[Blends-commit] [SCM] blends-gsoc branch, master, updated. c849f8e7d959557ae414e569c5002174c6efa21d

Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:56:50 -0700 

The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit c849f8e7d959557ae414e569c5002174c6efa21d
Author: Emmanouil Kiagias <[email protected]>
Date:   Thu Sep 19 23:16:28 2013 +0200

    doc/en/added 04_existing_blends.xml converted documentation. Remember to 
commet out xref in lines 625 and 794 once I convert the rest of the 
documentation

diff --git a/doc/debian-blends.en.xml b/doc/debian-blends.en.xml
index 3bed48b..9be2075 100644
--- a/doc/debian-blends.en.xml
+++ b/doc/debian-blends.en.xml
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
        <!ENTITY ch-introduction        SYSTEM "en/01_introduction.xml">
        <!ENTITY ch-about                       SYSTEM "en/02_about.xml">
        <!ENTITY ch-general-ideas       SYSTEM "en/03_general_ideas.xml">
+       <!ENTITY ch-existing-blends     SYSTEM "en/04_existing_blends.xml">
 
    
 ]>
@@ -17,5 +18,6 @@
     &ch-introduction;
     &ch-about;
     &ch-general-ideas;
+    &ch-existing-blends;
   
 </book>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/doc/en/04_existing_blends.xml b/doc/en/04_existing_blends.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0b48c67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/en/04_existing_blends.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,808 @@
+<chapter id="existing">
+  <title>Existing Debian Pure Blends</title>
+
+  <sect1 id="debian-jr">
+  <title>Debian Junior: Debian for children from 1 to 99</title>
+
+<para>
+<variablelist>
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term>Start</term>
+     <listitem><para>beginning of 2000</para></listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry>
+  <term>URL</term>
+   <listitem><para><ulink 
url="http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-jr";></ulink></para></listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry>
+  <term>Tasks</term>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+      <ulink url="http://blends.alioth.debian.org/junior/tasks";>Tasks of 
Debian Jr.</ulink>
+    </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Mailing list</term>
+   <listitem><para><ulink url="http://lists.debian.org/debian-jr/";> 
[email protected]</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Initiator</term>
+   <listitem><para>Ben Armstrong 
<email>[email protected]</email></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Activity</term>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+      <ulink 
url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_jr.png";>Activists on Debian 
Jr. mailing list</ulink>
+    </para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Release</term>
+   <listitem><para>Debian 3.0 (Woody)</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+  
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Goals</term>
+   <listitem>
+    <itemizedlist>
+     <listitem><para>To make Debian an OS that children of all ages will 
<emphasis>want</emphasis>
+           to use, preferring it over the alternatives.</para></listitem>
+     <listitem><para>To care for those applications in Debian suitable for 
children,
+           and ensure their quality, to the best of our 
abilities.</para></listitem>
+     <listitem><para>To make Debian a playground for children's enjoyment and
+           exploration.</para></listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+   </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+The main target is young children.  By the time children are teenaged, they
+should be comfortable with using Debian without any special modifications.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Debian Jr. was the first Blend.  In fact, at the time this project was
+created, the idea behind of Debian Pure Blends was born, although
+then, we used the term "Debian Internal Project".  Over time, this
+name was changed to "Custom Debian Distributions" first because it was
+too broad, as it was equally descriptive of a number of quite
+different projects, such as IPv6 and QA.  The next change of names
+became necessary when it was realised that the term "Custom Debian
+Distribution" was considered as "something else than Debian" by any
+newcomer.  This was so misleading that it effectively blocked a wide
+propagation of the principle.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Debian Jr. not only provides games, but is also concerned about their
+quality from a child's perspective.  Thus, games that are regarded as
+not well suited to young children are omitted.  Moreover, choices are
+made about which packages are best suited for children to use for
+various other activities and tasks that interest them.  This includes,
+for example, simple text processing, web browsing and drawing.
+</para>
+
+</sect1>
+
+
+  <sect1 id="debian-med">
+  <title>Debian Med: Debian in Health Care</title>
+
+<para>
+
+<variablelist>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Start</term>
+   <listitem><para><ulink 
url="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/01/msg01730.html";>beginning of 
2002</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>URL</term>
+   <listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med";>Debian 
Med</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Tasks</term>
+   <listitem><para><ulink 
url="http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks";>Tasks of Debian 
Med</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Mailing list</term>
+   <listitem><para><ulink url="http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/";> 
[email protected]</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Initiator</term>
+   <listitem><para>Andreas Tille 
<email>[email protected]</email></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Activity</term>
+   <listitem>
+     <para><ulink 
url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_med.png";>Activists on Debian 
Med mailing list</ulink></para>
+     <para><ulink 
url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_debian-med-packaging.png";>Activists
 on Debian Med developer list</ulink></para>
+     <para><ulink 
url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_debian-med-commit.png";>Activists
 on Debian Med commit list</ulink></para>
+   </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Release</term>
+   <listitem><para>Sarge</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Goals</term>
+   <listitem>
+    <itemizedlist>
+     <listitem><para>To build an integrated software environment for all 
medical tasks.</para></listitem>
+     <listitem><para>To care especially for the quality of program packages in 
the field of medicine 
+           that are already integrated within Debian.</para></listitem>
+     <listitem><para>To build and include in Debian packages of medical 
software that are missing
+           in Debian.</para></listitem>
+     <listitem><para>To care for a general infrastructure for medical 
users.</para></listitem>
+     <listitem><para>To make efforts to increase the quality of third party 
Free Software
+           in the field of medicine.</para></listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+   </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+</para>
+
+</sect1>
+
+  <sect1 id="debian-edu">
+  <title>Debian Edu: Debian for Education</title>
+
+<para>
+<variablelist>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Start</term>
+   <listitem><para>Summer of 2002, since 2003 merged with SkoleLinux, which is 
now
+   synonymous with Debian Edu</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>URL</term>
+   <listitem><para><ulink url="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu";>Debian Edu 
Wiki</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Tasks</term>
+   <listitem><para><ulink 
url="http://blends.alioth.debian.org/edu/tasks";>Tasks of Debian 
Edu</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Mailing list</term>
+   <listitem><para><ulink url="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/";> 
[email protected]</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Activity</term>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+      <ulink 
url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_edu.png";>Activists on Debian 
Edu mailing list</ulink>
+    </para>
+  </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Responsible</term>
+   <listitem><para>Petter Reinholdtsen 
<email>[email protected]</email></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Release</term>
+   <listitem><para>Sarge</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Goals</term>
+   <listitem>
+    <itemizedlist>
+     <listitem><para>To make Debian the best distribution available for 
educational
+           use.</para></listitem> 
+     <listitem><para>Provide a ready to run classroom installation with free
+           educational software.  An automatically installed server 
+           provides net-boot services for disk-less thin clients and
+           all necessary applications for educational use.</para></listitem>
+     <listitem><para>To federate many initiatives around education, which are
+           partly based on forks of Debian.</para></listitem>
+     <listitem><para>To continue the internationalisation efforts of 
SkoleLinux.
+           </para></listitem> 
+     <listitem><para>To focus on easy installation in 
schools.</para></listitem>
+     <listitem><para>To cooperate with other education-related projects (like 
+           <ulink url="http://schoolforge.net/";>Schoolforge</ulink>,
+           <ulink url="http://www.ofset.org/";>Ofset</ulink>, 
+           <ulink url="http://edu.kde.org/";>KdeEdu</ulink>).</para></listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+   </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+This project started with the intention to bring back into Debian a fork from
+Debian that was started by some people in France.  Because they had some
+time constraints, the people who initially started this effort
+handed over responsibility to the Norwegian <ulink 
url="http://www.skolelinux.org";>Skolelinux</ulink>, 
+which is currently more or less identical to Debian Edu.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The Debian Edu project gathered special interest in Spain because
+there are derived Debian distributions from this country that are
+intended to be used in schools.  For instance there are: 
+  <variablelist>
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term><ulink url="http://www.linex.org/";>LinEX</ulink></term>
+     <listitem><para>A Debian derivative distribution used in all schools in
+           Extremadura.</para>
+           <para>Currently they are joining Debian Edu and by doing so
+           becoming fully integrated into Debian.  This is a really
+           important move because it brings a lot of good software and
+           experience back into Debian.
+           </para>
+     </listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  </variablelist>
+</para>
+
+</sect1>
+
+  <sect1 id="demudi">
+  <title>Debian Multimedia</title>
+
+<para>
+<variablelist>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Start</term>
+   <listitem>
+     <para>In 2004 there was and effort by DeMuDi to become a Blend but
+         this effort seems to have stalled.  DeMuDi was part of the
+        <ulink url="http://www.agnula.org/";>Agnula</ulink> project
+         (founded by European Community) and the work somehow was
+         taken over by the 64 studio project.
