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Francesca Ciceri | 2 Apr 2012 16:11
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Debian Project News - April 2nd, 2012

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The Debian Project                                http://www.debian.org/
Debian Project News                    debian-publicity <at> lists.debian.org
April 2nd, 2012               http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/07/
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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:

  * Bits from Debian Med team
  * Debian joins the OSI
  * Report from DSA Team sprint
  * "Fascinating": a Debian based tricorder
  * So long, and thanks for all the news
  * Interviews
  * Other news
  * New Debian Contributors
  * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release
  * Important Debian Security Advisories
  * New and noteworthy packages
  * Work-needing packages
  * Want to continue reading DPN?

Bits from Debian Med team
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Andreas Tille sent some bits from the Debian Med team [1], where he
talked about recent initiatives of the team including the [2] "Debian Med
Bug Squashing Advent Calendar 2011" and the [3] "Mentoring of the Month"
(MoM) project. Andreas also reminded us that in January the Debian Med
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Francesca Ciceri | 12 Apr 2012 01:27
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Registration open for DebConf12

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Registration open for DebConf12                         press <at> debian.org
April 12th, 2012                http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120412
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Registration open for DebConf12 

The Debian Project is pleased to announce that registration is now open
for DebConf12, which will take place in Managua, Nicaragua, from Sunday
8 July to Saturday 14 July 2012. The conference will be preceded as
usual by one week of DebCamp, from Sunday 1 July to Saturday 7 July.

As previous years, three different registration options will be
available: "Sponsored", "Professional" and "Corporate". Through the
"Sponsored" category, the Debian Project intend to help some people
attend who would not be able to pay for their own travel to DebConf.
The "Corporate" category, with a USD 1300 (EUR 1000) registration fee,
is intended for those attending DebConf as representatives of
companies. The "Professional" category, with a USD 650 (EUR 500)
registration fee, is intended for any individual or company who wants
to help the conference by paying the direct costs of their attendence.

It will only be possible to apply for food and accommodation grants
and/or travel grants until 15 May. For more detailed information about
how to register, please see the separate announcement from the DebConf
team [1].

  1: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/04/msg00002.html
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Francesca Ciceri | 16 Apr 2012 14:08
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Debian Project News - April 16th, 2012

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April 16th, 2012              http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/08/
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Welcome to this year's eight issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community. Topics covered in this issue include:

  * Debian project leader elected
  * Registration open for DebConf12
  * Personal BSP initiatives
  * The state of Debian s390x
  * Interviews
  * Other news
  * Upcoming events
  * New Debian Contributors
  * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release
  * Important Debian Security Advisories
  * New and noteworthy packages
  * Work-needing packages
  * Want to continue reading DPN?

Debian project leader elected
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The Debian project has just reelected Stefano Zacchiroli for a third year as
Debian Project Leader [1]. More than 80% of voters put him as their first
choice (or equal first) on their ballot papers.
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Francesca Ciceri | 25 Apr 2012 19:41
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Deploy your own "cloud" with Debian "Wheezy"

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Deploy your own "cloud" with Debian "Wheezy" 		press <at> debian.org
April 25th, 2012                http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120425
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Deploy your own "cloud" with Debian "Wheezy" 

The Debian Project produces an entirely Free operating system that
empowers its users to be in control of the software running their
computers. These days, more and more computing is being moved away from
user computers to the so-called "cloud" – a vague term often used to
refer to Software as a Service (SaaS) [1] offerings. We are concerned
that, without the needed care, this trend might put in jeopardy most of
the freedoms that users enjoy when running (on their computers) 
software that is Free according to the Debian Free Software 
Guidelines [2].

  1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_as_a_service
  2: http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines

We encourage Debian users to prefer cloud offerings where the SaaS
infrastructure is entirely made of Free Software and can be run under
their control. We encourage Debian users to deploy their own clouds, as
the ultimate way to retain all the freedoms that Debian stands for.

To help our users with these tasks, we are proud to announce the
availability of several new technologies that would ease the deployment
of Debian-based clouds. Starting with the forthcoming release of Debian
7.0 "Wheezy", users will find ready-to-use packages for OpenStack® and
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Francesca Ciceri | 30 Apr 2012 14:40
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Debian Project News - April 30th, 2012

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Debian Project News                    debian-publicity <at> lists.debian.org
April 30th, 2012              http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/09/
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Welcome to this year's ninth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community. Topics covered in this issue include:

  * Deploy your own "cloud" with Debian "Wheezy" 
  * Debian Tour in Nicaragua
  * Debian at ESRF
  * Bits from the DPL
  * Interviews
  * Other news
  * Upcoming events
  * New Debian Contributors
  * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release
  * Important Debian Security Advisories
  * New and noteworthy packages
  * Work-needing packages
  * Want to continue reading DPN?

Deploy your own "cloud" with Debian "Wheezy"
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The Debian Project has announced the availability, for its testing
distribution, of some packages to create a private cloud [1]: among others,
xcp-xapi [2] and nova-xcp-plugins [3].
"Preserving user freedoms in the cloud is a tricky business and one of the
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