Hello world, here is a report on DPL whereabouts up to July 2010, just before DebConf. It was meant to be sent before, but DebConf has been so intense that I sat down writing it only now, apologies for the delay. I'll separately send a DebConf-related update. As usual, a more detailed/boring activity log is available at master:/srv/leader/news/ . Communication ============= - I've been contacted about editing a Debian-related podcast [1]; planning of its episodes is now ongoing and some recordings have already been done. If you're interested in being interviewed about a specific area of Debian, please sign up at [2]. - I've released an interview for the Italian linux magazine called "Linux & C". The magazine is a paper magazine, but I've made the single interview available at [3] (PDF format, in Italian). Various other aspects of communication about Debian have been discussed with the press and publicity team, including the take over of <http://identi.ca/debian> and the proposal of merging various blog-ish resources into blog.debian.org. Check debian-publicity archives for more details. [1] http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2010/07/debian_podcast_planning/ [2] http://wiki.debian.org/ThisWeekInDebian [3] http://upsilon.cc/~zack/stuff/LC71_v003_intervista.pdf Derivatives =========== - A press release about the derivatives front desk [4] has been published (thanks to the press team for their help!). Activity on the debian-derivatives mailing list is flourishing and some others derived distros have joined the initiative (including gNewSense, which will be switching to Debian in the near future). - The forthcoming openSUSE conference [5] will be on the topic "collaboration across borders"; they've asked me for a Debian representative. Rhonda has recently been very active and helpful in the derivatives from desk, and has kindly agreed to represent Debian at the conference. Rhonda has asked for feedback on our collaboration activities [6], please get in touch with her to contribute. - A "Debian derivatives" BoF has been discussed on -derivatives and Matt Zimmerman has kindly volunteered to organize it [7] (more about it in the forthcoming report about DebConf10). [4] http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100629 [5] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference [6] http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2010/07/msg00135.html [7] http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/669.en.html Delegations =========== As promised, I've started reviewing current delegations with the goal of having a complete overview of all delegations by the end of my term. To start with, the delegations I've been given myself consistently have a wiki.d.o/Teams/SubPage with a link to the delegation text. As a next recent step, I've discussed with the current marketing delegates and they agree with me that their delegation are no longer needed. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I hereby thank the marketing team for their past work and revoke the previous delegations [8] from the marketing team delegates Moritz Muehlenhoff and Andreas Schuldei. [8] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/04/msg00009.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Nevertheless, publicity and communication activities around Debian are quite active these days; if you are interested in the topic I suggest joining the -publicity mailing list and work with both the press team and the wonderful spontaneous team which is emerging there. Money ===== Here are some brief highlights on how I've been using / promised to use Debian money in the recent past: - I've guaranteed to the DebConf team money coverage to fully sponsor queue A and queue B attendees. The team was rightfully worried by the budget situation of the conference (in spite of the hard work of the sponsoring team, this year we have been less lucky than previous editions). In the end, the budget situations is much better than expected and probably no extra Debian money will be needed for covering travel sponsoring. Shameless plug: thanks to the orga team for the wonderful conference they have managed to organize! - I've asked to transfer the Debian money which were held in trust by Linux-aktivaattori (Finland) to FFIS (Germany). I'd like to thank Tapio Lehtonen and Linux-aktivaattori for the work they've done thus far holding in trust Debian money. - I've finalized the "Debian Sponsoring Guidelines" [9] and published them at [10]. (The attentive reader might have noticed announces of forthcoming team meetings and agendas on some mailing lists already.) - As the subject has been touched in recent discussions, I'd like to reiterate that Debian money can be used to buy hardware for specific needs, even if the hardware will be held in trust by individual developers. Good examples are hardware that you need for porting work, but you can be creative (as long as you are able to convince me that the hardware is really needed). - I've been contacting (thanks to Sune Vuorela and Michael Prokop) people from the KDE e.V. board about their incredibly successful sprint program [11]. I'm still fleshing out details (ATM we have significantly less resources than them, so we have more constraints), but I hope to be able to start something similar next fall. In the meantime, start thinking whether your pet Debian team can benefit from a sprint! [9] http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2010/07/debian_meeting_sponsoring_guidelines/ [10] http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/SponsoringGuidelines [11] http://community.kde.org/KDE_e.V./Sprints Forthcoming events ================== I'm already aware of the following events that I'll be attending in September, speaking about Debian: - OssBarCamp in Dublin, Ireland, September 25th/26th, 2010 - Software Freedom Day, Perugia, Italy, September 18th, 2010 Enjoy your summer/winter (according to your hemisphere) and take the time to squash some RC bugs, Squeeze is frozen now! \o/ Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux pas si je te tutoie sempre uno zaino ...........| ..: |.... Je dis tu à tous ceux que j'aime
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