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Welcome to this year's 2nd issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian Welcome to this year's second issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
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surveys on 1 June so that analysis of the results can begin. Please participate if you surveys on 1 June 2008 so that analysis of the results can begin. Please participate if you
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At Monday the 28th of April 2008, the DPL announced one more DAM to the team, distributing workload. [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/04/msg00015.html Read more]. At Monday, 28 April 2008, the DPL announced one more DAM to the team, distributing workload. [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/04/msg00015.html Read more].
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[http://debian.ch Debian.ch] will offer the first Debian Switzerland t-shirts
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Welcome to this year's second issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. We would like to thank everyone for his feedback on the last issue of the Debian Project News! We didn't reckoned a tiny newsletter would cause such an sensation - we where even mentioned in some print magazines! So many, many thanks! We'll try our very best to come up and exceed your expectations!

Stefano Zacchiroli reported that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_berners-lee Sir Tim Berners-Lee] offered [http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2008/04/unexpected_kudos_from_TBL/ Debian kudos] for its well thought-out encapsulation/packaging of libraries at the [www2008 conference] in China. Paul Wise will [http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/05/msg00006.html close] his [http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/03/msg02475.html Debian user] and [http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2008/03/msg00030.html Debian new contributor] surveys on 1 June 2008 so that analysis of the results can begin. Please participate if you haven't done so, yet.

Debian and Googles Summer of Code

The Debian Project [http://lists.debian.org/debian-news/2008/msg00001.html announced] to participate again in Googles Summer of Code Program. Twelve students will get the opportunity to work on different projects during their summer vacation while Google will fund them.

Development progress

The development efforts to release the next stable Debian release codenamed "Lenny" in September continue. While the transition to Python 2.5 as default python version is allready completed, the transition to Perl 5.10 is still ongoing. So the freeze, the phase when developers will concentrate on fixing bugs instead of adding new features, will be called soon.

Andreas Barth, release manager for Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 "Sarge" and Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 "Etch" announced, that Marc Brockschmidt joined the team of release managers, while he steps back as release wizard.

Debian Project Leader interviews

In two recently published interviews of our the new elected Debian Project Leader, Steve ?McIntyre presented a bit more about the Debian Project. The interviews can be found on [http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39406494,00.htm ZDNet], and [http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?RSS&entryid=741 ?ComputerWorld UK.

debimg, a new software to replace debian-cd

[:DebImg:debimg] is software designed to replace debian-cd. It current feature set is very limited, but building single disks for i386 and amd64 is possible (netinst disks build in about 5 seconds. It still misses many features like disk sets and multi-arch.

If you want to try it out, follow the instructions given in the [http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2008/04/msg00010.html 0.0.3 release announcement]. It's very easy.

19 new Debian Developers this week: The Debian Project improves its New Maintainer process

At Friday, 18 April 2008, 19 new Debian Developers (DD) accounts were created.

One of the bottlenecks is the Debian Accout Management (DAM), and Sam Hocevar delegated some important tasks to more people, distributing future workload. While the batch of new DD accounts were created, he issued a Debian Project Leader (DPL) announcement just before transferring position to the new elected DPL, Steve McIntyre. [http://times.debian.net/1234 Read more]. [http://www.techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_blog/debian_project_improves_nm_process Alternative URL].

At Monday, 28 April 2008, the DPL announced one more DAM to the team, distributing workload. [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/04/msg00015.html Read more].

Christoh Berg, who has recently been added to the [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/04/msg00015.html DAM team] thanked [http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2008/04/msg00064.html Martin Michlmayr], who has been Application Manager for more than 120 Applicants interested in joining the Debian Project as official Debian Developer.

Planets for Debian Contributors up again, ready for new feeds and languages

[http://layer-acht.org/blog/debian/#1-165 Holger Levsen reported] that after a severe hardware failure, now all [http://wiki.debian-community.org/planets/ local planets for Debian contributors] are up again. Currently there are only [http://wiki.debian-community.org/planets/en/ English], [http://wiki.debian-community.org/planets/it/ Italian] and [http://wiki.debian-community.org/planets/de/ German planets], but the guys at [http://debian-community.org Debian-community.org] are doing a great job and encourage new contributors to submit their feeds or request new localized planets.

