With the agreement of the Debian LTS contributors funded by Freexian, earlier this year I decided to spend some Freexian money on marketing: we sponsored DebConf 19 as a bronze sponsor and we prepared some stickers and flyers to give out during the event.

The stickers only promote the Debian LTS project with the semi-official logo we have been using and a link to the wiki page. You can see them on the back of a laptop in the picture below. As you can see, we have made two variants with different background colors:

The flyers and the video are meant to introduce the Debian LTS project and to convince companies to sponsor the Debian LTS project through the Freexian offer. Those are short documents and they can’t explain the precise relationship between Debian LTS and Freexian. We try to show that Freexian is just an intermediary between contributors and companies, but some persons will still have the feeling that a commercial entity is organizing Debian LTS.

Check out the video on YouTube:

The inside of the flyer looks like this:

Note that due to some delivery issues, we have left-over flyers and stickers. If you want some to give out during a free software event, feel free to reach out to me.

Like each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS.

Individual reports

In July, 199 work hours have been dispatched among 13 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Adrian Bunk got 8h assigned but did nothing (plus 10 extra hours from June), thus he is carrying over 18h to August.
• Ben Hutchings did 18.5 hours (out of 18.5 hours allocated).
• Brian May did 10 hours (out of 10 hours allocated).
• Chris Lamb did 18 hours (out of 18 hours allocated).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 21 hours (out of 18.5h allocated + 17h remaining, thus keeping 14.5 extra hours for August).
• Hugo Lefeuvre did 9.75 hours (out of 18.5 hours, thus carrying over 8.75h to August).
• Jonas Meurer did 19 hours (out of 17 hours allocated plus 2h extra hours June).
• Markus Koschany did 18.5 hours (out of 18.5 hours allocated).
• Mike Gabriel did 15.75 hours (out of 18.5 hours allocated plus 7.25 extra hours from June, thus carrying over 10h to August.).
• Ola Lundqvist did 0.5 hours (out of 8 hours allocated plus 8 extra hours from June, then he gave 7.5h back to the pool, thus he is carrying over 8 extra hours to August).
• Roberto C. Sanchez did 8 hours (out of 8 hours allocated).
• Sylvain Beucler did 18.5 hours (out of 18.5 hours allocated).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 18.5 hours (out of 18.5 hours allocated).

Evolution of the situation

July was different than other months. First, some people have been on actual vacations, while 4 of the above 14 contributors met in Curitiba, Brazil, for DebConf19. There, a talk about LTS (slides, video) was given, followed by a Q&lig;A session. Also a new promotional video about Debian LTS, aimed at potential sponsors was shown there for the first time.

DebConf19 was also a success in respect to on-boarding of new contributors, we’ve found three potential new contributors, one of them is already in training.

The security tracker (now for oldoldstable as Buster has been released and thus Jessie became oldoldstable) currently lists 51 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 35 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 47 months)
• GitHub (for 37 months)
• Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 14 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet (for 63 months)
• Blablacar (for 62 months)
• Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 57 months)
• Linode (for 51 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 41 months)
• Plat’Home (for 40 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• Domeneshop AS (for 62 months)
• Nantes Métropole (for 56 months)
• Dalenys (for 52 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 48 months)
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 48 months)
• Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 41 months)
• maxcluster GmbH (for 35 months)
• Exonet B.V. (for 31 months)
• Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 25 months)
• Vente-privee.com (for 22 months)
• CINECA (for 15 months)
• Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 9 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 63 months)
• Evolix (for 62 months)
• MyTux (for 62 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 59 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 59 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 58 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 57 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 57 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 56 months)
• NUMLOG (for 56 months)
• WinGo AG (for 55 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 51 months)
• Sig-I/O (for 49 months)
• Entr’ouvert (for 46 months)
• Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 44 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 38 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 38 months)
• Quarantainenet BV (for 38 months)
• Bearstech (for 30 months)
• LiHAS (for 30 months)
• People Doc (for 26 months)
• Catalyst IT Ltd (for 24 months)
• Supagro (for 20 months)
• Demarcq SAS (for 18 months)
• TrapX Security (for 15 months)
• NCC Group (for 12 months)
• Université Grenoble Alpes (for 4 months)

Like each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS.

Individual reports

In June, 201 work hours have been dispatched among 14 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 7 hours (out of 14 hours allocated plus 7 extra hours from May, thus carrying over 14h to July).
• Adrian Bunk did 6 hours (out of 8 hours allocated plus 8 extra hours from May, thus carrying over 10h to July).
• Ben Hutchings did 17 hours (out of 17 hours allocated).
• Brian May did 10 hours (out of 10 hours allocated).
• Chris Lamb did 17 hours (out of 17 hours allocated plus 0.25 extra hours from May, thus carrying over 0.25h to July).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did not provide his June report yet. (He got 17 hours allocated and carried over 0.25h from May).
• Hugo Lefeuvre did 4.25 hours (out of 17 hours allocated and he gave back 12.75 hours to the pool, thus he’s not carrying over any hours to July).
• Jonas Meurer did 16.75 hours (out of 17 hours allocated plus 1.75h extra hours from May, thus he is carrying over 2h to July).
• Markus Koschany did 17 hours (out of 17 hours allocated).
• Mike Gabriel did 9.75 hours (out of 17 hours allocated, thus carrying over 7.25h to July).
• Ola Lundqvist did 4.5 hours (out of 8 hours allocated plus 6h from June, then he gave back 1.5h to the pool, thus he is carrying over 8h to July).
• Roberto C. Sanchez did 8 hours (out of 8 hours allocated).
• Sylvain Beucler did 17 hours (out of 17 hours allocated).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 17 hours (out of 17 hours allocated).

