Call for A/V volunteers and equipment - FUDConF11
by Chris Tyler
I'm looking for a few good folks to volunteer to help with A/V
(streaming and recording) and to loan suitable equipment for the barcamp
day of FUDConF11 (January 10/2009). If you are coming to FUDConF11 and
are willing to help with A/V or are willing to loan any of the
following, please let me know:
* lav (clip-on) or headset mics, especially wireless
* camcorder
* laptop for recording or streaming
Clint Savage has kindly agreed to bring a mixer and mics, and Matt
Domsch and I are bringing camcorders. The current plan is to try and
stream one room of audio (and maybe video) and record the other rooms
for later posting.
Thanks!--
-Chris
15 years, 4 months
Recording FUDCon Audio
by Clint Savage
I'm not really sure where to start this conversation, so I thought I'd
at least start here and see where it goes.
I've recently purchased a new 8channel mixer for the local Utah Open
Source Foundation (UTOS)[1] which I run. We record and stream[2] as
many of the Local User Groups (LUGs)[3] we can in the area. We also
podcast[4] them afterward as well.
At the last FUDCon, I did a little bit of streaming on our UTOS
streaming server and even podcasted one on Fedora TV (remember that?).
This year, with this mixer, I'd like to take the time to stream and
record audio for at least all of the classes that I can attend as well
as Paul's keynote. I understand there may be desire to video record
this presentation as well, and I wonder what plans, if any, there are
in place already.
The thought I had was possibly to request resources from
infrastructure to build a icecast streaming server with FAS
authentication (maybe) and use that. If that fails, I can still use
the UTOS streaming server.
Anyway, lend your thoughts.
Cheers,
Clint
1 - http://utos.org
2 - http://stream.utos.org:8080
3 - http://blog.utos.org/utah-tech-groups/
4 - http://podcast.utos.org
15 years, 4 months
Self-Introduction: Ross Wardrup
by Ross Wardrup
Hello,
My name is Ross Wardrup, and I'm from Denton, Texas, USA. I'm a
student at the University of Norht Texas and I'm going to school for
computer science. I'm also a produce stocker at Wal-Mart at the
moment, which I'm hoping to change soon. I hope to promote Fedora at
my university and city and also to help my marketing and people
skills, and to help my future career. I'd like to talk about
installing Fedora on Apple Macbooks, because that is what I use. I'd
like to see greater compatablity with Apple products in Fedora, but
with Rawhide, that really doesn't seem to be a problem. I'd also like
to try to get into coding once I gain more skill, since that's what
I'm being educated for. I have no official qualifications in marketing
or promoting, but I have been promoting Linux in general for several
years and have gotten at least 10 people to switch over. I think I've
got some good ideas on how to promote Fedora at UNT, including getting
a booth set up with laptops and letting people "click around" Fedora.
Sincerely,
Ross Wardrup
15 years, 4 months
Comment follow-up?
by Paul W. Frields
http://www.linux-magazine.com/online/news/fedora_10_with_kvm_xen_and_fast...
There are some comments in this article that deserve follow up. Just
as Red Hat marketing folks do follow up with press on Red Hat specific
articles, it would be good to see our Marketing team have a strategy
for following up on articles at sites that frequently cover Fedora
news.
The key points to answer are:
* Do we have such a process right now? (I don't believe so, but there
should be.)
* How should that process work in a way that guarantees transparency
and encourages collaboration and scalability? (In many cases, there
will be a pool of answers that will take care of many
questions/comments.)
This is one of the reasons I was encouraging people on the Marketing
team to engage on the questions from Neowin. This team can develop a
slate of ready materials for answers to those kinds of questions. A
team effort means we can cover more ground.
--
Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/
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15 years, 4 months
Fedora Elections - Important Information
by 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 0000 UTC on 7th December 2008) and will run until
2359 UTC on 20th December 2008.
All groups have chosen to use the Range Voting method
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting).
