#use wml::debian::projectnews::header PUBDATE="2012-07-29" SUMMARY="Debian Med team report from LSM, DebConf13 Logo Contest: final round voting, Rapsberry Pi + Debian = Raspbian!"

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<toc-add-entry name="med">Debian Med team report from LSM</toc-add-entry>

<p>
Andreas Tille wrote a <a href="http://debianmed.blogspot.de/2012/07/debian-med-bits-report-from-lsm-geneva.html">report
from the Libre Software Meeting 2012</a> recently held in Geneva, where he
was representing the Debian Med team.
Andreas organized a Debian Med packaging workshop during the meeting,
which resulted in the creation of a new package, almost ready for the
Debian archive, for the CreaTools software.
Andreas also delivered a talk about the <a href="http://video.rmll.info/videos/integration-of-vista-into-debian/">Integration
of VistA into Debian</a>, explaining the need to <q>include hospital
information systems straight into Debian and by doing so open the doors
of hospitals for large scale Debian installations</q>.
</p>


<toc-add-entry name="dc13logo">DebConf13 Logo Contest: final round voting</toc-add-entry>

<p>
Luca Capello announced a <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2012/07/msg00021.html">final
round of voting for the DebConf13 logo contest</a>. The voting period
will end on 1 August at 23:59 (UTC+2h). 
You can vote directly on the relevant <a
href="http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/LogoIdeas#Second_Round">DebConf
wiki page</a>.
DebConf is the annual Debian conference which in 2013 will be held in
Vaumarcus, Switzerland.
</p>

# Admins of new ftp.ru have some issues to get the mirror accepted by
# managers ... please hold on advertising them
# -- spaillard
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# <toc-add-entry name="mirrors">New mirrors closer to Debian users</toc-add-entry>                      
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# <p>The Debian mirrors team is happy to announce, together with our sponsors,                                    
# new mirrors in <a href="http://ftp.ru.debian.org/debian/">Russia</a> provided                                   
# by the <a href="http://mephi.ru/">National Research Nuclear University                                          
# "MEPhI"</a> whose responsible are <q> pleased to provide a full Debian mirror                                   
# to russian users</q>, in <a href="http://mirror.debian.vn/debian/">Viet Nam</a>                                 
# provided by MAYCHU, and in <a                                                                                   
# href="http://archive.mmu.edu.my/debian/">Malaysia</a> offered by the <a                                         
# href="http://www.mmu.edu.my/">Multimedia University of Malaysia</a>.                                            
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# For other countries, the <a href="$(HOME)/mirror/list">full list of mirrors</a>                                 
# is available online, as well as the <a                                                                          
# href="http://http.debian.net/">experimental redirector</a> which will                                           
# automatically take into account these new mirrors.                                                              
# There are still countries lacking good connectivity to a Debian mirror;                                         
# sponsors interested in hosting are invited to contact the mirrors team.                                         
# </p>

<toc-add-entry name="raspbian">Rapsberry Pi + Debian = Raspbian!</toc-add-entry>

<p>
Mike Thompson announced that <a
href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2012/07/msg00041.html">Raspbian, 
his port of Debian armhf, focused on better support for the
Raspberry Pi</a>, has just became the <a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1605">official
recommended Linux distribution for the Raspberry Pi</a>.
Raspbian is <q>complete rebuild of Debian Wheezy armhf for the armv6+vfp
CPU on the Raspberry Pi</q>, explained Mike.
Raspbian is available from the <a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads">download
page</a> of the Raspberry Pi website.
</p>

<toc-add-entry name="interviews">Interviews</toc-add-entry>
        
<p>
FLOSS For Science published an interview with <a
href="http://www.floss4science.com/scilab-an-interview-with-sylvestre-ledru/">Sylvestre
Ledru</a> about his work on Debian and Scilab.
</p>

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

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<p>
Adam Barratt sent some <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/07/msg00004.html">bits
from the Release Team</a> where he announces that the codename for Debian
8.0 will be <q>Jessie</q>.
</p>

<toc-add-entry name="events">Upcoming events</toc-add-entry>
<p>There are several upcoming Debian-related events:</p>
<ul>
 <li>July 31, Costinești, Romania &mdash; <a
 href="$(HOME)/events/2012/0726-forumit">Debian talk at Forum IT Summer
 Academy</a> by Victor Nițu</li>
 <li>Agust 3-4, San Antonio, USA &mdash; <a
 href="http://www.debian.org/events/2012/0803-texas-linuxfest">Debian
 booth at Texas Linux Fest</a> </li>
</ul>
<p>
You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks
on the <a href="$(HOME)/events">events section</a> of the Debian web 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 organise a Debian booth or a Debian install party?
Are you aware of other upcoming Debian-related events?
Have you delivered a Debian talk that you want to link 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>
Seven applicants have been
<a href="https://nm.debian.org/public/nmlist#done">accepted</a>
as Debian Developers, nine applicants have been
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/E1Sta5X-0005lb-Ap@franck.debian.org">accepted</a>
as Debian Maintainer, and
six 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 Tristan Seligmann, Thomas Preud'homme, Felix Geyer,
Josue Abarca, Julián Moreno Patiño, Thadeu Cascardo, Paul Mathijs Gevers,
Vincent Cheng, Tomasz Rybak, Daniel Pocock, Ole Streicher, Ivo De Decker,
Mehdi Abaakouk, Thomas Bechtold, Tomasz Buchert, Andrea Colangelo,
Sorina Sandu, Stefan van der Walt,
Patrick Uiterwijk, Alberto Á. Fuentes, Christophe Siraut, and
Marcus Osdoba into our project!</p>


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

<rcstatslink release="Wheezy"
	url="http://www.schmehl.info/2012/06/29#2012-26"
	testing="569"
	tobefixed="375" />


<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="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2510">extplorer</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2511">puppet</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2512">mono</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2513">iceape</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2514">iceweasel</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2515">nsd3</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2508">kfreebsd-8</a> and
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2516">isc-dhcp</a>.
	Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.</p>

        <p>Debian's Backports Team released advisories for:
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2012/07/msg00000.html">strongswan</a> and
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2012/07/msg00001.html">libreoffice</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>) for announcements.
</p>

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

<p>
34 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/gmsh-doc">gmsh-doc
— Three-dimensional finite element mesh generator. Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/hotot-gtk">hotot-gtk —
lightweight microblogging client - GTK+ wrapper</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/hotot-qt">hotot-qt
— lightweight microblogging client - QT wrapper</a></li>
</ul>



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