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Local Debian Groups
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. Please keep this page organized like it currently is.
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.
Asia
Hong Kong
Group Email Address:
Website: http://debian.org.hk
Contact: info@debian.org.hk
Description: Unite all Debian users in Hong Kong, dominate the Greater China Linux market, conquer all servers in the world!
Geolocation: 22.304 N 114.180 E
India
Group Email Address: debianindia@yahoogroups.com
Website : http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Debian
Contact: Praveen A <pravi dot a at gmail dot com>
Description: Encouraging more Indian contribution to debian. Organises annual Debian Developers Conference.
Australia
Melbourne
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.
Geolocation: 37.817 S 144.967 E
Sydney
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Group Email Address: c/ debian-au@lists.linux.org.au
Website : http://debian.slug.org.au/
Contact: debian <at> slug.org.au (Craige ?McWhirter, Robert Collins, Matt Hope)
Description: Active Debian Group, with monthly meetings. See website for whats coming up.
Geolocation: 33.883 S 151.217 E
Europe
Austria
Location: Vienna, Austria
Group Email Address:
Website : http://debienna.at/DebiennaTreff
Contact:
Description: meets every Monday in Vienna (at the hype Museumsquartier). If you are close drop by - see linked wiki for details.
Geolocation: 48.200 N 16.367 W
Germany
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).
Geolocation: 52.517 N 13.400 E
Hamburg
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Group Email Address: dug-hh@gnu-forum.de
Contact: dug-hh@gnu-forum.de
Description: to be written
Geolocation: 53.550 N 10.000 E
Munich
Location: Munich, Germany
Group Email Address: area-muc@teams.debian.net
IRC Channel: #debian-muc on irc.debian.org
Wiki Page: LocalGroups/DebianMuc
Contact: Michael Ablassmeier <abi@debian.org>
Description: Meets roughly monthly - or when people are in town and get in touch with us.
Geolocation: 48.150 N 11.583 E
Italy
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
Geolocation: 44.483 N 11.333 E
Switzerland
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Group Email Address: debian-unizh@lists.madduck.net
Contact: Martin F. Krafft <madduck@debian.org> (wiki page: ["madduck"])
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...
Geolocation: 47.367 N 8.550 E
The Netherlands
Location: The Netherlands
Group Email Address: debian-events-nl@lists.debian.org
Contact: Just use the list
Description: Discussion list, mainly used to announce keysigning party's once some non-dutch developer visits the Netherlands.
Geolocation: 52.350 N 4.917 E
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: SteveMcIntyre <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.
Geolocation: 51.517 N 0.105 W (London) 52.205 N 0.144 E (Cambridge)
North America
Canada
(Greater) Toronto
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.
Geolocation: 33.000 S 151.600 E
Waterloo, Ontario
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.
Geolocation: 43.467 N 80.533 W
Mexico
Location: Mexico D.F., México
Group Email Address: debianmexico@red-libre.org
Website: http://www.debianmexico.org/
Description: Mexican Debian users group
Geolocation: 19.400 N 99.150 W
USA
CA - Los Angeles, San Diego
Location: CA, US (Los Angeles, San Diego)
Group Email Address: scd@scd.debian.net
Website : http://scd.debian.net/ (If you receive a 403 error, please contact Blars Blarson <blarson@blars.org>. He will be more than happy to explain to you why you are not able to access this web site).
Contact: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
Description: The usual low-traffic mailing list, irregular meetings, key signing
Geolocation: 32.715 N 117.156 W
CA - San Francisco Bay Area
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.
Geolocation: 37.775 N 122.418 W
DC - Washington
Location: Washington, DC, US
Group Email Address: area-washington-dc@teams.debian.net ([http://teams.debian.net/#sub-unsub subscription directions])
Contact: Aaron M. Ucko <ucko@debian.org>
Description: A dozen or so Debianers (mostly but not exclusively ["DDs"]) who meet irregularly (usually by request).
Geolocation: 38.895 N 77.037 W
MA - Boston
Location: Boston, MA, US
Group Email Address: debian-boston-soc@meepzorp.org
Website : http://www.meepzorp.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-boston-soc
Contact:
Description: Informal group of Boston/Cambridge-area locals who meet somewhat frequently and for notable occasions like release parties or when other Debian-related folks come to town. The list is mostly pretty low-traffic, and not everything is announced there, so please be sure to introduce yourself if you'd like to stay on top of events.
Geolocation: 42.358 N 71.060 W
NY - New York
Location: New York City, USA
Group Email Address: debian-nyc-soc@lists.yukidoke.org
Website : http://lists.yukidoke.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-nyc-soc
Contact: Benjamin Mako Hill <mako@debian.org>
Description: We get together to celebrate noteable events for Debian and sometimes Ubuntu or when people come to town looking for Debian signatures or who are of interest to other Debian folks. We meet roughly once every month or two. Usually over Belgian beer.
Geolocation: 40.714 N 74.006 W
PA - Philadelphia
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.
Geolocation: 39.952 N 75.164 W
WA - Seattle
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.
Geolocation: 47.606 N 122.331 W
South America
Brazil
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.
Geolocation: ??
South America / Brasil
Location: Fortaleza, Ceará
Group Email Address: debian-ce at listas.cipsga.org.br
Website : http://www.debian-ce.org/
Contact: Eder L. Marques ( frolic at debian-ce.org )
Description: Ceará Debian Users Group - Brasil since 2002
Geolocation: ??
Colombia
Location: Colombia
Group Email Address: debian-users-colombia@listas.udistrital.edu.co
IRC Channel: #debian-co on irc.freenode.net
Wiki Page: http://www.debiancolombia.org
Contact:
Description:
Geolocation:
Perú
South America / Peru
Location: Lima, Peru
Group Email Address: debian@listas.apesol.org
Website: http://www.debianperu.org
Mailing list: http://listas.apesol.org/mailman/listinfo/debian
IRC Channel: #debian-peru at irc.debian.org
Contact: Rudy Godoy <rudy at apesol.org.pe>
Description: Debian Perú is a user group which intents to promote the use, deployment and development of Debian in Perú and also help Debian trough involment into the project activities, specially l10n, documentation (spanish), packaging and trying to help to kill bugs. Also to meet other Debian fellows to share a beer and talk about world domination.
Geolocation: 12.050 N -77.050 W
Uruguay
Location: Uruguay
Group Email Address: debianuy-usuarios@debianuruguay.org
Website : http://www.debianuruguay.org/
IRC Channel : #debian-uy in irc.debian.org
Contact: debianuy-usuarios@debianuruguay.org
Description: Uruguay Debian users/developers group
Venezuela
Location: Caracas, Venezuela
Group Email Address: debian-ve@solve.net.ve
Website : http://www.debianvenezuela.org.ve/
IRC Channel : #debian-ve in irc.debian.org
Contact: debian-ve@solve.net.ve
Description: Venezuelan organization gathering all the resources for local developers, maintainers and translators willing to participate in the Debian project. Also provides support for local users in spanish. Fully integrated into DebianLatinoamerica initiative.
Geolocation: 10.500 N 66.917 W
More information: in DebianVenezuela
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