Ballots may be cast on the Fedora Elections System at
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting. If this is the first time you've
used the voting system, please refer to the Fedora Elections Guide,
currently located at http://nigelj.fedorapeople.org/feg/.
Fedora Board Election:
----------------------
This election, the Fedora Board is electing two candidates and will
appoint another two members.
Vacating the seats on the board this election are Matt Domsch, Jef
Spaleta, Bill Nottingham and Karsten Wade.
Christopher Aillon was announced as the board's first appointee with the
second to be decided after the election.
The candidates for this election, in no particular order are:
Matt Domsch (mdomsch)
Dimitris Glezos (glezos)
Michael DeHaan (mpdehaan)
Josh Boyer (jwb)
David Cantrell (dcantrell)
Jon Stanley (jds2001)
Bill Nottingham (notting)
To vote, you must have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA).
Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/boardf11
Townhall Logs:
*
http://mdomsch.fedorapeople.org/fedora-townhalls/2008-12-04-Board/fedora-...
*
http://mdomsch.fedorapeople.org/fedora-townhalls/2008-12-05-Board/fedora-...
Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Election:
-----------------------------------------------
For this election, FESCo will be electing four candidates to sit on the
committee.
Vacating the seats on FESCo this election are Jarod Wilson, Josh Boyer,
Karsten Hopp, and Jon Stanley.
The candidates for this election, in no particular order are:
Josh Boyer (jwb)
Dan Horák (sharkcz)
Dominik Mierzejewski (rathann)
Jon Stanley (jds2001)
Jarod Wilson (jwilson)
To vote, you must have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA) and
be a member of any other group.
Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/fescof11
Townhall Log:
*
http://mdomsch.fedorapeople.org/fedora-townhalls/2008-12-05-FESCo/fedora-...
Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee Election:
-----------------------------------------------
This election FAmSCo will be electing all 7 seats on the committee.
These seats were previously held by Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira, Thomas
Canniot, Francesco Ugolini, Fabian Affolter, Jeffrey Tadlock, Andreas
Rau and John Babich.
The candidates for this election, in no particular order are:
Sandro Mathys (red_alert)
Rodrigo Padula (RodrigoPadula)
Joerg Simon (kital)
Max Spevack (spevack)
Larry Cafiero (lcafiero)
Hector Gonzalez (hagr182)
Susmit Shannigrahi (susmit)
Francesco Ugolini (fugolini)
David Nalley (ke4qqq)
Thomas Canniot (MrTom)
To vote, you must be a member of the ambassadors group in the Fedora
Account System.
Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/famscof11
Townhall Log:
*
http://mdomsch.fedorapeople.org/fedora-townhalls/2008-12-06-FAMSCo/fedora...
***
I'd also like to point out the following from Paul Frields' announcement
for the June 2008 Board Election:
"I'd like everyone voting to remember that this isn't a popularity
contest, or a reward system. Think about how you'd like to Board to look
when you vote, the same way you think about how you'd like any
government body to look when you cast votes for their elections. We have
a lot of worthy candidates on this list, and you should pick the ones
that you feel will best represent you in advancing the Fedora Project.
This is one of numerous ways in which our community makes decisions
about the leadership of Fedora. Your vote counts, and I hope you take
advantage of it."
***
This advice is still valid, not just for the Fedora Board election but
for all three elections.
Regards,
Nigel Jones
Fedora Election Admin
15 years, 4 months
FEL needs your help
by Chitlesh GOORAH
Hello Fedora Marketing,
As you are all already familiar with FEL, I'll skip the introduction.
For F-10 FEL development, Aanjhaan and Thibault joined me to maintain
FEL, but now they are both very busy. I have many plans and many
features for F-11 FEL, but alone (with very little time) I would have
to reduce my participation as an ambassador, mentor, package reviewer
and support for other opensource communities.
