Fedora Weekly News Issue 132
by Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
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The Fedora News Project is pleased to announce the availability of
Fedora Weekly News Issue 132.
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 132 =
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 132 for the week ending June 8, 2008.
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15 years, 9 months
Fedora Weekly News Issue 131
by Max Spevack
The Fedora News Project is pleased to announce the availability of
Fedora Weekly News Issue 131.
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 131 =
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 131 for the week ending June 15,
2008.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue131
If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see
our 'join' page. Being a Fedora Weekly News beat writer gives you a
chance to work on one of our community's most important sources of news,
and can be done in only about 1 hour per week of your time.
We are still looking for beat writers to cover the highlights of Fedora
Planet each week, Fedora Security Advisories, and to summarize the
Fedora Events and Meetings that happened during each week.
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15 years, 10 months
Board Elections open on 13 June
by Paul W. Frields
SHORT FORM:
-----------
Elections for the Fedora Project Board open at 0001 UTC on 13 June 2008
-- or about 3.5 hours from the time of this message. The voting system
is available at: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting
The voting system uses the range voting method:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting
Any FAS account holder who has completed the CLA may vote in the
election. Voting is open until 2359 UTC on 22 June 2008. Election
results will be announced shortly thereafter. The final appointed seat
on the Board will be filled after the general election as well.
Thank you to all the Board members whose seats are up for election, to
Nigel Jones for our new voting application, and to the community in
advance, for casting their votes for Fedora leadership.
LONG FORM (including nominees and other background):
----------------------------------------------------
Recently we converted one Red Hat-appointed seat to a community-elected
seat, so there are now five (5) elected seats and four (4) appointed
seats. To even out the Board turnover, community members have the
opportunity to vote for four (4) elected seats in this election. The
elected person with the fourth-highest vote total will serve a
half-length term, with that seat being back up for election after the
release of Fedora 10. In addition, Karsten Wade's appointment has been
extended by six months. This means that after the release of Fedora 10,
we will elect two seats and appoint two seats, thus returning to a
turnover of roughly half the Board after each release of Fedora.
The seats of current Board members Jef Spaleta, Dennis Gilmore, Chris
Aillon, and Bob McWhirter are being vacated in this election. In
addition, the seats of Steve Dickson and Seth Vidal, Board members
appointed by Red Hat, are also being vacated. Steve is to be succeeded
by Harald Hoyer, and the final appointment will be announced after the
general Board elections are over. I would like to thank each of these
people for the time and effort they've put into vigorously representing
the entire Fedora community on the Board.
The processes are documented on the Fedora wiki at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Elections
In the past few days, the Board and I realized that our guidelines
hadn't been updated to match the current FAS implementation, so I've
updated them appropriately with the approval of the Board.
The election system has changed from approval voting to range voting,
but no actual changes have been made in voting requirements. The
wording on the wiki has been changed to accurately reflect how the new
Fedora Account System works.
The nominees for the four elected seats, in no particular order, are:
Jon Stanley (jds2001)
Tom Callaway (spot)
Josh Boyer (jwb)
Jonathan Roberts (JonRob)
Seth Vidal (skvidal)
Dennis Gilmore (irc:dgilmore fas:ausil)
Jef Spaleta (irc:spoleeba fas:jspaleta)
Jesse Keating (irc:f13 fas:jkeating)
Note that you do not have to cast a vote blindly -- you can feel free to
ask questions of the candidates. Email them, or feel free to ask your
questions on a list they frequent, such as the fedora-advisory-board
list:
http://redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board
The nominees have also placed some summary information about their
background and goals on the wiki nominations page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Elections/Nominations
These summaries are also available from the "Info" link next to each
candidate's name in the voting system.
To cast your vote, visit: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting
If you have any problems with voting, report them immediately in the
ticket system, at: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/tickets
Use the "elections" category when you file your ticket so that it is
directed quickly to the appropriate parties.
* * *
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.
--
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15 years, 10 months
Outage Notification: ALL system 2008-06-10 21:30 UTC
by Seth Vidal
There was an outage starting at 2008-06-10 21:30 UTC, which lasted
about 15 minutes.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
or run:
date -d '2008-06-10 21:30 UTC'
Affected Services:
All systems - depending on caches
Unaffected Services:
Ticket Link:
Reason for Outage:
Migrating a domain to a different domain registrar a mistake was made in
the domain request. The fedoraproject.org domain was migrated to a
domain registrar that does not have any dns zone files for
fedoraproject.org. The mistake was caught and corrected within 10
minutes of it happening. Some places may see dns resolution issues if
their registrar has not caught up or expired a cache. Simply waiting a
bit longer should correct the problem if a user cannot reach any of the
fedoraproject.org hosts or services.
