Over 30 years ago the late Ian Murdock wrote to the comp.os.linux.development newsgroup about the completion of a brand-new Linux release which he named "The Debian Linux Release".
He built the release by hand, from scratch, so to speak. Ian laid out guidelines for how this new release would work, what approach the release would take regarding its size, manner of upgrades, installation procedures; and with great care of consideration for users without Internet connection.
Unaware that he had sparked a movement in the fledgling F/OSS community, Ian worked on and continued to work on Debian. The release, now aided by volunteers from the newsgroup and around the world, grew and continues to grow as one of the largest and oldest FREE operating systems that still exist today.
Debian at its core is comprised of Users, Contributors, Developers, and Sponsors, but most importantly, People . Ians drive and focus remains embedded in the core of Debian, it remains in all of our work, it remains in the minds and hands of the users of The Universal Operating System .
The Debian Project is proud and happy to share our anniversary not exclusively unto ourselves, instead we share this moment with everyone, as we come together in celebration of a resounding community that works together, effects change, and continues to make a difference, not just in our work but around the world.
Debian is present in cluster systems, datacenters, desktop computers, embedded systems, IoT devices, laptops, servers, it may possibly be powering the web server and device you are reading this article on, and it can also be found in Spacecraft .
Closer to earth, Debian fully supports projects for accessibility: Debian Edu/Skolelinux - an operating system designed for educational use in schools and communities, Debian Science - providing free scientific software across many established and emerging fields, Debian Hamradio - for amateur radio enthusiasts, Debian-Accessibility - a project focused on the design of an operating system suited to fit the requirements of people with disabilites, and Debian Astro - focused on supporting professional and hobbyist astronomers.
Debian strives to give, reach, embrace, mentor, share, and teach with internships through many programs internally and externally such as the Google Summer of Code, Outreachy, and the Open Source Promotion Plan.
None of this could be possible without the vast amount of support, care, and contributions from what started as and is still an all volunteer project. We celebrate with each and every one who has helped shape Debian over all of these years and toward the future.
Today we all certainly celebrate 30 years of Debian, but know that Debian celebrates with each and every one of you all at the same time.
Over the next few days Celebration parties are planned to take place in Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Germany (CCCcamp), India, Iran, Portugal, Serbia, South Africa, and Turkey.
You are of course, invited to join us!
Check out, attend, or form your very own DebianDay 2023 Event .
See you then!
Thank you, thank you all so very much.
With Love,
The Debian Project
Značky: #debian, #Debian, #birthday, #debianday
The voting period for the Debian Project Leader election has ended, with all of the votes tallied we announce the winner is: Jonathan Carter, who has been elected for the forth time.
Congratulations! The new term for the project leader started on 2023-04-21.
279 of 997 Developers voted using the Condorcet method .
More information about the results of the voting are available on the Debian Project Leader Elections 2023 page.
Many thanks all of our Developers for voting.
Značky: #Debian, #dpl
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!
Značky: #Debian, #project
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!
Značky: #Debian, #project
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!
Značky: #project, #Debian
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!
Značky: #project, #Debian
Today is Debian's 29th anniversary. We recently wrote about some ideas to celebrate the DebianDay, and several events have been planned in more than 14 locations. You can join the party or organise something yourselves too!
Today is also an opportunity for you to start or resume your contributions to Debian. For example, you can have a look at our list of Debian Teams , install the how-can-i-help package and see if there is a bug in any of the software that you use that you can help to fix, start designing your artwork candidate for the next release, contribute small tips on how to install Debian on your machines to our wiki pages https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/ , or put a Debian live image in an USB memory and give it to some person near you, who still didn't discover Debian.
Our favorite operating system is the result of all the work we do together. Thanks to everybody who has contributed in these 29 years, and happy birthday Debian!
Značky: #debian, #Debian, #birthday
Every year on August 16th, the anniversary of the Debian Project takes place. And several communities around the world celebrate this date by organizing local meetings in an event called "Debian Day".
So, how about celebrating the 29th anniversary of the Debian Project in 2022 in your city?
