Custom Debian Distributions

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Hello,

I'm proud to announce that Custom Debian Distributions reached a new state
and I want to attract the attention of the Debian community to this
technique.

When the first Custom Debian Distribution - Debian Junior - started in
beginning of 2000 we did not expect that this would perhaps lead to a
new way Debian could support its end users in general.  The next step
forward was done in DebConf3 in Oslo when several developers who care
about Custom Debian Distributions met in person and decided to work
together more closely.  Finally at OSWC conference in Malaga took place
a workshop aiming at exactly this issue.

The result of the conference was to write a paper about Custom Debian
Distributions to explain the public what we had done and what we want
to do.  This is an implicit call for participation for all those
people inside and outside Debian who work on the same goal: Enhance the
role of Debian as the missing link between upstream software developers
and end users.

The paper can be found at

   http://people.debian.org/~tille/debian-med/talks/paper-cdd/debian-cdd.html/

People who are interested in providing code or documentation (for instance
enhancing the document above) could join the CDD-team at

   http://alioth.debian.org/projects/cdd/

Moreover a mailing list was created.  To subscribe this list visit

   http://lists.debian.org/debian-custom/

Thanks to all who helped to bring Custom Debian Distributions into this
shape and I hope that many people will support our efforts to make Debian
even in supporting end users

       Andreas.

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