Fedora Weekly News #148

2008-10-20 Thread Oisin Feeley
Fedora Weekly News Issue 148 1.1 Announcements 1.1.1 The Big ACL Opening 1.1.2 Fedora Test Day 1.1.3 K12Linux Release Candidate 1 Now Available 1.2 Developments 1.2.1 OpenOffice and go-oo 1.2.2

fedora-wiki list for wiki users and contributors

2008-10-22 Thread Ian Weller
Hi all, A new moderate-traffic mailing list for users and contributors of the Fedora Project Wiki has been set up. Among the discussions will be policy, announcements, and editing tips. The list has been created to bring together the wider wiki community split apart between different

Fedora 10 Snapshot 3

2008-10-24 Thread Jesse Keating
This is the final snapshot before our final devel freeze and subsequent preview release. On the torrent site you'll find install images and live images for testing. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ The i686 Live is just over 700M in size, so you /may/ have trouble burning it if your media is

Fedora Weekly News #149

2008-10-27 Thread Oisin Feeley
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 149 = 1.1 Announcements 1.1.1 Features Final Development Freeze 1.1.2 fedora-wiki list for wiki users and contributors 1.1.3 Fedora 10 Snapshot 3 1.2 Planet Fedora 1.2.1 Events Trip

Announcing Fedora Sugar Spin!

2008-10-30 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, I'm proud to be announce the availability of our Fedora Sugar Spin, which incorporates the Sugar Desktop Environment on a Fedora Live CD. So, what is this in specific? With this spin, you'll be able to run Sugar, which is developed by Sugarlabs and the desktop environment used

Echo Monthly News Issue 3

2008-11-03 Thread Martin Sourada
Hi, Echo Monthly News Issue 3, October 2008 [1] has just been released. This issue highlights these topics: 1. New Icons 2. New Templates 1. General Template with Gradients 2. Paper Template 3. Emotes Tempate 3. Echo Won't Be F10's Default

Re: Echo Monthly News Issue 3

2008-11-03 Thread Martin Sourada
On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 19:38 +0100, Martin Sourada wrote: Hi, Echo Monthly News Issue 3, October 2008 [1] has just been released. This issue highlights these topics: 1. New Icons 2. New Templates 1. General Template with Gradients 2. Paper Template

Announcing Fedora IRC Classroom Sessions

2008-11-03 Thread Kevin Fenzi
Greetings. I'm happy to announce that next weekend we will be opening up the #fedora-classroom irc channel (on irc.freenode.net) for some classroom sessions. These sessions are intended to be short (30min to an hour) sessions on the IRC network where you can learn about a specific Fedora

Fedora Weekly News #150

2008-11-03 Thread Pascal Calarco
-Fedora Weekly News Issue 150- Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 150 for the week ending November 2nd, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue150 In this week's issue, featured content includes announcements on a new Fedora Sugar Spin, and development freeze for Fedora 10. The

Nominations now open for December Fedora Elections

2008-11-05 Thread Matt Domsch
With one round of elections in the US out of the way, it's now time to turn our attention to more pressing matters - Fedora Election Season has begun. The following groups have elections in December 2008: * Fedora Project Board * Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo) *

Fedora Weekly News #151

2008-11-10 Thread Oisin Feeley
Fedora Weekly News Issue 151 1.1 Announcements 1.1.1 Fedora 11 Feature Process 1.1.2 Fedora 10 Preview Release 1.1.3 Elections are coming 1.2 Developments 1.2.1 Security Exceptions to the Mass ACL Opening

Fedora Classroom

2008-11-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi There was a number of IRC sessions on various topics related to Free software and Fedora. The IRC logs have now been published. Feel free to use them if you did not find the time to participation in real time. This is planned to continue for the next month as well.

ERR: Board IRC meeting **1900 UTC** 2008-11-18

2008-11-12 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 07:52:50AM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Tuesday, 18 November 2008, at 1800 UTC on IRC Freenode. The public is invited to do the following: Apologies to all, DST change fail! The meeting will occur at **1900 UTC**.

