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====Reminder: Fedora Board IRC meeting 1600 UTC 2010-04-01==== | |||
Fedora Project Leader [[User:Stickster|Paul W. Frields]] announced <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-April/002781.html</ref> on Thursday, April 1 on 00:54:41 UTC 2010, "The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Thursday, April 1, | |||
2010 at 1600 UTC on IRC Freenode. For this meeting, the public is | |||
invited to do the following: | |||
* Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation. | |||
* Join #fedora-board-questions to discuss topics and post questions. This channel is read/write for everyone. | |||
The moderator will voice people from the queue, one at a time, in the #fedora-board-meeting channel. We'll limit time per voice as needed to give everyone in the queue a chance to be heard. The Board may reserve some time at the top of the hour to cover any agenda items as appropriate. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!" | |||
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====Fudcon North America 2011 -- bids opening!==== | |||
[[User:Stickster|Paul W. Frields]] announced <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-April/002782.html</ref> on Monday, April 5 at 21:31:46 UTC 2010," The Fedora Project holds a number of global FUDCon events each year. Typically the Community Architecture team's budget supports one of these large events each Red Hat fiscal quarter (with the fiscal year starting on March 1). This year we have the Latin American event, FUDCon Santiago<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Santiago_2010</ref> in Chile, in Q2; the event for EMEA, FUDCon Zurich in Switzerland<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Zurich_2010</ref>, in Q3; and a North American FUDCon event in Q4. | |||
In each case, typically the event will happen sometime in the first two months of the quarter, so that we can ensure all bills are paid by Red Hat's financial deadlines. That deadline usually comes a couple weeks before the end of quarter, so the first two months are the ideal time to actually stage an event. So the North American FUDCon event will happen in either December 2010 or January 2011. The bidders will work with the Community Architecture team to resolve the exact timing. | |||
In the past we've often heard from community members that they'd love to have an event in a warmer clime during the chilly winter months. We couldn't agree more, and now we have a way to empower our community to make that happen. FUDCon Honolulu? Maybe not, but we're open to other possibilities! We want to find a place for the next North American event that includes: | |||
* Reasonable travel, room and board costs | |||
* Availability of inexpensive or free event space | |||
* A little warmer than Boston (we hope!) | |||
* Active FOSS/other interested communities that might like to attend | |||
* Consideration of academic schedules for students who want to attend | |||
* Consideration of holidays for people in North America | |||
* One or more organizing Fedora community members with the time and | |||
energy to help prepare | |||
We now have a bid process<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_bid_process</ref> that lets interested community members propose FUDCon in their region, or even backyard. Nothing Olympic style -- simply a way for excited Fedora folks in the locale to help secure event space, lodging, and other logistical details. We've already kicked this process off for FUDCon Zurich 2010, and are looking to start this cycle for North America as well. In the summer, after FUDCon Santiago concludes, we will kick the same process off for Latin America again for a 2011 conference. | |||
So here's what you need to do to get the ball rolling: | |||
* Join the fudcon-planning list<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning</ref> and let us know you want to bid. | |||
* Make a wiki page called [[FUDCon:Bid_for_<Your_Town>_2011]], with the information outlined on the bid process[3] page. | |||
The bid process will be open for a period of approximately 3 weeks. At that point the FPL and Community Architecture teams, as major | |||
stakeholders in the event, will go through the bids and make a decision on where we'll locate FUDCon North America. | |||
" | |||
</references> | |||
====Fedora Unity Fedora Re-spin 20100303 released==== | ====Fedora Unity Fedora Re-spin 20100303 released==== | ||
[[User:Jbwillia|Ben Williams]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-March/002777.html</ref> on Friday, March 19, 2010 at 13:10:44 UTC 2010, | [[User:Jbwillia|Ben Williams]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-March/002777.html</ref> on Friday, March 19, 2010 at 13:10:44 UTC 2010, | ||
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===Fedora Development News=== | ===Fedora Development News=== | ||
==== | ====Fedora 13 Beta Slip 1 week==== | ||
[[User:Jkeating|Jesse Keating]]announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-April/000595.html</ref>, "Despite a heroic effort by developers and testers, we have not been able to reach Beta release criteria by the time of the Go / No Go meeting. There are still unresolved bugs and unknown test results. Because of this we've enacted a 1 week slip of the Beta release date. This does not mean we will be pulling in a bunch of "nice to have" updates, we will instead be concentrating only on release blocking issues in order to produce an RC that achieves Beta release criteria. Promotion of builds into "stable" for F13 will continue to be extremely targeted until an RC goes "GOLD". | |||
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Because this is the second slip in the Fedora 13 cycle, we have also decided to bump the rest of our release dates by 1 week. The schedules will be updated tonight and tomorrow to reflect these new dates." | |||
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===Fedora Events=== | ===Fedora Events=== | ||
Revision as of 06:39, 7 April 2010
Announcements
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3].
Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam
Fedora Announcement News
Reminder: Fedora Board IRC meeting 1600 UTC 2010-04-01
Fedora Project Leader Paul W. Frields announced [1] on Thursday, April 1 on 00:54:41 UTC 2010, "The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Thursday, April 1,
2010 at 1600 UTC on IRC Freenode. For this meeting, the public is invited to do the following:
- Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation.
- Join #fedora-board-questions to discuss topics and post questions. This channel is read/write for everyone.
The moderator will voice people from the queue, one at a time, in the #fedora-board-meeting channel. We'll limit time per voice as needed to give everyone in the queue a chance to be heard. The Board may reserve some time at the top of the hour to cover any agenda items as appropriate. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!"
</references>
Fudcon North America 2011 -- bids opening!
