Hi, Happy birthday Debian! And thanks to all contributors!
Today from 14:45 to 19:30 (UTC-3) we will have talks online from Brasil. You can watch (in portuguese) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn8qGVEFBgY DebianDay in Brasil page: https://wiki.debian.org/Brasil/Eventos/DebianDayBrasil2020 Best regards, Em 16/08/2020 12:07, Hector Oron escreveu: > Hello, > > To All Debian Contributors, Enjoy Debian Day! > > On August 16th, the Debian Project celebrates its 27th birthday. The > Debian Project was officially founded by Ian Murdock on August 16th, > 1993. At that time, the whole concept of a "distribution" of GNU/Linux > was new. Ian intended Debian to be a distribution which would be made > openly, in the spirit of Linux and GNU. The creation of Debian was > sponsored by the FSF's GNU project for one year. > > Debian was meant to be carefully and conscientiously put together, > and to be maintained and supported with similar care. It started as a > small, tightly-knit group of Free Software hackers, and gradually grew > to become a large, well-organized community of developers and users. > To achieve and maintain high standards of quality, Debian has adopted > an extensive set of policies and procedures for packaging and > delivering software. These standards are backed up by tools, > automation, and documentation implementing all of Debian's key > elements in an open and visible way. > > The most prominent guidelines are the [Debian Free Software > Guidelines] which are part of the Social Contract and which direct > Debian's interpretation of Free Software and upon which the Debian > distribution is based. They were later adopted as the Open Source > Definition. > > [Debian Free Software Guidelines] > : https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines > > Source: text excerpts from Debian's 10th anniversary news entry. > -- Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana (phls) Curitiba - Brasil Debian Developer Diretor do Instituto para Conservação de Tecnologias Livres Site: http://www.phls.com.br GNU/Linux user: 228719 GPG ID: 0443C450
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