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Announcements

In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project^[1] ^[2] ^[3].

Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam

Fedora 12 (Constantine) related announcements are as follows:

Fedora Board IRC Public meeting

"The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Thursday, September 10, 2009, at 1600 UTC on IRC Freenode.", announced^[1]

Fedora Project Leader Paul W. Frields. For this meeting, the public was invited to join the IRC channels #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation and #fedora-board-questions to discuss topics and to post questions. While inviting everyone, Paul also expressed, "The Board may reserve some time at the top of the hour to cover any agenda items as

appropriate."

↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-September/msg00001.html

Help with Fedora Research

Greg DeKoenigsberg, Senior Community Architect at Red Hat, and ex-Fedora founding Chair announced ^[1] , "we're looking for Fedora contributors who are willing to do one of two things:

1. Participate in an email interview with our Duke professors; or 2. Participate in a short phone interview (about 20 minutes) with our Duke professors."

Greg also explored about the participation of contributors. He expressed, "It's a simple thing that could be hugely valuable in the long run. We've got something special in Fedora, and the world wants to understand how it works. Your experiences matter." All the interested participant are requested to response to Greg DeKoenigsberg via email, please.

↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-September/msg00002.html

New entry of Build F12 collection packages for all language translators' review and correction

Noriko Mizumoto on development announcement had announced^[1], "Build F12 collection packages for all language translators' review and correction". Meanwhile, he also mentioned, "Please notice that amazingly F12 has been translated into 52 language with more than 40% completion so far, and the percentage as well the number of languages are aggressively growing."^[2]^[3]

FUDCon Toronto 2009 update!

"Here's an update on the upcoming FUDCon in Toronto, being held December 5-7. Before the details, I want to give some special thanks and recognition to Chris Tyler of Seneca College in Toronto for his continued, invaluable assistance in setting up FUDCon. His help made it possible to establish a lot of these logistics while we were also preparing for Fedora presence at the Red Hat Summit last week. Thanks Chris!", widely announced^[1] by Paul W. Frields.

The FUDCon^[2] wiki page is chock full of details. Here is the major highlights of the announcement:

HELP US PLAN! ^[3] GENERAL SCHEDULE^[4] PRE-REGISTRATION^[5] LODGING ^[6] TECHNICAL SESSIONS ^[7] FUDPUB^[8] HACKFESTS^[9]

"More information will be forthcoming as it develops!", says Paul.

Upcoming Events

Mark your agenda with the following events. Please, consider attending or volunteering at an event near you!

North America (NA)^[1]
Central & South America (LATAM)^[2]
Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)^[3]
India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)^[4]

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-== Announcements ==
+==Announcements==
 In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project<ref>
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-== Fedora 12 (Constantine) ==
+Fedora 12 (Constantine) related announcements are as follows:
-=== The Fedora Project and IPv6 ===
+===Fedora Board IRC Public meeting===
-The top news of the week was the Fedora Project and IPv6 by Fedora Infrastructure Lead and project coordinator Mike McGrath. Mike had announced <ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-August/msg00012.html</ref> that as part of the constant effort toward supporting current and future
+"The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Thursday, September 10, 2009, at 1600 UTC on IRC Freenode.", announced<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-September/msg00001.html</ref>
-standards, major segments of fedoraproject.org and the Fedora Project infrastructure now support IPv6. He also mentioned, "our self-hosted websites have already been converted, and we plan to include IPv6 GeoIP support in MirrorManager soon."
+ Fedora Project Leader Paul W. Frields. For this meeting, the public was invited to join the IRC channels #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation and #fedora-board-questions to discuss topics and to post questions. While inviting everyone, Paul also expressed, "The Board may reserve some time at the top of the hour to cover any agenda items as
+appropriate."
-Mike extended special thanks  to Matt Domsch from Dell and our friends at ibiblio.org for their invaluable assistance on behalf of the Fedora Project.
 <references/>
-=== Licensing policy for apps developed by Fedora Infrastructure now in effect ===
+===Help with Fedora Research ===
-Toshio Kuratomi on Development-Announcement announced,<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-September/msg00000.html</ref> "Over the past few months, Fedora Infrastructure has been discussing having a consistent set of licenses for applications and scripts we create for Fedora." On his specific details, he informed everyone about the the goals of doing this, the basics, the uses of GPLv2
+Greg DeKoenigsberg, Senior Community Architect at Red Hat, and ex-Fedora founding Chair announced <ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-September/msg00002.html</ref>
-or later.
+, "we're looking for Fedora contributors who are willing to do one of two things:
-"The one other thing for Infrastructure developers and System Admins to note in the Policy is the section on handling AGPLv3 applications. During the discussions about whether to use AGPLv3+ for our web applications we found and delimited many issues that need to be addressed when deploying AGPLv3+ licensed code.  The aGPL portion of the
+. Participate in an email interview with our Duke professors; or
-policy is our first attempt at keeping us compliant with any code that is under this license.", highlighted by Toshio.
+. Participate in a short phone interview (about 20 minutes) with our Duke professors."
+Greg also explored about the participation of contributors. He expressed, "It's a simple thing that could be hugely valuable in the long run. We've got something special in Fedora, and the world wants to understand how it works. Your experiences matter." All the interested participant are requested to response to Greg DeKoenigsberg via email, please.
+<references/>
+===New entry of Build F12 collection packages for all language translators' review and correction===
+Noriko Mizumoto on development announcement had announced<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-September/msg00001.html
+</ref>, "Build F12 collection packages for all language translators' review and correction". Meanwhile, he also mentioned, "Please notice that amazingly F12 has been translated into 52 language with more than 40% completion so far, and the percentage as well the number of languages are aggressively growing."<ref>https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/243</ref><ref>https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-September/msg00053.html</ref>
+<references/>
+===FUDCon Toronto 2009 update!===
+"Here's an update on the upcoming FUDCon in Toronto, being held December 5-7.  Before the details, I want to give some special thanks and recognition to Chris Tyler of Seneca College in Toronto for his continued, invaluable assistance in setting up FUDCon.  His help made it possible to establish a lot of these logistics while we were also preparing for Fedora presence at the Red Hat Summit last week.  Thanks Chris!", widely announced<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-September/msg00003.html</ref> by Paul W. Frields.
+The FUDCon<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009</ref> wiki page is chock full of details. Here is the major highlights of the announcement:
+HELP US PLAN! <ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning</ref>
+GENERAL SCHEDULE<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009</ref>
+PRE-REGISTRATION<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009#Pre-registration</ref>
+LODGING <ref>http://bit.ly/fudcon-hgi-toronto-2009</ref>
+TECHNICAL SESSIONS <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009#Technical_sessions</ref>
+FUDPUB<ref>http://daveandbusters.com</ref>
+HACKFESTS<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009#Hackfests</ref>
+"More information will be forthcoming as it develops!", says Paul.
 <references/>
-=== Upcoming Events ===
+===Upcoming Events===
 Mark your agenda with the following events. Please, consider attending or volunteering at an event near you!

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