+     </para>
+     <para>At DebConf 10 in the
+        <ulink 
url="http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/670.en.html";>Debian 
Multimdia BOF</ulink>
+        a decision was made to use the Blends stuff for rendering
+        web sentinel pages.  It was furtherly mentioned that the
+        people driving DeMuDi joined the Debian Multimedia packaging
+        team so there is now an unique effort to tackle multimedia
+        relevant packages.
+     </para>
+   </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>URL</term>
+   <listitem><para>
+    <ulink url="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia";>Debian 
Multimedia</ulink></para>
+   </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Tasks</term>
+   <listitem>
+    <para><ulink url="http://blends.alioth.debian.org/multimedia/tasks";>Tasks 
of Debian Multimedia</ulink>
+  </para>
+</listitem>
+
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Activity</term>
+   <listitem>
+     <para><ulink 
url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_pkg-multimedia-maintainers.png";>Activists
 on Debian Multimedia maintainers mailing list</ulink></para>
+     <para><ulink 
url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_pkg-multimedia-commits.png";>Activists
 on Debian Multimedia commits mailing list</ulink></para>
+     <para><ulink 
url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_multimedia.png";>Activists on 
Debian Multimedia user mailing list</ulink></para>
+   </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Responsible</term>
+   <listitem><para>Reinhard 
Tartler<email>[email protected]</email></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Goals</term>
+   <listitem>
+    <itemizedlist>
+
+     <listitem><para>Oriented toward audio and video</para></listitem>
+     <listitem><para>To make GNU/Linux a platform of choice for the musician
+           and the multimedia artist.</para></listitem>
+     <listitem><para>Join multimedia forces inside Debian</para></listitem>
+
+    </itemizedlist>
+
+   </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+</para>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="debian-gis">
+  <title>Debian GIS: Geographical Information Systems</title>
+
+<para>
+
+<variablelist>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Start</term>
+   <listitem><para>
+    <ulink 
url="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/10/msg00007.html";>October
 2004</ulink>
+    </para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>URL</term>
+   <listitem><para><ulink url="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis";>DebianGIS 
Wiki</ulink>
+    </para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Tasks</term>
+   <listitem>
+    <para><ulink url="http://blends.alioth.debian.org/gis/tasks";>Tasks of 
Debian GIS</ulink>
+    </para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Mailing list</term>
+   <listitem><para><ulink 
url="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis/MailingLists";>user and developer 
list</ulink>
+      </para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Activity</term>
+   <listitem><para><ulink 
url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_pkg-grass-general.png";>Activists
 on Debian GIS mailing list</ulink>
+  </para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Initiator</term>
+   <listitem><para>Francesco P. Lovergine 
<email>[email protected]</email></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Goals</term>
+   <listitem>
+    <itemizedlist>
+     <listitem><para>Geographical Information Systems</para></listitem>
+     <listitem><para><ulink 
url="http://www.openstreetmap.org";>OpenStreetMap</ulink> and GPS 
devices</para></listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+   </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+</para>
+
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="debichem">
+  <title>DebiChem: Debian for Chemistry</title>
+
+<para>
+
+<variablelist>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Start</term>
+   <listitem><para>October 2004</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>URL</term>
+   <listitem><para><ulink 
url="http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debichem/";>Debichem Alioth 
page</ulink></para>
+    </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Tasks</term>
+   <listitem>
+    <para><ulink url="http://blends.alioth.debian.org/debichem/tasks";>Tasks of 
DebiChem</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Mailing list</term>
+   <listitem><para>
+    <ulink 
url="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debichem-users";>[email protected]</ulink>
+    </para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Activity</term>
+   <listitem>
+    <para><ulink 
url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_debichem-devel.png";>Activists
 on DebiChem mailing list</ulink></para>
+    <para><ulink 
url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_debichem-commits.png";>Activists
 on DebiChem commits list</ulink></para>
+   </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Initiator</term>
+   <listitem><para>Michael Banck 
<email>[email protected]</email></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Goals</term>
+   <listitem>
+    <itemizedlist>
+     <listitem><para>Chemical applications in Debian</para></listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+   </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+</para>
+
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="debian-science">
+  <title>Debian Science: Debian for science</title>
+
+<para>
+<variablelist>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Start</term>
+   <listitem><para><ulink 
url="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/07/msg01555.html";>July 
2005</ulink>
+  </para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>URL</term>
+   <listitem><para><ulink url="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience";>Debian 
Science Wiki</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Tasks</term>
+   <listitem><para><ulink 
url="http://blends.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks";>Tasks of Debian 
Science</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Mailing list</term>
+   <listitem><para><ulink 
url="http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/";>[email protected]</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Activity</term>
+   <listitem>
+    <para><ulink 
url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_science.png";>Activists on 
Debian Science mailing list</ulink></para>
+    <para><ulink 
url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_debian-science-maintainers.png";>Activists
 on Debian Science maintainers list</ulink></para>
+    <para><ulink 
url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_debian-science-commits.png";>Activists
 on Debian Science commits list</ulink></para>
+   </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Responsible</term>
+   <listitem><para>Sylvestre Ledru 
<email>[email protected]</email></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+</para>
+
+<para>
+  While there are Debian Pure Blends that care for certain sciences
+  (Debian Med deals in a main part with Biology, DebiChem for
+  Chemistry and Debian GIS for geography) not all sciences are covered
+  by a specific Blend.  The main reason is that at the moment not
+  enough people support such an effort for every science.  The
+  temporary solution was to build a general Debian Science Blend that
+  makes use of the work of other Blends in case it exists.