Fedora Weekly News 152

2008-11-17 Thread Pascal Calarco
-Fedora Weekly News Issue 152- Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 152 for the week ending November 16th, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue152 This week's exciting issue features extensive coverage of a Server SIG formation in the Developments beat, along with clarifications

RPM Fusion free and nonfree repositories for Fedora 10 (Cambridge) now available

2008-11-25 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The RPM Fusion team is proud to announce the public availability of our ''free'' and ''nonfree'' package repositories for Fedora 10 (Cambridge). The repositories contain multimedia applications, kernel drivers, games and other software the Fedora

Cambridge Launched to Explore Solar System (Fedora 10)

2008-11-25 Thread Jesse Keating
DATELINE: 2008-11-25 KEY FINGERPRINT: 61A8 ABE0 91FF 9FBB F4B0 7709 BF22 6FCC 4EBF C273 LOCATION: GEOSYNC ORBIT, FEDORA SPACE STATION VIA GLOBAL IRC NETWORK BROADCASTING: FREEDOM FRIENDS FEATURES FIRST (Cue J. Strauss' Blue Danube.) THIS IS FEDORA SPACE OPERATIONS ANNOUNCING with great

ATrpms for Fedora 10; upcoming EOL for Fedora 8

2008-11-26 Thread Axel Thimm
ATrpms is officially launching Fedora 9 support. http://ATrpms.net/dist/f10/ o The actual download location is http://dl.atrpms.net/. Mirrors are listed at http://atrpms.net/mirrors/ o stable, testing and bleeding, the three subrepos per distribution are not cumulative inclusive on

Outage Notification - Fedorapeople.org 2008-11-30 06:00 UTC - 2008-11-30 18:00 UTC

2008-11-26 Thread Seth Vidal
Outage Notification - 2008-11-30 06:00 UTC There will be an outage starting at 2008-11-30 06:00 UTC, which will last approximately 12 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2008-11-30 06:00 UTC' Affected

Fedora Board IRC meeting 1900 UTC 2008-12-02

2008-11-27 Thread Paul Frields
The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Tuesday, 2 December 2008, at 1900 UTC on IRC Freenode. The Board has settled on a schedule that puts these public IRC meetings on the first Tuesday of each month. Therefore, the next following public meeting will be on 6 January 2008. For these

Reminder of Fedora 8 end-of-life

2008-11-29 Thread Jon Stanley
As a reminder, Fedora has a policy of ending maintenance for a release one month after the release of Fedora N+2 (i.e. Fedora 8 maintenance would end one month after Fedora 10 was released). In this instance, that date would be December 25. At today's FESCo meeting [1], it was decided to

Fedora 10 Cambridge Spins : Other Planetary Systems

2008-11-29 Thread Chitlesh GOORAH
Hello there, While astronomers took first ever pictures of other planetary systems [1] last month, the fedora community was building its own planetary systems. Some say one planet isn't enough, other strive to enlarge their own planet. While F-10 Cambridge elevates the performance barrier and

FUDCon F11 Boston

2008-12-01 Thread Paul W. Frields
FUDCon F11 Boston -- News Update! = * All of our location information is confirmed -- we will be holding the conference as predicted, at MIT in the Sloan Building. There will be plentiful space for hackfests and BarCamp sessions over the course of the

F11 Naming: Sulphur - Cambridge - NewName?

2008-12-02 Thread Josh Boyer
Hi All, It's that time of year again. Time to start the naming process for the next Fedora release. To recap on the rules: 1) NewName must have some link to Cambridge More specifically, the link should be Cambridge is a blank and NewName is a blank Where blank is the same for

Fedora Weekly News #154

2008-12-02 Thread Oisin Feeley
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 154 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 153 for the week ending November 30th, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue154 This week many of us enjoyed Thanksgiving turkey and we all enjoyed a full helping of Fedora 10 and were left stunned and satisfied. In

Board appointment

2008-12-03 Thread Paul W. Frields
During this election season, there are two (2) appointed seats and two (2) community-elected seats open on the Fedora Board. This cycle, Bill Nottingham, Karsten Wade, Matt Domsch, and Jef Spaleta are turning over their seats. These folks have given very generously of their time over the last

