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Planet Fedora
In this section, we cover a highlight of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from world wide Fedora contributors.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Planet

Contributing Writers: ThomasChung

Lesser-Known Fedora Contributors, Part 1-6
MaxSpevack points out in his blog[1-6] ,

"I must say, I have always been very impressed with our Brazilian Fedora community. They have created their own website, and they have always been very good about getting a lot of value out of the relatively small amount of money that we are able to send their way. In particular, I would like to thank RodrigoPadula and DavidBarzilay."

"Most of Jon's (JonathanRoberts).contributions come as a writer -- he is particularly active in the Fedora News and the Fedora Documentation communities. In the Fedora 8 cycle, he has done a few things that have been tremendously helpful to me directly. The first is his work on the Fedora 8 Release Summary. The release summary is basically the Fedora community's "press release", written by a group of volunteers and meant to be a reasonably brief overview of "what is cool in the new distribution".

"Ricky (RickyZhou) has had a lot to do with the entire look-and feel of the non-wiki section of fedoraproject.org. Right now, I hear, he is debugging the way fedoraproject.org renders when viewed with Internet Explorer 6, which actually tells you pretty much everything you need to know about his desire to see a Job Done Well."

"Allison Mc Grath (wife of MikeMcGrath) has made a tremendous contribution to the Fedora Project by being kind-hearted and understanding to her husband of less than one week when the Fedora 8 release fell directly in between their wedding and their honeymoon."

"In the Fedora 8 timeframe, Chitlesh (ChitleshGoorah) is the man behind the Fedora Electronics Lab, one of the new custom spins that is being released with Fedora 8. Not only did he have the initial vision for the Fedora Electronics Lab, but he also maintains many of the packages that differentiate that spin from the more generic version of Fedora."

"Gerold (GeroldKassube) has been the organizer for Fedora's presence at LinuxTag in 2006, 2007, and 2008. It is probably the biggest Linux show in Europe. Even more important, from a community point of view, Gerold has organized a series of Fedora Ambassador Days, which have gathered together 10-15 folks from all over Europe, and planned out their Fedora Ambassador strategy for the coming year."

[1] http://spevack.livejournal.com/33893.html

[2] http://spevack.livejournal.com/34215.html

[3] http://spevack.livejournal.com/34370.html

[4] http://spevack.livejournal.com/34700.html

[5] http://spevack.livejournal.com/35162.html

[6] http://spevack.livejournal.com/35470.html

Report: LTSP Hackfest 2007
WarrenTogami points out in his blog[1] ,

"LTSP is Linux Terminal Server Project, a collection of tools and scripts to enable Linux desktops to networks of thin clients. Through K12LTSP, literally thousands of schools and hundreds of thousands of students worldwide have been exposed to Red Hat and Fedora Linux over the past 6+ years.  This report is on my trip to the latest LTSP hackfest, where I am working toward integration of LTSP directly into the Fedora Project."

[1] http://wtogami.livejournal.com/20047.html

motd-File for your machine
FabianAffolter points out in his blog[1] ,

"After the establishing of a connection to a machine over ssh there is the possibility to display a message. sshd is looking in the file named /etc/motd for the data. The limitations are that there should not be more than 80 digits a line."

[1] http://fabaff.blogspot.com/2007/11/motd-file-for-your-machine.html

Fedora Electronic Lab 8 - Stable release
ChitleshGoorah points out his blog[1] ,

"Last Thursday, 8th November 2007, the very first Fedora Electronic Lab LiveCD was released officially. This LiveCD is based on Fedora 8 KDE along with almost all electronic design tools."

[1] http://clunixchit.blogspot.com/2007/11/fedora-electronic-lab-8-stable-release.html

Fedora Unity Spin Report
JeroenVanMeeuwen points out in his blog[1] ,

"Our Fedora 8 CD Set jigdo has been downloaded over 350 times, while our latest Re-Spin has been downloaded almost 300 times."

[1] http://kanarip.blogspot.com/2007/11/fedora-unity-spin-report.html

Fedora 8 Games Spin - Feedback Requested
RahulSundaram points out in his blog[1] ,

"One of the custom spins of Fedora that didn't get much attention because of the late addition is the Fedora 8 Games spin. This custom version of Fedora 8 from the games special interest group in Fedora includes tons of free and open source Linux games in a installable Live DVD. Download it and check it out. More information is available at the game spin wiki page. Any feedback is most welcome."

[1] http://rahulsundaram.livejournal.com/17475.html

Fedora Media Labels Howto
MairinDuffy points out in her blog[1] ,

"so it seems some folks had some trouble with the labels I posted before - it's not easy to work with the SVGs without some Inkscape knowledge since the way I did them they aren't perfectly sized (there is some padding around them.)"

[1] http://mihmo.livejournal.com/49341.html

I am a Broken Record
JefSpaleta pionts out in his blog[1]

"Most people would consider the outage a big problem, but it sort of provided an interesting 'event' in the life of my f8 release animation. See while the outage was happening and the infrastructure team was shuffling around resources, so people didn't notice the disruption for too long, the logs I rely on to track f8 clients were seeing dead air. You can see exactly when the outage occurs in the theora video and exactly when the normal mirrorlist logging functionality is restored."

[1] http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/15512.html