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[Talk meister] Grab a seat please, there's
lots of seats around here, or there.

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It's my pleasure to introduce our current
and new DPL,

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Neil McGovern for his annual bits from
the DPL

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[Applause]

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[Neil] Thanks very much, hi everyone.

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I'm aware that this talk is due to cut in
to lunch so I'll try and keep it slightly

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... in to dinner, so I'll keep it slightly
more refined [laughter]

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so people can get their food early.

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Hopefully everyone's ok with that anyway.

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I'm also kind of glad that it's in this
slot when it was originally proposed

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and I got my initial time slot it was
going to be a 9am slot just after the

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cheese and wine party so I [laughter]

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probably wouldn't expect quite so many
people as we have here today.

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So, welcome everyone, this final day of
the open weekend. Anyone who isn't a

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regular person, hi and welcome to Debian!

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Welcome to the huge Debian family which
is certainly growing all the time and

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is something that's really good to see.

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It's quite fantastic that there's just so
many people involved, especially this year

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When I last checked the stats I think we
had 383 people who had so far checked in

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slightly less than for DebConf 7, but I'm
certain... [laughter]

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I'm certain over the next few days that'll
go up and definitely surpass us.

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I just want to remind everyone what the
size of the project we are.

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It's such a huge effort, one of the
biggest open source and free software

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projects in the world.

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Combining around 1000 developers, a few
thousand maintainers and contributors as

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well, and also our users.

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It's really a huge effort that we manage
to still be here after 22 years and still

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be going strong.

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Hopefully a DebConf in future will look
a little bit like that

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I think the orga team might be slightly
more stressed if we end up with numbers

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but what a fantastic thing.

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Also over the last few years we've had 42
new project members have joined us.

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This is over the last year, we've had all
these people.

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Huge welcome to everyone there. [Applause]

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Especially one or two on there which I
decided to get back into doing application

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management, especially for our non-
uploading developers as well, which has

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been a huge boost to really grow where
we're going.

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Also welcome back. I've noticed a few
people this year who I haven't seen in a

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few years, so stand up if you've been away
for a few years and you're returning

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I know there's certainly some people,
excellent,

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Tolimar? [laughter] There he is!
[Applause]

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Kris Rose? Is he here? [points] Excellent.

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Was active before I even joined Debian,
and essentially has come back again, so

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it's great to see everyone back and thanks
very much for remembering us.

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There's been a few new people as well.

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Very, very new people who I haven't kinda
seen around before in previous DebConfs

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Where did all these children come from?
I think there must have been something...

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[laughter]

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I think the Switzerland DebConf, there
might have been something in the water,

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because it's suddenly been a huge... it's
absolutely fantastic to see not only

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our usual developers around, but their
families as well, and new people being

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introduced to Debian and to technology.

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The TecKids workshops I think are
absolutely fantastic initiative I think

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that really helps broaden Debian and what
we do.

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So, when I first became DPL, I always knew
Debian was a big thing in free software,

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in the communities and things we do.

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I went along to my running club

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and we went for a run,

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went to the pub afterwards as you do in
the UK,

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you can't have sport without excessive
alcohol consumption afterwards so it seems

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and about 7 or 8 people all came up to me

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and said "Hey, congratulations on being
DPL, I'm going to buy you a pint!", which

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[laughter]

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which is great

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So if anyone wants to run for DPL you get
free beer, this is a good thing.

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But it did really impress on me that

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Debian's a big deal, it's a really huge
deal.

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If you have a look at some of the latest
server stats for web servers,

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Debian's number one.

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It's about 32% of Linux distributions, and
and if you combine Ubuntu as well, and

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all our derivatives, we're about 62% of
all linux servers out there

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Basically Debian really does run the world

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Not only that, but the amount of embedded
devices that Debian's involved with

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from, as mentioned before, the HP talk,
running huge teleco systems

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to assistive devices. I know Andy's around
somewhere.

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That product is essentially being based on
Debian and it's a speak and spell type

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device.

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It's for people who can't talk.

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You have a little keyboard, you type in
what you want to say, it has predictive

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technology in there, and then it gives
people a voice.

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Debian is literally being used to give
people voices who can't speak.

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This is the sort of impact that Debian
have, and free software can have

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on the world.

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A few things happened, certainly over the
last year.

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Apparently we released.

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I was only DPL for about a week, but I'm
going to take credit for this

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like any good politician, anyway.
[laughter]

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I've already had a stable release.

