FWN/Beats/Announcements

Announcements

In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements, selected announcements to the Fedora user list, development announcements and Events.

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

Fedora Community Gaming Session 2

Bruno Wolff III announced:

"There will be another Fedora Community Gaming session this weekend. We will be playing Wesnoth as a team or teams (with the game(s) ending on first human elimination). Depending on the number of participants we may have humans on both sides or just one team versus the AI.

We will be starting at: UTC: 0100 Saturday May 8, 2010 EDT: 9pm Friday May 7, 2010

Since unlike last week (with bzflag) drop ins are not easily accommodated, please be on time.

I'll be following the #fedora-games IRC chat room before we get started. We will meet in the "fedora" room in the official Wesnoth lobby.

Players will need a 1.8 or 1.8.1 version of Wesnoth. Currently F14 has 1.8.1, F13 has 1.8 (but will probably have 1.8.1 in at least testing by Friday). For F13, F12, and F11 I have made 1.8.1 scratch builds available for F13, F12, and F11

You can also use a nightly compose of the games spin live image which will have either 1.8 or 1.8.1

There is additional information on the Community Gaming page

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Reminder: Fedora Board IRC meeting 1600 UTC 2010-05-06

Paul W. Frields reminded the community of the next Fedora Board meeting:

"The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 1600 UTC on IRC Freenode. For this meeting, the public is invited to do the following:

• Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation.

• Join #fedora-board-questions to discuss topics and post

 questions. This channel is read/write for everyone.

The first portion of our meeting, which we'll limit to 30 minutes, will be an open discussion with the Websites team. Following that, we'll shift to a community Q&A session.

The moderator will voice people from the queue, one at a time, in the

1. fedora-board-meeting channel. We'll limit time per voice as needed

to give everyone in the queue a chance to be heard. The Board may reserve some time at the top of the hour to cover any agenda items as appropriate. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!"

Fedora 14 release name voting information

Paul W. Frields announced

"It is now time to choose the release name for Fedora 14. The Fedora community submitted suggestions for the Fedora 14 release name, and that list has been narrowed down to the final six candidates. Now you can vote on these names and assist in the final selection for the successor of Fedora 13 "Goddard".

This vote runs until 10 May 2010 at 23:59:59 UTC. Other important facts:

• We are using the Range Voting method

• Ballots may be cast on the Fedora Elections System

• If this is the first time you've used the voting system, you might

 want to read the Fedora Elections Guide

• To vote, you must have a valid Fedora Contributors License Agreement

 (CLA) and be a member of at least one non-CLA group.

To vote, visit

Thank you to everyone who helped by contributing names for consideration, and reviewing the names for the final ballot."

RHCE Loopback

"Are you an RHCE®? Take advantage of your certified status and join Red Hat in an RHCE-only event where you and others like you can get together, share tips and technical tricks, discuss new technologies, and hear from experts on current and future industry trends.

Register for this free, informal technology discussion and dinner. Get it here first > Experience and learn > Connect and interact

Learn about recent technology advances, as well as future implementations from the people who make it happen.

Like the RHCE itself, we're not big on multiple-choice standardized test behavior. This isn't your boss's technology conference. Expect live examples and discussion. This isn't a lecture, this is real learning.

Bring your current problems and share them with a group of people as passionate and smart as you are in a comfortable, private dining room setting. Get answers and make connections that last beyond the evening.

For more information

Fedora Development News

Outage: PHX2 outage - 2010-05-04 22:13 UTC

Mike McGrath announced

There was an outage starting at 2010-05-04 22:13 UTC, which lasted approximately 1 hour.

To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at or run:

date -d '2010-05-04 22:13 UTC'

Reason for outage:

While trying to recover from this last major outage (see ticket for reference) it seems some network gear failed causing an outage to some of our storage devices and to the Internet. Stay tuned to the ticket for more info.

Affected Services:

• Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
• Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
• CVS / Source Control
• Email system
• Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
• Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
• Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/
• Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
• Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
• Smolt - http://smolts.org/
• Translation Services - http://translate.fedoraproject.org/
• Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/

Unaffected Services:

• BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
• DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
• Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
• Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/
• Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/
• Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/
• Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
• Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
• Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/
• Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/

Ticket Link:

https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2125

Contact Information:

Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage.

Outage Notification: Red Hat Bugzilla 2010-05-04 16:00UTC - 16:40 UTC

Stephen John Smoogen announced

Outage Notification: Red Hat Bugzilla

Red Hat Bugzilla has currently an planned outage that is taking longer than expected, and is causing various Fedora services not to be functional. We are working with upstream on recovering services as fast as possible

To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at or run:

date -d '2009-01-09 HH:MM UTC'

Affected Services:

• fedora community
• fedora pkgdb

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Fedora Events

Fedora events are the 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 (March 2010 to May 2010)

• 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.