME Foundation in support of their ongoing patent defense. On October 23, we wrote to express our support for GNOME in an issue that affects the entire free software community. Today we make that support tangible.
"This is bigger than GNOME," said Debian Project Leader Sam Hartman. "By banding together and demonstrating that the entire free software community is behind GNOME, we can send a strong message to non-practicing entities (patent trolls). When you target anyone in the free software community, you target all of us. We will fight, and we will fight to invalidate your patent. For us, this is more than money. This is about our freedom to build and distribute our software."
"We're incredibly grateful to Debian for this kind donation, and also for their support," said Neil McGovern, Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. "It's been heartening to see that when free software is attacked in this way we all come together on a united front."
If GNOME needs more money later in in this defense, Debian will be there to support the GNOME Foundation. We encourage individuals and organizations to join us and stand strong against patent trolls.
The Debian Project stands with the GNOME Foundation in defense against patent trolls
On Wed 23 October 2019 with tags debian gnome patent trolls fundraisingWritten by Ana Guerrero López
Translations: es fr it ko pt-BR sv
In 2012, the Debian Project published our Position on Software Patents, stating the threat that patents pose to Free Software.
The GNOME Foundation has announced recently that they are fighting a lawsuit alleging that Shotwell, a free and Open Source personal photo manager, infringes a patent.
The Debian Project firmly stands with the GNOME Foundation in their efforts to show the world that we in the Free Software communities will vigorously defend ourselves against any abuses of the patent system.
Please read this blog post about GNOME's defense against this patent troll and consider making a donation to the GNOME Patent Troll Defense Fund.
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (July and August 2019)
On Tue 17 September 2019 with tags projectWritten by Jean-Pierre Giraud
Translations: ca es fr pt sv vi zh-CN
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
Congratulations!
salsa.debian.org: Postmortem of failed Docker registry move
On Tue 20 August 2019 with tags salsa postmortemWritten by Bastian Blank
The Salsa admin team provides the following report about the failed migration of the Docker container registry. The Docker container registry stores Docker images, which are for example used in the Salsa CI toolset. This migration would have moved all data off to Google Cloud Storage (GCS) and would have lowered the used file system space on Debian systems significantly.
The Docker container registry is part of the Docker distribution toolset. This system supports multiple backends for file storage: local, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Google Cloud Storage (GCS). As Salsa already uses GCS for data storage, the Salsa admin team decided to move all the Docker registry data off to GCS too.
Migration and rollback
On 2019-08-06 the migration process was started. The migration itself went fine, although it took a bit longer than anticipated. However, as not all parts of the migration had been properly tested, a test of the garbage collection triggered a bug in the software.
On 2019-08-10 the Salsa admins started to see problems with garbage collection. The job running it timed out after one hour. Within this timeframe it not even managed to collect information about all used layers to see what it can cleanup. A source code analysis showed that this design flaw can't be fixed.
On 2019-08-13 the change was rolled back to storing data on the file system.
Docker registry data storage
The Docker registry stores all of the data sans indexing or reverse references in a file system-like structure comprised of 4 separate types of information: Manifests of images and contents, tags for the manifests, deduplicaed layers (or blobs) which store the actual data, and lastly links which show which deduplicated blogs belong to their respective images, all of this does not allow for easy searching within the data.
The file system structure is built as append-only which allows for adding blobs and manifests, addition, modification, or deletion of tags. However cleanup of items other than tags is not achievable within the maintenance tools.
There is a garbage collection process which can be used to clean up unreferenced blobs, however according to the documentation the process can only be used while the registry is set to read-only and unfortunately it cannot be used to clean up unused links.
Docker registry garbage collection on external storage
For the garbage collection the registry tool needs to read a lot of information as there is no indexing of the data. The tool connects to the storage medium and proceeds to download … everything, every single manifest and information about the referenced blobs, which now takes up over 1 second to process a single manifest. This process will take up a significant amount of time, which in the current configuration of external storage would make the clean up nearly impossible.
Leasons learned
The Docker registry is a data storage tool that can only properly be used in append-only mode. If you never cleanup, it works well.
As soon as you want to actually remove data, it goes bad. For Salsa clean up of old data is actually a necessity, as the registry currently grows about 20GB per day.
Next steps
Sadly there is not much that can be done using the existing Docker container registry. Maybe GitLab or someone else would like to contribute a new implementation of a Docker registry, either integrated into GitLab itself or stand-alone?
Debian celebrates 26 years, Happy DebianDay!
On Fri 16 August 2019 with tags debian birthdayWritten by Donald Norwood
26 years ago today in a single post to the comp.os.linux.development newsgroup, Ian Murdock announced the completion of a brand new Linux release named Debian.
Since that day we’ve been into outer space, typed over 1,288,688,830 lines of code, spawned over 300 derivatives, were enhanced with 6,155 known contributors, and filed over 975,619 bug reports.
We are home to a community of thousands of users around the globe, we gather to host our annual Debian Developers Conference DebConf which spans the world in a different country each year, and of course today's many DebianDay celebrations held around the world.
It's not too late to throw an impromptu DebianDay celebration or to go and join one of the many celebrations already underway.
As we celebrate our own anniversary, we also want to celebrate our many contributors, developers, teams, groups, maintainers, and users. It is all of your effort, support, and drive that continue to make Debian truly: The universal operating system.
Happy DebianDay!
