Argentina: La Rioja

• When: Sábado 9 de agosto 21:00hs

• Where: Antares La Rioja (https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?from=&to=-29.409091%2C-66.858542#map=19/-29.409423/-66.858528&layers=N)

• What: Hablar de Debian, conocer la comunidad Debian en La Rioja

• Provided: Cervezas, papas y pizzas

• Bring: Keys para firmar, ideas, historias

• More info: Interesados contactarme eamanu@debian.org

• Promotion: TBD

• Reports: TBD

Austria: Villach

• When: August 10th, 17:00 - 21:00 local time

• Where: Freiraum Myzel (map) Please put a link to the place on OpenStreetMap

• What: Hang out with friends of Free Software and members of the Carinthian Linux Day club.

• Provided: Food, beverages (hot & cold) and snacks.

• Bring: Your Hardware.

• More info: https://carinthianlinuxday.at/Veranstaltungen/Debian-release-party/trixie.html

Austria: Wels

• When: August 8th, 18:30 - 22:00 local time

• Where: VALUG Klubraim (map) Please put a link to the place on OpenStreetMap

• What: Hang out with friends of Free Software and members of the Voralpen Linux User Group (VALUG)

• Provided: Beverages (cold) and snacks.

• Bring: Your Hardware, good mood.

• More info: https://valug.at/events/2025-08-08/

Bolivia: La Paz

• Cuándo: Sábado 9 de Agosto desde las 13:00

• Dónde: Hacklab La Paz "r00thouse". Ubicación del hacklab.

• Qué haremos: Celebraremos el aniversario de Debian + el lanzamiento de Debian 13: tendremos charlas cortas y pruebas en directo del sistema.

• Lo que habrá: torta Debian, snacks y música

• Puedes llevar: Laptop y algo de dinero para las cuotas

• Más información: https://www.hacklab.org.bo/

Brasil: Francisco Beltrão

• Quanbdo: 09/08/2025

• Onde: Bloco Q da UTFPR Francisco Beltrão (https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/9641223517#map=18/-26.085839/-53.091007)

• O quê: Lançamento do Debian 13 (Trixie) com conversas e instalação

• Oferecido: Café, suco, refrigerante, salgados...

• Trazer: Boa vontade de conversar sobre Debian =)

• Mais informações: wcoliveira@utfpr.edu.br

• Realização: wcoliveira@utfpr.edu.br, professor de fundamentos de sistemas operacionais, web back-end e infraestrutura da UTFPR Francisco Beltrão.

• Relatórios: Em breve.

Brazil: Online

• Quando (When): 09 de agosto de 2025 (sábado), 15h BRT

• Onde (Where): https://www.youtube.com/DebianBrasilOficial

• O quê (What): Live informal, conversas sobre a nova release (informal live stream, discussions about the new release)

• Mais informações (More info): #debian-devel-br:matrix.debian.social (Matrix)

Brazil: Terra de Areia

• When: 09 de agosto de 2025

• Where: X do Renatinho (https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/-29.585570/-50.068431)

• What: Lançamento do Debian 13 (Trixie) com conversas

• Provided: Animação ;-D

• Bring: Boa vontade de conversar sobre Debian =)

• More info: f18s.f9s@gmail.com

Bulgaria: Varna

• When: 09 August 2025 18:00 – 22:00

• Where: hackerspace "?VarnaLab" ("Pencho Slaveykov 50") (map)

• What: Let's meet Trixie with drinks, snacks, chat and exchanging experiences

• Provided: cool place for 20 people + cake

• Bring: party food/drinks, good mood and possibly a laptop

• More info: https://www.varnalab.org/en/events

• Promotion:

  • https://www.facebook.com/events/1255303305842804/

    https://www.linkedin.com/events/7356714927396372481/

France: Lyon

• When: August 9th, 19:00 local time (backup party at 17:00)

• Where: LOL hackerspace, 7 Place Louis Chazette, (map)

• What: Install & full-upgrade Party

• Provided: pay what you want fries and drinks

• Bring: Computers

• More info: https://labolyon.fr/ https://matrix.to/#/#trixiereleaseparty-lyon:club1.fr

• Promotion: https://nerdculture.de/@labolyon/114989432658944279

France: Toulouse

• When: August 9th, 17:00-22:00 local time, perhaps later

• Where: Topic, 96 bis rue du Général Bourbaki, 31200 Toulouse (map)

