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The Debian Project https://www.debian.org/
DebConf25 closes in Brest and DebConf26 announced press@debian.org
August 3rd, 2025 https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250803
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On Saturday 19 July 2025, the annual Debian Developers and Contributors
Conference [1] came to a close.
1: https://debconf25.debconf.org/
Over 443 attendees representing 50 countries from around the world came
together for a combined 169 events (including some which took place
during the DebCamp) including more than 50 Talks, 39 Short Talks, 5
Discussions, 59 Birds of a Feather sessions ("BoF" – informal meeting
between developers and users), 10 workshops, and activities in support
of furthering our distribution and free software, learning from our
mentors and peers, building our community, and having a bit of fun.
The conference was preceded by the annual DebCamp [2] hacking session
held 7 through 13 July 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, a session was dedicated to prepare the BoF "Dealing with Dormant
Packages: Ensuring Debian's High Standards"; another, at the initiative
of our DPL, to prepare suggestions for the BoF “Package Acceptance in
Debian: Challenges and Opportunities"; and an afternoon around Salsa-CI.
As has been the case for several years, a special effort has been made
to welcome newcomers and help them become familiar with Debian and
DebConf by organizing a sprint "New Contributors Onboarding" every day
of Debcamp, followed more informally by mentorship during DebConf.
2: https://wiki.debian.org/DebCamp
The actual Debian Developers Conference started on Monday 14 July 2025.
In addition to the traditional "Bits from the DPL" talk, the continuous
key-signing party, lightning talks, and the announcement of next year's
DebConf26, 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", the "What's New in the Linux Kernel" session,
and a set of BoFs about Debian packaging policy and Debian
infrastructure. Thus, more than a quarter of the discussions dealt with
this theme, including talks about our tools and Debian's archive
processes. Internationalization and Localization have been the subject
of several talks. The Python, Perl, Ruby, Go, and Rust programming
language teams also shared updates on their work and efforts. Several
talks have covered Debian Blends and Debian-derived distributions and
other talks addressed the issue of Debian and AI. More than 17 BoFs and
talks about community, diversity, and local outreach highlighted the
work of various teams involved in not just the technical but also the
social aspect of our community; four women who have made contributions
to Debian through their artwork in recent years presented their work.
The one-day session "DebConf 2025 Academic Track!", organized in
collaboration with the IRISA laboratory was the first session welcoming
fellow academics at DebConf, bringing together around ten presentations.
The schedule [3] 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
traditionalCheese and Wine party (this year with cider as well), the
Group Photos, and the Day Trips.
3: https://debconf25.debconf.org/schedule/
For those who were not able to attend, most of the talks and sessions
were broadcasted live and recorded; currently the videos are made
available through this link [4]. Almost all of the sessions facilitated
remote participation via IRC and Matrix 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.
4:
https://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2025/DebConf25/
DebConf25 saw over 441 T-shirts, 3 day trips, and up to 315 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
Brest, France and online around the world.
The DebConf25 website [5] will remain active for archival purposes and
will continue to offer links to the presentations and videos of talks
and events.
5: https://debconf25.debconf.org/
Next year, Debconf26 [6] will be held in Santa Fe, Argentina, likely in
July. As tradition follows before the next DebConf the local organizers
in Argentina will start the conference activities with DebCamp with a
particular focus on individual and team work towards improving the
distribution.
6: https://wiki.debian.org/DebConf/26
DebConf is committed to a safe and welcome environment for all
participants. See the web page about the Code of Conduct in DebConf25
website [7] for more details on this.
7: https://debconf25.debconf.org/about/coc/
Debian thanks the commitment of numerous sponsors [8] to support
DebConf25, particularly our Platinum Sponsors: AMD [9] EDF [10]
Infomaniak [11], Proxmox [12], and Viridien [13].
8: https://debconf25.debconf.org/sponsors/
9: https://www.amd.com/
10: https://www.edf.fr/
11: https://www.infomaniak.com
12: https://www.proxmox.com/
13: https://www.viridiengroup.com
We also wish to thank our Video and Infrastructure teams, the DebConf25
and DebConf committees, our host nation of France, 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, India, and Korea. More information about DebConf
is available from https://debconf.org [14].
14: https://debconf.org/
About AMD
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The AMD [15] ROCm platform includes programming models, tools,
compilers, libraries, and runtimes for AI and HPC solution development
on AMD GPUs. Debian is an officially supported platform for AMD ROCm and
a growing number of components are now included directly in the Debian
distribution. For more than 55 years AMD has driven innovation in high-
performance computing, graphics and visualization technologies. AMD is
deeply committed to supporting and contributing to open-source projects,
foundations, and open-standards organizations, taking pride in fostering
innovation and collaboration within the open-source community.
15: https://www.amd.com/
About EDF
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EDF [16] is a leading global utility company focused on low-carbon power
generation. The group uses advanced engineering and scientific computing
tools to drive innovation and efficiency in its operations, especially
in nuclear power plant design and safety assessment. Since 2003, the EDF
Group has been using Debian as its main scientific computing
environment. Debian's focus on stability and reproducibility ensures
that EDF's calculations and simulations produce consistent and accurate
results.
16: https://www.edf.fr/
About Infomaniak
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Infomaniak [17] is Switzerland's leading developer of Web technologies.
With operations all over Europe and based exclusively in Switzerland,
the company designs and manages its own data centers powered by 100%
renewable energy, and develops all its solutions locally, without
outsourcing. With millions of users and the trust of public and private
organizations across Europe - such as RTBF, the United Nations, central
banks, over 3,000 radio and TV stations, as well as numerous cities and
security bodies - Infomaniak stands for sovereign, sustainable and
independent digital technology. The company offers a complete suite of
collaborative tools, cloud hosting, streaming, marketing and events
solutions, while being owned by its employees and self-financed
exclusively by its customers.
17: https://www.infomaniak.com
About Proxmox
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Proxmox [18] develops powerful, yet easy-to-use Open Source server
software. The product portfolio from Proxmox, including server
virtualization, backup, and email security, helps companies of any size,
sector, or industry to simplify their IT infrastructures. The Proxmox
solutions are built on Debian, we are happy that they give back to the
community by sponsoring DebConf25.
18: https://www.proxmox.com/
About Viridien
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Viridien [19] is an advanced technology, digital and Earth data company
that pushes the boundaries of science for a more prosperous and
sustainable future. Viridien has been using Debian-based systems to
power most of its HPC infrastructure and its cloud platform since 2009
and currently employs two active Debian Project Members.
19: https://www.viridiengroup.com/
Contact Information
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For further information, please visit the DebConf25 web page at
https://debconf25.debconf.org/ or send mail to <press@debian.org>.
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