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The Debian Project https://www.debian.org/
DebConf24 closes in Busan and DebConf25 dates announced
press@debian.org
August 11th, 2024 https://www.debian.org/News/2024/20240811
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On Saturday 3 August 2024, the annual Debian Developers and Contributors
Conference came to a close.
Over 339 attendees representing 48 countries from around the world came
together for a combined 108 events made up of more than 50 Talks and
Discussions, 37 Birds of a Feather (BoF – informal meeting between
developers and users) sessions, 12 workshops, and activities in support
of furthering our distribution and free software (25 patches submitted
to the Linux kernel), learning from our mentors and peers, building our
community, and having a bit of fun.
The conference was preceded by the annual DebCamp [1] hacking session
held July 21st through July 27th where Debian Developers and
Contributors convened to focus on their individual Debian)related
projects or work in team sprints geared toward in-person collaboration
in developing Debian. This year featured a BootCamp that was held for
newcomers with a GPG Workshop and a focus on Introduction to
creating.deb files (Debian packaging) staged by a team of dedicated
mentors who shared hands-on experience in Debian and offered a deeper
understanding of how to work in and contribute to the community.
1: https://wiki.debian.org/DebCamp
The actual Debian Developers Conference started on Sunday July 28 2024.
In addition to the traditional 'Bits from the DPL' talk, the continuous
key-signing party, lightning talks and the announcement of next year's
DebConf25, there were several update sessions shared by internal
projects and teams. Many of the hosted discussion sessions were
presented by our technical core teams with the usual and useful meet the
Technical Committee and the ftpteam and a set of BoFs about packaging
policy and Debian infrastructure, including talk about APT and Debian
Installer and an overview about the first eleven yar of Reproducible
Builds. Internationalization and localization have been subject of
several talks. The Python, Perl, Ruby, and Go programming language
teams, as well as Med team, also shared updates on their work and
efforts. More than fifteen BoFs and talks about community, diversity and
local outreach highlighted the work of various team involved in the
social aspect of our community. This year again, Debian Brazil shared
strategy and action to attract and retain new contributors and members
and opportunities both in Debian and F/OSS.
The schedule [2] was updated each day with planned and ad-hoc activities
introduced by attendees over the course of the conference. Several
traditional activities took place: a job fair, a poetry performance, the
traditional Cheese and Wine party, the group photos and the Day Trips.
2: https://debconf23.debconf.org/schedule/
For those who were not able to attend, most of the talks and sessions
were broadcast live and recorded and the videos made available through a
link in their summary in the schedule [3]. Almost all of the sessions
facilitated remote participation via IRC messaging apps or online
collaborative text documents which allowed remote attendees to 'be in
the room' to ask questions or share comments with the speaker or
assembled audience.
3: https://debconf24.debconf.org/schedule/
DebConf24 saw over 6.8 TiB (4.3 TiB in 2023) of data streamed, 91.25
hours (55 in 2023) of scheduled talks, 20 network access points, 1.6 km
fibers (1 broken fiber...) and 2.2 km UTP cable deployed, more than 20
country Geoip viewers, 354 T-shirts, 3 day trips, and up to 200 meals
planned per day. All of these events, activities, conversations, and
streams coupled with our love, interest, and participation in Debian and
F/OSS certainly made this conference an overall success both here in
Busan, South Korea and online around the world.
The DebConf24 website [4] will remain active for archival purposes and
will continue to offer links to the presentations and videos of talks
and events.
4: https://debconf24.debconf.org/
Next year, Debconf25 [5] will be held in Brest, France, from Monday,
July 7 to Monday, July 21, 2025. As tradition follows before the next
DebConf the local organizers in France will start the conference
activities with DebCamp with particular focus on individual and team
work towards improving the distribution.
5: https://wiki.debian.org/DebConf/25
DebConf is committed to a safe and welcome environment for all
participants. See the web page about the Code of Conduct in DebConf24
website [6] for more details on this.
6: https://debconf24.debconf.org/about/coc/
Debian thanks the commitment of numerous sponsors [7] to support
DebConf24, particularly our Platinum Sponsors: Infomaniak [8],
Proxmox [9], and Wind River [10].
7: https://debconf24.debconf.org/sponsors/
8: https://www.infomaniak.com
9: https://www.proxmox.com/
10: https://www.river.com/
We also wish to thank our Video and Infrastructure teams, the DebConf24
and DebConf committees, our host nation of South Korea, and each and
every person who helped contribute to this event and to Debian overall.
Thank you all for your work in helping Debian continue to be "The
Universal Operating System". See you next year!
About Debian
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The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly free
community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of the
largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of
volunteers from all over the world work together to create and maintain
Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a huge range
of computer types, Debian calls itself the "universal operating system".
About DebConf
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DebConf is the Debian Project's developer conference. In addition to a
full schedule of technical, social and policy talks, DebConf provides an
opportunity for developers, contributors and other interested people to
meet in person and work together more closely. It has taken place
annually since 2000 in locations as varied as Scotland, Argentina,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, and India. More information about DebConf is
available from https://debconf.org [11].
11: https://debconf.org/
About Infomaniak
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Infomaniak [12] is an independent cloud service provider recognized
throughout Europe for its commitment to privacy, the local economy and
the environment. Recording growth of 18% in 2023, the company is
developing a suite of online collaborative tools and cloud hosting,
streaming, marketing and events solutions. Infomaniak uses exclusively
renewable energy, builds its own data centers and develops its solutions
in Switzerland, without relocating. The company powers the website of
the Belgian radio and TV service (RTBF) and provides streaming for more
than 3,000 TV and radio stations in Europe.
12: https://www.infomaniak.com
About Proxmox
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Proxmox [13] provides powerful and user-friendly Open Source server
software. Enterprises of all sizes and industries use Proxmox solutions
to deploy efficient and simplified IT infrastructures, minimize total
cost of ownership, and avoid vendor lock-in. Proxmox also offers
commercial support, training services, and an extensive partner
ecosystem to ensure business continuity for its customers. Proxmox
Server Solutions GmbH was established in 2005 and is headquartered in
Vienna, Austria. Proxmox builds its product offerings on top of the
Debian operating system.
13: https://www.proxmox.com/
About Wind River
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Wind River [14]. For nearly 20 years, Wind River has led in commercial
Open Source Linux solutions for mission-critical enterprise edge
computing. With expertise across aerospace, automotive, industrial,
telecom, and more, the company is committed to Open Source through
initiatives like eLxr, Yocto, Zephyr, and StarlingX.
14: https://www.windriver.com/
Contact Information
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For further information, please visit the DebConf24 web page at
https://debconf24.debconf.org/ or send mail to <press@debian.org>.
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