I am going to meet (on my own expenses) :
* some automotive engineers next weekend to see how Fedora can propose
a portfolio "electronic design" for the automotive industry. (e.g.
doing measurements: roll, pitch, yaw ...)
* some XMOS designers to see how existing opensource tools can embrace
XMOS support (sometimes in January).
As you can see, I'm looking forward to elevate Fedora status for
professional production purposes. If I succeed, I assume that there
will many companies, educational institutions and end-users who will
be deploying more than 5 Fedora installations at ONE time. This is my
fedora marketing strategy. If I have time EPEL repository can also
benefit from this, thereby CentOS/RHEL users will also be happy.
I would appreciate if ambassadors could contact their local
universities (Electronic department, to be precised), and inform them
about Fedora's investment in the electronic design community.
http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/10/fel-flyer-f10.pdf
You will find FEL todo list here (which will be updated with time):
http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/devel/FEL_devel_timeline.html
So if you think someone could help with Fedora electronic portfolio,
please do introduce him/her to FEL's mailing list.
I have also another objective: to bring various upstream closer and
try to encourage them not to re-invent the wheel but focus on
providing industry-class solutions for the opensource community. Of
course, fedora will benefit from it first.
If time allows, I'll also engage myself (as I promised to Tom
Callaway) with some upstream developers to open their software into a
GPL-compatible license. So if you know someone with legal skills,
please welcome him/her to join the Fedora family.
If you know a local blogger about electronics, please propose them to
write a blog post about "Fedora and its electronic portfolio".
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
thank you.
Kind regards,
Chitlesh
15 years, 4 months
Re: Fedora-marketing-list Digest, Vol 54, Issue 6
by Markus McLaughlin
I am curious about what will be improved and added for F-11...
Markus McLaughlin
linuxglobe.wordpress.com
Hudson, MA
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> 1. Feedback on "The ups and downs of Fedora 10" (Rahul Sundaram)
> 2. First Look: Fedora 10 OS (Rahul Sundaram)
> 3. FEL needs your help (Chitlesh GOORAH)
> 4. Re: FEL needs your help (Francesco Ugolini)
> 5. Re: Cool install Icons? (John Mackay)
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> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:25:58 +0530
> From: Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org>
> Subject: Feedback on "The ups and downs of Fedora 10"
> To: dsbonnell(a)yahoo.com
> Cc: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base
> <fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <4939B17E.5050502(a)fedoraproject.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Hi Northbear,
>
> I came across your short review of Fedora 10 at
>
> http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=498
>
> Thank for your review. I would like to add some comments to provide
> more
> information and correct a few inaccuracies in your article.
>
> You claim that the installation is almost exactly same as Fedora 8.
> Apart from resizing support you have noted, it seems that you have
> missed out a number of other changes. These are covered in
>
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/sn-Installer.html#sn...
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f10/en_US/What_is_New_for_Ins...
>
> "Well, Fedora/RedHat has always been very picky about letting in
> software that might be "tainted", so there's no way that the resize
> code
> will work on NTFS filesystems."
>
> This is incorrect. As noted, in your review, your are commenting about
> something without even trying it. Fedora has included comprehensive
> NTFS
> support for quite a few releases now and has also supported resizing
> Windows partitions from Fedora 9 onwards.
>
> "Whoa! The new "Plymouth" loader is fast! You won't get much in the
> way
> of fancy graphics during bootup unless you have a video chipset that
> is
> supported with "kernel mode" (currently only some Intel chipsets)."
>
> This is only partially correct. Plymouth relies on kernel mode setting
> support but that is available only for ATI cards and not for Intel
> ones.
> Intel was supported in between but there is a rewrite going on in
> upstream and is still disabled in the general release. You can however
> get fancy graphics by using vga=0x318 or vga=ask and choosing a
> appropriate mode which would make Plymouth use framebuffer instead of
> KMS to display a very cool bootup screen.
>
> There is a rewrite of GDM and currently.
