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a private cloud</a>: among the others,
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lure of giving up their freedoms in exchange of some flexibility,</q>
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infrastructure to Debian: the computer controlling the
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particle accelerator has been already migrated, as well as some data
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analysis servers and part of the computer cluster.
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various European countries which operates the most powerful synchrotron
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radiation source in Europe.
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the most used software and libraries in our field of research, and a rock
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solid distribution with security fixes,</q> added Jerome in
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report on DPL activities</a>. During the last month, Stefano informed the
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project about
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proposal of revenue sharing agreement from DuckDuckGo</a>, marked as
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Japan to SPI.
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<a href="http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2012/03/26/news/intervista_debian-30986031/">an
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interview about Debian and Free Software in general</a> (in italian),
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<a href="http://xbmc.org/theuni/2012/04/10/xbmc-accepted-into-debian/">accepted
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Loic Dachary sent a
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from OpenStack summit</a> where he represented the Debian Project.
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<a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1284809/focus%3D1285786">he will
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substitution of Greg Kroah-Harman</a>. Last January, Ben announced that
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<li>April 29-30, Shanghai, China — <a href="$(HOME)/events/2012/0429-shangai-bsp">Debian Bug Squashing Party</a></li>
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<li>May 11-13, York, UK — <a href="$(HOME)/events/2012/0511-york-bsp">Debian Bug Squashing Party</a></li>
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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="$(HOME)/events/talks">talks page</a>?
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One applicant has been
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<a href="https://nm.debian.org/nmlist.php#newmaint">accepted</a>
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as Debian Developers and
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Nine people have <a href="http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi">started
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to maintain packages</a> since the previous issue of the Debian
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Project News. Please welcome
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Eduardo Trápani, Norman Messtorff, Frank Neuber, Daniel Pocock,
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Artur Rona, Yongzhi Pan, Nuno Carvalho, Daniel Martí, Jussi
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Hakala, Eric Beuque into our project!</p>
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<toc-add-entry name="rcstats">Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release</toc-add-entry>
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<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2453">gajim</a>,
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<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2455">typo3-src</a>,
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<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2456">dropbear</a>,
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<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2457">iceweasel</a>,
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<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2458">iceape</a>,
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<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2460">asterisk</a> and
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