Outage Notification - 2008-12-05 18:00 UTC

2008-12-04 Thread Mike McGrath
There will be an outage starting at 2008-12-05 18:00 UTC, which will last approximately 12 hours. During this time systems may be unavailable. Though any service disruption should be small with the exception of a 1 to 2 hour total outage of almost all services towards the end of this window. To

Omega 10 Preview Release

2008-12-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi, Omega is a Linux based operating system and a Fedora remix suitable for desktop and laptop users. It is a installable Live CD for regular PC (i686 architecture) systems. It has all the features of Fedora 10 and a number of additional multimedia players and codecs by default. You can play

Outage Notification - wiki, smolt, transifex

2008-12-06 Thread Ricky Zhou
Outage Notification - 2008-12-06 18:22 UTC There has been an unplanned outage starting at 2008-12-06 17:30 UTC. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '-MM-DD HH:MM UTC' Affected Services: Websites Fedora

Fedora Elections - Important Information

2008-12-06 Thread Nigel Jones
Hi Everyone, The elections for the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) and the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo) are now live (as of UTC on 7th December 2008) and will run until 2359 UTC on 20th December 2008. All groups have chosen to use the Range

Unofficial Fedora FAQ Updated for Fedora 10!

2008-12-10 Thread Max Kanat-Alexander
Hey there Fedora users! I've updated the Unofficial Fedora FAQ for Fedora 10: http://www.fedorafaq.org/ There are lots of new changes and additions! * With the combination of Fedora 10 and the new RPMFusion repository, there doesn't need to be a special

Outage Notification: Koji, Wiki, Smolt, Transifex

2008-12-16 Thread Ricky Zhou
Outage Notification - 2008-12-16 08:10 UTC There has been an unplanned outage beginning at 2008-12-16 08:10 UTC. There is currently no ETA for resolving these issues. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d

Fedora User Guide

2008-12-21 Thread Matthew Daniels
Fedora User Guide Update The user guide for Fedora 8 has been hidden within the FedoraProject.org wiki for some time now. It has finally been cleaned up and placed neatly in its own page. We have also added a User Guide category under which future UGs should be located.

December 2008 FESCo Election Results

2008-12-21 Thread Brian Pepple
Election Results for FESCo - Fedora 10 Cycle Voting Period: 07 December 2008 00:00:00 UTC to 20 December 2008 23:59:59 UTC Nominations: * Dan Horák (sharkcz) * Dominik Mierzejewski (rathann) * Jarod Wilson (jwilson) * Jon Stanley (jds2001) * Josh Boyer (jwb) Outcomes: As defined in the

FAMSCo 2008 Election Result

2008-12-21 Thread Francesco Ugolini
It's my pleasure to announce the election result for FAmSCo. Here the communication made by Nigel Jones, the Elections Administrator, with the election result: -- Election Results for FAmSCo

December 2008 Fedora Board election results

2008-12-21 Thread Paul W. Frields
Election Results for Fedora Board, Fedora 11 Release Cycle Voting Period: 07 December 2008 00:00:00 UTC to 20 December 2008 23:59:59 UTC Nominations: * Bill Nottingham (notting) * David Cantrell (dcantrell) * Dimitris Glezos (glezos) * Jon Stanley (jds2001) * Josh Boyer (jwb) * Matt Domsch

FINAL REMINDER: Fedora 8 EOL

2008-12-23 Thread Jon Stanley
This is a reminder that as of January 7, 2009, Fedora 8 will be end-of-life and no further updates, including security updates, will be released at that time, and new builds will not be allowed in the buildsystem. Also as of that date, all open bugs against Fedora 8 will be CLOSED WONTFIX.

