 This is the tower. It's 10 a.m. And we're all still half asleep Nonetheless, we've all dragged ourselves here so that we can listen to B. Dell's talk on The governance of the Debian project. So with much further ado B. Dell Garby Well, thanks and thanks for getting up this morning. It's challenging for all of us Though actually I am gonna start by talking just a little bit But I don't really want you to think of this as a talk. This is bill as a buff We build this last year in Helsinki as a buff and ended up in a room that was not very buff friendly I was just too big and to spread out and this is actually much nicer And it's a nicer sized group of people though. I suspect other folks will wander in as we go along I'm gonna start by setting a little bit of Yes, I'll start by setting a little bit of context I'm talking a little bit about some of the things that I think are important in Debian's history Relative to the project's governance and then offer a few observations that I hope will help to launch some conversation