debian in Dutch newspaper

Hi,

I recently read about the ISS switching over to Debian 6 next year where
they are currently (still) running Windows XP.

Thought you might be interested. The article is in Dutch. It was
published in "De Volkskrant" which is a prominent dutch, progressive
newspaper.

It states that now XP will no longer be maintained (and ISS have already
experienced a W32.Gammima.AG worm infection once), they decided to
switch over to Debian 6, because of its stability, as well as its easier
maintained. 

I am currently orientating on a Linux OS as an alternative to XP as this
will be no longer surviced in little of a year. I have salvaged some
older P4 machines from the office and was looking for a way to run
these, and not being forced to invest in resourcehungry Windows operated
machines.

I was first pleasantly surprised bu Ubuntu. After reading about Debian i
tried Debian 7. I must say I find it excellent! And intend to stick with
it.

Regards
Gerhard Lugtenburg, Roosendaal The Netherlands.

[fwd: Debian on Google Compute Engine announcement]

I suggest this as an entry for the next DPN.

Thanks for editing DPN!
Cheers.

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Hi everyone,

This Google blog post just went out:
http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2013/05/bringing-debian-to-google-compute-engine.html
Of
special note here is that Google Compute Engine will soon be defaulting to
Debian.

As the blog post indicates, Google's docs have been updated to reflect the
Debian launch. The images from before May 7 have been removed and the
current ones won't vanish without notice.

Thanks for your feedback, code collaboration, and testing so far. We look
forward to continuing the relationship!

Debian GNU/Linux at NASA international space station laptops

Hello
Read more about why NASA migrated the ISS laptops to Debian GNU/Linux:

http://www.zdnet.com/to-the-space-station-and-beyond-with-linux-7000014958/

Regards.
Andre Felipe
http://www.debian-rs.org

Discussion: updating events page?

Hi folks,

begin  quotation  from Daniel Pocock (in <5162D817.5060807 <at> pocock.com.au>):
> I notice the events page is quite sparse:
> 
>   http://www.debian.org/events/
> 
> I've put a link to it on my blog for GSoC applicants, suggesting that it
> is a good idea for them to look for any events where they can meet local
> Debian people
> 
> Could you consider updating the page to include DebConf13 dates and
> maybe put out a call to the community to supply details of more events?

As far as I can see nobody (including me) is willing to update the evnts
page. This situation does not feel good as numbers of unanswered reauests
pile up. I propose the following options:
- Someone steps up to do this.
- We replace the events page with a link to a wiki page (I would be willing
  to set up and sporadically maintain the wiki page).
- We drop the events page.

Alternative options are of course welcome. An unupdated events page does
more harm than good.

cu

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Invitation to speak about Debian at Coliberator 2013 in Bucharest, Romania

Hello world!

Cc-ing -project, since it's a pretty related matter.

On 1-2 June 2013, Fundația Ceata [1] will be organizing its first
international Free Software and Free Culture conference, called
Coliberator (website coming soon). The event will take place in
Bucharest [2], the capital of Romania.

[1] http://ceata.org
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucharest

In order to provide some quick background (you can always ask for
more), Fundația Ceata is described pretty well by Tiberiu
Turbureanu, its president and founder, on his blog [3]. Also,
Ceata organized two Debian events in the past year [4][5], and there are
certainly more to come.

[3]
http://jurnal.ceata.org/~tct/archives/2012/10/17/english-description-of-ceata
[4] http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/13/#romania
[5] http://www.debian.org/events/2012/0726-forumit

Ceata has previous experience with helping the organization of a
400-people conference in 2009 called eLiberatica. This number is the
participation target for the first edition of Coliberator. Coliberator
will be much like FOSDEM (but on a smaller scale), being a
community-driven, no participantion-fee event with keynotes, lightning
talks, dev rooms and stands for FS & FC projects who send
representatives to give talks at Coliberator.

distrowatch: Debian wheezy has been released

Hi distrowatch folks,

This is just a mail to let you know that Debian wheezy is released:

http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130504
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/

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pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Portuguese (pt_PT) translation for release announcement

Hi all,

as I cannot commit i'm sending the Portuguese translation for the 
announcement.

Thanks for the awesome announcement!

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Miguel Figueiredo

Wheezy release announcement: Info for translators

Hi everyone,

while translating the Wheezy release news to German I noticed this below the 
first paragraph after the architecture list:

## blends
### pabs mailed them, waiting for reply
<p> [Debian Blends news] ... </p>

As the <p> part is not commented out, it might appear on the final page; I'd 
suggest you to search and remove it. Content is said to be frozen, so I think 
there's nothing to come there anymore.

Greetings
Erik

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Bulgarian translation of Xfce

An addition for DWN? and for the Debian book webpage?

Hi,

I have recently published a book that I think will interest Debian
developers as it was based in part on research on the project. Even
better, it now is freely available for download as well with a CC
license. Information provided below and please let me know if you need
anything else from me or have any questions.

All best,
Biella

Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking
E. Gabriella Coleman
Princeton University Press
English
http://codingfreedom.com/ (available here for download)
Debra Liese <Debra_Liese <at> press.princeton.edu>

Who are computer hackers? What is free software? And what does the
emergence of a community dedicated to the production of free and open
source software--and to hacking as a technical, aesthetic, and moral
project--reveal about the fraught contemporary politics of
intellectual law? Coding Freedom, an ethnographic account of free
software development, examines how these hackers are at the forefront
of fomenting a vibrant political culture of civil liberties online.
Drawn on two years of ethnographic research, a good portion was based
on Debian. There is one chapter dedicated to the project and many
others draw on interviews with Debian developers.

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Re: [Publicity-commits] r4866 - /dpn/en/current/index.wml

On Vi, 26 apr 13, 16:00:47, madamezou <at> users.alioth.debian.org wrote:
> +As for future plans, Lisandro said that <q>other parts of Qt 5 are on the way. And remember, 
> +this packages would not have been possible if it weren't for the great Debian's pkg-kde team</q>.
  ^^^^^^
>  </p>

Mmm, what was the policy for fixing typos in quotes?

Kind regards,
Andrei
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