marketing November 2007

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graphics
by Marc Wiriadisastra 03 Nov '07

03 Nov '07

I was just browsing mugshot as I do. I know Nicu has some dvd/cd covers and other graphics on his site which are brilliant. I just wanted to say I found these today as well and I have to say all this art is brilliant. http://www.molaora.com/index.php/blog/show/CD-cover.html There are other bits and pieces on the site so have a look around. Maybe we need to create a fedora art pack of sorts? Cause I'm really liking all the graphics being released from Nicu and others. Only thing though is that I love how the desktop background changes colours in F8 so I'm not to sure if we would lose that if we switched backgrounds. Cheers, Marc

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Fedora struggles with harm reduction via Codec Buddy
by Rahul Sundaram 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Hi, Very interesting take on a thorny issue. Some questions about the nature of the agreement is also answered here.. http://www.linux.com/feature/120703 "In public health, harm reduction is a practice that, rather than trying to eradicate potentially dangerous choices like prostitution, tries to minimize their effects. Often, the practice involves a limited condoning of the practice, such as safe injection sites for addicts. Harm reduction is the path that Fedora 8 has chosen on the issue of MP3 and other non-free codecs in the form of Codec Buddy, a Codeina-based program that tries to educate users about free software while giving them easy legal access to codecs by linking to the commercial Fluendo site. It's a decision about which the Fedora Board and community leaders feel considerable ambivalence." Rahul

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Second- life in the Fedora repo's?
by Marc Wiriadisastra 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

"My ultimate goal is to make the Second Life client available in the official Fedora repository. This is made difficult by the client's dependence on some closed-source libraries," Lerwick says. http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/103107-second-life.html?page=1 Cheers, Marc

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New Interview
by Jonathan Roberts 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Hey, I'm starting to lose track of the interview number, but the latest interview is up and this time it's about CodecBuddy with Thomas and Bastien. Find it here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews/CodecBuddy and digg it here: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Codec_Buddy_in_Fedora_8 I'm picking up the frequency of posts in the run up to Fedora 8 - and still have a few more to go up ... Best wishes all, Jon

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Re: What do I need to do if I want to translate fedoraproject.org?
by Rahul Sundaram 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

susmit shannigrahi wrote: > Hi, > > What do I need to do if I want to translate fedoraproject.org 's main > page[1] to Bengali? > I can see nine languages[/ar,/ca,/en etc...] listed there though all > these translated pages mostly redirect to fedoraproject wiki [2]in > english...so how mush do I need to translate ? About 3 or 4 pages. The procedure is outlined in https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2007-October/msg00077.html Recent note https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-websites-list/2007-November/msg00001… Rahul

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What do I need to do if I want to translate fedoraproject.org?
by susmit shannigrahi 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Hi, What do I need to do if I want to translate fedoraproject.org 's main page[1] to Bengali? I can see nine languages[/ar,/ca,/en etc...] listed there though all these translated pages mostly redirect to fedoraproject wiki [2]in english...so how mush do I need to translate ? -- Regards, Susmit. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/ [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki ====================================== ssh 0x86DD170A http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/SusmitShannigrahi ======================================

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OLPC makes it to India
by Marc Wiriadisastra 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Hey All, Just thought I would post this reference for Fedora being the base for OLPC. http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2007/11/olpc-makes-its-entry-into-india-final… When the OLPC first made news, a prominent official in the HRD ministry of the Indian government had gone on record snubbing the OLPC project ($100 laptop), even making a preposterous claim that work was under way to create India's own $10 laptop. But as things have worked out, OLPC has already made an entry into India in the form of a pilot project in a rural primary school in a village in the state of Maharasthra. Cheers, Marc

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My first event but...
by Laith Juwaidah 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Hi, An open day will be held in one of the biggest universities in the country on the 6th of Nov. I want to participate but I've got some problems: 1. I don't think I can do everything on my own, I tried to contact the other ambassador in the country, Mr. Yasser Al-Shaqsi, twice, but I haven't got any reply. 2. I don't have the material I need: I don't have T-shirts, I don't have a projector. All I have is a laptop where people can try Fedora... 3. I don't know about this but it's stupid to say to someone "Here's the seventh version. Oh! BTW, the eighth version will be released after 3 days"!!!! So, what do you think? Should I go for it, or should I just wait till the next event? (The nearest even I know about is COMEX which will be in April) :( Cheers! -- Laith Juwaidah http://www.ljuwaidah.org

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spins.fpo design
by Máirín Duffy 01 Nov '07

01 Nov '07

Hey folks, Just an update on the spins.fpo design I've been working on. At this point I am sure it will not make f8's release but I'd like to get it up as soon as is reasonable post-release. :) So, remember the mockups i did a while back? I started HTML-ifying them; I just finished with the main content for the spins details mock (still need to add the fpo template to it as well as the icons): - HTML: http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/spins/spin-details.html - Mockup: http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/spindetailsmock2.png The other HTML I want to do is for this mockup: - Mockup: http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/spinsmock5.png (the banner at the top will be replaced with new artwork! something like this: http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/spins/djs.png) Overall I think the spins.fpo site should have the following pages: -- main page: introduction to what spins are | |-- spin details page | | | |- bittorrent tutorial | | | |_ what's my arch tutorial | |-- what is a spin / how do i use a spin page | |__ how do i create my own spin? page The open work items I see from a design POV are: 1 - Content for the how to create my own spin page (any suggestions on existing content I can use for this page?) (0% done AFAIK) 2 - Content for the what is a spin / how do i use a spin page? (any suggestions on existing content I can use for this page?) (0% done AFAIK) 3 - Mockups & HTML for the 6 pages in the above sitemap (maybe 25% there) 4 - Finish DJ banner artwork for the main page (80% done) 5 - Obtain photos from willing Fedora users to represent the spins (25%, Manuel Amador has provided me photos, I may need to make a formal call for photo submissions or start taking photos of innocent vict^H^H^H^H volunteers around the office :)) 6 - Get all the content into i18n-able templates and into git... Work out a mechanism to generate a details page for each spin and get content into it? (0% done, any ideas?) Eventually I think we will need a spins 'directory' but thus far we have few enough spins we dn't have to worry about that yet. Anyhow, I hope this gives a clear picture of where we're at for the blingtastic spins page; if anybody has answers/suggestions for the open work items above do share :) ~m

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