news 28 Posted September 7, 2009 o 1.1 Announcements o 1.2 Fedora 12 (Constantine) + 1.2.1 The Fedora Project and IPv6 + 1.2.2 Licensing policy for apps developed by Fedora Infrastructure now in effect + 1.2.3 Upcoming Events o 1.3 Planet Fedora + 1.3.1 General o 1.4 Marketing + 1.4.1 Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-09-01 + 1.4.2 Release deliverables + 1.4.3 Briefing Ambassadors about F12 + 1.4.4 Fedora Insight updates + 1.4.5 Marketing-fu++ + 1.4.6 Marketing Research + 1.4.7 Fedora print magazine proposed o 1.5 Ambassadors + 1.5.1 Registration opens for Utah Open Source Conference + 1.5.2 Fedora at free software workshop at KLN Madurai + 1.5.3 Get on the map + 1.5.4 Get the word out about your F11 event o 1.6 QualityAssurance + 1.6.1 Test Days + 1.6.2 Weekly meetings + 1.6.3 Zsync feasibility + 1.6.4 Installation testing SOP update + 1.6.5 Test Day summaries + 1.6.6 Mediawiki Semantic plugin testing o 1.7 Translation + 1.7.1 Transifex Version Upgrade on translate.fedoraproject.org + 1.7.2 Translations for Transifex Moved to www.transifex.net + 1.7.3 RPM Module Removed + 1.7.4 New Members in Fedora Localization Project o 1.8 Artwork + 1.8.1 A Chilean Logo o 1.9 Virtualization + 1.9.1 Fedora Virtualization List # 1.9.1.1 KSM Tuning Service # 1.9.1.2 Host Iptables Settings for Bridged Guests + 1.9.2 Fedora Xen List # 1.9.2.1 Xen Domain0 Kernels - Fedora Weekly News Issue 192 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 192[1] for the week ending September 6, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Our issue kicks off with announcements, including news that major segments of fedoraproject.org and the Fedora Project infrastructure now support IPv6, and details of a new licensing policy for apps developed by the Fedora infrastructure team. News from Planet Fedora is back in this issue, covering interesting posts and commentary from the Fedora blogosphere. In marketing news, coverage of the major marketing deliverables for releases, and how Fedora Ambassadors can assist with F12 marketing, along with an exciting proposal for a Fedora special issue of Linux Pro Magazine that is being considered. In Ambassador news, details on the upcoming Utah Open Source Conference and a report from a free software workshop at KLN Madurai. In Quality Assurance news, updates from recent Test Days and Fit and Finish test days, along with all the week's news of team meetings. The Translation beat provides us with various Transifex-related updates coming soon. In Design news, a request for a logo for a Fedora Chilean event. Our issue completes with a variety of virtualization-related news, including new Fedora 12 features, and future developments to the Xen dom0 kernels. Enjoy FWN 192! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list ( -at -) redhat.com The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. If you are interested, please join the list and let us know how you would like to assist with this effort. FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue192 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3]. Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora 12 (Constantine) --- ---- The Fedora Project and IPv6 ---- The top news of the week was the Fedora Project and IPv6 by Fedora Infrastructure Lead and project coordinator Mike McGrath. Mike had announced [1] that as part of the constant effort toward supporting current and future standards, major segments of fedoraproject.org and the Fedora Project infrastructure now support IPv6. He also mentioned, "our self-hosted websites have already been converted, and we plan to include IPv6 GeoIP support in MirrorManager soon." Mike extended special thanks to Matt Domsch from Dell and our friends at ibiblio.org for their invaluable assistance on behalf of the Fedora Project. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-August/msg00012.html ---- Licensing policy for apps developed by Fedora Infrastructure now in effect ---- Toshio Kuratomi on Development-Announcement announced,[1] "Over the past few months, Fedora Infrastructure has been discussing having a consistent set of licenses for applications and scripts we create for Fedora." On his specific details, he informed everyone about the the goals of doing this, the basics, the uses of GPLv2 or later. "The one other thing for Infrastructure developers and System Admins to note in the Policy is the section on handling AGPLv3 applications. During the discussions about whether to use AGPLv3+ for our web applications we found and delimited many issues that need to be addressed when deploying AGPLv3+ licensed code. The aGPL portion of the policy is our first attempt at keeping us compliant with any code that is under this license.", highlighted by Toshio. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-September/msg00000.html --- Upcoming Events --- Mark your agenda with the following events. Please, consider attending or volunteering at an event near you! * North America (NA)[1] * Central & South America (LATAM)[2] * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3] * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2009.