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<div dir="auto">Dear Debianites,<br>
<br>
I am writing this mail to express my heart felt apology to all for
being totally absent from the DPL campaign scene.<br>
<br>
On personal level I'm going through a lot of things and on
hindsight, I should have skipped this year's election. Since I was
absent throughout the campaign, I do not wish to come at  the last
moment and ask for votes. I'm including a very short platform just
to give an idea what was my motivation behind my candidature
(which is same as previous years).<br>
<br>
Also, I would like to thank everyone who reached out to me
personally checking on me and encouraging.</div>
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Who am I?</h2>
<p>I am a librarian turned Free Software enthusiast and Debian
Developer from India. </p>
<p>Some of my activities in Debian are:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">ruby, javascript, golang and
font packages (totalling to around 200) since 2016. (not
very active nowadays) </p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Community Team delegate since
Aug 2020. </p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Application Manager since Jul
2020. </p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Outreach team since Aug/Sep
2020. </p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Chief orga DebConf India 2023. </p>
</li>
<li>
<p>DebConf Committee member since 2023. </p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>I have been mentoring people to contribute to Debian for many
years now. I am involved in organizing numerous packaging
workshops
and other Debian events throughout India. I am also involved in
organizing other free software events like <a
href="https://camp.fsf.org.in/">Free
Software Camp</a>. </p>
<h2 class="western">Why am I contesting?</h2>
<p>Concerned with the skewed gender ratios within the Free
Software
community (and Debian) I am working towards doing whatever I can
to
better the situation. How many times did we have a non-(cis)male
candidate for DPL? If I am not wrong, when I contested in 2020,
I was
the second non-(cis)male DPL candidate till date. As with my
last two
rounds of contesting for DPL (2020 &amp; 2021), this year too my
primary goal of contesting is to bring the diversity issues for
discussion. I believe I was successful in that at-least to a
small
extend in my previous rounds. </p>
<p>I am aware that Debian is doing things to increase diversity
within Debian, but as we can see, it is not sufficient. I am sad
that
there are only two women Debian Developer from a large country
like
India. I believe diversity is not something to be discussed only
within Debian-women or Debian-diversity. It should come up for
discussion in each and every aspect of the project. </p>
<p>DPL elections is an important activity in our project and I
plan
to bring up the topic of diversity for discussion every election
till
we have a non-(cis)male DPL. </p>
<p>I feel that one effective way to encourage diverse people to
contribute is to have more visibility for diversity already
within
the community. As more and more women (both cis and trans),
trans
men, and genderqueer people who are already part of the project
become more visible instead of staying hidden in some part of
the
project, more gender diverse people will feel comfortable
joining our
community. Geographic/ethnic diversity are also important areas
which
need attention.</p>
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