Hi John, I would like to welcome yourself and SteamOS to the Debian derivatives census! I'm sure many of us are aware of SteamOS and the FAQ so perhaps instead of the usual distro intro, you might like to tell us about your role in SteamOS and your plans for the future of SteamOS & Debian. http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/SteamOS It would be great if you could join our mailing list and IRC channel: http://wiki.debian.org/DerivativesFrontDesk I would encourage you to look at Debian's guidelines for derivatives: http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Guidelines You may want to look at our census QA page, some of the mails from there may apply to SteamOS. http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/CensusQA I've made a few changes to the SteamOS census page: http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/SteamOS?action=info The last item on the SteamOS homepage has already been completed since SteamOS is available for download now. There doesn't appear to be a SteamOS blog or a blog aggregator for SteamOS developers. If these existed they would be syndicated on Planet Debian derivatives and would help the Debian community find out the things that are happening in SteamOS. http://planet.debian.org/deriv/ Next year the annual Debian conference is in Portland, OR, USA. This appears to be relatively close to the SteamOS location, it would be great if developers from SteamOS/Valve could attend DebConf. http://debconf14.debconf.org/ I would encourage Valve (the SteamOS corporate sponsor) to contribute financially to ensure the continued survival of Debian and the success of the annual Debian conference. http://www.debian.org/donations http://debconf.org/sponsors/ http://debconf14.debconf.org/become-sponsor.xhtml I note that SteamOS is based on Debian stable with some backports. The Debian release team recently released a timeline for the freeze for the next Debian stable release. I would encourage you to review it and prepare your plans for rebasing on the next Debian release (jessie). http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/12/msg00008.html You might also like to contribute your backporting efforts to Debian. http://backports.debian.org/Contribute/ I note that SteamOS uses the Debian installer, I would encourage you to provide feedback and fixes to the installer team. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ SteamOS relies on well maintained graphics drivers. I hear you are already involved with the various upstream graphics driver projects but it would be great if you could be involved in the relevant Debian teams: X Strike Force: X11/Wayland servers, drivers and related packages http://x.debian.net/ NVIDIA Maintainers: for the NVIDIA proprietary drivers http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-nvidia Fglrx packaging team: for ATI/AMD proprietary drivers http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-fglrx-devel SteamOS is a game distribution platform. Debian also distributes games and the games team is a focal point for that activity. I'm not sure how much scope there is for SteamOS folks to be involved there but help with maintaining the Debian package of the Steam client would be appreciated at least. https://wiki.debian.org/Games/Team Please feel free to circulate this mail within the SteamOS team and within Valve in general. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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