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  <h1 class="title">Debian Pure Blends</h1>
  <p class="author">
Jonas Smedegaard
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  <p class="date">PES, Bangalore, November 3rd, 2011</p>
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<div class="section slide level1" id="overview">
<h1>Overview</h1>
<ul>
<li>Me and Asia</li>
<li>Tricky terms</li>
<li>FLOSS Eco System</li>
<li>Debian - distro &amp; community</li>
<li>Customizing Debian - deriving and blending</li>
<li>FreedomBox - a Debian Pure Blend</li>
</ul>
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<div class="section slide level1" id="me-and-asia">
<h1>Me and Asia</h1>
<div class="figure">
<img src="../map.png" alt="Asia trip" /><p class="caption">Asia trip</p>
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<div class="section slide level1" id="tricky-terms">
<h1>Tricky terms</h1>
<p>FLOSS: <strong>F</strong>ree/<strong>L</strong>ibre <strong>O</strong>pen <strong>S</strong>ource <strong>S</strong>oftware.</p>
<p>Hacking: Being creative with small pieces -- like playing with Lego.</p>
<p>Cracking: Breaking digital &quot;locks&quot;, typically to steal digital data.</p>
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<div class="section slide level1" id="floss-eco-system">
<h1>FLOSS Eco System</h1>
<div class="figure">
<img src="../developmentstream.png" alt="Software Code Stream" /><p class="caption">Software Code Stream</p>
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<div class="section slide level1" id="debian---distro-community">
<h1>Debian - distro &amp; community</h1>
<ul>
<li>Community</li>
<li>Distribution</li>
<li>Free!</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section slide level1" id="debian---community">
<h1>Debian - Community</h1>
<ul>
<li>~1000 &quot;Developers&quot;</li>
<li>~500 &quot;Maintainers&quot;</li>
<li>??? actual contributors...</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section slide level1" id="debian---community-structure">
<h1>Debian - Community structure</h1>
<ul>
<li>Democracy</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section slide level1" id="debian---community-structure-1">
<h1>Debian - Community structure</h1>
<ul>
<li><del>Democracy</del></li>
<li>We all obey Debian Free Software Guidelines</li>
<li>Almost no hierarchy: Each package maintainer responsible</li>
</ul>
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<div class="section slide level1" id="debian---distribution">
<h1>Debian - Distribution</h1>
<ul>
<li>Generic - choices are exposed to the user</li>
<li>Mother of other distros</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section slide level1" id="debian-packages">
<h1>Debian packages</h1>
<ul>
<li>They all obey Debian Policy</li>
<li>Mozilla Iceweasel (Firefox): ~3 packages (+ ~70 lang packages)</li>
<li>LibreOffice: ~30 packages (+ ~90 lang packages)</li>
<li>Debian: ~35.000 packages</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section slide level1" id="debian-packaging---mentors-sponsoring">
<h1>Debian packaging - Mentors + sponsoring</h1>
<ul>
<li>Peer review - many eyes see more bugs</li>
<li>Education - Debian quality standards</li>
<li>Ideals transfer - get help on packaging</li>
<li>Mailinglist: <script type="text/javascript">
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<li>IRC channel on OFTC.net: #debian-mentors</li>
<li>Website: <a href="http://mentors.debian.net/"><code class="url">http://mentors.debian.net/</code></a></li>
</ul>
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<div class="section slide level1" id="debian-packaging---join-teams">
<h1>Debian packaging - Join teams</h1>
<ul>
<li>Peer review - many eyes see more bugs</li>
<li>Education - Debian quality standards</li>
<li>Ideals transfer - get help on packaging</li>
<li>Wiki page: <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/Teams"><code class="url">http://wiki.debian.org/Teams</code></a></li>
</ul>
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<div class="section slide level1" id="debian---derivatives">
<h1>Debian - derivatives</h1>
<ul>
<li>Knoppix</li>
<li>Ubuntu</li>
<li>BOSS</li>
<li>SWECHA</li>
<li>...</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section slide level1" id="debian-deriving">
<h1>Debian deriving</h1>
<ul>
<li>Try use <strong>live-builder</strong>...</li>
</ul>
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<div class="section slide level1" id="debian---blends">
<h1>Debian - blends</h1>
<ul>
<li>Optimizing Debian itself for special purpose use</li>
</ul>
<p>or</p>
<ul>
<li>Merging back derived work into Debian</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section slide level1" id="debian---existing-blends">
<h1>Debian - existing blends</h1>
<ul>
<li>Debian Jr</li>
<li>Debian Med</li>
<li>Debian Edu</li>
<li>Debian Science</li>
<li>Debian EzGo</li>
<li>BrDesktop</li>
<li>Debian Accessibility</li>
<li>Debian Lex</li>
<li>DebiChem</li>
<li>Debian GIS</li>
<li>Debian Multimedia</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section slide level1" id="debian---future-blends">
<h1>Debian - future blends</h1>
<ul>
<li>FreedomBox</li>
<li>Debian LAN</li>
<li>BOSS?</li>
<li>SWECHA?</li>
<li>...?</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section slide level1" id="debian-blending">
<h1>Debian blending</h1>
<ul>
<li>Join existing teams</li>
<li>Convince Debian Developers to create new teams</li>
<li>Try use <strong>boxer</strong></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section slide level1" id="debian-pure-blends---benefits">
<h1>Debian Pure Blends - Benefits</h1>
<ul>
<li>backed by Debian - help, bug tracking, translations, etc.</li>
<li>teamwork - others might help you refine and maintain your setups</li>
<li>common structures - others might take over if you loose interest</li>
</ul>
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<div class="section slide level1" id="debian-pure-blends---downsides">
<h1>Debian Pure Blends - downsides</h1>
<ul>
<li><strong>annoying</strong> - Debian package maintainers may not like proposed changes</li>
<li><strong>slow</strong> - stable distribution is released infrequently</li>
<li><strong>rigid</strong> - all contributions must match Debian Free Software Guidelines</li>
<li><strong>complex</strong> - packages must obey Debian Policy</li>
</ul>
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<div class="section slide level1" id="freedombox">
<h1>FreedomBox</h1>
<ul class="incremental">
<li>Your personal Butler</li>
<li>Your personal spy</li>
<li>A Debian Blend</li>
<li>A Debian <strong>Pure</strong> Blend</li>
<li>First get dirty, then purify</li>
</ul>
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<div class="section slide level1" id="essentials">
<h1>Essentials</h1>
<ul>
<li>Create a(t least one) home</li>
<li>Build trust (remember that trust is two-way!)</li>
<li>Explore (not just consume)!</li>
</ul>
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<div class="section slide level1" id="the-end">
<h1>The End</h1>
<ul>
<li>Me: <script type="text/javascript">
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<li>Debian: <a href="http://www.debian.org"><code class="url">http://www.debian.org</code></a></li>
<li>Debian Derivatives Census: <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census"><code class="url">http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census</code></a></li>
<li>This talk: <a href="http://dr.jones.dk/blends/talk/pes"><code class="url">http://dr.jones.dk/blends/talk/pes</code></a></li>
<li>Illustrations: <a href="http://sirireiter.dk/blog/entry/110310/"><code class="url">http://sirireiter.dk/blog/entry/110310/</code></a></li>
<li>Asia trip: <a href="http://wiki.jones.dk/DebianAsia2011"><code class="url">http://wiki.jones.dk/DebianAsia2011</code></a></li>
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