Fwd: Fedora Activity Day - Pune, Summary
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi,
In the interest of transparency and to provide a summary for everyone,
here is my report to community architecture team in Red Hat who funded
this event. Thank you all for your participation. Hope to do something
similar soon.
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Subject: Fedora Activity Day - Pune, Summary
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:16:09 +0530
From: Rahul Sundaram
To: community-architecture-list
Hi
We had organized a Fedora Activity Day last weekend in the Red Hat
office. It was a two day event. You might have seen the blog posts on
that over this week in Planet Fedora and we have a roundup of all that at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Pune_2010#Reports
I expect to see a couple more at some point soon. We had a variety of
projects and tasks that was tackled during the event. Here is a quick
summary:
* OLPC/Sugar: Sayamindu who works for OLPC joined hands with Kushal Das
to package up a accessibility tool of interest to OLPC and a Sugar
activity called Pathagar which is a book server
(http://github.com/sayamindu/pathagar). Sayamindu also gave a talk on
life as downstream of Fedora.
* Fedora Tour - A clutter based app with whiz bang effects that aims to
provide a friendly welcome screen for new users on first login. Ankur
Sinha is leading this effort. Ankur Sinha has also helped out in
packaging reviews and submitted a few new review requests. The latest
being a dependency of Shotwell.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2010-June/006339.html
* Fedora Medical Spin: Susmit is a leading an effort to create a
medical spin for the next release. Many of us are helping out.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/india/2010-May/003497.html
Harsh Varma participated in some packaging tasks and is helping with
this spin as well.
* Systemd, WebM support etc: I reviewed a few packages, approved one
and worked on packaging up systemd, updating webkitgtk in Fedora 12 for
WebM support, fixing a E-V-R issue that broke Deluge, qbittorrent etc
for users upgrading to Fedora 13 from Fedora 12.
* Package Reviews: A number of us including Rangeen Basu, Ankur Sinha,
Kushal Das and me participated in doing package reviews.
* Autootools workshop: Siddesh who works for GSS gave a introductory
workshop on autotoolizing a project.
* Repository wide fixes - Rakesh Pandit working on fixing several
security bugs and Imran who couldn't make it to the event due to some
last minute disruption came up on IRC and filed patches that fixed all
of the pending E-V-R issues between Fedora 12 and Fedora 13
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599492
Rakesh will be committing and doing the builds to resolve them today.
We hope to be tackling source url issues, desktop file fixes, FTBFS and
other similar issues via a online FAD sometime later.
* gFotoStat: Kishan and Meejan worked on a tool for statistics of
photos for professionals. This tool can run against a set of pics and
provide all sorts of interesting info based on the metadata. They fixed
a number of bugs and added some new features in a new release.
* wordGroupz: Ratnadeep worked on a new project which is a vocabulary
builder and he also took on some packaging tasks.
* Shreyank Gupta worked on packaging Sup, a popular gmailish mail client
written in Ruby and several of the Ruby module dependencies. He has just
been sponsored yesterday.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/india/2010-June/003542.html
* Salim Ansari hacked on Anjuta including a symbol browser and some new
search capabilities and Satya continued her work on Beacon, a web based
docbook xml editor
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At the end of the event, we had a discussion about what went well and
what we could improve and about organizing a FUDCon next year.
Hopefully, I didn't miss anything too important. Thanks for funding
this event and helping out.
Rahul
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13 years, 10 months
Fedora 13 Live USB creation problem
by Ritesh Sinha
Long time stalker, first time thread creator :). I consider myself
fairly proficient with Fedora but this simple issue has me seriously
stumped and embarrassed. I've been trying to get the latest Fedora to
run from an USB stick. This is what I've tried so far
1. Fedora Live USB creator on Windows (doesn't have an option for F13,
tried with the F12 option no go)
2. UNetBootIN on Ubuntu Linux: Doesn't have an option for F13, did not
attempt to use the F12 option.
3. Fedora live usb creator from source on Ubuntu (after installing the
required qt4 dependencies). This has no option for F13 and looks
identical to the one for windows so I didn't try this.
In all cases the error is on the lines of "Unable to mount
/squashfs/../Ext3fs ..". I get through isolinux but no luck after the
drop like load screen starts. Additionally I get a flood of messages
about my CDROM drive (which is broken) when starting but I'm pretty
sure it is irrelevant in this case.
I've looked through the all the docs I could furiously google for but
I can't seem to find an appropriate solution.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Ritesh
P.S. I may have posted using my other email address too (which isn't
subscribed to this list), please ignore that.
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13 years, 10 months
