Planet Fedora
Back after a long hiatus, 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
FrOSCon 2011
Up and coming is FrOSCon 2011, which will be held in Sankt Augustin, Germany on the 20th and 21st of next month. Sirko Kemter has announced that he will be holding two workshops in the Frog Labs (for kids) focusing on using Inkscape [1].
Fedora Community
Alejandro Perez blogged about the last training meeting for some new translators and packagers[2] who will, respectively, start packaging and translating for Fedora 16 and the wiki.
Cătălin Feştilă wrote on how the Fedora HCL for laptops was in need of revamping[3], and how it would be advantageous to the community to publish a current one.
Fabian Affolter reflected on his past experiences as an ambassador for the Fedora Project[4], and what he felt were his accomplishments in the past 5 years.
General
Juan "Nushio" Rodriguez expressed his concern[5] over the functionality of Gnome 3's fallback mode and the future of the Gnome shell in general.
Valent Turkovic shared an article [6] about how he helped to integrate Fedora (in this case, Fusion Linux) with Windows XP in his local public library.
Lennart Poettering added part II of his series systemd for Developers [7]. This installment focuses on “adding socket activation to real-life software”.
Shakthi Kannan wrote about [8]attending the 'Essential Abstractions in GCC' workshop at IIT Bombay and detailed his experience there.
The BoxGrinder Team blogged[9] on their attempts to stability test BoxGrinder, as well as the process they went through to set up their integration tests.
- ↑ http://karl-tux-stadt.de/ktuxs/?p=3257
- ↑ http://msvslinux1.blogspot.com/2011/07/bst-escuelita-fedora.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/RWHT+(moving+to+linux)
- ↑ http://catalin-festila.blogspot.com/2011/07/fedora-and-laptops-only-brief-look.html
- ↑ http://fabian-affolter.ch/blog/index.php/5-years-as-an-ambassador
- ↑ http://k3rnel.net/2011/07/03/why-gnome-3s-fallback-mode-sucks/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-gnome-3s-fallback-mode-sucks
- ↑ http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/index.php/archives/fedora-in-public-libraries/
- ↑ http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/socket-activation2.html
- ↑ http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/grc/gcc-workshop-11/
- ↑ http://boxgrinder.org/blog/2011/07/04/how-we-test-boxgrinder/