 This talk will give an overview of what the Debian publicity team does and how they work and how you can support them So please give a warm round of applause to Cedric Boutier and this talk Debian a giant with a tiny voice Okay, I'm sorry. I have a kind of Technical problem. I don't remember the shortcut for doing full screen in ocular Control shift B. Okay. Thank you Okay, so So So this is my first depth conference. So I would like to take this opportunity to present myself So I'm Cedric Boutier. I'm known as Boutil on IRC and I'm a Debian member since 2012 and a couple years before that I started contributing to Debian as a member of the Ruby team and I also joined the French localization team and I started to translate some Announcements and that's how I became part of the publicity team. So what I will talk about today is The structure of the publicity team the various services we are handling in the team and How you can in fact get involved in the team and promote the Debian through the publicity team So what is the structure of the the team? So it's a bit complicated because in fact The publicity in Debian is for the moment two teams. So there is the press team and the publicity team so the members of the press team are delegated by the DPL and They can speak in the name of the projects when it's needed to contact with for example journalists They have a private mail alias press at Debian.org and well deserve as a contact point for a Journalist and the outside world and there is a Debian publicity team, which is much larger, but not much larger, but larger but not as well as As well structured as the press team. So we have a public mailing list Debian publicity at least Debian.org and an IRC channel Debian publicity and We should also include in this team all the people doing reviews Especially translating our broken English into proper English hello Justin and all the translator doing the work to To translate the the various announcements in in various languages and We have also in this publicity team the maintainers of the Debian blocks or more on that later that are also delegated by the DPL and In fact, we should also include the whole project because in the publicity is the Duty of the whole project and everyone should be a concern by by this Okay, so I will now review the the various tools we we can have in in the team So first there are the press announcements. So they are published on the website in the news subsection they inform a journalist and the users of important changes and They are prepared by the press team and the publicity team team and also with the various Involved team when there are specific changes So it includes the the new The new release, you know the news for the new releases and sometimes also news that are Published in coordination with other companies or other projects so these announcements are a very official way to to communicate about the project and on the the wiki at the moment there is some information about How could you approach the the team to propose them such an announcement? So there is another tool which is Used to to publish Communication about the project in a less formal way, it's the Debian's blog Also known as bit.debian.org so it First lived as an unofficial service under news.debian.net for two years Then it was reopened as unofficial services in 2013 so blog posts that are published there are less less formal we can have All kind of Announcements there so every Debian member has a commit access to the git Repository to draft an article which is then reviewed and before the final publishing and And some teams already have published the informal reports to this To this blog and it would be nice if it became something usual that Teams having sprints could publish informal reports in in this blog so we have also some Google summer off-coded announces and things like that so something that I know Quite well is the Debian project news so this is a Newsletter that its creation was supposed to be weekly weekly released then after some break it was revived as Be monthly Newsletter, but at the moment we kind of lack manpower, so it's more or less released once once a month So what's the the structure? It's available on the on the website and there's the news weekly section of the website it's also released as an email on Debian news and on the localized version of this newsletter for translations it's also available as an RSS feed and Links to the newsletter are also sent to identica so it's translated into into various languages and How do do we create this this newsletter so we gather various informations from mailing lists blog posts and write some short paragraphs about About this we have also recurrent sections in this In this mailing list about security announcements Interesting new packages During freestyle we publish a summary of the RC bug statistics and Recently we added some information about the reputable builds statistics too New sections that Appeared from time to time in the last issues is the team What do you do section which was introduced by Donald Norwood? So the principle of this section is to interview teams So it's I think a nice way to for users and people interested in interested in Debian in general to discover the values of various teams Not only teams doing packaging but teams doing like Cross Cross archive work or work on other fields of the on the project so if your team is invited to To answer these questions Peel please find some time to to answer to our email and if your team is interested in participating in this In this initiative or if you know a team that you would be interested in knowing more about so please Tell us and we'll try to contact them. So How can you help the the publicity team? So you should consider publicity as a way to to advertise your your work. So you can first Join the publicity team and work directly on on what we are producing announcement or this newsletter by writing reviewing or translating articles like for the Debian project news so Debian is a Very large project and it's very difficult for us to monitor all the mailing list and All of the I don't know IRC channels and things like that So if you can help and collect some information about what happened in the project is very good so for example if you are Already a Debian Contributor and you did or you saw something amazing in the Debian project You could just send us an email with just a few lines and a couple of links And we could include this in into the newsletter if you have a package that you are very happy You are very happy that this package entered the archive and you would like That a lot of people use this package. You can also tell us about it and we will Advertise it in the in the next day brand project newsletter issue Working on the publicity team is also a good entry point for people Interested in Debian, but we are not contributors yet So it's a way where people can learn more about the Debian project and so if you are interested in In Debian and you don't know exactly where to start. Well, it could be a good starting point. So So what is the workflow we are using so recently during that camp we migrated from SVN to Git so now all the Documents we are handling are kept in Git repositories. So the Debian project news the announcements and the blog have their own Git repository every Debian member has directly commit access to these git repositories and Other can easily get right access by joining the publicity team