FWN/Beats/Announcements

Announcements

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

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

Fedora Announcement News

Fedora Board IRC Meeting 1800 UTC 2010-07-16

Paul W. Frields announced on Thursday, July 15, 2010 on 22:07:53 UTC,

" I'm sending this note on behalf of Jared Smith, who is in Chile right now for FUDCon Santiago 2010.

The Board is holding a public IRC meeting on Friday, July 16, 2010 at 1800 UTC on IRC Freenode. The Board is trying an open meeting on IRC, and if they agree it helps conversation work more effectively, it may retain this format. Although there won't be a formal protocol for this initial meeting, all attendees are asked to be courteous to their fellow contributors during the conversation.

For this meeting, the public is invited to simply join #fedora-board-meeting to talk to the Board.

The meeting will last approximately 60 minutes. In response to community inquiries, the meeting will start with a Q&A session. After approximately 40 minutes, depending on how the session is going, Board members may reserve some time for agenda items and questions for the new FPL. Jared will be there provided that Internet connectivity allows. In the event he isn't available, I'll facilitate.

We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!"

UTOSC 2010 Call for papers extended through August 1st!

Clint Savage announced on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 on 20:52:18 UTC,

"Time goes by quickly, so quickly in fact that top priorities get setto the side and suddenly become missed opportunities. Fortunately submitting a proposal for a presentation at the 2010 Utah Open Source Conference doesn’t have to be one of them!

The deadline for paper submission has been extended until August 1st, 2010, just in time to sit down inside a nice cool coffee shop, sip some of the great local roast and think about what to share with the community.

Really it only takes a minute or two to place a submission and you might find it so easy and fun that you submit more then one.

Don’t worry about not having a full presentation prepared, all that needs to be submitted by the deadline is the proposal, a basic outline of what would be presented to the community at the conference. The next step is easy: sit back, relax and wait to hear if your proposal was selected by vote for the conference. Once selected the entire presentation(s) should be laid out and created.

Don’t have anything to talk about? That’s not what I’ve heard!

Topics can be as wide ranging as are the members of the Utah Open Source community at large (and that is pretty gosh darn diverse!) and should include a variety of experience levels. While one presenter may submit a presentation on Building a Better Community Through Statistics another (and an excellent presentation I attended in 2009,) might be Advanced GIMP: The Digital Diet.

So don’t be afraid to submit a proposal to talk about your favorite open source program(s) that just does silly things or maybe does nothing at all!

Has anyone ever submitted a presentation on an open source pet rock? No? Hhmm…

All ideas are welcome, but please remember to keep with the 2010 theme: its better when its free*.

Being free is so easy that my open source pet rock was free!

Interested? Want more details? Visit the Utah Open Source Conference website at and when your ready to submit your proposal simply create an account and visit to submit your paper.

You could put it off again, but then you will have to pay to attend and where’s the fun in that?"

Fedora Development News

Reminder: Fedora 14 Feature Freeze is Next Week (2010-07-27)

John Poelstra announced on Wednesday, July 21 at 04:18:16 UTC 2010,

"It's hard to believe, but the window for full blown feature development closes soon. A friendly reminder that next Tuesday, July 27, 2010 is Feature Freeze for Fedora 14.

Feature Freeze means that all accepted feature for the release are *significantly* "feature complete", ready for testing, and have a current status.

If you have any questions about what this means, please ask now.

Features which are not significantly feature complete at Feature Freeze will be be allowed to remain on an exception basis by FESCo or deferred to Fedora 15."

Fedora User Announcements

Fedora at South African Software Freedom Day

Neil Thompson on Tuesday, July 20 at 11:12:10 UTC 2010 mentioned "I'm not a Fedora Ambassador or anything, but the folks at my local SFD committee know I use Fedora and were wondering about a Fedora stall at the SFD meeting -

Is there a South African Ambassador? Or does anyone have advice for organising something like this.

Unfortunately, just about everyone at our local LUGS is an UBUNTU fan "

F13 Security Lab

Mentioned by Thom Paine

PostgreSql question

Mentioned by Nermin Celik

F 13 installation trouble

Mentioned by Ankur Sinha

Sun Java double-click interval

Mentioned by Pasan

how to uninstall preload?

Mentioned by Parshwa Murdia

F13: Empathy stop working after 'yum update'

Mentioned by Marco Guazzone

Fedora 13 installation, does not boot

Mentioned by Vincent Onelli

Yum oddness

Mentioned by Patrick O'Callaghan

Fedora Events

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 (June 2010 - August 2010)

• 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

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• Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions.
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