{"id":540710,"date":"2026-04-20T08:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540710\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T08:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:20:10","slug":"new-debian-project-leader-elected-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540710\/","title":{"rendered":"New Debian Project Leader Elected For 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DEBIAN\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/debian.webp.webp\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/><br \/>\nSruthi Chandran has been elected the new Debian Project Leader &#8220;DPL&#8221; after running unopposed in this year&#8217;s elections.<\/p>\n<p>Sruthi Chandran was the only candidate and then following the voting formalities for a quorum, she has now been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debian.org\/vote\/2026\/vote_001\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">elected<\/a> the next DPL.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Andreas Tille&#8217;s term is expiring tomorrow and chose not to seek another term as the Debian Project Leader.&#13;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776673210_467_image.webp\" alt=\"Debian 13\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sruthi Chandran&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debian.org\/vote\/2025\/platforms\/srud\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">platform page<\/a> describes herself as a librarian turned Free Software enthusiast and Debian Developer. She has been involved with Ruby, JavaScript, Go, and font packages for Debian since 2016 while noting &#8220;not very active nowadays&#8221; with the packaging. She has also been a Community Team delegate, Outreach team member, and DebConf Committee member. Her hope is to help increase the diversity within Debian and to bring diversity issues for discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Sruthi is now <a href=\"https:\/\/lists.debian.org\/debian-devel-announce\/2026\/04\/msg00006.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">elected<\/a> the next Debian Project Leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sruthi Chandran has been elected the new Debian Project Leader &#8220;DPL&#8221; after running unopposed in this year&#8217;s elections.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5870,59,5869,5867,5866,5873,5871,5868,5872,5865,5876,86,5874,5875,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-540710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-desktop-linux","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-linux-benchmarking","11":"tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","12":"tag-linux-hardware-reviews","13":"tag-linux-how-to","14":"tag-linux-performance","15":"tag-linux-server-benchmarks","16":"tag-open-source-graphics","17":"tag-phoronix","18":"tag-phoronix-test-suite","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-ubuntu-benchmarks","21":"tag-ubuntu-hardware","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom","24":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}