Bits for Debian post : DebConf25 closes in Brest and DebConf26
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Dear all,
The announcement "DebConf25 closes in Brest and DebConf26" will be
published tonight.
https://salsa.debian.org/publicity-team/bits/-/blob/master/content/2025/debconf25/debconf25-closes.md?ref_type=heads
We would greatly appreciate your review.
Thank you in advance,
Best Regards
Jean-Pierre Giraud
Title: DebConf25 closes in Brest and DebConf26 announced
Date: 2025-07-25 12:00
Tags: debconf25, debconf26, announce, debconf
Slug: debconf25-closes
Author: Publicity team
Artist: Aigars Mahinovs
Image: /images/debconf25_group_photo.jpg
Status: draft
[](https://wiki.debian.org/DebConf/25/Photos?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=debconf25_group_small.jpg)
On Saturday 19 July 2025, the annual [Debian Developers and Contributors
Conference](https://debconf25.debconf.org/) came to a close.
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 and 5 Discussions,
59 Birds of a Feather (BoF – informal meeting between developers and users)
sessions, 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](https://wiki.debian.org/DebCamp) hacking session held July 7th
through July 13th 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 DebConf Bof “Package
Acceptance in Debian: Challenges an 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.
The actual Debian Developers Conference started on Monday July 14 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' and 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 concerned
this theme including talk 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 some others 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 the social
aspect of our community and the attendees were able to meet four women
who have made contributions to Debian through their artwork in recent years.
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](https://debconf25.debconf.org/schedule/)
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 (this year with cider as well), the Group Photos and the
Day Trips.
For those who were not able to attend most of the talks and sessions were
broadcasted live and recorded; the videos are made available through this
[link](https://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2025/DebConf25/).
<!---## FIXME a link in their summary in the[schedule](https://debconf25.debconf.org/schedule/).--->
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.
DebConf25 saw over 441 T-shirts, 3 day trips, and up to 315 meals planned per
day.
<!--- FIXME
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, --->
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](https://debconf25.debconf.org/)
will remain active for archival purposes and will continue to offer
links to the presentations and videos of talks and events.
Next year, [DebConf26](https://wiki.debian.org/DebConf/26) will be held
in Santa Fe, Argentina, on July <!--- FIXME--->. 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.
DebConf is committed to a safe and welcome environment for all
participants. See the
[web page about the Code of Conduct in DebConf25 website](https://debconf25.debconf.org/about/coc/)
for more details on this.
Debian thanks the commitment of numerous
[sponsors](https://debconf25.debconf.org/sponsors/)
to support DebConf25, particularly our Platinum Sponsors:
[**AMD**](https://www.amd.com/),
[**EDF**](https://www.edf.fr/),
[**Infomaniak**](https://www.infomaniak.com),
[**Proxmox**](https://www.proxmox.com/),
[**Viridien**](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
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
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, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
India, Korea. More information about DebConf is available from
[https://debconf.org/](https://debconf.org).
### About AMD
The [**AMD**](https://www.amd.com/) 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.
### About EDF
[**EDF**](https://www.edf.fr/) 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.
### About Infomaniak
[**Infomaniak**](https://www.infomaniak.com) 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.
### About Proxmox
[**Proxmox**](https://www.proxmox.com/) 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.
### About Viridien
[**Viridien**](https://www.viridiengroup.com) 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.
### Contact Information
For further information, please visit the DebConf25 web page at
[https://debconf25.debconf.org/](https://debconf25.debconf.org/) or send
mail to <press@debian.org>.
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