Debian Project Leader (DPL)

Infrastructure

• Documentation:

  • the role of the Debian Project Leader is described in the Debian Constitution and in the DebianProjectLeader page

• Unix group: dpl

• Alioth project: http://alioth.debian.org/projects/dpl

• Services handled by the team:

  • /srv/leader/ on host master.debian.org, in particular:

    • /srv/leader/news/ daily activity log (current and past)

Interacting with the DPL

• Email contact: <leader AT debian DOT org>

Interacting with the DPL helpers team

If you are a Debian project member interested in organization, communication, free software "politics" and the like, you can help the DPL with both day to day and long term activities. Just volunteer mailing <leader@debian.org> and then show up on the communication channels of the DPL helpers team:

• Mailing list: <dpl-helpers@lists.alioth.debian.org> list information

• IRC channel: #debian-dpl on irc.debian.org (OFTC)

  • biweekly IRC meetings (calendar) are held on that channel, meeting logs are available

• Git repository: dpl-helpers.git

Usual roles

• LucasNussbaum is the current project leader

Bits from the DPL

• Bits from the DPL get posted monthly to d-d-a; here is a summary of the most recent of the current term:

  • forthcoming

• A daily activity log can be found on master.debian.org under /srv/leader/news/bits-from-the-DPL.txt. Old entries are rotated to files named bits-from-the-DPL.txt.YYYYMM.

• Bits from the DPL for past terms:

  • DPL term 2012-2013 (StefanoZacchiroli): March-April 2013, February-March 2013, January 2013, December 2012, November 2012, October 2012, September 2012, August 2012, July 2012, June 2012, May 2012, April 2012

  • DPL term 2011-2012 (StefanoZacchiroli): March 2012, February 2012, January 2012, December 2011, November 2011, October 2011, September 2011, August 2011, July 2011, June 2011, May 2011, April 2011

  • DPL term 2010-2011 (StefanoZacchiroli): 16 Apr 2011, 6 Mar 2011, 4 Feb 2011, 24 Dec 2010, 13 Nov 2010, 6 Oct 2010, 29 Aug 2010 (DebConf10 report), 10 Aug 2010, 27 Jun 2010, 20 May 2010, 18 Apr 2010

More stuff

Money

One of DPL duties is taking care of Debian money, below you can find pointers to money-related resources.

• Sprint Program - the most common and possibly useful way of putting into use Debian money

• Sponsoring Guidelines - best practices / requirements to get sponsored with Debian money

• Using Money - what you (as a DD) can ask sponsoring for

• Reimbursement - how to get reimbursed for Debian-related expenses (in case you're entitled to)

Miscellanea

• DD certificate: you might ask the DPL for a Debian Developer certificate (please don't ask for it just for vanity though, as it's take anyhow some time to verify and send it out; if you need it for job or similar reasons however, you're more than welcome!)

Help needed

• DebianPrivateDeclassification: volunteers are needed to implement -private GR

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