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (May and June 2019)
On Sat 03 August 2019 with tags projectWritten by Jean-Pierre Giraud
Translations: ca es fr pt sv vi zh-CN
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
Congratulations!
DebConf19 closes in Curitiba and DebConf20 dates announced
On Sat 27 July 2019 with tags debconf19 announce debconf20 debconfWritten by Laura Arjona Reina and Donald Norwood
Artwork by Aigars Mahinovs
Translations: fr sv
Today, Saturday 27 July 2019, the annual Debian Developers and Contributors Conference came to a close. Hosting more than 380 attendees from 50 different countries over a combined 145 event talks, discussion sessions, Birds of a Feather (BoF) gatherings, workshops, and activities, DebConf19 was a large success.
The conference was preceded by the annual DebCamp held 14 July to 19 July which focused on individual work and team sprints for in-person collaboration toward developing Debian and host to a 3-day packaging workshop where new contributors were able to start on Debian packaging.
The Open Day held on July 20, with over 250 attendees, enjoyed presentations and workshops of interest to the wider audience, a Job Fair with booths from several of the DebConf19 sponsors and a Debian install fest.
The actual Debian Developers Conference started on Sunday 21 July 2019. Together with plenaries such as the the traditional 'Bits from the DPL', lightning talks, live demos and the announcement of next year's DebConf (DebConf20 in Haifa, Israel), there were several sessions related to the recent release of Debian 10 buster and some of its new features, as well as news updates on several projects and internal Debian teams, discussion sessions (BoFs) from the language, ports, infrastructure, and community teams, along with many other events of interest regarding Debian and free software.
The schedule was updated each day with planned and ad-hoc activities introduced by attendees over the course of the entire conference.
For those who were not able to attend, most of the talks and sessions were recorded for live streams with videos made, available through the Debian meetings archive website. Almost all of the sessions facilitated remote participation via IRC messaging apps or online collaborative text documents.
The DebConf19 website will remain active for archival purposes and will continue to offer links to the presentations and videos of talks and events.
Next year, DebConf20 will be held in Haifa, Israel, from 23 August to 29 August 2020. As tradition follows before the next DebConf the local organizers in Israel will start the conference activites with DebCamp (16 August to 22 August), with particular focus on individual and team work toward improving the distribution.
DebConf is committed to a safe and welcome environment for all participants. During the conference, several teams (Front Desk, Welcome team and Anti-Harassment team) are available to help so both on-site and remote participants get their best experience in the conference, and find solutions to any issue that may arise. See the web page about the Code of Conduct in DebConf19 website for more details on this.
Debian thanks the commitment of numerous sponsors to support DebConf19, particularly our Platinum Sponsors: Infomaniak, Google and Lenovo.
About Debian
The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly free community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of the largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of volunteers from all over the world work together to create and maintain Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the universal operating system.
About DebConf
DebConf is the Debian Project's developer conference. In addition to a full schedule of technical, social and policy talks, DebConf provides an opportunity for developers, contributors and other interested people to meet in person and work together more closely. It has taken place annually since 2000 in locations as varied as Scotland, Argentina, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. More information about DebConf is available from https://debconf.org/.
About Infomaniak
Infomaniak is Switzerland's largest web-hosting company, also offering backup and storage services, solutions for event organizers, live-streaming and video on demand services. It wholly owns its datacenters and all elements critical to the functioning of the services and products provided by the company (both software and hardware).
About Google
Google is one of the largest technology companies in the world, providing a wide range of Internet-related services and products such as online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
Google has been supporting Debian by sponsoring DebConf for more than ten years, and is also a Debian partner sponsoring parts of Salsa's continuous integration infrastructure within Google Cloud Platform.
About Lenovo
As a global technology leader manufacturing a wide portfolio of connected products, including smartphones, tablets, PCs and workstations as well as AR/VR devices, smart home/office and data center solutions, Lenovo understands how critical open systems and platforms are to a connected world.
Contact Information
For further information, please visit the DebConf19 web page at https://debconf19.debconf.org/ or send mail to press@debian.org.
DebConf19 starts today in Curitiba
On Sun 21 July 2019 with tags debconf19 debconfWritten by Laura Arjona Reina
Translations: pt-BR
DebConf19, the 20th annual Debian Conference, is taking place in Curitiba, Brazil from from July 21 to 28, 2019.
Debian contributors from all over the world have come together at Federal University of Technology - Paraná (UTFPR) in Curitiba, Brazil, to participate and work in a conference exclusively run by volunteers.
Today the main conference starts with over 350 attendants expected and 121 activities scheduled, including 45- and 20-minute talks and team meetings ("BoF"), workshops, a job fair as well as a variety of other events.
The full schedule at https://debconf19.debconf.org/schedule/ is updated every day, including activities planned ad-hoc by attendees during the whole conference.
If you want to engage remotely, you can follow the video streaming available from the DebConf19 website of the events happening in the three talk rooms: Auditório (the main auditorium), Miniauditório and Sala de Videoconferencia. Or you can join the conversation about what is happening in the talk rooms: #debconf-auditorio, #debconf-miniauditorio and #debconf-videoconferencia (all those channels in the OFTC IRC network).
You can also follow the live coverage of news about DebConf19 on https://micronews.debian.org or the @debian profile in your favorite social network.
DebConf is committed to a safe and welcome environment for all participants. During the conference, several teams (Front Desk, Welcome team and Anti-Harassment team) are available to help so both on-site and remote participants get their best experience in the conference, and find solutions to any issue that may arise. See the web page about the Code of Conduct in DebConf19 website for more details on this.
