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This talk will give an overview of
what the Debian publicity team does

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and how they work and how you can
support them.

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Please give a warm round of applause to
Cédric Boutillier and his talk

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"Debian, a giant with a tiny voice"

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[Applause]

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I'm sorry, I have a kind of technical
problem.

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I don't remember the shortcut to bring
full screen in okular.

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Ctrl-Shift-P… ok, thank you.

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This is my first DebConf, so I would like
to take this opportunity to present myself

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I'm Cédric Boutillier, I'm known as boutil
on IRC and I'm a Debian member

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since 2012 and a couple of years before
that, I started contributing to Debian

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as a member of the ruby team.

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I also joined the french localization team
and I started to translate

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some announcements and that's how I became
part of the publicity team.

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What I will talk about today is
the structure of the publicity team,

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the various services we are handling in
the team and how you can in fact

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get involved in the team and promote
Debian through the publicity team.

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So, what is the structure of the team.

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It's a bit complicated because in fact the
publicity in Debian is for the moment

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two teams: the Press team and the
Publicity team.

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The members of the Press team are
delegated by the DPL and

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they can speak in the name of the project
when it's needed

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to contact for example journalists.

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They have a private mail alias
press@debian.org and they serve as a

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contact point for journalists and the
outside world.

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And there is the Debian Publicity team,
which is much larger, but…

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not much larger, larger but not as well
structured as the Press team.

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We have a public mailing list,
debian-publicity@lists.debian.org

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and an IRC channel, #debian-publicity.

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And we should also include in this team
all the people doing reviews,

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essentially translating our broken english
into proper english − Hello Justin −

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and all the translators doing the work to
translate

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various announcements in various
languages.

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We have also in this Publicity team the
maintainers of the Debian blog,

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more on that later, that are also
delegated by the DPL.

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And in fact, we should also include the
whole project, because publicity is

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the duty of the whole project and
everyone should be concerned by this.

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I will now review the various tools we can
have in the team.

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First, there are the press announcements.

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They are published on the website in the
News/ subsection.

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They inform journalists and users of
important changes and they are prepared

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by the Press team and the Publicity team

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and also with various involved teams when
there are specific changes.

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It includes the news for the new releases
and some times also

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news that are published in coordination
with other companies or

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other projects.

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These announcements are very a very
official way to communicate

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about the project

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and on the wiki, at the moment there is
some information about

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how you could approach the team to propose
such an announcement.

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There is another tool which is used
to publish communication about the project

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in a less formal way.

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It's the Debian blog, AKA bits.debian.org