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Contents:
Debian Weekly News - June 29th, 2004 (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
New Jersey LUG Meeting (Roy Hoobler)
Joint statement about debian edu participation from the GUADEC 2004 ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Debian Weekly News - June 29th, 2004 (fwd)
Date: 30 Jun 2004 21:35:05 GMT
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Debian Weekly News
http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2004/25/
Debian Weekly News - June 29th, 2004
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Welcome to this year's 25th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. We have to apologise for not being able to send
out an issue last week and only a short one today, but LinuxTag
organisation kept Joey too busy with other stuff.
General Resolution 2004-004. The project secretary [1]announced the
beginning of the voting period on a [2]general resolution titled
"Sarge Release Schedule in view of GR 2004-003". The full text of the
ballot is quite long. The simplified story is that, if the resolution
passes, the [3]social contract will be modified to allow non-free
data, e.g. documentation and firmware, to be included in the next
release (codename Sarge) of Debian. This would require a 3:1
supermajority. Voting ends Friday 2nd July at 23:59:59 UTC.
1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2004/06/msg00082.html
2. http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/vote_004
3. http://www.debian.org/social_contract
Debian at LinuxTag 2004. The Debian project [4]annonced that it will
attend the upcoming [5]LinuxTag in Karlsruhe, Germany, which takes
place from June 23rd to June 26th. There will be a Debian booth and a
Linux porting booth in the exhibition hall and a Skolelinux class room
in the conference building. In addition to this a Debian mini
[6]conference is organised on Thursday, June 24th. They keynote for
[7]LinuxTag will be delivered by Ian Murdock.
4. http://www.debian.org/News/2004/20040619
5. http://www.debian.org/events/2004/0623-linuxtag
6. http://www.infodrom.org/Debian/events/LinuxTag2004/day.html
7. http://www.linuxtag.org/
Debian-Installer Screenshots. Martin Krafft [8]announced that he has
made a thorough set of [9]debian-installer screenshots from the
netboot 20040616 and netinst 20040616 images. Martin will be
attempting to keep the screenshots up to date and would appreciate
feedback. There is a [10]README file included.
8. http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/06/msg01392.html
9. http://people.debian.org/~madduck/d-i/screenshots/
10. http://people.debian.org/~madduck/d-i/screenshots/README
Bi-directional Language Support in Debian-Installer. Christian Perrier
[11]announced that, thanks to the hard work of Steve Langasek (and
before him Shlomi Loubaton) support for bi-directional languages is
now completely included in debian-installer. This appears to make
Debian the first GNU/Linux distribution to use an installer translated
to right-to-left languages such as Arabic, Hebrew and Farsi in text
mode. Screenshots and an i386-netboot.iso are [12]available.
11. http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/06/msg01453.html
12. http://www.perrier.eu.org/debian/debian-installer/
Ideas for Fully Automated Installations. Christian Perrier
[13]discussed his idea for achieving fully automated installations. He
is thinking about a simple package that would run early in the
installation process, load the floppy module and read a file from the
floppy containing simple debconf variables. It would then feed these
values to debconf and run the installer. Jushua Kwan [14]agreed it was
a good idea, although he thought partitioning would be difficult.
13. http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/06/msg01459.html
14. http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/06/msg01489.html
Skolelinux 1.0 released. After about three years of hard work,
[15]Skolelinux 1.0 is [16]released to the public. The distribution was
started as a reaction to how much the Norwegian schools and the
government relied on systems using closed source. Skolelinux is meant
to be an easy way to set up a large and secure network of LTSP thin
clients (normally PXE boot) for regular users.
15. http://www.skolelinux.org/
16. ftp://developer.skolelinux.no/skolelinux-cd/
Security Updates. You know the drill. Please make sure that you update
your systems if you have any of these packages installed.
* [17]krb5 -- Buffer overflows.
* [18]sup -- Format string vulnerabilities.
* [19]super -- Format string vulnerabilities.
* [20]www-sql -- Buffer overflow.
* [21]rlpr -- Several vulnerabilities.
* [22]Apache -- Buffer overflow.
