Elana has been using Debian for nearly 15 years and became a Debian Developer in 2017. She currently leads the Clojure Packaging Team, which she revived in 2017, and serves as a member of the Technical Committee. Outside of Debian, she is a Python Software Foundation Fellow, Chair of the Kubernetes Instrumentation SIG, and Director of the Open Source Initiative, where she serves on the License Committee. Elana currently works for Red Hat as a Principal Site Reliability Engineer and tech lead on the Azure Red Hat OpenShift team.

Accepted Talks:

Meet the Technical Committee

What does the Technical Committee do? How can it work better for Debian? This year, we will do a short recap of our activities last year, but the main focus we want to give to this BoF is how to best move forward and reshape the Technical Committee in a way that works better, and thus is more useful for Debian.

Clojure Packaging Team BoF

Let’s gather the Debian Clojure community so we can find more maintainers, discuss Clojure policy, prioritize applications to be introduced into Debian, and talk about open ITPs for Clojure packages. ehashman will provide an introduction to Clojure packaging structure and policy if requested.

Leadership in Debian BoF/Panel

In this session, we will host a panel of people who hold (or who have held) leadership positions within Debian.

We’ll go through a few questions for the panel and then continue with open questions and discussion.