Knoppix) I jumped in between woody and sarge Package management Perl libraries, PAM libraries, XMMS, Nginx Technical upbringing in LATAM Derivatives, incl. consumer-facing (2-4M+ users) Building community in Latin America
(Oct 1995) A board of directors: 3.5 years A legal entity for financials: 3.5 years APT (Deity): 3.5 years A non-x86 release: almost 5 years Logo as we know it: 5.5 years (May 1999) A process for new maintainers: over 6 years A conference: almost 8 years (July 2001)
Reproducible builds From CDD to derivatives Researchers Weird use cases GSOC and Outreachy ...changing the engine (release cadence) while driving (20K source, 50K binary packages)