Dear Developers, In most jurisdictions around the world, the Debian project is not in a position to directly hold funds or other property. Such assets are therefore owned by a number of so called 'Trusted Organizations'. Historically, SPI was the sole organization authorized to hold assets for the Debian Project. Over the years, a number of other organizations started to hold assets on behalf of Debian, but we did not enforce the process defined in our constitution to officially maintain a list of Trusted Organizations. I would like to use this opportunity to stress the importance of the work of such supporting organizations for Debian, and for the Free Software community general. The legal and financial framework they provide is a crucial contribution to ensure healthy and functional projects. Recently, some work was done to clarify the status of organizations holding Debian's assets, first to identify common evaluation criteria for prospective Trusted Organizations[1], and then to evaluate, with respect to those criteria, our current de-facto Trusted Organizations and two prospective Trusted Organizations. [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/TrustedOrganizationCriteria We are now ready to announce a first official list of Debian Trusted Organizations, per the process defined in the Debian Constitution §5.1.11 and §9, and after the required public discussions. So, here it comes. The list of Debian Trusted Organizations is: + Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI) <http://www.spi-inc.org/> (per our Constitution) + Förderung Freier Informationen und Software (ffis e.V.) <http://www.ffis.de/> Discussion: https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2014/03/msg00132.html + Debian France <http://france.debian.net/> Discussion: https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2014/03/msg00012.html + DebConf Deutschland e.V. Discussion: https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2014/04/msg00070.html Note that there are still a few other organizations holding Debian assets without being official Trusted Organizations (e.g.; Debian.ch). Work is ongoing to clarify their status. - Lucas
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