Idea: Fedora in Library
by Chitlesh GOORAH
Hello everyone,
I think im going to write a lot lol.
Ok an Ubuntu marketing agent told me about their idea of having Ubuntu
in Libraries.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuInLibraries
No, its not about installing Ubuntu in the computers but to lend Open
source cds to their subscribed users. Actually they copied it from
Openoffice.
http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/11838/Open%20So...
Personally its a wonderful idea because having CDS in libraries will
affect the complete newbies mind set of fear towards linux.
Considering the fact that librairies is a body of trust.
This is mostly an activity done by the lug. Of course if we
ambassadors provide enough materials/translation to.
Im eager to do it right away in Strasbourg. But comparing to another
distros like ubuntu,suse,etc they already have enough materials in
their pocket. Example, live cds. I prefer to wait for Fedora to catch
up with materials.
Let's take for example, Fedora. If a lug happens to realise this
project. Among other distros we will only have handouts and Fedora
DVDs. Meanwhile students or anyone will prefer to give a try to live
cds, leaving Fedora behind. Saying that this particular live distro is
based on Fedora isn't enough for the complete newbies. It would rather
be useless. If someone tried the "official" fedora LIVE cd if he/she
likes it he/she can easily get the install DVD for free for their
local lug or lug ambassador or from the library directly.
Some testimonials:
http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/04/04/16/1923248.shtml?tid=137&tid=18...
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/12/15/193231.shtml?tid=146&tid=149&tid=99
Since in the last 3 meetings (see
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Schedule ) we didn't really
progress in Emails, funds, Schwag because we are waiting for
additional info. I suggest we talk and plan about this idea. I know
ambassadors from India or Brazil will have alot to say :))
I know we (majority)ambassadors we only popped in during meetings
hours, talk and talk. This sounds like acting. Its time to move A55 :)
for REAL action.
Chitlesh GOORAH
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http://clunixchit.blogspot.com
17 years, 3 months
[Fwd: fisl7.0: sua proposta de palestra (141)]
by Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira
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Subject: fisl7.0: sua proposta de palestra (141)
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:43:54 -0200 (BRST)
From: temario(a)softwarelivre.org
To: rodrigopadula(a)projetofedora.org
(English version below)
Olá Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira,
Temos o prazer de informá-lo(a) de que a sua proposta de palestra para o
fisl7.0,
"PROJETO FEDORA BRASIL",
foi aceita para apresentação no evento.
É necessário que você confirme a sua participação *até o próximo dia 06
de fevereiro*,
através do "Canto dos palestrantes":
https://fisl.softwarelivre.org/7.0/papers/speaker/
Lá você pode também conferir as avaliações da(s) suas propostas e
comentários
dos avaliadores, que podem contribuir para melhorar sua apresentação,
resumo,
ou apenas te dar um retorno dos avaliadores com relação ao seu trabalho.
Os critérios utilizados para a avaliação podem ser encontrados em:
http://twiki.softwarelivre.org/bin/view/Fisl7/Classifica%e7%e3oDasPropostas.
Os membros da comissão avaliadora estão listados em:
http://twiki.softwarelivre.org/bin/view/Fisl7/Comiss%e3oDeAvaliadores
Adotamos uma política de evitar mais de uma palestra da mesma pessoa,
de forma a dar oportunidade a mais palestrantes. Assim, se você submeteu
mais de uma proposta, é possível que alguma delas tenha sido recusada mesmo
tendo argumento de classificação maior que o mínimo para aprovação na trilha
correspondente.
Entraremos em contato daqui a mais alguns dias com informaçõe úteis aos
palestrantes.
Saudações,
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Comitê de Programa
7º Fórum Internacional Software Livre
19, 20, 21 e 22 de Abril de 2006
Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil
http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/7.0/
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Hi Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira,
We're pleased to inform you that your lecture proposal for fisl7.0, with
title
"PROJETO FEDORA BRASIL",
was accepted for presentation in the event.
It's necessary that you confirm your attendance *until next February 6th*,
through the "Speakers' corner":
https://fisl.softwarelivre.org/7.0/papers/speaker/
There you can also check your proposals' reviews and comments from
reviewers,
which can help you to improve the presentation, abstract, or just give
you a feedback
from reviewers about your work.
The criteria used for the review can be found at:
http://twiki.softwarelivre.org/bin/view/Fisl7/Classifica%e7%e3oDasPropostas.
(sorry, for now it's Portuguese only, so if you have any doubt please
get in touch).
Members of the reviews comission are listed at:
http://twiki.softwarelivre.org/bin/view/Fisl7/Comiss%e3oDeAvaliadores
We've adopted a policy of avoiding more than a lecture per person,
trying to give opportunity to more people. This way, if you have submitted
more than one lecture proposal, it's possible that one or more of them have
been rejected even with a classification argument greater than the minimum
needed to be accpted in its corresponding track.
