blends/talk/iisc.mkd



% Debian Pure Blends
% Jonas Smedegaard
% IISC, Bangalore, November 4th, 2011
Overview

Me and Asia
Tricky terms
FLOSS Eco System
Debian - distro & community
Customizing Debian - deriving and blending
FreedomBox - a Debian Pure Blend

Me

Jonas Smedegaard
One-man company: IT-guide dr. Jonas
Sysadmin at Kaospilot University http://kaospilot.dk/
Sysadmin at Børneuniversitetet http://borneuni.dk/
Sysadmin at DGI-huset http://dgi-huset.dk/
Sysadmin + webmaster at Københavns Delebiler http://kobenhavnsdelebiler.dk/

Me and Asia

Tricky terms
FLOSS: Free/Libre Open Source Software.
Hacking: Being creative with small pieces -- like playing with Lego.
Cracking: Breaking digital "locks", typically to steal digital data.
FLOSS Eco System

Debian - distro & community

Community
Distribution
Free!

Debian - Community

~1000 "Developers"
~500 "Maintainers"
??? actual contributors...

Debian - Community structure

Democracy

Debian - Community structure

~~Democracy~~
We all obey Debian Free Software Guidelines
Almost no hierarchy: Each package maintainer responsible

Debian - Distribution

Generic - choices are exposed to the user
Mother of other distros

Debian packages

They all obey Debian Policy
Mozilla Iceweasel (Firefox): ~3 packages (+ ~70 lang packages)
LibreOffice: ~30 packages (+ ~90 lang packages)
Debian: ~35.000 packages

Improve Debian - work alone or join teams

Peer review - many eyes see more bugs
Education - Debian quality standards
Ideals transfer - get help on packaging
Working alone: http://mentors.debian.net/
Joining teams: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams

Do better than Debian: derivatives

Knoppix
Ubuntu
BOSS
SWECHA
...

Suggestion: Use live-builder...
Debian - blends

Optimizing Debian itself for special purpose use

or

Merging back derived work into Debian

Debian - deriving vs. blending
Deriving: hacking with your face away from Debian
Blending: Hacking with you face towards Debian
Debian Pure Blend: Perfection → your hacks integrated into Debian!
Debian - existing blends

Debian Jr
Debian Med
Debian Edu
Debian Science
Debian EzGo
BrDesktop
Debian Accessibility
Debian Lex
DebiChem
Debian GIS
Debian Multimedia

Debian - future blends

FreedomBox
Debian LAN
BOSS?
SWECHA?
...?

Suggestion: Join existing teams, and try use boxer...
FreedomBox


Your personal Butler


Your personal spy
A Debian Blend
A Debian Pure Blend
First get dirty, then purify

Essentials

Evil is an abstract
Power corrupts
Doing nothing amplifies corruption
Life is fun (not serious)!

Avoid corruption of power: Be awake, Engage and Share!
The End

Me: dr@jones.dk
Debian: http://www.debian.org
Debian Derivatives Census: http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census
This talk: http://dr.jones.dk/blends/talk/iis
Illustrations: http://sirireiter.dk/blog/entry/110310/
Asia trip: http://wiki.jones.dk/DebianAsia2011