Juelich, Germany 21 August 2006 ? After the freeze of the Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 base distribution codenamed Etch, the Debian developers at credativ are working round the clock fixing known bugs in the Debian project.

 

To support Debian a "bug squashing party" will be held at the credativ offices in Juelich Germany from 15th - 17th September. The three day event will bring together as many contributors to Debian as possible to work on fixing these bugs. credativ would like to invite all interested developers and contributors to the Debian project to join the bug squashing effort in Juelich.

 

The work will be coordinated by the Debian Stable Release Manager Martin Zobel-Helas (credativ) and the Debian Release Manager Assistant Marc Brockschmidt (credativ). All technical infrastructure and catering will be provided by credativ. Travel and accommodation is being organised by members of the Debian community in Germany.

 

The credativ group has been a supporter and contributor to the Debian project for a number of years and employs a large number of Debian developers. The Debian team at credativ includes:

 

Martin Zobel-Helas, Alexander Wirt, Peter Eisentraut, Noél Köthe, Dr. Michael Meskes, Chris Halls, Marc Brockschmidt, Michael Bramer, Oliver Korff, Marvin Stark, Patrick Winnertz, Elmar Hoffmann, Steffen Jöris and Carsten Wolff.

 

To register for the event please email info@credativ.de or zobel@debian.org

About credativ

 

credativ limited is an independent consulting and services company with registered office in Rugby. The company specialises in desiging and implementing professional business solutions using Free and Open Source Software. credativ was founded in Juelich, Germany in 1999 and opened offices in Rugby, UK in 2004.

 

credativ has operated the Open Source Support Centre (OSSC) since May 2006, offering professional 24/7 Enterprise Support for numerous Open Source projects. The group employs 30 people in its offices in the UK and Germany.

 

The credativ OSSC offers professional services and support for:

(Extract)

 

Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE, Red Hat, Xandros, Mandriva, KDE and Gnome, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kolab Groupware, eGroupware, Asterisk, Apache, Squid, Postfix, Exim, sendmail, Cyrus, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, Samba, OpenLDAP, Nagios, DRBD, Keepalived, Amanda,Bacula and XEN.

 

Contact:

credativ GmbH

Karl-Heinz-Beckurts-Str. 13

52428 Jülich

Germany

 

Press contact and further information:

Chris Halls

Tel: +44 (0)1788 298150

Email: chris.halls@credativ.co.uk

Web: www.credativ.co.uk

About Debian

 

Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system, created by over a thousand volunteers worldwide working together over the internet. It is unique among GNU/Linux distributions in striving to provide a universal operating system containing purely free software using an open development model.

 

The Debian project achieves its strength through the volunteer developers who work to create the best possible distribution within the framework of the Debian Social Contract.

 

Contact:

For more information about Debian visit the Debian web site at

www.debian.org or email press@debian.org.

 

* Debian GNU/Linux

* Debian Social Contract