Debian thanks the commitment of numerous sponsors to support DebConf19, particularly our Platinum Sponsors: Infomaniak, Google and Lenovo.
DebConf19 invites you to Debian Open Day at the Federal University of Technology - Paraná (UTFPR), in Curitiba
On Sat 20 July 2019 with tags debconf debconf19 debianWritten by Laura Arjona Reina
Translations: pt-BR
DebConf, the annual conference for Debian contributors and users interested in improving the Debian operating system, will be held in Federal University of Technology - Paraná (UTFPR) in Curitiba, Brazil, from July 21 to 28, 2019. The conference is preceded by DebCamp from July 14 to 19, and the DebConf19 Open Day on July 20.
The Open Day, Saturday, 20 July, is targeted at the general public. Events of interest to a wider audience will be offered, ranging from topics specific to Debian to the greater Free Software community and maker movement.
The event is a perfect opportunity for interested users to meet the Debian community, for Debian to broaden its community, and for the DebConf sponsors to increase their visibility.
Less purely technical than the main conference schedule, the events on Open Day will cover a large range of topics from social and cultural issues to workshops and introductions to Debian.
The detailed schedule of the Open Day's events includes events in English and Portuguese. Some of the talks are:
During the Open Day, there will also be a Job Fair with booths from our several of our sponsors, a workshop about the Git version control system and a Debian installfest, for attendees who would like to get help installing Debian on their machines.
Everyone is welcome to attend. As the rest of the conference, attendance is free of charge, but registration in the DebConf19 website is highly recommended.
The full schedule for the Open Day's events and the rest of the conference is at https://debconf19.debconf.org/schedule and the video streaming will be available at the DebConf19 website
DebConf is committed to a safe and welcome environment for all participants. See the DebConf Code of Conduct and the Debian Code of Conduct for more details on this.
Debian thanks the numerous sponsors for their commitment to DebConf19, particularly its Platinum Sponsors: Infomaniak, Google and Lenovo.
Debian 10 "buster" has been released!
On Sun 07 July 2019 with tags busterWritten by Ana Guerrero Lopez, Laura Arjona Reina and Jean-Pierre Giraud
Artwork by Alex Makas
Translations: es fr
You've always dreamt of a faithful pet? He is here, and his name is Buster! We're happy to announce the release of Debian 10, codenamed buster.
Want to install it? Choose your favourite installation media and read the installation manual. You can also use an official cloud image directly on your cloud provider, or try Debian prior to installing it using our "live" images.
Already a happy Debian user and you only want to upgrade? You can easily upgrade from your current Debian 9 "stretch" installation; please read the release notes.
Do you want to celebrate the release? We provide some buster artwork that you can share or use as base for your own creations. Follow the conversation about buster in social media via the #ReleasingDebianBuster and #Debian10Buster hashtags or join an in-person or online Release Party!
Upcoming Debian 10 "buster"!
On Fri 05 July 2019 with tags busterWritten by Laura Arjona Reina, Jean-Pierre Giraud and Thomas Vincent
Translations: fr
The Debian Release Team in coordination with several other teams are preparing the last bits needed for releasing Debian 10 "buster" on Saturday 6 July 2019. Please, be patient! Lots of steps are involved and some of them take some time, such as building the images, propagating the release through the mirror network, and rebuilding the Debian website so that "stable" points to Debian 10.
If you are considering create some artwork on the occasion of buster release, feel free to send us links to your creations to the (publicly archived) debian-publicity mailing list, so that we can disseminate them throughout our community.
Follow the live coverage of the release on https://micronews.debian.org or the @debian profile in your favorite social network! We'll spread the word about what's new in this version of Debian 10, how the release process is progressing during the weekend and facts about Debian and the wide community of volunteer contributors that make it possible.
If you want to celebrate the release of Debian 10 buster, join one of the many release parties or consider organizing one in your city! Celebration will also happen online on the Debian Party Line.
DebConf19 Cheese and Wine Party
On Tue 02 July 2019 with tags debconf19 debconf cheese wine partyWritten by Adriana Cássia da Costa
Translations: pt-BR
In less than one month we will be in Curitiba to start DebCamp and DebConf19 \o/
This C&W is the 15th official DebConf Cheese and Wine party. The first C&W was improvised in Helsinki during DebConf 5, in the so-called "French" room. Cheese and Wine parties are now a tradition for DebConf.
The event is very simple: bring good edible stuff from your country. We like cheese and wine, but we love the surprising stuff that people bring from all around the world or regions of Brazil. So, you can bring non-alcoholic drinks or a typical food that you would like to share as well. Even if you don't bring anything, feel free to participate: our priorities are our attendants and free cheese.
We have to organize for a great party. An important part is planning - We want to know what you are bringing, in order to prepare the labels and organizing other things.
So, please go to our wiki page and add what you will bring!
If you don't have time to buy before travel, we list some places where you can buy cheese and wine in Curitiba. There are more information about C&W, what you can bring, vegan cheese, Brazil customs regulations and non-alcoholic drinks at our site.
C&W will happen on July 22nd, 2019 (Monday) after 19h30min.
We are looking forward to seeing you all here!
Diversity and inclusion in Debian: small actions and large impacts
On Sat 29 June 2019 with tags diversityWritten by Laura Arjona Reina and Rhonda D'Vine
Artwork by Valessio Brito
The Debian Project always has and always will welcome contributions from people who are willing to work on a constructive level with each other, without discrimination.
