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| === Shameless Recruiting Pitch ===
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| We begin this week's summary of Planet Fedora with a [http://iquaid.org/2008/07/21/deep-writer-beat-writer-finding-your-niche-in-fedora/ recruitment pitch for Fedora Weekly News beat writers], scribed by [[KarstenWade|Karsten Wade]].
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| === Intel's Moblin moves to Fedora ===
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| The topic that took Planet Fedora by storm on Friday and Saturday was the announcement of [http://www.moblin.org/ Intel's Moblin] moving from Ubuntu to Fedora as its base OS. [http://loupgaroublond.blogspot.com/2008/07/random-speculation.html Yaakov Nemoy], [http://www.j5live.com/2008/07/24/interesting-news-out-of-the-intel-camp/ John Palmieri], [http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/moblin-moves-to-fedora/ Seth Vidal], and [http://iquaid.org/2008/07/25/a-word-about-intels-moblin-and-fedora/ Karsten Wade] all weighed in with their thoughts.
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| A number of event reports were posted on Planet Fedora this week.
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| * [http://spevack.livejournal.com/60327.html LUG Radio Live UK], attended by [[MaxSpevack|Max Spevack]].
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| * [http://ausil.us/blog/OLS-Day1.html Ottawa Linux Symposium (day 1)], as reported by [[DennisGilmore|Dennis Gilmore]].
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| * [http://wtogami.livejournal.com/26811.html LTSP Hackfest (day 1)], which included hackers from numerous Linux distros, and Fedora's own [[WarrenTogami|Warren Togami]].
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| * A [http://dimitris.glezos.com/weblog/2008/07/24/guadec08-notes/ GUADEC] trip report (including pictures) from [[DimitrisGlezos|Dimitris Glezos]]. | |
| * A second place finish in the [http://www.niemueller.de/blog/show.php?id=227 2008 RoboCup World Championships], with a report from [[TimNiemueller|Tim Niemueller]].
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| * [[SandroMathys|Sandro "red" Mathys]] has [http://blog.sandro-mathys.ch/2008/07/24/fad-emea-2008-date-location/ posted details] about the upcoming Fedora Ambassador Day EMEA. | |
| * [[JamesMorris|James Morris]] shared his [http://james-morris.livejournal.com/32158.html Ottawa Linux Symposium paper] with us, which is a detailed update on SELinux.
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| [http://dimitris.glezos.com/weblog/2008/07/22/transifex-03-released/ Transifex 0.3] has been released. "Transifex 0.3 is a major release, including a lot of under-the-hood changes. We’ve added full i18n support, and now in addition to the templates, per-module information stored in the database, such as names and descriptions, can be translated as well," explains project lead [[DimitrisGlezos|Dimitris Glezos]].
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| [[LorenzoVillani|Lorenzo Villani]] is [http://blog.binaryhelix.net/2008/06/getting-zypp-stack-in-fedora.html working on adding the ZYpp stack into Fedora]. He explains, "It seems that with the latest releases of sat-solver, libzypp and zypper, the whole stack has become more stable on Fedora, especially, in the past few weeks I wasn’t able to update packages due to various resolver’s problems, but now it seems that 'zypper up' does its job smoothly."
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| [http://clunixchit.blogspot.com/2008/07/fel-its-own-mailing-list.html Fedora Electronics Lab] now has its own mailing list, and there has been [http://clunixchit.blogspot.com/2008/07/fel-updates-on-toped-090-startup-crash.html lots] [http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2008/07/26/fedora-electronic-lab-updates/ of] [http://clunixchit.blogspot.com/2008/07/fel-systemc-was-put-aside-legal.html discussion] about this particular respin on Planet Fedora over the past few days.
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| Red Hat Magazine has a [http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/07/22/networkmanager-secret-weapon-for-the-linux-road-warrior/ great article] about NetworkManager, written by [[KyleGonzales|Kyle Gonzales]].
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| === Other Interesting Posts ===
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| [[NicuBuculei|Nicu Buculei]] gave us a [http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2008/07/fedora-10-themes-round-1.html detailed look] at the first round of themes that have been developed by the Art Team for Fedora 10.
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| [[DavidNalley|David Nalley]] authored what might be the first in a four part series about Fedora's new "Freedom, Friends, Features, First" marketing focus. [http://www.nalley.sc/david/?p=55 This post] focuses on the Freedom topic.
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