Welcome to this year's 2nd issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. We would like to thank everyone for his feedback on the last issue of the Debian Project News! We didn't reckoned a tiny newsletter would cause such an sensation - we where even mentioned in some print magazines! So many, many thanks! We'll try our very best to come up and exceed your expectations!

While visiting Stefano Zacchiroli the www 2008 conference in china Sir Tim Berners-Lee offered Debian kudos for its well thought-out encapsulation/packaging of libraries. Paul Wise will close his Debian user and Debian new contributor surveys on June 1st so that analysis of the results can begin. Please participate if you haven't done so, yet.

Debian and Googles Summer of Code

The Debian Project announced to participate again in Googles Summer of Code Program. Twelve students will get the opportunity to work on different projects during their summer vacation while Google will fund them.

Development progress

The development efforts to release the next stable Debian release codenamed "Lenny" in September continue. While the transition to Python 2.5 as default python version is allready completed, the transition to Perl 5.10 is still ongoing. So the freeze, the phase when developers will concentrate on fixing bugs instead of adding new features, will be called soon.

Andreas Barth, release manager for Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 "Sarge" and Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 "Etch" announced, that Marc Brockschmidt joined the team of release managers, while he steps back as release wizard.

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