Local Debian Groups
Preliminary List
Feel free to add any group to this list that deals mostly or primarily with Debian. If you have doubts, add it anyway and do as good a job in the description as you can.
Note: The kwiki tables were huge and unmanageable for this so I've chosen the template below instead. Let's build the list here and then talk about moving it to www.debian.org or somewhere more appropriate.
Debian-UK
Location: United Kingdom/Great Britain/'England'
Group Email Address: debian-uk@chiark.greenend.org.uk
Website : None
Contact: The list. Insofar as anyone is in charge: Steve ?McIntyre <93sam@debian.org>
Description: Debian developers and hangers-on in the UK. Meets and exhibitions are organised through this list. By far the largest concentration is in Cambridge so most physical meets happen there, several times a year. Meets in London are quite common, especially when visitors are passing through.
Debian Berlin
Location: Berlin, Germany, Europe
Group Email Address: buug-l@buug.de (not exclusively Debian, but the Berlin ["DDs"] hang around here!)
Contact: buug-l@buug.de (not exclusively Debian, but the Berlin ["DDs"] hang around here!)
Description: Meets every last Friday of an odd-numbered month at various locations (e.g. the "Max & Moritz", Oranienstr. 162, 10969 Berlin-Kreuzberg).
Debian Seattle Social
Location: Seattle
Group Email Address: debian-seattle-soc@lists.yukidoke.org
Website : http://lists.yukidoke.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-seattle-soc
Contact: Benj. Mako Hill <mako@debian.org>
Description: Low-traffic mailing list of folks that meet irregularly for keysigning, lunches, the odd bug squash, and to coordinate when some Debianer comes to town.
Debian-Melb
Location: Melbourne, VIC, AU
Group Email Address: debian-melb@taz.net.au
Contact: Daniel Stone <daniels@debian.org>
Description: Meets very irregularly - usually just when peopel are in town.
Debian Zurich
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Group Email Address: debian-unizh@lists.madduck.net
Contact: Martin F. Krafft <madduck@debian.org>
Description: Meets irregularly - usually when people are in town and get in touch with us. Mailing list is set up to be a support forum. Don't be distracted by -unizh... it started out at the university, but it's moved to the city and beyond. I just haven't had time to update...
Debian Munich
Location: Munich, Germany
Group Email Address: debian-muc@lists.madduck.net
Contact: Martin F. Krafft <madduck@debian.org>
Description: Meets irregularly - usually when people are in town and get in touch with us.
Philadelphia Area Debian Society
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Group Email Address: pads@list.LinuxForce.net
Website : http://www.LinuxForce.net/pads
Contact: Chris Fearnley <cjf@LinuxForce.net>
Description: The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) was founded in May 1999 by Chris Fearnley to organize a working group of users and developers for improving Debian GNU/Linux based distributions (e.g., Libranet, Knoppix, etc. and our understanding of them.
Debian-DC
Location: Washington, DC, US
Group Email Address: debian-dc@ucko.debian.net (?SmartList)
Contact: Aaron M. Ucko <ucko@debian.org>
Description: A dozen or so Debianers (mostly but not exclusively ["DDs"]) who meet irregularly (usually by request).
UW-DIG
Location: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Group Email Address: uw-dig@uw-dig.uwaterloo.ca
Website : http://uw-dig.uwaterloo.ca
Description: The University of Waterloo Debian Interest Group is a group of Debianers who meet monthly to learn from each other and discuss the current projects the group has going.
Southern California Debian
Location: CA, US (Los Angeles, San Diego)
Group Email Address: scd@scd.debian.net
Website : http://scd.debian.net/
Contact: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
Description: The usual low-traffic mailing list, irregular meetings, key signing
Bay Area Debian
Location: CA, US (San Francisco Bay area)
Group Email Address: bad@bad.debian.net
Website : http://bad.debian.net
Contact:
Description: A loose collection of over 100 Debian developers and enthusiasts. Currently has get-togethers on the second Wednesday of most months.
Debian Boston Social
Location: Boston, MA, US
Group Email Address: debian-boston-soc@meepzorp.org
Website :
Contact:
Description:
(Greater) Toronto (GNU/)Hurd Users Group
Location: Earth
Group Email Address: thug@gnu.org
Website : http://www.nongnu.org/thug/
Contact:
Description: We are currently a small group that is growing nicely. We meet every couple months in a convenient location, usually the University of Waterloo. Our current leaders are all Debian developers and GNU Hurd enthusiats.
The Secret "Fetch Every DD Passing Thru Bologna and Take 'em To Dinner" Group
Location: Bologna, Italy
Group Email Address: None. But we track debian-private@lists.debian.org and debian-italian@lists.debian.org
Description: Thou Shalt Not Pass For Bologna Without Gaining An Extra Kilo
Debianméxico
Location: Mexico D.F., México
Group Email Address: debianmexico@red-libre.org
Website: http://www.debianmexico.org/
Description: Mexican Debian users group
Debian-BR
Location: Brazil
Group Email Address: debian-br@listas.cipsga.org.br
Website : http://www.debian-br.org/
Description: Debian-BR is a project created by Brazilians with the goal of making Debian easier and more accessible to local users, trying to coordinate mainly translation efforts and its "sub-divisions", a different user group for each state, so that very well localized efforts to promote Debian are possible.
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