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Publishing Guides for F12 Release
by Eric Christensen 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 We are less than 36 hours away from the F12 release. If possible, please have the latest version of your guide uploaded to the CVS where docs.fp.o pulls from no later than 0001 UTC on 17 Nov so we can make sure that all the pages are properly sync'd and the homepage is linked properly. Thanks, Eric -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksAxHIACgkQfQTSQL0MFMGBKQCgyaeJQcfnC2ryNepMc9Re95XL eEkAn0UJAQHk14hCUNGsWN4rHaPhJ789 =6wHU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Announcing the Fedora Wireless Guide
by Scott Radvan 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hi list, Announcing the Fedora Wireless Guide, an overview of wireless technology (primarily 802.11) and their implementation in Fedora. This guide is designed to provide a high-level summary of 802.11 wireless technology, equipment, standards, security concerns and myths, and communication concepts, etc. -- to provide those with little knowledge of wireless a good starting point to the terms and ideas. It is not intended to be an advanced guide, rather to provide a good grounding in wireless. Of course, it allows a lot of room for expansion into more advanced topics. Also covered briefly are other mobile technologies (EV-DO, HSDPA, etc.) Trac details: https://fedorahosted.org/wireless-guide/ Latest build: http://sradvan.fedorapeople.org/Wireless_Guide/en-US/html-single/ A Bugzilla component also exists. This will hit CVS/F12 section of d.fp.o soon, so I would greatly appreciate any proof-reading/review, bugzillas or other comments. Thanks! -- Scott Radvan Content Author, Platform (Installation and Deployment) Red Hat Asia Pacific (Brisbane) http://www.apac.redhat.com

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Documentation Logo Design
by ryan lerch 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hi everyone on the Docs and Design Lists! I have whipped up a first attempt at a logo for the Documentation team. (ticket#82 in the design queue) Here is a mockup of how it will look when integrated with publican: http://ryanlerch.fedorapeople.org/fedora-docs-logo/mockup.png and here is the SVG and PNG of the logo itself: http://ryanlerch.fedorapeople.org/fedora-docs-logo/fedora-docs-logo.png http://ryanlerch.fedorapeople.org/fedora-docs-logo/fedora-docs.svg thoughts, ideas or comments welcome! cheers, ryanlerch

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Re: [Design-team] F12 One-Page Release Notes PDF
by ryan lerch 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

CC'ing this thread to the fedora-docs-list. On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Kris Thomsen <lakristho(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Looks fantastic, I'm translating those into Danish :) Awesome! AFAIK, these release notes (the awesome PDF version the design-team produced): http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/collateral/release%20notes/f12/F12ReleaseNote… are a subset of the Release Notes that the docs team produced: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f12/en-US/html/ so strings may match between these documents. That said, i think we should also start planning on how to get this awesome (and useful) doc localised for the f13 version. cheers, ryanlerch > > // Kris > > 2009/11/15 Paul W. Frields <stickster(a)gmail.com> >> >> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 07:28:03AM +1100, Ryan Lerch wrote: >> > 2009/11/14 Máirín Duffy <mairin(a)linuxgrrl.com>: >> > > On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 18:41 -0500, Máirín Duffy wrote: >> > >> http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/collateral/release% >> > >> 20notes/f12/F12ReleaseNotes-All.pdf >> > > >> > > Oh! I forgot to mention it is designed for A4. So if you are using >> > > Letter-sized paper, make sure you tell the printer to center the >> > > document. Otherwise it'll print out all spaced out weird on the page. >> > > >> > > ~m >> > >> > This is _AWESOME_ ! >> > >> > When I first downloaded it, though, i was a bit surprised at the 14MB >> > filesize. I assume this is because of the bitmaps needing to be larger >> > for when it is printed out? >> > >> > awesome work mo! (and all the screenshot capturing people) >> >> Hear, hear -- it's really superb. I love the way you made the layout >> hang together so nicely compared to the wiki version. (The wiki's a >> great place to draft, but it's really hard to do good layout there!) >> >> This is going to be a nice way for people to present Fedora. Sorry it >> ended up being long. I hope we can use the learning opportunities to >> make sure the next version will be easier to fit on a single >> double-sided page. Nice work to everyone who participated! >> >> -- >> Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ >> gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 >> http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ >> irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug >> _______________________________________________ >> design-team mailing list >> design-team(a)lists.fedoraproject.org >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team > > > _______________________________________________ > design-team mailing list > design-team(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team > >

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how to become a docs contributor (video)
by Karsten Wade 15 Nov '09

