Bits from the DPL (September 2018)

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Subject: Bits from the DPL (September 2018)

From: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>

Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2018 12:51:19 +0100

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Dear developers, Summer is very much behind us in England now so here follows a somewhat chillier overview of what I've been getting up to as your Project Leader during September 2018. For various reasons I consciously took the odd weekend day entirely "away" from the leader@ inbox, so please excuse any delays to replying to your correspondence this month. * Fielded yet more questions and queries around the "Commons Clause" [0] license condition (of which I was the maintainer of a package in question) as well an unrelated trademark issue. * Whilst it feels a very long time ago now, I was still delighted to be invited to sign my name to some "thank you" letters to university and government-related organisations organisations/individuals involved with DebConf18 [1]. Don't forget that videos have now been uploaded to the video archive [2] and, of course, one can be making amends for any absence by planning travel well in-advance of DebConf19 [3]. * Began early discussions regarding a collaboration between Debian and the the 2019 edition of the "foss-north" [4] conference in Gothenburg, Sweden during April. * Provided further assistance to Tobias Frost around his proposal for a packaging "salvaging" process which he recently published via debian-devel-announce [5]. [0] https://lwn.net/Articles/763179/ [1] https://debconf18.debconf.org/ [2] https://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2018/DebConf18/ [3] https://debconf19.debconf.org/ [4] http://foss-north.se/ [5] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/09/msg00003.html Finances & event reimbursements =============================== In addition to responding to various follow-ups to previous requests, I: * Approved a funding request for a contributor to attend the Google Summer of Code [6] mentor summit as well as confirmed and recommitted Debian to their involvement in the Winter 2018/2019 Outreachy internships [7]. * Followed a discussion regarding Debian Partner [8] Bytemark [9] now that it has been acquired by IOMart [10]. * Approved funding for a Debian Cloud Team [11] sprint to be held in Seattle, Washington between October 8th-10th [12]. * Connected more number of Developers with our Trusted Organisations [13] to locate missing reimbursements. * Approved a small request to reimbursement for one Developer who sent a "swag bag" of DebConf18 [14] goodies to another who was highly- involved participated from a distance (thanks!), as well as approving an extension to a DebConf travel bursary request. In addition, I have been participating in a larger and (alas) currently private discussions regarding some potential larger donations. [ 6] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ [ 7] http://outreachy.org/ [ 8] https://www.debian.org/partners/ [ 9] http://www.bytemark.co.uk/r/deb-partners [10] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/30/iomart_buys_north_yorks_cloud_biz_bytemark/ [11] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Cloud [12] https://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2018/DebianCloudOct2018 [13] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Treasurer/Organizations [14] https://debconf18.debconf.org/ Other ===== In addition to the above, I spent time on: * Participating in the discussion regarding selling Debian-related media on Amazon, as well as one regarding the people-power involved in the Debian Trademark team [15]. * Forwarding a thought-provoking and somewhat controversial (!) idea of Eric Holscher's to the debconf-discuss mailing list which generated a lively debate. [16] * Responding to a query sent to the leader@ alias regarding potential changes/concerns regarding the handling of the NEW queue [17] as well as improving the transparency of anti-harassment complaints. * Issuing a "DD certificate" for a Developer. * More discussions around a potential Debian Cloud team [18] delegation and administration around the Google Summer of Code [19] outreach program. * Redirecting support queries/questions sent to the leader@ alias and responding to feedback from my previous «Bits from the DPL». * Enqueuing a few ideas for "micronews" [20] for subsequent publishing by the Publicity Team [21]. [15] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/Trademark [16] https://lists.debian.org/debconf-discuss/2018/09/msg00001.html [17] https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html [18] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Cloud [19] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ [20] https://micronews.debian.org/ [21] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Publicity And finally… ============ In case you missed it: * There's a Bug Squashing Party happening right now (!) in Chemnitz, Germany [22]. * The Release Team provided a timely reminder regarding the transition & freeze deadlines for Debian "buster". It also includes an update on how the autopkgtest [23] results have been affecting migration from unstable to testing. [24] * There will be a Debian Bug Squashing Party (BSP) in Karlsruhe, Germany between 26th-28th October [25]. Don't forget Debian is willing to reimburse 100 USD (or equivalent) to attend Bug Squashing Parties (BSP) [26]. If there are no BSPs near to you, please do consider organising one [27][28]. [22] https://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2018/09/de/Chemnitz [23] https://ci.debian.net/ [24] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/09/msg00004.html [25] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/09/msg00000.html [26] https://wiki.debian.org/BSP [27] https://wiki.debian.org/BSPPlanning [28] https://wiki.debian.org/HostingBSP I would like to repeat my usual request for any feedback, etc. Naturally, 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. Best wishes, - -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` lamby@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Mailvelope v2.2.2 Comment: https://www.mailvelope.com wsFcBAEBCAAQBQJbsLivCRAelT4n1DEeWAAAKnQQALPEkrscOmqEMKvbAi52 90BYE1CqiuzWzJAMCGibC6GF2GDsWzb8sOIRCkFDlAzkUX2onSaLvsGu2+GF 9f0KV4Dveh/A6271LSuVKDO8u8TTSx47X0FihnFt8Ll2kRFGgeRf0eX1+R8X yDixiutVGowezygvUY2Ya9c6e1ucA7AfFroIaGHR/XR8OzTEr6aL+eOdGpW2 cQ9pyrio4kFfRQl9XNZj44MoyRpJLr6JQUQd1yXjqYMamnlvk3RMtI74E9S+ eFC3rNJeMZMcCyEp/Wju3QfSIrlAzOD6PJJis0Qsuqn2rMFiQ5LBiGqjvY0l 0ojYoDuDOjEvJash7pLikaok3S2Rcle1wZV+KDqFPvnmOFFPSBbHhM8ttxUM vbHBuKS4Vnseagi8j84cZUqhHRLNkA5naBNSg2Dsl270ZpZaL71uXjJtwNXp CtbcQYJoRji4gJzpc/Gv98Ga92kPl9TshEkufG53MhLYlx5YlvAdIv32X0hF i8kci6nGlPF+KSX0QiBvBPmpxhoeNwXdqEK2wMzqvUKc1o+9kyg6WVGBrTMQ k7TF7tuMoo+P9WFewIgmOr6+FOo1LE61VWns6WeBzQWTGIrXo2bRi3sVki5h 3aWd7ojV6+Rzuktm2S92jRunhK0KzqQjSm8cLQfbyGfTh2ybuyG4JOzoJTnf u00X =om+G -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----