The yearly Libre Software Meeting, better known by its French name Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre (RMLL), took place in Geneva, Switzerland, from 7 to 12 July; Anne Forker sent a report about the Debian presence there, completing the report by Andreas Tille mentioned in a previous issue. The Debian project was well represented with a booth, four lectures and a workshop. At the booth, T-shirts, umbrellas, Swiss army knives and other goodies could be purchased. The booth was also a meeting point for fans and contributors of Debian, a place to discuss computer issues and for socialisation between conference attendees. Some pictures of the event taken by Marc Duck Dequènes are available on his website.

According to the Debian Popularity Contest, amd64 is now the primary architecture in terms of number of submissions via the popularity-contest package, which periodically and anonymously sends statistics about the usage of installed packages. With a bit more than 60,000 submissions, amd64 just overtook i386. These leading architectures are followed by armel and powerpc, for which the number of submissions is several orders of magnitude behind.

The Debian mirrors team, together with our sponsors, is happy to announce three new mirrors: in Russia, provided by the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI whose administrators are pleased to provide a full Debian mirror to Russian users; in Vietnam, provided by MAYCHU; and in Malaysia, provided by the Multimedia University of Malaysia. For other countries, the full list of mirrors is available online, as well as the experimental redirector which will automatically take into account these new mirrors. There are still countries lacking good connectivity to a Debian mirror; sponsors interested in hosting are invited to contact the mirrors team.

Laura Arjona recently defended her Master's degree thesis entitled Translations in libre software. Many aspects of Debian are included, such as a case study about translation projects and teams in Debian; another one about The Debian Administration Handbook; and an interview with Javier Taravilla, a member of the l10n-spanish (Spanish localisation) team. The more I see of the Debian community, the more I like it and it amazes me, she said when she announced \ her project to the Debian mailing list. Laura started to contribute to the spam cleaning efforts, and she plans to help in the l10n-spanish team soon. The manuscript of her thesis as well as the slides are available from her blog.

Andrea Mennucci announced that the \ new GPG key for the debdelta package is now available.

There are several upcoming Debian-related events:

• September, 8-9, Dublin, Ireland — Debian Bug Squashing Party
• September, 14-16, Berlin, Germany — Debian Bug Squashing Party

You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks on the events section of the Debian web site, or subscribe to one of our events mailing lists for different regions: Europe, Netherlands, Hispanic America, North America.

Do you want to organise a Debian booth or a Debian install party? Are you aware of other upcoming Debian-related events? Have you delivered a Debian talk that you want to link on our talks page? Send an email to the Debian Events Team.

Three applicants have been accepted as Debian Developers, and two people have started to maintain packages since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Praveen Arimbrathodiyil, Cleto Martín Angelina, Benjamin Mesing, Andreas Rütten, and Zang MingJie into our project!