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<p>Welcome to this year's eleventh issue of DPN, the newsletter for the
Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:</p>
<ul>
  <li><a href="#1">Bits from the Debian Women project</a></li>
  <li><a href="#2">DebConf10 DPL report</a></li>
  <li><a href="#3">baz</a></li>
  <li><a href="#4">... and much more</a>.</li>
</ul>


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<h2>Bits from the Debian Women project</h2>

<p>The <a href="http://women.debian.org">Debian Women project</a> aims at
getting more women to participate in Debian, as packagers, bug reporters,
technical documentation writers, bug fixers, translators, artists and in
any other area that helps the development of Debian.  These goals are
achieved through IRC tutorials, a mentoring program, a mailing list and an
IRC channel.</p>

<p>The <a href="http://women.debian.org/mentoring/">Mentoring Program</a>,
allows men and women that want to contribute to Debian but aren't sure
where or how to start, to get some help with their first steps.</p>

<p>There have been at least 38 women that have contributed in packaging
software for Debian, and there are currently 11 female Debian Developers
and 1 Debian Maintainer.  The group would like to raise those numbers to 50
packagers by the end of 2011, and 20 Debian Developers by the end of
2012.<br/> There are also some other <a
href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWomen/Statistics">interesting
statistics</a> about the current female participation in Debian.</p> 

<p>The project is also interested in getting more women to file and fix
bugs, translate debconf templates or package descriptions, contribute to
the release notes, as well as participate in any other areas of the Debian
project.  In order to do this, we will be holding some <a
href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWomen/TrainingSessions">IRC training
sessions</a> in the near future, to help people get started. We are
currently making the list of subjects and trainers, we'll publish more news
about this once the first sessions are scheduled.</p>

<p>For more information you can join the IRC channel #debian-women on
irc.oftc.net, or subscribe to the <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-women">debian-women mailing list</a>.
If you are a Spanish speaker, you can also join the #debian-mujeres IRC
channel on irc.oftc.net.</p>


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<h2>DebConf10 DPL report</h2>

<p>The Debian Project Leader (DPL), Stefano Zacchiroli, provided a report
after the recent DebConf in New York City. 
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/08/msg00007.html">In the
report</a> he discusses his recent activity speaking with academics in the Social
Sciences, as well as some other Debian developments. He discusses Joey Hess' CUT 
proposal, a proposal that would help users understand that debian testing is actually
quite usable and work to polish it even more so that this becomes more apparent. He 
also mentions the Release Critical Bug squashing Contest (RCBC) which has prizes!
<a href="http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/RCBC#RC_Bug_Squashing_Contest">More
here.</a>
</p>

<p>
In addition to those subjects he also added some details on Debian Derivatives, 
the relationship between DebConf and Debian and init systems. As always, a wealth
of important information from the DPL.
</p>



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<h2>Other news</h2>

<p>The xxth issue of the
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/">miscellaneous news for developers</a> 
has been released and covers the following topics:</p>
<ul>
  <li></li>
  <li></li>
  <li></li>
  <li></li>
  <li></li>
</ul>



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<h2>New Developers and Maintainers</h2>

	<p>
XXX applicants have been
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2009/01/msg00009.html">accepted</a>
	as Debian Developers and
XXX applicants has been
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2008/12/msg00086.html">accepted</a>
	as Debian Maintainer since the previous issue of the Debian
	Project News.  Please welcome
X, Y, and Z
	into our project!</p>


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<h2>Release-critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release</h2>

	<p>According to the <a href="http://bts.turmzimmer.net/details.php">unofficial
	release-citical bug counter</a>, the upcoming release,
	Debian 6.0 <q>Squeeze</q>, is currently affected by
XXX release-critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved
	or on the way of being solved, roughly speaking, about
XXX release critical bugs remain to be solved for the
	release to happen.</p>

	<p>There are also <a
href="http://blog.schmehl.info/Debian/rc-stats/#2010-XX">more detailed
	statistics</a> as well as some <a
	href="http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/RC-Stats">hints on how to
	interprete</a> these numbers.</p>


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<h2>Important Debian Security Advisories</h2>

	<p>Debian's Security Team recently released
	advisories for these packages (among others):
<a href="http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2097">phpmyadmin</a>,
<a href="http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2098">typo3-src</a>,

	Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.</p>

<p>Please note that these are a selection of the more important security
advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about
security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please
subscribe to the <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/">security mailing
list</a> for announcements.</p>


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<h2>New and noteworthy packages</h2>

<p>The following packages were added to the unstable Debian archive
recently (<a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg">among
others</a>):</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/XXX">\
	XXXX &mdash; XXXX</a></li>
</ul>

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<h2>Work-needing packages</h2>

	<p>Currently
XXX packages are orphaned and
XXX packages are up for adoption. Please take a look at the
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/E1Oomo8-0003kY-F5@merkel.debian.org">recent</a>
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/...">reports</a>
	to see if there are packages you are interested in or view the complete
	list of <a href="http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested">packages
	which need your help</a>.</p>


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<h2>Want to continue reading DPN?</h2>

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