We'll get in touch in a few days with useful information for speakers.
Best wishes,
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Program Comitee
7th Internacional Free Software Forum
19th to 22nd, April 2006
Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil
http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/7.0/
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17 years, 4 months
What's New in Fedora Core 5 Test2 (LWN): Some comments
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
LWN has a look at Fedora Core Test 2 written by Ladislav Bodnar of
distrowatch fame. It is a expanded view of distrowatch's weekly comments
on Fedora Core Test 2.
http://lwn.net/Articles/167316/
A few comments for more information. The switch to a prolonged
development cycle for Fedora Core 5 was specific to this release to
accommodate major changes within the infrastructure such as the Anaconda
changes. Anaconda, the defacto standard among Linux installers has gone
into a major "interface surgery" in the words of Bodnar who has
questioned the need for such a change. The need for such a change arises
to accommodate many of the important new developments the project has
brought forward. The switch to yum instead of up2date within Fedora, the
formation of Fedora Extras as a complimentary default repository with
over two thousand packages etc needed not just a interface change but a
core Anaconda revamp in the form of a yum backend. Better consistency
of distribution upgrades and planned ability of Anaconda to use Fedora
Extras and possibly any custom repository during installation time is a
fairly major advantage. The streamlining of the interface is
complimentary to this in my opinion.
Now why is the new applications such as Beagle, F-spot and Tomboy
mentioned in the release announcement but not Mono specifically?. I
believe the applications and the functionality improvements they bring
into the release is much more important the underlying language it is
written under which is why the inclusion of Mono is mentioned in the
release notes but not in the release announcement.
The review is generally positive in note of other changes such as as the
new security improvements(fstack-porter) written by Red Hat developer
which was originally part of Fedora Core 4 and backported into the
Fedora GCC compiler and now made upstream on the GCC 4.1 as the system
compiler for Fedora Core 5. The new look and feel, GNOME 2.14, Firefox
1.5, Openoffice.org 1.01 Pup, package updater are some of the core
positive things noted in the review. A few known issues are also mentioned.
Kudos to everyone involved in this release.
--
Rahul
Fedora Bug Triaging - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
17 years, 4 months
Fedora Events or Not?
by Chitlesh GOORAH
Hello, there,
Ive been adding some events to
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents till Ive found
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Enter events that have an assigned Ambassador in the table below,
trying to stick to the ascending chronological order. After the event
has passed, please move it to the Fedora Events Archive
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Well, these events that Im adding don't have assigned ambassadors.
Should I stop adding events?
Maybe If I add these events someone might say, "Wow, I didnt know that
in my locality there is a linux event. Ill definitely participate for
Fedora" :)
So should I break the rule or paste it here in the list and wait for
someone to grab an event?
Chitlesh GOORAH
ps: table's width is severely over 100%
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http://clunixchit.blogspot.com
17 years, 4 months
Event: Strasbourg (date partly finalised)
by Chitlesh GOORAH
Hai there,
I have good news and maybe bad news.
Its Still fresh.
First as long awaited here in Strasbourg, France there will be an
"open source" day http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/jl4/index on the 23-25
June 2006. This event will be intended as I mentioned in
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents to promote open source
softwares and linux.
If somebody is motivated to make a conference about fedora, do inform
me. Hence you will become the guest of our lug. We ( the lug members )
are looking forward to invite lecturers and to pay their journey and
hotel too. This needs to be confirmed. The money required to host the
lecturers will be from either paid entrance or companies paying for
the booth.
to rent a booth for fedora, we have to pay. Price will be communicated
later. There are also talks about free booth for associations. But
nothing yet confirmed.
Its possible to sell Fedora t-shirts or other goodies for fund
raising. But in this case, we must rent a booth for Fedora.
Now comes the "maybe" bad news:
this scheduled date for the event interfere badly with two of MY
private life things:
1. I have already booked two tickets (my gf and I) to Mauritius.
2. my contract with the hostel ends in the beginning of June and
somebody will be occupying my actual room.
so meanwhile send your comments, queries or any other proposals :)
regards,
Chitlesh GOORAH
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http://clunixchit.blogspot.com
17 years, 4 months
My desktop OS: Fedora Core 3: Feedback
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
I have just read your short review[1] on Fedora Core 3. Its rather
remarkable timing to be trying out Fedora Core 3 now considering the
fast release lifecycle of Fedora. It might be of interest to you that
Fedora Core 3 has already transitioned into maintenance mode and to
Fedora Legacy - community maintenance project, recently with the
release of Fedora Core 5 test 2 as per our lifecycle policy (FC X goes
into maintenance when FC Z test 2 is released). Refer to our FAQ -
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAQ and especially
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle for more details.
