Amateur Radio Testing Session at Fudcon Lawrence
by Ben Williams
Have you ever want to get your Amateur Radio License or Upgrade here is
your chance at Fudcon Lawrence.
For the Second NA Fudcon we are pleased to offer a ARRL Test Session on
Saturday Jan 19th 10am -2PM in Learned Hall University of Kansas
There is a $15 cost to take the exam. (This Fee goes to the ARRL to
cover the cost of the Exam and materials needed)
Please bring a Photo ID and if you are Licensed copies you your license
and any CSCE you may have. and a PENCIL.
so if you are at Fudcon and are interested please let Ben Williams
(Southern_Gentleman) or Nick Bebot (nb) know asap.
(Suggested reading for those wanting to get your License or upgrade
http://www.kb6nu.com/tech-manual/ . The nononsense Study guides and
online test will prepeare you for the real test. )
11 years, 3 months
Introducing the new FAmSCo chairs
by Christoph Wickert
My fellow ambassadors,
I have been serving as FAmSCo chair for a year now and it's time for me
to pass the torch (the buck?) to somebody else.
I am happy to announce that in today's FAmSCo meeting Jiri Eischmann [1]
was elected. I think he really deserves it because he was very active
and effectively ran FAmSCo while I was busy with my dayjob.
As FAmSCo chair, Jiri was to appoint the vice chair and I am glad he
picked Clint Savage [2]. This means we now have two of the most active
members of the two biggest communities leading FAmSCo and I am looking
forward to work with them.
Kind regards,
Christoph
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Eischmann
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Herlo
11 years, 3 months
Fedora Project OpenID Security issue
by Robyn Bergeron
Greetings,
On 2012-12-12 we discovered a bug in the Fedora Project OpenID
provider. This bug was pulled in with a fix on 2012-10-23. We patched
this problem on 2012-12-12, shortly after its discovery.
While the bug was present, anyone with a valid Fedora Account System
(FAS) account who tried to log into a remote website using any FAS
OpenID identity would have that identity validated by FAS even if the
identity belonged to a *different FAS user*. The fix we put in place
rejects the attempt if the user who logs in does not own the identity
that they requested.
Potentially affected accounts have been notified directly with a list of
their OpenID site requests with time and date for review.
Note that the only applications that Fedora Infrastructure runs that are
a consumer of OpenID are ask.fedoraproject.org and the FUDCon Lawrence
registration app that runs on OpenShift. This bug in no way affected any
of the rest of Fedora Infrastructure.
We have taken the following steps moving forward:
* The bug has been hotfixed. The OpenID provider will now disallow using
an id different from your Fedora Account System id.
* We are working on upstream fixes to the account system to more
robustly handle cases around OpenID.
* We are working upstream to add additional logging so we can more
easily identify issues like this.
For more information about the Fedora Project OpenID provider, see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenID
We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this issue.
If you have any concerns or questions, please contact
admin(a)fedoraproject.org.
-Robyn Bergeron
11 years, 3 months
Election Results for FAmSCo, FESCo, and Fedora Board seats
by Robyn Bergeron
Greetings!
The elections for the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo), and Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo) have concluded, and the results are IN! and can be seen below.
* * *
The Fedora Board is electing 2 seats this cycle. A total of 201 ballots were cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 1,005 votes (201 * 5). The results for the Fedora Board elections are as follows:
name | # votes
------------------------------------------------+---------
Jaroslav Reznik (FAS: jreznik, IRC: jreznik) | 855
Michael Scherer (FAS: misc , IRC: misc) | 437
------------------------------------------------+---------
Buddhika Kurera (FAS: bckurera, IRC: bckurera) | 299
John Dulaney (FAS: jdulaney, IRC: j_dulaney ) | 280
Dan Mashal (FAS: vicodan, IRC: dan408 ) | 266
Therefore, Jaroslav Reznik and Michael Scherer are each elected to the Fedora Board for a full two-release term.
* * *
FESCo is electing 4 seats this cycle. A total of 206 ballots were cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 1,648 votes (206 * 8). The results for the FESCo elections are as follows:
name | # votes
------------------------------------------------+---------
Toshio Kuratomi (FAS: toshio, IRC: abadger1999) | 808
Miloslav Trmac (FAS: mitr, IRC: mitr) | 804
Marcela Mašláňová (FAS: mmaslano, IRC: mmaslano)| 784
Stephen Gallagher (FAS: sgallagh, IRC: sgallagh)| 713
------------------------------------------------+---------
Matthew Garrett (FAS: mjg59, IRC: mjg59) | 710
Jon Ciesla (FAS: limb, IRC: limburgher) | 612
Martin Sivák (FAS: msivak, IRC: msivak) | 511
Therefore, Toshio Kuratomi, Miloslav Trmac, Marcela Mašláňová, and Stephen Gallagher are each elected to FESCo for a full two-release term.
* * *
FAmSCo is electing 3 seats this cycle. A total of 102 ballots were cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 408 votes (102 * 4). The results of the FAmSCo election are as follows:
name | # votes
------------------------------------------------+---------
Alejandro Perez (FAS: aeperezt, IRC: aeperezt) | 244
Buddhika Chandradeepa Kurera
(FAS: bckurera, IRC: bckurera) | 216
Truong Anh Tuan (FAS: tuanta, IRC: tuanta) | 198
------------------------------------------------+---------
Elad Alfassa (FAS: elad, IRC: elad661) | 181
Therefore, Alejandro Perez, Buddhika Chandradeepa Kurera, and Truong Anh Tuan are each elected to FAmSCo for a full two-release term.
* * *
Congratulations to all of the winning candidates, and thank you to all of those who participated in this election, by voting, running for an elected position, or helping with various parts of the election process. And a special shout-out of thanks goes out to Ankur Sinha for his work in coordinating all of the election details this cycle.
Cheers,
-Robyn
11 years, 3 months
GPG keysigning event and CAcert assurance event at FUDCon Lawrence 2013
by Nick Bebout
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- -- GPG Keysigning Info --
We are planning a GPG Key Signing event at FUDCon Lawrence, which will
be held on sometime Saturday, most likely (exact date and time to be
announced). If you are interested in participating, please add your
info to http://bit.ly/fudcon2013-keysigning so we can compile a list of
participants and keys.
- -- CAcert Assurance Info --
We are also 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 sometime Saturday, most likely (exact date and time
to be announced). If you are interested in helping out as an assurer, or
are interested in receiving assurances, please sign up at
http://bit.ly/fudcon2013-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.
If you have any questions, please contact me at nb(a)fedoraproject.org or
nb(a)cacert.org
Thanks,
Nick
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11 years, 3 months