Jon maddog Hall on switching to Fedora and Fedora Electronics Lab from Ubuntu
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Paw-Prints-Writings-of-the-mad...
"I looked at the different Fedora releases and spins, and was attracted
to the Fedora Electric Lab (FEL) spin. This is a version of Fedora 13
that includes an integrated set of tools for designing hardware.
Recently I have once again become interested in digital hardware design
after a long (twenty year) hiatus from that endeavor. While I was never
the type of hardware designer that would design CPUs or even memory
chips, I could work my way through simple digital logic designs for
controlling motors and various other devices. Software today allows for
verifying hardware designs and designing printed circuit boards (PCBs).
Putting those capabilities together with services available over the
Internet for producing PCBs on a “one-shot” level made the whole
situation too tempting. Systems like the Arduino and other projects
leading towards “open hardware” have rekindled my hardware design
“fires”, so I opted for using FEL as my base system."
"Another feature of Fedora that I will have to get used to, but I am
sure I will appreciate more as I go along, is SELinux and the alerts it
gives to me. I have received several alerts regarding file permissions
on various programs in my environment that might normally be cause for
alarm. These permissions on programs came from a time when there was a
“gentler, more forgiving Internet”, and it was probably past time to
make them more secure. Since I knew about these various issues I could
then investigate and fix the permissions which (in the long run) I am
sure will create a more secure system. There were not a lot of issues,
only about five or six, but it was nice to be reminded of them. Even
though I like to think I run a fairly secure system, I am not
omnipotent, and I look forward to SELinux being a watchdog for my back."
Rahul
13 years, 7 months
Upcoming Fedora 14 Tasks
by John Poelstra
Start End Name
Tue 10-Aug Tue 02-Nov Creative team videos
Tue 10-Aug Wed 03-Nov Public Relations
Tue 31-Aug Tue 28-Sep Beta press blog entry
Tue 14-Sep Tue 21-Sep Red Hat PR send Beta blog to Legal
Tue 21-Sep Tue 28-Sep Schedule meeting with Red Hat web team to plan
launch
Tue 21-Sep Tue 28-Sep Red Hat PR send Beta blog to intl-pr list
Tue 21-Sep Tue 12-Oct Make spotlight video #1
Tue 21-Sep Tue 12-Oct Review video #1
Tue 21-Sep Tue 02-Nov Update Red Hat web site
Tue 21-Sep Tue 28-Sep Brief Ambassadors on upcoming release
Tue 21-Sep Tue 28-Sep Marketing: Beta One Page Release Notes
Thu 23-Sep Thu 30-Sep Purchase USB Keys
Thu 23-Sep Thu 30-Sep Check press kit for readiness
Thu 23-Sep Tue 02-Nov USB Keys and media pre-briefs
Thu 23-Sep Thu 23-Sep Fedora 14 Beta Release Readiness Meeting
Thu 23-Sep Mon 27-Sep Create Beta Announcement (Docs & Marketing)
Tue 28-Sep Tue 05-Oct Send web promo ideas to Brand
Tue 28-Sep Tue 05-Oct Draft spotlight #1 blog entry
Tue 28-Sep Tue 12-Oct Spotlight feature #1
Tue 28-Sep Tue 26-Oct Spotlight feature press blogs
Tue 28-Sep Tue 28-Sep Red Hat PR publish and send Beta blog to media
contacts
Tue 28-Sep Tue 28-Sep Beta Release Public Availability
Thu 30-Sep Thu 07-Oct Prep USB keys with pre-release
Thu 30-Sep Thu 07-Oct Update press one sheet
Tue 05-Oct Tue 12-Oct Red Hat PR send spotlight #1 blog entry draft to
legal
Tue 05-Oct Tue 12-Oct Review and update www.redhat.com/Fedora copy
Tue 05-Oct Tue 12-Oct Draft spotlight #2 blog entry
Tue 05-Oct Tue 19-Oct Start drafting GA press release
Tue 05-Oct Tue 19-Oct Spotlight feature #2
Tue 05-Oct Tue 26-Oct Make spotlight video #2
Tue 05-Oct Tue 26-Oct Review video #2
Tue 05-Oct Tue 02-Nov GA press release
Tue 05-Oct Tue 12-Oct Update and freeze the screenshots page
13 years, 7 months
FUDCON Zurich press Archive
by wonderer
Hy there,
as you (hopefully) all know next weekend is the FUDCON Zurich.
This year we had a little help for the pressrelease from an agency here
in germany. They normaly send out press work for Red hat and so they did
it also this time for the FUDCON.
The results from the clipping (its like our "[In the News]" -tag) can be
seen at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Zurich_2010#press_archive .
I would like to ask in the round if that kind of presswork seem enough,
maybe compared to the last FUDCON in Berlin 2009 -
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/LinuxTag/LinuxTag2009/PressPu...
What do you think can be approved for next time? Should there be more
presence in the press? Should we use more agency help? Can we help the
event-organizers more then yet?
I know some of you are also at that FUDCON (sorry, I could not make it)
so maybe there is some time to talk about that. Also maybe it would be
good to know if our presskit will be laying around or better given to
specific journalists (I know of some which want to talk to Jared...).
mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards
Henrik Heigl - wonderer(a)fedoraproject.org
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13 years, 7 months
Today's Marketing Meeting - delayed!
by Robyn Bergeron
I'm taking the initiative to delay today's meeting. I am still swamped
and realized that there is also a board meeting at the same time.
I'd like to reschedule for another day later in the week, and possibly
just reschedule this meeting altogether since it seems like we have
pretty thin attendance lately anyhow.
I'll send out a when is good notice later on today to that effect. :)
Sorry for the late notice, folks.
-Robyn
13 years, 7 months
Re: Oct 8th - Etherpad FAD at Olin College! (Outside Boston, MA)
by Colin Zwiebel
Hey logistics, marketing, ambassadors, college ambassadors. The Olin College
FAD is ON! I'd like to open this invitation to the the wider Fedora
community. New to the Fedora community, java-devel is about the only list I
can spam, so kindly send this to relevant parties. You have my permission to
modify as appropriate.
On the Boston side, I would especially like to reach other colleges (MIT?
BU? BC? Wellesley? North-Eastern? etc.) Part of those communities or know
someone who is, tell me about it!
And always, would love to hear thoughts, praise, complaints, hopes and
dreams.
Cheers,
Colin
---------- ----------
[image: ep_fad_poster_x500.png]
Oct 8th starting 5pm - Oct 9th
We're holding a Hackathon / Fedora Activity Day at Olin College in Needham,
MA!
Etherpad is open source software for teams to type together on the same
document.
Join a team of students, alumni, and Fedora Linux hackers as we improve
Etherpad for ourselves and the world!
Cut to the chase: *http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Etherpad_FAD*
== What is EtherPad? ==
Etherpad is pretty much the pinnacle of online, collaborative text editing.
If you're not familiar with EtherPad, take a look at this
video<http://www.viddler.com/explore/aaroniba/videos/1/>
.
== Backstory ==
EtherPad was acquired by Google in 2008 and the code was open-sourced
(yay!). Buuut the EtherPad code-base isn't exactly in a packageable state,
as demonstrated by SDZ, here <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Etherpad>. (SDZ
is an Olin student!)
Thus we plan to:
* Repackage EtherPad in a consistent, portable way, more best-practice form
* Create compliant, Fedora packages for EtherPad
* Setup EtherPad instance on Fedora Infrastructure (infrastructure managers,
sorry, quietly stop choking and shoot me an email so I can explain Fud +
EtherPad = awesome and discuss how to go about that)
* Teach non-Propeller-heads about OSS development and the technologies used
== When? ==
** *Friday, October 8th - Saturday, October 9th* **
(and maybe early Sunday if we get some of the no-sleep crowd).
Dinner on Friday. Dinner and lunch Saturday.
Can attend in person? Remotely join us! See the
wiki<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Etherpad_FAD#I.27m_far_away_.2F_can.27t_ph...>
.
