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Author: Francesca Ciceri <madamezou at zouish.org>
Date:   Mon Mar 25 17:05:34 2013 +0100

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+Title: Debian Project Leader elections 2013: interview with Lucas Nussbaum
+Date: 2013-03-25 16:44
+Tags: interview, dpl, vote
+Slug: dpl-interview-2013-lucas
+Author: Francesca Ciceri
+Status: draft
+
+
+We have asked Lucas Nussbaum, one of the three candidates for 
+[DPL elections 2013](http://bits.debian.org/candidates-for-dpl-2013.html),
+to tell our readers about himself and his ideas for the Debian Project.
+
+You can also read the interviews to the other two candidates: 
+[Gergely Nagy](http://bits.debian.org/dpl-interview-2013-algernon.html) 
+and [Moray Allan](http://bits.debian.org/dpl-interview-2013-moray.html).
+
+----
+
+**Please tell us a little about yourself.**
+
+Hi! I'm a 31 years old french computer geek. In my day job, I'm an assistant 
+professor (Maitre de Conférences) of Computer Science at Université de 
+Lorraine.
+
+**What do you do in Debian and how did you started contributing?**
+
+Like many, I started contributing to Debian by creating and maintaining 
+packages for my own software, in the Ruby team.
+Then, I discovered that, even if it's not so obvious from the outside, there 
+are a lot of areas in Debian that could use more contributors. So I just 
+started to contribute to more and more things.
+
+There's a list of things I did in Debian in my [platform](http://www.debian.org/vote/2013/platforms/lucas).
+What I have been doing recently is:
+
+- rebuild all packages in Debian on a regular basis in order to identify 
+  packages that can no longer be built, and file bugs accordingly. In order to 
+  do that efficiently, I use cluster and cloud resources ( 
+  [more info](http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=718))
+
+
+- develop and maintain [Ultimate Debian Database](http://udd.debian.org], a 
+  data aggregator that collects data in most Debian services so that it is 
+  possible to expose it in interesting ways (e.g. find release-critical bugs 
+  affecting popular packages). 
+
+- write and maintain a [Debian Packaging tutorial](http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#packaging-tutorial),
+  ([packaging-tutorial package](http://packages.debian.org/sid/packaging-tutorial)), 
+  to provide an easy-to-read introduction to packaging in Debian.
+
+**Why did you decide to run as DPL?**
+
+Two main reasons:
+
+- Most of my Debian contributions aim at addressing problems at the 
+  distribution scale (cross-distro collaboration, Quality Assurance, 
+  data-mining). Being DPL is a great way to contribute to Debian at this 
+  level.
+
+- the DPL campaign is a great time in Debian where we discuss the project's 
+  problems, politics and visions. Being a candidate is in itself a way to 
+  contribute to Debian (though it would be better if we had those discussions 
+  outside DPL campaigns too).
+
+**Three keywords to summarise your platform.**
+
+(re-)make Debian the center of the Free Software ecosystem ; foster innovation 
+inside Debian ; reduce barriers to contributions
+
+**What are the biggest challenges that you envision for Debian in the future?**
+
+I often have the impression that the project is losing momentum, 
+positive energy, and slowing down. It feels like we are living on the benefits 
+of the past. A lot of very cool things happen in the Debian ecosystem, but 
+very often outside the Debian project (in derivative distributions).
+
+Debian should aim at reinforcing its position in the center of the Free 
+Software ecosystem: it should be the main active intermediary between upstream 
+projects and final users. To achieve that, we need to reinforce the visibility 
+and the impact of Debian. This is extremely important because the values we 
+fight for as a project are often neglected by our derivatives.
+
+**What are, in your opinion, the areas of the project more in need 
+of technical and/or social improvements?**
+
+Fostering innovation inside Debian: we should be more welcoming towards 
+innovation and experiments inside the project. Often, we merely tolerate them, 
+and bureaucracy makes them hard and slow to conduct. As a result, people tends 
+to innovate outside the Debian project.
+
+Making it easier to contribute to Debian: we compete with more and more 
+projects to attract contributors. While we are already quite good at welcoming 
+new contributors with good documentation and mentoring (much better than 
+people usually think), there's still a lot of room for improvement.
+
+**Why should people vote for you?**
+
+A great thing in Debian's voting system is that you don't vote "for" or 
+"against" a specific candidate. Instead, due to our use of the 
+[Condercet method](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method), you 
+rank candidates (and also indicate those who you consider suitable for the 
+role by ranking a virtual "None of the above" candidate).
+
+Why am I a good candidate? My previous contributions to Debian show that I 
+have a pretty good understanding of the inner workings of the project, and 
+that I have a track record of managing projects successfully inside Debian.
