A 19-year old Debian Maintainer | PSF Member and Contributor | Fixing bugs in my free time
Accepted Talks:
A newbie's perspective towards Debian
This is mostly a journey talk, where I talk about why I took the “Debian road” and how the meaning of Debian evolved over months for me.
From the technical things to the philosophical side, expiating the horrible mistakes I made all the way, I share the story of a 19 y/o who, with no prior experience in Ruby, JavaScript, Golang, and Perl, helped in over 200+ packages and became the youngest Debian Maintainer in India in less than 90 days.
With this, I hope other new people would get on-board with the Debian project :)
Ruby Team BOF
The Ruby team maintains over 1500 packages in Debian. I have been active in the Ruby team for a while now. And I believe that we, the Ruby team, as a whole, can improve on a lot of things, like, sponsoring new contributor’s packages, taking sessions, etcetera.
During the BOF session, I’d be discussing a few topics like them, which would encourage more new contributors to join the team and help us in the maintenance of all the gems and applications.
Moreover, something that worries me is the “retainment rate” of the new contributors. If this continues, then after few years down the line, the Ruby team would be in a little trouble. There are a lot of packages under the team and so is the need for more contributors.
And it’d be lovely to have more DMs and DDs emerging out in this process :)