>
> http://live.gnome.org/GDM/NewDesign
>
> it just inherits the system settings and does not have separate
> theming
> support. The roadmap for changes is at
>
> http://live.gnome.org/GDM/
>
> For the Xorg autoconfiguration, we don't need to fallback into manual
> settings again but instead add the specific hardware information to a
> database and use that for automatically doing the right thing even if
> the hardware is old or using analog connections as yours does. Please
> file a bug report in http://bugzilla.redhat.com with the output of
> /var/log/Xorg.log. We can fix this and send the fix upstream for the
> benefit for all distributions as well.
>
> KDE 4: Again, would be quite useful to get bug report to keep track of
> the issues and address them
>
> PackageKit: The PackageKit daemon is not a regular service and hence
> it
> is not managed by the service administration gui. It is a system
> activated daemon and automatically starts on demand and stops as
> soon as
> the task is done.
>
> It would be great if you could update your review to include all these
> information and provide us with some bug reports on the warts you have
> noted. Once again, thank you for your review. We appreciate your
> input.
>
> Rahul
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:37:35 +0530
> From: Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org>
> Subject: First Look: Fedora 10 OS
> To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base
> <fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <4939B437.6040009(a)fedoraproject.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Hi,
>
> http://rcpmag.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=10433
>
> "Fedora 10 is one of the most visually attractive distros that I've
> used
> in a while. It features GNOME 2.24 with a new blue and silver "Solar"
> theme. It offers a wide variety of themes and wallpapers, a nice touch
> for Linux-based distros. All fonts on the Fedora 10 user interface are
> readable and properly anti-aliased."
>
> Rahul
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 14:06:58 +0100
> From: "Chitlesh GOORAH" <chitlesh.goorah(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: FEL needs your help
> To: "For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user
> base" <fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com>
> Cc: fedora-electronic-lab-list(a)redhat.com
> Message-ID:
> <50baabb30812060506g3a6ec84doaa570dc500fbde17(a)mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> Hello Fedora Marketing,
>
> As you are all already familiar with FEL, I'll skip the introduction.
>
> For F-10 FEL development, Aanjhaan and Thibault joined me to maintain
> FEL, but now they are both very busy. I have many plans and many
> features for F-11 FEL, but alone (with very little time) I would have
> to reduce my participation as an ambassador, mentor, package reviewer
> and support for other opensource communities.
>
> I am going to meet (on my own expenses) :
> * some automotive engineers next weekend to see how Fedora can propose
> a portfolio "electronic design" for the automotive industry. (e.g.
> doing measurements: roll, pitch, yaw ...)
> * some XMOS designers to see how existing opensource tools can embrace
> XMOS support (sometimes in January).
>
> As you can see, I'm looking forward to elevate Fedora status for
> professional production purposes. If I succeed, I assume that there
> will many companies, educational institutions and end-users who will
> be deploying more than 5 Fedora installations at ONE time. This is my
> fedora marketing strategy. If I have time EPEL repository can also
> benefit from this, thereby CentOS/RHEL users will also be happy.
>
> I would appreciate if ambassadors could contact their local
> universities (Electronic department, to be precised), and inform them
> about Fedora's investment in the electronic design community.
> http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/10/fel-flyer-f10.pdf
>
> You will find FEL todo list here (which will be updated with time):
> http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/devel/FEL_devel_timeline.html
> So if you think someone could help with Fedora electronic portfolio,
> please do introduce him/her to FEL's mailing list.
>
> I have also another objective: to bring various upstream closer and
> try to encourage them not to re-invent the wheel but focus on
> providing industry-class solutions for the opensource community. Of
> course, fedora will benefit from it first.
>
> If time allows, I'll also engage myself (as I promised to Tom
> Callaway) with some upstream developers to open their software into a
> GPL-compatible license. So if you know someone with legal skills,
> please welcome him/her to join the Fedora family.
