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Announcements

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

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

Fedora Announcements

Change in requirements for Board, FESCo, and FAmSCo candidates

Tom Callaway, from Fedora Legal, on Mon May 16 14:53:49 UTC 2011 announced,

"There has been an amendment to the requirements for candidates to elected (and appointed) roles in Fedora's Community, including (but not limited to) the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee, and the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee.

Specifically, candidates must not be a citizen of an export-restricted country (see for the list of export restricted countries).

This requirement is applicable immediately, and will apply to candidates for this upcoming election as well.

Unfortunately, the laws in the United States which Fedora and Red Hat are subject to place very tight restrictions on the involvement of citizens of certain countries. Fedora has made its position on this issue known here:

Thank you for your understanding"

IMPORTANT - Fedora Project Contributor Agreement Signing Window Is Open

Tom Callaway on Tue May 17 20:05:56 UTC 2011 announced,

"Please take a moment and read this brief email, as it is important.

Fedora is in the process of retiring our old "Individual Contributor License Agreement" (also known as the ICLA or CLA) and replacing it with the new Fedora Project Contributor Agreement (FPCA).

All Fedora contributors with accounts in the Fedora Account System () who have agreed to the old CLA *MUST* agree to the new FPCA by June 17, 2011 to continue contributing to Fedora.

Here is how you do this:

1) Login to the Fedora Account System: 2) Once logged in, click on the "My Account" link in the blue box on the left side of the window. 3) On the page that loads, you will see a section labeled "Account Details". Look for the line that says "Contributor Agreement". On that line, you should see a new section that says:

"New CLA Not Signed - We need contributors to sign the new Contributor Agreement(Complete it now!)"

Click on "Complete it now!" and follow the prompts.

It is important that Fedora Account holders who have signed the old Fedora CLA sign the new FPCA. We have allotted a window of one month for Fedora contributors to agree to the FPCA. This means that after June 17, 2011, any Fedora Contributors who have not agreed to the FPCA will have their "cla_done" flag set to False. This also means that any groups that they are in which are dependent upon "cla_done", such as "packager", "ambassador", and Fedora People access will be removed.

There are a few accounts which are exempt from this, specifically, accounts which are members of the "cla_dell", "cla_intel", and "cla_redhat" groups. If you do not know what these groups are, you are probably not in them. :) Accounts in these groups will not see the "New CLA Not Signed" line on their "My Account" page, and do not need to take any action at this time.

Please take a minute and login to FAS to agree to the terms of the FPCA, to avoid loss of access.

More information about the FPCA, including the final FPCA text, can be found here:

If you have any additional questions about the FPCA or the re-signing process, please feel free to email me directly at legal at fedoraproject.org."

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

Board and FESCo elections soon - Nominations open imminently

David Nalley announced:

"Hi folks,

Just a quick reminder that the nomination period for this election cycle will open on 7 May 2011, and will close promptly on 15 May 2011 at 23:59:59 UTC.

This election cycle will fill 3 seats for the Board, and prior to the election the FPL will announce the first of two appointed seat in this cycle, with the second appointment announcement to follow after the election. For more information on nominations, and the process see:

• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board_nominations
• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Elections

This cycle will also see 5 seats for the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee to be elected. For information on the nominations and elections:

• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FESCo_election_policy
• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations

Additionally the nomination period also serves as the time for the community to present questions to be posed of candidates. If you wish to ask questions to be answered by candidates, you can add them here Candidates will have the questions posed to them and responses made available to the community.

Please take time to consider yourself for one of these positions, and how you want to continue contributing to Fedora.

David Nalley"

Fedora 15 Final change freeze

Dennis Gilmore announced:

"Hi All,

A heads up that change freeze for the Fedora 15 is Monday May 9th. after this point only accepted blocker bugs will be pulled in. Please limit your changes to try and avoid unintended breakages.

thanks

Dennis"

Adam Williamson added that this included blocker and NTH bugs

Outage: fedorapeople.org (unplanned) - 2011-05-04 21:50 UTC to ?

Kevin Kenzi announced:

"There is an outage starting at 2011-05-04 21:50 UTC, which will last an unknown amount of time.

To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at or run:

date -d '2011-05-04 21:50 UTC'

Reason for outage:

fedorapeople.org and the xen host it runs on became unreachable at approx 21:50UTC today. A ticket has been filed to have on site personel to investigate and fix the outage. No ETA is known at this time. Please follow the ticket below for ongoing investigation. We will restore service as soon as we are able.

Affected Services:

• Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/

Unaffected Services:

• BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
• Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
• Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
• GIT / Source Control
• DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
• Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
• Email system
• Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
• Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
• Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/
• Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/
• Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/
• Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/
• Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
• Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
• Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
• Smolt - http://smolts.org/
• Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
• Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/
• Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
• Translation Services - http://translate.fedoraproject.org/
• Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/

Ticket Link

Contact Information:

Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above."

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.