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Bits from the DPL
Dear Debian community,
this is bits from DPL for March (sorry for the delay, I was waiting for some additional input).
Conferences
In March, I attended two conferences, each with a distinct motivation.
I joined FOSSASIA to address the imbalance in geographical developer representation. Encouraging more developers from Asia to contribute to Free Software is an important goal for me, and FOSSASIA provided a valuable opportunity to work towards this.
I
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DebConf25 Registration and Call for Proposals are open
The 26th edition of the Debian annual conference will be held in Brest, France, from July 14th to July 20th, 2025. The main conference will be preceded by DebCamp, from July 7th to July 13th. We invite everyone interested to register for the event to attend DebConf25 in person. You can also submit a talk or event proposal if you're interested in presenting your work in Debian at DebConf25.
Registration can be done by creating an account on the
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New Debian Developers and Maintainers (January and February 2025)
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
- Bo Yu (vimer)
- Maytham Alsudany (maytham)
- Rebecca Natalie Palmer (mpalmer)
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
- NoisyCoil
- Arif Ali
- Julien Plissonneau Duquène
- Maarten Van Geijn
- Ben Collins
Congratulations!
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Debian Med Sprint in Berlin
Debian Med sprint in Berlin on 15 and 16 February
The Debian Med team works on software packages that are associated with medicine, pre-clinical research, and life sciences, and makes them available for the Debian distribution. Seven Debian developers and contributors to the team gathered for their annual Sprint, in Berlin, Germany on 15 and 16 February 2025. The purpose of the meeting was to tackle bugs in Debian-Med packages, enhance the quality of the team's packages, and
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Bits from the DPL
Dear Debian community,
this is bits from DPL for February.
Ftpmaster team is seeking for new team members
In December, Scott Kitterman announced his retirement from the project. I personally regret this, as I vividly remember his invaluable support during the Debian Med sprint at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. He even took time off to ensure new packages cleared the queue in under 24 hours. I want to take this opportunity to personally thank Scott for
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DebConf25 Logo Contest Results
Last November, the DebConf25 Team asked the community to help design the logo for the 25th Debian Developers' Conference and the results are in! The logo contest received 23 submissions and we thank all the 295 people who took the time to participate in the survey. There were several amazing
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Proxmox Platinum Sponsor of DebConf25
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Bits from the DPL
Dear Debian community,
this is bits from DPL for January.
Sovereign Tech Agency
I was recently pointed to Technologies and Projects supported by the Sovereign Tech Agency which is financed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action. It is a subsidiary of the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation, SPRIND GmbH.
It is worth sending applications there for distinct projects as that is their
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New Debian Developers and Maintainers (November and December 2024)
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
- Ananthu C V (weepingclown)
- Andrea Pappacoda (tachi)
- Athos Coimbra Ribeiro (athos)
- Gioele Barabucci (gioele)
- Jongmin Kim (jmkim)
- Shengqi Chen (harry)
- Frans Spiesschaert (frans)
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
- Tianyu Chen
- Emmanuel