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2009.29_2 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2009.29_3 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2009.29_4 -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- It has been about four weeks since the last installment of Planet Fedora here, so we'll be presenting a mix of interesting topics covering that time period. Normal weekly coverage should resume next week. Nicu Buceli expressed[1] concern about The Great Panda Debate. "Already Panda iz in ur computer, developing Fedora". MáirÃn Duffy did a few sets of UI mockups for Fedora. The first mockup[2] was of a new look for the Fedora Spins site. The other[3] was for a new set of screens for handling advanced storage device configuration in Anaconda. Colin Walters showed off[4] mockups of the new Gnome 3 shell, which radically changes the way that applications are launched and managed. Andrew Overholt mentioned[5] that a new version of the Eclipse Linux Tools (0.3.0) has been released. Eye candy included. Jef Spaleta analyzed[6][7] the productivity of Fedora packagers and the rate that the number of Fedora packages and Fedora packagers has changed over the last few releases. MáirÃn Duffy looked at[8] the "Getting Fedora" survey results. Also, further discussion[9]. Mark J Cox examined[10] the security vulnerabilities affecting RHEL between release 5.3 and (the just-released) 5.4. Tim Waugh described[11] how printing has improved and is more flexible in Fedora, now that PolicyKit has been integrated with CUPS. Michael DeHaan presented[12] a vision for fedorahosted.org. Luis Villa asked[13] if "there a state of the art for free software project bounties?" Mathieu Bridon continued[14] developing a git-aware BASH prompt. Mel Chua explained[15] "How the zikula-based test instance of FI was put up, part 1". (Zikula is the new CMS that is being deployed for a number of Fedora sites) Nicu Buceli posted[16] photos from FLOSSCamp 2009. Richard Hughes stumbled[17] upon an interesting bug in gnome-power-manager, where the screen will suddenly blank, even though the system is in active use. Richard W.M. Jones answered[18] the question "How does mount load the right kernel module?" Kamil Páral introduced[19] zsync, a tool that can efficiently synchronize binary files over a network. "It allows you to download a file from a remote server, where you have a copy of an older version of the file on your computer already. zsync downloads only the new parts of the file." 1. http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/08/great-panda-debate.html 2. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/fedora-spins-site-idea/ 3. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/anaconda-advanced-storage-devices/ 4. http://cgwalters.livejournal.com/25818.html 5. http://overholt.ca/wp/?p=135 6. http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/46759.html 7. http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/47023.html 8. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/getting-fedora-survey-results/ 9. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/getting-fedora-survey-result-discussion/ 10. http://www.awe.com/mark/blog/20090902.html 11. http://cyberelk.net/tim/2009/08/11/policykit-and-printing/ 12. http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/08/11/a-vision-for-fedorahosted-org/ 13. http://tieguy.org/blog/2009/08/12/state-of-the-art-for-bounties/ 14. http://blog.fedora-fr.org/bochecha/post/2009/08/A-git-aware-prompt-%28part2%29 15. http://blog.melchua.com/2009/08/16/how-the-zikula-based-test-instance-of-fi-was-put-up-part- 1/ 16. http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/08/report-flosscamp-2009.html 17. http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/08/17/gnome-power-manager-and-blanking-removal-of-bodges/ 18. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/how-does-mount-load-the-right-kernel-module/ 19. http://kparal.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/zsync-transfer-large-files-efficiently/ -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Marketing Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Chaitanya Mehandru --- Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-09-01 --- Meeting logs [1] and notes [2] for the 2009-09-01 Fedora Marketing Meeting were made available. All Marketing meetings and notes are open to the public. [3] Lot of people turned up for this week's meeting and many topics were covered. Thanks for the interest shown! --- Release deliverables --- This bread and butter stuff covers feature profiles, talking points, release announcements -things that have to come out every cycle.The complete schedule is available[4]. For F12 talking points and feature profiles, Mel Chua pointed out the need for recruiting college marketing classes to sprint on mentorship/editing/feedback/reviewing. Mel identified/updated the needs for the release cycle: release slogans,briefing ambassadors,Fedora Insight Status/Questions, Modules/Packaging Status("Zikula guruhood needed"), press kits, screenshots, F12 tour, Workflow, Skins/Design, "Increasing our Marketing-fu", marketing research, marketing plan to work with RH marketing folks, projects for newcomers, marketing classroom with Sean Daly and later in the pipeline will be: press kits, screenshots, F12 tour. --- Briefing Ambassadors about F12 --- Ambassador can help greatly in bringing out what is marketing doing. Ambassadors/Students/Newcomers interested in some real marketing stuff can add their questions to the queue[5]. Our search is on for ambassadors/students who would be interested in working on marketing deliverables. --- Fedora Insight updates --- Three words: "Workflow is settled". Thanks to Robyn Bergeron. The workflow will be posted soon [6]. Technical Zikula deployment is going very rapidly. --- Marketing-fu++ --- Please add your valuable comments on the marketing plan[7] before Mel goes ahead and discusses it with RedHat folks. Sugar Labs's Sean Daly will be coming in for a Fedora Classroom session on Marketing for open source projects when he gets back from vacation(expecting him to be back by this week or the next) --- Marketing Research --- While fedora-centric style of research continues with its own importance, ideas & opinions were expressed on community-style research where the research benefits not only the fedora users but also those developing open-spurce projects in general. An open-source market research repository might also be started to help foster the whole community of OSS. --- Fedora print magazine proposed --- Linux Pro Magazine has proposed printing a special Fedora issue around the launch of F12. 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