FWN/Issue288

= Fedora Weekly News Issue 288 =

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 288 for the four weeks ending December 21, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue.

Our issue kicks off with announcements, including details on a GPG keysigning at the upcoming FUDCon in Blacksburg, VA USA, details on Fedora 16 for IBM System z 64bit official release, FUDCon LATAM 2012 in Venezuela, and much more. In Fedora In the News, we have eight articles from the trade press on Fedora and related news. In Ambassadors this week, helpful pointers to recent regional Ambassadors meetings, highlights from the mailing list, events coverage, and much more. This issue completes with the last month's worth of security advisories for Fedora 14, 15 and 16. Enjoy, and happy holidays, wherever you are in the world!

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FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson

The two candidates receiving the most votes were Jaroslav and Christoph. I'd like to welcome Christoph to the Fedora Board, and welcome Jaroslav back for a second term. Both Jaroslav and Christoph will server for a one-year term.



FAmSCo
All seven seats on FAmSCo were up for re-election this cycle. There were a total of 104 ballots cast in the FAmSCo election. Each of the eleven candidates could receive up to 1144 votes (104 ballots multiplied by eleven candidates).

Let me be the first to welcome Christoph, Neville, Igor, Clint, Zoltan, Geraard, and Caius to the new Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee.



FESCo
There were four FESCo seats up for election this cycle. A total of 225 ballots were cast in the FESCo election. Each of the six candidates could receive up to 1350 votes (225 ballots multiplied by six candidates).

The top four candidates were Marcela, Miroslav, Matthew, and Jon. Each will server a full two-term position on the Fedora Engineering Steering committee.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have previously served on the Fedora Board or FAmSCo or FESCo for their hard work and perseverance. I'd also like to thank all the candidates and volunteers who participated in this round of elections. I look forward to working with each of these people as we strive to make Fedora better over the months and years ahead.

-- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader"

Reminder: Fedora elections end December 5th
Jared K. Smith announced :

"If you haven't yet taken the time to vote in the current Fedora elections, I encourage you to take the time to vote before the voting period ends at the end of the day (UTC time) on December 5th. This election cycle has elections for open positions on the Ambassadors steering committee (FAmSCo), the Engineering steering committee (FESCo), and the Fedora Board.

Please visit https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/ to vote. For more information on the elections, refer to

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections

-- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader"

Cooperative Bug Isolation for Fedora 16
Ben Liblit announced :

"The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project (CBI) is now available for Fedora 16. CBI is an ongoing research effort to find and fix bugs in the real world.  We distribute specially modified versions of popular open source software packages.  These special versions monitor their own behavior while they run, and report back how they work (or how they fail to work) in the hands of real users like you.  Even if you've never written a line of code in your life, you can help make things better for everyone simply by using our special bug-hunting packages.

We currently offer instrumented versions of Evolution, The GIMP, GNOME Panel, Gnumeric, Liferea, Nautilus, Pidgin, Rhythmbox, and SPIM. Download at http://research.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/. Or just download and install to automatically configure your system to use the CBI repository.

It's that easy! Tell your friends! Tell your neighbors! The more of you there are, the more bugs we can find.

We still offer CBI packages for earlier releases as well, going all the way back to Fedora 1. When and if you decide to upgrade to Fedora 16, we'll be ready for you. Until then, your participation remains valuable even on older distributions.

-- Dr. Ben, the CBI guy"

Announcing Ask Fedora: Community Knowledge Base and Support Forum
Rahul Sundaram announced :

"Hi

As part of the release of Fedora 16 (Verne) today, I am proud to announce the launch of Ask Fedora. Ask Fedora is a community knowledge base and support forum for the Fedora community. You can ask any questions related to Fedora and you do not need to a separate id to post questions or answer them.

You can use any openid to login including Google or Wordpress. You can use your Fedora identity as well (fasname.id.fedoraproject.org). Refer to for more details.

