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Bits from Debian Editors Delegation
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I hereby appoint the following developers as Bits from Debian Editors:

- Ana Beatriz Guerrero López
- Francesca Ciceri

Any previous Bits from Debian Editor delegation, not explicitly listed
above, is revoked.

The delegation is not time-limited. It will be effective until further
changes by present or future DPLs.

Task Description
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The Bits from Debian Editors oversee and maintain the official blog of
the Debian project, “Bits from Debian”, currently located at
http://bits.debian.org/. They are responsible for tasks that include:

- Deciding, together with the Press Team, the most suitable publication
venue or venues for announcements.

- Wording articles in a way that reflects the Debian project’s stance on
issues rather than their own person opinion.

- Deciding which articles get published on the blog and when they are
published.

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The contact point for the Bits from Debian Editors is
.

Thanks Ana and Francesca, keep up the good work!

Lucas

¹ http://debconf13.debconf.org/

Submissions are not limited to traditional talks: you could propose a
performance, art installation, debate, or anything else. Official
submissions will be accepted until *1 June 2013, 23:59 UTC*.

This year submission of a formal written paper for the conference
proceedings is again optional, though encouraged. Providing a written
paper in advance means that interested people can attend your session
ready with ideas for discussion, and especially helps those who find
it hard to follow rapid English speech.

DebConf talks will be broadcast live on the internet when possible,
and videos of the talks will be published on the web along with the
presentation slides and papers. Regular sessions will be 45 minutes
long, including time for questions, with a 15 minute break between
events.

This year, we will continue to organize some talks into thematic
tracks. If you have a proposal for a DebConf track, such as “Debian
Science”, “Debian Infrastructure”, and “Community Outreach”, please
contact debconf-team@lists.debconf.org. If you would like to be a
track coordinator, please volunteer on that list. Talks will be added
to tracks at a later date.

To submit an event, first register as an attendee² for DebConf13 in
the Pentabarf conference management system, then go to the submission
page³ and use the “New event/paper” button on the left. Fill in
information about your submission on the various tabs. The most common
event types are “Lecture” or “Open Discussion (BoF)”. Please include a
public “Abstract”, and a “Description” listing any notes for the
DebConf talks team, such as special requirements or requests..

² http://debconf13.debconf.org/register.xhtml

³ https://penta.debconf.org/penta/submission/dc13/person

While we ask speakers to submit their events before the deadline of *1
June 2013*, late submissions will continue to be accepted until the end
of DebConf. All attendees will have an opportunities to schedule
ad-hoc events during DebConf itself, and very promising late
submissions may be considered for inclusion in the main
conference. Note that ad-hoc events have a much lower chance of video
archiving, and streaming, so it’s better to get your submissions in
early.

All events for DebConf should be held in English language. Talks for
Debian Day can also be offered in a Swiss language (French or German).

For private communication regarding your talk, please mail
talks@debconf.org. For more general ideas or questions about talks or
events, please mail debconf-team@lists.debconf.org.

Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based on
Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely
configured school network. Immediatly after installation a school
server running all services needed for a school network is set up just
waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable
Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after
initial installation of the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all
other machines can be installed via the network.

This is the first test release based on Wheezy (which currently is not
released yet). Basically this is an updated and slightly improved
version compared to the Squeeze release.

Software updates
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* Install freemind (0.9.0) by default, and stop installing vym by
default.
* Install chromium (26.0.1410.43) by default.
* Install goplay (0.5-1.1) to make golearn available by default.
* Updated support for Japanese input methods, now based on
ibus-anthy.

Other changes
- ————-
* Switched default file system from ext3 to ext4 for speed and
reliability improvements.
* Got rid of unwanted winbind daemon and PAM setup activated because
of 706434.
* Extended and improved the testsuite tests to detect more possible
problems.
* Corrected proxy handling to not set http_proxy to a bogus
direct:// URL.
* Corrected proxy setup for diskless workstations.
* Corrected PXE setup to use our updated udebs during installation.
* Made installation handling of low entropy level more robust.
* Create larger partitions for Roaming workstations and Thin client
servers, to make room for all the software installed.
* Fix bug in Roaming workstation PAM setup, making it impossible to
log in (706753).

