Vortragsdetails
The Debian-community.org project
von Holger Levsen (Debian)
Freitag, 01.06.2007, Workshop 2 (ICC-B/R43), 11:00-12:00 Uhr
This talk will explain what Debian-Community.org tries to achieve, why and how. Also I'm looking for feedback and actuall participation in this project! Join the party!
Debian-Community.org is an effort to give something back to the community that has a great share in making Debian the universal OS that it is. Many people contribute to Debian: obviously the developers and package maintainers, but also translators and artists and everybody who files bugs or helps someone else on a mailinglist. If you want to be part of the Debian community, but don't want to become a developer or maintainer, Debian so far didn't offer you much in reward.
So this (still somewhat whacky :) idea was born, to offer a nice email-address to anybody who wants it and to setup planet(s), who aggregate more than just the developers and wannabe-developers. And, of course, we want to promote ("sell") t-shirts, because everybody loves t-shirts and they are an excellent way to show what you care about! Even though debian-community.org is open to official Debian developers, the main target audience are the other 99,99% of the debian population! You! :)
But of course, Debian-Community will be about more than just emails, planets and t-shirts. People choose Debian not (only) because of the community, but because of Debian's strengths: it's rocksolid technical base, long releasecycles which allow to use Debian as a base for customisations and because of the strong philosophical values.
But even though a stable Debian release is not only rocksolid, but also usable and user-friendly, things always can be improved. I envision Debian-Community.org to become a meeting point for people wanting to further polish "stable", mostly in the documentation area (incl. video-tutorials), but also by contributing in other ways (which don't need to be limited to "stable" as well).
Last but not least, debian-community.org aims to become fully localised. The majority of Debian users is much more comfortable in their native tongue than in English - so debian-community.org should be available in in $your_language too. Patches very welcome! :)
This should only be the beginning, if you have other good ideas what to do with this domain, we love to hear it!
Other ideas how to improve the community, so that more people have fun contributing to the universal OS, are also very welcome!
Über den Autor Holger Levsen:
Among other activities Holger Levsen is a DebConf organizer, founder of the DebConf videoteam and a developer, powerpc porter and ftpmaster in Debian-Edu. He occasionally spends time for the Debian quality-assurance team as well.
Even though he has been advocating free software (and) using Debian for more than ten years, it never occured to him to get involved in Debian until 2003. Debian-Community.org is his attempt to get others involved sooner than himself.
When he isn't working on free software, he is working with free software in his freelancing business.
