Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 22:38:18 +0200 From: Martin Schulze <joey [ at ] infodrom [ dot ] org> To: Debian Announcements <debian-announce [ at ] lists [ dot ] debian [ dot ] org> Subject: Debian celebrates its 10th Birthday > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/events/ > Debian celebrates its 10th Birthday events [ at ] debian [ dot ] org > August 11th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/News/2003/20030811 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Debian celebrates its 10th birthday > > On August 16th, the Debian Project will celebrate its 10th birthday > with several parties around the globe. The Debian Project was > officially founded by Ian Murdock on August 16th, 1993. At that time, > the whole concept of a "distribution" of GNU/Linux was new. Ian > intended Debian to be a distribution which would be made openly, in > the spirit of Linux and GNU. The creation of Debian was sponsored by > the FSF's GNU project for one year. > > Debian was meant to be carefully and conscientiously put together, and > to be maintained and supported with similar care. It started as a > small, tightly-knit group of Free Software hackers, and gradually grew > to become a large, well-organized community of developers and users. > To achieve and maintain high standards of quality, Debian has adopted > an extensive set of policies and procedures for packaging and delivering > software. These standards are backed up by tools, automation, and > documentation implementing all of Debian's key elements in an open and > visible way. > > The most prominent guidelines are the Debian Free Software Guidelines[1] > which are part of the Social Contract and which direct Debian's > interpretation of Free Software and upon which the Debian distribution > is based. They were later adopted as the Open Source Definition. > > More than 1,100 people are registered as developers in the Debian > project and an additional two hundred have applied to join the > project's ranks. Organisationally, the Debian Project has a project > leader[2], who is supported by a secretary[3] and several > delegates[4]. The distribution is tripartite these days, consisting > of the stable release (current codename ``woody''), the testing > distribution (current codename ``sarge'') which will become the next > stable release, and the unstable distribution (codename ``sid'') with > more than 12,000 binary packages[5] where development efforts are > primarily focused. > > The Debian Project is celebrating its birthday at various places[6] > around the globe, since a single large party doesn't seem appropriate > for a project which is spread worldwide[7]. Some parties are simply a > social get-together at a restaurant, while others are organised for > larger audience. > > The following list only enumerates the largest birthday parties[8]. > > Czech Republic > Where: Brno > What: Celebration > Registration: http://www.penguin.cz/~skim/10deb > > Finland > Where: Turku > What: Birthday meeting > Registration: http://www.linux-aktivaattori.org/twiki/bin/view/Bazaar/DebianBirthdayTurku2003 > > Germany > Where: Wallenrod > What: Barbecue and party > Registration: http://www.infodrom.org/Debian/party/ > > Where: Berlin > What: Party outside > Info: http://buug.de/deb10/ > > United Kingdom > Where: Cambridge > What: Party and barbecue > Information: http://the.earth.li/~huggie/cgi-bin/moin/Debian10thBirthday > > More parties are planned in Alaska, Australia, Austria, Belarus, > Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, > Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Peru, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, > Switzerland, Taiwan and in the United States. For a party in your > area, please check the full list of parties[6]. > > We invite all interested people to attend these parties, meet Debian > developers and users, exchange GnuPG fingerprints, discuss various > topics on Debian and Free Software, and otherwise participate in our > vibrant community. > > Links: > 1. http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines > 2. http://www.debian.org/devel/leader > 3. http://www.debian.org/devel/secretary > 4. http://www.debian.org/intro/organization > 5. http://master.debian.org/~joey/archive/overview.html > 6. http://www.debconf.org/10years/ > 7. http://www.debian.org/events/materials/posters/worldmap/ > 8. http://www.debian.org/events/2003/0816-birthday > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-announce-request [ at ] lists [ dot ] debian [ dot ] org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster [ at ] lists [ dot ] debian [ dot ] org > -- End of forwarded message --