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- #use wml::debian::projectnews::header PUBDATE="2011-01-09" SUMMARY=""
+ #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"
  # $Id$
  # $Rev$
- # Status: [open-for-edit]
+ # Status: [frozen]
  <p>Welcome to this year's first issue of DPN, the newsletter for the
  Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:</p>
  <toc-display/>
- # /!\ beta2 expected Saturday, will need s/beta1/beta2/ and link update
+ <toc-add-entry name="debian-edu">Debian Edu/Skolelinux 6.0.3 beta2 released</toc-add-entry>
- <toc-add-entry name="debian-edu">Debian Edu/Skolelinux 6.0.3 beta1 released</toc-add-entry>
  <p>
- Holger Levsen announced the <a
+ Petter Reinholdtsen announced the <a
- href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/12/msg00683.html">release
+ href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2012/01/msg00129.html">release
- of Debian Edu Squeeze 6.0.3 beta1</a>: <a
+ of Debian Edu Squeeze 6.0.3 beta2</a>: <a
  href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze/Installation">download
  and installation instructions</a> are
  available on the wiki, and in particular a useful <a
  href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze/GettingStarted"><q>Getting
  Started</q> chapter</a> in which you can find explanations
- on how to login for the first time.
+ of how to log in for the first time.
  Feedback and installation reports can be send to the <a
  href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/">Debian Edu mailing list</a>.
  </p>
- <toc-add-entry name="D-I-l10n">Update for Debian Installer localization</toc-add-entry>
  <p>
- Christian Perrier send a <a
+ Debian Edu is a project aiming to make a Debian Pure Blend for educational
- href="http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2012/01/01#di-l10n-update-2012-01">some</a> <a
+ purposes, which can be used in schools and other educational
- href="http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2012/01/02#di-l10n-update-2012-02">reports</a>
+ institutions. The Debian Edu project develops and maintains <a
- <a
+ href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a>, a complete and free <q>out of
- href=http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2012/01/05#di-l10n-update-2012-03">
+ the box</q> software solution for schools.
- on Debian Installer localization</a>. In the first one, he announced the
+ For more information about Debian Edu, please visit the
-% completeness for the following languages: Czech, German, Persian,
+ <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu">related wiki page</a>.
- French, Kazakh, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Ukrainian; while
+ </p>
- Italian is nearly fully complete (only missing two strings!). In his
- second report, Christian announced that <q>A very important and critical
+ <toc-add-entry name="DPL">Bits from the DPL</toc-add-entry>
- fix to partman-zfs broke a string in sublevel 4. Complete languages count
- is thus down to zero.</q>: for now, there's no language fully complete.
+ <p>
- In the last one, Italian and Ukrainian completed level 2 (and Italian is
+ Stefano Zacchiroli sent some <a
- so now fully completed) and 18 languages has already recovered from the
+ href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/01/msg00001.html">bits
- previous breakage.
+ from the DPL</a> in which he reported about the work done by Martin
+ Michlmayr as Auditor, in order to reconstruct Debian's expenses and
+ budgets. Stefano also sent a call for help for Wheezy artwork
+ organisation, and announced that Gunnar Wolf has volunteered to monitor
+ the discussion regarding the Creative Commons process for revision 4.0
+ on behalf of Debian.
  </p>
  <toc-add-entry name="xserver">Forthcoming new release of the X server</toc-add-entry>
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  <p>Cyril Brulebois blogged about the <a
  href="http://blog.mraw.org/2012/01/01/XServer_1.12RC1/">forthcoming
  X server release 1.12</a>: one major change is the addition of
- XI2.2 patches, which are related to the multitouch support. Another
+ XI2.2 patches, which are related to multitouch support. Another
  significant change is the addition of support for Intel's Sandy Bridge New
  Acceleration in the Debian packages.</p>
  <toc-add-entry name="pnas">Scientific article on Debian in PNAS</toc-add-entry>
  <p>
- Micheal Hanke <a
+ Michael Hanke <a
  href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2011/12/msg00000.html">noted</a>
  that the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (<q>PNAS</q>) of the United
  States of America has a <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/11/14/1115960108.abstract">\
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  <toc-add-entry name="infographic">New Debian Infographic</toc-add-entry>
  <p>
  Claudio Filho has published a beautiful <a
- href="http://claudiocomputing.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/infographic_debian_history-en-v081.png?w=300&h=165">infographic
+ href="http://claudiocomputing.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/infographic_debian_history-en-v081.png?w=300&amp;h=165">infographic
  about Debian</a>. The main motivation was, <a
  href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2011/12/msg00066.html">as
  Claudio said</a>, <q>to "draw" for final users how Debian can be good for
  them</q>.
