Hi all, I'd like to announce the Debian derivatives census[1] in order to get more derivatives registered. I already announced it on the derivatives list and got Emdebian, Grml, Maemo and gNewSense members to add pages. Ubuntu I added myself and Canaima was added after I met someone from there on IRC. I think we have reached the limit of derivative distros closely following Debian and thus subscribed to the debian-derivatives list. The number is kinda disappointing to me, so I would like to announce the census more widely, maybe we can convince more derivatives to join the list and IRC channel as a result. To this end, I have written the following announcement to be sent to debian-announce, debian-news or similar. Please review it, I would be glad to hear any suggestions or additions! After the derivatives list has reviewed it I will get a second review on debian-publicity and talk with the press team to get it sent out. In addition to announcing the census formally, I will try to get it onto LWN, slashdot and announce it more informally on some derivative IRC channels, lists and other fora based on some of the lists of derivatives at [5]. Once we have a more substantial amount of derivatives registered I would like to start looking at the information we have and asking the people listed as maintainers for machine-readable versions so that information about our derivatives can be more closely integrated with Debian stuff (UDD, PTS, DDPO, planet and more). Subject: Debian conducting census of derivatives (need a better title) The Debian Project would like to invite representatives of distributions derived from Debian to participate in a census[1] of Debian derivatives. In addition we would like to invite representatives of distributions derived from Debian to join the Debian derivatives[5] front desk[2]. In general Debian encourages members of derivative distributions to contribute their ideas, patches, bug reports to Debian and to the upstream developers of software included in Debian. By participating in the census you will increase the visibility of your derivative within Debian, provide Debian contributors with a contact point and a set of information that will make it easier for them to interact with your distribution and include. Representatives of distributions derived from Ubuntu[6] are encouraged to get their distribution added to the Ubuntu Derivative Team wiki page[7]. By participating in the Debian derivatives front desk you can support other Debian derivatives, share your experience with other Debian derivatives and with Debian contributors and benefit from the experience of other Debian derivatives. Debian encourages representatives from all derivatives to join the mailing list[3] and IRC channel[4]. Future plans for the Debian derivatives census include keeping track of Debian derivatives, addition of more information useful to Debian contributors, inclusion of machine-readable information and subsequent integration of information about derivatives into Debian infrastructure. <insert standard blurb about Debian> 1. http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census 2. http://wiki.debian.org/DerivativesFrontDesk 3. http://lists.debian.org/debian-derivatives/ 4. irc://irc.debian.org/debian-derivatives 5. http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives 6. http://www.ubuntu.com/project/derivatives 7. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DerivativeTeam/Derivatives -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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