Ask Fedora is powered by Askbot, a Django based web application and upstream developers, especially Evgeny Fadeev, Adolfo Fitoria, NoahY and several others have very helpful and deserve special credit for being very responsive, collaborating with us regularly by fixing bugs, adding features and reviewing changes.

The goal of Ask Fedora is to be the best place for community support in Fedora and integrate tightly with the rest of the Fedora infrastructure. Refer to and get involved. If you are a Python/ Django programmer, we would love to have your participation. Join us!

Thanks to everyone who helped out including Prasad.J.Pandit (PJP), Kevin Fenzi, Toshio Ernie Kuratomi, Matthias Runge, Praveen Kumar, Arun SAG,  Ratnadeep Debnath, Lakshmi Narasimhan, Jitesh Shah,  Sayan Chowdhury, Raghu Udiyar, Jishnu, Hrishi and Rag Sagar for helping in packaging, fixing bugs and implementing new features and setting up the infrastructure. We couldn't have done without your enthusiastic participation.

Rahul"

Announcing the release of Fedora 16
Robyn Bergeron announced :

"The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora 16 ("Verne").

Fedora is a leading-edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new release about every six months. Fedora 16 brings exciting new features for desktop users, for system administrators, and for developers. Highlights of these features can be found below. If the mere mention of Fedora 16 is all you need, download options can be found at: http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora

For detailed information, see the release notes: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Release_Notes/

Dedication
During the preparation of Fedora 16, the computing world lost one of its great contributors: Dennis Ritchie. Ritchie co-invented Unix and the C language. He also co-authored The C Programming Language, a book that taught many programmers just at the time personal computing was exploding. Without Ritchie computing would be nothing like it is today.

A humble man, not well-known outside his field, Dennis will always be remembered by those of us who practice the craft. Thank you, Dennis.

What's New in Fedora 16?
For desktop users: a journey to the center of the desktop...

brings new features, including: o System Settings gains an "Online Accounts" panel, which provides a central point for managing online accounts like Google, Facebook, etc.    o A new contact management application is integrated with Empathy, Evolution and the new "Online Accounts" settings panel o A new document management application provides a simpler alternative to traditional file management for both local and "in-cloud" documents. environment, brings substantial updates, including: o DigiKam 2.0 adds face detection and recognition, geotagging and more. o An updated Plasma Workspaces window manager (KWin) makes KDE better suited for mobile devices, and also adds improvements for desktop users. o A new shutdown dialog allows users with multiple operating systems to select the OS to boot next.
 * GNOME 3.2, the latest update to the most popular desktop environment,
 * KDE 4.7, the most recent version of this feature-rich desktop

For developers: Twenty thousand lines in C...

Unicode 6.0 support. with the C internals of GCC. version of D, a systems programming language combining the power and high performance of C and C++ with the programmer productivity of modern languages such as Ruby and Python.
 * Perl 5.14, a new version of Perl, brings many enhancements, including
 * GCC Python Plugins extend GCC with Python 2 and 3, without dealing
 * D2: Fedora 16 is the first Linux distribution to include the newest

For system administrators: around the world in eighty columns...

better support for non-x86 architectures. providing more room for system accounts and making it easier for administrators not have services run as root. This improves interoperability with other Linux distributions that start user IDs at 1000. pieces which are more tolerant of unstable clocks and Internet connections which are not always on. mount ext2 and ext3 file systems, reducing the size of the kernel code. o Fedora 16 provides improvements to virtual networking, making large deployments easier. o Virt-manager guest inspection is a unique-to-Fedora tool allowing read-only access to guest file systems, applications, and Windows registry. o Fedora 16 provides locking of virtual disks to prevent a disk being used by multiple virtual machines simultaneously. o Aeolus, a cross-cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform, which consists of a web-based user interface and tools for managing cloud instances across heterogenous clouds. o OpenStack, another IaaS platform, which takes form as a collection of services for setting up and running a cloud compute and storage infrastructure. o Pacemaker-cloud, which provides application service high availability for cloud environments. o HekaFS, a cloud-ready version of GlusterFS, which extends the filesystem to be suitable for deployment by a cloud provider by adding in stronger authentication and authorization, encryption, and multi-tenancy.
 * GRUB2: This leap forward allows better configuration options and
 * New system account ID numbering: Fedora 16 starts user IDs at 1000,
 * Chrony: Chrony provides network time protocol (NTP) client and server
 * ext4 driver mounts ext2 and ext3: Fedora 16 uses the ext4 driver to
 * Improved virtualization tools:
 * Cloud goodies galore:

