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#use wml::debian::projectnews::header PUBDATE="2011-01-09" SUMMARY="Debian Edu/Skolelinux 6.0.3 beta2, bits from the DPL, new Debian Infographic, new Debtags web interface"
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# Status: [frozen]
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<p>Welcome to this year's first issue of DPN, the newsletter for the
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Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:</p>
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<toc-add-entry name="debian-edu">Debian Edu/Skolelinux 6.0.3 beta2 released</toc-add-entry>
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Petter Reinholdtsen announced the <a
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of Debian Edu Squeeze 6.0.3 beta2</a>: <a
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and installation instructions</a> are
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available on the wiki, and in particular a useful <a
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href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze/GettingStarted"><q>Getting
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Started</q> chapter</a> in which you can find explanations
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of how to log in for the first time.
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Feedback and installation reports can be send to the <a
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href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/">Debian Edu mailing list</a>.
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Debian Edu is a project aiming to make a Debian Pure Blend for educational
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purposes, which can be used in schools and other educational
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institutions. The Debian Edu project develops and maintains <a
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href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a>, a complete and free <q>out of
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the box</q> software solution for schools.
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For more information about Debian Edu, please visit the
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<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu">related wiki page</a>.
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href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/01/msg00001.html">bits
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from the DPL</a> in which he reported about the work done by Martin
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Michlmayr as Auditor, in order to reconstruct Debian's expenses and
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budgets. Stefano also sent a call for help for Wheezy artwork
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organisation, and announced that Gunnar Wolf has volunteered to monitor
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the discussion regarding the Creative Commons process for revision 4.0
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on behalf of Debian.
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<toc-add-entry name="xserver">Forthcoming new release of the X server</toc-add-entry>
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X server release 1.12</a>: one major change is the addition of
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XI2.2 patches, which are related to multitouch support. Another
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significant change is the addition of support for Intel's Sandy Bridge New
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Acceleration in the Debian packages.</p>
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Michael Hanke <a
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that the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (<q>PNAS</q>) of the United
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States of America has a <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/11/14/1115960108.abstract">\
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paper on the evolution of software in Debian</a>.
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</p>
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If you know other studies about Debian and its software, you can add it to our
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<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/CategoryPublication">related wiki
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page</a>.
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<p>
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Claudio Filho has published a beautiful <a
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href="http://claudiocomputing.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/infographic_debian_history-en-v081.png?w=300&h=165">infographic
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about Debian</a>. The main motivation was, <a
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href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2011/12/msg00066.html">as
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Claudio said</a>, <q>to "draw" for final users how Debian can be good for
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them</q>.
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Similar efforts have been made by <a
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href="http://ascendances.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/timeline_debian_1993_20111.png">Stéphane Blondon</a> and
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<a href="http://chris-lamb.co.uk/2008/03/09/timeline-of-the-debian-project/">Chris
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Lamb</a>, who created the <a href="http://timeline.debian.net/">Debian
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Timeline website</a> and the related <a
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href="http://packages.debian.org/sid/debian-timeline">Debian package</a>.
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<toc-add-entry name="debtags">New interface for Debtags website</toc-add-entry>
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Enrico Zini announced a <a
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href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/01/msg00000.html">\
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new interface for the Debtags website</a>. Debtags is a project to
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classify Debian packages by adding tags to them: <q>Debtags attaches
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categories (we call them tags) to packages, creating a new set of useful
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structured metadata that can be used to implement more advanced ways of
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presenting, searching, maintaining and navigating the package
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archive</q>, Enrico said <a
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href="http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/paper-debtags.html">while presenting the project in 2005</a>.
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href="http://debtags.debian.net/search/">search packages</a>, take a look
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at <a href="http://debtags.debian.net/statistics/">statistics about
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Debtags</a> and, obviously, <a
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href="http://debtags.debian.net/getting-started/">help with the tagging
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effort</a>. For more information about Debtags, you can visit the <a
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href="http://wiki.debian.org/Debtags">related wiki page</a>.
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<toc-add-entry name="defoma">apt-get purge defoma</toc-add-entry>
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<p>
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Paul Wise reported that <a
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href="http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2012/01/07/apt-get-purge-defoma/">the
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t transition from defoma to fontconfig is finally complete</a>. Defoma is
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the Debian-specific font manager, long unmaintained, while the
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replacement (fontconfig) is cross-distribution and also has wide support
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from upstreams. In the past three years the <a
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href="http://pkg-fonts.alioth.debian.org/">Debian Fonts Task Force</a>
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has worked a lot in order to gain this result, thanks especially to the
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work of Christian Perrier and Paul Wise. Please note that the transition
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is not completely smooth: <q>Xorg does not yet support fontconfig so for
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now programs relying on server-side fonts will only be able to use the
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<tt>xfonts-</tt> packages shipping their fonts in the directories known
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by the X server</q> and in addition <q>there are some <a
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href="http://wiki.debian.org/gs-undefoma">issues</a> with Ghostscript and
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CJK</q>, Paul said.
