[in the news]: Fedora bars SQLNinja hack tool
by Jonathan Nalley
This story has appeared in other outlets as well.
"The decision came during the same meeting that the board unanimously
decided to add a new statement to Fedora's legal guidelines concerning
the inclusion of hacking tools....Smith said the language is intended
to clarify its stance on a class of software that can be used both to
secure and penetrate protected networks.
“It's very much a gray area, and as a Board we wanted to ensure that
we were careful and deliberate about the kinds of tools we choose to
put in Fedora,” he explained.
For the record, Fedora already includes a host of other hacking tools,
including Jack John the Ripper, Ettercap, Dsniff, Yersinia, Nessus and
Nikto, to name a small few."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/11/fedora_hacker_tool_ban/
13 years, 5 months
[in the news]: Did Ubuntu disrespect Fedora Linux with openrespect?
by Jonathan Nalley
it's actually an author's blog on a news site, so some might not deem
that news, but be that as it may:
"To be fair, I have not contacted Bacon for his side of this story,
but the fact that Fedora has publicly posted this as part of their
Board notes gives me some confidence of the validity of the
statement....The other thing that must happen for respect in open
source communities to occur, in my view is the oversight of a neutral
third party. Openrespect as an effort led by Jono Bacon, will always
be suspect for Ubunutu bias and ultimately that will render the effort
marginally useless."
http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2010/11/did-ubuntu-disprespect-fedor...
13 years, 5 months
MMM! Marketing Meeting Minutes, 2010/11/09. Delicious and tasty.
by Robyn Bergeron
Thanks to everyone who came!
Meeting Minutes:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-11-09/fedora_marke...
Full log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-11-09/fedora_marke...
See you all next week!
-Robyn
===================================
#fedora-meeting-1: Fedora Marketing
===================================
Meeting started by rbergeron at 21:01:37 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-11-09/fedora_marke...
.
Meeting summary
---------------
* Roll Call! (rbergeron, 21:02:13)
* Agenda (rbergeron, 21:05:37)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings#Agenda
(rbergeron, 21:05:45)
* Meeting Time (rbergeron, 21:06:59)
* We'll keep the meeting time at this time (2100 UTC) till at least
next week, and possibly change based on feedback. (rbergeron,
21:10:44)
* ACTION: rbergeron to solicit some meeting time feedback on list.
(rbergeron, 21:10:52)
* LINK: http://www.nixiepixel.com/ (MarkDude, 21:11:51)
* Robyn needs a helper to run the meeting next week, feel free to
volunteer :) (rbergeron, 21:12:39)
* LINK:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_run_a_Fedora_Marketing_meeting
(rbergeron, 21:14:35)
* ACTION: markdude and jsmith to run the meeting next week as they see
fit. Same time, same place :) (rbergeron, 21:16:02)
* ACTION: rbergeron to send out meeting reminder for next week's
meeting and make sure agenda is updated appropriately (rbergeron,
21:16:16)
* One Page Release Notes (rbergeron, 21:17:05)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_one_page_release_notes
(rbergeron, 21:18:01)
* LINK:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Release_Notes/sect-Rel...
(rbergeron, 21:26:46)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_one_page_release_notes
(rbergeron, 21:29:43)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_photos (rbergeron,
21:33:08)
* LINK:
http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/photos/fudcon2010zurich/qdig-files/converted-im...
(rbergeron, 21:33:32)
* LINK:
http://jsimon.fedorapeople.org/events/2010/fosdem2010/100206-113748-00.JPG
(rbergeron, 21:34:12)
* LINK:
http://jsimon.fedorapeople.org/events/2010/fosdem2010/100207-110628-00.JPG
(rbergeron, 21:34:28)
* LINK:
http://picasaweb.google.com/saliyath/AthensDigitalWeek_2010/#552793882993...
