Introduction and article
by Stuart Gathman
I'm Stuart Gathman, a Fedora packager and user. Some resume things are
here: http://gathman.org/vitae
Now that dnf system-upgrade is the preferred way to upgrade, I wanted to
share how to use LVM to do so with a better fallback (in case something
goes south) than "restore from backup".
I wrote a draft. I don't quite like it yet - there are too many steps.
The "copy snapshot of rootfs to new lv" could be automated (but isn't
yet). It's probably not good form to attach or include it, but here is
a link: https://gathman.org/papers/upgrade.txt
5 years, 3 months
Contributing to Fedora Magazine
by Mike Saunders
Hello!
I do Marketing & PR at The Document Foundation, the non-profit entity
behind LibreOffice. And before this, I spent almost 20 years writing for
Linux magazines, such as Linux Format and Linux Voice:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Voice
I'm a huge supporter of FOSS, Linux and digital rights, and I'm lucky
that my day job involves helping to spread the word about LibreOffice
and grow our community :-)
I'd like to write an article for Fedora Magazine about how Fedora users
can get involved with LibreOffice, in a few areas -- development,
design, marketing and so forth.
What do you think? Thanks!
--
Mike Saunders, Marketing & PR
The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE
Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts
Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint
5 years, 3 months
Editorial board meeting recap 2018-Jun-06
by Paul W. Frields
Minutes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2018-06-06/magazine.2018...
Minutes (text): https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2018-06-06/magazine.2018...
Log: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2018-06-06/magazine.2018...
* * *
=========================================
#fedora-meeting: Magazine editorial board
=========================================
Meeting started by stickster at 20:00:05 UTC. The full logs are
available at
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2018-06-06/magazine.2018...
.
Meeting summary
---------------
* Roll call (stickster, 20:00:10)
* Last week's stats (stickster, 20:02:48)
* Week of May 28: ~68.7K page views, a little up from previous week
despite holiday! (stickster, 20:03:31)
* Month of May 2018: 400,593 views -- best month ever! (stickster,
20:03:49)
* looks like all last week's action items were done (stickster,
20:06:21)
* LINK:
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/magazine/magazine.2018-05-30-20.0...
(stickster, 20:06:23)
* Pending review posts (stickster, 20:07:17)
* LINK:
https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=pending&post_typ...
(stickster, 20:07:29)
* --- HDYF --- (stickster, 20:07:39)
* LINK: https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=21511&preview=1&_ppp=3a8adf8fe6
(stickster, 20:07:51)
* AGREED: HDYF is good to go anytime (stickster, 20:10:06)
* ACTION: stickster do quick edit pass on HDYF interview, which will
only take a couple minutes -- normal photo image of subject seems
ready (stickster, 20:10:51)
* Drafts to review (stickster, 20:11:23)
* LINK:
https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=...
(stickster, 20:11:25)
* --- Raspberry PI 3B+ --- (stickster, 20:15:20)
* LINK: https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=21602&preview=1&_ppp=65b548f09e
(stickster, 20:15:23)
* ACTION: stickster edit RPi 3B+ article, ryanlerch do the image
(stickster, 20:19:11)
* Pitches to review (stickster, 20:19:50)
* LINK:
https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=pitch&post_type=...
(stickster, 20:20:14)
* --- Kernel 4.17 test day --- (stickster, 20:20:35)
* LINK: https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=21599&preview=1&_ppp=b06e0d1ee3
(stickster, 20:20:37)
* AGREED: Test Day article approved, we can turn this around fast
(stickster, 20:22:01)
* ACTION: ryanlerch copy-edit Test Day article for this Friday
(stickster, 20:26:59)
* --- LibreOffice pitch --- (stickster, 20:27:40)
* LINK: https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=21561&preview=1&_ppp=a6cd544b48
(stickster, 20:27:54)
* stickster emailed the pitch author to explain that we wanted
something more user-focused (stickster, 20:28:19)
* --- Buildah article part 2 --- (stickster, 20:32:41)
* AGREED: Buildah article pitch approved (stickster, 20:36:41)
* ACTION: stickster email list with approval (stickster, 20:36:46)
* --- Animations in Blender --- (stickster, 20:36:55)
* LINK:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/magazine@lists.fedoraprojec...
