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Martin Schulze | 2 Mar 2004 21:04
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Debian Weekly News - March 2nd, 2004

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Welcome to this year's ninth issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. On March 13th there's going to be a bug squish
[1]fest at the Sydney University by is local [2]user group. Isaac
Jones [3]described that reporting and fixing bugs in software one
uses frequently is one of the easiest ways to get involved in Free
Software. Bradley Kuhn reminded us of the [4]GIF patent that IBM
holds until 2006, even though the Unisys patent will expire soon.

 1. http://linuxpr.com/releases/6695.html
 2. http://debian.slug.org.au/
 3. http://blog.syntaxpolice.org/isaac/index.cgi/technology/contributingToFS.html
 4. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html

Debian Project Leader Election. Manoj Srivastava [5]reported that the
nomination period is at an end. Three candidates have nominated
themselves: [6]Martin Michlmayr, [7]Gergely Nagy and [8]Branden
Robinson. The [9]platforms from these candidates shall be published
over the weekend. The three week campaigning period has begun.

 5. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote-0402/msg00185.html
 6. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote-0402/msg00026.html
 7. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote-0402/msg00183.html
 8. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote-0402/msg00184.html
 9. http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/
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Martin Schulze | 9 Mar 2004 21:18
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Debian Weekly News - March 9th, 2004

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Welcome to this year's tenth issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. Christoph Berg [1]reported about a Knoppix based
[2]live CD including lots of the hamradio software Debian ships.
Wichert Akkerman [3]announced that the [4]alioth service has been
moved to a new server. Additionally, Ethan Sommer has set up a
[5]collection of Open Source advocacy papers.

 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-hams-0402/msg00019.html
 2. http://hubert.fink.bei.t-online.de/knoppix.html
 3. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce-0403/msg00002.html
 4. http://alioth.debian.org/
 5. http://ossadvocacy.org/

Questions for the Candidates. Anthony Towns formulated a set of
[6]questions for the project leader candidates. In his platform only
Gergely Nagy mentioned changes to the distribution, replace perl
scripts in base by [7]shoop scripts. The questions include the
new-maintainer process, announcements, installer development, release
process/progress and more. Andreas Tille also submitted a set of
[8]questions.

 6. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote-0403/msg00010.html
 7. http://packages.debian.org/shoop
 8. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote-0403/msg00018.html
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Martin Schulze | 16 Mar 2004 22:48
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Debian Weekly News - March 16th, 2004

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Welcome to this year's eleventh issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter
for the Debian community. Ludovic Brenta [1]proposed a new task for
Ada development for [2]tasksel. Apparently, SPAM has [3]closed a bug
[4]report again, so people should watch the bug reports they opened.
Manoj Srivastava [5]called for votes the [6]general resolution to
handle non-free and reported that 303 developer have already voted.

 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0403/msg00428.html
 2. http://package.debian.org/tasksel
 3. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0403/msg00847.html
 4. http://bugs.debian.org/190721
 5. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote-0403/msg00853.html
 6. http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/vote_002

Debian and KDE used at 2300 m. KDE France [7]reported about the use
of Debian and KDE used in the highest Internet access center at 2300 m
in the ski resort Val Thorens. Debian was chosen since it is well
suited for installing customised systems. Generating and distributing
system packages is very simple with apt-get and a custom repository,
they reported.

 7. http://www.kde-france.org/article.php3?id_article=115

New Proposal to distribute non-free. Ean Schuessler [8]proposed to
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Martin Schulze | 23 Mar 2004 20:57
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Debian Weekly News - March 23rd, 2004

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Welcome to this year's 12th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. If you ever wanted to switch from Debian
GNU/Linux to SuSE Linux, you should read this [1]howto. This
[2]article will attempt to dispel some myths and clear a few things
up for those interested in finding more information on GNU/Linux.
While most people in the Free Software community already know this
stuff, outsiders only know what they read in the news and hear from
others.

 1. http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/nnlsmag/features/tips/t_suse_forums_nls.html
 2. http://www.thejemreport.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=113

FOSDEM Reports. Wookey and Stefan Gybas [3]reported about the
Embedded Debian and Debian Java projects that met with other people
during the Free and Open Source Software Developers' Meeting in
Brussels. Both groups gave a talk giving an overview and explaining
the current status. The Embedded Debian project was significantly
advancing their plans to make Debian a really useful distribution for
small machines as well as large. Besides better collaboration with
Gentoo and FreeBSD the Debian Java developers also had a lot of
[4]technical discussions.

 3. http://www.debian.org/events/2004/0221-fosdem-report
 4. http://lists.debian.org/debian-java-0403/msg00004.html
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Martin Schulze | 30 Mar 2004 21:40
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Debian Weekly News - March 30th, 2004

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Welcome to this year's 13th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. The next update to Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is being
[1]prepared together with a discussion about the [2]Linux Standard
Base. Manoj Srivastava [3]called for votes on the project leader
[4]election a second time. Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC on
April 10th. Two US states [5]proposed an open source repository that
would run on a Debian server.

 1. http://people.debian.org/~joey/3.0r3/
 2. http://lists.debian.org/debian-lsb-0403/msg00004.html
 3. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote-0403/msg01032.html
 4. http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/vote_001
 5. http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18401422

Editorial Amendments to the Social Contract. Manoj Srivastava
[6]announced the formal discussion period on [7]editorial amendments
to the [8]social contract, giving people the chance to propose
amendments and modify wording, now that the non-free [9]general
resolution has passed. The following voting period shall be from
Sunday, April 11th, to Sunday, April 25th.

 6. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote-0403/msg00964.html
 7. http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/vote_003
 8. http://www.debian.org/social_contract
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