== Us ? ==
Andy, Sebastian and I are Olin College students and long-time linux users,
and total EtherPad fanboy. We would love to give back to all three of these
communities and help people get involved in open source software.
Finally, there is generally just a lot of cool technical stuff inside
EtherPad? Server-side-JS? Scala? Comet? Collaborative diffing? Web-service
architecture? Your totally welcome to come and geek out on these topics, and
maybe learn a thing or two about how EtherPad works.
Check us out on the wiki and twitter:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Etherpad_FAD
http://twitter.com/olinetherpadfad
Cheers,
Colin, Sebastian, Andy
P.S. You've probably never heard of Olin College, but you should
totally look at the crazy higher-ed experiment we're running:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olin_college
13 years, 7 months
Fedora Students Contributing
by Karsten Wade
... as a replacement name for "Fedora Summer Coding".
I'm floating "Fedora Students Coding". Advantages:
* Relatively clear what is going on.
* Directly meaningful.
* Same abbreviation as before.
* No distracting and clever acronym twists.
"Fedora Students Coding is similar to a summer of code program, but
it goes beyond code to include content and media, run twice a year
for each hemisphere."
We're moving on the next round of this program and need a name for
this round. If we want to rename it again, fine, we can do it for
May 2011.
In absence of any better suggestions, can I get some +1s?
Thanks - Karsten
--
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team: Red Hat Community Architecture
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13 years, 7 months
Upcoming Fedora 14 Tasks
by John Poelstra
Start End Name
Tue 10-Aug Tue 02-Nov Creative team videos
Tue 10-Aug Wed 03-Nov Public Relations
Tue 17-Aug Tue 14-Sep Feature Profiles
Tue 31-Aug Tue 14-Sep Start drafting Beta blog
Tue 31-Aug Tue 28-Sep Beta press blog entry
Tue 14-Sep Tue 21-Sep Red Hat PR send Beta blog to Legal
Tue 14-Sep Tue 14-Sep Features 100% Complete Deadline
Tue 14-Sep Tue 14-Sep Beta Change Deadline
Tue 21-Sep Tue 28-Sep Schedule meeting with Red Hat web team to plan
launch
Tue 21-Sep Tue 28-Sep Red Hat PR send Beta blog to intl-pr list
Tue 21-Sep Tue 12-Oct Make spotlight video #1
Tue 21-Sep Tue 12-Oct Review video #1
Tue 21-Sep Tue 02-Nov Update Red Hat web site
Tue 21-Sep Tue 28-Sep Marketing: Beta One Page Release Notes
Tue 21-Sep Tue 28-Sep Brief Ambassadors on upcoming release
Thu 23-Sep Thu 30-Sep Purchase USB Keys
Thu 23-Sep Thu 30-Sep Check press kit for readiness
Thu 23-Sep Tue 02-Nov USB Keys and media pre-briefs
Thu 23-Sep Thu 23-Sep Fedora 14 Beta Release Readiness Meeting
Thu 23-Sep Mon 27-Sep Create Beta Announcement (Docs & Marketing)
Tue 28-Sep Tue 05-Oct Send web promo ideas to Brand
Tue 28-Sep Tue 05-Oct Draft spotlight #1 blog entry
Tue 28-Sep Tue 12-Oct Spotlight feature #1
Tue 28-Sep Tue 26-Oct Spotlight feature press blogs
Tue 28-Sep Tue 28-Sep Beta Release Public Availability
Tue 28-Sep Tue 28-Sep Red Hat PR publish and send Beta blog to media
contacts
13 years, 7 months
MMM. Marketing Meeting Minutes - Delicious! Tasty! 2010/09/07
by Robyn Bergeron
Thanks to everyone who came.
Jsmith will be sending out a mail to brainstorm a bit on what we'd
like to see on start.fedoraproject.org - if you have any feedback on
that, please contribute that information to the mailing list thread.
Thanks!
-Robyn
Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-09-07/fedora_marke...
Full Logs: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-09-07/fedora_marke...
Meeting started by rbergeron at 20:10:16 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-09-07/fedora_marke...
