Hi Jean-Jacques Brucker, I would like to welcome yourself and GauSSIan to the Debian derivatives census! Would you like to take this opportunity to introduce yourself and GauSSIan to us all? https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/GauSSIan It would be great if you could join our mailing list and IRC channel: https://wiki.debian.org/DerivativesFrontDesk I would encourage you to look at Debian's guidelines for derivatives: https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Guidelines You may want to look at our census QA page, some of the mails from there may apply to GauSSIan. https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/CensusQA You don't appear to be subscribed to the GauSSIan census page, I've made a few changes to the GauSSIan census page: https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/GauSSIan?action=info The page says that GauSSIan modifies Debian binary packages. It is quite rare that distributions modify Debian binary packages instead of modifying source packages and rebuilding them. Does GauSSIan actually do this? If so could you describe what kind of modifications you are making? If not I guess the page needs to be fixed. The page says that GauSSIan uses a variety of desktop interfaces, I would have thought that a consistent user interface would be a better option on ultrasound machines and I assume that item needs fixing on the page to list the right user interface. I note that GauSSIan is based on Debian stable. The Debian community recently released Debian buster as the latest stable version. I would encourage you to review it and prepare your plans for updating to buster. The freeze for the next Debian release will occur in approximately two years. https://www.debian.org/News/2019/20190706 https://release.debian.org/#updates A great way to help ensure that the next Debian release is working well is to install and run the how-can-i-help tool and try to work on any issues that come up. https://wiki.debian.org/how-can-i-help https://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=837 https://packages.debian.org/unstable/how-can-i-help The GauSSIan blog doesn't appear to have an RSS feed, which would be syndicated on Planet Debian derivatives and would help the Debian community find out the things that are happening in GauSSIan. https://planet.debian.org/deriv/ Since GauSSIan is based in France you might be interested in joining the Debian France association. https://wiki.debian.org/LocalGroups#France http://france.debian.net/ This year the annual Debian conference is in Curitiba, Brasil. Unfortunately it is *very* close to the start of DebConf19 but it would be great if developers from GauSSIan could attend DebConf. If this isn't possible, next year DebConf will be in Haifa, Israel. Since GauSSIan is a fairly unique use of Debian, I think a presentation about GauSSIan could be potentially interesting for other attendees. https://debconf19.debconf.org/ https://wiki.debian.org/DebConf/20 I would encourage SuperSonic Imagine (the GauSSIan corporate sponsor) to contribute financially to ensure the continued survival of Debian and the success of the annual Debian conference. https://www.debian.org/donations https://debconf.org/sponsors/ https://debconf19.debconf.org/sponsors/become-a-sponsor/ I would encourage any attendees to volunteer to ensure the continued the success of the annual Debian conference, here are some examples of things that need helpers. https://wiki.debian.org/DebConf/19/Volunteer https://debconf-video-team.pages.debian.net/docs/volunteer_roles.html Since GauSSIan is used on medical devices, you might be interested in the Debian Medical and Science subprojects. https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/ https://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianScience https://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/ https://blends.debian.org/science/tasks/ I note that GauSSIan uses gitlab, reprepro, debian-installer, debootstrap, etc I would encourage you to provide any feedback you have or and fixes you have written to the teams for these tools. I note that SuperSonic Imagine is hiring. If any of the positions are about contributing to open source projects, you could advertise them on FOSSjobs. If any of the positions are related using or contributing to Debian, you could advertise them on debian-jobs. If any of them involve the use of FLOSS, You might like to advertise them on the other open source related job aggregators. In addition, one of the perks for DebConf sponsors is a presence at the job fair. https://www.fossjobs.net/ https://lists.debian.org/debian-jobs/ https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources#job-aggregators https://debconf19.debconf.org/sponsors/become-a-sponsor/ You might want to consider adding DNSSEC to your domains, TLSA records and SSL to some of your domains. SSL on the repository will help GauSSIan users to obscure package names and version numbers from global active adversaries. You might also want to add HSTS headers. http://dnsviz.net/d/supersonicimagine.com/ https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Guidelines/Web_Security Please feel free to circulate this mail within the GauSSIan team. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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