Bits from the DPL (June 2018)

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Subject: Bits from the DPL (June 2018)

From: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>

Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 11:16:15 +0100

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Dear developers, Greetings from a very sunny London… I am very much looking forward to seeing many of you next month in (a hot and humid) Taiwan. :) Here's an overview of what I've been getting up to as your Project Leader during June 2018: * In light of the recent introduction of the EU GDPR [0] I announced the creation of the Debian Data Protection team. As outlined in the official delegation [1], the two main roles for the team are to provide a single contact point for external queries and to act as an "advice service" for members of the Project. Thank you to Jonathan McDowell (noodles) and Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen) for spearheading this initiative. Since its inception it has received and handled a number of queries already. * I presented at "FOSS Backstage" [2] in Berlin, Germany, speaking about both the Reproducible Builds [3] project and the Open Source Initiative [4]. In addition, I had a number of interesting conversations with Lydia Pintcher from KDE who has invited me to speak at Akademy 2018 [5] to speak about cross-distribution collaboration in the desktop space. * Had a conference call between the Debian Anti-Harrassment team [6], the Debian Account Managers [7] and myself as DPL. Thank you all who attended and for the various followups. * With the help of the Debian Publicity team [8], I provided a press quote for the Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) [9] to announce their collaboration [10] with the Debian LTS [11] initiative. * Had an illuminating conference call with Deb Nicholson from the Software Freedom Conservancy [12], Chris Neugebauer of North Bay Python [13] and Bdale Garbee (bdale) regarding what "a free software conference" now means in practice in 2018, particularly in terms of "hygeine factors" around speakers, content, event safety, sponsors, etc. and what conferences that projects would be happy associating themselves with. * After reaching consensus on the debian-project mailing list [14] I signed a petition against the new EU copyright review on behalf of Debian [15]. I needed to follow-up later in the month as my signature got lost. [ 0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation [ 1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/06/msg00000.html [ 2] https://foss-backstage.de [ 3] https://reproducible-builds.org/ [ 4] https://opensource.org/ [ 5] https://akademy.kde.org/2018 [ 6] https://wiki.debian.org/AntiHarassment [ 7] https://wiki.debian.org/DAManager [ 8] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Publicity [ 9] https://www.cip-project.org/ [10] https://www.cip-project.org/announcement/2018/06/19/civil-infrastructure-platform-announces-collaboration-with-the-debian-lts-initiative-and-welcomes-cybertrust-as-a-new-member [11] https://wiki.debian.org/LTS [12] https://sfconservancy.org/ [13] https://northbaypython.org/ [14] https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2018/06/msg00002.html [15] https://savecodeshare.eu/ Finances & event reimbursements =============================== In addition to responding to various follow-ups to previous requests, I: * Approved a budget request for bug-squashing party in New York that was held on June 24th [16]. * Approved the purchase of new solid-state disks for three arm64 build daemons hosted at Arm [17]. * DebConf18 [18]: Re-approved the overall budget, responded to some safety concerns regarding a bursary applicant, briefly joined a conversation thread regarding one of the sources of funding, and offered some advice on prepayment of bursaries. * Decided on a solution for "leftover" money from DebConf17 [19], fleshed out the policy for reimbursements that could not fulfilled due to Developer illness, and located many more missing emails for our Trusted Organisations [20]. * Responded to a reimbursement request for LinuxCon, China [21], some "NeTV2" video development boards [22], and ensured that the participants of the recent Cryptsetup [23] sprint participants were reimbursed [24]. [16] https://hashman.ca/nyc-bsp/ [17] https://www.arm.com/ [18] https://debconf18.debconf.org/ [19] https://debconf17.debconf.org/ [20] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Treasurer/Organizations [21] https://www.lfasiallc.com/events/lc3-2018/ [22] https://www.crowdsupply.com/alphamax/netv2 [23] https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup [24] https://blog.freesources.org/posts/2018/06/debian_cryptsetup_sprint_report/ Other ===== In addition to all of the above, I spent time on: * Further drafting my reply to an interview request from the "LibreSur" Argentinian free software community. * Redirecting support queries/questions sent to the leader@ alias as well as responding to feedback from my previous «Bits from the DPL». * Issuing a "DD certificate" [25] for a Debian Maintainer [26]. * Enqueuing various ideas for "micronews" [27] for approval by the Publicity Team [28]. * A quick discussion with a DD regarding the possible creation of a new team. [25] https://wiki.debian.org/DDCertificate [26] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer [27] https://micronews.debian.org/ [28] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Publicity Bug Squashing Parties ===================== The Debian Project is willing to reimburse 100 USD (or equivalent) of expenses to attend Bug Squashing Parties (BSP) [29]. If there are no BSPs near to you, please consider organising one [30]. Reimbursement requests [31] should meet the following conditions: * The requester should be a contributor of some description or have otherwise demonstrated a commitment to perform that kind of work. * The requester agrees to communicate their activities during the event (such as posting to Planet Debian [32], etc.). The goal here is to motivate others by increasing visibility. [29] https://wiki.debian.org/BSP [30] https://wiki.debian.org/BSPPlanning [31] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/Reimbursement [32] https://planet.debian.org/ And finally… ============ In case you missed it: * Michael Stapelberg is looking for a maintainer for Raspberry Pi images. [33] * The third alpha release of the Installer was announced by Cyril Brulebois (kibi) [34] (as was Debian 8.11 [35]). * A brief report from the MiniDebConf in Curitiba [36] was published on Planet Debian. [37] * Alioth is gone! Long live Alioth... [38] [33] https://people.debian.org/~stapelberg//2018/06/03/raspi3-looking-for-maintainer.html [34] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/06/msg00005.html [35] https://www.debian.org/News/2018/20180623 [36] https://minidebconf.curitiba.br/en/ [37] http://debianbrasil.org.br/blog/minidebconf-curitiba-2018-a-brief-report [38] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/06/msg00001.html I would like to repeat my usual request for any feedback and, of course, any other questions or concerns about the Project that would be inappropriate or difficult to bring up elsewhere are always welcome too. Please address them to <leader@debian.org>. Phew, see you all next month…! Best wishes, - -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` lamby@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEwv5L0nHBObhsUz5GHpU+J9QxHlgFAls3WFMACgkQHpU+J9Qx HljW6w/9G/702NXSL/pPv/iyM3XPNPweVvtU4IHkyznxLvz3Sf+u4sqX2AIf9z5T AjXRvmzpOFv0w9D0JmGJEkYuWIHoWiSjgQk8VBd9x+h6oMO+oLloJoA/txPVP0El 6UsrE6ncEgv8XI9/Vq7vgVy1qIiZgA3RGMek8hBF0GhTw2UzHdtKSL6vxnwIOSpl +NoEKo2+e2vyZwmXqyTdEV1qwrf1a5snPuK8I2ZLAJNX0afyI4tgudz+HOqrqN5k 7XHjHaZx0Riax/dVHZtwmY07XlcoeJhTQ2tJAjtAyCsdMRaVwSVhi0LOpRukcEd/ LKe2Kpvpbj+vfVU7gb4pIt5MXYNBU0BDUSKchNNkH1ugSGcP9wJu5J4gvnwiYfrj eBLVm+Z7+N3OhXWm43yAk5iSRqqrFp2O5Sd5z2q+CMX9AiVkw8IuNP6KmLhy34yt Mz//Pq8+4IgRv45b7NiN/FSDwJeTIkM1WYqHrQ8KtnvSk3NmKOuZdwY1RE06N13o HXl6p+jei4K059SGdolpHt3r4EJjU9xohX1fcswF1YWF6x8zL78SS0pvS8XR12K2 789gum0HoZilHVD8B3HUrhANk2+Z5K6r2gxp4ij/LZIrZvTCnmo2LzJEBWjQ2VUr Qa6YYbIl9XYgZMHhgQXSLWKiGMAeEMugVYaEipRhhnrrmnU2yhY= =XZ9r -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----