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Announcements

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

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

Fedora Announcements

Announcing FUDCon APAC 2011 in Pune, India / Call for bids for FUDCon LATAM and FUDCon APAC 2012

Jared K. Smith announced:

"It's my pleasure to announce that the winning bid for FUDCon in the Asia-Pacific region for 2011 is Pune, India. FUDCon APAC 2011 is scheduled for November 4th through 6th at the College of Engineering, Pune, India. FUDCon is the Fedora Users and Developers Conference, a premier Fedora event that is held several times a year in different regions of the world. For more information on premier Fedora events, see the Fedora wiki.

As you might imagine, choosing the winning bid was a difficult decision to make, as both bidding teams have put together very compelling bids. I'd like to publicly thank both teams for their hard work and effort, and invite the Beijing team to submit a bid for next year's FUDCon APAC as well.

I'm also now opening up bidding for FUDCon APAC 2012 and FUDCon LATAM 2012. FUDCon APAC 2012 will be held between March 1st and May 31st, and FUDCon LATAM will be held between June 1st - August 31st. All bids for both of these FUDCon events should be submitted by August 11th. If you have any questions or concerns regarding FUDCon events, I invite you to subscribe to the FUDCon planning mailing list.

-- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader"

Outage: Cleanup of Red Hat located systems - 2011-07-11 20:00 UTC

Stephen John Smoogen announced:

"Outage: Cleanup of Red Hat located systems - 2011-07-11 20:00 UTC

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

date -d '2011-07-11 20:00 UTC'

Reason for outage:

We will be removing old systems and putting in new ones at the Red Hat colocation facility in Phoenix.

At the moment outages are planned for 2011-07-12 00:00 UTC

 - Secondary Architecutures
 - QA systems
 - some Fedora community hardware

No other outages are planned, but deracking of old machines and racking new ones could result in outages or instability in existing services.

Due to the nature of the work, while we will try to send out daily announcements of what services will be affected that day, the primary source of information will need to be announced on Freenode IRC

1. fedora-admin

Affected Services: QA Services Secondary Architectures

Possibly Affected Services:

* BFO                   - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
* Bodhi   -               https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
* Buildsystem -           http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
* Docs                  - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
* GIT / Source Control
* Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
* Fedora Community      - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
* Fedora Insight        - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/
* Main Website          - http://fedoraproject.org/
* Mirror List           - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
* Mirror Manager        - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
* Package Database      - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
* Smolt                 - http://smolts.org/
* Spins                 - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
* Start                 - http://start.fedoraproject.org/
* Wiki                  - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/

Unaffected Services:

* DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
* Email system
* Fedora Hosted         - https://fedorahosted.org/
* Fedora People         - http://fedorapeople.org/
* Torrent               - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
* Translation Services  - http://translate.fedoraproject.org/

Ticket Link:

* https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2870

Contact Information:

Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above.

-- Stephen J Smoogen"

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

Fedora 16 Schedule Reminders - Feature Submission and Feature Freeze

Robyn Bergeron announced:

"A few friendly reminders:

* The Feature Submission deadline for Fedora 16 is *tomorrow*, July 12. The current process for submitting a feature for Fedora 16 can be seen here

* Feature Freeze comes quickly after the Feature Submission deadline, on  July 26.  Please note that at this point, Features should be  *substantially complete and in a testable state.*  For more information on the Feature Freeze policy, please read

And finally.... for those of you interested in seeing how the Feature List is shaping up for Fedora 16, it is up to date with the latest and greatest approvals from today's FESCo meeting.

This is where I'm going to put on my Gentle Reminder Hat, and give everyone a chance to go into their individual feature pages and update their percentage complete, and update their "Last Updated" date, which I will apply to the main FeatureList page. Your efforts here are appreciated, and help a number of groups understand how close you are to completion, or conversely, if you are at risk of not making deadlines.

If percentages don't start getting updated, and "last-updated" dates aren't getting touched, I'll be reaching out to folks individually, but I would prefer to see that people take the initiative and keep those things up. Otherwise I have to get out the not-so-Gentle-Reminder-Hat, and frankly, I don't look very good in that one.

Communication is the key here. If you believe you are *at risk* of not making the Feature Freeze, please update your feature page accordingly.

The rest of the schedule, as always, can be seen here

Thanks!

-Robyn"

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 (June - August 2011)

• 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.