17. http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-520
18. http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-521
19. http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-522
20. http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-523
21. http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-524
22. http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-525
Debian Packages introduced last Week. Every day, a different Debian
package is [23]featured from the testing distribution. If you know
about an obscure package you think others should also know about, send
it to [24]Andrew Sweger. Debian package a day introduced the following
packages last week.
23. http://www.livejournal.com/users/debaday/
24. http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=debaday
* [25]octave -- GNU Octave language for numerical computations.
* [26]dmidecode -- Dump Desktop Management Interface data
* [27]meld -- Graphical tool to diff and merge files
* [28]apt-listchanges -- Display change history from .deb archives
* [29]popularity-contest -- Vote for your favourite packages
automatically
* [30]libmodule-install-perl -- Cornucopiae of Module::Install
Recipes
* [31]units -- Converts between different systems of units
* [32]pinfo -- Alternative info-file viewer
* [33]atool -- Script for managing file archives of various types
25. http://www.livejournal.com/users/debaday/18485.html
26. http://www.livejournal.com/users/debaday/18692.html
27. http://www.livejournal.com/users/debaday/19198.html
28. http://www.livejournal.com/users/debaday/19228.html
29. http://www.livejournal.com/users/debaday/19643.html
30. http://www.livejournal.com/users/debaday/19793.html
31. http://www.livejournal.com/users/debaday/20040.html
32. http://www.livejournal.com/users/debaday/20360.html
33. http://www.livejournal.com/users/debaday/20562.html
Orphaned Packages. 4 packages were orphaned this week and require a
new maintainer. This makes a total of 175 orphaned packages. Many
thanks to the previous maintainers who contributed to the Free
Software community. Please see the [34]WNPP pages for the full list,
and please add a note to the bug report and retitle it to ITA: if you
plan to take over a package.
34. http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/
* [35]dia2sql -- Dia UML to SQL converter. ([36]Bug#256479)
* [37]linuxlogo -- Color ANSI System Logo. ([38]Bug#256685)
* [39]login.app -- Login application designed with the NeXTStep look
in mind. ([40]Bug#256681)
* [41]newspost -- Usenet binary autoposter. ([42]Bug#255807)
35. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/dia2sql
36. http://bugs.debian.org/256479
37. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/linuxlogo
38. http://bugs.debian.org/256685
39. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/login.app
40. http://bugs.debian.org/256681
41. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/news/newspost
42. http://bugs.debian.org/255807
Want to continue reading DWN? Please help us create this newsletter.
We still need more volunteer writers who watch the Debian community
and report about what is going on. Please see the [43]contributing
page to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your
mail at [44]dwn@debian.org.
43. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/contributing
44. mailto:dwn@debian.org
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Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:25:25 CST
From: Roy Hoobler <rhoobler@comcast.net>
Subject: New Jersey LUG Meeting
Hi everyone,
We got a first LUG meeting organized.
http://rch.tzo.com
It's at the Montclair (Essex county) Public Library
Thursday July 8th at 7:00-8:30 pm.
Hopefully, we can go for drinks and more fun aftward.
Thank,
Roy
If you can attned, please email me at roy@connectcomputing.com or
rhoobler@comcast.net.
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Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 01:38:57 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Joint statement about debian edu participation from the GUADEC 2004
======== English ==========
Joint statement by debian edu and Skolelinux together with PSL-Brasil,
gnu/LinEx and other participiant from the GNOME community
In a meeting held tuesday 29 june 2004 we aggread to advance the
international cooperation of Free and Open Source Software in
education: through the sharing of architecture and applications.
The intention is to eliminate the duplication of work and to
facilitate communication of ideas between the participants. In this
way we hope to improve the competence of our digital skills and to
ensure universal access to technology for youth and adults. Open
minds and Open Source means that we can learn from each other and to
create for oneself. In order to make this happen each generation must
posess the right to form, change and adapt the technology.
This cooperation is of mutual benefit and will take place through
traditional Free and Open Source development channels, for example the
debian-edu@lists.debian.org mailinglist.
- LinEx in Spain, Jose Angel Diaz Diaz Chief Manager of Digital Literacy Plan
- PSL-Brasil in Brazil, Paulino Michelazzo
- Skolelinux in Norway, Knut Yrvin Project manager
======= Spanish ============
Reunidos por una parte debian edu y Sokolelinux junto a PSL-Brasil,
gnu/LinEx y otros participantes de la comunidad GNOME.