Fedora 11 release name voting open

2009-01-05 Thread Paul W. Frields
Voting is now opened for the Fedora 11 release name. There are eight names on the ballot from which to choose. To cast your vote, point your web browser to this URL: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/relnamef11 Log in with your Fedora Account name and password. As long as you have

Reminder: Fedora Board IRC meeting 1900 UTC 2009-01-06

2009-01-05 Thread Paul W. Frields
The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Tuesday, 6 January 2009, at 1900 UTC on IRC Freenode. The Board has settled on a schedule that puts these public IRC meetings on the first Tuesday of each month. Therefore, the next following public meeting will be on 3 February 2009. For these

Re: Echo Monthly News Issue 4-5, November - December 2008

2009-01-06 Thread Martin Sourada
On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 23:15 +0100, Martin Sourada wrote: Hi, We've just published latest Echo Monthly News Issue [1]. Due too lack of enough content, it is joint of November's and December's happenings. The topics are: * Echo Perspective - Proposed Designs * Proposed Guideline

[Fwd: bugzilla.redhat.com, hardware.redhat.com Planned Outage | Jan 09 2009 - 9:00 PM EST]

2009-01-07 Thread John Poelstra
Original Message Subject: bugzilla.redhat.com, hardware.redhat.com Planned Outage | Jan 09 2009 - 9:00 PM EST Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 11:18:46 -0500 From: Meethune Bhowmick O U T A G E R E Q U E S T F O R M = Severity: Severity Four

Fedora Unity F9 20081217 respins

2009-01-07 Thread ben
The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new ISO Re-Spins of Fedora 9. These Re-Spin ISOs are based on the officially released Fedora 9 installation media and include all updates released as of December 17th, 2008. The ISO images are available for i386, x86_64

Unsigned nautilus packages in latest F10 updates

2009-01-07 Thread Jesse Keating
Due to an as of yet not fully understood bug, unsigned nautilus packages slipped into the last Fedora 10 updates push. I have a new updates push running with signed versions of those packages which should finish in the next 20 minutes or so. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have

Re: Unsigned nautilus packages in latest F10 updates

2009-01-08 Thread Jesse Keating
On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 17:37 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: Due to an as of yet not fully understood bug, unsigned nautilus packages slipped into the last Fedora 10 updates push. I have a new updates push running with signed versions of those packages which should finish in the next 20 minutes or

Fedora 8 End of Life

2009-01-09 Thread Paul W. Frields
As announced earlier[1], Fedora 8 has reached its end of life for updates. Fedora 9 will continue to receive updates until approximately one month after the release of Fedora 11. = = = https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00021.html -- Paul W. Frields

Fedora Weekly News #158

2009-01-12 Thread Pascal Calarco
Fedora Weekly News Issue 158 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 158 for the week ending January 11th, 2009. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue158 In this first FWN issue of 2009, we bring you several announcements of the outcomes of recent Fedora-related elections. Fedora 8 reaches

Migration of the Fedora Mailing Lists

2009-01-14 Thread Jon Stanley
Over the last several years, there has been some contention over why our mailing lists are @redhat.com instead of @fedoraproject.org, and there are also some concerns over the process of requesting new lists and so on. As a result, we (myself and Dennis Gilmore) are beginning an effort to

FUDCon F11 Barcamp Session Video Available

2009-01-16 Thread Chris Tyler
Video from the FUDCon F11 Barcamp is available via the barcamp schedule page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:FUDConF11_BarCamp_schedule These videos are in unedited .ogg/.ogv format and are under a CC-BY-SA 3.0-US license. -Chris -- fedora-announce-list mailing list

Announcing the Moksha Project and Fedora Community Project!

2009-01-19 Thread John Palmieri
We are pleased to announce the Moksha Project and Fedora Community Project. For a while now, Luke Macken, Máirín Duffy, myself and others have been working on consolidating the the Fedora Infrastructure bits under one unified user interface. We have decided to split the efforts into two

Fedora Weekly News #160

2009-01-26 Thread Oisin Feeley
Fedora Weekly News Issue 160 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 160 for the week ending January 25th, 2009. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue160 Announcements notes upcoming events and deadlines for Fedora 11. PlanetFedora picks up on some communication problems in General and shares How

