[conspire] Virtual ONLY Debian Release Party 2025-08-09 starting 4pm @ https://meet.jit.si/CABAL

[Michael Paoli]

Having heard no objections,
2025-08-09 starting 4pm
Virtual ONLY Debian Release Party at:
https://meet.jit.si/CABAL (there is NO CABAL meeting that day)
See also:
https://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyTrixie/US/Pacific
for details.

Yes, 2025-08-08 Debian releases Debian 13 "Trixie",
Debian's next stable release.


On Wed, Aug 6, 2025 at 1:19 AM Michael Paoli <michael.paoli at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> I'm proposing, if there are no serious objections,
> 2025-08-09 4pm 'til whenever, that
> https://meet.jit.si/CABAL
> be "borrowed"/commandeered for:
> virtual ONLY Debian release party[1]!
>
> Notably, Debian 13 Trixie will be released as Debian's newest major
> version stable release on 2025-08-09[2], and some release parties are
> customary[3] for the day[4] (or thereabout) when Debian has a major
> release.  (Coincidentally, last major release date was 2023-06-10 - and
> it was a CABAL meeting day - I was there and brought cookies and some
> appropriately colored frosting for cookies and do-it-yourself Debian
> logo swirls.)
>
> Also, since CABAL will NOT be meeting on 2025-08-09[5][6][7],
> https://meet.jit.si/CABAL would not otherwise be in use that date, and
> for any folks that missed the bit about this month's change in date for
> the CABAL meeting, or really can't wait the extra two weeks for a Linux
> meeting, could at least find on 2025-08-09 and CABAL's otherwise regular
> meeting date and time, at least a virtual Linux meeting, and probably at
> least some folk(s) there that would know about CABAL's meeting having been
> rescheduled this month.
>
> Rick: If feasible, you may want to update:
> http://linuxmafia.com/cabal/
> Notably to indicate no actual CABAL meeting on 2025-08-09.
>
> References:
> 1. https://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyTrixie/US/Pacific
> 2. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/07/msg00003.html
> 3. https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseParty
> 4. https://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyTrixie
> 5. http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/conspire/2025-July/013025.html
> 6. http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/conspire/2025-July/013026.html
> 7. http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/conspire/2025-August/013028.html