This is only a taste of what is included in Fedora 16. A more detailed list can be found at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/16/FeatureList

Download and Upgrade
Fedora 16 is not science fiction. It is here right now: http://get.fedoraproject.org

To launch Fedora 16 instances in the cloud, refer to: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_images

If you are upgrading from a previous release of Fedora, refer to: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading

Fedora 16 full release notes and guides for several languages are available at: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/

Fedora 16 common bugs are documented at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F16_bugs

Fedora Spins
Fedora spins are alternate version of Fedora, tailored for various types of users via hand-picked application set or customizations. They can be found at: http://spins.fedoraproject.org

Contributing
There are many ways to contribute beyond bug reporting. You can help translate software and content, test and give feedback on software updates, write and edit documentation, design and do artwork, help with all sorts of promotional activities, and package free software for use by millions of Fedora users worldwide. To get started, visit http://join.fedoraproject.org today!

Contact information
Journalists and reporters can find additional information at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Press

Reminder: Fedora 14 end of life on 2011-12-08
Dennis Gilmore announced :

"Greetings.

This is a reminder email about the end of life process for Fedora 14.

Fedora 14 will reach end of life on 2011-12-08, and no further updates will be pushed out after that time. Additionally, with the recent release of Fedora 16, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 14 collection.

Please see for more information on upgrading from Fedora 14 to a newer release.

Dennis"

Nomination period for Fedora Board, FESCo, and FAmSCo elections closes Nov. 5
Robyn Bergeron announced :

"Greetings and salutations,

It is time for yet another edition of.... "Robyn's Fedora Public Service Announcements" :)

I'd like to give you a friendly reminder that the nomination period for the upcoming Fedora elections will be closing promptly TOMORROW, Saturday, November 5, 2011, at 23:59:59 UTC (US 19:59:59 EDT, 16:59:59 PDT).

Full information about the elections, including the elections schedule, and links to where one may nominate, can be seen here

This election cycle will fill the following seats for a one-year period:
 * Fedora Board: 2 elected seats, as well as 2 appointed seats
 * FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee): 4 elected seats
 * FAmSCo (Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee): 7 elected seats

Running concurrently with the nomination period (and, hence, closing at the end of the nomination period), the elections questionnaire is also open for adding questions which will be posed to candidates. Following the closing of the questionnaire, candidates will be asked to answer questions relevant to the position for which they are seeking election.

Questions may be added here, and, again, will also close on Saturday, November 5, 2011.

If you are planning on seeking election to one of these bodies, please remember to complete your self-nomination *prior* to the deadline. Additionally, if you have a fellow contributor who had indicated interest and has not yet self-nominated, be a Friend and remind them to act promptly.

Thanks!

-Robyn"

Fedora Development News
The Development Announcement list is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora development.

Acceptable Types of Announcements
 * Policy or process changes that affect developers.
 * Infrastructure changes that affect developers.
 * Tools changes that affect developers.
 * Schedule changes
 * Freeze reminders

Unacceptable Types of Announcements
 * Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule)
 * Discussion
 * Anything else not mentioned above

Heads-up: GIMP 2.7/2.8 in Rawhide, license change to (L)GPLv3+
Nils Philippsen announced :

"Hi,

I just finished with the Fedora 17 feature page for GIMP 2.8 and built gimp-2.7.4 into Rawhide.

