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How it all started
It was in August 1993
when Ian Murdock started working on a new operating system which would be made openly; in
Since many people have asked: Debian is
the spirit of Linux and GNU_
He sent out an
invitation t0 other software developers, asking them to contribute to
pronounced / debi.anl. It's named after the creator of
software dlistribution based on the Linux kernel, which was relatively new back then
Debian was meant to be carefully
Debian,
lan Murdock; and his wife , Debra:
and conscientiously put together; and to be maintained and supported with similar care 
embracing an open design;
contributions
and support from the Free Software community:
It started as
small, tightly-knit group of Free Software hackers and gradually grew to become
large , well-organized community of developers, contributors, and users_
Read te_complete History
Developers and Contributors
Debian is an all-volunteer organization
More than thousand active developers spread aroundthe_world work on Debian in their spare time.
Few of us have actually met in person:
Instead
we communicate primarily through email (mailing lists at lists debian org) and IRC (channel #debian at irc debian org).
The complete list of official Debian members can be found on nmdebian Og; and contributors debian org shows a list of all contributors and teams who work on the Debian distribution.
The Debian Project has
carefully organized structure
For more information on how the Debian project looks from the inside, please visit the Developers
Corner:
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open