Hi everyone,
I invite everyone interested to join the Utnubu Team. Utnubu stands for doing what Ubuntu does, just the other way around: We want to take the things Ubuntu does and that are missing in Debian, and - where appliciable - put them in Debian.

This should be achieved using (at least) the following methods:

• Having a look at the patches that Ubuntu publishes, see if they are suitable for Debian and then contact the Debian Maintainer to see if and how these can be integrated.
• Contacting Ubuntu developers that upload directly to universe, if they don't want to upload to Debian, too; this includes sponsoring. Note that I do not plan to pull developers from Ubuntu, they should instead form their package for both distributions.
• If this is not possible or feasable, take Ubuntu-only packages, adjust them to Debian and upload them ourselves.

(Personally, I'd like to concentrate on point 2 and 3, so another reason for you to join)

I have set up the alioth project utnubu, as well as the mailing lists Utnubu-discuss for general in-group discussion, as well as utnubu-maintainers for the maintainer field of our possible packages.

A list of binary package in universe, but not in Debian, is assembled on Utnubu team page.

Thanks for your attention, and looking forward to working with you,

Joachim Breitner

Joachim "nomeata" Breitner
Debian Developer
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