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<a href="http://frostbitemedia.libsyn.com/this-week-in-debian-episode-XXX">XXX</a>, xxx; and with
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Schweer</a> and
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<p>The xxth issue of the
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from the fifth Debian Groupware Meeting</a>,
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while <a href="http://packages.debian.org/iceowl">iceowl</a> (dead upstream)
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remains in <q>experimental</q>.
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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>April 19-20, San Francisco, USA — Debian table at <a href="$(HOME)/events/2012/0419-openstack">OpenStack Conference</a></li>
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<li>April 28, Graz, Austria — Debian booth at <a href="$(HOME)/events/2012/0428-GLT12">Grazer Linuxtage</a></li>
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<li>April 29-30, Shangai, China — <a href="$(HOME)/events/2012/0429-shangai-bsp">Debian Bug Squashing
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Party</a></li>
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You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks
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on the <a href="$(HOME)/events">events section</a> of the Debian web site,
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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>Do you want to organise a Debian booth or a Debian install party?
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Are you aware of other upcoming Debian-related events?
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Have you delivered a Debian talk that you want to link on our
|
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<a href="$(HOME)/events/talks">talks page</a>?
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t XXX applicants have been
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<a href="https://nm.debian.org/nmlist.php#newmaint">accepted</a>
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t as Debian Developers,
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XXX applicants have been
|
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<a href="http://lists.debian.org/...">accepted</a>
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t as Debian Maintainer, and
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t XXX people have <a href="http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi">started
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to maintain packages</a> since the previous issue of the Debian
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Project News. Please welcome
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t into our project!</p>
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<toc-add-entry name="rcstats">Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release</toc-add-entry>
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## release= codename for the current testing release
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## tobefixed: number of bugs as defined byt this UDD query → http://ur1.ca/8p8lo
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<a href="http://lists.debian.org/"></a>,
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t security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please
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uest list</a> (and the separate <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/">backports
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t list</a>, and <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/">stable updates
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list</a>) for announcements.
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t 282 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive
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recently. <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg">Among
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many others</a> are:</p>
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t <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xul-ext-automatic-save-folder">xul-ext-automatic-save-folder — Download helper for Firefox which automates the sorting and saving of files</a></li>
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tolimar |
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madamezou |
3393 |
<wnpp link="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/..."
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tolimar |
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taffit-gue |
1933 |
t <toc-add-entry name="continuedpn">Want to continue reading DPN?</toc-add-entry>
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tolimar |
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madamezou |
3393 |
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madamezou |
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#use wml::debian::projectnews::footer editor="XXX, Moray Allan, Cédric Boutillier, Francesca Ciceri, David Prévot, Justin B Rye"
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