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Announcements

In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements, development announcements and Events.

Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam

Fedora Announcement News

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FUDCon EMEA 2011 will be held in Milan, Italy

Jared K. Smith on Mon Apr 11 21:50:49 UTC 2011 announced,

"I am pleased to announce that the FUDCon conference in the EMEA region in 2011 will be in Milan, Italy. We had four excellent bids for the EMEA FUDCon this year (Milan, Budapest, Dublin, and Zurich) and all four proposals were well done. The Milan bid has several potential dates, so I will be working together with the Milan bid team and FAmSCo and our community of European ambassadors to choose a date that works well for all involved."

Results of Fedora 16 Release Name Voting

Jared K. Smith on Tue Apr 12 13:29:14 UTC 2011 announced,

"The voting has concluded for the Fedora 16 release name, and the results are in! Thank you to the Fedora community members who made name suggestions and participated in the voting.

The Fedora 16 release name is: Verne

Voting period: Tuesday 2011-04-05 00:00:00 to Monday 2011-04-11 23:59:59 Number of valid ballots cast: 421

Using the range voting method, each candidate could attain a maximum of (421*9) = 3789 votes.

Results:

Votes :: Name

• 2204 :: Verne
• 1662 :: Beefy Miracle
• 1522 :: Omoto
• 1241 :: Nepia
• 1207 :: Bonnet
• 1157 :: Barona
• 908 :: Llullaillaco
• 845 :: Legation
• 607 :: Mt. Orne"

Fedora Development News

The Development Announcement list is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora development.

Acceptable Types of Announcements

• Policy or process changes that affect developers.
• Infrastructure changes that affect developers.
• Tools changes that affect developers.
• Schedule changes
• Freeze reminders

Unacceptable Types of Announcements

• Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule)
• Discussion
• Anything else not mentioned above

Fedora 15 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting Wednesday, April 13, 2011 @ 21:00 UTC

Robyn Bergeron on Mon Apr 11 20:40:14 UTC 2011 announced,

"Join us on irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting for this important meeting.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011 @ 21:00 UTC (17:00 EDT/14:00 PDT)

"Before each public release Development, QA, and Release Engineering meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release. This meeting is called the: Go/No-Go Meeting."

"Verifying that the Release criteria are met is the responsibility of the QA Team."

For more details about this meeting see:

In the meantime keep an eye on the Fedora 15 Beta Blocker list and help us get the testing matrix completed by testing.

(One approved blocker left, currently in VERIFIED - woohoo!) "

Fedora 15 Beta is hereby declared GOLD!

Robyn Bergeron on Wed Apr 13 21:41:00 UTC 2011 announced,

"At the Fedora 15 Beta Go/No-Go meeting today, the F15 Beta was declared GOLD and ready for release on April 19, 2011.

Thanks to everyone, as always, for their hard work and participation in getting this out the door. :)

Meeting minutes are below. -Robyn

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1. fedora-meeting: Fedora 15 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting

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Meeting started by rbergeron at 21:00:30 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-04-13/fedora_15_beta_gono-go_meeting.2011-04-13-21.00.log.html .

Meeting summary

• Roll Call! (rbergeron, 21:00:54)
• Need representatoin from QA, Rel-eng, fesco. (rbergeron, 21:01:54)

• Why we're here: (rbergeron, 21:05:06)
• LINK:

    (rbergeron, 21:05:17)

• In a nutshell: we are gathered today to determine if release

    criteria have been met and if the release can be considered GOLD.
    (rbergeron, 21:05:56)

• review of release criteria and so forth (rbergeron, 21:06:19)
• AGREED: - remaining blocker, bz 657618, is in verified, only hitting

    one person, fix is in RC2 already, should not block the release.
    (rbergeron, 21:11:16)

• LINK:

     
    (adamw, 21:11:45)

• LINK:

     
    (adamw, 21:11:50)

• (adamw, 21:16:45)
• AGREED: No unresolved blocker bugs and all release criteria being

    met, Fedora 15 Beta is hereby declared GOLD.  (rbergeron, 21:30:52)

• Open discussion (rbergeron, 21:31:01)

Meeting ended at 21:33:49 UTC.

Action Items, by person

• **UNASSIGNED**

  * (none)

People Present (lines said)

• rbergeron (66)
• adamw (59)
• jlaska (21)
• dgilmore (14)
• nirik (8)
• nb (6)
• zodbot (5)
• jsmith (5)
• fenrus02 (3)
• cwickert (3)
• red_alert (1)

Generated by MeetBot_ 0.1.4"

Fedora Events

The purpose of event is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to identify responsible Ambassadors for each event. The event page is laid out by quarter and by region. Please maintain the layout, as it is crucial for budget planning. Events can be added to this page whether or not they have an Ambassador owner. Events without an owner are not eligible for funding, but being listed allows any Ambassador to take ownership of the event and make it eligible for funding. In plain words, Fedora events are the exclusive and 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 - May 2011)

• North America (NA)
• Central & South America (LATAM):
• Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)
• India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)

Past Events

Archive of Past Fedora Events

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.