Any Active Pakistani Ambassador!
by Mustafa Qasim
Hello!
Active Fedora Ambassador OR willing to be ambassador from Pakistan?
Kindly reply to this post.
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Regards,
Mustafa Qasim
Lahore, Pakistan
Cell: 0321-6614972
URL: http://www.mustu.info
Registered Linux User# 441709.
16 years, 5 months
Fedora 8 announce
by pingou
Dear ambassadors,
For every release the french team is used to write a small announce for
the Fedora user to be published on websites.
We have decided to translate the announce in english so that those that
would like to present Fedora 8 on their blog or on other website could
do it quit easily.
The translation is far from perfect, so I would advice you to have a
look at it and to correct what needs to be.
Hope it helps,
Best regards,
P.Yves
The announce is past as text here and attached as .odt with this email
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Announce Fedora 8
On this autumn period where the best fruit are matured, it comes the
time to harvest the new Fedora release.
This new Fedora is named “WereWolf”, but do not be afraid this release
will bring you all the safety and stability that you could dream of.
The main point of this new version is without any doubt
SIMPLICITY
After 5 months of intense work, and in order to provide you the latest
technologies, this new release will be for you as for us a major evolution.
The major new features are (among others):
Codek Buddy (aka codeina) :
By default Fedora does not provide non free codecs. This is sometime a
problem for the end users who has to install them on their own. This is
the reason why Codec Buddy has been created. This tool is able to help
you to install the required codecs to helps you to listen to your MP3 or
watch your movies, in a very simple way.
PulseAudio: (NTBR)
Fedora 8 provides the last generation of sound server. The goal is to
offer to the music fan a great improvement to the support of low
latency. The new technology opens the gate to new functionalities like
decrease automatically the volume of the noise when you are watching a
movie.
System-config-firewall :
This new interface is much more accessible for the new Fedora users. It
is a very intuitive interface thanks to its step by step configuration.
System-config-selinux :
Nowadays, the configuration of SELinux is distinct from the one of the
firewall, in a new user friendly interface.
System-config-printer : (NTBR)
The printer configuration system has also been changed. During the
installation, it will now create automatically the printing queue, this
is the end of the steps where so much users has failed on the past.
NetworkManager 0.7 :
Entirely rewritten in order to satisfy to the wired and wireless
network, giving a higher speed of connection and a better integration
(thanks among other to the Dbus API and the WPA for the wireless).
Better laptop support :
Thanks to the information returned by “smolt” the Fedora team has
improved the management of the Suspend to Ram and Suspend to Disk
system, and the recognition of the multimedia keys on the keyboard.
Package management :
Pirut (a GUI for yum, the package manager) has been updated in order to
meet the users' demand. It is now able to manage directly the
repositories from this GUI, simplifying a lot the work of new users.
Fedora 8's theme :
For each new Fedora release a new theme is created. For Fedora 8, the
icons, the windows' border have also been changed to fit the theme. This
project is named “Nodoka”.
The desktop background is named “Infinity”. You could say, “yes, well it
is just a new desktop background”, however the main innovation for this
background is that it changes over the day, from the blue in the morning
to a relax and peacefull purple on the evening.
Virtualization :
Virtualization is an important part that more and more people use,
within this new release, virtualization has also evolved. The safety has
been greatly improved thanks to a new library that allows you to use the
SSL/TLS protocol to secure your access. The other modifications are on
the graphical interface of virt-manager, more user friendly and
providing the last functionalities.
FEL (Fedora Electronic Lab) :
This new product made in Fedora has been created by the SIG (Special
Interest Group) “embedded”. This project try to implement as much
applications as possible. This software and tools are focus on a
electronic theme in order to provide a live-cd to universities.
For the developers, we did not forget that the last version of eclipse
3.3 is available for Fedora. This new version provides a lot of new
functions:
JDT : for Java development.
CDT : Editor, builder and debugger for C and C++.
Autotools : plugin for CDT to support autoconf, and automake (among others).
Mylyn : first interface that allows the developers to request the
Bugzilla's database.
PHPEclipse : plugin for PHP development of test.
Specfile editor : plugin for the SpecFiles for RPM creation.
PyDev : plugin for Python
...
In order to get this new release, you can go to this page :
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora
The Fedora ambassador, from the FedoraProject.
16 years, 5 months
[Fwd: OpenExpo Newsletter #2: Call for Participation für OpenExpo 2008 in Bern]
by Fabian Affolter
FYI
If anybody wants to attend, check out
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/OpenExpo/OpenExpo2008_Berne
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: OpenExpo Newsletter #2: Call for Participation für OpenExpo
2008 in Bern
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 02:56:18 -0500
From: OpenExpo <contact(a)openexpo.ch>
To: Fabian Affolter <fabian.affolter(a)fedoraproject.org>
Sehr geehrter Herr Affolter
Bereits liegt die OpenExpo 2007 in Zürich mehrere Wochen zurück. Mit
über 500 Besuchenden ist der Anlass erfolgreich zu Ende gegangen.