The Diversity Statement and the Code of Conduct are genuinely important parts of our community, and over recent years some other things have been done to make it clear that they aren't just words.
One of those things is the creation of the Debian Diversity Team: it was announced in April 2019, although it had already been working for several months before as a welcoming space for, and a way of increasing visibility of, underrepresented groups within the Debian project.
During DebConf19 in Curitiba there will be a dedicated Diversity and Welcoming Team. It will consist of people from the Debian community to offer a contact point when you feel lost or uneasy. The DebConf team is also in contact with a local LGBTIQA+ support group for exchange of safety concerns and information with respect to Brazil in general.
Today Debian also recognizes the impact LGBTIQA+ people have had in the world and within the Debian project, joining the worldwide Pride celebrations. We show it by changing our logo for this time to the Debian Diversity logo, and encourage all Debian members and contributors to show their support of a diverse and inclusive community.
Introduction
Is there a thorny bug in Debian that ruins your user experience? Something just annoying enough to bother you but not serious enough to constitute an RC bug? Are grey panels and slightly broken icon themes making you depressed?
Then join the 100 papercuts project! A project to identify and fix the 100 most annoying bugs in Debian over the next stable release cycle. That also includes figuring out how to identify and categorize those bugs and make sure that they are actually fixable in Debian (or ideally upstream).
The idea of a papercuts project isn't new, Ubuntu did this some years ago which added a good amount of polish to the system.
Kick-off Meeting and DebConf BoF
On the 17th of June at 19:00 UTC we're kicking off an initial brainstorming session on IRC to gather some initial ideas.
We'll use that to seed discussion at DebConf19 in Brazil during a BoF session where we'll solidify those plans into something actionable.
Meeting details
When: 2019-06-17, 19:00 UTC Where: #debian-meeting channel on the OFTC IRC network
Your IRC nick needs to be registered in order to join the channel. Refer to the Register your account section on the OFTC website for more information on how to register your nick.
You can always refer to the debian-meeting wiki page for the latest information and up to date schedule.
Hope to see you there!
DebConf19 welcomes its sponsors!
On Tue 11 June 2019 with tags debconf19 debconf sponsorsWritten by znoteer and Laura Arjona Reina
Translations: pt-BR
DebConf19 is taking place in Curitiba, Brazil, from 21 July to 28 July 2019. It is the 20th edition of the Debian conference and organisers are working hard to create another interesting and fruitful event for attendees.
We would like to warmly welcome the first 29 sponsors of DebConf19, and introduce you to them.
So far we have three Platinum sponsors.
Our first Platinum sponsor is Infomaniak. Infomaniak is Switzerland's largest web-hosting company, also offering backup and storage services, solutions for event organizers, live-streaming and video on demand services. It wholly owns its datacenters and all elements critical to the functioning of the services and products provided by the company (both software and hardware).
Next, as a Platinum sponsor, is Google. Google is one of the largest technology companies in the world, providing a wide range of Internet-related services and products as online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google has been supporting Debian by sponsoring DebConf since more than ten years, and is also a Debian partner.
Lenovo is our third Planinum sponsor. Lenovo is a global technology leader manufacturing a wide portfolio of connected products, including smartphones, tablets, PCs and workstations as well as AR/VR devices, smart home/office solutions and data center solutions. This is their first year sponsoring DebConf.
Our Gold sponsor is Collabora, a global consultancy delivering Open Source software solutions to the commercial world. Their expertise spans all key areas of Open Source software development. In addition to offering solutions to clients, Collabora's engineers and developers actively contribute to many Open Source projets.
Our Silver sponsors are: credativ (a service-oriented company focusing on open-source software and also a Debian development partner), Cumulus Networks, (a company building web-scale networks using innovative, open networking technology), Codethink (specialists in system-level software infrastructure supporting advanced technical applications), the Bern University of Applied Sciences (with over 6,800 students enrolled, located in the Swiss capital), Civil Infrastructure Platform, (a collaborative project hosted by the Linux Foundation, establishing an open source “base layer” of industrial grade software), \WIT (offering a secure cloud solution and complete data privacy via Kubnernetes encrypted hardware virtualisation), Hudson-Trading, (a company researching and developing automated trading algorithms using advanced mathematical techniques), Ubuntu, (the Operating System delivered by Canonical), NHS (with a broad product portfolio, they offer solutions, amongst others, for data centres, telecommunications, CCTV, and residential, commercial and industrial automation), rentcars.com who helps customers find the best car rentals from over 100 rental companies at destinations in the Americas and around the world, and Roche, a major international pharmaceutical provider and research company dedicated to personalized healthcare.
Bronze sponsors: 4Linux, IBM, zpe, Univention, Policorp, Freexian, globo.com.
And finally, our Supporter level sponsors: Altus Metrum, Pengwin, ISG.EE, Jupter, novatec, Intnet, Linux Professional Institute.
Thanks to all our sponsors for their support! Their contributions make it possible for a large number of Debian contributors from all over the globe to work together, help and learn from each other in DebConf19.
Become a sponsor too!
DebConf19 is still accepting sponsors. Interested companies and organizations may contact the DebConf team through sponsors@debconf.org, and visit the DebConf19 website at https://debconf19.debconf.org.
Debian welcomes its GSoC 2019 and Outreachy interns
On Fri 31 May 2019 with tags announce gsoc outreachyWritten by znoteer
Artwork by Google, Outreachy
We're excited to announce that Debian has selected seven interns to work with us during the next months: two people for Outreachy, and five for the Google Summer of Code.
Here is the list of projects and the interns who will work on them:
Congratulations and welcome to all the interns!
The Google Summer of Code and Outreachy programs are possible in Debian thanks to the efforts of Debian developers and contributors that dedicate part of their free time to mentor interns and outreach tasks.
Join us and help extend Debian! You can follow the interns weekly reports on the debian-outreach mailing-list, chat with us on our IRC channel or on each project's team mailing lists.
Ask anything you ever wanted to know about Debian Edu!
On Wed 29 May 2019 with tags debian edu debian-meetingWritten by Jonathan Carter
Artwork by Christoph Muetze
You have heard about Debian Edu or Skolelinux, but do you know exactly what we are doing?
Join us on the #debian-meeting channel on the OFTC IRC network on 03 June 2019 at 12:00 UTC for an introduction to Debian Edu, a Debian pure blend created to fit the requirements of schools and similar institutions.
You will meet Holger Levsen, contributing to Debian Edu since 2005 and member of development team. Ask him anything you ever wanted to know about Debian Edu!
Your IRC nick needs to be registered in order to join the channel. Refer to the Register your account section on the oftc website for more information on how to register your nick.
You can always refer to the debian-meeting wiki page for the latest information and up to date schedule.
Lenovo Platinum Sponsor of DebConf19
On Mon 20 May 2019 with tags debconf19 debconf sponsors lenovoWritten by Laura Arjona Reina
Artwork by Lenovo
Translations: pt-BR sv
We are very pleased to announce that Lenovo has committed to supporting DebConf19 as a Platinum sponsor.
"Lenovo is proud to sponsor the 20th Annual Debian Conference." said Egbert Gracias, Senior Software Development Manager at Lenovo. "We’re excited to see, up close, the great work being done in the community and to meet the developers and volunteers that keep the Debian Project moving forward!”
Lenovo is a global technology leader manufacturing a wide portfolio of connected products, including smartphones, tablets, PCs and workstations as well as AR/VR devices, smart home/office solutions and data center solutions.
With this commitment as Platinum Sponsor, Lenovo is contributing to make possible our annual conference, and directly supporting the progress of Debian and Free Software, helping to strengthen the community that continues to collaborate on Debian projects throughout the rest of the year.
Thank you very much Lenovo, for your support of DebConf19!
Become a sponsor too!
DebConf19 is still accepting sponsors. Interested companies and organizations may contact the DebConf team through sponsors@debconf.org, and visit the DebConf19 website at https://debconf19.debconf.org.
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (March and April 2019)
On Sat 11 May 2019 with tags projectWritten by Jean-Pierre Giraud
Translations: ca es fr pt sv vi zh-CN
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
Congratulations!
Introduction to the new DPL, ask him anything!
On Fri 26 April 2019 with tags dpl debian-meetingWritten by Jonathan Carter
Translations: fr pt-BR zh-CN
We have a new DPL! On 21 April 2019 Sam Hartman started his term as Debian Project Leader.
Join us on the #debian-meeting channel on the OFTC IRC network on 10 May 2019 at 10:00 UTC for an introduction to our new DPL, and also to have the chance to ask him any questions that you may have.
Your IRC nick needs to be registered in order to join the channel. Refer to the Register your account section on the oftc website for more information on how to register your nick.
We plan to have many more project-wide IRC sessions in the future.
You can always refer to the debian-meeting wiki page for the latest information and up to date schedule.
DPL elections 2019, congratulations Sam Hartman!
On Sun 21 April 2019 with tags dplWritten by Ana Guerrero López
Translations: fr
The Debian Project Leader elections just finished and the winner is Sam Hartman!
His term as project leader starts immediately today April 21st and expires on April 20th 2020.
Of a total of 1003 developers, 378 developers voted using the Condorcet method. More information about the result is available in the Debian Project Leader Elections 2019 page.
Many thanks to Joerg Jaspert, Jonathan Carter and Martin Michlmayr for running.
And special thanks to Chris Lamb for his service as DPL during these last twenty-four months!
Debian Web Team Sprint 2019
On Tue 16 April 2019 with tags web sprintWritten by Laura Arjona Reina
Artwork by Laura Arjona Reina
The Debian Web team held a sprint for the first time, in Madrid (Spain) from March 15th to March 17th, 2019.
We discussed the status of the Debian website in general, review several important pages/sections and agreed on many things how to improve them.
For the sections we want to reorganise (mainly the homepage and a new section "download" which will group our current "CD" and "distrib" sections) , we have designed this workflow:
We also agreed that the press delegates should decide what new News entry is worth to be posted in the homepage instead of showing the last 6 entries.
For some other pages or areas (e.g. doc/books, misc/merchandise, /users) we found that the content is outdated and the team can not maintain it, we agreed in issuing a call for help (request for adoption) and if we cannot find volunteers for those pages/areas, we'll remove the content or move it to wiki.debian.org at the end of 2019.
We have agreed that we'll need to reduce the size (number of pages) of the website (*see some numbers about statistics at bottom) so it's more sustainable to keep the whole website up-to-date (content wise), so we'll remove some pages having content already covered in other pages, having content that currently is easy discoverable with a web search engine, can be maintained better in the wiki, etc.