GIMP changed its licensing to GPLv3+ (app, included plugins) and LGPLv3+ (libraries) from the 2.7 development versions on. I've checked dependent packages and found that all are listed with compatible licenses in their spec files (CeCill v2, GPLv2+, GPLv3+, Public Domain). One minor licensing issues was introduced with this change, namely with poppler, used for importing PDFs and GPLv2 only. For the moment, GIMP packages from 2.7.x on won't use poppler, but the PostScript plugin for importing PDFs. This is a workaround until the next stable version poppler 0.20 which will be based off xpdf-3.03 (or later), thusly GPLv2/GPLv3 dual-licensed and compatible again.

While APIs used by external plugins should be backwards-compatible, I'll rebuild packages using GIMP libraries (i.e. having GIMP plugins) against the current (not yet stable) version 2.7.4 and against the stable version when it's there, just to be on the safe side. These are the affected (source) packages:


 * GREYCstoration: deebs
 * gimp-fourier-plugin: fabiand
 * gimp-lqr-plugin: slankes
 * gimp-resynthesizer: ewan
 * gimpfx-foundry: rvinyard
 * gutenprint: twaugh - jpopelka
 * mathmap: rnorwood
 * ufraw: nphilipp
 * xsane: nphilipp

I plan to do the first round of rebuilds tomorrow, so if there's any reason why I shouldn't rebuild one of these, or you want to rebuild a package by yourself, speak up ;-).

Nils"

evolution-data-server 3.3.3 soname version bump in rawhide
Milan Crha announced :

"Hi,

Just a note that the upcoming release of evolution-data-server 3.3.3 contains soname version bumps for libcamel and libedatacal, as of today. The release is planned for the next week.

I'll rebuild broken deps packages the next day after the update lands to the rawhide, at least those I've commit rights to (it'll be definitely sooner than the last time). Bye, Milan"

An update on critical path packages
Bill Nottingham announced :

"As of this week, bodhi is using the Fedora Package Database to determine the critical path package list.

As part of this effort, the critical path package lists have been regenerated for Fedora 15, Fedora 16, and rawhide. Various errors in the generation process have been fixed, causing the critical path package list to change.

If you have any questions about why a package you maintain is or isn't in the critical path, feel free to open a ticket with rel-eng at:


 * https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/

Bill, on behalf of rel-eng & FESCo"

Fedora Events
The purpose of event is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to identify responsible Ambassadors for each event. The event page is laid out by quarter and by region. Please maintain the layout, as it is crucial for budget planning. Events can be added to this page whether or not they have an Ambassador owner. Events without an owner are not eligible for funding, but being listed allows any Ambassador to take ownership of the event and make it eligible for funding. In plain words, Fedora events are the exclusive and source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you!

Upcoming Events (December 2011 - May 2012)

 * North America (NA)
 * Central & South America (LATAM):
 * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)
 * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)

Past Events
Archive of Past Fedora Events

Additional information

 * Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines.
 * Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo).
 * Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members.
 * Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility.
 * Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions.
 * LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events.

Fedora In the News
In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

HP's WebOS plan modeled after Red Hat's Fedora
Rahul Sundaram posted an article from ZDNet on HP's development of a community around WebOS:

"What’s the governance model? HP will use an open governance model and has looked extensively at Red Hat’s Fedora model. The goal is to be open, but prevent forks. Under the Fedora model, contributions are evaluated by the community"

The full discussion thread is available.

Five years of open-source Java: Freedom isn't (quite) free
Rahul Sundaram posted an interesting review of the past five years of Java, as an open source project:

"Two years after Java was delivered under the GPL we saw the first release of the Sun-led OpenJDK project for a Java Development Kit built using free and open-source code; that spawned the IcedT project lead by Red Hat, to build an even freer OpenJDK - the OpenJDK had contained a class-path exception to exempt from the GPL certain portions of the code that Sun or others still owned and open sourcers couldn't touch. A version of IcedTea shipped with Fedora in 2008 that was compatible with Sun's official spec"

The full post is available.