We invite you and your local community to organize Debian Day by hosting an event with talks, workshops, bug squashing party , OpenPGP keysigning , etc. Or simply holding a meeting between people who like Debian in a bar/pizzeria/cafeteria/restaurant to celebrate. In other words, any type of meeting is valid!
But remember that the COVID-19 pandemic is not over yet, so take all necessary measures to protect attendees.
As the 16th of August falls on a Tuesday, if you think it's better to organize it during the weekend, no problem. The importance is to celebrate the Debian Project.
Remember to add your city to the Debian Day wiki page
There is a list of Debian Local Groups around the world. If your city is listed, talk to them to organize DebianDay together.
There is a list of Debian Local Groups around the world. If your city is listed, talk to them to organized the Debian Day together.
Let's use hashtags #DebianDay #DebianDay2022 on social media.
Značky: #debian, #birthday, #Debian
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!
Značky: #project, #Debian
On Sunday 24 July 2022, the annual Debian Developers and Contributors Conference came to a close. Hosting more than 210 attendees from 38 different countries over a combined 91 event talks, discussion sessions, Birds of a Feather (BoF) gatherings, workshops, and activities, DebConf22 was a large success.
The conference was preceded by the annual DebCamp held 10 July to 16 July which focused on individual work and team sprints for in-person collaboration towards developing Debian. In particular, this year there have been sprints to advance development of Mobian/Debian on mobile, reproducible builds and Python in Debian, and a BootCamp for newcomers, to get introduced to Debian and have some hands-on experience with using it and contributing to the community.
The actual Debian Developers Conference started on Sunday 17 July 2022. Together with activities such as the traditional 'Bits from the DPL' talk, the continuous key-signing party, lightning talks and the announcement of next year's DebConf ( DebConf23 in Kochi, India), there were several sessions related to programming language teams such as Python, Perl and Ruby, as well as news updates on several projects and internal Debian teams, discussion sessions (BoFs) from many technical teams (Long Term Support, Android tools, Debian Derivatives, Debian Installer and Images team, Debian Science...) and local communities (Debian Brasil, Debian India, the Debian Local 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. Several activities that couldn\'t be organized in past years due to the COVID pandemic returned to the conference\'s schedule: a job fair, open-mic and poetry night, the traditional Cheese and Wine party, the group photos and the Day Trip.
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 DebConf22 website will remain active for archival purposes and will continue to offer links to the presentations and videos of talks and events.
Next year, DebConf23 will be held in Kochi, India, from September 10 to September 16, 2023. As tradition follows before the next DebConf the local organizers in India will start the conference activites with DebCamp (September 03 to September 09, 2023), with particular focus on individual and team work towards improving the distribution.
DebConf is committed to a safe and welcome environment for all participants. See the web page about the Code of Conduct in DebConf22 website for more details on this.
Debian thanks the commitment of numerous sponsors to support DebConf22, particularly our Platinum Sponsors: Lenovo , Infomaniak , ITP Prizren and Google .
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 .
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/ .
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.
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).
Innovation and Training Park Prizren intends to be a changing and boosting element in the area of ICT, agro-food and creatives industries, through the creation and management of a favourable environment and efficient services for SMEs, exploiting different kinds of innovations that can contribute to Kosovo to improve its level of development in industry and research, bringing benefits to the economy and society of the country as a whole.
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.
For further information, please visit the DebConf22 web page at https://debconf22.debconf.org/ or send mail to press@debian.org .
Značky: #announce, #Debian, #debconf22, #debconf, #debconf23
DebConf22 is taking place in Prizren, Kosovo, from 17th to 24th July, 2022. It is the 23rd edition of the Debian conference and organizers are working hard to create another interesting and fruitful event for attendees.
We would like to warmly welcome the sponsors of DebConf22, and introduce you to them.
We have four Platinum sponsors.
Our first Platinum sponsor is 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.
Infomaniak is our second Platinum sponsor. 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).