Reminder: Fedora Board IRC meeting 1900 UTC 2009-01-06

2009-01-29 Thread Paul W. Frields
The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Tuesday, 3 February 2009, at 1900 UTC on IRC Freenode. The Board has settled on a schedule that puts these public IRC meetings on the first Tuesday of each month. Therefore, the next following public meeting will be on 3 March 2009. For these

Re: Reminder: Fedora Board IRC meeting 1900 UTC 2009-02-03

2009-01-29 Thread Paul Frields
** Changed subject line to reflect proper date. ** On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Paul W. Frields sticks...@gmail.com wrote: The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Tuesday, 3 February 2009, at 1900 UTC on IRC Freenode. The Board has settled on a schedule that puts these public

Echo Monthly News Issue 6, January 2009

2009-02-02 Thread Martin Sourada
Hello, We have published the sixth Echo Monthly News Issue [1]. This issue covers the first month of 2009 and is composed from these topics: 1. Echo Perspective starting of Fedora Hosted 2. New Echo Artist Scripts and Supporting Icon Artist Library 1. Initializing New Git

Fedora Weekly News Issue 161

2009-02-02 Thread Pascal Calarco
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 161 for the week ending February 1, 2009. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue161 This week's FWN goodness offers a very special update from the Fonts SIG to bring us up to date on their work leading up to Fedora 11. You may also notice that we are

Fedora 11 Alpha slip

2009-02-03 Thread Jesse Keating
We've decided to delay the release date of Fedora 11 Alpha by 2 days giving us time to fully sync the release to our mirror systems. The new release date is this Thursday, Feb 5th at 1500 UTC. An announcement will be made then when the bits are available to the general public. -- Jesse Keating

Announcing Fedora 11 Alpha (blink)

2009-02-05 Thread Jesse Keating
To blink or not to blink: that is the question; Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous users, Or to take arms against a see of power drains. And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more: and by a sleep to say we suspend. Ok enough of that. The

FUDCon Berlin 2009

2009-02-17 Thread Max Spevack
Hi there Fedorans, In September 2008, we had an excellent FUDCon in Brno (credit to the local team there, led by Radek Vokal, who helped to make the event happen. Feedback about FUDCon Brno was all incredibly positive, and we'll bring FUDCon back to Brno for sure. However, the one thing

Fedora Weekly News #164

2009-02-23 Thread Pascal Calarco
Fedora Weekly News Issue 164 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 164 for the week ending February 22nd, 2009. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue164 This week Announcements showcases Fedora Unity respins of Fedora 10, PlanetFedora selects some great blog entries on how to tag audio

Unofficial FAQ Update: 2009-02-24

2009-02-27 Thread Max Kanat-Alexander
Hey Fedora users! :-) I've updated the Unofficial FAQ quite a bit in these last few days: * The Installing Software question was updated to still work even though rpm.livna.org is down. * The Radeon 3D driver question has been updated to contain a

Reminder: Fedora Board IRC meeting 1900 UTC 2009-03-03

2009-02-27 Thread Paul W. Frields
The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Tuesday, 3 March 2009, at 1900 UTC on IRC Freenode. The Board has settled on a schedule that puts these public IRC meetings on the first Tuesday of each month. Therefore, the next following public meeting will be on 7 April 2009. For these

Fedora Weekly News #165

2009-03-02 Thread Pascal Calarco
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 165 for the week ending March 1, 2009. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue165 In this week's issue, in announcements we're reminded about this month's Fedora Board meeting and updates on the Fedora 11 feature freeze and updates on upcoming Fedora

Echo Monthly News Issue 7, February 2009

2009-03-03 Thread Martin Sourada
Hi, We have published the sixth Echo Monthly News Issue [1]. This issue covers February 2009 and contains this topic: 1 New Icons 1.1 Perspective Regards, The Echo Team References: [1] https://fedorahosted.org/echo-icon-theme/wiki/MonthlyNews/Issue7 signature.asc

FUDCon Berlin 2009 LinuxTag reminders

2009-03-12 Thread Max Spevack
Howdy FUDConners! I'm here to remind everyone about the relevant details for FUDCon Berlin 2009 and LinuxTag 2009. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxTag_2009 LINUXTAG: Berlin, Germany. June 24 - 27. FUDCON: Berlin,