Sorting out Red Hat Linux based distributions
Rahul Sundaram posted :

"I have had excellent luck with Red Hat, I like the tools that Red Hat develops and places in their distributions, and there is a huge support community for it. I've also found that Red Hat is a good company, and stands behind its products. It has been VERY supportive and active in the open source community for decades, and continues to show its commitment to open source software. I also think their software models are highly successful, with the Fedora / Red Hat split that we saw in 2003. Back then I was surprised with the split at first, but after a couple of years using both Fedora and Red Hat Linux, I soon discovered that the move to split the two was ingenious. I will explain why below"

The full post is available.

PreUpgrade: Upgrade Fedora From One Version To Another
Rahul Sundaram posted :

"Preupgrade provides an upgrade directly to the latest version of Fedora. It is not necessary to upgrade to intermediate versions. For example, it is possible to go from Fedora 11 to Fedora 13 directly. PreUpgrade is stable and is available in all current Fedora releases. While PreUpgrade downloads the necessary packages, users are free to continue using their systems. This gives an experience similar to a live upgrade."

The full post is available.

An Interview with Fedora Project Leader Jared Smith
Rahul Sundaram forwarded a recent interview with Jared K. Smith:

"All you need to do is be bold. Stop being passive about FOSS. Don’t be afraid to take that first small step. Then put your other foot in front of the first and you will find joy in the journey. There is a world of opportunity awaiting you."

The full post is available.

Btrfs and new file system structure agreed for Fedora 17
Rahul Sundaram forwarded details on Btrfs and file system changes finalized for Fedora 17:

"The members of the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo), who decide on the technical development aspects of Fedora, have accepted a range of new features proposed by developers for version 17 of the Linux distribution. As things currently stand, the project plans to make another attempt to switch to using Btrfs as its default file system in this version, scheduled for release in May 2012."

The full post is available.

Taking oVirt for a Spin
Rahul Sundaram forwarded an article on oVirt:

"Red Hat picked up the .Net-based management server product as part of its acquisition of desktop-virtualization startup Qumranet in 2008, and began porting the server to Java while selling the Qumranet product under Red Hat's brand. The newly ported software will serve as the foundation both of RHEV 3.0 (currently in beta) and of a new open-source project, called oVirt, that's focused on delivering the openly developed and freely licensed virtualization system."

The full article is available

Fedora 16 review – laying the groundwork for an exciting future
Rahul Sundaram forwarded :

"All in all, there’s not one key area where Fedora has improved, but it has a lot of evolutionary improvements in various domains. With the ongoing migrations to Btrfs and systemd, Fedora 16 lays the groundwork for an exciting future. If you want to experiment with the newest Linux technology, as always, Fedora is the place to be."

The full article is available

Ambassadors
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project.

Contributing Writer: Buddhika Kurera and Richard A Vijay For days of the week starting from 01 December 2011 to 20 December 2011 (10hrs GMT+5:30)

Fedora Ambassadors Regional Meeting Minutes
Fedora Ambassadors Regional meeting Page

Meeting minutes for 2011-12-10 Meeting minutes for 2011-12-14 Meeting minutes for 2011-12-14
 * APAC
 * EMEA
 * LATAM

