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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: Adam Batkin

General

Michael DeHaan wrote[1] an essay entitled Academics, Innovation, Patents, And a Path Beyond? about FOSS, cross-organizational collaboration and encouraging innovation.

Jef Spaleta had some ideas[2] about "how to do more focused new contributor recruitment and training in Fedora" and using the Mugshot online service to gather statistics and create personalized notifications (invitations) to its users.

Máirín Duffy created[3] a list of questions (and provoked a healthy discussion) that could be used to develop a set of guidelines for notifications ("Chatty Applications").

Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote[4] about some of the work going in to synchronizing Fedora and OLPC efforts.

James Morris explained[5] some of the security changes that have gone in to the latest (2.6.28) Linux Kernel.

Karsten Wade asked "why aren’t you publishing on the Fedora wiki?"[6] and followed up with a set of thoughts to encourage documentation contributions.

After a few Fedora 10 frustrations, Scott Williams tried-out[7] OpenSuSE and found some good bits and some not-so-good bits.

The latest Red Hat Magazine included[8] a video interview of Michael DeHann discussing Cobbler "and how it simplifies network installations for datacenters and other large-scale linux environments".

James Laska continued[9] his tutorial on Creating a virtual test lab (using tools such as Cobbler, Koan and SNAKE).

David Nalley thanked[10] HP for providing Mini-notes (with Linux preinstalled!) for Fedora Ambassadors.

Jef Spaleta wrote[11] an open letter to Mark Shuttleworth questioning the openness (or lack thereof) of Canonical's Launchpad.

[1] http://www.michaeldehaan.net/?p=820

[2] http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/31456.html

[3] http://mihmo.livejournal.com/66637.html

[4] http://gregdek.livejournal.com/43404.html

[5] http://james-morris.livejournal.com/37583.html

[6] http://iquaid.org/2009/01/06/the-outside-and-inside-of-documentation-or-why-arent-you-publishing-on-the-fedora-wiki/

[7] http://vwbusguy.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/review-opensuse-111/

[8] http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2009/01/07/video-spotlight-on-cobbler/

[9] http://jlaska.livejournal.com/3910.html

[10] http://www.nalley.sc/david/?p=171

[11] http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/31829.html

FUDCon 11

A small selection of FUDCon-related posts:

[1] http://sexysexypenguins.com/2009/01/10/fudcon-f11-not-in-boston-listen-live-watch-videos-after/ ("Not in Boston? Listen Live, Watch Videos After!")

[2] Photos: http://mihmo.livejournal.com/67003.html

[3] More photos: http://mihmo.livejournal.com/67287.html

[4] Even more photos: http://mihmo.livejournal.com/67388.html