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Fedora Weekly News Issue 141
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Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 141 for the week ending August 30, 2008.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue141

Fedora Weekly News keeps you updated with the latest issues, events and
activities in the Fedora community.

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= Announcements =

In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/

Contributing Writer: Max Spevack
Fedora Unity releases Fedora 8 Re-Spin

Ben Williams announced[0] that the Fedora Unity team has released a new
re-spin of Fedora 8. "These Re-Spin ISOs are based on the officially
released Fedora 8 installation media and include all updates released as
of August 14th, 2008. The ISO images are available for i386, x86_64 and
PPC architectures via Jigdo and Torrent starting Sunday August 24th,
2008. Go to http://spins.fedoraunity.org/spins to get the bits!"

[0]
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-August/msg00014.html

= Planet Fedora =

In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora - an
aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide.

http://planet.fedoraproject.org

Contributing Writer: Max Spevack

Education

The Fedora Education Spin is progressing[0], having been "approved by
all necessary bodies - Spin SIG, Board, Rel-Eng", reported Sebastian
Dziallas. The spin has its own feature page. "Hopefully, we'll be able
to have a preview of the spin ready in the next weeks", added Sebastian.

[0]
http://sdziallas.joyeurs.com/blog/2008/08/status-report-on-fedora-educat.html

Greg DeKoenigsberg reminded potential OLPC contributors[1] to surf over
to the contributors' program on the OLPC wiki in order to request their
own XO for development. Soon, Greg "will be sitting in on the weekly
call that decides how these laptops are disbursed".

[1] http://gregdek.livejournal.com/34240.html

Tech Tidbits

Michael DeHaan, holder of the coveted "best blogger on Planet Fedora"
title, as determined each week by your correspondent, has penned a
treatise[8] concerning the future of systems management software.
"Cobbler and Func are very fun, I think they are quite useful, but I'm
wondering what are next on the horizon for server management tech, not
in terms of a evolutionary improvement but how things can be
legitimately improved by fundamental, indeed 'paradigm-shifty' means."
Click the link below to read the entire post.

[8] http://www.michaeldehaan.net/?p=702

James Antill has written[9] a tutorial on the Python yum API, which is
incredibly useful if you have ever wanted to do stuff with yum, but
don't know where to start and are afraid to ask Seth.

[9] http://illiterat.livejournal.com/6254.html

Events

David Nalley shared some details about the upcoming Fedora Ambassadors
Day for North America[2]. The event will coincide with Ohio Linux Fest
in October. David said, "If you are a Fedora Ambassador, or want to be
one, you should try and attend."

[2] http://www.nalley.sc/david/?p=81

[[ChristophWickert|Christoph Wickert] attended FrOSCon 2008, along with
several other other Ambassadors, and shared his event report[3]. "Just
like on Linuxtag the Fedora booth was located close to the entrance, so
we had quite a lot of visitors. Unfortunately the booth was a little
small and we had lot of stuff to show: Two OLPCs, an eeepc, two ALIX
Machines and a couple of Laptops. Everything was running Fedora, the
Laptops were running Gnome and Xfce, mine also LXDE." Check out the link
below for pictures, and the full report.

[3] http://www.christoph-wickert.de/blog/2008/08/26/back-from-froscon/

Max Spevack reminded[4] everyone about the upcoming FUDCon Brno. "We
currently have 110 people registered for the event," and the list of
sessions and hackfests is on the Fedora wiki. Hans de Goede will be
attending FUDCon Brno. He wrote an update[5] about webcam support in
Fedora, which will be worked on at FUDCon, and also blogged[6] about the
session he will give on how to become a Fedora package maintainer.

[4] http://spevack.livejournal.com/62369.html

[5] http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/5576.html

[6] http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/5304.html

Fedora List

Fedora Board member Chris Tyler wrote[7] about the plans for changing
the scope and ownership of fedora-list. Chris says, it is "one of the
first lists that most Fedora users join, and therefore quite important
to the community. However, it's a high-volume list (and is sometimes
perceived to have a high noise level), so many veterans of the Fedora
community aren't subscribed... Paul Frields and I have taken on the
ownership of the list, and we'd welcome one or two experienced members
of the community to join us."

[7]
http://blog.chris.tylers.info/index.php?/archives/134-The-Scope-and-Ownership-of-fedora-list.html

= Developments =

In this section the people, personalities and debates on the