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Fedora + soccer = Ronaldo-esque technique
by Kara Schiltz 23 May '08

23 May '08

CNET The Open Road 5.22.08 http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9950150-16.html Best, Kara

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Fedora 9 tools demystify installation and upgrades
by Rahul Sundaram 23 May '08

23 May '08

Hi, http://www.linux.com/feature/135697 "The Fedora project has always offered installation options. The best known of these options are the Fedora spins -- roll-your-own install images that emphasize a particular desktop or purpose, such as providing the distribution's complete repository on DVD. With Fedora 9, the project has expanded its traditional emphasis with two new tools: LiveUSB Creator, a Windows application for producing live Fedora flash drives, and PreUpgrade, a wizard to help existing users move from one release to another. Each in its own way helps to clarify part of the process of installing the Fedora operating system." Rahul

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What can Debian learn from Fedora about recruiting new people?
by Rahul Sundaram 23 May '08

23 May '08

Hi, From a Debian guy. Looks like our work on the website is making a real impact for everyone http://liorkaplan.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/what-can-debian-learn-from-fedor… "I also think there’s a semantic difference with the term help and join. To me joining a project sounds more strong than helping it. Probably because joining something makes you a part of it, while helping does not. Although in the end both term have the exact same meaning in for the project themselves - users getting involved." Rahul

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Fedora 9 delivers cutting-edge features
by Rahul Sundaram 23 May '08

23 May '08

Hi, http://www.ciol.com/Open-Source/News-Reports/Fedora-9-delivers-cutting-edge… "The work completed by these Fedora developers has already been adopted in other free and open source software communities, demonstrating the effectiveness of Fedora's policy for working cooperatively with upstream projects." Rahul

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Fedora 9 Review
by Rahul Sundaram 22 May '08

22 May '08

Hi, http://www.mjmwired.net/linux/2008/05/22/fedora-9-review/ "I’m not a big fan of shipping development versions of software, but in the open source world - everything is development software. Overall I am not super thrilled with Fedora 9 on the desktop but the drastic improvements on the laptop front are well worth it." Rahul

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Seneca College Includes Fedora In Curriculum
by Rahul Sundaram 22 May '08

22 May '08

Hi, http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/26626/news.htm "Fedora and open source breeds a culture of contribution rather than just consumption," stated Paul Frields, Fedora project leader, Red Hat. "In the same vein, we hope this partnership will not only benefit the students at Seneca College, but will also provide a programme and curriculum that is transferable to other academic institutions to develop future leaders as the demand for open source continues to increase worldwide." "Chris Tyler from Seneca College's School of Computer Studies is a long-time Fedora contributor and will serve as lead professor on this initiative." Rahul

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Meeting today
by Greg DeKoenigsberg 22 May '08

22 May '08

Hi folks. We've got a meeting today for 3pm, but honestly, (a) I've got other things that are more pressing, and (b) now that the release is out the door, I'm thinking maybe meeting every other week is a good idea for a while. So I won't be leading today's meeting, is what I'm saying. :) If folks want to get together and have an informal meeting, or even a formal meeting that drives the agenda, that's fine -- I'll follow along. The agenda page, lest we forget: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Tasks --g

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Where is Sinhala support?
by Danishka Navin 22 May '08

22 May '08

Hi All, I was wondering, how come Sinhala Support removed from the Fedora 9 LiveCD. [1] There is no Sinhala interface for the Fedora 9 installation (tested on X86_64), installed Sinhala support dring the post installation. But Fedora 8 was really good for the Sinhala support. Not only that till Fedora 8, it was the only distro, which gave default support for the Sinhala and it was appreciated by government people as well. [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447860 Regards, -- Danishka Navin http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com (use Sinhala Unicode fonts)

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FUDcon photos & release forms?
by Máirín Duffy 22 May '08

22 May '08

Hi folks, One idea I had for FUDcon was to take as many pictures as possible that the Marketing and Art teams could use later to give our website and marketing materials a more personal touch, with pictures of actual Fedora developers and users. Does anyone know what responsibilities are involved in making sure that the photos are usable for this purpose? Do you know about (or maybe could refer us to) someone who would know about writing up photo release forms? ~m

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open account requests
by Karsten Wade 22 May '08

22 May '08

We're seeing more people joining Fedora and requesting to join various subprojects and SIGs. I suspect the ease of FAS2 combined with the fresh hoopla around the release has attracted people. Let's not disappoint them by leaving their request for a group in limbo. Yet ... Some people seem to be requesting group access without first knowing what a group is or what they need to do, such as send a self-intro. My suggestion is to reject those after giving them sufficient time to do the self-intro etc. We definitely do not want to sponsor people just because they checked a box and clicked Submit. Save your sponsorship for people who really mean to be there. Also, I'm putting in an RFE for the account system to add a "reason" field with the rejection process[1], so we can explain why someone was rejected, such as not following the established process at ProjectName/Join. Meanwhile, it is probably a good practice to send an email to the person telling them they can re-apply after they follow the per-SIG/subproject steps for account access. - Karsten (I am sending this duplicate email to multiple locations that need to resolve this process.) [1] https://fedorahosted.org/fas/ticket/50 -- Karsten Wade, Sr. Developer Community Mgr. Dev Fu : http://developer.redhatmagazine.com Fedora : http://quaid.fedorapeople.org gpg key : AD0E0C41

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