(stickster, 20:37:08)
* AGREED: Blender pitch approved (stickster, 20:40:13)
* ACTION: ryanlerch email the list and offer assistance (stickster,
20:40:31)
* ACTION: REVISED: cverna edit RasPi 3B+ article, ryanlerch do the
image (stickster, 20:42:59)
* Publishing schedule (stickster, 20:43:15)
* AGREED: Fri Jun 08: Test Days (ryanlerch edit) -- Mon Jun 11: HDYF
(stickster edit) -- Wed Jun 13: RasPi 3B+ (cverna edit, ryanlerch
image) -- Fri Jun 15: TBA (stickster, 20:43:23)
* Open floor -- all other business (stickster, 20:44:37)
Meeting ended at 20:49:07 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* stickster do quick edit pass on HDYF interview, which will only take a
couple minutes -- normal photo image of subject seems ready
* stickster edit RPi 3B+ article, ryanlerch do the image
* ryanlerch copy-edit Test Day article for this Friday
* stickster email list with approval
* ryanlerch email the list and offer assistance
* REVISED: cverna edit RasPi 3B+ article, ryanlerch do the image
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* cverna
* REVISED: cverna edit RasPi 3B+ article, ryanlerch do the image
* ryanlerch
* stickster edit RPi 3B+ article, ryanlerch do the image
* ryanlerch copy-edit Test Day article for this Friday
* ryanlerch email the list and offer assistance
* REVISED: cverna edit RasPi 3B+ article, ryanlerch do the image
* stickster
* stickster do quick edit pass on HDYF interview, which will only take
a couple minutes -- normal photo image of subject seems ready
* stickster edit RPi 3B+ article, ryanlerch do the image
* stickster email list with approval
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
People Present (lines said)
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* stickster (92)
* ryanlerch (33)
* cverna (25)
* zodbot (17)
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The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com
5 years, 3 months
[PITCH] Animations in Blender
by Adam Samalik
Hey everyone,
I'd like to share my experience of making simple animations in Blender and
exporting a video out of it. I'm not a 3D designer, so please don't expect
making beautiful things. But I can definitely promise things that move —
even though they might be a little ugly.
For example, I've made this video in Blender: https://youtu.be/5VQljp1p_ok
I would cover:
* basics of the Blender UI
* making simple shapes in Blender
* keyframes — the basic concept of animation in Blender
* making an actual animated scene
* exporting a video
I'm not sure if this would be one article or a series, I would need to
start writing and see what happens. So this could be one article, or a
short series.
How do you like my idea?
Cheers!
Adam
PS: If someone on the other hand knows how to make beautiful 3D models in
Blender, we could do a series together maybe? But that would be a stretch
goal for me.
--
Adam Šamalík
---------------------------
Software Engineer
Red Hat
5 years, 3 months
May 2018 = Best month ever!
by Paul W. Frields
Congratulations, Magaziners... May 2018 was our best month EVER on the
Magazine. Of course it was a release month with Fedora 28 releasing
on May 1, 2018, and several related articles following that news.
For comparison:
Fedora 26 --> Jul 2017 --> 366,601 pageviews
Fedora 27 --> Nov 2017 --> 389,554 pageviews
Fedora 28 --> May 2018 --> 400,598 pageviews
It's true this is only a modest increase, and there's a bit of
unwanted "flattening out" to the curve. However, my semi-educated
guess is this is due to a few problems:
* The release article timing was botched due to unwanted links in the
announcement text, which forced us to publish other articles waiting
in the wings. In the future we should make sure to eliminate errant
links like that, so we can space out views over time.
* Quite a few articles in May, including the release related articles,
did not use the special "<!-- more -->" tag that incents RSS readers
to come to the site to view the whole article. We need to use this
tag in *every* article.
With these fixes, my bet is we would have seen closer to 415K-425K
pageviews, showing an accelerating release-to-release curve. However,
400,000 views in a month is nothing to sneeze at! Let's keep striving.
--
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/
The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com
5 years, 3 months
Re: Introduction & pitch proposal
by Paul Frields
Sounds good.
On Fri, Jun 1, 2018, 3:14 PM Eamon Walsh <ewalsh(a)termysequence.com> wrote:
> On 5/23/2018 3:53 PM, Paul Frields wrote:
> > On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 10:53 AM Eamon Walsh <ewalsh(a)termysequence.com>
> > wrote:
> >> My name is Eamon Walsh and I recently launched a new GPL terminal
> >> emulator multiplexer, TermySequence, on COPR. I'm planning to get it
> >> packaged for Fedora soon. Its home page is termysequence.io.
> >> I could write an article which would be like the two introductory posts
> >> below, but for Fedora users specifically. The article could also focus
> >> on how to use the multiplexer within containers.
> >> https://termysequence.io/posts/first-post.html
> >> https://termysequence.io/doc/first-steps.html
> >> Also, please consider the project for the "new things to try on COPR"
> >> series. Thanks,
> > This certainly looks interesting to me. It might be necessary to cut down
> > on some of the inner workings to focus on what the user is trying to
> > achieve. But I certainly think this would be in the right vein.
> >
> Thanks, I will work on a pitch post, keeping in mind that it should be
> cut down to a suitable length and focus on user goals.
>
> --
> Eamon Walsh
> https://termysequence.io
>
>
5 years, 3 months
