Debian's Organizational Structure

Occasionally people need to contact someone about a particular aspect of Debian. The following is a list of different jobs and the e-mail addresses to use in order to contact the people responsible for those tasks.

Please be made aware that mails sent to some of these addresses are publicly archived, especially but not limited to those with the term lists in the mail domain part.

In the following list, current is used for positions that are transitional (elected or appointed with a certain expiration date).

Officers
Distribution
Communication and Outreach
- Data Protection team
- Publicity team
Support and Infrastructure
Membership in other organizations

Officers

Leader — <leader@debian.org>
current Andreas Tille
Technical Committee — <debian-ctte@lists.debian.org> — appointment mail — appointment mail — appointment mail — appointment mail — appointment mail — appointment mail
     current Sean Whitton (chair)
     current Christoph Berg
     current Helmut Grohne
     current Matthew Vernon
     current Matthew Garrett
     current Stefano Rivera
     current Timo Röhling
     current Craig Small
Secretary — <secretary@debian.org> — appointment mail
current Kurt Roeckx

Distribution

Development Projects — <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
FTP Archives — <ftpmaster@debian.org> — delegation mail
- FTP Masters —
       member Thorsten Alteholz (delegate)
       member Ansgar (delegate)
       member Joerg Jaspert (delegate)
       member Luke W. Faraone (delegate; they/them)
       member Mark Hymers (delegate)
- FTP Assistants —
       member Bastian Blank
       member Luca Falavigna
       member Paul Tagliamonte
       member Scott Kitterman
       member Sean Whitton
- FTP Wizards —
  member Mike O'Connor
Backports — <backports-team@debian.org> — delegation mail
- Backports Team —
  member Alexander Wirt (delegate)
  member Rhonda D'Vine (delegate)
Release Management —
- Release Team — <debian-release@lists.debian.org> — delegation mail
       member Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (delegate)
       member Adam D. Barratt (delegate)
       member Julien Cristau (delegate)
       member Cyril Brulebois (delegate)
       member Ivo De Decker (delegate)
       member Jonathan Wiltshire (delegate)
       member Graham Inggs (delegate)
       member Paul Gevers (delegate)
       member Sebastian Ramacher (delegate)
- Quality Assurance — <debian-qa@lists.debian.org>
- Installation System Team — <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
- Debian Live Team — <debian-live@lists.debian.org>
- CD/DVD/USB Images —
  - Production — <debian-cd@lists.debian.org>
         member Philip Hands
         member Raphaël Hertzog
         member Steve McIntyre
         member Andy Simpkins
         member Mattias Wadenstein
         member Andrew Cater
- Testing — <debian-testing@lists.debian.org>
Cloud Team — <debian-cloud@lists.debian.org> — delegation mail
     member Thomas Lange (delegate)
     member Ross Vandegrift (delegate)
     member Bastian Blank (delegate)

Communication and Outreach

Data Protection team — <data-protection@debian.org> — delegation mail
     member Jonathan McDowell (delegate; he/him)
     member Tollef Fog Heen (delegate)
     member Matthew Vernon (delegate)
Publicity team — <debian-publicity@lists.debian.org> — delegation mail
     member Anupa Ann Joseph (delegate)
     member Donald Norwood (delegate)
     member Jean-Pierre Giraud (delegate)
     member Joost van Baal-Ilić (delegate)
Press Contact — <press@debian.org>
Web Pages — <debian-www@lists.debian.org>
     member Rhonda D'Vine
     member Kåre Thor Olsen
     member Paul Wise
     member Laura Arjona Reina
     member Carsten Schoenert
     member Thomas Lange
Planet Debian — <planet@debian.org>
     member Benjamin Mako Hill
     member Joerg Jaspert
     member Jordi Mallach
Outreach — <outreach@debian.org> — delegation mail
     member Abhijith PA (delegate)
     member Antonio Terceiro (delegate)
     member Lucas Kanashiro (delegate; he/him)
     member Nilesh Patra (delegate)
     member Sruthi Chandran (delegate; she/her)
Community — <community@debian.org> <antiharassment@debian.org> — delegation mail
     member Steve McIntyre (delegate; he/him)
     member Luke W. Faraone (delegate; they/them)
     member Andrew Cater (delegate; he/him)
To send a private message to all the members of the Community Team, use the OpenPGP key 817DAE61E2FE4CA28E1B7762A89C4D0527C4C869.
DebConf Committee — <debconf-committee@debian.org> — delegation mail
     member Antonio Terceiro (delegate)
     member Bernelle Verster (delegate)
     member Gunnar Wolf (delegate)
     member Nattie Mayer-Hutchings (delegate)
     member Sruthi Chandran (delegate)
     member Stefano Rivera (delegate)
Partner Program — <partners@debian.org>
     member Daniel Lange
     member Jonathan Carter
     member Laura Arjona Reina
     member Thomas Lange
Hardware Donations Coordination — <hardware-donations@debian.org>
     member Bernd Zeimetz
     member Martin Zobel-Helas
     member Benjamin Mako Hill
     member Rob Bradford

