We are pleased to announce that Wind River has committed to sponsor DebConf24 as a Platinum Sponsor. 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, more, the company is committed to open source through initiatives like eLxr, Yocto, Zephyr, and StarlingX. With this commitment as Platinum Sponsor, Wind River is contributing to make possible our annual conference, and directly supporting the progress of Debian and Free Software, helping to strengthe ..read more

Dear Debian community, Statement on Daniel Pocock The Debian project has successfully taken action to secure its trademarks and interests worldwide, as detailed in our press statement. I would like to personally thank everyone in the community who was involved in this process. I would have loved for you all to have spent your volunteer time on more fruitful things. Debian Boot team might need help I think I've identified the issue that finally motivated me to contact our teams: for a long time, I have had the impression that Debian is driven by several "one-person teams" (to varying extents of ..read more

Chaque édition de Debian bénéficie d'un nouveau thème brillant visible sur l'écran d'amorçage, l'écran de connexion et, de la façon la plus évidente, sur le fond d'écran. Debian prévoit de publier Trixie, sa prochaine version, durant l'année à venir. Et, comme toujours, nous avons besoin de vous pour créer son thème ! Vous avez l'occasion de concevoir un thème qui inspirera des milliers de personnes quand ils travaillent sur leur machine Debian. Pour disposer des détails les plus récents, veuillez vous référer à la page du wiki. Nous voudrions profiter de cette occasion pour remercier Jul ..read more

Each release of Debian has a shiny new theme, which is visible on the boot screen, the login screen and, most prominently, on the desktop wallpaper. Debian plans to next release, Trixie, next year. As ever, we need your help in creating its theme! You have the opportunity to design a theme that will inspire thousands of people while working in their Debian systems. For the most up to date details, please refer to the wiki. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank Juliette Taka Belin for doing the Emerald theme for bookworm. The deadlines for submissions is: 2024-09-19 The artwork i ..read more

The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Patrick Winnertz (winnie) Fabian Gruenbichler (fabiang) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: Juri Grabowski Tobias Heider Jean Charles Delépine Guilherme Puida Moreira Antoine Le Gonidec Arthur Barbosa Diniz Congratulations ..read more

Hi, Keeping my promise for monthly bits, here's a quick snapshot of my first ten days as DPL. Special thanks to Jonathan for an insightful introduction that left less room for questions. His introduction covered my first tasks like expense approval and CTTE member appointments thoroughly. Although I made a visible oversight by forgetting to exclude Simon McVittie from the list, whose term has ended , I'm committed to learning from this mistake. In future I'll prioritize thorough proofreading to ensure accuracy. Part of my "work" was learning what channels I need to subscribe and adjust my .pro ..read more

We are very excited to announce that Debian has selected seven contributors to work under mentorship on a variety of projects with us during the Google Summer of Code. Here are the list of the projects, students, and details of the tasks to be performed. Project: Android SDK Tools in Debian Student: anuragxone Deliverables of the project: Make the entire Android toolchain, Android Target Platform Framework, and SDK tools available in the Debian archives. Project: Benchmarking Parallel Performance of Numerical MPI Packages Student: Nikolaos Deliverables of the project: Deliver an automated ..read more

We are pleased to announce that Infomaniak has committed to sponsor DebConf24 as a Platinum Sponsor. Infomaniak is an independent cloud service provider recognised 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 at the heart of Europe, without relocating. The company powers the websi ..read more

The voting period for the Debian Project Leader election has ended. Please join us in congratulating Andreas Tille as the new Debian Project Leader. The new term for the project leader started on 2024-04-21. 369 of 1,010 Debian Developers voted using the Condorcet method. More information about the results of the voting are available on the Debian Project Leader Elections 2024 page. Many thanks all of our Developers for voting ..read more

The Debian Project Developers will shortly vote for a new Debian Project Leader known as the DPL. The DPL is the official representative of representative of The Debian Project tasked with managing the overall project, its vision, direction, and finances. The DPL is also responsible for the selection of Delegates, defining areas of responsibility within the project, the coordination of Developers, and making decisions required for the project. Our outgoing and present DPL Jonathan Carter served 4 terms, from 2020 through 2024. Jonathan shared his last Bits from the DPL post to Debian recently ..read more