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Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 201<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue201</ref> for the week ending November 8, 2009.  What follows are some highlights from this issue.   
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 202<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue202</ref> for the week ending November 15, 2009.  What follows are some highlights from this issue.   


In this week's issue, a variety of announcements from the Project kicks us off, including completion of the Fedora documentation to a Creative Commons license, announcement of a new Fedora Medical special interest group, and announcements related to the upcoming Fedora 12 release candidate. In Ambassador news, details on an upcoming Fedora 12 event in Antwerp, Belgium. In Translation news, details regarding the Serbian translation team's discovery of a nomenclature discrepancy, a proposal to prepare marketing materials for use by the Ambassador program, and new members joining the Czech and Bengali localization teams. From the Art/Design Team, a call for help to assemble screenshots of games included in the Fedora Game spin and details on the remaining Art Team tasks for the road to Fedora 12. The Security Advisories beat brings us up to date on the security-related updates to Fedora 11 and 10 over this past week, and rounds out this issue of FWN. Enjoy!
In Announcements, the always-popular name selection process for the next Fedora release is underway, and nominations are open for December's Fedora elections. Planet Fedora contributes a look at the new Fedora Community site, some benchmarks of improbably large filesystems and a guide to using the Sugar desktop on Fedora. From Quality Assurance we hear about some more AutoQA improvements and the last stretch of the Fedora 12 release process. The Design team has been working on media art and website banners for the Fedora 12 release. In Virtualization we discuss creating network bridges for virtual machines when using NetworkManager, and a new release of libguestfs. There's also news on the state of Xen support in Fedora 12. Finally, the KDE section brings us up to date on some new backends for the Nepomuk semantic desktop system, and the replacement of gtk-qt-engine with kcm-gtk for Fedora 12. Enjoy the read!


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
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.  We plan to have the next issue of Fedora Weekly News in Fedora Insight, next week.  We welcome your feedback as we migrate FWN to this new content platform!


FWN Editorial Team: [[User:Pcalarco|Pascal Calarco]], [[User:Adamwill|Adam Williamson]]
FWN Editorial Team: [[User:Pcalarco|Pascal Calarco]], [[User:Adamwill|Adam Williamson]]


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Fedora Weekly News Issue 202

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 202[1] for the week ending November 15, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue.

In Announcements, the always-popular name selection process for the next Fedora release is underway, and nominations are open for December's Fedora elections. Planet Fedora contributes a look at the new Fedora Community site, some benchmarks of improbably large filesystems and a guide to using the Sugar desktop on Fedora. From Quality Assurance we hear about some more AutoQA improvements and the last stretch of the Fedora 12 release process. The Design team has been working on media art and website banners for the Fedora 12 release. In Virtualization we discuss creating network bridges for virtual machines when using NetworkManager, and a new release of libguestfs. There's also news on the state of Xen support in Fedora 12. Finally, the KDE section brings us up to date on some new backends for the Nepomuk semantic desktop system, and the replacement of gtk-qt-engine with kcm-gtk for Fedora 12. Enjoy the read!

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

FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson