DPL elections 2020, congratulations Jonathan Carter!
On Sun 19 April 2020 with tags dpl election leader voteWritten by Ana Guerrero López
Translations: fr
The Debian Project Leader elections just finished and the winner is Jonathan Carter!
His term as project leader starts next Tuesday April 21st and expires on April 20th 2021.
Of a total of 1011 developers, 339 developers voted using the Condorcet method. More information about the result is available in the Debian Project Leader Elections 2020 page.
Many thanks to Jonathan Carter, Sruthi Chandran and Brian Gupta for running.
And special thanks to Sam Hartman for his service as DPL during these last twelve months!
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (January and February 2020)
On Mon 23 March 2020 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:
- Gard Spreemann (gspr)
- Jonathan Bustillos (jathan)
- Scott Talbert (swt2c)
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
- Thiago Andrade Marques
- William Grzybowski
- Sudip Mukherjee
- Birger Schacht
- Michael Robin Crusoe
- Lars Tangvald
- Alberto Molina Coballes
- Emmanuel Arias
- Hsieh-Tseng Shen
- Jamie Strandboge
Congratulations!
Official communication channels for Debian
On Mon 16 March 2020 with tags project announceWritten by Laura Arjona Reina, Ana Guerrero Lopez and Donald Norwood
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From time to time, we get questions in Debian about our official channels of communication and questions about the Debian status of who may own similarly named websites.
The main Debian website www.debian.org is our primary medium of communication. Those seeking information about current events and development progress in the community may be interested in the Debian News section of the Debian website. For less formal announcements, we have the official Debian blog Bits from Debian, and the Debian micronews service for shorter news items.
Our official newsletter Debian Project News and all official announcements of news or project changes are dual posted on our website and sent to our official mailing lists debian-announce or debian-news. Posting to those mailing lists is restricted.
We also want to take the opportunity to announce how the Debian Project, or for short, Debian is structured.
Debian has a structure regulated by our Constitution. Officers and delegated members are listed on our Organizational Structure page. Additional teams are listed on our Teams page.
The complete list of official Debian members can be found on our New Members page, where our membership is managed. A broader list of Debian contributors can be found on our Contributors page.
If you have questions, we invite you to reach the press team at press@debian.org.
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (November and December 2019)
On Sun 26 January 2020 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:
- Louis-Philippe Véronneau (pollo)
- Olek Wojnar (olek)
- Sven Eckelmann (ecsv)
- Utkarsh Gupta (utkarsh)
- Robert Haist (rha)
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
- Denis Danilov
- Joachim Falk
- Thomas Perret
- Richard Laager
Congratulations!
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.