The ITP Prizren is our third Platinum sponsor. ITP Prizren intends to be a changing and boosting element in the area of ICT, agro-food and creatives industries, through the creation and management of a favourable environment and efficient services for SMEs, exploiting different kinds of innovations that can contribute to Kosovo to improve its level of development in industry and research, bringing benefits to the economy and society of the country as a whole.
Google is our fourth Platinum sponsor. 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.
Our Gold sponsors are:
Roche , a major international pharmaceutical provider and research company dedicated to personalized healthcare.
Microsoft , enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
Ipko Telecommunications , provides telecommunication services and it is the first and the most dominant mobile operator which offers fast-speed mobile internet – 3G and 4G networks in Kosovo.
Ubuntu , the Operating System delivered by Canonical.
U.S. Agency for International Development , leads international development and humanitarian efforts to save lives, reduce poverty, strengthen democratic governance and help people progress beyond assistance.
Our Silver sponsors are:
Pexip , is the video communications platform that solves the needs of large organizations. Deepin is a Chinese commercial company focusing on the development and service of Linux-based operating systems. Hudson River Trading , a company researching and developing automated trading algorithms using advanced mathematical techniques. Amazon Web Services (AWS) , is one of the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platforms, offering over 175 fully featured services from data centers globally. The Bern University of Applied Sciences with near 7,800 students enrolled, located in the Swiss capital. credativ , a service-oriented company focusing on open-source software and also a Debian development partner . Collabora , a global consultancy delivering Open Source software solutions to the commercial world. Arm : with the world’s Best SoC Design Portfolio, Arm powered solutions have been supporting innovation for more than 30 years and are deployed in over 225 billion chips to date. GitLab , an open source end-to-end software development platform with built-in version control, issue tracking, code review, CI/CD, and more. Two Sigma , rigorous inquiry, data analysis, and invention to help solve the toughest challenges across financial services. Starlabs , builds software experiences and focus on building teams that deliver creative Tech Solutions for our clients. Solaborate , has the world’s most integrated and powerful virtual care delivery platform. Civil Infrastructure Platform , a collaborative project hosted by the Linux Foundation, establishing an open source “base layer” of industrial grade software. Matanel Foundation , operates in Israel, as its first concern is to preserve the cohesion of a society and a nation plagued by divisions.
Bronze sponsors:
bevuta IT , Kutia , Univention , Freexian .
And finally, our Supporter level sponsors:
Altus Metrum , Linux Professional Institute , Olimex , Trembelat , Makerspace IC Prizren , Cloud68.co , Gandi.net , ISG.EE , IPKO Foundation , The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH .
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 DebConf22.
Značky: #debconf, #Debian, #debconf22, #sponsors
DebConf22 , the 23rd annual Debian Conference, is taking place in Prizren, Kosovo from July 17th to 24th, 2022.
Debian contributors from all over the world have come together at Innovation and Training Park (ITP) in Prizren, Kosovo, to participate and work in a conference exclusively run by volunteers.
Today the main conference starts with over 270 attendants expected and 82 activities scheduled, including 45-minute and 20-minute talks and team meetings ("BoF"), workshops, and a job fair, as well as a variety of other events.
The full schedule at https://debconf2.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 DebConf22 website of the events happening in the three talk rooms: Drini , Lumbardhi and Ereniku . Or you can join the conversation about what is happening in the talk rooms: #debconf-drini , #debconf-lumbardhi and #debconf-ereniku (all those channels in the OFTC IRC network).
You can also follow the live coverage of news about DebConf22 on https://micronews.debian.org or the @debian profile in your favorite social network.
DebConf is committed to a safe and welcoming environment for all participants. See the web page about the Code of Conduct in DebConf22's website for more details on this.
Debian thanks the commitment of numerous sponsors to support DebConf22, particularly our Platinum Sponsors: Lenovo , Infomaniak , ITP Prizren and Google .
Značky: #debconf, #Debian, #debconf22
Three members of the Debian Perl Group met in Hamburg between May 23 and May 30 2022 as part of the Debian Reunion Hamburg to continue perl development work for Bookworm and to work on QA tasks across our 3800+ packages.
