Over the last few weeks, I have talked to several developers who are involved in important areas of Debian. I will continue to do this in order to get a clear picture of where help is needed. One such area is security, and I'm happy to announce that Matt Zimmerman is now a full member of the Security Team. Matt has done a great job as Security Secretary over the last few months and can now, as a full member, issue security advisories directly. I hope this will facilitate his work. The Security Team still appreciates help, however. If you are interested in helping out with security and tasks similar to those outlined in http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2001/debian-security-200109/msg00225.html then just go ahead and help. Track security advisories of other vendors, submit patches to the BTS and inform the Security Team of outstanding issues. You can also prepare security updates -- Matt will review them for use in advisories. Contact him at mdz@debian.org if you are interested. As mentioned before, Manoj Srivastava has kindly agreed to act as Project Secretary for another year. Manoj has also created a web page outlining the tasks of the secretary and giving some information about himself. Similarly, I have written a page about myself and the role of the DPL. Both pages are linked from http://www.debian.org/intro/organization This page, presenting Debian's organizational structure, shows who is responsible for which areas and is a great resource when you're wondering who to contact. Furthermore, http://www.debian.org/misc/memberships shows Debian memberships in other organizations and our representatives. I have talked to Mark Johnson, who represents Debian to OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards). Some achievements have been made and I expect Mark to announce something in the near future. By the way, our OASIS membership renewal is due in June -- if a company thinks Debian's involvement in OASIS is worthwhile and is interested in sponsoring our membership dues, please contact me. I have also spoken to Colin Walters, our representative to Desktop Linux Consortium (DLC) and he promised he will keep us informed about what's going on there. The Debian Desktop project and our involvement in DLC is certainly a great thing! Other than the changes described above, everything remains the same for now. Feel free to look at http://www.debian.org/intro/organization and http://www.debian.org/misc/memberships to see who is responsible for what. And thanks to all the volunteers who are making Debian possible! I hope to see you at Debian Conference 3 -- don't forget to register at http://www.debconf.org/debconf3/registration/ -- Martin Michlmayr leader@debian.org
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