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Contributing Writer: [[:User:Mspevack|Max Spevack]]
Contributing Writer: [[:User:Mspevack|Max Spevack]]


=== Tech Tidbits ===
=== Swirls of Paint ===


[[KushalDas|Kushal Das]] announced[0] a new version of the ''liveusb-creator'' GUI application.  Separate from the ''livecd-tools'' and ''livecd-iso-to-disk'' application, ''liveusb-creator'' is packaged in its own RPM.  Kushal writes, "liveusb-creator version 2.7 for Linux is released...  Now feel free to create liveusb images for your friends and for the special one."
[[MairinDuffy|Mairin Duffy]] posted[0] another draft of the Gears/Steampunk proposed wallpaper, and also [1] reminded everyone that the "deadline for round 2 of the Fedora 10 artwork process is 1 September 2008."[1]


[[NigelJones|Nigel Jones]] discussed[1] a variety of wiki improvements that have been deployed.  This is a three-round improvement process.  Nigel said of the first two rounds "At the request of the documentation team we enabled searching by default on various namespaces, of course, you most likely won't notice it at all.  Round 2 of wiki improvements start tomorrow, this is the exciting one. We are trashing the current authentication method IN THE BIN! No more htaccess prompts... What's going in its place? The standard Mediawiki login prompt, it'll still be connected to FAS, it'll just look different."
[0] http://mihmo.livejournal.com/60668.html


[0] http://kushaldas.in/?p=284
[1] http://mihmo.livejournal.com/60797.html


[1] http://nigelj.livejournal.com/8525.html
=== Just the Facts ===


=== Artwork ===
[[PaulWFrields|Paul Frields]] announced[2] the Fedora Scholarship[3] program.


[[MairinDuffy|Mairin Duffy]] gave us a look[2] at some of the proposed Fedora 10 artwork in the "gears" theme, which is a collaboration between her and [[NicuBuculei|Nicu Buculei]].
"Now it’s finally official: a Fedora Scholarship. A while back, we started talking about ways to identify and cultivate young contributors to Fedora. We are starting to see more and more young people taking the opportunity to be full participants in the open source world. As part of our mission to develop a culture of contribution in FOSS and not just consumption, we want to identify and reward those individuals.


[2] http://mihmo.livejournal.com/60026.html
One way we can do this is through the incentive of scholarship funds. This year we started the Fedora Scholarship to lead that effort. The inaugural winner, Ricky Zhou, is someone that many people may know from his exceptional work on our websites and infrastructure."


=== Features ===
[2] http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1136


Two interesting posts about the Fedora feature process this week.  First, [[JohnPoelstra|John Poelstra]] discussed the Fedora 10 feature status[3], saying:
[3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scholarship
 
"Feature freeze for Fedora 10 is this coming Tuesday, August 19, 2008.  The current list for Fedora 10 is growing with more waiting to go through the acceptance process here.  At feature freeze all features must be significantly completed and testable or they will have to wait for Fedora 11.
 
During this release cycle I collaborated with Paul Frields who greatly improved the documentation explaining the process.  We also got help from the Fedora art folks to make the process diagram better.  We also changed the categories used to classify feature pages in an attempt to bring greater clarity there."
 
In a separate post[4], [[PaulWFrields|Paul Frields]] mused on the benefits of changing the way new Fedora spins are handled from a feature point of view.
 
[3] http://poelcat.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/fedora-10-feature-process-and-beyond/
 
[4] http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1129

Revision as of 09:10, 19 August 2008

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

Swirls of Paint

Mairin Duffy posted[0] another draft of the Gears/Steampunk proposed wallpaper, and also [1] reminded everyone that the "deadline for round 2 of the Fedora 10 artwork process is 1 September 2008."[1]

[0] http://mihmo.livejournal.com/60668.html

[1] http://mihmo.livejournal.com/60797.html

Just the Facts

Paul Frields announced[2] the Fedora Scholarship[3] program.

"Now it’s finally official: a Fedora Scholarship. A while back, we started talking about ways to identify and cultivate young contributors to Fedora. We are starting to see more and more young people taking the opportunity to be full participants in the open source world. As part of our mission to develop a culture of contribution in FOSS and not just consumption, we want to identify and reward those individuals.

One way we can do this is through the incentive of scholarship funds. This year we started the Fedora Scholarship to lead that effort. The inaugural winner, Ricky Zhou, is someone that many people may know from his exceptional work on our websites and infrastructure."

[2] http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1136

[3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scholarship

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