Debian's Organizational Structure

Occasionally people need to contact someone about a particular aspect of Debian. The following is a list of different jobs and the e-mail addresses to use in order to contact the people responsible for those tasks.

Please be made aware that mails sent to some of these addresses are publicly archived, especially but not limited to those with the term lists in the mail domain part.

In the following list, current is used for positions that are transitional (elected or appointed with a certain expiration date).

Officers
Distribution
Communication and Outreach
- Data Protection team
- Publicity team
Membership in other organizations
Support and Infrastructure

Officers

Leader — <leader@debian.org>
current Sam Hartman
Technical Committee — <debian-ctte@lists.debian.org> — appointment mail — appointment mail — appointment mail — appointment mail — appointment mail — appointment mail
     current Didier Raboud
     current Philip Hands
     current Tollef Fog Heen
     current Margarita Manterola (chair)
     current David Bremner
     current Niko Tyni
     current Gunnar Wolf
     current Simon McVittie
Secretary — <secretary@debian.org> — appointment mail
current Kurt Roeckx

Distribution

Development Projects — <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
FTP Archives — <ftpmaster@debian.org> — delegation mail
- FTP Masters —
       member Thorsten Alteholz (delegate)
       member Ansgar Burchardt (delegate)
       member Joerg Jaspert (delegate)
       member Luke W. Faraone (delegate)
       member Mark Hymers (delegate)
- FTP Assistants —
       member Chris Lamb
       member Luca Falavigna
       member Paul Tagliamonte
       member Scott Kitterman
- FTP Wizards —
  member Mike O'Connor
  member Torsten Werner
Backports — <backports-team@debian.org> — delegation mail
- Backports Team —
  member Alexander Wirt (delegate)
  member Rhonda D'Vine (delegate)
Release Management —
- Release Team — <debian-release@lists.debian.org> — delegation mail
       manager Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (delegate)
       manager Niels Thykier (delegate)
       SRM Adam D. Barratt (delegate)
       SRM Julien Cristau (delegate)
       SRM Philipp Kern (delegate)
       assistant Andreas Barth (delegate)
       assistant Cyril Brulebois (delegate)
       assistant Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (delegate)
       assistant Ivo De Decker (delegate)
       assistant Jonathan Wiltshire (delegate)
       assistant Mehdi Dogguy (delegate)
       assistant Paul Gevers (delegate)
- Quality Assurance — <debian-qa@lists.debian.org>
- Installation System Team — <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
- Debian Live Team — <debian-live@lists.debian.org>
- Release Notes — <debian-doc@lists.debian.org>
  member Wolfgang Martin Borgert
- CD Images —
  - Production — <debian-cd@lists.debian.org>
         member Philip Hands
         member Raphaël Hertzog
         member Richard Atterer
         member Santiago García Mantiñán
         member Steve McIntyre
         member Mattias Wadenstein
- Testing — <debian-testing@lists.debian.org>
Cloud Team — <debian-cloud@lists.debian.org> — delegation mail
     member Luca Filipozzi (delegate)
     member Steve McIntyre (delegate)
     member Tomasz Rybak (delegate)
Autobuilding infrastructure —
- Wanna-build team — <debian-wb-team@lists.debian.org>
       member Andreas Barth
       member Aurelien Jarno
       member Joachim Breitner
       member Kurt Roeckx
       member Mehdi Dogguy
       member Philipp Kern
- Buildd administration — <architecture>@buildd.debian.org
       member Andreas Barth
       member Aurelien Jarno
       member Christoph Egger
       member Colin Tuckley
       member Dann Frazier
       member Frederik Schüler
       member Hector Oron
       member Konstantinos Margaritis
       member Kurt Roeckx
       member LaMont Jones
       member Michael Banck
       member Peter De Schrijver
       member Philipp Kern
       member Riku Voipio
       member Samuel Thibault
       member Wouter Verhelst
Documentation — <debian-doc@lists.debian.org>
     member Javier Fernández-Sanguino
     member W. Martin Borgert
     member Osamu Aoki
     member Josip Rodin
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages list — <debian-wnpp@lists.debian.org>
member Matej Vela
Ports — GNU/Linux —
- Alpha — <debian-alpha@lists.debian.org>
       member Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
       member Bob Tracy <rct@gherkin.frus.com>
       member Bill MacAllister <whm@stanford.edu>
- AMD64 — <debian-amd64@lists.debian.org>
- ARM — <debian-arm@lists.debian.org>
- i386 — <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
- IA-64 — <debian-ia64@lists.debian.org>
  member Dann Frazier
- m68k — <debian-68k@lists.debian.org>
- MIPS — <debian-mips@lists.debian.org>
- PA-RISC — <debian-hppa@lists.debian.org>
       member Carlos O'Donell
       member John David Anglin
       member Thibaut Varene
- PowerPC — <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>
- RISC-V — <debian-riscv@lists.debian.org>
- S/390 — <debian-s390@lists.debian.org>
  member Philipp Kern
- SPARC/UltraSPARC — <debian-sparc@lists.debian.org>
- SuperH — <debian-superh@lists.debian.org>
GNU/Hurd — <debian-hurd@lists.debian.org>
member Samuel Thibault
member Svante Signell
GNU/kFreeBSD — <debian-bsd@lists.debian.org>
member Steven Chamberlain
member Christoph Egger
Special Configurations —
- Laptops — <debian-laptop@lists.debian.org>
- Firewalls — <debian-firewall@lists.debian.org>
- Embedded systems — <debian-embedded@lists.debian.org>