+</para>
+</sect1>
+
+  <sect1 id="accessibility">
+  <title>Debian Accessibility Project</title>
+
+<para>
+Debian for blind and visually impaired people
+
+<variablelist>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Start</term>
+   <listitem><para>February 2003</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Mailing list</term>
+   <listitem><para><ulink 
url="http://lists.debian.org/debian-accessibility/";>[email protected]</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>URL</term>
+   <listitem><para><ulink 
url="http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-accessibility/";>Debian 
Accessibility</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Tasks</term>
+   <listitem><para><ulink 
url="http://blends.alioth.debian.org/accessibility/tasks";>Tasks of Debian 
Accessibility</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Activity</term>
+   <listitem><para><ulink 
url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_accessibility.png";>Activists 
on Debian Accessibility mailing list</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Initiator</term>
+   <listitem><para>Mario Lang <email>[email protected]</email></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Goals</term>
+   <listitem>
+    <itemizedlist>
+     <listitem><para>To make Debian accessible to people with 
disabilities.</para></listitem>
+
+     <listitem><para>To take special care for: Screen readers; Screen 
magnification programs;
+          Software speech synthesisers; Speech recognition software; Scanner 
drivers
+          and OCR software; Specialised software like edbrowse (web-browse in 
the
+           spirit of line-editors)</para>
+     </listitem> 
+     <listitem><para>To make text-mode interfaces available.</para></listitem>
+     <listitem><para>To provide screen reader functionality during 
installation.</para></listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+   </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+</para>
+</sect1>
+
+
+<sect1 id="stalled-blends">
+  <title>Blends that were announced but development is stalled</title>
+
+  <sect2 id="debian-desktop">
+  <title>Debian Desktop: Debian GNU/Linux for everybody</title>
+
+<para>
+Motto: "Software that Just Works".
+
+<variablelist>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Start</term>
+   <listitem><para>October 2002</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>URL</term>
+   <listitem><para><ulink 
url="http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-desktop";>Debian 
Desktop</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Mailing list</term>
+   <listitem><para><ulink url="http://lists.debian.org/debian-desktop/";> 
[email protected]</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Initiator</term>
+   <listitem><para>Colin Walters 
<email>[email protected]</email></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Goals</term>
+   <listitem>
+    <itemizedlist>
+     <listitem><para>To try to build the best possible operating system for 
home
+           and corporate workstation use.</para></listitem> 
+     <listitem><para>To ensure desktops like GNOME and KDE coexist well in 
Debian and
+           work optimally.</para></listitem>
+     <listitem><para>To balance ease of use for beginners with flexibility
+           for experts.</para></listitem>
+     <listitem><para>To make the system easy to install and configure (e.g. via
+           hardware-detection).</para></listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+   </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+This Blend has many common issues with other Blends. The latest move
+of Debian Desktop was to care about more up to date software that can
+be used as common base for all Debian Pure Blends.  The
+common interest is described in detail in <!-- <xref 
linkend="new_ways_of_distribution"/> -->.  Unfortunately since about 2004 the
+project is really silent and it might be considered dead now.
