Final bits from the (outgoing) DPL -- March-April 2017

[news 28]

Dear developers,

 

First, I'd like to congratulate Chris on his election. I am sure Chris

will be a great DPL and will have full support from our community!

 

Serving as DPL for the past year has been a real honour and a

fantastic experience for me. It also helped me to have a different

perspective on the project and my future involvement.

 

Last but not least, I wanted to confirm to other fellow Debian

Developers that serving as DPL is not a traumatic experience and I am

still as sane as I was one year ago :-) If you have ideas on how to

make Debian a better place, project, OS, community, FOSS citizen, …

please nominate yourself for DPL elections next year! Worst case

scenario, you would contribute to the debate about Debian's future.

 

 

Take the Open Source Survey

===========================

 

As a member of the Debian community, you are invited to participate in

a survey about how people use and think about open source

software. Whether you're a long-time maintainer, a new contributor, or

an interested browser, we want to hear from you.

 

This survey will take 10-15 minutes. All questions are optional. Your

anonymous answers will be released as part of an open data set that is

freely available to researchers and members of the community to better

understand the people who use and create open source technologies. No

personally identifiable information will be solicited, and will remove

any that is provided before publicly releasing the data.

 

Please take 10-15 minutes to share your perspective by April 28.

 

https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/3150898/Debian

 

Thank you for your time and input. If you have any questions or

feedback please email opensource ( -at -) github.com. For more information or

to subscribe to updates, visit http://opensourcesurvey.org/.

 

 

DebConf17

=========

 

I have approved DebConf17 budget [1,2] after a few iterations. The

DebConf17 team did a sterling job and I am sure we will have a fun and

productive conference (as always). Kudos to all those who contributed

to the organization of this edition! And I am sure they still accept

new volunteers :-)

 

[1] https://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20170414.121052.bb458c81.en.html

[2] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debconf-data/dc17.git/tree/budget?h=DC17_budget_approval_1

 

Registration is open since a few days [3] and, as a reminder, they

also issued a call for proposals [4]. If you want to give a talk at

DebConf17, please submit your ideas!

 

[3] https://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20170413.164840.77552b67.en.html

[4] https://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20170207.183721.5d9f0d0a.en.html

 

 

New Technical Committee member

==============================

 

As in #836127, the technical committee have recommended, and I have

accepted [5] the nomination of David Bremner <bremner> to the

committee. Congrats David! I am sure your contribution to the team

will be greatly appreciated.

 

[5] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/04/msg00005.html

 

 

DPL's web-space

===============

 

Thanks to the awesome DSA, DPL has now a web-space [6]. The intent is

not to make yet another webpage (I believe the wiki page is enough)

but to collect files published by DPL (talk slides, agreements, etc…)

over the years in a single location. I invite future DPLs to maintain

this web-space and make it a reference for materials shared by

DPLs. Fow now, it only contains slides [7].

 

I've documented how to update this web-space in [8].

 

[6] https://dpl.debian.org

[7] https://dpl.debian.org/talks/

[8] master.debian.org:/srv/leader/dpl.debian.org_HOWTO.txt

 

 

Donation

========

 

Thanks to NVIDIA who donated 2 Jetson TX1 boards (64-bit ARM) for the

reproducible build effort.

 

 

Assets

======

- Approved invoice for 2 Debian Outreachy internship sponsorships of

USD 13 000 from Software Freedom Conservancy in the December 2016

round.

- Approved purchase of DebConf 2017 stickers (USD 127.46) to give away

at FOSSASIA'17 conference.

- Approved reimbursement of travel costs (EUR 43.50) for a Debian

Developer to attend Debian BSP held in Berlin.

- Approved budget of EUR 500 a joint event (Reproducible Builds

Hackathon and BSP) in Hamburg.

- Approved reimbursement of USD 1536.51 to two Debian contributors who

have attended and gave a talk at FOSSASIA 2017.

- Approved expense of GBP 63.79 to buy a disk and some fans to replace

failing hardware in some buildds.

- Approved a travel sponsorship grant of USD 650 to a project

contributor to attend Ultrahack Finland (https://ultrahack.org/)

where he was selected as a mentor.

- Approved budget of CAD 200 to organize a BSP in Montreal.

- Approved expense of EUR 120.50 for the Limesurvey hosting expenses

for running the Debian Contributors Survey 2016.

- Approved budget up to CHF 600 for a Debian Developer to attend and

give a talk at OSCAL'17.

- Approved budget for Debian Perl sprint, up to 2200 EUR.

- Approved budget of USD 250 for a Debian Developer to attend and give

a talk at OSCAL.

- Approved budget of USD 100 for a Debian Developer to attend Hamburg

BSP.

- Approved budget of USD 600 for a Debian Developer to attend and give

a talk at HKOSCON (https://opensource.hk/).

 

 

Day-to-day log

==============

My day-to-day log of DPL activities is available on master.debian.org:

- /srv/leader/news/bits-from-the-DPL.txt.201703

- /srv/leader/news/bits-from-the-DPL.txt.201704

 

 

Cheers,

 

--

Mehdi Dogguy