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Jonathan Carter Wins Race to Lead Debian for Next Year

posted by janrinok on Monday April 20 2020, @09:43PM   Printer-friendly

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://www.itwire.com/open-source/jonathan-carter-wins-race-to-lead-debian-for-next-year.html

South African developer Jonathan Carter will be the leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project for the next year, after he defeated the two other contenders in the race, according to the results which were declared on Sunday.

Carter was up against Sruthi Chandran, who was bidding to become the first female leader of the project, and Brian Gupta, a member of the project for the last seven years.

Carter had cited the need for better publicity, getting more feedback to ease up issues that contributors faced and better visibility and transparency about funds received and how they were spent in his election platform.

[...] Debian is one of the few free software projects that holds elections. It has done so since it was set up in 1993 by the late Ian Murdock.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 20 2020, @10:40PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 20 2020, @10:40PM (#985258)

    "Carter had cited the need for better publicity"

    Yeah, that's what Debian needs. Right.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 20 2020, @10:50PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 20 2020, @10:50PM (#985262)

    You can read his platform, but they are probably referencing the ideas about attracting contributors as well as promoting the Debian system and Free Software.

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Bot on Tuesday April 21 2020, @01:59PM

      by Bot (3902) on Tuesday April 21 2020, @01:59PM (#985419) Journal

      I suggest a course of action.

      Slogan: Debian, the universal operating system, by Software in the public interest.

      Program: Debian, the universal operating system, by Software in the public interest.

      Action: apt-get purge --foreverandever systemd # uh remember to redirect objections and criticism to /dev/evil/redhat

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      Account abandoned.