Alexander Reichle-Schmehl | 12 Jul 2010 10:26
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Debian Project News - July 12th, 2010

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July 12th, 2010                   http://debian.org/News/weekly/2010/07/
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Welcome to this year's seventh issue of DPN, the newsletter for the
Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:

  * Bug Squashing Party - Munich
  * Organise a "DebianDay" in your city?
  * Bits and request for help from the listmasters
  * Report from FAI workshop 2010
  * Bits from the Debian Project Leader
  * Website redesign progress
  * DebConf 12 will be held in... your country?
  * Report from the Skolelinux project in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
  * ... and much more.

Bug Squashing Party in Munich
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Michael Banck announced a Bug-Squashing-Party [1] in Munich over the
weekend of the 17th and 18th of July. The BSP will again take place at
the LiMux Project Office in the city centre. See the wiki page for
further information and directions [2].

   1 : http://lists.debian.org/20100707175939.GA3744 <at> nighthawk.chemicalconnection.dyndns.org
   2 : http://wiki.debian.org/BSP2010/Munich

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Alexander Reichle-Schmehl | 26 Jul 2010 14:06
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Debian Project News - July 26th, 2010

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July 26th, 2010                   http://debian.org/News/weekly/2010/08/
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Welcome to this year's eighth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the
Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:

  * Debian Day in New York coming up
  * Mini Debian conference in India
  * Debian Installer beta1 coming up
  * "This week in Debian" podcast?
  * How to make Debian more attractive for users?
  * ... and much more.

Debian Day in New York coming up
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The organisers of the DebConf10, the upcoming annual Debian Developer
conference, announced that there will again be a Debian Day [2] for
everybody interested in free software. It will be on the 1st of August
at the Columbia University in New York City. During this event, there
will be a full day of talks on several subjects such as free software in
government, design and free software, free software advocacy as well as
string of talks about the Debian project and operating system. Debian
Day is free of charge, but a registration via e-mail is required to ease
the organisation of that event. More information is available on
http://debianday.org/ [3].

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