Beat this week
Headlines from mailing lists


 * AmSCo meeting minutes - 2011-12-03 by Igor Pires Soares
 * [Event Report] Foresight Institute, Pune, December 3,	2011, India by Shakthi Kannan
 * Review about the FSCONS 2011 in Gothenburg, Sweden by Robert Scheck
 * REMINDER French Fedora Meeting Today 1830UTC	#fedora-meeting by Reminder
 * Fedora Ambassadors Welcome Week 49 by Joerg Simon
 * Election Results: Fedora Board, FAmSCo, and FESCo by Jared K. Smith
 * It doesn't really matter if Fedora is the 2º most used Linux system by Guillermo Gómez
 * FAMSCo 2011 Election Result by Suresh Packiyarajah
 * FAD at Linux Conference Australia 2012 by Caius Chance
 * New Ambadassadors;	Chris Whitehorn, Lord Drachenblut, Andy Grover by Mark Terranova
 * [X-post] Attention: Ambassadors from India by Ankur Sinha
 * Report for Release Party F16 Silicon Valley by Mark Terranova
 * Fedora Ambassadors' survey: less than 3 Minutes by required by Ankur Sinha
 * What FOSS collaborative tools are available to by contributors, what is needed? by Kévin Raymond
 * Ambassadors Leave of Absence by Greg I Kerr
 * Friendly reminder: APAC Ambassadors bi-weekly meeting	at 4:00 UTC, Saturday, Dec 10th by Truong Anh. Tuan
 * APAC Ambassadors bi-weekly meeting minutes by Truong Anh. Tuan
 * FYI, the next APAC bi-weekly meeting would be on Saturday, Dec 24th, at 4:00 UTC by David Ramsey
 * A classroom session on VIM by Ankur Sinha
 * Presentation by Álvaro Castillo
 * fedorahosted privacy on swag tickets by Nikos Roussos
 * REMINDER French Fedora Meeting Today 1830UTC	#fedora-meeting by Reminder
 * Fedora at IDLELO 5 by Arthur Buliva
 * URGENT REMINDER: EMEA ambassadors meeting today 2011-12-14 by Christoph Wickert
 * Meeting reminders (was Re: URGENT REMINDER: EMEA ambassadors meeting today 2011-12-14 by Christoph Wickert
 * EMEA ambassadors meeting 2011-12-14 minutes by Christoph Wickert
 * FAmSco meeting 2011-12-14 minutes by Christoph Wickert
 * ISO Fedora Weekly News updates... by David Ramsey
 * Fosdem mini distro conf by Bert Desmet
 * Ambassadors list vs. FAmSCo list by Christoph Wickert
 * REMINDER French Fedora Meeting Today 1830UTC	#fedora-meeting by Reminder
 * [EMEA] we don't have a specific EMEA page by Kévin Raymond

Welcome New Ambassadors
On behalf of all our Fedora Community and Ambassadors, We are pleased to Welcome our newly sponsored Ambassador group members:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Udinnet from Sri Lanka mentored by Heherson Pagcaliwagan

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Lorddrachenblut from the USA mentored by Mark Terranova

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Aesptux from Spain mentored by Fabian Affolter

and welcome back https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Makfinsky from the USA mentored by Clint Savage

We Congratulate them on their success with mentoring program and wish them all success in their endeavour to help Fedora. Congrats and Wishes to all New members from Fedora Team.

Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list

 * [Event Report] Foresight Institute, Pune, December 3,	2011, India by Shakthi Kannan


 * Review about the FSCONS 2011 in Gothenburg, Sweden by Robert Scheck


 * REMINDER French Fedora Meeting Today 1830UTC	#fedora-meeting by Reminder


 * Fedora Ambassadors Welcome Week 49 by Joerg Simon


 * Election Results: Fedora Board, FAmSCo, and FESCo by Jared K. Smith


 * It doesn't really matter if Fedora is the 2º most used Linux system by Guillermo Gómez


 * FAMSCo 2011 Election Result by Suresh Packiyarajah


 * FAD at Linux Conference Australia 2012 by Caius Chance


 * New Ambadassadors;	Chris Whitehorn, Lord Drachenblut, Andy Grover by Mark Terranova


 * [X-post] Attention: Ambassadors from India by Ankur Sinha


 * Report for Release Party F16 Silicon Valley by Mark Terranova


 * Fedora Ambassadors' survey: less than 3 Minutes by required by Ankur Sinha


 * What FOSS collaborative tools are available to by contributors, what is needed? by Kévin Raymond


 * Ambassadors Leave of Absence by Greg I Kerr


 * Friendly reminder: APAC Ambassadors bi-weekly meeting	at 4:00 UTC, Saturday, Dec 10th by Truong Anh. Tuan


 * APAC Ambassadors bi-weekly meeting minutes by Truong Anh. Tuan


 * FYI, the next APAC bi-weekly meeting would be on Saturday, Dec 24th, at 4:00 UTC by David Ramsey