  <br />
- Similar efforts were made <a
+ Similar efforts have been made by <a
- href="http://ascendances.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/timeline_debian_1993_20111.png">by Stéphane Blondon</a> and
+ href="http://ascendances.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/timeline_debian_1993_20111.png">Stéphane Blondon</a> and
  <a href="http://chris-lamb.co.uk/2008/03/09/timeline-of-the-debian-project/">Chris
  Lamb</a>, who created the <a href="http://timeline.debian.net/">Debian
  Timeline website</a> and the related <a
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  <p>
  Enrico Zini announced a <a
  href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/01/msg00000.html">\
- new interface for the Debtags website</a>. Debtags is a project born to
+ new interface for the Debtags website</a>. Debtags is a project to
- classify Debian packages adding tags to them: <q>Debtags attaches
+ classify Debian packages by adding tags to them: <q>Debtags attaches
  categories (we call them tags) to packages, creating a new set of useful
  structured metadata that can be used to implement more advanced ways of
  presenting, searching, maintaining and navigating the package
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  Paul Wise reported that <a
  href="http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2012/01/07/apt-get-purge-defoma/">the
  transition from defoma to fontconfig is finally complete</a>. Defoma is
- the Debian-specific font manager, long-time unmaintained while the
+ the Debian-specific font manager, long unmaintained, while the
- replacement (fontconfig) is cross-distribution and has a wide support
+ replacement (fontconfig) is cross-distribution and also has wide support
- also from upstreams. In the past three years the <a
+ from upstreams. In the past three years the <a
  href="http://pkg-fonts.alioth.debian.org/">Debian Fonts Task Force</a>
- has worked a lot in order to gain this result, thanks specially to the
+ has worked a lot in order to gain this result, thanks especially to the
  work of Christian Perrier and Paul Wise. Please note that the transition
  is not completely smooth:<q>Xorg does not yet support fontconfig so for
  now programs relying on server-side fonts will only be able to use the
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  </p>
          <p>There has also been a
-  <q>People behind Debian</q> interviews with
+  <q>People behind Debian</q> interview with
  <a href="http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/12/13/people-behind-debian-ben-hutchings-member-of-the-kernel-team/">Ben
  Hutchings</a>, member of the kernel team.
  </p>
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  </p>
  <p>
- The web team is pleased announce that <a
+ The web team is pleased to announce that <a
  href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=567781">all
  languages have finished their migration to UTF-8</a>, so the <a
  href="$(HOME)">Debian website</a> is now available for everyone
- in UTF-8, thanks to all translators who worked on this issue.
+ in UTF-8, thanks to all the translators who worked on this issue.
  </p>
  <p>
  Asheesh Laroia wrote an <a
  href="http://www.asheesh.org/note/debian/short-key-ids-are-bad-news.html">interesting
  article about short key IDs with OpenPGP and GNU Privacy Guard</a>,
- argumenting that using them is fundamentally insecure as it's easy to
+ arguing that using them is fundamentally insecure as it's easy to
  generate collisions for short key IDs.
  </p>
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  Debian project <q>spent much of 2011 reinventing itself. In the past few
  twelve months, it has — among other things — tried to encourage
  cooperation among its derivatives, revamped its new member process, and
- experimented with IRC training sessions.</q>.
