-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello. This is my last message as your DPL. As most of you know, today is the last day of my term, and Martin Michlmayr takes over as DPL effective 17 April 2003.
Many of you have asked what my plans are once my term as DPL ends, and many of you have expressed concern about whether I would continue to travel and speak on behalf of Debian in the future. My management at HP assures me that they will continue to support my public speaking activities. A calendar of the events where I am committed to speak publicly is on the web at http://www.gag.com/~bdale/talks/, along with presentation materials from prior talks. There are a number of other events through next January that are under negotiation, and I will add them to the calendar as details are confirmed. The focus of my technical energies within Debian for the next while will be keeping the ia64 port healthy, and working to see that our next stable release meets at least some of the objectives that I articulated in my platform and recent public talks. I remain concerned about the health of SPI, and SPI's relationship to Debian. The recent SPI board elections, the investigation into changing SPI's bylaws, and recent progress in bringing financial records up to date are all encouraging. But SPI seems less "effective" for Debian than, say, the GNOME Foundation is for the GNOME project. I hope to remain involved with SPI in some capacity and will continue to push for changes that will help Debian. Early this year, I asked everyone whose name is listed on the organization page of our web site to generate a status report for me about what had gone poorly or well in the last year, and what they hoped to accomplish this year. This led to a number of useful email and IRC conversations with some of the most active and dedicated members of the Debian community, and some good things happened as a result. Some of what I learned made it into the public presentations that I've made since January. However, for various reasons, I've found it difficult to summarize what I learned in a concise form to present to all of you. Last weekend, I provided Martin with a fairly complete copy of these email conversations, less some sections which various individuals indicated should be kept confidential. Therefore, while I may have done a poor job of communicating the various accomplishments and aspirations from those conversations broadly to the project, perhaps our new DPL will start off with a better picture of what people are doing around the Debian community than he would have had otherwise! Debian is perhaps the finest example in the world today of the community development model at work. It has been a great privilege to serve for the last year as your elected Project Leader, and your continuing enthusiasm for our vision of Debian as a Universal Operating System is very gratifying! Thank you for your time, and for all that you contribute to Debian! Bdale -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQE+ncxfZKfAp/LPAagRArUgAJ0WxdcNhXQWRRvyqmNZXrzjOBcC3ACeI4Kg tv9gzbA7LsczVECMLwcXtrI= =wwgW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
