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<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 beta1 released</toc-add-entry>

<p>
Holger Levsen announced the <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/12/msg00683.html">release
of Debian Edu Squeeze 6.0.3 beta1</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.
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
href="http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/bubulle/planet-debian">couple
of</a> <a
href="http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2012/01/02#di-l10n-update-2012-02">report
on Debian Installer localization</a>. In the first one, he announced the
100% completeness for the following languages: Czech, German, Persian,
French, Kazakh, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Ukrainian; while
Italian is nearly fully complete (only missing two strings!). In his
second report, Christian announced that <q>A very important and critical
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>

<toc-add-entry name="xserver">Forthcoming new release of the X server</toc-add-entry>

<p>Cyril Brulebois blogged about <a
href="http://blog.mraw.org/2012/01/01/XServer_1.12RC1/">the forthcoming
X server release X 1.12 RC1</a>: the major change is the addition of
XI2.2 patches, which are related to the multitouch support. Another
significant change is the addition of support for Intel's SandyBrige's New
Acceleration.</p>

<toc-add-entry name="pnas">Scientific article on Debian in PNAS</toc-add-entry>

<p>
Micheal 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 href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/11/14/1115960108.abstract">a
paper on the evolution of software in Debian</a>.
<br />
If you know other studies about Debian and its software, you can add it to our
<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/CategoryPublication">related wiki
page</a>.
</p>

<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
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
href="http://ascendances.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/timeline_debian_1993_20111.png">by 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
href="http://packages.debian.org/sid/debian-timeline">Debian package</a>.
</p>

<toc-add-entry name="interviews">Further interviews</toc-add-entry>

	<p>Since the last issue of the Debian Project News, 
 new issues of the <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/ThisWeekInDebian"><q>This week in
	Debian</q> podcast</a> have been published:  with
<a href="http://frostbitemedia.libsyn.com/this-week-in-debian-episode-XXX">XXX</a>, xxx; and with
<a href="http://frostbitemedia.libsyn.com/this-week-in-debian-episode-XXX">XXX</a>, xxx.
</p>

	<p>There have also been 
 further <q>People behind Debian</q> interviews: 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; and with
<a href="http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/">
</a>, .
</p>

<p>
In addition the <a href="http://neuro.debian.net/">NeuroDebian team</a> were
<a href="http://incf.org/newsroom/stories/neurodebian-the-value-of-an-integrated-tool-suite">interviewed</a>
by the <acronym lang="en" title="International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility">INCF</acronym>.
</p>


<toc-add-entry name="other">Other news</toc-add-entry>

<p>The 27th issue of the
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/12/msg00001.html">miscellaneous news for developers</a> 
has been released and covers the following topics:</p>
<ul>
  <li>Planet Debian Derivatives</li>
  <li>win32-loader.exe now eases access to the GNU/Hurd Debian-Installer</li>
  <li>Wiki bugstatus extended to Launchpad bugs</li>
  <li>dh-exec entering unstable</li>
  <li>derivatives patch generation prototype</li>
</ul>

<p>Uwe Hermann published a useful <a
href="http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/howto-using-openvpn-on-debian-gnu-linux">quick
howto on using OpenVPN on Debian GNU/Linux</a>.</p>

<p>
Jonas Smedegaard reported that <a
href="http://aceh.tribunnews.com/2011/12/11/ayo-jadi-hacker">the
Indonesian newspaper <q>Serambi</q> dedicated an article to his
Debian involvement</a> after his presence at a radio talkshow in Aceh,
Indonesia. Jonas was travelling Asia in order to deliver a series of talks
dedicated to <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends">Debian Pure Blends</a>. 
More information about his trip are available on a related <a
href="http://wiki.jones.dk/DebianAsia2011">wiki page</a>.
</p>

<p>
The web team is pleased 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.
</p>


<add-entry name="events">Upcoming events</toc-add-entry>
<p>There are several upcoming Debian related events:</p>
<ul>
 <li><a href="$(HOME)/events/">xyz</a></li>
 <li>...</li>
</ul>
<p>
You can find more information about Debian related events and talks
on the <a href="$(HOME)/events">events section</a> of Debian web site
or subscribing 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?
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>? 
Send an email to the <a href="mailto:events@debian.org">Debian Events Team</a>.
</p>

<toc-add-entry name="newcontributors">New Debian Contributors</toc-add-entry>

	<p>
XXX applicants have been
<a href="https://nm.debian.org/nmlist.php#newmaint">accepted</a>
	as Debian Developers,
XXX applicants have been
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/...">accepted</a>
	as Debian Maintainer, and
XXX people have <a href="http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi">started
        to maintain packages</a> since the previous issue of the Debian
	Project News. Please welcome
X,
Y,
and
Z
	into our project!</p>


<toc-add-entry name="rcstats">Release-critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release</toc-add-entry>

	<p>According to the <a href="http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi">Bugs Search
        interface of the Ultimate Debian Database</a>, the upcoming release,
	Debian 7.0 <q>Wheezy</q>, is currently affected by
XXX release-critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved
	or on the way to 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
	interpret</a> these numbers.</p>


<toc-add-entry name="dsa">Important Debian Security Advisories</toc-add-entry>

	<p>Debian's Security Team recently released
	advisories for these packages (among others):
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-"></a>,
	Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.</p>

        <p>Debian's Backports Team released advisories for these packages:
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/"></a>,
        Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.</p>

        <p>Debian's Stable Release Team released an update announcement for the package:
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/"></a>.
        Please read it carefully and take the proper measures.</p>

        <p>Debian's Volatile Team released an update announcement for the package:
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/"></a>.
        Please read it 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> (and the separate <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/">backports
list</a>, and <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/">stable updates
list</a> or <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce/">volatile
list</a>, for <q>Lenny</q>, the oldstable distribution) for announcements.</p>


<toc-add-entry name="nnwp">New and noteworthy packages</toc-add-entry>

<p>
XXX packages were added to the unstable Debian archive
recently. <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg">Among
many others</a> are:</p>

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


<toc-add-entry name="wnpp">Work-needing packages</toc-add-entry>

	<p>Currently <a href="$(DEVEL)/wnpp/orphaned">\
XXX packages are orphaned</a> and <a href="$(DEVEL)/wnpp/rfa">\
XXX packages are up for adoption</a>: please visit the complete 
	list of <a href="$(DEVEL)/wnpp/help_requested">packages
	which need your help</a>.</p>


<toc-add-entry name="continuedpn">Want to continue reading DPN?</toc-add-entry>

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