project on IOT coordination to produce these documents announcement and the DPN is usually done through the mailing list or the IRC channel and Once the announcement or the DPN is finished then some call for review or translations are sent to translation and localization mailing lists So there are more information on the on the weekend So there is another way to to publish news about about your work, which is the MISC Developer news. So it's a wiki page at this at this address. So this page Contains a template you can use and you can edit the the wiki page and Every time so if you are the person adding the fifth news to the to this wiki page you win the right to Collect these five news and send an email to the Debian level announced mailing list with the five news so it's quite a light way to To send the news about the the project Especially if you are not the fifth one So Debian is also present on various social networks. So we have an official identica account Which is represented here and we also present on new social Twitter and Google plus So there was a special event this year the release of a JC and we did some live denting on identica and some Messages were sent to Twitter during the whole weekend non-stop we send like 150 messages If you want to to propose a Dent you can go directly to the Debian publicity IRC channel and send a proposition with a dent prefix and When this proposition is acknowledged by someone of the team This message will appear on the social on the social network. You can also mail your proposition to the to the Debian publicity so for example if you want to Publish messages about depth conf you are welcome to to do so and last Last tool we have in the Debian publicity team is the Debian timeline was great Which was created by Chris lamb and now maintained by the publicity team. So it's a web page showing a Timeline with the bias events related to to Debian So you have the history of all the releases and various events like sprints Buck squashing parties various transitions and things like that. So the All the source code of the band time line is maintained in in a git repository so every Debian member can commit to the To this timeline and then a publicity member can Upload can Push to the server the same just changes to to update the timeline. So if you can look at the This timeline and if you see that some event is missing. So either directly commit to git or send us an email to the Debian publicity team So that we can add this So we have also a lot of projects, but currently have no time to implement them So examples of this would be to revive the day-by-day Website which was presenting a new Debian package every day We could also try to revive the audio interviews in Which we're known under the name of this week in this week in Debian or subtitles is the existing audio interviews in English or in other And translate this subtitle into other languages We are also open to new ideas for recurrent sections in the Debian project news we could also try to gather some statistics and Track mention of Debian on external websites and to see how Debian is doing from another point of view and well you Welcome to propose your own idea So we have we'll have above this afternoon and you are welcome to to come and discuss with us your own ideas on that So here are some useful links. So Debian contributors, you have the mailing list and various wiki pages about the workflow of the team and For the users these are the the mailing list and the social network where we publish some information and This is our contact information if you want to get in touch with us And please come to the the both this afternoon in Amsterdam room at 1500 and we will be happy to discuss with you everything related to publicity. Thank you Thank you very much are there questions from the audience at this point that doesn't seem to be the case So that's a question and more comment really Just sort of highlighting some of the feedback we got around the release both. Oh, he wants to stand up both the release team and Basically everyone around it was really really impressed with with the live denting and then the live tweeting of the release It's something that that makes it really Really visible for Debian and when we release things and we're able to produce that publicity Then it then it makes Debian a really big thing So just a huge thanks really for for helping with that and I definitely encourage everyone to to get involved with with the publicity team It's It's also a really easy way for people to get involved So if you know anyone who says oh, I'd like to help Debian, but I'm not very good at packaging things So a bit like me as I haven't done anyone in about five years or something Getting involved in the publicity team and helping out is something that I definitely really encourage It's a really good team really needs it really needs help and this and we can do so much more with it at some point there was a project to To collect a box which could be used at the exhibits right when Debian goes out and exhibit So what is the status now that did it progress anywhere? Do we have a box like in Europe in the States where we could easily You know distribute to a local party to go to bring it to the conference and what it would constitute. I wonder Do we have resources for Well, many people disagree that oh, we shouldn't have stickers or something like that Which is but I think it's already a visibility right if we have really nice Giveaways like all those stickers we have on our laptops of course we could buy them right But when we go to the conference and the cost of those if we print them in bulk It's Ridiculously small Right, I think it would be beneficial if we have a box, right? Which we could bring it to a conference and has really nice banners, right some Nice giveaways, maybe not just to throw them around But even just to for good visitors, you know to give a sticker I think it's nice and that's what we do for neurodebian as well So for those close to us we give those nice stickers for the laptop right and they are happy We are happy and we have nice exhibit table usually I think so What is the status there and what we should do about it? So I think it was handled by the event team but this event team Doesn't exist anymore so I Think that's the sound of someone volunteering Yeah, so it's a more seriously we I Think it was a Martin as oboe wanted a banner and said oh we should have a banner Can we spend the money and I said yes carry on He said but I haven't told you how much it costs you and he's like no carry on It's not going to be like five thousand pounds. So just go make a banner But he couldn't get anyone to make the artwork for him or do anything like that So he sent out some requests and and no one really Was able to do that so if you want to put a box together and you think we should make stickers Do that that sounds good cool. Okay. Well banner usually we use Ben Armstrong's manner And that's for volunteering. I'm exhibiting usually at least twice a year so So I'm there already but box we had already some box with some hardware and if we could reuse it, I wonder, you know, that would be more efficient and Do we have any interesting hardware we could which we could present as well That would be nice in that box Okay, so yeah volunteering got it So if you need help with what artwork just call Valesio Call Valesio, okay Thank you very much. Let's give the presenter another round of applause