You reference to the network card does not include a model number. It
seems from the comments though that what you have been downloading is
the firmware of the driver which is not shipped in Fedora due to
redistribution restrictions incompatible with Fedora licensing
guidelines imposed by many of the wireless hardware manufacturers. The
drivers usually are included in the upstream and Fedora kernel though.
You have mentioned the issue of dependencies while installing software
with RPM. RPM is not a typical end user tool. It is generally better to
use yum to install software packages which also resolves the
dependencies automatically. Yum also provides the ability to build
plugins on top of it and is extensible and flexible. Many of the yum
related additional features is available through yum-utils in Fedora
Extras repository. This repository can be enabled manually using the
instructions available in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras. Fedora
Core 4 enables this repository by default which contains over two
thousand applications in addition to Fedora Core.
Looking forward to your review on future releases of Fedora. Refer to
http://fedora.redhat.com/About/schedule/ for the project's public
release schedule. Thank you for your interest in the Fedora Project.
[1]http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/01/16/1659245&from=rss
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Rahul
Fedora Bug Triaging - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
17 years, 4 months
Re: fedoraproject.org membership.
by Kevin Verma
On 22 Jan 2006 21:05:20 +0530, Nadeem M. Khan <nadeem(a)nadlabz.net> wrote:
> Dear Kevin,
>
> This is with respect to your posts to DubaiLUG about fedoraproject.org.
> It seems you've added the LUG even though a majority of people are not
> fedora/redhat users.
>
> Well, we have a LUG based in Navi Mumbai, called LinuxVadaPav.
> Currently we are having 213 members - admins, students and OSS
> enthusiasts. 95% of our members use RH and a good majority of them are
> RHCEs. Although Mumbai has its own LUG (ILUG-BOM), ours is the first LUG
> for Navi Mumbai.
>
> As a moderator and owner of the group, I would appreciate if you add our
> group to your project as well. I'm sure our group can provide
> enthusiastic ambassadors as well.
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linuxvadapav.
>
> Regards,
> Nadeem Khan.
>
Dear Nadeem,
The LUG listing at Fedora site is not a listing of LUGs which might be
all Fedora users. Your LUG is now added to the list, not for it is a
LUG having lots of Fedora users, but for it is a LUG :-)
You might like to understand Fedora Project in more details and offer
the same understanding to your LUG members. At Fedora Project we need
more and more developers, testers and users.
For any kind of contribution, joining us on one of relevant Fedora
Project mailing list will be a good start.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors
Cheers,
Kevin Verma
Ambassador Fedora Project, INDIA
17 years, 4 months
Introducing Fedora Ambassadors Program
by Kevin Verma
Dear Dr. Bentiba,
It feels great to acknowledge your efforts to have established first
Linux community not just at Sharjah but also at entire UAE. I still
remember my visit to your LUG foundation and work place "Etisalat
College of Engineering" during August, 2004. It was really nice to
have found the most organized LUG room with plenty of workstations
providing an ample opportunity to more practical orientations.
First of all on behalf of Fedora Project I will like to welcome you to
please have your LUG listed on
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxUserGroups
Secondly,
At Fedora Project, we welcome you to please review Fedora Project and
the Fedora Project Ambassador program in more details on the following
URLs.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors
http://www.redhat.com/magazine/014dec05/features/ambassadors/
While Fedora Ambassadors are expected to fulfil their aims in their
territory, Fedora foundation supports the Ambassadors by shipping Free
CDs and T-Shirts.
With the help of Ambassadors in all the regions, having enough
developers, testers and users helps define Fedora better and better
Operating Systems, also your region achieve its localized
requirements.
Please let me know how you review above all, and if you'll be
interested or if you can pass us some references of potential
Ambassadors at Sharjah.
Yours Sincerely,
Kevin Verma
Ambassador Fedora Project, INDIA
17 years, 4 months
Introducing Fedora Ambassadors Program
by Kevin Verma
John,
I recall all your great efforts you have put into Dubai LUG from my
last years experience at UAE.
At Fedora Project, we welcome you to please review Fedora Project and
the Fedora Project Ambassador program in more details on the following
URLs.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors
http://www.redhat.com/magazine/014dec05/features/ambassadors/
While Fedora Ambassadors are expected to fulfil their aims in their
territory, Fedora foundation supports the Ambassadors by shipping Free
CDs and T-Shirts.
With the help of Ambassadors in all the regions, having enough
developers, testers and users helps define Fedora better and better
Operating Systems, also your region achieve its localized
requirements.
Please let me know how you review above all, and if you'll be
interested or if you can pass us some references.
Yours Sincerely,
Kevin Verma
Ambassador Fedora Project, INDIA
17 years, 4 months