We have talked a bit about certain other aspects like point release workflow, the build time of the website, team memberships and governance. In general the sprint has shown that for most of the discussed topics the migration to git as VCS and the existence of Salsa is a huge step forward for the usability and attractiveness for contributors of the webwml repository.
The core webteam is happy that the sprint has also attracted new people to jump in and which are also members of the webteam now. We welcome Thomas Lange and Carsten Schoenert in our team!
Finally, we have passed time together to socialize and knowing each other better, and got very motivated to continue working on the web.
Left to right: Rhonda D'Vine, Laura Arjona Reina, Thomas Lange, Carsten Schoenert, Steve McIntyre
A more detailed report has been sent to the debian-www mailing list.
The participants would like to thank all donors to the Debian project who helped to cover a large part of our expenses.
Bursary applications for DebConf19 are closing in less than 72 hours!
On Sat 13 April 2019 with tags debconf19 debconfWritten by Laura Arjona Reina, Paulo Santana
If you intend to apply for a DebConf19 bursary and have not yet done so, please proceed as soon as possible!
Bursary applications for DebConf19 will be accepted until April 15th at 23:59 UTC. Applications submitted after this deadline will not be considered.
You can apply for a bursary when you register for the conference.
Remember that giving a talk or organising an event is considered towards your bursary; if you have a submission to make, submit it even if it is only sketched-out. You will be able to detail it later. DebCamp plans can be entered in the usual Sprints page at the Debian wiki.
Please make sure to double-check your accommodation choices (dates and venue). Details about accommodation arrangements can be found on the accommodation page.
See you in Curitiba!
Debian is welcoming applicants for Outreachy and GSoC 2019
On Thu 28 March 2019 with tags announce gsoc outreachyWritten by Laura Arjona Reina and Lesley Mitchell
Debian is dedicated to increasing the diversity of contributors to the project and improving the inclusivity of the project. We strongly believe working towards these goals provides benefits both for people from backgrounds that are currently under-represented in free software, and for the wider movement, by increasing the range of skills, experiences and viewpoints contributing to it.
As part of this outreach effort, Debian is participating in the next round of Outreachy.
The application period for the May 2019 to August 2019 round has been extended until April 2, and Debian offers the following projects:
Outreachy invites applicants who are women (both cis and trans), trans men, and genderqueer people to apply. Anyone who faces systemic bias or discrimination in the technology industry of their country is also invited to apply.
Don't wait up! You can learn more details on how to submit your application or get help in our wiki page for Outreachy and the Outreachy website.
Debian is also participating in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) with eight projects, and the student application period is open until April 9.
You can learn more details on how to submit your GSoC application or get help for in our wiki page for GSoC and the Google Summer of Code website.
We encourage people who are elegible for Outreachy and GSoC to submit their application to both programs.
Call for Proposals: Debconf 19, Curitiba, Brazil
On Tue 26 March 2019 with tags debconf debconf19 cfpWritten by Gunnar Wolf, Nicolas Braud-Santoniz, Paulo Santana and Antonio Terceiro
The DebConf Content team would like to call for proposals in the DebConf 19 conference, which will take place in Curitiba, Brazil, between July 21th and 28th. It will be preceded by DebCamp from July 14th to 19th, and Open Day on the 20th.
You can find this Call for Proposals, in its latest form, online:
https://debconf19.debconf.org/cfp/
Please refer to this URL for updates on the present information.
Submitting an Event
You can now submit an event proposal. Events are not limited to traditional presentations or informal sessions (BoFs): we welcome submissions of tutorials, performances, art installations, debates, or any other format of event that you think would be of interest to the Debian community.
Regular sessions may either be 20 or 45 minutes long (including time for questions), other kinds of sessions (workshops, demos, lightning talks, ...) could have different durations. Please choose the most suitable duration for your event and explain any special requests.
You will need to create an account on the site, to submit a talk. We suggest that Debian account holders (including DDs and DMs) to use Debian SSO when creating an account. However, this isn't required, as you can sign up with an e-mail address and password.
Timeline
If you depend on having your proposal accepted in order to attend the conference, please submit it in a timely fashion so that it can be considered (and potentially accepted) as soon as possible.
All proposals must be submitted before Sunday April 28th, 2019 to be evaluated for the official schedule.
Topics and Tracks
Though we invite proposals on any Debian or FLOSS related subject, we have some broad topics on which we encourage people to submit proposals, including but not limited to:
You are welcome to either suggest more tracks, or to become a coordinator for any of them. For more information, see the Content team wiki.
Open Day
This call for proposals also targets Open Day, a day of activities targeted at the general public on July 20th. Topics of interest range from topics specific to Debian to the greater Free Software community and maker movement. The idea of Open Day is to bring the general public closer to Debian and vice-versa, so activity proposals that go in that direction are more than welcome.
If you are interested in presenting on Open Day, let us know in the "Notes" field of your submission. We might also invite proponents that are not specifically targeting Open Day to present in it if we find that the topic fits the above goals.
The Open Day will host activities in multiple languages. We expect to have activities in English, Portuguese, and Spanish.
If your talk will be in portuguese, you can write the Abstract field in portuguese too.
Talk proposal help on IRC
This year we will be holding holding office hours on IRC. Those will be designated times where the DebConf content team will be available to help potential speakers prepare their talk proposals for DebConf.
Dates and times for those will be announced later.
Code of Conduct
Our event is covered by a Code of Conduct designed to ensure everyone’s safety and comfort. The code applies to all attendees, including speakers and the content of their presentations. Do not hesitate to contact us at content@debconf.org if you have any questions or are unsure about certain content you’d like to present.
