Margarita Manterola, la primera mujer en las elecciones lider del proyecto Debian (DPL) DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 346, 22 March 2010 Speaking about Debian GNU/Linux, the world's largest Linux distribution with decidedly well-established democratic structures, a final call for nominations for the position of the Debian Project Leader (DPL) was circulated last week. But this year's DPL elections will be somewhat different. As noted in this ITwire report, this will be the first Debian Project Leader election with a woman on the list of candidates: "For the first time in its 16-year history, the Debian GNU/Linux project has a woman in the running to become leader of the project when voting for the post takes place between April 2 and April 15. Margarita Manterola, a software developer from Argentina, mostly Python, teaches programming at a university. She has been involved with Debian since 2003, became a developer in 2005 and has been part of the Debian Women project since it kicked off in 2004. Manterola, who submitted her nomination just before the deadline, will have to defeat three others if she is to win." For more information about Margarita Manterola please visit her personal blog and read this interview by Linux Magazine. Extraído de: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20100322 Blog de Margarita Manterola Fri, 12 Mar 2010 Running for DPL During DebConf8, in Mar del Plata, Argentina, there was one night where I had a terrible nightmare: I woke up one day and I was DPL :). I mentioned this to some people during the conference, and to my amazement they told me that I could actually be a good DPL. I've been thinking about this possibility since then, but the post-DebConf stress was still too high for me to run for it in 2009. This year, however, I'm ready to stand for it, campaign, and either win or lose, whatever the Debian community decides. I'm currently drafting my platform, but in no way do I claim having all the good ideas. So, if you -no matter if you are a developer, a contributor or a user- have any good ideas on how to make Debian better from the DPL role, I'd be glad to hear them. Extraído de: http://marga.com.ar/blog/index.cgi/debian/Running_for_DPL.html -- Ignacio Pedrini. Free Culture Activisit. Free Software Acrivist. Partido Pirata Activist.