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This has hugely welcomed.

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I don't know if anyone followed the DevOps
Reactions tumblr page, but they were

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following along and huge cheers from
everyone when Debian releases.

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It is a big deal.

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Strangely I also saw a press release that
that said they're

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having a party to celebrate the release
of Debian 8 at Linux Fest North West,

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But this press release was from Microsoft
[laughter]

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I thought it might be a spoof at first,
but I diligently checked the certificates

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and domains and made sure it went back.

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I think people, certainly large
organisations are realising now that this

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open source, free software thing isn't
going away

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This isn't something that they can just
ignore, or they can fight against.

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This is something that they have to
embrace

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Certainly for someone like Microsoft to
throw away a load of cake and do a press

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release because Debian's released is
something I never thought I'd see when I

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first joined the Debian Project.

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We've had some new good things which have
started recently as well

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Fantastic areas if anyone knows what this
might be for a current initiative that's

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going on?

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[Picture of four similar potted plants]

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I was trying to do reproducible builds.

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They all sort of look the same, so near
enough [laughter]

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It's the nearest I could find on Flickr to
something being reproducible.

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These are all CC by the way.

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So this is perhaps a bit of a better slide
to explain just how impressive it is

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where we've got.

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I don't know if everyone here's aware of
reproducible builds and what this is

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trying to do, and the importance of it.

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When you get a source package

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and you produce a binary from that

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there hasn't traditionally been a way of
knowing that what you've produced here

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comes from this source package and it
hasn't been tampered with.

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This is incredibly important for the trust
that people have in Debian

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and how we produce things

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So if we're able to say "Look, this thing
here has definitely come from here,

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look we've rebuilt it again, you can check
for yourself, it comes from here.",

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then people can trust Debian as this
platform for where we run everyone's

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computers.

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I'm quite impressed with the remarkable
progress we've seen here.

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From zero to a huge share of things being
reproducable and that work I'm sure will

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continue, especially thanks to the Linux
Foundation's grants as well in supporting

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this progress.

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I did a "ask me anything" recently and it
was one of the things that came up as

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being a hugely popular thing that Debian
is doing and that we're driving forward.

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Not just for Debian itself but for all
distributions and making sure we're

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able to do that.

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Interestingly I was also asked what I'm
most jealous of other distributions and

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I think I said the Arch wiki because it is
pretty good. [laughter]

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Often when I'm on #debian and answering
questions then it comes up with the best

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answers a lot of the time.

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But, hey, I'm rubbish at writing
documentation so...

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Another effort we've come up with is ddebs

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Ability to automatically have debug
symbols

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Something which a few other distributions
have had for a while and it's really,

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really good to see that this sort of
effort is happening as well.

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If Niels is around.... well done!
[applause]

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Not the only one but.

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So, what's next?

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What's the next things that Debian can do?

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Where can we go from here and what sort of
ideas can we have?

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There's a whole range of things we can do

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but I'm just going to pick up two or three

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that we want to kinda concentrate on and
see where we're going.

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First, PPAs. [picture of a parcel]

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It's near enough a package, that'll do me.

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I've got a BoF scheduled on Friday, to try
and look at what we're doing with this and

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trying to finish it off.

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It was in my platform as something I want
push and it's something I believe will

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really help the development of Debian.

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Now, it's slightly different from Ubuntu
PPAs as they're well known.

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It's not going to be somewhere that you
can just dump random software and people

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install various quality packages.

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This is going to be a very useful tool to
aid Debian development itself.

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As far as I remember, most of the work is
actually done now.

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Huge thanks to the FTP Masters and DSA
etc for this.

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So the actual code is there in DAK.

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The only missing bits is the control
functions,

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how you create new PPAs and the wannabuild
system and we build stuff and

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touch releases.

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So it is going to, hopefully, come any
minute now

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and something that we will hopefully be
able to use and will ease the,

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sometimes the pain of when we freeze.

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Sometimes the ability to easily create
backports

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or even to ease library transitions.

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If you can create a PPA where you stage
your library, check everything works and

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you can fix all your breakages then that
should help unstable and testing as well.

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One on outreach I guess is near enough.

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It's kinda interesting, I've mentioned
that Debian is in a huge position to touch

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many people's lives and it was slightly
worrying that compared to the amount of

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Jessie release parties we had all over the
world,

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I video called into one in India for
example and it was globally popular.

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