• What: hang out with Debian contributors and adepts of the Holy spiral

• Provided: kitchen available for food preparation

• Bring: bring your happiness, stories, drinks and food

• More info: https://pad.tetalab.org/p/debianparty2025 and/or find fatalerrors on #tetalab or #tetaneutral.net IRC

Germany: Karlsruhe

• When: Aug 9th, 16:00 (CEST = UTC+2)

• Where: Vogelbräu Kapellenstraße (map, Home page), in the Biergarten if weather permits

• What: Have a beer or other beverages

• Bring: More Debian folks, umbrella, OpenPGP fingerprints (beware of xkcd#364)

• Note: Please contact cbiedl@d.o or axhn@oftc for a rough estimate of seats to reserve.

Germany: Rostock

• When: 2025-08-09 from 16:00 onwards (CEST)

• Where: Hackspace Rostock (Friedhofsweg 44a, map)

• What: cosy open release party

• Provided: free place to sit and meet, access to kitchen, some drinks, open grill/barbecue

• Bring: as you prefer - please bring your barbecue food

• More info: https://stadtgestalten.org/hackhro/debian-release-party-willkommen-trixie/

• Promotion: stadtgestalten

• Reports: ...

India: Bengaluru

• When: August 10, 4pm to 6pm

• Where: FSMK office, Jayanagar

• What: Party party party

• Provided: cake, food, drinks

• Bring: laptop/computer to install debian on

• More info: Please see blr.debian.org.in. We will/might also start Debian Bengaluru.

• Promotion: Social media creative for sharing

India: Hyderabad

This release party is hosted as part of the Lamakaan Amateur Radio Club’s monthly meet, which takes place every second Sunday at 3 PM, where we discuss home brewing, new developments, and trending activities in Hyderabad city.

• When: 10 August 2025, 3:00 - 5:00 pm IST

• Where: Lamakaan - The Open Cultural Center (map website)

• What: Party together with the Lamakaan Amateur Radio club people.

• Provided: Some snacks(tea, coffee, samosas, fried chillies & fresh lime-water), stickers and please let Prashanth(vu3jmt@qsl.net) know if you're coming!

• Bring: Just curious mind to know more about the cultural aspects of ham radio, and like learning about what the ham radio operators talk about when they connect/meet.

• Events: Overview of Ham Radio in Debian | Ham Radio demos with Debian packages | Showcase of HF transceivers running Debian!

• More info: https://larc.in/

• Promotion: Details about the release party will be announced on the daily Hyderabad morning net via the Lamakaan Amateur Radio Club’s repeater VU2LHR (145.600 MHz with 600 kHz, -ve shift), Echolink Node: 924321 and NET timings are 0745 to 0800 Hrs. It’s a great way for any new visitors to tune in and connect with local hams!

• Reports: Will blog about it, post party.

India: Hyderabad

• When: 10 August 2025, 2:00 - 5:00 pm IST

• Where: Viswam, IIIT Hyderabad (osm-map g-map)

• What: The Debian Trixie release party is a chance to Contribute and connect with fellow Debian contributors.

• Agenda:

  1. Debian 13 Features
  2. Debian 13 - Plan to promote adoption in India
  3. Debian 13 based e-Swecha OS release.

• Provided: Some snacks & Cake

• Bring: Laptop, & A curious mind to know more about the Debian, e-Swecha OS, & cultural aspects of GNU/Linux.

• More info: https://swecha.org/

• Reports: Will blog about it, post party.

India: Kochi

• When: 2025 August 23, 10 AM

• Where: IBM Office, Lulu Cyber Tower 2, Infopark, Kochi https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?params=10.009941_N_76.364982_E

• What: As part of the monthly https://kochifoss.org meetups, we'll be celebrating Debian Day as well as the release of Debian Trixie. You will need to register for the meetup, the link opens about a week before the meetup, join the KochiFOSS online public groups to get notified of the link.

• Provided: snacks, cake most likely

• Bring: you

• More info: https://kochifoss.org/

• Promotion: Check social media handles of https://kochifoss.org/

• Reports: Not yet

India: Noida

This release party has been clubbed with the OpenStreetMap's 21st birthday.

• Noida is located in Delhi NCR, and connected with Delhi, the capital of India, via metro.

• When: 9th of August 2025, 16:00-18:00 hours.

