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Outage: Server reboots for systems - 2012-01-27 04:00 UTC
by Kevin Fenzi 25 Jan '12

25 Jan '12

Outage: Server reboots for systems - 2012-01-27 04:00 UTC There will be an outage starting at 2012-01-27 04:00 UTC, which will last approximately 2 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2012-01-27 04:00 UTC' Reason for outage: Various servers are going to be rebooted into a new kernel to roll up to current updates. Outages will be quite short for any one service, but some services may be up and down at various times in the outage window. Affected Services: Ask Fedora - http://ask.fedoraproject.org/ Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ GIT / Source Control Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ Email system Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/ Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/ Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/ Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/ Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ QA Services Smolt - http://smolts.org/ Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/ Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ Unaffected Services: BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org Secondary Architectures Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3113 Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above.

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Fedora Sri Lanka Community and Mailing list
by Buddhike Kurera 10 Jan '12

10 Jan '12

Dear Sri Lanka Contributors at the Fedora Project, I am happy to announce that lk.fc.o[1] is active now. Please contact us so that we can create an account for you and you can start posting. Please join with the Sri Lankan community group[2] so that any request can be made and ideas can be discussed. Thanks [1] admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/lk-users [2] lk.fedoracommunity.org -- Regards, Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera(bckurera) Fedora Ambassador Sri Lanka Event Liaison - Design Team Email: bckurera(a)fedoraproject.org | IRC: bckurera

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GPG keysigning event at FUDCon Blacksburg 2012 (and CAcert Assurance Event)
by Nick Bebout 08 Jan '12

08 Jan '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 We are planning a GPG Key Signing event at FUDCon Blacksburg, which will be held on Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 1600 (4pm). If you are interested in participating, please add your info to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Blacksburg_2012_GPG_Key_Signing_Event so we can compile a list of participants and keys. So far we have 22 keys signed up and we hope to have even more. That wiki page also has more information about how we will conduct the event. I intend to print copies of the GPG key list on either Monday or Tuesday, I will probably be waiting until Tuesday, but please sign up as early as you can. I will also publish on my fedorapeople site a gpg signed copy of the key list. The current version is at http://nb.fedorapeople.org/keys.pdf and the signature will be at http://nb.fedorapeople.org/keys.pdf.asc after the final list is generated. If you don't get signed up in time, you can still participate, just bring printed slips with the output of 'gpg --fingerprint YOURKEYID' printed on them to hand out at the event. We will also be hosting a CAcert assurance event immediately following/in conjunction with the GPG keysigning event. Please see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Blacksburg_2012_CAcert_Assurance_Event for more information and a place to sign up for that. We will have enough assurers present for you to receive well over the 100 points that you need in order to qualify to become an assurer yourself. Please note that if you intend to participate in the CAcert event, the name in your government issued photo ID must match the name recorded in your CAcert account. For more information on either event, feel free to contact me at nb(a)fedoraproject.org or nb(a)cacert.org Thanks and see you at FUDCon! Nick -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJPCPRuAAoJEA/0jdP+ADQrZpcP/1OeggdUKJ5E1w3ibE/xHEd1 tDmGXqRfUCo+nR54NnpCdKsKP7AiN/PYCHcfmbQdziAePU54UxAYq9/aqbsdL4XY adYfEXeetnnY3j4Xcg9TnXpbqINXIDAeUo/rDxFPnwHgkfHBT3dXWVyTpAUvE9Ex EkjqRoIyHRz6y4E8X/a4FZfpiTOkTJJa3mX8hFa3G4CrHNpeBxwcgStgw479dcM3 vGDINJW8BVphFgCW6xXhaq95mT+6g5sHtbRLMUoWiVYctOypsWl2mAqrNpa9SdUh PZ7BrjuhNm4GGfkxipUIz0f5gCKc/RSWGm9KphNd1dHejUGEdtng+yFDfJZra1tA 5Ciz5vYgPYggUHR2IouCySWrQw4xWXLF0yQoQPBu9yzetUu7Hce+3bjRcgH/wu83 tvousMOxwVYwufrfpwpoJ2fu/95LluNCVJXd0b7TWoAysqDKYjSR3CsHTDnyfu0p n8zWNNWud46NW0CuNYOYgtpvsEbiFYsbBNE1CFPH+aL6Gtl2I//ja5AlCxlLqgDj 5msxDK23xMAmGlxTUSD1Z7N9OOJsRsW6R3EqkZmjEoX+tY5UscDSbYm56h7BP52Q YdxcGj8qtxI4F6yB5R28K4wsd8uthHGnKAPsjoPOYaX14LQH05fo/i+W87Fp6vim MZm9dd/Au699CUA6VKv+ =12S9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Wireless Access at FUDCon Blacksburg
by Robyn Bergeron 07 Jan '12