<-- maybe next to the Live USB section? (rbergeron, 21:35:29)
* AGREED: add
http://jsimon.fedorapeople.org/events/2010/fosdem2010/100206-113748-00.JPG
to Help Make Fedora section of OPRN (rbergeron, 21:36:11)
* ACTION: rbergeron to mail on list about adding a desktop photo and
listed photo to the Help Make Fedora section (rbergeron, 21:38:08)
* Marketing Retrospective (rbergeron, 21:41:34)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F12_marketing_retrospective
(rbergeron, 21:44:13)
* ACTION: rbergeron to set up the F14 marketing retrospective page,
and invite everyone to add their thoughts on the good, the bad, the
unneeded, and the newly wanted. (rbergeron, 21:47:20)
* F15 Schedule (rbergeron, 21:47:53)
* LINK:
http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-15/f-15-marketing-tasks.html
(rbergeron, 21:48:03)
* In conjunction with thinking about the Retrospective stuff, let's
think about how well our schedule is working out. (rbergeron,
21:48:36)
* ACTION: rbergeron remove per-release slogan stuff from schedule
(rbergeron, 21:53:37)
* If anyone has any other feedback on the F15 schedule, please pipe up
and mail the list! (rbergeron, 21:54:03)
* Any other business? (rbergeron, 21:54:50)
Meeting ended at 21:57:02 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* rbergeron to solicit some meeting time feedback on list.
* markdude and jsmith to run the meeting next week as they see fit. Same
time, same place :)
* rbergeron to send out meeting reminder for next week's meeting and
make sure agenda is updated appropriately
* rbergeron to mail on list about adding a desktop photo and listed
photo to the Help Make Fedora section
* rbergeron to set up the F14 marketing retrospective page, and invite
everyone to add their thoughts on the good, the bad, the unneeded, and
the newly wanted.
* rbergeron remove per-release slogan stuff from schedule
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* jsmith
* markdude and jsmith to run the meeting next week as they see fit.
Same time, same place :)
* rbergeron
* rbergeron to solicit some meeting time feedback on list.
* rbergeron to send out meeting reminder for next week's meeting and
make sure agenda is updated appropriately
* rbergeron to mail on list about adding a desktop photo and listed
photo to the Help Make Fedora section
* rbergeron to set up the F14 marketing retrospective page, and invite
everyone to add their thoughts on the good, the bad, the unneeded,
and the newly wanted.
* rbergeron remove per-release slogan stuff from schedule
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
People Present (lines said)
---------------------------
* rbergeron (129)
* rrix (42)
* MarkDude (25)
* mizmo (13)
* jsmith (13)
* stickster (5)
* spevack (4)
* zodbot (3)
* yn1v (2)
* ianweller (2)
* Lutoma (2)
13 years, 5 months
Fedora meetup in the Silicon Valley this Tuesday Nov 9, 2010
by Beth Lynn Eicher
Hello Folks,
The Large Installation System Administrators conference (LISA) in San
Jose, CA this Tuesday November 9. Here the conference provides free
function space to discuss topics of interest to system administrators
as "Birds of A Feather" (BOF) sessions. I have secured a room for
Fedora at 9 pm.
At this meeting, we will celebrate F14, encourage sysadmins to try
Fedora, discuss Fedora Features of interest to sysadmins, offer
on-site Fedora installation assistance, recruit contributors, and chat
about how Fedora is being used in the wild.
The nature of BOF meetings is usually informal and adhoc. If you would
like to stop down, offer advice, or assist remotely, please add stuff
to the wiki...
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LISA10
Thanks,
Beth Lynn Eicher
13 years, 5 months
[X-post] Request for comments : Fedora media distribution process draft
by Ankur Sinha
>> Also sent to Ambassadors' list.
Hello Marketing team folks!
All of us like spreading Fedora to people around us. A major part of
this is accomplished by speaking about Fedora (spreading the word) and
providing interested users with Fedora media so they can try it out.
The Fedora Distribution process[1] was initially set up as the central
point of contact that was to handle and coordinate the different
channels that are available to spread Fedora media around. Over the
years, sadly, the coordination has been lost, and now we see the
channels as independent bits.
As a small example: You'll find tickets in the free media list from
folks who have Ambassadors in their vicinities themselves. If the
channels were coordinated, we could ask these people to contact the
Ambassadors nearby and get themselves media burnt : saving time, effort
*and* enabling the free media to be used for other people who don't have
Ambassadors around them.
Some of us have recently been working on tweaking the process. We've
come up with a draft here[1] that we'd like you to please review and
comment on. We also need more hands on board to help us bring this
change about :)
Can you please go through the page and provide your valuable feedback?
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution
[2]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha/Fedora_Media_Distributio...
--
Thanks!
Regards,
Ankur
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
"FranciscoD"
13 years, 5 months