• Where: Essentia.dev office, C-56/A-28, Sector 62, Noida, Uttar Pradesh - 201301. Check location on OpenStreetMap website, osmapp.org.

• Nearest metro station: Noida Sector 62 (Blue Line)

• What: Debian Trixie release party is to hang out with other Debian contributors.

• Discuss/Participate: XMPP

• Provided:Cake will be provided. Thanks to FOSS United for sponsoring the cake.

• Bring: your own snacks to share with others.

• RSVP: https://ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org/x/9UqNwzwJ

India: Pune

• When: 9th of August 2025, 16:00-17:30 hours.

• Where: KOPA, KOPA, Mundhwa Rd, Ghorpadi, Pune, Maharashtra 411001 Check location on OpenStreetMap website,

• Nearest metro station: Kalyani Nagar

• What: Debian Trixie release party is to hang out with other Debian contributors.

• Discuss/Participate: XMPP

• Provided:Cake will be provided. Thanks to Pune FOSS User Group for sponsoring the cake.

• Bring: your own snacks to share with others.

India: Thiruvananthapuram

• When: 18 August 2025 6.30 P M IST

• Where: Dotspace, 2nd floor - Above Paul's creamery, Kowdiar, Thiruvananthapuram ([https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/7469356467]) Please put a link to the place on OpenStreetMap

• What: Debian Trixie Release party organized by FSUG TVM

• Provided: Cake will be provided

• Bring: stickers, if you have.

• More info: Free Software Users Group Thiruvananthapuram is celebrating Debian Trixie release party along with 21st Birthday of Openstreetmap, 28th birthday of Gnome and 10th birthday of Disroot.

• Promotion: https://katb.in/fsugtvm-celeb

* Reports: links to reports, blog posts, photos etc about the event.

India: Thrissur

• When: 2025 August 16, 11 AM

• Where: PG Centre, Thrissur https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3967551649

• What: Release party, Debian Day celebration

• Provided: Cake, ISOs

• Bring: you, banana chips

• More info: matrix: #fsug-tcr:matrix.org and telegram: @fsugtcr

Group poster for India events:

Group Photo

Iran: Tehran

• When: Friday, Novemebr 15th 2025 (جمعه ۲۳ آبان ۱۴۰۴)

• Where: Sharif University of Technology (دانشگاه صنعتی شریف) · map - نقشه

• What: چند ارائه و جشن گرفتن به مناسبت انتشار نگارش جدید

• Provided: Tea, Coffee, Confectionery, Launch, چای، قهوه، شیرینی، ناهار

• Bring: Smile, Good Mood, لبخند، حس خوب

• More info: https://debian.ir/events

• Promotion: Mastodon, Linkedin

• Reports: photos, Youtube

Italia: Firenze

• Quando: giovedì 14/08/2025 alle 21:00

• Dove: all'Ultravox, presso il parco delle Cascine (prato della Tinaia)

• Cosa: il FLUG festeggia l'uscita di Debian 13 (Trixie) bevendo e chiacchierando, e ovviamente provando ad aggiornare uno dei suoi server alla nuova versione di Debian

• Ci saranno: si spera qualcuno, di sicuro tre persone e una bell'atmosfera

• Da portare: quello che ti pare, anche niente. L'Ultravox è un locale all'aperto che serve sia da bere che da mangiare. La consumazione non è obbligatoria

• Maggiori informazioni: sulla lista di posta del FLUG

• Pagina web: sul sito del FLUG

• Pagina Gemini: gemini://firenze.linux.it/incontri/FestaDebianTrixie.gmi

Mexico: Mexico City

• When: Saturday 2025.08.09, 15:00–

• Where: Café Jorge Romero, Miguel Ángel de Quevedo esq. Petróleos Mexicanos. https://osm.org/go/S8fAAz8c--?m=

• What: Simple, informal get-together. The place has good coffee and simple food.

Netherlands: 's-Hertogenbosch

• When: Sat Aug 9 2025, 15.00 - 21.00

• Where: Knoflook / Vereniging Ontspoord, Havendijk 3, Den Bosch (Openstreetmap). See also https://radar.squat.net/nl/s-hertogenbosch/knoflook for some info about the space.

• What: eating vegan pie celebrating the Debian 13 Trixie release

• Provided: there will be dragons anything provided by the organisers like cake, balloons, food, drink, silly hats

• Bring: dragon food (: anything people should bring, like food, drink, costumes, OpenPGP fingerprints, etc

• More info: mailing list post link to the page where people can get more information and/or discuss event

• Promotion: links to mails, blog posts, tweets or other promotion done for the event.