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</p>
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t <p>Since the last issue of the Debian Project News,
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two new issues of the <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/ThisWeekInDebian"><q>This week in
|
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t Debian</q> podcast</a> have been published: with
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<a href="http://frostbitemedia.org/node/35">Jonathan Nadeau</a>,
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about the Northeast GNU/Linux Fest; and with
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<a href="http://frostbitemedia.org/node/31">Raphaël Hertzog</a>,
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about the Debian handbook.
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</p>
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<p>There has also been a
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<q>People behind Debian</q> interview with
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<a href="http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/12/13/people-behind-debian-ben-hutchings-member-of-the-kernel-team/">Ben
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Hutchings</a>, member of the kernel team.
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t </p>
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<p>
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In addition the <a href="http://neuro.debian.net/">NeuroDebian team</a> were
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<a href="http://incf.org/newsroom/stories/neurodebian-the-value-of-an-integrated-tool-suite">interviewed</a>
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by the <acronym lang="en" title="International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility">INCF</acronym>.
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</p>
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t <toc-add-entry name="other">Other news</toc-add-entry>
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<p>The 27th issue of the
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<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/12/msg00001.html">miscellaneous news for developers</a>
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t has been released and covers the following topics:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Planet Debian Derivatives</li>
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<li>win32-loader.exe now eases access to the GNU/Hurd Debian-Installer</li>
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<li>Wiki bugstatus extended to Launchpad bugs</li>
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<li>dh-exec entering unstable</li>
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<li>derivatives patch generation prototype</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Uwe Hermann published a useful <a
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href="http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/howto-using-openvpn-on-debian-gnu-linux">quick
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howto on using OpenVPN on Debian GNU/Linux</a>.</p>
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<p>
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Jonas Smedegaard reported that <a
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href="http://aceh.tribunnews.com/2011/12/11/ayo-jadi-hacker">the
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Indonesian newspaper <q>Serambi</q> dedicated an article to his
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Debian involvement</a> after his presence at a radio talkshow in Aceh,
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Indonesia. Jonas was travelling Asia in order to deliver a series of talks
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dedicated to <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends">Debian Pure Blends</a>.
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More information about his trip are available on a related <a
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href="http://wiki.jones.dk/DebianAsia2011">wiki page</a>.
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</p>
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<p>
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The web team is pleased to announce that <a
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href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=567781">all
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languages have finished their migration to UTF-8</a>, so the <a
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href="$(HOME)">Debian website</a> is now available for everyone
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in UTF-8, thanks to all the translators who worked on this issue.
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</p>
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<p>
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Asheesh Laroia wrote an <a
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href="http://www.asheesh.org/note/debian/short-key-ids-are-bad-news.html">interesting
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| 194 : |
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article about short key IDs with OpenPGP and GNU Privacy Guard</a>,
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arguing that using them is fundamentally insecure as it's easy to
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generate collisions for short key IDs.
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</p>
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<p>The Debian Project was mentioned in an article by Bruce Byfield on
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Datamation titled <a
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href="http://www.datamation.com/open-source/2011-the-year-of-linux-disappointments-1.html"><q>2011:
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The Year of Linux Disappointments</q></a>. According to the author, in
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fact, while various Open Source projects saw a decline in 2011, the
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Debian project <q>spent much of 2011 reinventing itself. In the past few
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twelve months, it has — among other things — tried to encourage
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cooperation among its derivatives, revamped its new member process, and
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experimented with IRC training sessions.</q>
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</p>
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<p>
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Martin Zobel-Helas announced that <a
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href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2012/01/msg00040.html">he has
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applied the main theme of Debian website to db.debian.org, the
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internal LDAP directory of Debian Developers</a>. In the previous days, thanks
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to Cristoph Berg, the <a href="http://qa.debian.org/">Debian Quality
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Assurance website</a> had also switched to the main theme.
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</p>
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<toc-add-entry name="events">Upcoming events</toc-add-entry>
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<p>There are several upcoming Debian related events:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>January 18, Ballarat, AU - <a
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href="http://linux.conf.au/schedule/36/view_talk?day=wednesday">Freedom,
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|
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Out of the Box!</a> by Bdale Garbee</li>
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<li>January 18, 's-Hertogenbosch, NL - a workshop on
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<a href="http://lug.project073.nl/blog/events/debian-packaging-derde-bijeenkomst/">Debian
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Packaging</a></li>
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<li>January 20-22, Los Angeles, US - Debian booth at the
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<a href="$(HOME)/events/2012/0120-scale10x">Tenth Annual Southern
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California Linux Expo</a></li>
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</ul>
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<p>
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You can find more information about Debian related events and talks
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on the <a href="$(HOME)/events">events section</a> of the Debian web
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site, or subscribe to one of our events mailing lists for different regions:
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<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu">Europe</a>,
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<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-nl">Netherlands</a>,
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<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-ha">Hispanic America</a>,
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<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-na">North America</a>.
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</p>
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<p>Do you want to organise a Debian booth or a Debian install party?
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madamezou |
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Are you aware of other upcoming Debian related events?
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jbr-guest |
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Have you delivered a Debian talk and want to link it on our
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<a href="$(HOME)/events/talks">talks page</a>?
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