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OT: Security Guides?
by Jonathan Roberts 27 Aug '08

27 Aug '08

Hi all, This is slightly OT, but I think you may well be the best list to ask :) I'm thinking about setting up my own server, but if I do decide to do it, I plan to do it right. This means I want to make sure it's properly configured and secure, and that it doesn't end up hosting some dodgy content or relaying spam around the internet! Does anyone have any suggestions for reading that I can do to help me in this quest? I know people on this list have been working on a security guide, but I'm not sure if it covers the topics I need or not. Any advice would be really appreciated. Jon

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Example wiki page
by David Nalley 27 Aug '08

27 Aug '08

I have a very rough page up detailing my perception of the elements that make a page complete from a wiki gardening perspective. Please keep in mind since there are no predecessors to this document a lot of the content was made up on the fly. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Example_wiki_page Please feel free to edit, change, comment, flame, or rewrite. Thanks, David Nalley

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self-introduction: Deon Lackey
by Ella Deon Lackey 27 Aug '08

27 Aug '08

Hi. I am signing up for the fedora-docs group. My name is Ella Deon Lackey (and I answer to Ella or Deon). I live north of Tulsa, Oklahoma (that's Central Time in the US). I am a contract tech writer and freelance writer; I work mainly with software and tech companies, although I dabble in anything - alternative energy, home furnishings, HVAC. I've been a professional writer for over six years. My main goal for joining the group is to observe, get a new way of approaching my work, forge some relationships with users and other writers. It's easy to get insulated and to fall into a habit with writing and with life in general. I want to branch out. The Fedora Project encourages collaboration and interaction at every stage of a project, and that's awesome. I'm new to the Fedora Project (despite having used Fedora or Red Hat for a few years), but I do have a lot of experience with two other Fedora Projects, Fedora Directory Server and Dogtag Certificate System (check them out at directory.fedoraproject.org and pki.fedoraproject.org) I think I could help out with the SELinux and RPM documentation on the task list, and I'm good for bug fixing and formatting changes. I have basically no real programming experience; I'm what I call a "practical user" of RHEL 4 and Fedora 8, meaning I poke around to install and configure things and use it for regular business, but I'm not adventurous about scripting things. I also have a lot of experience with wikis, static web design (HTML and CSS), very limited graphic design skills, and years of experience with DocBook XML and, to a lesser extent, XSLT. For two years, I was a newspaper reporter, so I also have experience writing articles and press releases, researching, conducting interviews, copyediting, and biting my tongue. I have no idea if I'm an excellent match for the project, although I hope I have something to offer. I think there is a lot I can learn here. pub 1024D/50464D8B 2008-08-21 Ella Lackey <deon(a)deonlackey.com> Key fingerprint = 9723 C4FD 7D97 4169 CD62 92AE CD60 1321 5046 4D8B sub 1024g/36683B94 2008-08-21 Thanks! Deon Lackey

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Red Hat Bugzilla Change Password Request
by Red Hat Bugzilla 26 Aug '08

26 Aug '08

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26 Aug '08

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26 Aug '08

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26 Aug '08

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26 Aug '08

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Wiki Outage Notification - 2008-08-14 03:00 UTC & 2008-08-15 03:00 UTC
by Nigel Jones 24 Aug '08

24 Aug '08

There will be an outage starting at 2008-08-14 03:00 UTC, which will last approximately 1 hour. A second outage is scheduled to start at 2008-08-15 03:00 UTC lasting approximately 30 minutes. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2008-08-14 03:00 UTC' date -d '2008-08-15 03:00 UTC' Affected Services: Fedora Project Wiki Unaffected Services: All Other Websites CVS / Source Control Buildsystem Database DNS Mail Torrent Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/754 Reason for Outage: We will be performing database changes to the wiki database to enable searching by default for specific categories and to switch to the internal authentication methods. We hope to be able to leave the wiki Read Only during both outages. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage. Thanks, Nigel Jones

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Seneca tech comms and Fedora Docs
by Karsten Wade 24 Aug '08

24 Aug '08

As one of the efforts in the Fedora/Seneca collaboration[1], the Fedora Documentation project is working with a technical communications class at Seneca College. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Seneca_College_tech_communicatio… This is an extension of the new Fedora collaboration, which is building on the success Seneca College has had pairing with (primarily) the Mozilla Foundation. The basic idea[2] came up in a session at FUDCon[3]. After that, I met with Beth Agnew and Chris Tyler[4]. Beth is coordinating on the Seneca College side. She has a vision for the collaboration that fits very well with the way we do things in Fedora. We can expect students to start appearing very soon after the class starts this Fall. Our tasks: * Get a complete task list done ** Full specifications and requirements * Make a list of willing mentors to work with students For an example, I'm going to pick on Eric Christensen (Sparks): 1. Sparks completes a basic outline for the user and administrator sections of the Security Guide, with full consideration for existing content coming in from the Fedora Deployment Guide. 2. Next he and other Security Guide writers create a stand-alone task page with full details and assignments. 3. By keeping a goal on modular and sustainable work, there is plenty to give students to work on in both wiki and XML, with small and large writing/editing projects. I'm really excited about this project. It is going to bring new and passionate contributors, get multiple documents completed, and help us hammer out modern processes where we are lacking. Goals and philosophies between the Seneca College tech comms group and the Fedora Project are highly similar. I had many "Yes!" moments talking with Beth where she was describing how they do the writing class. - Karsten [1] There doesn't seem to be a canonical page on this project (yet). http://lwn.net/Articles/283274/ http://www.linux.com/feature/140097 http://cdot.senecac.on.ca/ [2] http://iquaid.org/2008/04/10/looking-for-a-tech-writing-class-to-help/ [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Seneca_Talk_FUDCon10 [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Meeting_20080709_Seneca_technica… -- Karsten Wade, Sr. Developer Community Mgr. Dev Fu : http://developer.redhatmagazine.com Fedora : http://quaid.fedorapeople.org gpg key : AD0E0C41

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