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Fedora Weekly News: Beats

The weekly news are separated into beats. A beat, derived from newspaper and laboratory usage, is the act of reporting news or research results; or a round or course which is frequently gone over, by a newspaper reporter.

Beats Overview

Beats Sections

These are the pages where the weekly news beats are written. Content here may be derived from bugzilla reports, blog posts and mailing list discussions.

Beat Writer 2009-08-16
FWN/Beats/Welcome Pascal Calarco or Adam Williamson COMPLETE
FWN/Beats/Announcements Max Spevack incomplete
FWN/Beats/PlanetFedora Adam Batkin incomplete
FWN/Beats/Marketing Chaitanya Mehandru COMPLETE
FWN/Beats/Ambassadors Larry Cafiero COMPLETE
FWN/Beats/QualityAssurance Adam Williamson COMPLETE
FWN/Beats/Developments Beat writer opportunity
FWN/Beats/AdvisoryBoard Michael Larabel incomplete
FWN/Beats/Documentation JasonTaylor incomplete
FWN/Beats/Translation Runa Bhattacharjee COMPLETE
FWN/Beats/Infrastructure Huzaifa Sidhpurwala incomplete
FWN/Beats/Design Nicu Buculei COMPLETE
FWN/Beats/Comics Beat writer opportunity
FWN/Beats/DailyPackage Chris Tyler incomplete
FWN/Beats/SecurityWeek Josh Bressers incomplete
FWN/Beats/SecurityAdvisories David Nalley incomplete
FWN/Beats/Virtualization Dale Bewley COMPLETE
FWN/Beats/OLPC Beat writer opportunity
FWN/Beats/AskFedora Rahul Sundaram incomplete

Contribute

If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News see the Join page.

  1. Read the information sources for your beat. Usually, this will be a team's mailing list archives and meeting logs.
  2. Decide what are the 1-5 important things that have happened in your beat's area of focus during the past week that everyone in the Fedora community should know.
  3. Write up a summary of those important things in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Beats/the-name-of-your-beat (look at the table above for a list of current beats). Looking at the pages for other beats should give you an idea of formatting, writing style, length, and how to link in references.
  4. Edit the table in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Beats so that the entry for the section you just wrote reads "COMPLETE" instead of "incomplete."
  5. Email the fedora-news-list (http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-news-list) and let us all know you're done.

If you have any questions, ask on the fedora-news-list.