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Re: Meeting Minutes of Fedora EMEA NPO Meeting
by Bill Nottingham 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

JoergSimon (press(a)fedoraemea.org) said: > === Foundation Accounting and Membership Registration Software === > > * Ownership: Robert Scheck > * Progress: - > * Meeting Minutes: > * Available software costs money, ranging from 10-100 EURO/month, or > one-time fees. > * FOSS Software is old, unmaintained, or buggy/crappy. We do not have any > explicit requirements to administration / accounting. > * For now, a fairly simple spreadsheet should do, but with more members > you do need professional software to be able to keep track of mutations. > * Professional software has the advantage of being able to have > professional invoices and accounting as well. > * (Suggestion) Buy software or keep a spread-sheet, and look into linking > into FAS2, keeping the additional information downstream but using the > available information from upstream. > * Look into more sustainable software then professional / commercial / > proprietary anyway. > * Action Item: > * Robert Scheck buys professional software judging from what the bank > recommends. > * Requirements: > * Professional Membership Management [mandatory] > * Accounting [mandatory] > * Invoices / Bills [mandatory] > * Donation Receipts [mandatory] > * English version [optional] This seems odd. Max, for example, has been doing budgets and placing them on the wiki without having to resort to additional software. How many of the various open source packages (GnuCash, sql-ledger, SugarCRM, etc.) have you investigated? Bill

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Thanks
by Aaron Yates 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

Hi all, Thanks for the kind introduction, Jon - I'd be happy to get involved with any developer interviews! I've had a quick scout of the Marketing Plan and would be keen on getting involved in this, too. It seems a solid framework has been established for it's development and would be a great project to be work on. I'm going to assume the meeting is held in #fedora-mktg? If so, I'll see you there 2000 UTC. Thanks, and all the best, Aaron

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Introduction
by Donnell Nichols 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

Hello My name is Donnell Nichols, I am happy to be a part of the Fedora Ambassadors group. I am currently a consultant working in information security and critical infrastructure protection. My main area of focus is research, development and marketing of software, products, and equipment that can be deployed during disasters to not only protect critical infrastructure, but also deployable platforms that will enhance the abilities of corporations and NGO's continuity of operations plans. I look forward to being active in helping to get the word out regarding Fedora. Thanks Donnell -- GPG key: B66C666F Server : pgp.mit.edu http:/www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DonnellNichols

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Aaron Yates
by Aaron Yates 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

Hello to all, I'd like to join the Fedora marketing team, and believe I have to submit a self introduction, of which I have included bellow. Aaron Yates London, United Kingdom (BST, GMT+1) I am currently on my University placement in London with Siren World Wide Ltd, a professional services company working in On Demand, Digital Marketing and Telephony. My degree programme is BSc Digital Art and Technology at the University of Plymouth, Devon, UK. As part of the Fedora project I'd ideally like to contribute to expanding Fedora's user base via different mediums and channels, whilst improving my knowledge of the OS and the community surrounding and expanding Fedora. I have previous experience in Web development and design across the typical platforms and mobile devices. Relevant experience pertaining to this community is 4 years part time work during my schooling for an Events company, based in the Midlands, UK, for a wide range of charities, corporate events and weddings. By the end of my time with this company I was regularly managing groups of up to 30 staff, as part of a much larger team, to achieve a successful event for both the client and the teams of staff involved. In my current position on placement, I am a part of the creative team, but liaise closely with the accounts department to visit clients to aide in presentations and pitches. Thank you for your time, Best regards, Aaron Yates

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Fedora 9 Beta Offers a Glimpse of What’s to Come
by Rahul Sundaram 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

Hi, http://www.olaf-egner.de/wp/?p=1790 "On the whole Fedora 9 looks to be an impressive update for the distribution and naturally we’ll be sure to take it for a spin when the final release is available. In the mean time, if you decided to test out the beta, be sure to let us know about your experience." Rahul

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Beta live!
by Mike McGrath 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

The beta is live. Go out, get people and try to crash the servers! The challenge is on :-P http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease -Mike

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Linux Action Show podcast interviews Máirín Duffy from Fedora Art team
by Rahul Sundaram 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

Hi Discussions include the art process, Fedora 9, target audience etc http://www.linuxactionshow.com/?p=176 Rahul

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Digg the beta release
by Jonathan Roberts 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

To help spread the word, maybe people would like to help digg this: http://digg.com/linux_unix/The_Fedora_Project_releases_Fedora_9_Beta There are several out there, but this has the most diggs so far...sorry if this has already been discussed, been a bit out of the loop the past few days and just catching up on e-mail! Best wishes, Jon

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Re: New product utilising Fedora
by Stewart Campbell 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

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Fedora in podcast - Run Your Own Server Episode 5
by Valent Turkovic 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

I listened to a podcast called "Run Your Own Server Episode" and in episode 5 they talked about Fedora so here are my tomboy notes in this email and also as a html page exported from tomboy. http://feeds.runyourownserver.org/~r/runyourownserver/~5/97327624/ryos-podc… Fedora Project history. RHEL Beta? • connection between RHEL - Fedora Project - Community • Fedora release cycle • Why is Fedora good as a server? • Fedora installation process ∘ sneak peak of RHEL ∘ SELinux - suggested to be disabled ∘ LVM - explanation what is used for, but they don't use it and they personally disable it ∘ Firewall - turned off because they make custom firewall scripts ∘ SELinux - explanation of functionality, bad experience with it • lockdowns on new installed fedora box ∘ chkconfig --list ∘ never run runlevel 5 on server! No X! ∘ dislike for lots of services running by default ∘ chkconfig --level 345 <service> off ∘ block ssh access to fixed IP address or host ∘ denyhosts and allowhosts • fedora updates ∘ yum updates ∘ repositories ∘ reload fedora every 6 months because of release cycle :( ∘ end of live for fedora - 1 year, nightmare if you have lots of fedora boxes • Conclusion ∘ you can see what will RHEL look like in 2-3 years ∘ not recommended for producion server ∘ good for workstation • Log files ∘ general discussion about log files, unrelated to fedora Cheers, Valent. -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic

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