I have been nothing but scrupulous and gentlemanly with regards to your personal privacy.... Chris Lamb, Debian Project Leader 2017-2019
One general wish -- which I agreed with -- from Debian was to better share information about people... Matthias Kirschner, FSFE President
As we approach the third anniversary of Lucy Wayland (aardvark)'s death, we want to consider the possibility that Debian contributed to the death. Let us look at the series of events and put the Coroner's report in the correct place in the time...
We previously looked at the vast amounts of money spent on travel for Albanian women to come to DebConf19 in Curitiba and many other events. Before DebConf19, Debian tried to organize a warm-up event, MiniDebConf Curitiba in the location that wou...
Since the arrest, charging, trial and prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell, many people are holding their breath waiting for a jury to decide whether to make a conviction. Just as many people are holding their breath waiting to see if a juror fails a...
Photos contributed by Aigars Mahinovs and Andis Rado. We recently documented the series of encounters linking Chris Lamb with an Albanian woman who received travel grants and a $6,000 Outreachy internship from Debian. Other women may want to app...
The trailer is safe to watch at work. The movie definitely isn't. Within the trailer lasting barely two minutes, we encounter ominous references to the central themes of the DebConf19 Outreachy tindernship scandal: a woman, her first internship ...
Non-developing Debian Developer Donald Norwood recently spammed a whole bunch of people with accusations about defamation and third party web sites. Norwood has lied, he blames an Australian developer, Daniel Pocock, for the sites. We show the s...
Electricité de France (EDF) is one of the world's largest nuclear companies. Did you know they employ a toxic woman? The Debian Community News Team releases another exclusive story today. (Related: list of people shamed/expelled by Debian). Tox...
The Free Software Fellowship recently published evidence of the Albanian gangmaster and Mozilla Tech Speaker recruiting and/or grooming teenage girls in a hackerspace. In 2019, when Dr Richard Stallman commented privately on the Epstein affair ...
Many Debian users received spam from Donald Norwood through the debian-news email list and social media networks this week. Norwood has attacked a developer with over 20 years experience. Looking at Norwood's own profile, we see that he has ...
Photos contributed by Aigars Mahinovs. We found the six Albanian/Kosovan women who received GSoC & Outreachy money, tickets to DebConf and many other events following the former leader around Europe. These are snapshots of their Github activity ...
Debian has been participating in the Outreachy internships, originally called Outreach Program for Women, since 2013 (that is 8 years). In 8 years, only one Outreachy, Ulrike has become a Debian Developer. And she quit. Google Summer of Code ...
There has recently been news about pranksters in the UK using the online debt recovery form to successfully obtain a default judgment against Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Johnson's address is well known, he lives at 10 Downing Street. The claim...
Chris Lamb circulated rumours about other volunteers. The facts suggest that Lamb himself was one of the culprits. There is no evidence of romantic relationships. The concern here is that travel grants from the leader have given some candidates...
Matthew Miller, Fedora Project Leader (Red Hat, IBM) has recently written about calling Fedora a Community, where the volunters/developers are "Project Members". Jonathan Carter has been sending emails declaring Debian Developers are "Project...
In 2016, Jaminy Prabaharan appeared on Debian's list of GSoC students. She does not appear on the list of students who passed. Here is a quote from Jaminy on 7 September 2016: Failing and learning is the best experience ever She couldn't be ...
In our last blog, we looked at the Ubuntu/Canonical employee Lucas Kanashiro coming into Debian as a mentor and having a relationship with an intern. Out of fairness, we need to look at other relationships too. Back in 2016, Nicolas Dandrimont a...
Chris Lamb bastardized the Debian keyring in September 2018. All disclosures of private and personal information are a consequence of Lamb's rudeness to volunteers. At least once every week we are reminded about the false accusations against one...
Many people will hope Molly de Blanc's departure from GNOME Foundation is the end of the story. It is only the beginning. Here are the facts: de Blanc's old boss was the Executive Director of the FSF, John Sullivan. Sullivan is a Debian Develo...
Debian Project Leader (DPL) Jonathan Carter has made the following comments this week: Not true, if someone identifies with fascist doctrine, even if they keep those views off of the project channels, then they are not welcome here, no matter whe...