Updating the Debian Outreach Delegation

Andreas Tille <[email protected]> Thu, 9 Jan 2025 11:28:39 +0100
Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.announce
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Dear Debian Developers

With Emanuele Rocca expressing interest in joining the Debian Outreach
Team, I am pleased to appoint the following developers as members of the
team:

  - Abhijith PA (abhijith)
  - Antonio Terceiro (terceiro)
  - Emanuele Rocca (ema)
  - Lucas Kanashiro (kanashiro)
  - Sruthi Chandran (srud)

A heartfelt thank you to Nilesh Patra for his contributions to the
outreach delegation over the past years. We warmly welcome Emanuele
Rocca, who joins to further strengthen the Outreach Team.

Any previous Outreach Team delegation not explicitly listed above is
revoked. The delegation is not time-limited; it will be effective until
further changes by present or future DPLs.


Task Description
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The Debian Outreach Team co-ordinates Debian's outreach initiatives,
which covers two main areas.

Firstly, they are responsible for coordinating the participation of
Debian in internship-like programs such as Outreachy and Google Summer
of Code.

This involves:

  * Acting as a contact point for all topics related to Debian's
    participation into those programs.

  * When necessary, ensuring the funding of Debian's participation by
    requesting the use of Debian funds to the DPL, by organizing
    fundraising campaigns, etc.

  * When necessary, establishing Debian-specific rules about who can
    apply for the various roles (mentors, participants, etc.) in
    those programs.

  * Ranking and selecting applications — generally, considering the
    feedback given by mentors and other reviewers.

  * Co-ordinating the communication around Debian's participation into
    such programs.

The Debian Outreach Team will be responsible for exploring internal
outreach initiatives managed by the Debian project.

This may include interns managed by Debian directly, outreach programs
at schools and other institutions, and small grants. This may take some
time to develop, the delegation is responsible for organising sprints
during DebCamp and updates to the rest of the project so that members
can stay up to date with developments.


Appendix
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You can learn more about the activities and responsibilities of the
Outreach Team here:

   https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Outreach


- Andreas Tille, Debian Project Leader
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