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Planet Fedora

This is the Planet Fedora section, covering news from planet.fedoraproject.org[1], a collection of blogs from Fedora users spanning the globe.

Contributing Writer: Joel Braun

Events

FudCon Pune 2011

Kishan Goyal posted on his experience on day 2 at FudCon Pune^[1].

Joerg Simon posted pictures^[2] of the event.

Izhar Firdaus wrote about his experience^[3] at FudCon, as well as some thoughts on the atmosphere of the event.

Suchakra also blogged on Fudcon Pune^[4].

Kushal Das posted photos^[5] of the event to his blog.

Fedora Community

The release of Fedora 16 has been the main topic of the blogroll recently, and it's fair to say that it's being greeted with open arms by many of the users.

Juanjo Martinez blogged on his first impressions of F16, calling it an "impressive release"^[6].

General

Adam Williamson posted about ^[7]starting work on Fedora 17, and experimentation with the new kernel in a virtualized environment.

[1] ttp://kishangoyal.co.cc/post/12549697509/fudcon-pune-11-day-2

[2] ttp://kitall.blogspot.com/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011-travel-und-event.html

[3] ttp://blog.kagesenshi.org/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ShadowLogs%2FFedora+%28%3A%3A+Shadow+Logs%3A%3A+Fedora%29#!/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011.html

[4] ttp://suchakra.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/fudcon%e2%86%94funcon-pune-2011/

[5] ttp://kushaldas.in/2011/11/10/photoset-from-fudcon-pune-2011/

[6] ttp://engbblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/welcome-fedora-16/

