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Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 189<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue189</ref> for the week ending August 16, 2009.
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 189<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue189</ref> for the week ending August 16, 2009.


 
In this week's issue, an update on the progress of Fedora 12 (Constantine) Alpha release gets us started in Announcements.  Our Marketing beat is offered by a new beat writer, Chaitanya Mehandru, who reports on the latest happenings with the Marketing Team, including an update on zikula deployment for Fedora Insight.  In Ambassador news, an announcement of the three winners of the Fedora 11 release events contest, from three different regions of the globe.  Quality Assurance offers detail on several past and upcoming Test Days and weekly meetings, and updates on Fedora 12 bug blockers.  In news from the Translation Team this week, updates on the Fedora 12 release schedule as it pertains to translation and documentation, and announcement of the Translation Quick Start Guide in Russian, Polish, Dutch and Brazilian Portuguese.  The Art/Design Team beat this week leads with a summary of discussion on the Fedora 12 theme meeting, followed by a report on the initial work in creating an Art Studio Fedora spin and rounds out with a discussion on the need for source control for Fedora Themes.  Our issue rounds out with updates from the various virtualization communities and teams, including the availability of new Xen packages for Fedora for testing, and details on libguestfs 1.0.67 and libvirt 0.7.0 and their new features. 


If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join</ref>. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list@redhat.com
If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join</ref>. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list@redhat.com

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 189

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 189[1] for the week ending August 16, 2009.

In this week's issue, an update on the progress of Fedora 12 (Constantine) Alpha release gets us started in Announcements. Our Marketing beat is offered by a new beat writer, Chaitanya Mehandru, who reports on the latest happenings with the Marketing Team, including an update on zikula deployment for Fedora Insight. In Ambassador news, an announcement of the three winners of the Fedora 11 release events contest, from three different regions of the globe. Quality Assurance offers detail on several past and upcoming Test Days and weekly meetings, and updates on Fedora 12 bug blockers. In news from the Translation Team this week, updates on the Fedora 12 release schedule as it pertains to translation and documentation, and announcement of the Translation Quick Start Guide in Russian, Polish, Dutch and Brazilian Portuguese. The Art/Design Team beat this week leads with a summary of discussion on the Fedora 12 theme meeting, followed by a report on the initial work in creating an Art Studio Fedora spin and rounds out with a discussion on the need for source control for Fedora Themes. Our issue rounds out with updates from the various virtualization communities and teams, including the availability of new Xen packages for Fedora for testing, and details on libguestfs 1.0.67 and libvirt 0.7.0 and their new features.

If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list@redhat.com

The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. If you are interested, please join the list and let us know how you would like to assist with this effort.

FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson