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Alexander Schmehl | 21 Apr 22:10
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Debian Project News - April 21st, 2008

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Debian Project News
http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2008/01/
Debian Project News - April 21st, 2008
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Welcome to the first issue of the Debian Project News, the newsletter
for the Debian community! From now on we'll keep you informed about
recent events and interesting developments in and around the Debian
Community on a biweekly basis. But we could still use some help, so
feel free to take a look at our [1]wiki.

  1. http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/

New Debian Project Leader elected
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After 12 years of working on Debian as a developer [2]Steve McIntyre
was elected as the new Debian project leader. Within short hours of
taking the job Steve had his first [3]interview with iTWire where he
plans to focus his energy during his term. The interview highlights
Steve's hopes to improve communication between the core teams, get
Lenny out in the second half of 2008 and encourage greater
participation in the project.

When asked how Steve will know if he has done a good job this year he
replied, "I'll know I've done a good job if Debian is in a better
shape: More efficient, more people having fun, more people working on
the core tasks that are needed. I want to see Lenny released inside our
target window. Beyond that, I'll just have to trust to judgement - my
own and those of my peers. I know that's a little wishy-washy, but it's
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Alexander Schmehl | 27 Apr 23:05
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Debian participates in the 2008 Google "Summer of Code"

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The Debian Project                                http://www.debian.org/
Debian participates in the 2008 Google Summer of Code   press <at> debian.org
April 27th, 2008                http://www.debian.org/News/2008/20080427
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Debian is participating in the 2008 Google Summer of Code

The Debian project is proud to announce that it has again been accepted
by Google as a mentor organisation for the Summer of Code programme. We
have been allocated twelve tasks for this year. Google will fund the
students mentioned here to work full time on those tasks during their
summer vacation, from May 26th to August 18th. They will be guided and
evaluated during this time by a team of Debian developers.

Several tasks cover communication between software authors, users and
Debian developers. A number of tasks target quality assurance and
improved testing, while others will result in new tools that help
maintain Debian systems.

 * Jonathan Roes will work on Netconf, a next generation approach for
   network configuration management on Linux systems. This will
   provide a single logical replacement for a large number of programs
   currently handling related tasks on Debian systems.
 * CRAN is a comprehensive archive of tools and libraries for the GNU
   R statistical computing language. Charles Blundell will write
   cran2deb, a tool to help with automatic generation of Debian
   packages from CRAN packages and bundles. This makes it much easier
   for developers and users to work with R extensions on Debian
   systems, especially for administrators of larger computing
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