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New Debian Developers and Maintainers (July and August 2025)
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
- Francesco Ballarin (ballarin)
- Roland Clobus (rclobus)
- Antoine Le Gonidec (vv221)
- Guilherme Puida Moreira (puida)
- NoisyCoil (noisycoil)
- Akash Santhosh (akash)
- Lena Voytek (lena)
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
- Andrew James Bower
- Kirill
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Bits From Argentina - August 2025
DebConf26 is already in the air in Argentina. Organizing DebConf26 give us the opportunity to talk about Debian in our country again. This is not the first time that Debian has come here, previously Argentina has hosted DebConf 8 in Mar del Plata.
In August, Nattie Mayer-Hutchings and Stefano Rivera from DebConf Committee visited the venue where the next DebConf will take place. They came to Argentina in order to see what it is like to travel from Buenos Aires to Santa Fe (the venue
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Debian turns 32!
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Debian stable is now Debian 13 "trixie"!
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New Debian Developers and Maintainers (May and June 2025)
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
- Cordell Bloor (cgmb)
- Enkelena Haxhija (enkelenah)
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
- Karsten Schöke
- Lorenzo Puliti
- Nick Rosbrook
- Nicolas Peugnet
- Yifei Zhan
- Glenn Strauss
- Fab Stz
- Matheus Polkorny
- Manuel Elias Guerra
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DebConf25 closes in Brest and DebConf26 announced
On Saturday 19 July 2025, the annual Debian Developers and Contributors Conference came to a close.
Over 443 attendees representing 50 countries from around the world came together for a combined
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DebConf25 starts today in Brest on Monday, July 14, 2025
DebConf25, the 25th annual Debian Developer Conference, is taking place in Brest, France from 14 to 19 July 2025. Debian contributors from all over the world have come together at the Campus of IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire, Brest, to participate and work in a conference exclusively ran by volunteers.
As the conference begins on July 14, the French National Day, Debian can make France's
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Debconf25 welcomes its sponsors

DebConf25, the 26th edition of the Debian conference is taking place in Brest Campus of IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire, France. We appreciate the organizers for their hard work, and hope this event will be highly beneficial for those who attend in person as well as
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Bits from the DPL
Dear Debian community,
This is bits from the DPL for June.
The Challenge of Mentoring Newcomers
In June there was an extended discussion about the ongoing challenges around mentoring newcomers in Debian. As many of you know, this is a topic I’ve cared about deeply--long before becoming DPL. In my view, the issue isn’t just a matter of lacking tools or needing to “try harder” to attract contributors. Anyone who followed the discussion will likely agree that it’s more
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AMD Platinum Sponsor of DebConf25





