New Debian Developers and Maintainers (November and December 2021)
On Thu 13 January 2022 with tags projectWritten by Jean-Pierre Giraud
Translations: ca es fr pt sv vi zh-CN
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
- Douglas Andrew Torrance (dtorrance)
- Mark Lee Garrett (lee)
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
- Lukas Matthias Märdian
- Paulo Roberto Alves de Oliveira
- Sergio Almeida Cipriano Junior
- Julien Lamy
- Kristian Nielsen
- Jeremy Paul Arnold Sowden
- Jussi Tapio Pakkanen
- Marius Gripsgard
- Martin Budaj
- Peymaneh
- Tommi Petteri Höynälänmaa
Congratulations!
2,000 fonts for Debian
On Fri 17 December 2021 with tags fonts typography artworkWritten by Gürkan Myczko
Artwork by Gürkan Myczko
Debian comes with tons of fonts for all kinds of purposes,
you can easily list them (almost) all with: apt-cache search ^fonts-
.
However, sometimes they are not in their latest version, or as a user you would like to get access to new fonts that are not present in Debian stable yet.
With the tool fnt
you can easily preview, and install
fonts from Debian sid and Google Web Fonts (that's about 2,000 fonts that are DSFG compliant).
Any user can use the tool to install fonts only for the user itself, or the
system administrator can run it as root to install the fonts system wide.
The package fnt
is already in Bookworm,
so if you run Debian testing you can use it to get, test and use many fonts that are in their way
of being packaged in Debian:
ITP #973779 fnt install scheherazadenew
RFP #944140 fnt install arsenal
RFP #757249 fnt install ekmukta
RFP #724629 fnt install firasans
RFP #766211 fnt install orbitron
RFP #803690 fnt install pompiere
RFP #754784 fnt install raleway
RFP #827735 fnt install reemkufi
RFP #986999 fnt install redhat{display,mono,text}
If you want to learn more you can have a look at the wiki page about fonts (https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts), and if you want to contribute or maintain fonts in Debian, don't hesitate to join the Fonts Team!
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (September and October 2021)
On Fri 19 November 2021 with tags projectWritten by Jean-Pierre Giraud
Translations: ca es fr pt sv vi zh-CN
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
- Bastian Germann (bage)
- Gürkan Myczko (tar)
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
- Clay Stan
- Daniel Milde
- David da Silva Polverari
- Sunday Cletus Nkwuda
- Ma Aiguo
- Sakirnth Nagarasa
Congratulations!
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (July and August 2021)
On Mon 13 September 2021 with tags projectWritten by Jean-Pierre Giraud
Translations: ca es fr pt sv vi zh-CN
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
- Aloïs Micard (creekorful)
- Sophie Brun (sophieb)
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
- Douglas Andrew Torrance
- Marcel Fourné
- Marcos Talau
- Sebastian Geiger
Congratulations!
DebConf21 online closes
On Thu 09 September 2021 with tags debconf21 announce debconfWritten by Laura Arjona Reina and Donald Norwood
Artwork by Judit Foglszinger
Translations: fr it pt-BR
On Saturday 28 August 2021, the annual Debian Developers and Contributors Conference came to a close.
DebConf21 has been held online for the second time, due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) disease pandemic.
All of the sessions have been streamed, with a variety of ways of participating: via IRC messaging, online collaborative text documents, and video conferencing meeting rooms.
With 740 registered attendees from more than 15 different countries and a total of over 70 event talks, discussion sessions, Birds of a Feather (BoF) gatherings and other activities, DebConf21 was a large success.
The setup made for former online events involving Jitsi, OBS, Voctomix, SReview, nginx, Etherpad, a web-based frontend for voctomix has been improved and used for DebConf21 successfully. All components of the video infrastructure are free software, and configured through the Video Team's public ansible repository.
The DebConf21 schedule included a wide variety of events, grouped in several tracks:
- Introduction to Free Software and Debian,
- Packaging, policy, and Debian infrastructure,
- Systems administration, automation and orchestration,
- Cloud and containers,
- Security,
- Community, diversity, local outreach and social context,
- Internationalization, Localization and Accessibility,
- Embedded and Kernel,
- Debian Blends and Debian derived distributions,
- Debian in Arts and Science
- and other.
The talks have been streamed using two rooms, and several of these activities have been held in different languages: Telugu, Portuguese, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, Marathi and English, allowing a more diverse audience to enjoy and participate.
Between talks, the video stream has been showing the usual sponsors on the loop, but also some additional clips including photos from previous DebConfs, fun facts about Debian and short shout-out videos sent by attendees to communicate with their Debian friends.
The Debian publicity team did the usual «live coverage» to encourage participation with micronews announcing the different events. The DebConf team also provided several mobile options to follow the schedule.
For those who were not able to participate, most of the talks and sessions are already available through the Debian meetings archive website, and the remaining ones will appear in the following days.
The DebConf21 website will remain active for archival purposes and will continue to offer links to the presentations and videos of talks and events.
Next year, DebConf22 is planned to be held in Prizren, Kosovo, in July 2022.
DebConf is committed to a safe and welcome environment for all participants. During the conference, several teams (Front Desk, Welcome team and Community team) have been available to help so participants get their best experience in the conference, and find solutions to any issue that may arise. See the web page about the Code of Conduct in DebConf21 website for more details on this.
Debian thanks the commitment of numerous sponsors to support DebConf21, particularly our Platinum Sponsors: Lenovo, Infomaniak, Roche, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google.
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, Argentina, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. More information about DebConf is available from https://debconf.org/.
About Lenovo
As a global technology leader manufacturing a wide portfolio of connected products, including smartphones, tablets, PCs and workstations as well as AR/VR devices, smart home/office and data center solutions, Lenovo understands how critical open systems and platforms are to a connected world.
About Infomaniak
Infomaniak is Switzerland's largest web-hosting company, also offering backup and storage services, solutions for event organizers, live-streaming and video on demand services. It wholly owns its datacenters and all elements critical to the functioning of the services and products provided by the company (both software and hardware).
About Roche
Roche is a major international pharmaceutical provider and research company dedicated to personalized healthcare. More than 100.000 employees worldwide work towards solving some of the greatest challenges for humanity using science and technology. Roche is strongly involved in publicly funded collaborative research projects with other industrial and academic partners and have supported DebConf since 2017.
About Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 175 fully featured services from data centers globally (in 77 Availability Zones within 24 geographic regions). AWS customers include the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises and leading government agencies.
About Google
Google is one of the largest technology companies in the world, providing a wide range of Internet-related services and products such as online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
Google has been supporting Debian by sponsoring DebConf for more than ten years, and is also a Debian partner sponsoring parts of Salsa's continuous integration infrastructure within Google Cloud Platform.
Contact Information
For further information, please visit the DebConf21 web page at https://debconf21.debconf.org/ or send mail to press@debian.org.
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