07 Jan '12

If you are attending FUDCon:Blacksburg next week (January 13-15), you need to request a guest internet access account in order to use the guest wireless access on the Virginia Tech campus. It is requested that you sign up for this account PRIOR to your arrival at FUDCon. Pretty please. Directions for obtaining wireless access are listed on the FUDCon Blacksburg wiki page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Blacksburg_2012#Wireless_Registration However, since I'm really nice, I'll spell it out in this email as well: 1. Go to the guest wireless registration page, here: https://guest.cns.vt.edu/apps/home.action 2. Enter start date: 1/13/2012, for example 3. Enter end date: 1/15/2012, for example 4. Sponsoring Department: Select "Mathematics" 5. Contact Person: Enter "Ben Williams" (our awesome, gracious host and contact at VT) 6. Purpose: FUDCon 7. Click the "Create Request" button 8. Enter email address and select "New Guest" 9. Fill out form including secret questions, password boxes, and agree to the Acceptable Use Policy 10. Click "Create Account" 11. Receive email in your inbox and verify your request. Thanks, and I'm looking forward to seeing everyone next week in Blacksburg! :) -Robyn

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FUDCon Blacksburg activity: Try my keyboard!
by Toshio Kuratomi 07 Jan '12

07 Jan '12

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Blacksburg_2012:_Try_my_keyboard! Sometimes, even the most hard working programmer/system administrator/graphic designer/packager needs to take a break and do something fun. So this FUDCon, let's plan on taking some time on Friday to do something that's fun for computer enthusiasts of all ages -- try out other people's hardware! Specifically, their keyboards, mice, graphics tablets, and other human to computer input devices. In typical barcamp style, the devices present will depend on the attendees. I'll be bringing a couple of mechanical switch keyboards (yes, they still make those ;-) and some of the design team members will be bringing some graphics tablets. If anyone has an IBM Model M, a Kinesis Pro, an MS explorer trackball, or any other input device that feels "just right" to you we'd love to have you bring it along to share (and sign up on the wiki so we know to track you down when the time is right.) -Toshio

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Fedora Weekly News 289
by Pascal Calarco 06 Jan '12