Contact Information:
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email
to track
the status of this outage.
15 years, 10 months
Fedora Weekly News Issue 130
by Max Spevack
The Fedora News Project is pleased to announce the availability of
Fedora Weekly News Issue 130.
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 130 =
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 130 for the week ending June 8,
2008.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue130
If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see
our 'join' page. Being a Fedora Weekly News beat writer gives you a
chance to work on one of our community's most important sources of news,
and can be done in only about 1 hour per week of your time.
Last week, we recruited a new Marketing beat writer, Pascal Calarco!
We are still looking for beat writers to cover the highlights of Fedora
Planet each week, Fedora Security Advisories, and to summarize the
Fedora Events and Meetings that happened during each week.
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15 years, 10 months
Outage Notification: PHX 2008-06-05 15:00 UTC
by Seth Vidal
There will be an outage starting at 2008-06-05 15:00 UTC, which will last
approximately 1 hour.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
or run:
date -d '2008-06-05 15:00 UTC'
Affected Services:
Wiki
CVS / Source Control
Buildsystem
Database
Mail
Any system requiring web-based authentication
Unaffected Services:
fedorapeople.org
Torrent
main website
Ticket Link:
Reason for Outage:
Rebooting a switch as part of an upgrade and adding of new systems.
Contact Information:
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track
the status of this outage.
15 years, 10 months
Fedora Weekly News Issue 129
by Max Spevack
The Fedora News Project is pleased to announce the availability of
Fedora Weekly News Issue 129.
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 129 =
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 129 for the week ending June 1,
2008.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue129
Fedora Weekly News returns after a several week absence. We are
undergoing a little bit of turnover in our staff. If you are interested
in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page.
Being a Fedora Weekly News beat writer gives you a chance to work on one
of our community's most important sources of news, and can be done in
only about 1 hour per week of your time.
In particular, we are looking for beat writers to cover Fedora
Marketing, the highlights of Fedora Planet, Fedora Security Advisories,
and to summarize the Fedora Events and Meetings that happened during
each week.
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=======================
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15 years, 10 months
Board IRC meeting
by Paul W. Frields
In the past few months, the Board has scheduled a public IRC meeting on
the first meeting of the month. Because of the timing of LinuxTag last
week, however, there will not be a public Board IRC meeting on Tuesday,
June 3. We will announce the next public IRC meeting well in advance so
community members can attend if desired.
--
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15 years, 10 months
Info about FUDCon Boston (please read)
by Max Spevack
Hi all,
As we begin the homestretch around finalizing FUDCon Boston, I wanted to
clarify a few things about the importance of pre-registering, and also
about the travel and hotel sponsorships.
FUDCon Boston has a number of constraints on its budget, including:
1) Signage at the Hynes Convention center during the two days we are
there.
2) Snacks and drinks at the Hynes Convention center, only for those who
have pre-registered on the FUDCon page (and who will therefore receive
some sort of badge).
3) Tshirts, again, only guaranteed for those who have pre-registered,
though there may be extras, depending on the way the price points break
down.
4) Breakfast and lunch at the Saturday BarCamp at Boston University,
again for those who have pre-registered.
5) Security and facilities at Boston University.
6) FUDPub (space and 1 round of drinks free).
7) Travel and hotel sponsorship, as appropriate. We have made it a
habit of sponsoring community travel and lodging at the last 3
(including this one) North American FUDCons, at least. We are doing it
again this time. The number of people whom we would like to sponsor is
always higher than the number that our budget allows us to sponsor.
For FUDCon Boston, all of the sponsorships that we are doing have
already been finalized, and I'll be re-confirming that with each person
in the next 48 hours, but you already know who you are.
We've been able to sponsor a number of community members for this
FUDCon, all from North America. Since we are globalizing FUDCons this
year, we plan to try to spend our sponsorship money on people who are
already geographically close to each location, to maximize efficiency.
As such, European contributors will be sponsored for the Europe FUDCon
in September, and Asia/India/Australia contributors will be sponsored
for the APAC FUDCon currently in planning stages for next January.
We've currently got 97 people pre-registered for FUDCon Boston, which is
a great number, since past FUDCons have suggested that about 50 people
show up day-of who didn't bother to pre-register.
If there are any questions about FUDCon Boston, please contact myself
and Paul Frields.
Looking forward to seeing all of you,
Max
15 years, 10 months