15 Nov '09

"how to become a docs contributor" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJXyeIS-eIU Yesterday I was helping Mel[0] with the POSSE[1] class in Singapore[2]. Basically, I covered what open source content in Fedora does (technical docs, process docs, community self-knowledge docs), the common tools and styles we try to propagate, and then walked the class through how to contribute to the release notes. The exercise was focused on editing to the wiki. I explained the rest of the process in the abstract with lots of links.[3] The class[4] are all instructors in polytechnical or business schools in APAC - Singapore, Shangai, and so forth. Ideally, they take back the "how to be an active contributor in an open source community" training to their classes. Even better, if they do classes where part of the student work is being active in FLOSS communities. You may find the IRC log[3] interesting, but Mel did a good job capturing the basics in that screencast. It is useful for showing to anyone who drops by #fedora-docs. We'll try to get an OGG version to grab from somewhere so we can have it in the /topic on #fedora-docs. :) Cheers - Karsten [0] Mel - http://blog.melchua.com/ - http://blog.melchua.com/2009/11/11/how-to-become-a-release-notes-editor/ [1] http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE [2] http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_APAC [3] I start the session at 01:53:38: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teachingopensource-posse/2009-11-12/teachi… [4] http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_Blogs http://blog.melchua.com/2009/11/10/new-bloggers-adopt-a-lecturer/ http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Planet -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener http://quaid.fedorapeople.org AD0E0C41

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Re: [Design-team] CD/DVD cover design question
by wb8rcr＠chartermi.net 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

ryanlerch said: > A change to the relnotes this close to release will hit a _lot_ of > translators. Not too sure about this one, so I'm ccing to the docs > list. The prose quoted is from an earlier version of the release notes. The version currently on f12-updates says: "Fedora 12 requires an Intel Pentium Pro or better processor, and is optimized for i686 and later processors. " I pushed and tagged this to docs.fp.o on Monday, but it isn't showing up. I am currently trying to track down why not. Unfortunately, I have relatives visiting which limits my time somewhat. --McD

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Re: [Design-team] CD/DVD cover design question
by ryan lerch 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

A change to the relnotes this close to release will hit a _lot_ of translators. Not too sure about this one, so I'm ccing to the docs list. Cheers, ryanlerch On Thursday, November 12, 2009, Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora(a)nicubunu.ro> wrote: > On 11/11/2009 10:52 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: >> Luya Tshimbalanga (luya(a)fedoraproject.org) said: >>> Could you verify the specification I listed on CD/DVD covers[1]? >>> Suggestion welcome. >>> >>> Ref: [1] http://luya.fedorapeople.org/media/ >> >> 200 Mhz Pentium-class or better is wrong. Pentium will *not* work. >> Needs to be Pentium II (or Pentium Pro, but I doubt anyone still >> has those lying around) > > Do we have anyone from the documentation team listening here? The > release notes must be also updated with this info: > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f12/en-US/html/index.html#sect-… > > -- > nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/ > _______________________________________________ > design-team mailing list > design-team(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team >

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[Design Team] #82: Need a logo for the Docs team
by fedora-badges 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

#82: Need a logo for the Docs team -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Reporter: rlandmann | Owner: duffy Type: task | Status: new Priority: minor | Component: Artwork Severity: Quick & Easy | Keywords: -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Publican (the XML publishing tool used by the docs team) includes a small logo and hyperlink at the top right corner of the pages it builds in HTML. The hyperlink points to the documentation team responsible for the doc (in the case of Fedora docs, the Fedora Documentation Project), plus that team's logo. No logo for the Fedora docs team actually exists, so on all our Publican docs, we just get a "Made with Publican" logo instead. You can see an example here: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f11/en-US/ Something actually relevant to Fedora, documentation, or Fedora documentation would be much better :) -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/82> Design Team <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design> Fedora Design Team

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[kerry@wsr.com: broken link on home page]
by Ricky Zhou 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

Hi, somebody reported a blank release notes index page linked from fedoraproject.org. Does anybody know why http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f11/ is blank now? I think there used to be a language selection page there back during the F11 release, but it'd be nice to make something available there for now to fix the broken link (we could change the website link, but then all language pages would point to the English document, which isn't that great). Also, will there still be index/language selection pages for specific documents? While http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ has language selection dropdowns for all documents right now, we sometimes want to link specifically to one particular document from he website, like for the release notes, or the install guide on the download page. Thanks, Ricky ----- Forwarded message from richard <kerry(a)wsr.com> ----- From: richard <kerry(a)wsr.com> To: webmaster(a)fedoraproject.org Cc: Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:09:17 -0700 Subject: broken link on home page Hello, On the Fedora Home Page (http://fedoraproject.org/index.html) there is a link to the release notes. What's new in Fedora 11? Read the release notes. >> where is this supposed to take me? I assume it is supposed to go to http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ but it does not, it takes me to a blank page. Richard. -- Fedora-websites-list mailing list Fedora-websites-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-websites-list ----- End forwarded message -----

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dmraid in install guide
by John Poelstra 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

I came across this and wondering if we have addressed it in the install guide or if it still needs to be chased down. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features/MDRaid#Documentation John

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