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The Debian Weekly News for October 21, 2003 covers the deployment of 100 new Debian GNU/Linux systems at the audit court of the German province Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Dutch robot soccer team Mission Impossible Twente's use of Debian woody, Debian and the LPI, Debian in the News, a Package Policy Checker, and much more.

Martin Michlmayr reflects on his last six months as Debian Project Leader with news about Debian internal management, Debian finance and legal matters, Publicity & events and Partner relations.

Debian developers have until October 29, 2003 to vote on a General Resolution to amend the Debian Constitution to disambiguate section 4.1.5. Here's an early status report with additional information.

Martin Michlmayr talks about Debian and the Linux Professional Institute (LPI), which has certification tests available using Debian tools such as dpkg.

DebianPlanet reports that registration is open for Debian MiniConf3, taking place in Adelaide, South Australia on January 12 - 13, 2004 (right before the 2004 linux.conf.au).