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As announced by Fabian we are launching the Debian Québec group this saturday, with a release party at UQAM. I may not be present as I was planning to go camping this weekend, but since the weather forecast is rainy so far, I may cancel.

Tel qu'annoncé par Fabian, nous lançons le groupe Debian Québec ce samedi, avec un "release party". Je vais *peut-être être absent vu que je prévoyais sortir en camping, mais vu qu'ils prévoient de la pluie pour 4 jours, je vais peut-être m'abstenir...

So while I haven't work exceptionally hard to help with the Debian Wheezy release (I merely help with a few RC bugs and organised a bug squashing party), I still have a few significant contributions to the release. So here's my claim to fame to the #newinwheezy game:

(This rant was originally part of the live streaming series, but I moved it to a separate article because people got stuck on it instead of responding to the actual subject of the article.)

The previous article was introducing basic streaming principles based on Icecast. The issue with this, of course, is lag and overhead of HTTP-based connexions. In this article we introduce RTP-based streaming system, (unfortunately) based on Pulseaudio and multicast.

I have been using MPD for a good while as my media player, in conjunction with gmpc as a graphical interface (since MPD is just a server). It's really cute, works reasonably well, and is one of the only software that can handle my huge music collection gracefully. The cool thing with the setup is that, because MPD is a network-transparent server, I can control (and listen to!) my music remotely.