+ experimented with IRC training sessions.</q>
  </p>
  <p>
  Martin Zobel-Helas announced that <a
- href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2012/01/msg00040.html">he
+ href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2012/01/msg00040.html">he has
- applied the main theme of Debian website also to db.debian.org, the
+ applied the main theme of Debian website to db.debian.org, the
  internal LDAP directory of Debian Developers</a>. In the previous days, thanks
- to Cristoph Berg, also the <a href="http://qa.debian.org/">Debian Quality
+ to Cristoph Berg, the <a href="http://qa.debian.org/">Debian Quality
- Assurance website</a> switched to the main theme.
+ Assurance website</a> had also switched to the main theme.
  </p>
- <add-entry name="events">Upcoming events</toc-add-entry>
+ <toc-add-entry name="events">Upcoming events</toc-add-entry>
  <p>There are several upcoming Debian related events:</p>
  <ul>
-  <li><tt>January 18th, Ballarat, AU</tt><a
+  <li>January 18, Ballarat, AU - <a
   href="http://linux.conf.au/schedule/36/view_talk?day=wednesday">Freedom,
   Out of the Box!</a> by Bdale Garbee</li>
-  <li><tt>January 18th, 's-Hertogenbosch, NL</tt> a workshop on
+  <li>January 18, 's-Hertogenbosch, NL - a workshop on
   <a href="http://lug.project073.nl/blog/events/debian-packaging-derde-bijeenkomst/">Debian
-  Packaging</li>
+  Packaging</a></li>
-  <li><tt>January 20th - 22nd, Los Angeles, US</tt> Debian booth at <a href="$(HOME)/events/2012/0120-scale10x">Tenth Annual Southern
+  <li>January 20-22, Los Angeles, US - Debian booth at the
+  <a href="$(HOME)/events/2012/0120-scale10x">Tenth Annual Southern
   California Linux Expo</a></li>
  </ul>
  <p>
  You can find more information about Debian related events and talks
- on the <a href="$(HOME)/events">events section</a> of Debian web site
+ on the <a href="$(HOME)/events">events section</a> of the Debian web
- or subscribing to one of our events mailing lists for different regions:
+ site, or subscribe to one of our events mailing lists for different regions:
  <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu">Europe</a>,
  <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-nl">Netherlands</a>,
  <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-ha">Hispanic America</a>,
  <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-na">North America</a>.
  </p>
- <p>Do you want to organize a Debian booth or a Debian install party?
+ <p>Do you want to organise a Debian booth or a Debian install party?
  Are you aware of other upcoming Debian related events?
  Have you delivered a Debian talk and want to link it on our
  <a href="$(HOME)/events/talks">talks page</a>?
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          interpret</a> these numbers.</p>
+ <toc-add-entry name="l10n">Status of Debian Installer localisation</toc-add-entry>
+ <p>
+ In his last report on <a
+ href="http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2012/01/05#di-l10n-update-2012-03">\
+ Debian Installer localisation</a>, Christian Perrier noted that
+ eighteen languages are currently up to date for D-I's core files;
+ ten (Czech, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Kazakh, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian and Slovak)
+ are 100% complete for the moment.
+ <p>
+ <p>
+ Christian informed us <a
+ href="http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2012/01/02#di-l10n-update-2012-02">previously</a>
+ that <q>A very important and critical fix to
+ partman-zfs broke a string in sublevel 4.</q>
+ That explains why the results are lower than the <a
+ href="$(HOME)/News/weekly/2011/14/#di">last time</a> we relayed the
+ translation status, but translators are quickly working to make
+ the Debian Installer completely available in many languages.
+ </p>
  <toc-add-entry name="dsa">Important Debian Security Advisories</toc-add-entry>
          <p>Debian's Security Team recently released
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  <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xcp-xapi">\
  xcp-xapi &mdash; Xen Cloud Platform XenAPI server</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/zanshin">\
-         zanshin &mdash; to-do list manager</a></li>
+         zanshin &mdash; to-do list manager for KDE</a></li>
  </ul>
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  at <a href="mailto:debian-publicity@lists.debian.org">debian-publicity@lists.debian.org</a>.</p>
- #use wml::debian::projectnews::footer editor="Francesca Ciceri, David Prévot, Justin B Rye, Paul Wise"
+ #use wml::debian::projectnews::footer editor="Cédric Boutillier, Francesca Ciceri, David Prévot, Justin B Rye, Paul Wise"
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