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#use wml::debian::projectnews::header PUBDATE="2013-06-10" SUMMARY="Debian welcomes GSoC students, results of the OPW experiment, bits from the DPL, expiration of debian-multimedia.org"
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<toc-display/>
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<toc-add-entry name="gsoc">Welcome to Debian GSoC Students</toc-add-entry>
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<p>
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The Debian project is proud to announce that
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<a href="http://bits.debian.org/2013/05/welcome-gsoc-students-2013.html">this
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year, 16 students have been accepted into the Google Summer of Code program</a>
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to work on improving Debian. This is the highest number of students accepted
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since Debian started participating in this program.
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The list of selected students and the projects they're working on is
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<a href="http://bits.debian.org/2013/05/welcome-gsoc-students-2013.html">publicly</a>
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<a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/debian">available</a>.
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If you are interested in one of these projects, you are encouraged to come and
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join the #debian-soc IRC channel, or to contact the students and their
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mentors directly.
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</p>
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<toc-add-entry name="opw">Outreach Program for Women, the result of the experiment</toc-add-entry>
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<p>
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Mònica Ramírez Arceda <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/06/msg00002.html">announced
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the result</a> of Debian participation in the
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<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/OutreachProgramForWomen">Outreach Program for
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Women</a>. One of the four applicants was accepted, but also received a
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slot for the Google Summer of Code. As a consequence, this internship was not used.
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Since the Outreach Program for Women is run twice a year, Mònica has opened the
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discussion about further Debian participation with a call for more volunteers.
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Join the #debian-opw IRC channel if you are willing to help with this initiative.
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</p>
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<toc-add-entry name="dplbits">Bits from the DPL</toc-add-entry>
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<p>
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Lucas Nussbaum sent his
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<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/06/msg00000.html">monthly
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report of DPL activities for May 2013</a>. Among other things, Lucas reminded
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readers that it could still be possible to submit talks for
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<a href="http://debconf13.debconf.org/">DebConf13, in Vaumarcus, Switzerland</a>,
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and called for the creation of a Debian trademark team, handling the trademark use
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requests that are being received following the publication of the
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<a href="$(HOME)/trademark#policy">Debian trademark policy</a>. He also
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mentioned that discussions which occurred during the last DPL campaign have
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been summarised by Brian Gupta on a
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<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/Ideas">dedicated
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page of the Debian Wiki</a>, and encouraged people to contribute to maintaining
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this page when ideas are raised on Debian lists.
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</p>
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<toc-add-entry name="dmo">Expiration of debian-multimedia.org</toc-add-entry>
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<p>
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debian-multimedia.org was a popular unofficial repository of Debian
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packages. Last year, this service moved to a new domain, and despite efforts
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from Debian, the debian-multimedia.org domain recently expired, and has now
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been registered by someone unknown to Debian.
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<q>This is a good example of the importance of the use of cryptography to secure
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APT repositories</q>,
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<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/06/msg00000.html">DPL
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Lucas Nussbaum said</a>.
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The Debian project would like to emphasise the need to consider possible
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security issues when using third-party repositories and the importance of not
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blindly adding keys to the APT keyring.
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</p>
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<toc-add-entry name="other">Other news</toc-add-entry>
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<p>
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A Swedish municipal e-service named <q><a href="http://fixamingata.se/">Fixa Min Gata</a></q>
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(<q>fix my street</q> in English), used for reporting potholes, broken paving stones,
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graffiti, non-functioning lamp posts, and other problems,
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<a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/elibrary/case/swedish-public-open-source-movement-working-bottom">has
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been reported</a> to be powered by Debian servers.
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</p>
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<toc-add-entry name="newcontributors">New Debian Contributors</toc-add-entry>
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<p>
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4 applicants have been
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<a href="http://lists.debian.org//debian-project/2013/06/msg00001.html">accepted</a>
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as Debian Maintainers since the previous issue of the Debian
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Project News. Please welcome
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Gianfranco Costamagna,
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Emmanuel Bourg,
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Geoffrey Thomas
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and
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Prach Pongpanich
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into our project!</p>
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<toc-add-entry name="dsa">Important Debian Security Advisories</toc-add-entry>
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<p>Debian's Security Team recently released
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advisories for these packages (among others):
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<a href="$(HOME)/security/2013/dsa-2703">subversion</a>,
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<a href="$(HOME)/security/2013/dsa-2702">telepathy-gabble</a>,
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<a href="$(HOME)/security/2013/dsa-2700">wireshark</a>,
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<a href="$(HOME)/security/2013/dsa-2699">iceweasel</a>,
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<a href="$(HOME)/security/2013/dsa-2701">krb5</a>,
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<a href="$(HOME)/security/2013/dsa-2697">gnutls26</a>,
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<a href="$(HOME)/security/2013/dsa-2696">otrs2</a> and
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<a href="$(HOME)/security/2013/dsa-2695">chromium-browser</a>.
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Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.</p>
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<p>Please note that these are a selection of the more important security
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advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about
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security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please
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subscribe to the <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/">security mailing
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list</a> (and the separate <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/">backports
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list</a>, and <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/">stable updates
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list</a>) for announcements.
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</p>
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<toc-add-entry name="nnwp">New and noteworthy packages</toc-add-entry>
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<p>
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612 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive
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recently. <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg">Among
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many others</a> are:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/choreonoid">choreonoid — integrated robotics GUI environment</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/clonezilla">clonezilla — bare metal backup and recovery of disk drives</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/dconf-editor">dconf-editor — simple configuration storage system</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/emscripten">emscripten — LLVM-to-JavaScript compiler</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/hoogle">hoogle — Haskell API Search for Debian system</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/pybik-bin">pybik-bin — 3D Rubik's cube game - binary files</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-pelican">python-pelican — blog aware, static website generator</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/shaarli">shaarli — personal, minimalist, super-fast and no-database Delicious clone</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/systemd-ui">systemd-ui — graphical fronted for systemd</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xul-ext-deejayd-webui">xul-ext-deejayd-webui — Deejayd web user interface XUL extension</a></li>
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</ul>
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<toc-add-entry name="wnpp">Work-needing packages</toc-add-entry>
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## link= link to the mail report from wnpp@debian.org to debian-devel ML
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## orphaned= number of packages orphaned according to $link
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## rfa= number of packages up for adoption according to $link
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<wnpp link="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/06/msg00263.html"
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orphaned="488"
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rfa="142" />
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