Communication and Outreach

Data Protection team — <data-protection@debian.org> — delegation mail
member Jonathan McDowell (delegate)
member Tollef Fog Heen (delegate)
Publicity team — <debian-publicity@lists.debian.org> — delegation mail
member Laura Arjona Reina (delegate)
member Donald Norwood (delegate)
Press Contact — <press@debian.org>
Web Pages — <debian-www@lists.debian.org>
     member Rhonda D'Vine
     member Kåre Thor Olsen
     member Simon Paillard
     member Martin Zobel-Helas
     member Paul Wise
     member Laura Arjona Reina
     member Frank Lichtenheld
     member Josip Rodin
     member Carsten Schoenert
     member Thomas Lange
Planet Debian — <planet@debian.org>
     member Benjamin Mako Hill
     member Joerg Jaspert
     member Jordi Mallach
Outreach — <outreach@debian.org> — delegation mail
     member Molly de Blanc (delegate)
     member Pranav Jain (delegate)
     member Jaminy Prabaharan (delegate)
Debian Women Project — <debian-women@lists.debian.org>
     member Amaya Rodrigo
     member Erinn Clark
     member Hanna Wallach
     member Helen Faulkner
     member Margarita Manterola
     member Meike Reichle
Anti-harassment — <antiharassment@debian.org>
     member Steve McIntyre
     member Martina Ferrari
     member Molly de Blanc
Events — <events@debian.org>
     member Alexander Wirt
     member Franziska Lichtblau
     member Geert Stappers
     member Luca Capello
     member Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana
DebConf Committee — <debconf-team@lists.debian.org> — delegation mail
     member Jonathan Cristopher Carter (delegate)
     member Daniel Lange (delegate)
     member Lucas Nussbaum (delegate)
     member Didier Raboud (delegate)
     member Stefano Rivera (delegate)
Partner Program — <partners@debian.org>
     member Andre Felipe Machado
     member Laura Arjona Reina
     member Luca Filipozzi
Hardware Donations Coordination — <hardware-donations@debian.org>
     member Luca Filipozzi
     member Bernd Zeimetz
     member Martin Zobel-Helas
     member Benjamin Mako Hill
     member Rob Bradford

Membership in other organizations

Debian is a member of the following organizations, either directly or through SPI.

GNOME Foundation —
representative Matthew Garrett
Linux Professional Institute —
representative Christoph Lameter
Linux Magazine —
role Advisory Council
Linux Standards Base —
representative Wichert Akkerman
Free Standards Group —
SchoolForge —
representative Ben Armstrong
representative Raphaël Hertzog
OASIS: Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards —
representative Mark Johnson
OVAL: Open Vulnerability Assessment Language —
representative Javier Fernández-Sanguino
Open Source Initiative —

Support and Infrastructure

User support —
- Catalan — <debian-user-catalan@lists.debian.org>
- Chinese (Simplified) — <debian-chinese-gb@lists.debian.org>
- Chinese (Traditional) — <debian-chinese-big5@lists.debian.org>
- Danish — <debian-user-danish@lists.debian.org>
- Dutch — <debian-user-dutch@lists.debian.org>
- English — <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
- Esperanto — <debian-esperanto@lists.debian.org>
- Finnish — <debian-user-finnish@lists.debian.org>
- French — <debian-user-french@lists.debian.org>
- German — <debian-user-german@lists.debian.org>
- Greek — <debian-user-greek@lists.debian.org>
- Icelandic — <debian-user-icelandic@lists.debian.org>
- Indonesian — <debian-user-indonesian@lists.debian.org>
- Italian — <debian-italian@lists.debian.org>
- Japanese — <debian-japanese@lists.debian.org>
- Polish — <debian-user-polish@lists.debian.org>
- Portuguese — <debian-user-portuguese@lists.debian.org>
- Russian — <debian-russian@lists.debian.org>
- Slovenian — <debian-user-slovenian@lists.debian.org>
- Spanish — <debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org>
- Swedish — <debian-user-swedish@lists.debian.org>
- Tamil — <debian-user-tamil@lists.debian.org>
- Turkish — <debian-user-turkish@lists.debian.org>
- Ukrainian — <debian-user-ukrainian@lists.debian.org>
- Vietnamese — <debian-user-vietnamese@lists.debian.org>
Bug Tracking System — <owner@bugs.debian.org>
     member Don Armstrong
     member Blars Blarson
     member Josip Rodin
     member Colin Watson
Mailing Lists Administration and Mailing List Archives — <listmaster@lists.debian.org>
     member Alexander Wirt
     member Cord Beermann
     member David Moreno Garza
     member Don Armstrong
     member Joey Schulze
     member Martin Zobel-Helas
     member Pascal Hakim
New Members Front Desk — <nm@debian.org> — delegation mail
     member Enrico Zini (delegate)
     member Jonathan Wiltshire (delegate)
     member Jonathan McDowell (delegate)
     member Mattia Rizzolo (delegate)
     member Santiago Ruano Rincón (delegate)
Debian Account Managers — <da-manager@debian.org> — delegation mail
     member Enrico Zini (delegate)
     member Joerg Jaspert (delegate)
     member Jonathan Wiltshire (delegate)
To send a private message to all DAMs, use the GPG key 57731224A9762EA155AB2A530CA8D15BB24D96F2.
Keyring Maintainers (PGP and GPG) — <keyring-maint@debian.org> — delegation mail
     member Gunnar Wolf (delegate)
     member John Sullivan (delegate)
     member Jonathan McDowell (delegate)
Security Team — <team@security.debian.org>
     member Alessandro Ghedini
     member Florian Weimer
     member Luciano Bello
     member Michael Gilbert
     member Moritz Muehlenhoff
     member Raphael Geissert
     member Salvatore Bonaccorso
     member Sebastien Delafond
     member Thijs Kinkhorst
     member Yves-Alexis Perez
Consultants Page — <consultants@debian.org>
     member Andrei Popescu
     member Giuseppe Sacco
     member Holger Wansing
     member Martin Schulze
CD Vendors Page — <cdvendors@debian.org>
member Craig Small
member Richard Atterer
Policy — <debian-policy@lists.debian.org> — delegation mail
member Russ Allbery (delegate)
member Sean Whitton (delegate)
System Administration — <debian-admin@lists.debian.org> — delegation mail
This is the address to use when encountering problems on one of Debian's machines, including password problems or you need a package installed.
     member Aurelien Jarno (delegate)
     member Héctor Orón Martínez (delegate)
     member Julien Cristau (delegate)
     member Luca Filipozzi (delegate)
     member Martin Zobel-Helas (delegate)
     member Paul Wise (delegate)
     member Peter Palfrader (delegate)
     member Tollef Fog Heen (delegate)
If you have hardware problems with Debian machines, please see Debian Machines page, it should contain per-machine administrator information.
LDAP Developer Directory Administrator — <admin@db.debian.org>
Mirrors — <mirrors@debian.org>
     member Bastian Blank
     member Joerg Jaspert
     member Peter Palfrader
     member Felipe Augusto van de Wiel
     member Raphael Geissert
     member Simon Paillard
DNS Maintainer — <hostmaster@debian.org>
Package Tracking System — <owner@packages.qa.debian.org>
member Raphaël Hertzog
Treasurer — <treasurer@debian.org> — delegation mail
     member Brian Gupta (delegate)
     member Philipp Hug (delegate)
     member Hector Oron (delegate)
     member Martin Michlmayr
     member Martin Wuertele
Trademark use requests — <trademark@debian.org>
member Brian Gupta
member Richard Hartmann
Salsa administrators — <salsa-admin@debian.org>
     member Alexander Wirt
     member Bastian Blank
     member Joerg Jaspert

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