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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 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

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It first lived as an unofficial service
under news.debian.net for two years

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then it was reopened as an official
service in 2013.

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Blogposts that are published there are
less formal,

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we can have all kind of announcements
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so every Debian member has a commit access
to the git repository

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to draft an article which is then reviewed
before the final publishing.

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Some teams already have published informal
reports to this blog and

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it would be nice if it became something
usual that teams having sprints

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publish informal reports in this blog.

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We have also some Google Summer of Code
announcements and things like that.

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Something I know quite well is the Debian
Project News.

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This is a newsletter that at its creation was
supposed to be weekly released,

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then after some break it was revived as a
bi-monthly newsletter

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but at the moment we kind of lack manpower
so it's more or less released once a month.

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So what's the structure.

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It's available on the website under the
News/weekly/ section of the website.

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It's also released as an e-mail on
debian-news and on localized versions

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of this newsletter for translations.

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It's also available as a RSS feed and
links to the newsletter are also

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sent to Identica.

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It's translated into various languages and
how do we create this newsletter?

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We gather various information from mailing
lists, blog posts and

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write some short paragraphs about this.

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We have also recurrent sections in this
mailing list about

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security announcements, interesting new
packages, during freeze time

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we publish a summary of the RC statistics
and recently we added some information

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about the reproducible builds statistics
too.

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A new section that appeared from time to
time in the last issues is the

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"Team, what do you do?" section which was
introduced by Donald Norwood.

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The principle of this section is to
interview teams.

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I think it's a nice way for users and
people interested in Debian in general

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to discover the various teams,

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not only teams doing packages but teams
doing like cross archive work or

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work on other fields of the project.

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If your team is invited to answer these
questions, please find some time

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to answer to our e-mail and

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if your team is interested in
participating in this initiative or

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if you know a team that you would be
interested in knowing more about,

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please tell us and we'll try to
contact them.

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How can you help the Publicity team.

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You should consider publicity as a way
way to advertise your work

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so you can first join the publicity team
and work directly on

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what we are producing: announcements
or this newsletter

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by writing, reviewing or translating
articles like for the Debian Project News.

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Debian is a very large project and it's
very difficult for us to monitor

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all the mailing lists and all the IRC
channels and things like that

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so if you can help and collect some
information about what happens

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in the project, it's very good.

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For example, if you are already a Debian
contributor and you did or you saw

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something amazing in the Debian project

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you could just send us an e-mail with just
a few lines and a couple of links

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and we could include this into the
newsletter.

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If you have a package that you are very
happy of,

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you are very happy this package entered
the archive and you would like that

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a lot of people use this package, you can
also tell us about it

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and we will advertise it in the next
Debian Project Newsletter issue.