Video Coverage
Providing video is one of the conference goals, as it makes the content accessible to a wider audience. Unless speakers opt-out, scheduled talks may be streamed live over the Internet to promote remote participation, and recordings will be published later under the DebConf license (MIT/Expat), as well as presentation slides and papers whenever available.
Closing note
DebConf 19 is still accepting sponsors; if you are interested, or think you know of others who would be willing to help, please get in touch with sponsors@debconf.org.
In case of any questions, or if you wanted to bounce some ideas off us first, please do not hesitate to reach out to the content team at content@debconf.org.
We hope to see you in Curitiba!
The DebConf team
Google Platinum Sponsor of DebConf19
On Mon 25 March 2019 with tags debconf19 debconf sponsors GoogleWritten by Laura Arjona Reina
Artwork by Google
Translations: pt-BR
We are very pleased to announce that Google has committed to support DebConf19 as a Platinum sponsor.
"The annual DebConf is an important part of the Debian development ecosystem and Google is delighted to return as a sponsor in support of the work of the global community of volunteers who make Debian and DebConf a reality" said Cat Allman, Program Manager in the Open Source Programs and Making & Science teams at Google.
Google is one of the largest technology companies in the world, providing a wide range of Internet-related services and products as online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
Google has been supporting Debian by sponsoring DebConf since more than ten years, and is also a Debian partner sponsoring parts of Salsa's continuous integration infrastructure within Google Cloud Platform.
With this additional commitment as Platinum Sponsor for DebConf19, Google contributes to make possible our annual conference, and directly supports the progress of Debian and Free Software helping to strengthen the community that continues to collaborate on Debian projects throughout the rest of the year.
Thank you very much Google, for your support of DebConf19!
Become a sponsor too!
DebConf19 is still accepting sponsors. Interested companies and organizations may contact the DebConf team through sponsors@debconf.org, and visit the DebConf19 website at https://debconf19.debconf.org.
DebConf19 registration is open!
On Wed 20 March 2019 with tags debconf debconf19Written by Sergio Durigan Junior, Paulo Santana
Artwork by DebConf19 Design Team
Translations: pt-BR
Registration for DebConf19 is now open. The event will take place from July 21st to 28th, 2019 at the Central campus of Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná - UTFPR, in Curitiba, Brazil, and will be preceded by DebCamp, from July 14th to 19th, and an Open Day on the 20th.
DebConf is an event open to everyone, no matter how you identify yourself or how others perceive you. We want to increase visibility of our diversity and work towards inclusion at Debian Project, drawing our attendees from people just starting their Debian journey, to seasoned Debian Developers or active contributors in different areas like packaging, translation, documentation, artwork, testing, specialized derivatives, user support and many other. In other words, all are welcome.
To register for the event, log into the registration system and fill out the form. You will be able to edit and update your registration at any point. However, in order to help the organisers have a better estimate of how many people will attend the event, we would appreciate if you could access the system and confirm (or cancel) your participation in the Conference as soon as you know if you will be able to come. The last day to confirm or cancel is June 14th, 2019 23:59:59 UTC. If you don't confirm or you register after this date, you can come to the DebConf19 but we cannot guarantee availability of accommodation, food and swag (t-shirt, bag…).
For more information about registration, please visit Registration Information
Bursary for travel, accomodation and meals
In an effort to widen the diversity of DebConf attendees, the Debian Project allocates a part of the financial resources obtained through sponsorships to pay for bursaries (travel, accommodation, and/or meals) for participants who request this support when they register.
As resources are limited, we will examine the requests and decide who will receive the bursaries. They will be destined:
Giving a talk, organizing an event or helping during DebConf19 is taken into account when deciding upon your bursary, so please mention them in your bursary application. DebCamp plans can be entered in the usual Sprints page at the Debian wiki.
For more information about bursaries, please visit Applying for a Bursary to DebConf
Attention: the registration for DebConf19 will be open until Conference, but the deadline to apply for bursaries using the registration form before April 15th, 2019 23:59:59 UTC. This deadline is necessary in order to the organisers use time to analyze the requests, and for successful applicants to prepare for the conference.
To register for the Conference, either with or without a bursary request, please visit: https://debconf19.debconf.org/register
DebConf would not be possible without the generous support of all our sponsors, especially our Platinum Sponsors Infomaniak and Google. DebConf19 is still accepting sponsors; if you are interested, or think you know of others who would be willing to help, please get in touch!
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (January and February 2019)
On Tue 12 March 2019 with tags projectWritten by Jean-Pierre Giraud
Translations: ca es fr pt sv vi zh-CN
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
Congratulations!
Infomaniak Platinum Sponsor of DebConf19
On Thu 21 February 2019 with tags debconf19 debconf sponsors infomaniakWritten by Laura Arjona Reina
Artwork by Infomaniak
Translations: pt-BR
We are very pleased to announce that Infomaniak has committed to support DebConf19 as a Platinum sponsor.
"Infomaniak is proud to support the annual Debian Developers' Conference", said Marc Oehler, Chief Operating Officer at Infomaniak. "The vast majority of our hostings work using Debian and we share this community's values: promoting innovation whilst ensuring that security, transparency and user freedom remains top priority."
Infomaniak is Switzerland's largest web-hosting company, also offering backup and storage services, solutions for event organizers, live-streaming and video on demand services. It wholly owns its datacenters and all elements critical to the functioning of the services and products provided by the company (both software and hardware).
