Andreas Tille sent some bits from the Debian Med team, reporting some recent initiatives of the team, such as the Mentoring of the Month efforts. Andreas also announced that in February there will be a real life meeting of Debian Med developers and users, in Kiel (Germany); all interested people are invited to join.
Wheezy
Ben Hutchings, member of the Debian Kernel team and maintainer of the 3.2.y stable series at kernel.org, wrote a series of three blogposts (part 1, part 2, part 3) about the additional features (missing from mainline 3.2) that will be included in the Linux kernel to be shipped with the next Debian stable.
Petter Reinholdtsen analysed the Debian archive to compile a list of the 20 most supported MIME types in Debian.
Bernhard R. Link took a closer look at cryptographic signatures in an informative article.
Ian Jackson summarised the ongoing discussion on a trademark policy for Debian.
There is one upcoming Debian-related event:
One person has started to maintain packages since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Alexandre Raymond into our project!