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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 2010-06-23
FWN/Beats/Welcome Pascal Calarco or Adam Williamson incomplete
FWN/Beats/Announcements Rashadul Islam or Pascal Calarco NOT HAPPENING
FWN/Beats/PlanetFedora Adam Batkin incomplete
FWN/Beats/Marketing Neville A. Cross COMPLETE
FWN/Beats/InTheNews Pascal Calarco incomplete
FWN/Beats/Ambassadors Larry Cafiero incomplete
FWN/Beats/QualityAssurance Adam Williamson COMPLETE
FWN/Beats/Developments Beat writer opportunity
FWN/Beats/AdvisoryBoard Beat writer opportunity
FWN/Beats/Documentation Beat writer opportunity
FWN/Beats/Translation Runa Bhattacharjee incomplete
FWN/Beats/Infrastructure Beat writer opportunity
FWN/Beats/Design Nicu Buculei incomplete
FWN/Beats/Comics Beat writer opportunity
FWN/Beats/DailyPackage Beat writer opportunity
FWN/Beats/SecurityWeek Beat writer opportunity
FWN/Beats/SecurityAdvisories Pascal Calarco incomplete
FWN/Beats/Virtualization Dale Bewley incomplete
FWN/Beats/OLPC Beat writer opportunity
FWN/Beats/AskFedora Beat writer opportunity
FWN/Beats/KDE Ryan Rix incomplete
FWN/Beats/FSC Karsten Wade 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://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/news/) and let us all know you're done.

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