+I think that those are two required qualities for a DPL.
+
+**Name three tools you couldn't stay without.**
+
+vim, mutt, ssh.
+
+**What keep you motivated to work in Debian?**
+
+Debian is a fantastic project from a technical point of view (focus on
+technical excellence, lots of interesting challenges), but also from a social
+point of view: the Debian community is a great community where I have lots of
+good friends. Also, what's great when you contribute to Debian is that your
+work has a real impact, and that you see people using stuff you worked on
+everywhere.
+
+**Are there any other fields where you call yourself a geek, besides computers?**
+
+I'm not sure this really qualifies as "besides computers", but I've gotten 
+very interested in the OpenStreetMap project lately. I very much enjoy 
+exploring unmapped areas on a mountain bike. It feels like being Christopher 
+Columbus or Marco Polo, but 20 minutes from home. ;) The OpenStreetMap and 
+Debian projects also share many values, such as a great attention to quality and 
+details.
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+Title: Debian Project Leader elections 2013: interview with Moray Allan
+Date: 2013-03-25 16:54
+Tags: interview, dpl, vote
+Slug: dpl-interview-2013-moray
+Author: Francesca Ciceri
+Status: draft
+
+
+We have asked Moray Allan, one of the three candidates for 
+[DPL elections 2013](http://bits.debian.org/candidates-for-dpl-2013.html),
+to tell our readers about himself and his ideas for the Debian Project.
+
+You can also read the interviews to the other two candidates: 
+[Lucas Nussbaum](http://bits.debian.org/dpl-interview-2013-lucas.html) 
+and [Gergely Nagy](http://bits.debian.org/dpl-interview-2013-algernon.html).
+
+----
+
+**Please tell us a little about yourself.**
+
+I'm Moray Allan, from Edinburgh in Scotland.  I'm 32.  After working in 
+academic research for a few years, I'm now working freelance on a wide 
+mixture of topics, with recent projects in Indonesia, Romania and 
+Kuwait.  When I'm not working, I'm likely to be found walking through a 
+city or the countryside, or otherwise relaxing at home reading a novel 
+in French or Spanish.
+
+**What do you do in Debian and how did you started contributing?**
+
+In recent years, most of my Debian time was taken up organising the 
+annual Debian conferences.  But I still have a load of packages, mostly 
+connected to an upstream Linux-on-handheld-computers project I was 
+working on before I joined Debian to create packages for it.
+
+**Why did you decide to run as DPL?**
+
+I've been involved in Debian for about 10 years now, including working 
+for the last few years in DebConf in a way similar to how the DPL acts 
+within overall Debian.  Previously I'd ruled out running due to lack of 
+time, but currently I'm in a more flexible work situation.  It seems the 
+right time to put myself forward, and see if the ideas in my platform 
+interest project members.
+
+**Three keywords to summarise your platform.**
+
+Transparency, communication, openness.  (Three ways I'd like us to 
+think about teams in Debian.)
+
+**What are the biggest challenges that you envision for Debian in the future?**
+
+I think the biggest challenges are for free software in general.  
+End-users are moving to more closed hardware -- will our software be 
+able to run on the phones and tablets people are shifting towards?  At 
+the same time, end-users and server users are moving to "the cloud", and 
+often depending more heavily on non-free infrastructure outside their 
+own control.
+
+**What are, in your opinion, the areas of the project more in need 
+of technical and/or social improvements?**
+
+In my platform I give a few ideas about teams and delegations, 
+coordination and mediation, and both internal and external 
+communication, including more organised fundraising.  These are areas 
+where I think relatively simple changes can give big benefits.
+
+**Why should people vote for you?**
+
+I have proven leadership experience within Debian, as I've been working 
+on coordination and mediation tasks for some years already.  At the same 
+time, I do regular packaging work, and work in other parts of Debian 
+like the press and publicity teams, so I'm in touch with the experience 
+of normal Debian contributors.  People should vote for me if they 
+support my platform, which is about coordination-level changes that I 
+would have no mandate or authority to push through unless I am elected.
+
+**Name three tools you couldn't stay without.**
+
+APT, emacs, ssh.
+
+**What keep you motivated to work in Debian?**
+
+I've used Debian on all my computers for a long time, and by now 
+working on the distribution myself feels a natural part of that.  
+Fortunately I'm constantly positively surprised by Debian and by the 
+Debian community.
+
+**Are there any other fields where you call yourself a geek, besides computers?**
+
+Certainly history (such as the eastern Mediterranean region in late 
+antiquity), languages (including dead ones) and music (especially 
+Josquin to Monteverdi).

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