I have been rather quiet during the last few months. Not really because I wasn't doing anything, but because most of what I have been doing was done by private e-mail. Apparently people are expecting the DPL to disappear around the middle of their term, because I did not get many complaints. But I learned the lesson. And well, I now have a reason to regain motivation. \o/ DSA++ \o/ ------------- I am very, very pleased to let you know that this morning Phil Hands (fil) added Peter Palfrader (weasel) to the adm group. Which means that the DSA team now has a new member! The first since, wow, quite some time. I am grateful to everyone who made this possible, for bearing with my insistance, for making concessions, for being patient, and I hope this is only the first step to bigger and better teams in Debian. Of course the path is still long but I must admit this is truly refreshing. I wish great success to Peter for the thankless job that awaits him. Nexenta ------- After meeting Michael Man and several Sun people at Debconf and seeing Michael's great talk[1] I got really convinced that the technology present in OpenSolaris could benefit Debian in many ways. And the shortest path to there seemed to be Nexenta[2]. I am currently discussing the possibility of having a Nexenta machine accessible to Debian developers to port and test their packages. I also suggested the Nexenta people to submit patches directly to Debian and try to join friendly packaging teams. Please be nice to them! Conferences ----------- Last month I attended Encuentro Linux 2007[3] in Arica, Chile where I gave a talk about the history and organisation of Debian and how to help and become a member of the project[4]. Due to various issues (such as my passport being stolen when I was 2000 km away from the conference) I did not have the time to give my other planned talk about attracting developers who do not speak English to Debian and FLOSS projects[5]. Fortunately I was able to discuss it with members of the local communities. My goal is to understand why such a large Spanish-speaking area has so few Debian developers, and what we can do about that. One of my observations was that two very important documents (the Debian Policy[6] and the Debian Developer's Reference[7]) were not translated into Spanish, while for instance there is a French translation of the latter. Any volunteers? [1] https://penta.debconf.org/~joerg/track/DebConf/29.en.html [2] http://www.gnusolaris.org/ [3] http://2007.encuentrolinux.cl/ [4] http://sam.zoy.org/lectures/20071013-debian [5] http://sam.zoy.org/lectures/20071013-latam [6] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ [7] http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ Cheers, -- Sam.
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