Last weekend (15-17 March 2019) some members of the Debian web team have met at my place in Madrid to advance work together in what we call a Debian Sprint. A report will be published in the following days, but I want to say thank you to everybody that made possible this meeting happen.

We have shared 2-3 very nice days, we have agreed in many topics and started to design an new homepage focused in newcomers (since a Debianite usually just go to the subpage they need) and showing that Debian the operating system is made by a community of people. We are committed to simplify the content of and the structure of www.debian.org, we have fixed some bugs already, and talked about many other aspects. We shared some time to know each other, and I think all of us became motivated to continue working on the website (because there is still a lot of work to do!) and make easy for new contributors to get involved too.

For me, a person who rarely finds the way to attend Debian events, it was amazing to meet in person with people who I have shared work and mails and IRC chats since years in some cases, and to offer my place for the meeting. I have enjoyed a lot preparing all the logistics and I’m very happy that it went very well. Now I walk through my neighbourhood for my daily commute and every place is full of small memories of these days. Thanks, friends!