 * A classroom session on VIM by Ankur Sinha


 * Presentation by Álvaro Castillo


 * fedorahosted privacy on swag tickets by Nikos Roussos


 * REMINDER French Fedora Meeting Today 1830UTC	#fedora-meeting by Reminder


 * Fedora at IDLELO 5 by Arthur Buliva


 * URGENT REMINDER: EMEA ambassadors meeting today 2011-12-14 by Christoph Wickert


 * Meeting reminders (was Re: URGENT REMINDER: EMEA ambassadors meeting today 2011-12-14 by Christoph Wickert


 * EMEA ambassadors meeting 2011-12-14 minutes by Christoph Wickert


 * FAmSco meeting 2011-12-14 minutes by Christoph Wickert


 * ISO Fedora Weekly News updates... by David Ramsey


 * Fosdem mini distro conf by Bert Desmet


 * Ambassadors list vs. FAmSCo list by Christoph Wickert


 * REMINDER French Fedora Meeting Today 1830UTC	#fedora-meeting by Reminder


 * [EMEA] we don't have a specific EMEA page by Kévin Raymond

FAmSCo Meeting

 * FAmSCo meeting minutes - 2011-12-03 by Igor Pires Soares


 * FAmSco meeting 2011-12-14 minutes by Christoph Wickert

Events reported on Ambassadors mailing list

 * [Event Report] Foresight Institute, Pune, December 3,	2011, India by Shakthi Kannan


 * Review about the FSCONS 2011 in Gothenburg, Sweden by Robert Scheck


 * Report for Release Party F16 Silicon Valley by Mark Terranova


 * Fedora at IDLELO 5 by Arthur Buliva


 * ISO Fedora Weekly News updates... by David Ramsey


 * Fosdem mini distro conf by Bert Desmet

Campus Ambassadors mailing list-Summary of traffic
No news.

Security Advisories
In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce for the period October 26, 2011 - December 20, 2011.

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

Fedora 16 Security Advisories

 * pam-1.1.5-1.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/070399.html
 * colord-0.1.15-1.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/070450.html
 * torque-3.0.3-2.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/070458.html
 * nginx-1.0.10-1.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/070569.html
 * psi-0.14-7.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/070582.html
 * openswan-2.6.37-1.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/070695.html
 * python-celery-2.2.8-1.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/070796.html
 * zabbix-1.8.9-1.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/070811.html
 * yubikey-val-2.10-1.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/070874.html
 * pam_yubico-2.8-1.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/070873.html
 * ykclient-2.6-1.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/070872.html
 * arora-0.11.0-3.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/070892.html
 * krb5-1.9.2-4.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/070925.html
 * dhcp-4.2.3-4.P1.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/070980.html
 * abrt-2.0.7-2.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071026.html
 * libreport-2.0.8-3.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071027.html
 * phpMyAdmin-3.4.8-1.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071040.html
 * ejabberd-2.1.9-1.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071042.html
 * ReviewBoard-1.6.3-1.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/070176.html
 * kernel-3.1.2-1.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069944.html
 * libsocialweb-0.25.20-1.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069899.html
 * rest-0.7.12-1.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069898.html
 * net6-1.3.14-1.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069774.html
 * cherokee-1.2.101-1.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069712.html
 * phpldapadmin-1.2.1.1-2.20111006git.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069708.html
 * hardlink-1.0-12.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069675.html
 * phpMyAdmin-3.4.7.1-1.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069625.html
 * freetype-2.4.6-4.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069610.html
 * kdelibs-4.7.3-5.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069557.html
 * drupal6-views-2.13-1.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069509.html
 * kernel-3.1.1-2.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069485.html
 * moodle-2.0.5-1.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069469.html
 * bind-9.8.1-4.P1.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069463.html
 * proftpd-1.3.4-1.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069449.html
 * wireshark-1.6.3-1.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069298.html
 * phpMyAdmin-3.4.7-1.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069235.html
 * cacti-0.8.7h-1.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069126.html
 * icedtea-web-1.1.4-1.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069075.html
 * asterisk-1.8.7.1-1.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069074.html
 * java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.1-2.0.2.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069027.html
 * tor-0.2.2.34-1600.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/068971.html
 * clamav-0.97.3-1600.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/068942.html
 * radvd-1.8.2-2.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/068838.html
 * java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-60.1.10.4.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/068806.html
 * openstack-nova-2011.3-6.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/068799.html
 * ocsinventory-1.3.3-5.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/068762.html
 * kernel-3.1.0-7.fc16 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/068751.html