[7] ttp://www.happyassassin.net/2011/11/10/stupid-fedora-tricks/

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 == Planet Fedora ==
-In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide.
+This is the Planet Fedora section, covering news from planet.fedoraproject.org[http://planet.fedoraproject.org], a collection of blogs from Fedora users spanning the globe.
-http://planet.fedoraproject.org
+Contributing Writer: [[User:Jbraun|Joel Braun]]
-Contributing Writer: [[User:Abatkin|Adam Batkin]]
+=== Events ===
-=== Activism Alert ===
-[[User:Oron|Oron Peled]] wrote<ref>http://life-with-linux.blogspot.com/2009/02/internet-draft-transport-layer-security.html</ref> about a proposed new IETF standard for "Transport Layer Security (TLS) Authorization Extensions" which may be patent-encumbered before its even approved.
-[[User:Pfrields|Paul W. Frields]] appealed<ref>http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1490</ref> for prior art against a patent that covers a user interface that has multiple workspaces (filed March 25, 1987).
-=== General ===
-[[DaveJones|Dave Jones]] announced<ref>http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/2009/02/09/fedora-kernel-packaging/</ref> some changes to the Fedora kernel packaging "to drop the regular 686 kernels. As of Fedora 11, the only 32-bit kernels built are '586' and '686-PAE' (and their -debug variants)."
-[[User:Lennart|Lennart Poettering]] described<ref>http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/oh-nine-fifteen.html</ref> some of the new changes in the latest <code>PulseAudio 0.9.15</code> release, including Flat Volumes, On-the-fly Reconfiguration of Devices (aka "S/PDIF Support"), Native support for 24bit samples and support for Airport Express.
-[[User:Ke4qqq|David Nalley]] wrote<ref>http://www.nalley.sc/david/?p=196</ref> about the Fedora Ambassadors giving away free XO laptops! To qualify, either "Package and maintain a sugar-* package for 2 releases or more" or "Build a Sugar activity that helps meet the 'holy list of 4th grade maths<ref>http://sugarlabs.org/go/User:Gdk/4th_Grade_Maths</ref>'".
-[[User:Overholt|Andrew Overholt]] announced<ref>http://overholt.ca/wp/?p=117</ref> the release of the <code>Linux Tools</code> project for <code>Eclipse</code>. The release has lots of features from profiling and tracing with <code>SystemTap</code> to <code>autoconf</code> and RPM spec file editor (with autocomplete) support.
-[[User:Jspaleta|Jef Spaleta]] expressed<ref>http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/34551.html</ref> mild excitement at Canonical's "Renewed focus on suspend resume". In a later post, he wrote<ref>http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/34592.html</ref> about comparing Linux (and even OSX) user experiences with respect to functionality regressions after an update.
-[[User:Skvidal|Seth Vidal]] mused<ref>http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/fedora-is-held-to-a-higher-standard/</ref> on the fact that a poster on Planet Gnome<ref>http://planet.gnome.org/</ref> had said that "Fedora is held to a higher standard" than certain other distributions.
+====FudCon Pune 2011====
+[[user:kishan|Kishan Goyal]] posted on his experience on day 2 at FudCon Pune<ref>http://kishangoyal.co.cc/post/12549697509/fudcon-pune-11-day-2</ref>.
-[[HarishPillay|Harish Pillay]] reacted<ref>http://harishpillay.livejournal.com/139904.html</ref> to an IDC report claiming "Proprietary software products are much better documented than open source because of the volunteer nature of open source software development".
+[[user:jsimon|Joerg Simon]] posted pictures<ref>http://kitall.blogspot.com/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011-travel-und-event.html</ref> of the event.
-<references/>
-=== How-To ===
-[[DevanGoodwin|Devan Goodwin]] explained<ref>http://crispyinthedark.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/amazon-s3-duplicity-backups/</ref> how to perform bandwidth-limited secure encrypted backups using <code>duplicity</code> and Amazon's S3 Storage Service.
-[[User:Izhar|Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail]] described<ref>http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2009/02/disk-snapshot-backup-in-linux.html</ref> how to enable "Disk snapshot backup in Linux".
-[[User:Lennart|Lennart Poettering]] requested<ref>http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/versioning-dbus.html</ref> that <code>D-Bus</code> interfaces be properly versioned, and described some best-practices including the hows and whys.
-<references/>
-=== Events ===
-Once again: So many people have written about attending FOSDEM that it would take an entire issue of FWN post all of the links. Instead an arbitrarily selection will be randomly chosen.
-http://gnu.wildebeest.org/diary/2009/02/11/some-fosdem-pictures/
+[[user:izhar|Izhar Firdaus]] wrote about his experience<ref>http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ShadowLogs%2FFedora+%28%3A%3A+Shadow+Logs%3A%3A+Fedora%29#!/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011.html</ref> at FudCon, as well as some thoughts on the atmosphere of the event.
-http://kitall.blogspot.com/2009/02/fosdem-day2.html
+[[user:suchakra|Suchakra]] also blogged on Fudcon Pune<ref>http://suchakra.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/fudcon%e2%86%94funcon-pune-2011/</ref>.
-http://spevack.livejournal.com/74638.html
+[[user:kushal|Kushal Das]] posted photos<ref>http://kushaldas.in/2011/11/10/photoset-from-fudcon-pune-2011/</ref> of the event to his blog.
+===Fedora Community===
-http://gregdek.livejournal.com/45847.html
+The release of Fedora 16 has been the main topic of the blogroll recently, and it's fair to say that it's being greeted with open arms by many of the users.
-http://digitaurora.blogspot.com/2009/02/fosdem-2009-day-one.html
+[[user:jjmartinez|Juanjo Martinez]] blogged on his first impressions of F16, calling it an "impressive release"<ref>http://engbblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/welcome-fedora-16/</ref>.
-http://clunixchit.blogspot.com/2009/02/report-fel-fosdem-2009.html
+===General===
-And on a slightly different note, [[User:Makghosh|Arindam Ghosh]] wrote<ref>http://arindamghosh.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/mukti09-event-report/</ref> about (and posted photos of) Mikti'09<ref>http://mukti09.in/</ref>.
+[[User:adamwill|Adam Williamson]] posted about <ref>http://www.happyassassin.net/2011/11/10/stupid-fedora-tricks/</ref>starting work on Fedora 17, and experimentation with the new kernel in a virtualized environment.
 <references/>

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