>
> If you know a local blogger about electronics, please propose them to
> write a blog post about "Fedora and its electronic portfolio".
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> thank you.
>
> Kind regards,
> Chitlesh
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 14:14:05 +0100
> From: "Francesco Ugolini" <fugolini(a)fedoraproject.org>
> Subject: Re: FEL needs your help
> To: "For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user
> base" <fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com>
> Message-ID:
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> 2008/12/6 Chitlesh GOORAH <chitlesh.goorah(a)gmail.com>:
>> I would appreciate if ambassadors could contact their local
>> universities (Electronic department, to be precised), and inform them
>> about Fedora's investment in the electronic design community.
>> http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/10/fel-flyer-f10.pdf
>
> Sure, I will send, late this evening or tomorrow, an email in
> Ambassadors List encouraging this.
>
> Thank you for FEL
>
> Regards
>
> Francesco Ugolini
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 10:21:41 -0600
> From: "John Mackay" <mackay3(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Cool install Icons?
> To: "For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user
> base" <fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com>
> Message-ID:
> <5d88dfb00812060821g18641da8l8cdc20c2a6eb0223(a)mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> lol, anyone has screenshots? I have found this at google, but dunno
> if it's
> the real thing.
> http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:6t_JA9W3smlFAM:http://www.8bitjoystic...
>
> 2008/12/5 Lucas - Linux Sys. Admin (CEFETCE/UAB) <lucas(a)cefetce.br>
>
>> I do think we should invest more time on eye-candy stuff for the
>> installations process, altough some people think that pretty things
>> dont do
>> good stuff..
>> but who know, maybe we can make a diference, dont we ?
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Rudolf Kastl <che666(a)gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 2008/12/5 Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora(a)nicubunu.ro>:
>>>> Scott Baker wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Would it be possible to resurrect something silly like that
>>>>> during the
>>>>> install? The current install images aren't nearly as exciting.
>>>>> Honestly
>>> I
>>>>> couldn't even tell you what they say! But I *do* remember those
>>>>> hotdog
>>>>> install screens from all the way back in RH8/9 from six years ago.
>>> That's
>>>>> good marketing!
>>>>
>>>> This was talked a few times in the past: we still have the hooks in
>>>> Anaconda, Art would be interested to try something, Marketing may
>>>> be
>>>> interested in using this promo venue... we didn't had someone to
>>>> take
>>>> leadership on it.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com
>>>> Cool Fedora wallpapers: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/wallpapers/
>>>> Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org
>>>> my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro
>>>>
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>>>
>>> the way it is now though it looks very professional and polished.
>>> (sure a subjective taste question)
>>>
>>> kind regards,
>>> Rudolf Kastl
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>>
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15 years, 4 months
First Look: Fedora 10 OS
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi,
http://rcpmag.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=10433
"Fedora 10 is one of the most visually attractive distros that I've used
in a while. It features GNOME 2.24 with a new blue and silver "Solar"
theme. It offers a wide variety of themes and wallpapers, a nice touch
for Linux-based distros. All fonts on the Fedora 10 user interface are
readable and properly anti-aliased."
Rahul
15 years, 4 months
Fedora 10: A Mini Review
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
http://bobbo.me.uk/?p=234
"I grabbed the Live CD ISO from the Fedora site, which auto-located the
nearest mirror to me and it downloaded pretty quickly. The installation
process was incredibly simple. The LiveCD booted straight into a
graphical interface, where you could setup things like Language and
Keyboard layout. This is a refreshing change from Ubuntu, where you are
dumped into a “grub” style keyboard interface to setup keyboard/language
by pressing funny key combinations and using ugly text menus. Once I had
changed my keyboard/language from US to UK I was presented with a nice
(very blue) GNOME desktop. An “Install to hard drive” shortcut was
neatly placed on the desktop to get the installation properly started"
Rahul
15 years, 4 months