Support and Infrastructure

Bug Tracking System — <owner@bugs.debian.org>
     member Don Armstrong
     member Blars Blarson
     member Josip Rodin
     member Colin Watson
Mailing Lists Administration and Mailing List Archives — <listmaster@lists.debian.org>
     member Alexander Wirt
     member Cord Beermann
     member David Moreno Garza
     member Don Armstrong
     member Martin Zobel-Helas
     member Pascal Hakim
     member Hanno Wagner
New Members Front Desk — <nm@debian.org> — delegation mail
     member Jonathan McDowell (delegate; he/him)
     member Mattia Rizzolo (delegate)
     member Santiago Ruano Rincón (delegate)
     member Tobias Frost (delegate)
     member Pierre-Elliott Bécue (delegate)
     member Sam Hartman (delegate)
     member Stuart Prescott (delegate)
     member Nicolas Dandrimont (delegate)
Debian Account Managers — <da-manager@debian.org> — delegation mail
     member Enrico Zini (delegate)
     member Joerg Jaspert (delegate)
     member Jonathan Wiltshire (delegate)
     member Nicolas Dandrimont (delegate)
     member Stuart Prescott (delegate)
To send a private message to all DAMs, use the OpenPGP key 57731224A9762EA155AB2A530CA8D15BB24D96F2.
Keyring Maintainers (OpenPGP) — <keyring-maint@debian.org> — delegation mail
     member Gunnar Wolf (delegate)
     member John Sullivan (delegate)
     member Jonathan McDowell (delegate; he/him)
Security Team — <team@security.debian.org>
     member Alberto Garcia
     member Alessandro Ghedini
     member Andres Salomon
     member Aron Xu
     member Florian Weimer
     member Markus Koschany
     member Moritz Muehlenhoff
     member Salvatore Bonaccorso
     member Sebastien Delafond
     member Thijs Kinkhorst
     member Yves-Alexis Perez
Policy — <debian-policy@lists.debian.org> — delegation mail
member Russ Allbery (delegate)
member Sean Whitton (delegate)
System Administration — <debian-admin@lists.debian.org> — delegation mail
This is the address to use when encountering problems on one of Debian's machines, including password problems or you need a package installed.
     member Adam D. Barratt (delegate)
     member Aurelien Jarno (delegate)
     member Héctor Orón Martínez (delegate)
     member Julien Cristau (delegate)
     member Luca Filipozzi (delegate)
     member Paul Wise (delegate)
     member Pierre-Elliott Bécue (delegate)
     member Peter Palfrader (delegate)
     member Tollef Fog Heen (delegate)
If you have hardware problems with Debian machines, please see Debian Machines page, it should contain per-machine administrator information.
Mirrors — <mirrors@debian.org>
     member Peter Palfrader
     member Julien Cristau
     member Adam D. Barratt
DNS Maintainer — <hostmaster@debian.org>
Package Tracking System — <owner@packages.qa.debian.org>
member Raphaël Hertzog
Treasurer — <treasurer@debian.org> — delegation mail — appointment mail
     member Brian Gupta (delegate)
     member Philipp Hug (delegate)
     member Hector Oron (delegate)
     member Daniel Lange (delegate)
Salsa administrators — <salsa-admin@debian.org> — delegation mail
     member Alexander Wirt (delegate)
     member Joerg Jaspert (delegate)
     member Thomas Goirand
     member Antonio Terceiro

Membership in other organizations

GNOME Foundation —
Linux Professional Institute —
Linux Magazine —
role Advisory Council
Linux Standards Base —
Free Standards Group —
OASIS: Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards —
Open Source Initiative —

Debian is a member of the above list of organizations, either directly or through SPI.

These organizational data can become outdated since they are not updated automatically after things change. If you find anything missing or incorrect, please send us corrections.

The complete list of official Debian members can be found on the nm.debian.org site.