Known issues
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* IP resolution for the local hostname give useless IPv6 address
(705900). Only install libnss-myhostname on roaming workstations
until it is fixed.
* DVD images are not yet ready.
* No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv)
available yet (698840).
* Missing artwork for the KDE desktop (and probably a few others).
* KDE Debian submenu lacks icons.
* LXDE menu lacks entry for changing GOsa password
(website). Installing gosa-desktop will be an option.
* Backup configuration via web interface is impossible due to
password submission problem (700257).

Where to get it
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To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use

* ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso
* http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso
* rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso

The MD5SUM of this image is: 685ed76c1aa8e44b12d3fde21faf450b
The SHA1SUM of this image is: 6c874de157024da13e115bab29c068080a11ec4c

How to report bugs
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http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs

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Are you interested in helping us?

Longer version:

A very important part of the DebConf organization is the rating of
travel sponsorship requests — Always a hard problem to work out, that
involves people, involves social interaction. And although we have
come up with some alternative ideas, we seem to have consensus on
staying with the previous years’ scheme: Have a team go through the
requests, rate them, and assign the money we have for that. This team,
the Team of the Thousand Names, is usually refered to within the
general DebConf organizing team as “Travel Sponsorship Team”, “Travel
Bursaries Team” or simply “Herb”.

Obviously, the problem is much harder than just assigning the money to
the various _tasks_ we have to do, as this decision direcly affects
individuals. We have tried in the past to include in our team people
from various areas of Debian, from different geographic origins, even
with diffrent group of friends, in order to avoid “clique-based”
rating, or in any way biasing the results.

If being part of this team interests you (regardless of whether you
are going to attend DebConf13 or not), please take a (casual?) look at
the thread starting here:

http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20130507.212452.a6fba4fa.en.html

I have to thank/blame Gaudenz for giving the idea to make this a broad
call, to the whole of Debian, as it is Debian funds we will be using,
and it is Debian-related people (whether DDs, DMs, or unofficial
contributors) we will be assigning to.

What do we need from those who volunteer?

First, during the next *few* days, we want to finish debating how will
this process be, what should be weighed more and taken into account,
and finish delineating the dates. If I remember correctly, the
deadline for requesting this sponsorship is on Sunday 2013-05-19, and
we are aiming at producing the results in early June (June 1st, did I
hear?)

Second, some time and patience. You will have to go through the amount
of people requesting travel sponsorship (I’d expect ~50-100), look at
their reasoning as to why they are requesting it, how reasonable their
requested amount sounds (yes, “reasonable” is too broad a word — The
team will have to decide about it), and rate numerically. Usually,
once the requesters are rated, we define a cutoff value — This time,
we have already quite a good budget reserved for the task, so it
*might* be a matter of saying, “we reached up to applicant #45″.

Third, an extra bit of time and patience. Once the list is
mostly-done, we usually have an IRC meeting to make sure the produced
list looks sane, and to find any hiccups before they explode. And if
they explode, believe me, it can be ugly. But they don’t have to
explode at all, as we are nice and careful

Fourth, this year we want to do something that has never been done
before: As requests for greater transparency have been made, we have
to find a way on how to report our work, without breaching the privacy
of the people who request this sponsorship (again, as this is a very
personal, social and money-related topic, it can be very touchy). So,
the work will not finish by June 1st, but somewhat later, quite
probably a bit after DebConf itself.

Again: You don’t have to be a DebConf long-time organizer nor
attendee. You don’t have to be a many-years-long DD. We want the group
to be diverse, and that *surely* includes people that simply are not
in the same intra-Debian demographic group that most of us are.

So, if you want to be a part of the team, please mail
lists.debconf.org (and to make it easier to stay in the right thread,
please reference Message-ID <20130507213815.GA56293@gwolf.org>)
letting us know.

We are aiming at enlarging the group. I expect a group of ~15 people
to be large enough, but not too large (and that is roughly double what
we have had so far).

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