Rückblick, Vorträge mit Audioaufzeichnung und Folien sowie viele Fotos
finden Sie auf http://www.openexpo.ch/openexpo-2007-zuerich
Nun laden wir Sie ein, an der kommenden OpenExpo am 12./13. März 2008
in Bern mitzuwirken. Dazu haben wir den Call for Participation lanciert,
der zur Anmeldung von Projekt- und Firmenständen sowie zum Einreichen
von Referatsvorschlägen bis am ***30. November 2007*** aufruft. Sie
finden alle weiteren Informationen, den Call for Participation als PDF
(in deutsch, englisch und französisch) sowie die jeweiligen
Anmelde-Formulare unter folgendem Link:
http://www.openexpo.ch/openexpo-2008-bern/
Speziell freut es uns Ihnen mitteilen zu können, dass die kommende
OpenExpo dank grosszügigen Sponsoren erneut wachsen wird. Einerseits
findet in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Informatikstrategieorgan Bund ISB und
der Schweizerischen Informatikkonferenz SIK die 4. OSS-Tagung für die
öffentliche Verwaltung als OpenExpo Public Administration Track statt.
Andererseits ermöglichen die Sponsoren IBM, Puzzle ITC, Liip, Optaros
und leanux.ch die Durchführung eines zweiten Business Tracks, sodass die
Anzahl der OpenExpo-Referate verdoppelt werden kann. Bei den Speakers
haben wir bereits Zusagen von Stefan Arn (UBS, ICTswitzerland, Gründer
AdNovum) und Erwin Tenhumberg (Sun, OpenOffice.org Entwickler), weitere
spannende Redner sind in Aussicht.
Auch fürs Marketing der kommenden OpenExpo konnten neue Partnerschaften
geschlossen werden. Neu dazu gekommen sind die SwissICT, inside-it.ch,
tcbe.ch sowie die informatica08. Somit ist die breite Kommunikation der
Veranstaltung mit der Verteilung der 20'000 Veranstaltungs-Prospekten im
Januar 2008 sichergestellt.
Und last but not least wird neu auf dem OpenExpo Areal die Install Zone
am Mittwoch, 12. März 2008 von 10h bis 20h für private Computeranwender
durchgeführt. Interessierte können sich an der Install Zone kostenlos
auf ihrem Laptop oder PC vor Ort Linux, OpenOffice.org und andere Freie
Software von Experten installieren oder sich dazu beraten lassen. Nun
sind wir auf der Suche nach diesen Experten! Wer also am 12. März 2008
während 2 Stunden oder länger den Install Zone-Besuchern den Einstieg in
die Welt von Open Source Software ermöglichen möchte, kann sich unter
contact(a)openexpo.ch melden - merci vielmals fürs Engagement!
Wir freuen uns, dank Ihrer Unterstützung im kommenden Frühling erneut
eine attraktive OpenExpo durchführen zu können und sind gespannt auf
Ihre Einsendungen. Freundliche Grüsse, das OpenExpo-Organisationskomitee
Matthias Stürmer, Matthias Günter und Hannes Gassert
16 years, 5 months
REMINDER French Meeting today 1830 #fedora-meeting
by Thomas Canniot
This mail is a reminder for today´s meeting for French ambassadors and
_every_ interested people.
2007-11-04 / 18:30 UTC
IRC: freenode
#fedora-meeting
Ce mail est un rappel pour la réunion des ambassadeurs francophones,
qui aura lieu ce dimanche (04 nov.) à 20h30 heure de Paris sur IRC
(freenode) #fedora-meeting .
L'ordre du jour est disponible depuis cette page :
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/FrenchTeam/Reunions
N'hésitez pas à la modifier pour rajouter des sujets qui vous semblent
intéressants.
Thomas Canniot
16 years, 6 months
The weekly ambassador meetings
by Fabian Affolter
Hi all,
It's a long time ago...exactly during the presentation during the FAD at
Berlin I showed a slide (Page 7) [1]. This slide contains an overview
of some weekly meetings. After a short discussion about why are there
always a lot of European ambassadors at both time (FYI 22:00 UTC is
midnight in western europe). Someone suggested to split the meetings.
An European meeting at a pleasant moment...but now we can't split due to
lack of attendance.
Since LinuxTag there were 18 meetings. 14 were canceled!
Do we still need weekly meetings? Is it an overkill? Is it just a
waste of time? Today for me it was just wasting time. Three people
showed up.
Are the reasons...
- I don't care what the other ambassadors do.
- We have nothing to discuss. I don't know what to tell.
- South America is far away, I'm not interested in stuff from there.
- I have other stuff to do and can't take 30 min off.
- I live in the wrong time zone.
I guess that there is no more any need for exchanging information
between the ambassadors about events and how stuff can be done because
everybody have enough experience to handle it.
On the Join page [2] of the Ambassadors Project...
Step 1. Participate in weekly meetings
Perhaps it would be a good idea to remove that step. No meeting, no
possibility for a participation...FAMSco, this could be a topic for your
next meeting. For your half-yearly meeting ;-)
Just my thoughts...
Regards,
Fabian
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD/FADLinuxTag2007
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Join
16 years, 6 months
