Moray Allan and Didier Raboud gave some updates on the upcoming DebConf13 to be held at Le Camp in Vaumarcus, Switzerland. In the blogpost, they confirmed that the conference will take place from 11 to 18 August. This year, for budget reasons, the DebCamp - during which usually the various Debian teams meet to work on specific issues and projects - will be held during the same week as the conference. Registration will probably open around the start of March.

In related news, the DebConf team sent a call for bids for DebConf14. If you are interested in putting forward a bid for DebConf14, send a message to their mailing list. You are also invited to think about possible venues for DebConf15.
People interested in helping with the organisation of DebConf are welcome to join the team, and find out how they can help by contacting them on their mailing list or on the #debconf-team channel on irc.debian.org.

Johannes Schauer wrote a detailed report of the status of his Port bootstrap build-ordering tool, which was started as a Debian GSoC project last year and aims to solve cyclic build dependencies, making it possible to automate the bootstrapping of Debian on new architectures. Since November 2012 the project has reached some important milestones such as providing a less "monolithic" toolset, a new dependency graph definition, two new ways to break dependency cycles, and an adjustment of the algorithm to allow a more precise final build order.

There has been an interview with Florian Weimer of the Debian security team about his talk "Trends in Open Source Security" at FOSDEM 2013.

According to W3Techs, Debian is the most popular Linux distribution for webservers. It currently has a market share of 32.9% of all websites that use Linux, and growing.

Ben Hutchings published the fourth part of his What's in the Linux kernel for Debian 7.0 Wheezy series. Ben also asked for help in testing SAS drivers for the next point release of Debian stable.

Neil McGovern sent some bits from the Release team where he reported about the current status of the freeze. Neil also asked for volunteers to help with the Release Notes, and particularly for someone with kFreeBSD experience to create the Release Notes for this port.

On the debian-project mailing list, an interesting discussion is underway about how young people's experience of computers has changed over the years and how this affects Debian, both in terms of contributors and users.