• Reports: links to reports, blog posts, photos etc about the event.

Unfortunately, the venue is accessible only via (pretty steep) stairs so getting people in who need a wheel chair is tricky. The front door looks like https://www.dblug.nl/images/f/f3/VoordeurKnoflook.jpeg . You might have to ring a doorbell (the one which is almost hidden behind a tree) in order to get in.

Consuming a (warm) take-away meal is permitted. Drinking alcohol is permitted.

There will be food and drinks and socializing. Also tables, chairs, power and maybe even wireless internet for those who prefer that. And: you're very much invited to bring anything you'd like to use/drink/eat/share to the venue. (I myself would not bring meat, since on other days there is a strictly vegetarian kitchen operating from this venue.)

Participants are expected to behave in accordance with both the Debian Code of Conduct and the DebConf Code of Conduct . If you are harassed and requests to stop are not successful, or notice a disrespectful environment please contact community@debian.org. The Debian Community Team will treat your request with dignity and confidentiality, investigate, and take whatever actions appropriate.

The main organiser can be reached via the public list debian-events-nl@lists.debian.org. In case more privacy is needed, contact ?JoostvanBaal-Ilić at joostvb@debian.org. For online coordination, you're invited to use the OFTC/#debian-nl IRC channel.

Remember: this ship has no passengers, only crew.

Report: We welcomed 15 participants, from 4 countries and 2 continents. Thanks a lot especially to dbLUG / harold and urbec , the Knoflook Den Bosch crew and Peter van S for their help in making this event possible.

This page is also available via https://deb.li/3Kuvs

Slovenija: Ljubljana

• Kdaj: v soboto 9. avgusta 2025 ob 17:00

• Kje: v parku Tivoli pri čolnarni (https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/14958542), Please put a link to the place on OpenStreetMap točna lokacija na http://4a.si./13

• Kaj: druženje

• Priskrbljeno: Torta

• Prinesite: dobro voljo. opcijsko: pijačo in prigrizke, stol ali šotorko

• Več info in poročila: http://4a.si./13

Thailand: Bangkok

• When: 9 August 2025, 14:00 local time

• Where: Jojo Cafe (map)

• What: eat, drink, chat, exchange experiences, and get friends in Debian community

• Promotion: Thai, English

• Reports: Thai Linux User Group forum

UK: Cambridge

• When: 2pm onwards, Sunday 10th August

• Where: The Haymakers pub, Cambridge: https://www.individualpubs.co.uk/haymakers/where/

• What: Pub: drinks, food, chat, geekery!

• Provided: Food and some drinks, please let Steve know if you're coming!

• Bring: yourself, money for drinks

• More info: organised by SteveMcIntyre, 93sam@d.o, +44 7775 786572

• Promotion:

• Reports:

Join us in Cambridge for a celebration of trixie!

We'll have a number of folks around from the installer, images and release teams around so you know who to blame...

UK: Edinburgh

• When: Saturday 9th August from 3pm

• Where: The Holyrood 9A

• What: Pub drinks at the former EdLUG meeting location

• Provided: some Debian microflyers (DFSG-licensed!)

• More info: Contact ?JayAddison, email: jay at jp-hosting dot net

US: Pacific (virtual ONLY!)

• When: 2025-08-09 4:00 PM US/Pacific (2025-08-09T23:00Z) 'till the earlier of midnight US/Pacific (2025-08-10T07:00Z) or as late as folks will have it

• Where: online (virtual ONLY!): https://meet.jit.si/CABAL See Jitsi and meet.jit.se notes below, especially if there's either of those that one hasn't used before.

• What: online (virtual ONLY!) via web conference (or app), various Debian and Linux and potentially interested folks likely to attend

• Bring: your virtual presence via capable web browser or app - zero need to travel at all!

• More information further below

• Reports: see (mini-)Report further below

Also check back on this page later for various updates (any changes, more info, reports, etc.).

Jitsi and meet.jit.se notes:

• Jitsi Meet

  • Free OpenSource web conferencing software/app.