Re: FUDCon Berlin 2009 LinuxTag reminders

2009-03-12 Thread Max Spevack
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Max Spevack wrote: WHO: You! FUDCon is free to attend. However, because FUDCon is being held in conjunction with LinuxTag, attendees will need a LinuxTag ticket. The Fedora Project will be able to provide these tickets, free of charge, to attendees who pre-register for

Announcing Fedora 11 Beta

2009-03-31 Thread Jesse Keating
This is the part where I usually come up with something clever to say before the useful information regarding a development release. I had something great, I really did. In fact I had the most clever statement in the world. Only you see, my cat jumped on my keyboard, right when I was testing

Fedora 11 Snapshot 1

2009-04-10 Thread Jesse Keating
This is the first and final snapshot before our final devel freeze (April 14th) and subsequent preview release. On the torrent sites you'll find live images for testing. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org and http://spins.fedoraproject.org Lots of work has gone into the storage code of Anaconda

Fedora Weekly News #171

2009-04-13 Thread Oisin Feeley
Fedora Weekly News Issue 171 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 171 for the week ending April 12th, 2009. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue171 Our latest issue includes important Announcements about Fedora 11 and freeze statuses. Ambassadors celebrates the way Italians Fete Document

FUDCon Berlin 2009 LinuxTag 2009

2009-04-15 Thread Max Spevack
We're about 2 months away from FUDCon Berlin and LinuxTag, and it's time to give the community a few reminders and details. LinuxTag -- June 24 - 27 FUDCon Berlin -- June 26 - 28 Both events are being held in the same location, and FUDCon is OPEN TO EVERYONE, regardless of whether or not you

Fedora Weekly News #172

2009-04-20 Thread Oisin Feeley
Fedora Weekly News Issue 172 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 172 for the week ending April 19th, 2009. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue172 This week Announcements rubs its hands with glee over the Fedora 11 freeze. Similarly Artwork enthuses about Fedora 11

Fedora Unity Releases F10 Re-spins

2009-04-21 Thread Ben Williams
The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new ISO Re-Spins of Fedora 10. These Re-Spin ISOs are based on the officially released Fedora 10 installation media and include all updates released as of April 14th, 2009 (saving about 650MB in updates on a default install). The

Reminder: Fedora Board IRC meeting 1800 UTC 2009-05-05

2009-04-25 Thread Paul W. Frields
The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Tuesday, 5 May 2009, at 1800 UTC on IRC Freenode. The Board has settled on a schedule that puts these public IRC meetings on the first Tuesday of each month. Therefore, the next following public meeting will be on 5 May 2009. For these

Fedora 11 Preview Release announcement

2009-04-28 Thread Seth Vidal
Memorandum of Intent to Release a Distribution of Understanding Things this email is about: - Fedora 11 Preview release - Where to get it - How to test it - Where to report problems Things this email is not about: - If there are too many sliders on a volume control - If there are

Fedora Weekly News #174

2009-05-04 Thread Oisin Feeley
Fedora Weekly News Issue 174 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 174[1] for the week ending May 3rd, 2009. This week Announcements suggests reading the release notes for Fedora 11 (Leonidas). PlanetFedora highlights some choice posts from Fedora blogs including one on the

Fedora Classroom: May 2009

2009-05-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi, Fedora IRC Classroom for May 2009 was completed successfully with 3 different sessions: Fedora Ambassador Tips Training -- Max Spevack What is SELinux trying to tell me? - The 4 key causes of SELinux errors -- Daniel Walsh, lead SELinux developer at Red Hat Introduction to libvirt - The

Fedora Weekly News #175

2009-05-11 Thread Oisin Feeley
Fedora Weekly News Issue 175 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 175[1] for the week ending May 10th, 2009. In a small sample of this information-packed issue Announcements points to the Fedora 11 Bug Blocker Review Day, PlanetFedora explores the relationship between cooking

F12 Naming: Cambridge - Leonidas - New Name?

