Created and set up on 22 January 2007 by Debian Developer Holger Levsen, debian-community.org is a project whose purpose is to promote the Debian distribution by providing various services via that website.
Debian-community, a community for debian users !

Created and set up on 22 January 2007 by Debian Developer Holger Levsen[0], debian-community.org[1] is a project whose purpose is to promote the Debian[2] distribution by providing various services via that website.

Here are the available services :

- a wiki running ikiwiki to glue it all together on wiki.debian-community.org

- D-c (=Debian-community) makes available different planets (for Debian users and all kinds of contributors) for many languages. Currently there
are three planets on
debian-community: one in Italian, one in English, and one in German. If you would like to add new planets, you can either ask for it to be done on
the mailing-list or you can do it yourself, as it uses ikiwiki too. There are also the official Debian planets, a list of which is available
here[4].

- A mailing list[5] provided by alioth for discussions.

- An IRC channel is also available on #debian-community at irc.debian.org.

- Provide project promotion[6].

- A FAQ for Etch is also available[3], currently with only a few questions and their reponses. The FAQ waits for your help to make it more
useful!

Many people have had valuable ideas on how to improve the debian-community website and services :

- Provide a jabber and email service for every contributor, which will hopefully go online straight after or in the holiday season

- Make debian-community t-shirts for contributors.

- We have created a page[7] to thank contributors. Don't forget to add yourself to it! You can also watch videos of two presentations about
debian-community in at DebConf7 in high quality[8] and in low quality[9], and at FOSDEM 2007 in high quality[10] and in low quality[11]. Your
contributions are welcome, and there is a TodoList[12] available with some ideas of things you can assist with.

[0] : http://layer-acht.org
[1] : http://debian-community.org
[2] : http://debian.org
[3] : http://debian-community.org/etchfaq/
[4] : http://wiki.debian-community.org/planets
[5] : http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/d-community-discuss/
[6] : http://debian-community.org/projects/
[7] : http://debian-community.org/contributors
[8] : http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2007/debconf7/high/358_debian-community.org.ogg
[9] : http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2007/debconf7/low/358_debian-community.org.ogg
[10] : http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2007/fosdem/ogg_theora/720×576/Debian-Community.org_pre-launch-Holger_Levsen.ogg
[11] : http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2007/fosdem/ogg_theora/360×288/Debian-Community.org_pre-launch-Holger_Levsen.ogg
[12] : http://debian-community.org/ToDo/