  • One can run it directly in most any reasonably capable browser on computer, tablet, or smart phone, or there's also the Jitsi app one can use.
  • If you've not used it before, suggest to join 3 to 10 minutes early, or first try it out beforehand on another meeting URL

    which you can create yourself - just start at https://meet.jit.si/ to create one, or directly enter most any suitable URL starting with that and it is created upon use/access, but see also the bit below about meet.jit.se

  • recommended to use ear buds or headphones to avoid audio feedback issues.

  • Please mute your microphone while not talking. Particularly important when more folks are in the meeting and/or there are background sounds/noises. Jitsi also conveniently has a "push to talk" feature one can use: hit the space bar when main meeting pane section is active/selected, and that then becomes a "push to talk" button, unmuting microphone while held down, and microphone muted when it's released. One can revert that by using the regular microphone (un)mute by clicking the microphone icon, then one goes back to the default behavior where clicking that microphone icon toggles muted/unmuted.

  • They (primarily) develop on Debian, though using their hosting (see further below) for this meeting. And yes, I've created and set up self-hosted Jitsi Meet servers on Debian before. From the earlier:

    my post on their forum about going from base Debian installation to fully operational Jitsi Meet server in minutes and aforementioned script I'd developed to be able to do so

• meet.jit.se
  • in addition to the above, which also applies,
  • is Jits's hosted service on their development server. It is free, however:

  • if one is the first to join a meeting URL (nobody already in that "room"), one will need to login using Google or GitHub,

  • but no need to login if room already occupied

Yet more information.

• Some background on CABAL and the specific meeting URL:
  no CABAL meeting that (2025-08-09) day, mentions to the relevant list:
  the first and second mentions/announcements on that by the regular host of that meeting, and a third myself (MichaelPaoli) further correcting the one before that.
  Then I (Michael Paoli) proposed the regular CABAL URL be used for Debian Release Party,
  and hearing no objections, in fact endorsement,
  made it so, and also announced it on CABAL's relevant list.
  And some more general background information on CABAL but note that CABAL itself is NOT meeting 2025-08-09 and that page may not be updated to reflect that (it's mostly programmatically updated).

Report

Mini-report: Had at least 10 folks in total attend, sometimes as many as 5 or 6 online simultaneously. Most, if not all, users were from US/Pacifc timezone. We had folks from at least as far South as Los Angeles, and as far North as Canada.

Mention of the meeting did also get passed along to at least a couple additional places, notably including:
Greater Toronto Area LUG (GTALUG) https://www.gtalug.org/
https://lists.gtalug.org/archives/list/talk@lists.gtalug.org/message/Q4GLJ2JOEKFT6IQL52HNBHAMZNCQBNM5/
Mastodon

Lots of various discussion, mostly Debian and related. Some bits that were discussed, mentioned, touched upon, or said, etc.:
13/Trixie
X
audio
wireplumber pipewire
Jitsi Meet
Btrfs
?DrumMachine
GPT, partitioning, EFI, BIOS boot partition
KDE, KDE Connect
phob1an
GNOME
Online Linux meetings: https://www.balug.org/covid
Many long time Debian users, e.g. since Squeeze (6), Hamm (2), ...
"came to say thank you, thank you for all your great work Debian developers."
"I've been reading a lot of how you work as an organization, and it's really amazing."
"I just bought my laptop a few weeks ago, and I was surprised how everything worked right out of the box, I guess it has a lot to do with the kernel, and that you managed to push a really updated one in this version."
nvidia
usrmerge
6% desktop market share!, 15% in India
?OpenArena
https://veloren.net/
Recommended Debian Lists, fair bit of that on: Debian_Systems_Administration_for_non-Debian_SysAdmins
SCALE
https://2025.fossy.us/
https://2025.northbaypython.org/
https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/issues.en.html#the-last-lastb-and-lastlog-commands-have-been-replaced
https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/issues.en.html#encrypted-filesystems-need-systemd-cryptsetup-package
https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/upgrading.en.html#preparing-apt-sources-files
Debian wiki
BerkeleyLUG.com
SF-LUG.org
DVLUG.org
separate file systems ... and not
ZFS
... and of course much more!

USA: Boston/Cambridge

• When: Sunday, August 10th, 2025 at 5pm and onward

• Where: Grendel’s Den, 89 Winthrop St, Cambridge, MA 02138 https://www.grendelsden.com/ (map)

• What: Chat, food, drinks, Debian Trixie release party

• Bring: Friends and money for food and drinks

• Promotion: https://bostonopen.dev/