Hi, I would like to welcome yourself and Bloss to the Debian derivatives census! Would you like to take this opportunity to introduce yourself and Bloss to us all? https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/Bloss 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 Bloss. https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/CensusQA You don't appear to be subscribed to the Bloss census page, I've made a few changes to the Bloss census page: https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/Bloss?action=info I note that Bloss is in the early stages of its life, please remember to update the Bloss census page with information and links as you grow. The page says that Bloss modifies Debian binary packages. It is quite rare that distributions modify Debian binary packages instead of modifying source packages and rebuilding them. Does Bloss 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. Once you have an apt repository setup, please add the Bloss sources.list to the wiki page. This will eventually help feed back patches and new packages to Debian developers. I note that Bloss is based on Debian stable. 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 There doesn't appear to be a Bloss blog or a blog aggregator for Bloss 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 Bloss. https://planet.debian.org/deriv/ Since Bloss is based in Australia you might be interested in joining one of the local Debian groups in Australia or a local LUG. https://wiki.debian.org/LocalGroups#Australia This year the annual Debian conference is in Haifa, Israel. It would be great if developers from Bloss could attend DebConf. If this isn't possible, bids for next year's DebConf are in India, Kosovo & Portugal. https://debconf20.debconf.org/ https://wiki.debian.org/DebConf/21 Once the Bloss project is generating revenue I would encourage Nilskör (the Bloss 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://debconf20.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 Once Nilskör/Bloss have paid positions open and if any of the positions are about contributing to FLOSS 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 FLOSS 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://debconf20.debconf.org/sponsors/become-a-sponsor/ I note that Bloss uses GNOME and Calamares, I would encourage you to provide feedback and fixes to the upstream teams for them. I note that Bloss uses some non-x86 architectures, I would encourage you to provide help porting Debian to those architectures. https://www.debian.org/ports/ https://wiki.debian.org/Ports You might want to consider adding DNSSEC to your domains, TLSA records and TLS to some of your domains. TLS on the repository will help Bloss users to obscure package names and version numbers from global active adversaries. You might also want to add HSTS headers. http://dnsviz.net/d/Blosswebsite/ https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Guidelines/Web_Security Please feel free to circulate this mail within the Bloss team. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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