ArtistX, based on Debian Live Initiative

[http://www.artistx.org ArtistX] is a free live GNU / Linux DVD which turns a computer into a full multimedia production studio.

ArtistX is based on the [http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org Debian Live Initiative] and includes the 2.6.22 Kernel, Gnome 2.20 , KDE 3.5.7 (both versions ship with both Desktop Environments), the [http://www.powua.com Powua] Client and Powua Tutorials and about 2500 free multimedia software, audio, 2D and 3D graphics, video software, nearly everything that exists for the GNU/Linux environment.

It doesn't need to be installed, and boots directly into a running system without touching hard drives. The files produced with ArtistX can be easily stored on USB devices or CD/DVD medium while it is running. If you want to install it please take a look to our documentation to the ArtistX Installation Manual (Live DVD section).

Powua, a new kind of business enabled using Debian

[http://www.powua.com Powua] is a super computer consisting of many processors that work simultaneously to generate a high computing power, which users can access from wherever they are, directly on their computer, through a simple Internet connection. Powua allows anyone to save time by processing information and realizing their projects more quickly, opening the way to new possibilities.

Debian GNU / Linux [http://www.powua.com/mission/mission enabled] this kind of business, because it has good [http://www.techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_blog/massive_installation_management_tools_p_1 massive scale management tools], it is a [http://www.debian.org/intro/free libre Operating System] by its [http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution Constitution] and [http://www.debian.org/social_contract Social Contract], and has 18733+ of [http://qa.debian.org/ officially] maintained [http://packages.debian.org/ prepackaged] applications on [http://www.debian.org/ports 15 hardware platforms].

Xteque s.r.l. , the Italian company behind Powua, also [http://www.powua.com/mission/back contributes back to the communities] with donations of money and computing power. Your institution may apply for the [http://www.debian.org/partners/partners Debian Partner Program] or make various kinds of [http://www.debian.org/donations donations] to the Debian Project.

Canadian British Columbia's School District #73 opts for Debian GNU / Linux

Kamloops Thompson School District #73, British Columbia, Canada, with 55 elementary and secondary schools, chose a majority of open source software on Debian GNU / Linux as it is easier to maintain and in their experience offers better support. [http://times.debian.net/1236 Read more]. [http://www.techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_blog/british_columbian_school_district_73_chose_debian Alternative URL].

Debian Project will be at Swiss Linux Days 2008

From Wednesday, 21 May 2008 to Thursday, 22 May 2008, Geneva, Switzerland, Debian Project will participate with a booth at Swiss Linux Days 2008. Debian-Med will also be presented at a talk. Please see http://www.debian.org/events/2008/0521-swiss-linuxdays for further details.

[http://debian.ch Debian.ch] will offer the first Debian Switzerland t-shirts at this conference for sale. All revenues and donations go directly to Debian.

Debian Project will be at Linux Tag 2008

From Wednesday, 28 May 2008 to Saturday, 31 May 2008, Berlin, Germany, Debian Project will participate with a booth at Linux Tag 2008. Please see http://www.debian.org/events/2008/0528-linuxtag for further details.

Other news

Lior Kaplan [http://liorkaplan.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/firefox-triage-has-ended-300-bugs-processed/ reported], that he finished triage of oover 300 bugs reported against the iceweasel / firefox packages. Of those 300 bugs only 70 are still valid for a version of firefox shipped in a Debian release.

Christian Perrier [http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2008/04/23#l10n-nmu-lenny-2 reported] progress in his campaign to fix outstanding bugs relation to internationalization. Three languages finished translating more than 90% of the Debconf translation (and two might reach the 100% mark before the release of Lenny), while a fourth one just crossed the 80% mark.

Ana Guerrero [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/04/msg00010.html summarized] the meetings different teams had during the last year in the Region Extremadura in Spain. The regional goverment is a heavy user of Debian and sponsored teams to meet in person and work together. Beneath those teams where the Debian Edu team, the Quality Assurance team, the VoIP team, the Zope team, the Qt/KDE team and the i18n team.

Andre Felipe Machado, Adrian von Bidder, Luca Bruno, Jeff Richards, Julian Andres Klode, Martin F- Krafft and Alexander Schmehl contributed to this issue of the Debian Project News.

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