Hi all, It's time for another update on what I've been up to over the last couple of months. Press and articles ------------------ Quite a bit of press and general Debian outreach in the last few weeks: * Debian Jessie book preface [0] * SPI annual report [1] * Reddit AMA [2] * MyLinuxRig [3] * Linux Voice magazine, issue 16 Still to be published is: * FSFE fellowship interview * Online version of the Linux Voice article - this will come out in ~6 months [0] http://www.linux-journalist.com/bucher/ [1] http://spi-inc.org/corporate/annual-reports/2015.pdf [2] http://redd.it/3ctb6n [3] http://www.mylinuxrig.com/post/122864405658/the-linux-setup-neil-mcgovern-debian-project Conference invites ------------------ I was also invited to attend FISL, but unfortunately there wasn't enough notice for me to rearrange work to attend. Funding ------- I've approved funds for: * Sprints: - pt_BR translation sprint at Microdebconf Brasilia - Debian representation at http://www.euco-cc-2015.org/ * Debconf: - GSoC student attendence - Newbies and Diverity/outreach attendance programmes * DSA: - MSA2012i care pack at UBC - Dead disk replacements Trusted Organisations --------------------- I've raised the issue of responsiveness with SPI, and am glad that work is now happening to see if part-time staffing can be found to help accelerate requests from member projects, of which Debian is one. Additionally, I now have access to the FFIS accounting system, so I can see not only balances, but requests for reimbursements, and their status. As a reminder, *please* make sure you follow: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/Reimbursement - not doing so causes delays and extra hastle for everyone involved! Legal issues ------------ I've had a productive meeting with the FTPMasters about ZFS in Debian, and resolving ambiguities in the PHP licence. Hopefully, they should be able to come to a conclusion in the next few weeks about these issues. The details on libdvdcss are still a bit unclear wrt how Japan is affected, I'm talking to SFLC about that at the moment. DebConf ------- DebConf is just around the corner, and I'm personally hugely looking forward to it! I hope to be reunited with old friends, and meet many more. If you see me around, come say hi :) Daily log --------- As per usual, a daily log of what I've been up to are available to DDs on master.d.o:/srv/leader/news. Thanks, Neil --
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