2009-05-18 Thread Josh Boyer
Hi All, It's that time of year again. Time to start the naming process for the next Fedora release. To recap on the rules: 1) NewName must have some link to Leonidas More specifically, the link should be Leonidas is a blank and NewName is a blank Where blank is the same for

Fedora Weekly News #177

2009-05-25 Thread Oisin Feeley
Fedora Weekly News Issue 177 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 177[1] for the week ending May 24th, 2009. This week we offer a special collector's edition with the last ever Fedora Webcomic. PlanetFedora links Jeff Shelten's thoughts on Why Students Should Get Involved in Open Source,

Reminder: Fedora Board IRC meeting 1800 UTC 2009-05-05

2009-05-27 Thread Paul W. Frields
** Note the different date and time! The change was necessary to accommodate some of the Board members for this month. The Board's schedule may change after elections and appointments are complete, to make sure all members can attend as often as possible. The Board is holding its

ERRATA: IRC Board meeting ** 1700 UTC 2009-06-04 **

2009-05-28 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:09:09PM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: ** Note the different date and time! The change was necessary to accommodate some of the Board members for this month. The Board's schedule may change after elections and appointments are complete, to make sure all

One (more) week slip of Fedora 11 Release

2009-05-28 Thread Jesse Keating
A late discovered and just potentially fixed anaconda storage bug[1] has necessitated another week slip of our schedule. The change is important but invasive enough to require re-validating our storage tests. We were already late in producing the Release Candidate and there is not enough time to

Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-05-29 Thread Jesse Keating
We're announcing a Fedora Activity day coming up very very soon (apologies for the short notice). This activity day is for maintainers, QA, and release engineering folks to meet and discuss ongoing issues with the Fedora Development Cycle and to create a proposal on how to fix many of the issues.

Fedora Weekly News 178

2009-06-01 Thread Pascal Calarco
Fedora Weekly News Issue 178 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 178[1] for the week ending May 31st, 2009. We have a couple changes of note this week. Oisin Feeley, who has been on the editorial team for FWN and writer for the Development section, is leaving FWN for an extended time period

Fedora Elections: Town Hall schedule set, beginning in 12 hours

2009-06-02 Thread Matt Domsch
With each of the candidates noting they can attend at least one of the IRC Town Halls for their respective offices, the schedule is now set. Town Halls begin in about 12 hours. Each group participating in the election will host two Town Hall sessions on IRC. Each will last one hour, or less if

Board appointment

2009-06-04 Thread Paul W. Frields
I am pleased to announce that John Poelstra is our first appointment to the Fedora Project Board for this cycle. His term will last until the selection process following the release of Fedora 13, in accordance with the Board's established succession planning. Many of our contributors know John

Fedora Elections and Release Name Selection - Voting Information

2009-06-06 Thread Nigel Jones
Hi Everyone, The elections for the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) and the Fedora 12 Release Name choice have been created and are due to start at UTC on 7th June 2009 and are scheduled to run until 2359 UTC on 22nd June 2009. All groups have chosen to use the

Re: Fedora Elections and Release Name Selection - Voting Information

2009-06-06 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 10:27:51AM -0400, Nigel Jones wrote: Fedora 12 Release Name Community Vote: --- This community vote has been setup to choose the release name for Fedora 12. The choices for this vote were selected using community

Fedora Weekly News 179

2009-06-08 Thread Pascal Calarco
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 179[1] for the week ending June 7, 2009. In this, the issue immediately prior to the impending release of Fedora 11, we have a fine bevy of news for you. Fedora elections are open for voting in the various positions, please participate if you are eligible.

Announcing Fedora 11

2009-06-09 Thread Paul W. Frields
Ladies and gentlemen of the Royal Explorers Club! Your attention please. It falls to me to be the host of our proceedings to-day, as we celebrate a great achievement in the annals of this hallowed organization -- the discovery of what is truly a magnificent specimen among all FOSSdom. When Dr.

