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Alexander Schmehl | 5 Apr 2008 16:46
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Let's resurrect Debian Weekly News

Hi!

As many of you might have noticed, our weekly newsletter died more or
less some time ago[1].  Considering that to be a great loss and a shame for a
project as large as Debian, I think it's high time to resurrect it!

Guessing that it might take a bit of time to get things rolling again,
the aim for the start is to have at least a newsletter on a two week
basis in english (and if volunteers pop up in other languages, too).

How can you help?
=================

If you like to become an editor or proof reader, please subscribe to the
debian-publicity mailing list.

But even if you consider your english to be not good enough you can still
be of help!  Of course it's impossible to be at any place and watch
everything, so we need your help to report noteworthy things to the
debian-publicity mailing list.  That includes watching our mailing list
as well as news sites, blogs and other mailing lists about Debian, Linux
and IT in general.

What should you report?
=======================

In short: Everything which could have a noticable impact on the Debian
Project or its user base.

You saw an interesting blog or news about Debian?  Report it to us!
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Frans Pop | 23 Apr 2008 00:11
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Re: Etch 1/2 CD images for test (was: Misc development news (#6))

(Really added d-publicity as I'm not sure if you're subscribed to the 
others.)

On Tuesday 22 April 2008, Alexander Schmehl wrote:
> > I have built two "etchnhalf" netinst CD images (i386 and amd64) for
> > people who'd like to try them out. They contain:
>
> If we add that to the next issue of the Debian Project News, which will
> be send out in a bit less than two weeks, would that be to late?

IMHO it should not be published there. These images are not really intended 
for testing by the "general public".

> PS: Sorry; that should have been in the last issue already, but I forgot
> it.

Hmmm. How could you have? They were not yet available then...

Cheers,
FJP
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Holger Levsen | 24 Apr 2008 19:10

Fwd: Aaron Siego: Deploying KDE to 52 million young people

Hi,

the text quoted below sounds pretty impressive. Also make sure to read 
http://piacentini.livejournal.com/7871.html

Mauricio, do you have an email address from someone involved in this, I'd like 
to send congrats to them and ask them how they modified Debian and how we 
could cooperate cooperate in Debian Edu, another Debian based distro (being 
99,867% pure Debian) for schools, in northern europe also used with KDE on 
the desktop :) 

regards,
	Holger

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Subject: Aaron Siego: Deploying KDE to 52 million young people
Date: Thursday 24 April 2008 11:43
From: Planet Debian upstream <bozo <at> dev.null.invalid>

Mauricio broke the news today in his blog about what can only be described as
 [a massive deployment of free software][1]. I'd heard about this project
 recently, but reading more of the details in Mauricio's blog really cemented
 in my mind how groundbreaking this is.

In summary: KDE on Linux has stepped up to become _the_ software platform in
 the primary school education system in Brazil. That may sound like a bold
 claim, but the numbers are staggering and speak for themselves:

By the end of this year 29,000 labs serving some 32,000,000 students will be
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Andre Felipe Machado | 24 Apr 2008 21:42
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Re: Deploying KDE to 52 million young people

Hello, Holger
Actually, it is a following of [0] and [1].
And DD are(were) behind the OS.
I am not sure if they can talk about it.
I *guess* there are some contractual obligations allowing only
government talk about. You can see at [2] that only government people
talked.
Will try a contact asking about details.
Regards.
Andre Felipe

[0]
http://www.techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_blog/mec_buying_90000_debian_computers
[1]
http://www.techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_blog/mec_buying_3000_debian_etch_four_terminal_computers
[2] http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/9.0/papers/pub/programacao/724

Em Qui, 2008-04-24 às 19:10 +0200, Holger Levsen escreveu:
> Hi,
> 
> the text quoted below sounds pretty impressive. Also make sure to read 
> http://piacentini.livejournal.com/7871.html
> 
> Mauricio, do you have an email address from someone involved in this, I'd like 
> to send congrats to them and ask them how they modified Debian and how we 
> could cooperate cooperate in Debian Edu, another Debian based distro (being 
> 99,867% pure Debian) for schools, in northern europe also used with KDE on 
> the desktop :) 
> 
>
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Andre Felipe Machado | 24 Apr 2008 22:34
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Re: Deploying KDE to 52 million young people

Hello, Holger
The first information talk was very positive.
I hope, in some days, to have more insider information about the
project. The devs can talk a bit about the project. Need more legal
advice about what is allowed to publish.
Regards.
Andre Felipe
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Paul Wise | 1 May 2008 05:34
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closing the Debian user survey soon

Hi all,

I'll soon be closing the Debian-user survey. The deadline for
submissions is now 1am UTC time on the 1st of June 2008, after this the
survey will be closed and mails to the survey address will be rejected.
So if you would like to participate, please reply to this mail:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/03/msg02475.html

I'm also closing the survey of new Debian contributors at the same time,
if you want to participate in that, please read this:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2008/03/msg00030.html

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bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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