Andreas Tille Is the New Debian Project Leader
Debian is among the most respected Linux distributions. It is known for its excellent reputation and is a symbol of democratic governance in the open-source community.
Every year, internal elections are conducted to select the new project leader—a person who represents the project and serves as the public face of Debian for a term of one year.
This year, after being re-elected four years in a row, the current Debian leader, Jonathan Carter, handed over his position to Andreas Tille. Here’s what we know about him.
Update
The official word:
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Debian Project Leader Election 2024, Andreas Tille elected.
The voting period for the Debian Project Leader election has ended. Please join us in congratulating Andreas Tille as the new Debian Project Leader.
The new term for the project leader started on 2024-04-21.
369 of 1,010 Debian Developers voted using the Condorcet method.
More information about the results of the voting are available on the Debian Project Leader Elections 2024 page.
Many thanks all of our Developers for voting.
iTWire:
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iTWire - German developer Tille elected as new Debian leader
Voting took place from 6 April to 19 April. Debian is the sole GNU/Linux project to elect a leader.
The posting of the results online was delayed slightly, according to a statement from the Debian media team.
Tille defeated Sruthi Chandran who was making her third bid to take the leader's post.
LWN:
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Andreas Tille elected as Debian project leader
The Debian project leader election results are in and Andreas Tille has been elected. In a fairly competitive vote, Tille beat Sruthi Chandran to fill the position for the coming year. We looked at the election and the candidates a few weeks back.
ITWire:
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New Debian leader brings an unusual trait to the job: humility
In some ways, Andreas Tille is an unusual person to take over as leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project. Unusual because of his age, unusual because of the fact that he acknowledged the negatives about the position.