Fedora Electronic Lab 11 Leonidas Released

2009-06-11 Thread Chitlesh GOORAH
Fedora Project - This week announced [1] the availability of Fedora 11 Leonidas and its spins. These spins provide different flavours of Fedora 11 targeting specific users and applications. The fourth consecutive release of Fedora Electronic Lab is part of those spins, offering the best hardware

Fedora 9 End Of Life (EOL)

2009-06-15 Thread Jon Stanley
With the release of Fedora 11 now past us, it's come time to remind folks that per the release policy, maintenance for the N-2 Fedora release ends one month after the Fedora N comes out. In this case, since Fedora 11 just came out, that means that the end of life for Fedora 9 will be 2009-07-10.

Announcing LXDE Fedora Remix 11

2009-06-15 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi, I am pleased to announce the community remix of Fedora 11 with LXDE as the default desktop environment. It is available for download at http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/remixes/LXDE/lxde-fedora-remix-11-i686-live.iso Release Notes: --- It is a Live CD with LXDE as

LinuxTag FUDCon Berlin 2009

2009-06-20 Thread Max Spevack
Hello, Pardon the wide distribution, but I'm trying to make sure that everyone who is attending FUDCon Berlin 2009 and LinuxTag sees this message. Information about retrieving your e-tickets for the event has been emailed out to the list of folks who are pre-registered for the event here:

June 2009 Fedora Board election results

2009-06-23 Thread Paul W. Frields
Election Results for Fedora Board - June 2009 Voting Period: 07 June 2009 00:00:00 UTC to 22 June 2009 23:59:59 UTC Nominations: * David Nalley (ke4qqq) * Dennis Gilmore (dgilmore) * Josh Boyer (jwb) * Mike McGrath (mmcgrath) * Tom Callaway (spot) Outcomes: As defined in the election text,

Fedora 12 release name

2009-06-27 Thread Paul W. Frields
The Fedora 12 release name is: Constantine The full GPG-signed message from our election coordinator, Nigel Jones, is attached. Thank you to the community for their suggestions, Josh Boyer and the Board for their work on additional diligence searches, and Nigel Jones for setting up the

New meeting logging facility available

2009-07-09 Thread Jon Stanley
This evening, Kevin Fenzi and I finished the integration of the supybot plugin MeetBot into our beloved zodbot (for those that don't know, zodbot is a very useful bot on the freenode IRC network, which provides a number of services for Fedora contributors). This plugin was developed by our

Fedora 9 End of Life

2009-07-10 Thread Paul W. Frields
As announced earlier[1], Fedora 9 has reached its end of life for updates. Fedora 10 will continue to receive updates until approximately one month after the release of Fedora 12. = = = [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg9.html -- Paul W. Frields

Failed Updates

2009-07-13 Thread Mike McGrath
Due to some issues with internal mirroring, Fedora has not been able to update its tiered mirrors since Saturday due to high load averages on its master server. This has caused issues with many public mirrors not being in sync, and causing users to be unable to install updates or newer software.

Fedora Weekly News 189

2009-08-17 Thread Pascal Calarco
* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 189 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora 12 (Constantine) + 1.1.2 Upcoming Events o 1.2 Marketing + 1.2.1 Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-08-11 + 1.2.2 Marketing F12 schedule

Announcing FUDCon Toronto 2009

2009-08-18 Thread Paul W. Frields
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks to the dedicated efforts of some of our ardent fans and friends in the Fedora community in the great nation of Canada, we are heading across the border for the next North American Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon)! The next

Fedora Weekly News 190

2009-08-24 Thread Pascal Calarco
o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora 12 (Constantine) + 1.1.2 Announced FUDCon Toronto 2009 + 1.1.3 Switch from OpenAL to OpenAL-Soft + 1.1.4 Upcoming Events o 1.2 Marketing + 1.2.1 Marketing Meeting

Fedora Weekly News 191

2009-08-31 Thread Pascal Calarco
* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 191 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora 12 (Constantine) Alpha Release + 1.1.2 Fedora 12 early branch now available + 1.1.3 Red Hat/Fedora/JBoss Developer conference in Brno, Czech Republic + 1.1.4 Upcoming Events o 1.2 Marketing + 1.2.1 Marketing Meeting Log for

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