Stefano Zacchiroli sent his monthly report of DPL activities for November: among other things, he described recent progress in the work of the debian-cloud initiative, the budget approval process for DebConf13, and IRC meetings of the DPL helpers, a group of people who have offered to share the load of DPL duties.

Niels Thykier, a member of the release team, blogged about the progress of the release process for Wheezy. Wheezy has now been frozen for almost six months. More than the total number of RC bugs, it is the number of RC bugs fixed in unstable but not in Wheezy that worries Niels. This situation is mainly due to unblock requests that none of the members of the release team has had time to respond to. If you want to help with the release, and don't find any RC bugs to fix, you can review some of the unblock requests, and help to decrease the number that remain unanswered.

Wouter Verhelst published a report about the BSP he organized in his company's office in Mechlin, Belgium. A couple of RC bugs were fixed and progress was made on a few more. Although Wouter regrets that he was the only Belgian Debian Developer present, he was happy to welcome local newcomers who had never contributed to Debian before. Because of this and the fun they all had, the event can be considered to have been a success.

Sylvestre Ledru announced the availability of videos and slides for the presentations given during the Mini DebConf held last month in Paris.

Petter Reinholdtsen blogged about Bitcoin support in Debian.