Paul W. Frields announced [2] on Monday, April 5 at 21:31:46 UTC 2010," The Fedora Project holds a number of global FUDCon events each year. Typically the Community Architecture team's budget supports one of these large events each Red Hat fiscal quarter (with the fiscal year starting on March 1). This year we have the Latin American event, FUDCon Santiago[3] in Chile, in Q2; the event for EMEA, FUDCon Zurich in Switzerland[4], in Q3; and a North American FUDCon event in Q4.
In each case, typically the event will happen sometime in the first two months of the quarter, so that we can ensure all bills are paid by Red Hat's financial deadlines. That deadline usually comes a couple weeks before the end of quarter, so the first two months are the ideal time to actually stage an event. So the North American FUDCon event will happen in either December 2010 or January 2011. The bidders will work with the Community Architecture team to resolve the exact timing.
In the past we've often heard from community members that they'd love to have an event in a warmer clime during the chilly winter months. We couldn't agree more, and now we have a way to empower our community to make that happen. FUDCon Honolulu? Maybe not, but we're open to other possibilities! We want to find a place for the next North American event that includes:
- Reasonable travel, room and board costs
- Availability of inexpensive or free event space
- A little warmer than Boston (we hope!)
- Active FOSS/other interested communities that might like to attend
- Consideration of academic schedules for students who want to attend
- Consideration of holidays for people in North America
- One or more organizing Fedora community members with the time and
energy to help prepare
We now have a bid process[5] that lets interested community members propose FUDCon in their region, or even backyard. Nothing Olympic style -- simply a way for excited Fedora folks in the locale to help secure event space, lodging, and other logistical details. We've already kicked this process off for FUDCon Zurich 2010, and are looking to start this cycle for North America as well. In the summer, after FUDCon Santiago concludes, we will kick the same process off for Latin America again for a 2011 conference.
So here's what you need to do to get the ball rolling:
- Join the fudcon-planning list[6] and let us know you want to bid.
- Make a wiki page called [[FUDCon:Bid_for_<Your_Town>_2011]], with the information outlined on the bid process[3] page.
The bid process will be open for a period of approximately 3 weeks. At that point the FPL and Community Architecture teams, as major
stakeholders in the event, will go through the bids and make a decision on where we'll locate FUDCon North America. " </references>
Fedora Unity Fedora Re-spin 20100303 released
Ben Williams announced[7] on Friday, March 19, 2010 at 13:10:44 UTC 2010, "The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new ISO Re-Spins of Fedora 12.
These Re-Spin ISOs are based on the officially released Fedora 12 installation media and include all updates released as of March 3, 2010. The ISO images are available for i386, x86_64, architectures via Jigdo or Torrent starting Thursday, March 19th, 2010. Despite problems in this Re-Spin we, Fedora Unity, have decided to release this Re-Spin with the following side-note:
- We regrettably release this as a DVD only Re-Spin due to
issues we found while testing the CD images. We are working hard to fix these issues, the CD images will be in future releases.
Testing Results A full test matrix can be found at our Test Matrix.([8])
Please Notice the missing packages stated in the Gold vs Re-Spin Comments. Most of these are caused by packages being replaced or no longer needed by other packages over the lifespan of the release, some are missing because of changes to comps.xml.
We would like to give a special thanks to the following for testing this Re-Spin:
- vwbusguy Scott Williams
- Southern_Gentleman Ben Williams
- kanarip Jeroen van Meeuwen
- fenrus2 Dennis Johnson
- BobLfoot Bob Lightfoot
- Sonar_Guy Scott Glaser
- EvilBob Robert 'Bob' Jensen
About Fedora Unity Re-Spins
Fedora Unity has taken up the Re-Spin task to provide the community with the chance to install Fedora with recent updates already included. This is a community project, for and by the community. You can contribute to the community by joining our test process.
Go to [9] to get the bits!
Assistance Needed
If you are interested in helping with the testing or mirroring efforts, please contact the Fedora Unity team.
Contact information is available at [10] or the #fedora-unity channel on the Freenode IRC Network (irc.freenode.net).
To report bugs in the Re-Spins please use[11]
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-April/002781.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-April/002782.html
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Santiago_2010
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Zurich_2010
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_bid_process
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-March/002777.html
- ↑ http://spins.fedoraunity.org/Members/Southern_Gentleman/F12-20100303-matrix
- ↑ http://spins.fedoraunity.org/spins
- ↑ http://fedoraunity.org/
- ↑ http://bugs.fedoraunity.org/
Fedora Development News
Fedora 13 Beta Slip 1 week
Jesse Keatingannounced[1], "Despite a heroic effort by developers and testers, we have not been able to reach Beta release criteria by the time of the Go / No Go meeting. There are still unresolved bugs and unknown test results. Because of this we've enacted a 1 week slip of the Beta release date. This does not mean we will be pulling in a bunch of "nice to have" updates, we will instead be concentrating only on release blocking issues in order to produce an RC that achieves Beta release criteria. Promotion of builds into "stable" for F13 will continue to be extremely targeted until an RC goes "GOLD".
Because this is the second slip in the Fedora 13 cycle, we have also decided to bump the rest of our release dates by 1 week. The schedules will be updated tonight and tomorrow to reflect these new dates."
</references>
Fedora Events
Fedora events are the source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you!
Upcoming Events (March 2010 to May 2010)
- North America (NA)[2]
- Central & South America (LATAM) [3]
- Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[4]
- India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[5]
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-April/000595.html
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29_2
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29_3
Past Events
Archive of Past Fedora Events[1]
Additional information
- Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines.
- Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo).
- Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members.
- Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility.
- Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions.
- LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events.