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Announcements

In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project^[1] ^[2] ^[3].

Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam

Fedora 12 (Constantine) Alpha Release

The breaking news of the week was "the Fedora 12 (Constantine) Alpha release" ^[1] on Tue, 25 Aug 2009. "What's an Alpha release? The Alpha release contains all the features of Fedora 12 in a form that anyone can help test.", says Fedora Release Engineering team leader Jesse Keating. On her brief announcement^[2], she mentioned about the beta version of F12^[3], the due date of the final release of Fedora 12, the top features for end users (i.e.: Better webcam support, Empathy as default IM client, GNOME 2.27.90 beta and KDE 4.3,Network Manager Mobile Broadband, Better Free Video Codec, PackageKit improvements, PulseAudio improvements, Better power management, etc ^[4]), and the release notes for further queries^[5].

Red Hat/Fedora/JBoss Developer conference in Brno, Czech Republic

Red Hat Brno office is organizing an open conference at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic on September 10th and 11th^[1]. Radek Vokál, Engineering Manager - Base Operating Systems Brno, has noted on his announcement, "Conference is bringing presentations and hackfest sessions/hands-on labs for skilled users, admins, Linux and Java developers. The list of presentations has several interesting topics, mostly covered be people directly involved in upstream development." While talking about the plan, he has said, "The plan is to base this event on the great success we had with FUDCon last year." The JBoss session will be focused on Portal, secure JEE programming etc at the conference. Please visit the wiki for more details about the conference</ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DeveloperConference2009</ref>.

↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-August/msg00010.html

Upcoming Events

Please, consider attending or volunteering at an event near you!

North America (NA)^[1]
Central & South America (LATAM)^[2]
Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)^[3]
India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)^[4]

[1] ttp://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/

[2] ttp://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/

[3] ttp://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events

[4] ttp://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease

[5] ttp://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-August/msg00009.html

[6] ttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/

[7] ttp://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12/FeatureList

[8] ttp://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Alpha_release_notes

[9] ttp://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-August/msg00010.html

[10] ttp://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2009.29

[11] ttp://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_2

[12] ttp://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_3

[13] ttp://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_4

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-=== Fedora 12 (Constantine) ===
+=== Fedora 12 (Constantine) Alpha Release ===
-The only major news this week was "Updated Fedora 12 Schedule--Final Release Date 2009-11-10"<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg00009.html</ref>. On another announcement, John Poelstra mentioned, "The Alpha Release of Fedora 12 is scheduled for public availability one week from today on Tuesday, August 25, 2009. As a result of our announcements around this release many journalists and other people curious to find out what's on the way for Fedora 12 will come to read your feature page."<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg00008.html</ref>
+The breaking news of the week was "the Fedora 12 (Constantine) Alpha release" <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease</ref> on Tue, 25 Aug 2009. "What's an Alpha release? The Alpha release contains all the features of Fedora 12 in a form that anyone can help test.", says Fedora Release Engineering team leader Jesse Keating. On her brief announcement<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-August/msg00009.html</ref>, she mentioned about the beta version of F12<ref>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/</ref>, the due date of the final release of Fedora 12, the top features for end users (i.e.: Better webcam support, Empathy as default IM client, GNOME 2.27.90 beta and KDE 4.3,Network Manager Mobile Broadband, Better Free Video Codec, PackageKit improvements, PulseAudio improvements, Better power management, etc <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12/FeatureList </ref>), and the release notes for further queries<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Alpha_release_notes</ref>.
-The new Alpha release date is August 25, 2009<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12/Schedule</ref>."
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-=== Announced FUDCon Toronto 2009 ===
+=== Red Hat/Fedora/JBoss Developer conference in Brno, Czech Republic ===
-Fedora Project Leader Paul W. Frields has announced FUDCon Toronto 2009 on December
+Red Hat Brno office is organizing an open conference at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic on September 10th and 11th<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-August/msg00010.html</ref>. Radek Vokál, Engineering Manager - Base Operating Systems Brno, has noted on his announcement, "Conference is bringing presentations and hackfest sessions/hands-on labs for skilled users, admins, Linux and Java developers. The list of presentations has several interesting topics, mostly covered be people directly involved in upstream development." While talking about the plan, he has said, "The plan is to base this event on the great success we had with FUDCon last year." The JBoss session will be focused on Portal, secure JEE programming etc at the conference. Please visit the wiki for more details about the conference</ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DeveloperConference2009</ref>.
--7, 2009, in Toronto, Canada at the Seneca @York campus. In his announcement he says, "Thanks to the dedicated efforts of some of our ardent fans and friends in the Fedora community in the great nation of Canada, we are heading across the border for the next North American Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon)!  The next FUDCon will happen December 5-7, 2009, in Toronto, Canada at the Seneca @York campus."<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-August/msg00007.html</ref>.
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-=== Switch from OpenAL to OpenAL-Soft ===
-LinuxDonald has announced at all packagers, "when you have openal as dependency please change it to openal-soft and recompile your package for f-12 please."<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg00007.html</ref>.
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