En el encuentro realizado el 29 de Junio de 2004 decidimos avanzar en
la cooperacion internacional del Software Libre en la educacion:
atraves del intercambio de aplicaciones, modelos de infraestructuras y
modos de trabajo .
La intencion es eliminar la duplicacion de trabajo y facilitar el
flujo de ideas entre los participantes. De esta manera esperamos
promover la competencia de nuestras capacidades digitales y asegurar
un acecso universal a la tegnologia para jovenes y adultos. Abrir las
mentes y el Software Libre significa que ponemos aprender de cada uno
de nosotros y fortalecer el grupo como uno solo. Para conseguir que
todo esto pase cada generacion debe poseer el derecho a la formacion
al cambio y a la adaptacion.
Esta cooperacion esta enfocada a un mutuo beneficio que se llevara a
cabo atraves de los canales de comunicaciones tipicos dentro de la
Comunidad de Software Libre, por ejemplo atraves de la lista de
correos debian-edu@lists.debian.org
- gnu/LinEx en Espaøa, Jose Angel Diaz Diaz, Coordinador Plan Alfabetizacion
Tecnologica de Extremadura
- PSL-Brasil en Brasil, Paulino Michelazzo.
- Skolelinux en Noruega Knut Yrvin Director del proyecto.
======= Portugize ==========
Esta e um posiconamento entre o debian edu e Skolelinux, conjuntamente
com o PSL-Brasil, gnu/LinEx e outros participantes da comunidade
GNOME.
Em 29 de junho de 2004, numa reuniao com os participantes aqui
signatarios, decidimos avancar na colaboracao internacional do
software livre e open source na educacao em forma de trabalhar no
compartilhamento de arquiteturas e aplicacoes.
A intencao e eliminar a duplicacao de trabalho e facilitar a
comunicacao de ideias entre os participantes. Neste caminho, esperamos
promover a competencia de nossas qualificacoes digitais para fornecer
acesso universal a tecnologia para jovens e adultos, abrir as mentes e
os codigos de forma que nos possamos aprender com cada um e poder
criar por nos mesmos e promover isso para que cada geracao possua o
direito de formar, alterar e adaptar a tecnologia.
Esta cooperacao e para o beneficio mutuo e deve ser disponibilizada
nos canais de desenvovimentostradicionais de software livre e open
source, tal como a lista de discussao debian-edu@lists.debian.org.
- gnu/LinEx, Espanha, Jose Angel Diaz Diaz, Chief Manager of Digital Literacy
Plan
- PSL-Brasil - Paulino Michelazzo, Membro
- Skolelinux, Noruega - Knut Yrvin, Gerente de projetos
======= Norwegian ==========
Fellesuttalelse av debian edu og Skolelinux sammen med PSL Brasil,
gnu/LinEx og andre deltakere fra GNOME-samfunnet
Tirsdag 29. juni 2004 arrangerte vi et møte for å styrke det
internasjonale samarbeidet om fri programvare i utdanningen: Vi vil
dele arkitektur og programmer.
Hensikten er å fjerne dobbeltarbeide, og tilrettelegge for
kommunikasjonen om ideer mellom deltakere. På den måten håper vi å
styrke kompetansen i digitale ferdigheter, og sikre universal tilgang
til teknologi for unge og voksne. Åpen kildekode og et åpent sinn
betyr at vi kan lære av hverandre og skape vår egen framtid. For å få
dette til må hver generasjon ha rett til å bruke, omforme, og tilpasse
teknologien.
Dette samarbeidet vil gi gjensidige fordeler og skje gjennom
tradisjonelle kanaler for utvikling av fri og åpen programvare. Et
eksempel er bruk av e-postlisten debian-edu(at)lists.debian.org.
- gnu/LinEx in Spain, Jose Angel Diaz Diaz, Chief Manager of Digital Literacy
Plan.
- PSL-Brasil in Brazil, Paulino Michelazzo
- Skolelinux in Norway, Knut Yrvin prosjektleder
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