The participants had a good time and met other Debian friends. The sprint was also productive:
The more detailed report was posted to the Debian Perl mailing list.
The participants would like to thank the Debian Reunion Hamburg organizers for providing the framework for our sprint, all sponsors of the event, and all donors to the Debian project who helped to cover parts of our expenses.
Značky: #minidebconf, #Debian, #perl, #sprint
In less than two days we will be in Prizren to start DebCamp and DebConf22 \o/
This C&W is the 18th 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 Kosovo. 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 . There are more information about C&W, what you can bring, vegan cheese, Kosovo customs regulations and non-alcoholic drinks at our site .
C&W will happen on July 19nd, 2022 (Tuesday) after 19h30min.
We are looking forward to seeing you all here!
Značky: #debconf, #Debian, #wine, #debconf22, #party, #cheese
Debian continues participating in Outreachy, and we're excited to announce that Debian has selected two interns for the Outreachy May 2022 - August 2022 round.
Israel Galadima and Michael Ikwuegbu will work on Improve yarn package manager integration with Debian , mentored by Akshay S Dinesh and Pirate Praveen.
Congratulations and welcome to Israel Galadima and Michael Ikwuegbu!
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 .
Značky: #announce, #Debian, #outreachy
We are very excited to announce that Debian has selected three interns to work under mentorship on a variety of projects with us during the Google Summer of Code .
Here are the list of the projects, interns, and details of the tasks to be performed.
Project: Android SDK Tools in Debian
The deliverables of this project will mostly be finished packages submitted to Debian sid, both for new packages and updated packages. Whenever possible, we should also try to get patches submitted and merged upstream in the Android sources.
Project: Project: Quality Assurance for Biological and Medical Applications inside Debian
Deliverables of the project: Continuous integration tests for all Debian Med applications (life sciences, medical imaging, others), Quality Assurance review and bug fixing.
Congratulations and welcome to all the interns!
The Google Summer of Code program is possible in Debian thanks to the efforts of Debian Developers and Debian 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 reach out to the individual projects' team mailing lists.
Značky: #gsoc, #Debian, #announce
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!
Značky: #project, #Debian
We are very pleased to announce that Google has committed to support DebConf22 as a Platinum sponsor . This is the third year in a row that Google is sponsoring The Debian Conference with the higher tier!
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 DebConf22, 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 DebConf22!
DebConf22 will take place from July 17th to 24th, 2022 at the Innovation and Training Park (ITP) in Prizren, Kosovo , and will be preceded by DebCamp, from July 10th to 16th.
And DebConf22 is still accepting sponsors! Interested companies and organizations may contact the DebConf team through sponsors@debconf.org , and visit the DebConf22 website at https://debconf22.debconf.org/sponsors/become-a-sponsor .
Značky: #sponsors, #google, #debconf22, #Debian, #debconf
If you intend to apply for a DebConf22 bursary and/or submit an event proposal and have not yet done so, please proceed as soon as possible!
Bursary applications for DebConf22 will be accepted until May 1st 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 .
Event proposals will be accepted until May 1st at 23:59 UTC too .
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, and so on) could have different durations. Please choose the most suitable duration for your event and explain any special requests. You can submit it here .
The the 23rd edition of DebConf will take place from July 17th to 24th, 2022 at the Innovation and Training Park (ITP) in Prizren, Kosovo , and will be preceded by DebCamp, from July 10th to 16th.
See you in Prizren !
Značky: #Debian, #debconf, #debconf22
The voting period and tally of votes for the Debian Project Leader election has just concluded, and the winner is Jonathan Carter, who has been elected for third time. Congratulations! The new term for the project leader starts on 2022-04-21.
354 of 1,023 Developers voted using the Condorcet method .
More information about the results of the voting are available on the Debian Project Leader Elections 2022 page.
Many thanks to Felix Lechner, Jonathan Carter and Hideki Yamane for their campaigns, and to our Developers for voting.
Značky: #Debian, #dpl