DebConf sponsorship

Thanks to the Extended LTS service, Freexian has been able to invest some money in DebConf sponsorship. This year, Debconf attendees should have Debian LTS stickers and flyer in their welcome bag. And while we were thinking of marketing, we also opted to create a promotional video explaining LTS and Freexian’s offer. This video will be premiered at Debconf 19!

Evolution of the situation

We continue to be looking for new contributors. Please contact Holger if you are interested to become a paid LTS contributor.

The security tracker (now for oldoldstable as Buster has been released and thus Stretch became oldoldstable) currently lists 41 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 43 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 45 months)
• GitHub (for 36 months)
• Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 13 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet (for 62 months)
• Blablacar (for 60 months)
• Linode (for 50 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 40 months)
• Plat’Home (for 39 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• Domeneshop AS (for 61 months)
• Nantes Métropole (for 55 months)
• Dalenys (for 51 months)
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 47 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 46 months)
• Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 40 months)
• maxcluster GmbH (for 34 months)
• Exonet B.V. (for 30 months)
• Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 24 months)
• Vente-privee.com (for 21 months)
• CINECA (for 14 months)
• Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 8 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
• Evolix (for 61 months)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 61 months)
• MyTux (for 60 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 58 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 58 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 57 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 56 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 56 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 55 months)
• NUMLOG (for 55 months)
• WinGo AG (for 54 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 50 months)
• Sig-I/O (for 48 months)
• Entr’ouvert (for 45 months)
• Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 43 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 37 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 37 months)
• Quarantainenet BV (for 37 months)
• Bearstech (for 29 months)
• LiHAS (for 29 months)
• People Doc (for 25 months)
• Catalyst IT Ltd (for 23 months)
• Supagro (for 19 months)
• Demarcq SAS (for 17 months)
• TrapX Security (for 14 months)
• NCC Group (for 11 months)
• Université Grenoble Alpes (for 3 months)

Like each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS.

Individual reports

In May, 214 work hours have been dispatched among 14 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 17 hours (out of 14 hours allocated plus 10 extra hours from April, thus carrying over 7h to June).
• Adrian Bunk did 0 hours (out of 8 hours allocated, thus carrying over 8h to June).
• Ben Hutchings did 18 hours (out of 18 hours allocated).
• Brian May did 10 hours (out of 10 hours allocated).
• Chris Lamb did 18 hours (out of 18 hours allocated plus 0.25 extra hours from April, thus carrying over 0.25h to June).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 33 hours (out of 18 hours allocated + 15.25 extra hours from April, thus carrying over 0.25h to June).
• Hugo Lefeuvre did 18 hours (out of 18 hours allocated).
• Jonas Meurer did 15.25 hours (out of 17 hours allocated, thus carrying over 1.75h to June).
• Markus Koschany did 18 hours (out of 18 hours allocated).
• Mike Gabriel did 23.75 hours (out of 18 hours allocated + 5.75 extra hours from April).
• Ola Lundqvist did 6 hours (out of 8 hours allocated + 4 extra hours from April, thus carrying over 6h to June).
• Roberto C. Sanchez did 22.25 hours (out of 12 hours allocated + 10.25 extra hours from April).
• Sylvain Beucler did 18 hours (out of 18 hours allocated).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 18 hours (out of 18 hours allocated).

Evolution of the situation

May was a calm month, nothing really changed compared to April, we are still at 214 hours funded by month. We continue to be looking for new contributors. Please contact Holger if you are interested to become a paid LTS contributor.

The security tracker currently lists 34 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 34 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 44 months)
• GitHub (for 35 months)
• Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 12 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet (for 60 months)
• Blablacar (for 59 months)
• Linode (for 49 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 38 months)
• Plat’Home (for 38 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• Domeneshop AS (for 60 months)
• Nantes Métropole (for 54 months)
• Dalenys (for 50 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 45 months)
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 45 months)
• Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 39 months)
• maxcluster GmbH (for 33 months)
• Exonet B.V. (for 29 months)
• Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 23 months)
• Vente-privee.com (for 20 months)
• CINECA (for 12 months)
• Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 7 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
• Evolix (for 60 months)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 60 months)
• MyTux (for 59 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 57 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 57 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 56 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 54 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 54 months)
• NUMLOG (for 54 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 53 months)
• WinGo AG (for 53 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 49 months)
• Sig-I/O (for 47 months)
• Entr’ouvert (for 44 months)
• Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 42 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 36 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 36 months)
• Quarantainenet BV (for 36 months)
• Bearstech (for 28 months)
• LiHAS (for 28 months)
• People Doc (for 24 months)
• Catalyst IT Ltd (for 22 months)
• Supagro (for 18 months)
• Demarcq SAS (for 16 months)
• TrapX Security (for 13 months)
• NCC Group (for 10 months)
• Université Grenoble Alpes