Fedora Weekly News Issue 44
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Written by Thomas Chung on 2006-05-01
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Welcome to our issue number 44 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community. The latest issue can always be found here.
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Fedora Package Announcement List Split
According to Warren Togami (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/WarrenTogami)'s announcement (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00199.html) (corrected):
As of *Today*, Wednesday April 26th, 2006, all package update mail will be going out to the new list fedora-package-announce (http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce). All current subscribers of fedora-announce-list (http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list) are being auto-subscribed to that list today in preparation for this move. Mail will begin flowing on the new list on Monday, May 1st.
Fedora and Google's Summer of Code
According to Patrick Barnes (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PatrickBarnes)'s announcement (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00204.html):
The Fedora Project is pleased to announce that it will be participating in Google's Summer of Code (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SummerOfCode) 2006 as a mentoring organization. Working in cooperation with Google and the permanent Fedora Mentors (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mentors) Project, the Fedora Project will mentor students as they work to complete open source projects over the course of the summer. Students will be able to apply with Google after May 1st.
vFUDCon: virtual FUDCon
According to Chitlesh Goorah (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ChitleshGoorah)'s announcement (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2006-April/msg00152.html):
We have launched the vFUDCon (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/vFUDCon) Project, a FUDCon that is virtual, of course, but will be accesible with multimedia medium only. From this sub project of Fedora Marketing we hope, that local ambassadors can extends their marketing perspective through any multimedia medium. The French ambassadors have scheduled one (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/vFUDCon/01France) this thursday, on IRC.
Fedora Education: Development Focus
According to Warren Togami (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/WarrenTogami)'s message (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-education-list/2006-April/msg00038.html):
Since opening this list I was surprised by the enthusiasm especially for educational conferences. However I strongly believe that both my and Red Hat's efforts, time, and resources going toward K12LTSP at this point should be focused mainly on developmental priorities at first.
I *will* participate in the New England Linux education conferences because I am relatively nearby. If we have a hack-a-thon I will probably want to participate in that too.
Linuxfest Northwest 2006
According to an article (http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9026) in LinuxJournal:
Linuxfest Northwest (http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/) is a non-commercial, one-day conference and exhibition of open-source technology, with an emphasis on Linux. It is held once a year, is free of charge and is hosted at the Bellingham Technical College (BTC) in Bellingham, WA. This year, Linuxfest runs from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM on Saturday, April 29, 2006.
About 1,200 people attend Linuxfest Northwest each year. For 2006, 45 presentations are scheduled and more than 40 exhibitors will be in the exhibits room. Exhibitors include user groups, book vendors, computer vendors, ISPs and representatives from free software projects.
According to Jesse Keating (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating)'s message (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2006-April/msg00132.html):
Greg DeKoenigsberg (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GregDeKoenigsberg) and I will be there. I've been there the past 3 years (twice for Pogo Linux, once on my own) so I really know the scene and will recognize a lot of folks. I really like this show and am happy to see it grow.
Here is the Greg's Speaker Information (http://blug.org/spkr-record.dxp?id=37)
LinuxWorld Toronto 2006 Update
Here is a list of articles covering LinuxWorld Toronto (http://www.lwnwexpo.plumcom.ca/) 2006 from NewsForge:
- 2006-04-27 Wine, desktops, and standards at LinuxWorld Toronto (http://business.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/04/27/155209&tid=18&tid=2)
- 2006-04-26 Wikis, gateways, and Garbee at LinuxWorld Toronto (http://business.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/04/26/1558247&tid=18&tid=2)
- 2006-04-25 Security and certification at LinuxWorld Toronto (http://business.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/04/25/1354211&tid=18)
Fedora Project also participated and we are expecting a report at our Fedora Project Wiki (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxWorld/LinuxWorldToronto2006).
Building an updated Fedora Core 5 DVD
According to Rob Garth's blog (http://www.users.on.net/~rgarth/weblog/fedora/patch_cd.autumn):
One of the things which has always ticked me off is making a clean fedora install, and then having hundreds of megs of patches to download the first time "yum update" is run. However, building a patched install dvd is actually pretty simple.
FC5 in Linux Magazine
According to Tim Lauridsen's blog (http://linux.rasmil.dk/cms/modules/wordpress/2006/04/28/fc5-in-linux-magazine/):
Yesterday, i got the latest issue of Linux Magazine (http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/67) by mail, and it was nice to see that Fedora Core 5 (DVD) was included.
Here is the PDF (http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/67/Linux_Magazine_DVD_Inlay.pdf) of DVD Jacket included with Linux Magainze Issue 67 (June 2006).
Fedora Weeky Reports 2006-04-24
We have a new effort in place to report The Board news as well as Meeting Minutes from each sub-project for Fedora community to gather information on the happenings in the Fedora universe in a easily digestible and referenceable format. Here is Fedora Weeky Reports for the week of 2006-04-24 (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/WeeklyReports/2006-04-24). Please note you can always read the latest issue at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/WeeklyReports
Fedora Core 4 and 5 Updates
During the week of April 24 - April 30, Fedora Project released 08 Fedora Core 4 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC4) including 2 Security Advisories.
During the week of April 24 - April 30, Fedora Project released 27 Fedora Core 5 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC5) including 2 Security Advisories.
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