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+[Just posted](), bits from the DPL for November 2012.
+
+----
+
+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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+ | pending unblock requests. Oh, and by fixing RC bugs too. |
+ | |
+ | [0]: http://nthykier.wordpress.com/2012/12/09/wheezy-release-progress-december/ |
+ \---------------------------------------------------------------------------------/
+
+Dear Project Members, here is another (delayed) monthly report of DPL
+activities, this time for November 2012.
+
+
+Highlights
+==========
+
+- In November, I've kept on helping the work of the debian-cloud initiative
+ that I've announced last month. Some work went into setting up the usual
+ infrastructure pieces ([mailing list][1], [pseudo-package][2] in the BTS),
+ some other into paperwork: on behalf of Debian, James Bromberger has opened
+ an account on the Amazon Marketplace. That enabled us to deliver the first
+ milestone: [official Debian Squeeze images][3] for Amazon EC2 (I keep it
+ short here, but you can find more info in [various][4] [places][5]). More
+ work is needed, and ongoing, to support other public clouds, better document
+ Debian availability there, etc. You can help! Just show up [on -cloud][1].
+
+[1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-cloud/
+[2]: http://bugs.debian.org/cloud.debian.org
+[3]: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/seller-profile/ref=srh_res_product_vendor?ie=UTF8&id=890be55d-32d8-4bc8-9042-2b4fd83064d5
+[4]: http://blog.james.rcpt.to/2012/12/06/official-debian-images-on-amazon-web-services-ec2/
+[5]: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/11/aws-marketplace-additional-operating-system-support.html)
+
+- I've then spent quite some time in November getting up to speed with the
+ status of DebConf13 organization. For the first time, this year we have
+ implemented the "budget approval" process that I've introduced a couple of
+ years ago. The budget I've reviewed looked good and it's balanced (meaning
+ that the event should be self-sustained, at least that's the theory); so I've
+ been happy to [approve it][6]. I'm looking forward, once again, to meet many
+ of you in Switzerland this summer!
+
+[6]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.conference.team/8996
+
+- Together with Enrico Zini (with his DAM hat on) I've also
+ [helped Kevin Carrillo][7], a PhD student from New Zealand, to finalize and
+ advertise a survey of newcomer experiences in Debian. The hope is to learn
+ more about what works and what can be improved in our NM process, possibly
+ learning from other FOSS projects that are also participating in the survey.
+
+[7]: http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2012/11/Debian_newcomer_experience_survey/
+
+- As a last highlight, the "dpl-helpers" initiative I've spam-ed you with
+ several times is keep on going. We held 2 more [IRC][8] [meetings][9] during
+ November and we have also worked on the infrastructure: we now have a mailing
+ list and a Git repo associated to the "dpl" project on Alioth. To ease
+ handing over pending tasks to the next DPL, I'm also working with DSA to set
+ up some DPL related request tracker queues.
+
+ BTW, this is my last-4 report as DPL, if you haven't yet thought at who you
+ want as next DPL and started bothered him/her, you better hurry up!
+
+[8]: http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-dpl/2012/debian-dpl.2012-11-13-18.01.html
+[9]: http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-dpl/2012/debian-dpl.2012-11-27-18.00.html
+
+
+Events
+======
+
+- I've [participated][11] in the [mini-DebConf Paris][10] and held a couple of
+ lightning talks there: one about [RC Bugs squashing for Wheezy][12], and
+ [another about debian-cloud][13].
+
+[10]: http://fr2012.mini.debconf.org/
+[11]: http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2012/11/mini_debconf_paris_2012/
+[12]: http://upsilon.cc/~zack/talks/2012/20121125-minidc-rcbugs.pdf
+[13]: http://upsilon.cc/~zack/talks/2012/20121125-minidc-cloud.pdf
+
+- I've given an [invited talk][14] about Debian and our relationships with
+ companies at the yearly FOSS seminar of France Telecom / Orange
+
+[14]: http://upsilon.cc/~zack/talks/2012/20121113-orange.pdf
+
+- on related news, the minutes of the Debian/Ubuntu relationship session at the
+ last UDS have now been [posted][15] to -derviatives; some addendum has been
+ discussed in the resulting thread
+
+[15]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-derivatives/2012/11/msg00006.html
+
+
+Assets
+======
+
+- We have finally got the certificate from the Japan Patent Office, confirming
+ that ownership of Debian trademark there has been transferred to SPI. Many
+ thanks to Kenshi Muto for his help on this matter over the past several
+ months.
+
+- We have also finally been transferred ownership of the debian.eu domain, from
+ its previous owner (formally: the domain is now owned by FFIS, the Trusted
+ Organization we rely upon the most in Europe).
+
+- We got our first "donation" from DuckDuckGo for revenue sharing over the past
+ 3 months. It's about 150 USD, which answers the worries that excessive profit
+ from this kind of deals might influence our judgement. The precondition is
+ far from being satisfied.
+
+- I've been happy to approve the tentative budget for the forthcoming
+ [DebianMed sprint][16], for ~1400 EUR. Reminder: you can haz your sprint too,
+ just read [the fine manual][17].
+
+[16]: http://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2013/DebianMedSprint
+[17]: http://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/HowTo
+
+
+That's all for now,<br />
+let's go back releasing Wheezy,<br />
+Cheers.
+
+----
+
+PS the day-to-day activity log for November 2012 is available at the
+ usual place `master:/srv/leader/news/bits-from-the-DPL.txt.201211`
+
+[[!tag lang/english planet-debian bits debian dpl]]
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