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+<define-tag pagetitle>DebConf23 closes in Kochi and DebConf24 dates announced</define-tag>
+<define-tag release_date>2023-09-18</define-tag>
+<define-tag frontpage>yes</define-tag>
+
+#use wml::debian::news
+
+<p>
+Yesterday, Sunday 17 September 2023, the annual Debian Developers and
+Contributors Conference came to a close.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Over 474 attendees representing 35 countries from around the world came
+together for a combined 89 events made up of Talks, Discussons, Birds of a 
+Feather (BoF) gatherings, workshops, and activities in support of furthering
+our distribution, learning from our mentors and peers, building our
+community, and having a bit of fun.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The conference was preceded by the annual 
+<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebCamp">DebCamp</a> hacking session held
+September 3d through September 9th where Debian Developers and Contributors
+convened to focus on their Individual Debian related projects or work in team
+sprints geared toward in-person collaboration in developing Debian.
+
+In particular this year Sprints took place to advance development in
+Mobian/Debian, Reproducible Builds, and Python in Debian. This year also
+featured a BootCamp that was held for newcomers staged by a team of
+dedicated mentors who shared hands-on experience in Debian and offered a
+deeper understanding of how to work in and contribute to the community.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The actual Debian Developers Conference started on Sunday 10, September 2023.
+
+In addition to the traditional 'Bits from the DPL' talk, the continuous
+key-signing party, lightning talks and the announcement of next year's 
+DebConf24, there were several update sessions shared by internal projects and
+teams.
+
+Many of the hosted discussion sessions were presented by our technical
+teams who highlighted the work and focus of the Long Term Support (LTS), 
+Android tools, Debian Derivatives, Debian Installer, Debian Image, and the
+Debian Science teams. The Python, Perl, and Ruby programming language teams
+also shared updates on their work and efforts.
+
+Two of the larger local Debian communities, Debian Brasil and Debian India
+shared how their respective collaborations in Debian moved the project
+forward and how they attracted new members and opportunities both in
+Debian, F/OSS, and the sciences with their HowTos of demonstrated community
+engagement.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The <a href="https://debconf23.debconf.org/schedule/">schedule</a>
+was updated each day with planned and ad-hoc activities introduced by
+attendees over the course of the conference. Several activities that were
+unable to be held in past years due to the Global COVID-19 Pandemic were
+celebrated as they returned to the conference's schedule: a job fair, the
+open-mic and poetry night, the traditional Cheese and Wine party, the group
+photos and the Day Trips.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+For those who were not able to attend, most of the talks and sessions were
+videoed for live room streams with the recorded videos to be made available
+later through the
+<a href="https://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2023/DebConf23/">Debian meetings archive website</a>.
+Almost all of the sessions facilitated remote participation via IRC messaging
+apps or online collaborative text documents which allowed remote
+attendees to 'be in the room' to ask questions or share comments with the
+speaker or assembled audience.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+DebConf23 saw over 4.3 TiB of data streamed, 55 hours of scheduled talks, 23
+network access points, 11 network switches, 75 kg of equipment imported, 400
+meters of gaffer tape used, 1,463 viewed streaming hours, 461 T-shirts, 35
+country Geoip viewers, 5 day trips, and an average of 169 meals planned per
+day.
+
+All of these events, activies, conversations, and streams coupled with our
+love, interest, and participation in Debian annd F/OSS certainly made this
+conference an overall success both here in Kochi, India and On-line around
+the world.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The <a href="https://debconf23.debconf.org/">DebConf23 website</a>
+will remain active for archival purposes and will continue to offer
+links to the presentations and videos of talks and events.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Next year, <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebConf/24">DebConf24</a> will be
+held in Haifa, Israel.
+As tradition follows before the next DebConf the local organizers in Israel
+will start the conference activites with DebCamp with particular focus on
+individual and team work towards improving the distribution.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+DebConf is committed to a safe and welcome environment for all participants.
+See the <a href="https://debconf23.debconf.org/about/coc/">web page about the Code of Conduct in DebConf23 website</a>
+for more details on this.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Debian thanks the commitment of numerous <a href="https://debconf23.debconf.org/sponsors/">sponsors</a>
+to support DebConf23, particularly our Platinum Sponsors:
+<a href="https://www.infomaniak.com">Infomaniak</a>,
+<a href="https://www.proxmox.com/">Proxmox</a>,
+and <a href="https://www.siemens.com/">Siemens</a>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+We also wish to thank our Video and Infrastructure teams, the DebConf23 and
+DebConf commitiees, our host nation of India, and each and every person who
+helped contribute to this event and to Debian overall. 
+
+Thank you all for your work in helping Debian continue to be "The Universal
+Operating System".
+
+See you next year!
+</p>
+
+<h2>About Debian</h2>
+
+<p>
+The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly
+free community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of
+the largest and most influential open source projects.  Thousands of
+volunteers from all over the world work together to create and
+maintain Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and
+supporting a huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the
+<q>universal operating system</q>.
+</p>
+
+<h2>About DebConf</h2>
+
+<p>
+DebConf is the Debian Project's developer conference. In addition to a
+full schedule of technical, social and policy talks, DebConf provides an
+opportunity for developers, contributors and other interested people to
+meet in person and work together more closely. It has taken place
+annually since 2000 in locations as varied as Scotland, Argentina, and
+Bosnia and Herzegovina. More information about DebConf is available from
+<a href="https://debconf.org/">https://debconf.org</a>.
+</p>
+
+<h2>About Infomaniak</h2>
+<p>
+<a href="https://www.infomaniak.com">Infomaniak</a> is a key player in the
+European cloud market and the leading developer of Web technologies in
+Switzerland. It aims to be an independent European alternative to the web
+giants and is committed to an ethical and sustainable Web that respects
+privacy and creates local jobs. Infomaniak develops cloud solutions (IaaS,
+PaaS, VPS), productivity tools for online collaboration and video and radio
+streaming services.
+</p>
+
+<h2>About Proxmox</h2>
+<p>
+<a href="https://www.proxmox.com/">Proxmox</a> develops powerful, yet
+easy-to-use open-source server software. The product portfolio from Proxmox,
+including server virtualization, backup, and email security, helps companies
+of any size, sector, or industry to simplify their IT infrastructures. The
+Proxmox solutions are based on the great Debian platform, and we are happy
+that we can give back to the community by sponsoring DebConf23.
+</p>
+
+<h2>About Siemens</h2>
+<p>
+<a href="https://www.siemens.com/">Siemens</a> is technology company focused
+on industry, infrastructure and transport. From resource-efficient factories,
+resilient supply chains, smarter buildings and grids, to cleaner and more
+comfortable transportation, and advanced healthcare, the company creates
+technology with purpose adding real value for customers. By combining the
+real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers its customers to transform
+their industries and markets, helping them to enhance the everyday of
+billions of people.
+</p>
+
+<h2>Contact Information</h2>
+
+<p>For further information, please visit the DebConf23 web page at
+<a href="https://debconf23.debconf.org/">https://debconf23.debconf.org/</a>
+or send mail to &lt;press@debian.org&gt;.</p>