bits from the DPL - July 2013

Hi,

Here is my monthly report for July 2013 (+ the beginning of August).
That was a rather slower month, with some travel (for work) and some
vacations.

Outline:
- Survey of new contributors
- ITWire interview
- Logo registration as a trademark
- Delegations
- Debian representatives on the GNOME Advisory Board
- Follow-up: call for help: Debian Auditors
- Assets
- Reminder: sprints!
- Day-to-day log

Survey of new contributors
==========================
As initially mentioned in [1], I surveyed new contributors (people who just had 
their first package accepted in Debian). A summary of results is available at 
[2]. The raw answers are available to Debian Developers. (just ask me)

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/07/msg00010....
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/08/msg00011....

ITWire interview
================
I answered an interview for ITWire[1]. A spanish translation[2] is
available, made by Grupo de Software Libre de Cúcuta.

[1]
http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/60564-...
[2] http://www.camayihi.org/enterate/150-lucas-nussbaum

Logo registration as a trademark
================================
Following previous work on this topic [1,2], our trademark team worked
very hard and forwarded everything needed (or at least we hope so!) to
register the Debian logo as a US trademark to our legal counsel,
Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC).

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/04/msg00082....
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/06/msg00022....

Delegations
===========
Nicolas Dandrimont <olasd> has been delegated as a GSOC admin[1], as
he became a DD recently. The list of delegations has been updated
on our website[2].

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/08/ms...
[2] http://www.debian.org/intro/organization.en.html

Debian representatives on the GNOME Advisory Board
==================================================
Sebastian Dröge <slomo> and Michael Biebl <biebl> have agreed to represent
Debian in the GNOME Advisory Board[1].

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/AdvisoryBoard

Follow-up: call for help: Debian Auditors
=========================================
Two volunteers (Christopher Browne and Brian Gupta) answered the
call for help, and are going to be mentored by our current auditors
(Martin Michlmayr and Martin Wuertele). Thanks!

Assets
======
- Approved shipping of console servers bought last year
 ($80 + 32€ for german customs)
- Approved purchase of remotely-managed PDU (110€)
  and cables for the console server (40€)

Day-to-day log
==============
As usual, my day-to-day log of DPL activities is
available on master:/srv/leader/news/bits-from-the-DPL.txt.201307

Reminder: sprints!
==================
It's possible and easy to organize a sprint for your team.
See https://wiki.debian.org/Sprints for details.

- Lucas