With this commitment as Platinum Sponsor, Infomaniak contributes to make possible our annual conference, and directly supports the progress of Debian and Free Software helping to strengthen the community that continues to collaborate on Debian projects throughout the rest of the year.
Thank you very much Infomaniak, for your support of DebConf19!
Become a sponsor too!
DebConf19 is still accepting sponsors. Interested companies and organizations may contact the DebConf team through sponsors@debconf.org, and visit the DebConf19 website at https://debconf19.debconf.org.
Projects and mentors for Debian's Google Summer of Code 2019 and Outreachy
On Sun 03 February 2019 with tags gsoc outreachyWritten by Alexander Wirt
Artwork by Google, Outreachy
Debian is applying as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2019, an internship program open to university students aged 18 and up, and will apply soon for the next round of Outreachy, an internship program for people from groups traditionally underrepresented in tech.
Please join us and help expanding Debian and mentoring new free software contributors!
If you have a project idea related to Debian and can mentor (or can coordinate the mentorship with some other Debian Developer or contributor, or within a Debian team), please add the details to the Debian GSoC2019 Projects wiki page by Tuesday, February 5 2019.
Participating in these programs has many benefits for Debian and the wider free software community. If you have questions, please come and ask us on IRC #debian-outreach or the debian-outreach mailing list.
Help test initial support for Secure Boot
On Sat 02 February 2019 with tags buster installerWritten by Steve McIntyre, Cyril Brulebois
The Debian Installer team is happy to report that the Buster Alpha 5 release of the installer includes some initial support for UEFI Secure Boot (SB) in Debian's installation media.
This support is not yet complete, and we would like to request some help! Please read on for more context and instructions to help us get better coverage and support.
On amd64 machines, by default the Debian installer will now boot (and
install) a signed version of the shim package as the first stage
boot loader. Shim is the core package in a signed Linux boot chain on
Intel-compatible PCs. It is responsible for validating signatures on
further pieces of the boot process (GRUB and the Linux kernel),
allowing for verification of those pieces. Each of those pieces will
be signed by a Debian production signing key that is baked into the
shim binary itself.
However, for safety during the development phase of Debian's SB support, we have only been using a temporary test key to sign our GRUB and Linux packages. If we made a mistake with key management or trust path verification during this development, this would save us from having to revoke the production key. We plan on switching to the production key soon.
Due to the use of the test key so far, out of the box Debian will not yet install or run with SB enabled; Shim will not validate signatures with the test key and will stop, reporting the problem. This is correct and useful behaviour!
Thus far, Debian users have needed to disable SB before installation to make things work. From now on, with SB still disabled, installation and use should work just the same as previously. Shim simply chain-loads GRUB and continues through the boot chain without checking signatures.
It is possible to enrol more keys on a SB system so that shim will recognise and allow other signatures, and this is how we have been able to test the rest of the boot chain. We now invite more users to give us valuable test coverage on a wider variety of hardware by enrolling our Debian test key and running with SB enabled.
If you want to help us test our Secure Boot support, please follow the instructions in the Debian wiki and provide feedback.
With help from users, we expect to be able to ship fully-working and tested UEFI Secure Boot in an upcoming Debian Installer release and in the main Buster release itself.
"futurePrototype" will be the default theme for Debian 10
On Mon 14 January 2019 with tags buster artworkWritten by Laura Arjona Reina, Niels Thykier and Jonathan Carter
Artwork by Alex Makas
The theme "futurePrototype" by Alex Makas has been selected as default theme for Debian 10 'buster'.
After the Debian Desktop Team made the call for proposing themes, a total of eleven choices have been submitted, and any Debian contributor has received the opportunity to vote on them in a survey. We received 3,646 responses ranking the different choices, and futurePrototype has been the winner among them.
We'd like to thank all the designers that have participated providing nice wallpapers and artwork for Debian 10, and encourage everybody interested in this area of Debian, to join the Design Team.
Congratulations, Alex, and thank you very much for your contribution to Debian!
DebConf19 is looking for sponsors!
On Thu 10 January 2019 with tags debconf debconf19 sponsorsWritten by Laura Arjona Reina, Andre Bianchi and Paulo Santana
Artwork by DebConf19 Design Team
Translations: pt-BR
DebConf19 will be held in Curitiba, Brazil from July 21th to 28th, 2019. It will be preceded by DebCamp, July 14th to 19th, and Open Day on the 20th.
DebConf, Debian's annual developers conference, is an amazing event where Debian contributors from all around the world gather to present, discuss and work in teams around the Debian operating system. It is a great opportunity to get to know people responsible for the success of the project and to witness a respectful and functional distributed community in action.
The DebConf team aims to organize the Debian Conference as a self-sustaining event, despite its size and complexity. The financial contributions and support by individuals, companies and organizations are pivotal to our success.
There are many different possibilities to support DebConf and we are in the process of contacting potential sponsors from all around the globe. If you know any organization that could be interested or who would like to give back resources to FOSS, please consider handing them the sponsorship brochure or contact the fundraising team with any leads. If you are a company and want to sponsor, please contact us at sponsors@debconf.org.
Let’s work together, as every year, on making the best DebConf ever. We are waiting for you at Curitiba!
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (November and December 2018)
On Tue 08 January 2019 with tags projectWritten by Jean-Pierre Giraud
Translations: ca es fr pt sv vi zh-CN
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
Congratulations!