Meeting summary
---------------
* Roll call (rbergeron, 20:12:06)
* Agenda (rbergeron, 20:18:00)
* Release slogan (rbergeron, 20:19:03)
* Feature Profile status (rbergeron, 20:20:00)
* ACTION: stickster write up questions for systemd feature profile and
re-ping mezcalero (stickster, 20:21:33)
* ACTION: rbergeron to send out reminder mails on Feature Profiles,
and probably update the feature profiles page to show what we're
doing. :D (rbergeron, 20:21:43)
* Firefox Bookmarks (rbergeron, 20:25:01)
* ACTION: rbergeron to find logs from last week's meeting and post to
list (rbergeron, 20:26:32)
* ACTION: rbergeron to do Firefox bookmarks email / action item
(rbergeron, 20:26:44)
* LINK:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-08-31/fedora-meeti...
<-- last meetin gnotes (stickster, 20:26:58)
* ACTION: jsmith start Marketing thread on making start.fp.o more
useful (stickster, 20:56:00)
* three good places to start: Announcements; Read more about Fedora
and whence it comes (????), Pointers to immediate help (rbergeron,
20:56:41)
Meeting ended at 20:59:38 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* stickster write up questions for systemd feature profile and re-ping
mezcalero
* rbergeron to send out reminder mails on Feature Profiles, and probably
update the feature profiles page to show what we're doing. :D
* rbergeron to find logs from last week's meeting and post to list
* rbergeron to do Firefox bookmarks email / action item
* jsmith start Marketing thread on making start.fp.o more useful
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* jsmith
* jsmith start Marketing thread on making start.fp.o more useful
* rbergeron
* rbergeron to send out reminder mails on Feature Profiles, and
probably update the feature profiles page to show what we're doing.
:D
* rbergeron to find logs from last week's meeting and post to list
* rbergeron to do Firefox bookmarks email / action item
* stickster
* stickster write up questions for systemd feature profile and re-ping
mezcalero
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
People Present (lines said)
---------------------------
* rbergeron (98)
* stickster (57)
* jsmith (25)
* yn1v (5)
* zodbot (4)
* wonderer (3)
* Southern_Gentlem (2)
13 years, 7 months
MeeGo no-go, spin still go-go?
by Paul W. Frields
Hi Marketing folks,
Peter Robinson, a Fedora contributor in the Mini SIG, has worked
previously on the Moblin based Fedora spin, and has been working on a
spin that includes MeeGo software. He has been talking to some of the
folks involved in MeeGo about their compliance testing, which is a
requirement for us to use the MeeGo marks.[1][2]
Unfortunately what we've heard about the compliance requirements
(which have yet to be published AFAIK) is that we'd be required to
ship and use ConnMan, a nonstandard userspace network control stack
that is not compatible with NetworkManager. This is not in Fedora for
several reasons, one of the most obvious among them being it would be
very confusing to maintain two entirely separate and incompatible
network control stacks of this type.
This doesn't mean we won't have this particular spin, but it will
affect our use of the MeeGo name and trademark. The spin will
probably need to be renamed in some way. We can say the spin contains
some MeeGo software, which is fair use because it is a true statement.
The MeeGo name would need to be marked with proper trademark
attribution.
Peter is considering options for renaming the spin accordingly, and
swapping out any required artwork, which he believes is not a
substantial amount of work. If anyone is interested in helping Peter,
please get in touch with him via the Spins SIG.
I've told you everything I know about the issue here -- I'm letting
Marketing know about the issue so that the team can keep in touch with
Peter to make sure F14 talking points and any other F14 material like
the one-page, "shiny" release notes are kept in sync. I told Peter I
would send on this message on his behalf, because he's quite busy at
work but he wanted other involved teams to know what was going on.
* * *
[1] http://meego.com/about/trademark
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/linux-foundation-trademark-usage-gui...
[2] Using the mark is also subject to other restrictions such as when
juxtaposing it with another product name like Fedora. Fedora
already has agreement with the Linux Foundation on a suitable name
and permission to use it, but that's contingent on passing the
compliance testing.
--
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13 years, 7 months
