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Linux Powers The Spiderwick Chronicles
by Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail 04 Mar '08

04 Mar '08

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9951 == During the production of Spiderwick, Tippett Studio switched to Fedora Linux running on Macintosh desktops. "We currently have 119 Intel-based Apple Mac Pro workstations running Linux", says Tippett Computer Graphics Supervisor Russell Darling. "We decided to go with Apple hardware running Linux for our primary artist workstations on The Spiderwick Chronicles, although it might have been considered a risky endeavor for a show in production. We initially had some problems with sound on Maya and a few other minor issues, but they were resolved. We got a patch from Autodesk that took care of everything." Commercial Linux software vendors work closely with film studio clients. == -- Mohd Izhar Firdaus Bin Ismail Amano Hikaru 天野晃「あまのひかる」 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MohdIzharFirdaus http://blog.kagesenshi.org 92C2 B295 B40B B3DC 6866 5011 5BD2 584A 8A5D 7331

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Max and Paul Interview
by Jonathan Roberts 03 Mar '08

03 Mar '08

Hey all, I forgot to post here about this earlier, but I did an interview with Max and Paul that has gone online today. I think it reads really well and makes the future prospects of the project sound very exciting :) You can read it here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews/FPL and you can digg it here: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Fedora_Project_Leader_Hello_and_Goodbye Thanks, Jon

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About Me
by Chris Talliss 03 Mar '08

03 Mar '08

Hi: My name is Chris Talliss I currently teach Maths at a Thailand Government School. I was Marketing Manager for The Electronics Test Centre in Alberta, Canada for 8 years. I have developed and implemented plans to penetrate new markets in the defence and aerospace industry. I sold services to national and international high tech companies. That was a few years ago but since that date I built a successful home repair and renovation business. Back in the dark ages I was a large systems engineer for Burroughs machines Ltd.,at a bank centre in London, England. I have some time available to help with whatever as I am so fed up with Bill and his third rate software. Plus I am really upset that I did not buy shares back in the 80's

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Talkin' with Fedora's Spot
by Rahul Sundaram 01 Mar '08

01 Mar '08

Hi http://blogs.sun.com/barton808/entry/talkin_with_fedora_s_spot "Some of the topics we tackle: * The upcoming Fedora 9 due out in April * What does it mean to be the Fedora engineering manager * How he plays Spock to Paul Frields' Kirk * What the heck is a Spin? * How he rode the High Availability gravy train into Red Hat" Rahul

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re: Ubuntu Marketing ( on the Fedora Marketing List ? )
by Mike Feravolo 01 Mar '08

01 Mar '08

Hello: I am a little confused here, since I read also the Ubuntu Marketing Mailing List. However it seems to me some people here want to restrict my freedom to use propriety software if I choose to do so. Personally I could care less about watching movies and listening to music on my computer, since I own a TV and a Stereo. But on of my clients wanted to know if he can play an MP3 on a Linux System. When I went of to the Fedora Machine in my office to play the MP3, it gave me the rant of about free software and then pointed me to the propriety codecs and I downloaded the on that didn't cost anything. That's the way it should work if you want people to use Linux over Windows. Skip the load of pseudo-political jive nobody gives a damn about and just make things to work. If people want to use propriety software, give them the freedom to do so with a minimum amount of hassle. There are "Totally" free Linux distros (e.g. gNewSense) and they don't work on a lot of hardware, these are not going to sell Linux to the masses. Remember Software Freedom includes the freedom to charge people money. Telling them they can't do something for any reason is not freedom, but then again this is a global list and I don't really know with whom I am speaking. Thank You Mike Cocoa Beach, Florida USA

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[Fwd: Making release a snap]
by John Poelstra 01 Mar '08

01 Mar '08

Who like to be the representative from the marketing SIG? John -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Making release a snap Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:04:49 -0500 From: Paul W. Frields <stickster(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: fedora-advisory-board(a)redhat.com To: fedora-advisory-board <fedora-advisory-board(a)redhat.com> During our releases -- whether development (Alpha, Beta, PR) or GA -- we sometimes run into one or two minor speedbumps, usually because there are so many processes to wrangle for each area of responsibility in Fedora. Some of these are documented, but probably not all. We want to tie together ambassadorial and marketing efforts with press releases, artwork and translations for the website, release of documentation such as the release notes and guides, static pages for the web, and so on. (If I missed your favorite area of expertise, my apologies.) While we don't want to bog down the doers with unnecessary process, we might be served well by having some sort of cross-project schedule of events. That way. when the Big Day arrives, all the relevant sub-project areas can simply check off their lists internally. Is there interest in trying to improve things this way? If so, we could do something like the following: * Each supporting sub-project could offer a point person, maybe the chair, or a delegate who's been around the release cycle a couple times. * The point person gathers a proto-schedule of the sub-project's responsibilities. (This may already be done, which makes this person's job much easier -- just send a link.) * I've asked John Poelstra to collect these, take a first shot at organizing them, and send copies back to the whole group. This is a similar process to what he already managed successfully for the overall release plan, only a more granular scale targeting release day in particular. * Next week (sometime between 25-29 February) we have a joint phone session to discuss the preliminary schedule, chase down any dependencies as needed, and determine if further action is needed. The goal is not to add to overhead, but to make the release day the flip of the switch for which we all yearn. In other words, release day becomes a non-event for us, and a BIG event for the rest of the world. -- 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 _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board(a)redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board

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