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
+  <sect2 id="debian-lex">
+  <title>Debian Lex: Debian GNU/Linux for Lawyers</title>
+
+<para>
+<variablelist>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Start</term>
+   <listitem><para>April 2003</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>URL</term>
+   <listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-lex";>Debian 
Lex</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Tasks</term>
+   <listitem><para><ulink 
url="http://blends.alioth.debian.org/lex/tasks";>Tasks of Debian 
Lex</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Mailing list</term>
+   <listitem><para><ulink url="http://lists.debian.org/debian-lex/";> 
[email protected]</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Activity</term>
+   <listitem><para><ulink 
url="http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_lex.png";>Activists on Debian 
Lex mailing list</ulink></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Initiator</term>
+   <listitem><para>Jeremy Malcolm 
<email>[email protected]</email></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Goals</term>
+   <listitem>
+    <itemizedlist>
+     <listitem><para>To build a complete system for all tasks in legal
+           practice.</para></listitem>
+     <listitem><para>To add value by providing customised templates for 
lawyers to
+           existing packages like OpenOffice.org and SQL-Ledger, and
+          sample database schemas for PostgreSQL.</para>
+     </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+   </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+The word <emphasis>lex</emphasis> is the Latin word for law.
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
+
+  <sect2 id="debian-enterprise">
+  <title>Debian Enterprise</title>
+
+<para>
+Debian GNU/Linux for Enterprise Computing
+
+<variablelist>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Start</term>
+   <listitem><para>End of 2003</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>URL</term>
+   <listitem><para>Debian Enterprise</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Initiator</term>
+   <listitem><para>Zenaan Harkness 
<email>[email protected]</email></para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term>Goals</term>
+   <listitem>
+    <itemizedlist>
+     <!-- [BA] The following are stated on the web site as what Debian 
Enterprise
+          does, and not as goals.  But the goals section on the web site is 
hard
+         to reduce to specific goals point-by-point.  I believe this needs 
fixing,
+         and perhaps could be improved by talking it over with Zenaan. -->
+     <listitem><para>To apply the UserLinux Manifesto.</para></listitem>
+     <listitem><para>To establish the benchmark in world class Enterprise
+           operating systems engineered within an industry driven
+           shared-cost development model.</para></listitem>
+     <listitem><para>To vigorously defend its distinctive trademarks and
+           branding.</para></listitem>
+     <listitem><para>To develop extensive and professional quality
+           documentation.</para></listitem>
+     <listitem><para>To provide engineer certification through partner
+           organisations.</para></listitem>
+     <listitem><para>To certify the Debian Enterprise GNU/Linux operating 
system
+           to specific industry standards.</para></listitem>
+     <listitem><para>To pre-configure server tasks</para></listitem>
+     <!-- [BA] I don't know what this point means, nor can I find it on the
+          web site, so perhaps it should simply be removed.
+     <listitem>To provide install-time options regarding the intended
+           purpose.</listitem>
+           [AT] Removed by comment
+           The idea behind it was that it might be interesting to
+           provide some configuration options for certain servers
+           which might have connections to others.  For instance Zope
+           can be run behind Apache using some rewriting rules but
+           this is poorly documented and a working example or
+           something else could help here.  It was discussed via
+           E-Mail that Debian Enterprise could provide such
+           "inter-package-connection" configurations as examples.
+           This was badly worded above and not officially stated at
+           their web site, but should not be lost out of focus and
+           should remain here at least as comment.  Perhaps you might
+           find a better wording.
+       -->
+    </itemizedlist>
+
+   </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+  <sect2 id="other">
+   <title>Other possible Debian Pure Blends</title>
+<para>
+  There are fields that could be served nicely by not yet existing
+  Blends:  
+  <variablelist>
+
+    <varlistentry>
+      <term>Debian eGov</term>
+       <listitem><para>Could address government issues, administration, 
offices of authorities,
+             accounting.</para></listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+
+    <varlistentry>
+      <term>Office</term>
+       <listitem><para>Could cover all office issues.</para></listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+
+    <varlistentry>
+      <term>Accounting</term>
+       <listitem><para>Could integrate accounting systems into 
Debian.</para></listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+
+    <varlistentry>
+      <term>Biology</term>
+       <listitem><para>Could perhaps take over some stuff from Debian 
Med.</para></listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+
+    <varlistentry>
+      <term>Physics</term>
+       <listitem><para>Might look after simulation software.</para></listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+
+    <varlistentry>
+      <term>Mathematics</term>
+       <listitem><para>There is even already a live CD - see Quantian in <!-- 
<xref linkend="liveCD"/> --> </para></listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+
+    <varlistentry>
+      <term>???</term>
+       <listitem><para>There are a lot more potential Blends.</para></listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+
+   </variablelist>
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
+</sect1>
+
+</chapter>
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