06 Jan '12

1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 289 1.1 Announcements 1.1.1 Fedora Development News 1.1.1.1 Rebuild for GCC-4.7 1.1.2 Fedora Events 1.1.2.1 Upcoming Events (December 2011 - May 2012) 1.1.2.2 Past Events 1.1.2.3 Additional information 1.2 Fedora In the News 1.2.1 Three greatest successes in Linux world 2011 1.2.2 4 security features in Fedora 16 1.2.3 Interview: Harish Pillay, Global Community and Technology Architect, Red Hat Inc 1.2.4 Kororaa Linux 16 - A Fedora++ Distribution 1.3 Security Advisories 1.3.1 Fedora 16 Security Advisories 1.3.2 Fedora 15 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 289 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 289[1] for the two weeks ending January 3, 2012. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Happy New Year, Fedora folk! This first issue of 2012 is an abbreviated one, but we we at FWN want to ensure that we have some Fedora content coming to you every week! In this week's issue, we cover one development announcement, a rebuild of rawhide with GCC 4.7. We've also got pointers to the many Fedora events happening over the next few months globally. In Fedora In the News this week, four articles/postings related to Fedora, including an interview with Harish Pillay, Global Community and Technology Architect, Red Hat Inc, a review of Fedora-based Kororaa Linux 16, and two personal reflections on linux distributions in 2011 and Fedora's strength in security. We close the issue with security patches released in the last two weeks for Fedora 15 and 16. Enjoy! An audio version of some issues of FWN - FAWN - are available! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue289 * http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- Fedora Announcements are the place where you can find the major coverage from the Fedora Project including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Fedora Events[3]. Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/ * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/ * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events There were no general announcements during this issue period. -- Fedora Development News -- The Development Announcement[1] list is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora development. Acceptable Types of Announcements Policy or process changes that affect developers. Infrastructure changes that affect developers. Tools changes that affect developers. Schedule changes Freeze reminders Unacceptable Types of Announcements Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule) Discussion Anything else not mentioned above * https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce --- Rebuild for GCC-4.7 --- Dennis Gilmore announced[1]: "[S]tarting immediately there is going to be a mass rebuild of rawhide for gcc-4.7 that landed yesterday. as approved by FESCo (https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/739) packagers will have just over a week, until Thursday Jan 12 to build packages themselves. After that date releng will kick off an automated mass rebuild of everything else. So please get building as Fedora 17 branching is less than 5 weeks away. we need all built by then Thanks Releng" * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2012-January/000874… -- Fedora Events -- The purpose of event is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to identify responsible Ambassadors for each event. The event page is laid out by quarter and by region. Please maintain the layout, as it is crucial for budget planning. Events can be added to this page whether or not they have an Ambassador owner. Events without an owner are not eligible for funding, but being listed allows any Ambassador to take ownership of the event and make it eligible for funding. In plain words, Fedora events are the exclusive and source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you! Upcoming Events (December 2011 - May 2012) North America (NA)[1] Central & South America (LATAM): [2] Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3] India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4] * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q4_.28December_2011_-_February_20… * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY13_Q1_.28March_2012_-_May_2012.29 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q4_.28January_2012_-_March_2012.29 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q4_.28December_2011_-_February_20… --- Past Events --- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents --- Additional information --- Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines. Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo). Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members. Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility. Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions. LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events. -- Fedora In the News -- In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1]. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/ --- Three greatest successes in Linux world 2011 --- Rahul Sundaram posted[1]: "Fedora produced two released this year, same as OpenSuSE and Ubuntu And both of them were lovely from my point of view. Fedora 15 was the first distribution to feature GNOME3 as default desktop environment. And it was already awesome, even though not without a glitch. Fedora 16 became even better. What is about Fedora KDE? As I have written, Fedora 15 KDE was very good, and Fedora 16 KDE was even better." The full discussion thread is available[2]. * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-December/014160.html * http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2011/12/three-greatest-successes-in-linux-wor… --- 4 security features in Fedora 16 --- Rahul Sundaram posted[1]: "The security features in Fedora make it one of my favorite Linux distributions. And that is partly why it is in my list of the top 6 KDE distributions of 2011, even though it takes some tweaking to get it to the it just works state. I will take the security advantages of an operating system over any user-friendliness weaknesses, provided those user-friendliness weaknesses are not show stoppers." The full post is available[2]. * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-December/014161.html * http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/12/13/4-security-features-in-fedora-16/ --- Interview: Harish Pillay, Global Community and Technology Architect, Red Hat Inc --- Rahul Sundaram posted[1]: "When you design something or build something with security in mind, you are always cognizant of the fact that you can have ten measures and if everything works fine, that's great. But on the other side, the other person needs to succeed just once! Whatever ten things you have that is successful, is done away with this one failure. Well that is the story in the proprietary perspective. In the open source perspective, everything that we build is completely transparent. Everybody knows what we are building." The full post is available[2]. * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-December/014162.html * http://devworks.thinkdigit.com/Features/Interview-Harish-Pillay-Global-Comm… --- Kororaa Linux 16 - A Fedora++ Distribution --- Rahul Sundaram posted[1]: "To get a better overview of Kororaa Linux, the ideas behind it, what it includes and why, check their web page. My take on it is this - if you have looked at Fedora before, and you didn't want to use it because of the difficulty and tedium of getting a lot of common non-FOSS packages installed, then you should take a look at Kororaa. Of course, if you are a FOSS-purist, you are likely to think that Kororaa is an abomination." The full article is available[2]. * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-December/014163.html * http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/jamies-mostly-linux-stuff-10006480/kororaa-lin… -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce for the period December 21, 2011 - January 3, 2012. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 16 Security Advisories --- glibc-2.14.90-24.fc16.4 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071… jasper-1.900.1-18.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071… kernel-3.1.6-1.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071… thunderbird-9.0-4.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071… firefox-9.0-3.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071… xulrunner-9.0-2.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071… thunderbird-lightning-1.1-0.1.rc1.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071… nss-3.13.1-9.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071… nss-util-3.13.1-3.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071… nss-softokn-3.13.1-14.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071… icu-4.6-3.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071… openstack-nova-2011.3-13.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071… clearsilver-0.10.5-15.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071… cacti-0.8.7i-2.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071… moodle-2.0.6-1.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071… perl-PAR-Packer-1.010-3.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071… perl-PAR-1.002-5.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071… --- Fedora 15 Security Advisories --- icu-4.4.2-9.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071… cacti-0.8.7i-2.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071… clearsilver-0.10.5-15.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071… moodle-1.9.15-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071… - end FWN 289 -

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CAcert Assurance Event at FUDCon (and reminder about GPG Keysigning Event)
by Nick Bebout 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

Hi everyone, We are going to be having a CAcert (http://www.cacert.org) assurance event in conjunction with our GPG keysigning event at FUDCon. This will be held on Saturday, January 14 at 1600 (4pm). If you are interested in helping out as an assurer, or are interested in receiving assurances, please sign up at http://bit.ly/fudcon-cacert-assurance Please note that if you have previously received assurance points via the Thawte point transfer system, you will need to be assured again, because those points will be removed soon. You can, however, participate as an assurer and be assured at this event. If you are an assurer, we'd definitely like you to participate, as we are hoping to have enough people to issue at least 100 points to participants so they can become assurers themselves. We are also having a GPG/PGP keysigning event at the same time and location. The signup and more info about it is at http://bit.ly/fudcon-keysigning See you there, Nick -- Nick Bebout nb(a)fedoraproject.org

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