Fedora 15 Security Advisories

 * freetype-2.4.4-7.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/070347.html
 * colord-0.1.15-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/070518.html
 * nginx-1.0.10-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/070586.html
 * psi-0.14-7.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/070600.html
 * python-celery-2.2.8-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/070626.html
 * kernel-2.6.41.4-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/070706.html
 * openswan-2.6.37-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/070735.html
 * pam-1.1.5-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/070769.html
 * hardlink-1.0-12.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/070816.html
 * zabbix-1.8.9-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/070820.html
 * arora-0.11.0-3.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/070996.html
 * phpMyAdmin-3.4.8-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071019.html
 * ejabberd-2.1.9-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071044.html
 * ReviewBoard-1.5.7-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/070091.html
 * libsocialweb-0.25.20-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/070087.html
 * rest-0.7.12-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/070086.html
 * bind-9.8.1-3.P1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069975.html
 * net6-1.3.14-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069845.html
 * phpldapadmin-1.2.1.1-2.20111006git.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069777.html
 * cherokee-1.2.101-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069776.html
 * phpMyAdmin-3.4.7.1-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069635.html
 * drupal6-views-2.13-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069524.html
 * proftpd-1.3.4-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069487.html
 * moodle-1.9.14-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069484.html
 * puppet-2.6.12-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069454.html
 * squid-3.1.16-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069405.html
 * kernel-2.6.41.1-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069394.html
 * krb5-1.9.1-14.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069354.html
 * wireshark-1.4.10-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069299.html
 * ocsinventory-1.3.3-5.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069293.html
 * phpMyAdmin-3.4.7-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069237.html
 * cacti-0.8.7h-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069141.html
 * freetype-2.4.4-6.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069100.html
 * icedtea-web-1.0.6-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069058.html
 * asterisk-1.8.7.1-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069054.html
 * tomcat6-6.0.32-10.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069006.html
 * clamav-0.97.3-1500.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/068941.html
 * tor-0.2.1.31-1500.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/068757.html
 * radvd-1.8.2-2.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-October/068489.html

Fedora 14 Security Advisories

 * openswan-2.6.33-3.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/070704.html
 * freetype-2.4.2-7.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/070251.html
 * kernel-2.6.35.14-106.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/070272.html
 * nss-3.12.10-7.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/070056.html
 * bind-9.7.4-2.P1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069970.html
 * net6-1.3.14-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069822.html
 * phpldapadmin-1.2.1.1-2.20111006git.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069724.html
 * cherokee-1.2.101-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069716.html
 * phpMyAdmin-3.4.7.1-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069649.html
 * drupal-views-6.x.2.13-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069499.html
 * puppet-2.6.12-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069488.html
 * proftpd-1.3.3g-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069446.html
 * squid-3.1.16-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069398.html
 * krb5-1.8.4-3.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069381.html
 * wireshark-1.4.10-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069325.html
 * ocsinventory-1.3.3-5.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069280.html
 * phpMyAdmin-3.4.7-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069234.html
 * cacti-0.8.7h-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069137.html
 * clamav-0.97.3-1400.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/068940.html
 * kernel-2.6.35.14-103.fc14- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/068760.html
 * perl-5.12.4-147.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/068753.html
 * kernel-2.6.35.14-100.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-October/068684.html
 * radvd-1.8.2-2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-October/068481.html