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| Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco | | Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco |
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| === ScreenCast on Miro updates === | | === Fedora 9 & KDE 4 review === |
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| The ScreenCast thread from last week continues to advance, with ScreenCast samples now available on Miro as Fedora TV. This past week, Lucas Saboya (1) and his folk have started a web form for contributors to upload entries. Jeff Spaleta [2] and others continue to work through the remainder of defining editor workflow for these submissions
| | Rahul Sundaram forwarded [1] a recent review of Fedora 9 with KDE 4 [2], which summarized, "[w]e recommend Fedora 9 and the KDE that comes with it, not to the average user, people switching to Fedora or to Linux itself for that matter, but to past Fedora and KDE users, that would like to play around with the latest and greatest to the Fedora Linux distribution." |
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| [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00162.html | | [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-July/msg00016.html |
| [2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00173.html | | [2] http://www.inatux.com/blog |
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| === Fedora 9 Falls a Little Short === | | === Acer's Linpus Linux Lite Features Fedora === |
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| Rahul Sundaram shared a LinuxPlanet review of Fedora 9 [1]. The writer was a bit disappointed with the stability of this release. | | Rahul Sundaram forwarded a review of Acer's new ultraportable, who's operating system is based on Fedora 8. The article notes, "Fedora has managed to avoid shabby deals with Microsoft and playing fast and loose with Kernel source code and the GPL. At last, a version of GNU/Linux on an ultra portable you can use with a clear conscience." |
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| [1] http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/6492/1/ | | [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-July/msg00020.html |
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| === FedoraLife Concept update=== | | === FedoraTV is Ready To Go! === |
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| Discussion on the "fedoraLife" concept continues. Valent Turkovic pointed to some of the work that had been done on Diva, which is applicable here, with background [1], Valent's screencast of Diva with additional links [2], and pointed out two other projects, saya-videoeditor [3] and myvideoeditor [4]. Anybody with coding experience is encoraged to joint those projects. Rick Garcia, Project Lead from the saya videoeditor project added [5] that saya will work with a any decoding library, so that this effort need not be encumbered by patented software codecs. Discussion continues!
| | Jonathan Roberts announced [1] this week that the FedoraTV hosted site [2] is ready for further review and content submissions. He added, "Any FAS account holders can login, file a ticket with information about a video/audio they want to submit for the feed, and we can respond openly and hold any discussions about whether to include the file or not." Kushal Das responded [3], encouraging everyone to submit their Fedora-related screencasts, podcasts and other video to the new site. |
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| [1] http://www.mdk.org.pl/2006/12/7/state-of-diva | | [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-July/msg00017.html |
| [2] http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-184428.html
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| [3] http://saya-videoeditor.blogspot.com/ | | [3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-July/msg00019.html |
| [4] http://myvideoeditor.blogspot.com\
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| === Student partnership program === | | === Software Freedom T-Shirts === |
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| Susmit Shannigrahi suggested [1] an idea originating on the AFEC Fedora Ambassadors meeting to begin a programme to allow students to contribute to the Fedora project [2] Grady Laksmono noted [3] that something like what was proposed is already in place at California State-Los Angeles [4] Jonathon Roberts added [5] that this general idea has come up a few times recently. Francesco Ugolini also expressed support for the idea [6] and suggested that FAmSCo might be able to help with this effort, with some planning.
| | Jayme Ayres announced [1] a new graphic design [2] for Software Freedom Day, inspired by discussions amongst Brazilian Fedora Ambassadors, and also pointed to the video produced after the recent Fórum Internacional Software Livre (FISL) meeting in Brazil that recently appeared in Red Hat Magazine [3], and the polo shirts also designed for the event [4] |
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| [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00177.html | | [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-July/msg00022.html |
| [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora-Student_Mentor_Programme | | [2] http://jaymeayres.com/arquivos/tShirt-SFDay08.png |
| [3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00178.html
| | [3] http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/08/02/video-meet-the-fedora-ambassadors/ |
| [4] http://www.calstatela.edu/
| | [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/T-Shirt#FISL_9.0_-_Brasil |
| [5] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00182.html
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| [6] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00201.html
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| === Page for tracking local Media (CD/DVD) requests ===
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| Susmit Shannigrahi offered [1] a wiki page [2] to help track local media requests.
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| [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00192.html
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| === Fedora 9 How to in Spanish ===
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| Diego Escobar offered [1] a Fedora 9 how-to page in Spanish [2], and invited those who might find this useful to download it.
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| [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00203.html
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| [2] [http://www.pcw.co.uk/personal-computer-world/features/2218856/hands-secrets-fedora http://www.pcw.co.uk/personal-computer-world/features/2218856/hands-secrets-fedora]
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| === Distrowatch: From Fedora 9 to OpenSUSE 11 ===
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| Pascal Calarco forwarded [1] a recent post [2] by the editor of Distrowatch, a popular meta-Linux distribution news and reviews site. They had been using Fedora 9 since its release, and were now moving to try out SUSE 11.0. In doing so, he made a few comments about the stability of the Fedora 9 release in comparison with Fedora 8:
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| [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00212.html
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| === Kernel Developers Release Statement on Closed-Source Drivers & Commentary===
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| Rahul Sundaram forwarded [1] a position statement from a group of 160 kernel developers [2] on closed-source kernel drivers:
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| "We, the undersigned Linux kernel developers, consider any closed-source Linux kernel module or driver to be harmful and undesirable. We have repeatedly found them to be detrimental to Linux users, businesses, and the greater Linux ecosystem. Such modules negate the openness, stability, flexibility, and maintainability of the Linux development model and shut their users off from the expertise of the Linux community. Vendors that provide closed-source kernel modules force their customers to give up key Linux advantages or choose new vendors. Therefore, in order to take full advantage of the cost savings and shared support benefits open source has to offer, we urge vendors to adopt a policy of supporting their customers on Linux with open-source kernel code."
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| "In essence this is because binary drivers totally negate the shared support and maintenance burden which is what makes Open Source so compelling. Additionally, there is also a drag effect these binary drivers have on the rest of the ecosystem: for instance, Fedora was under enormous pressure not to release Fedora 9 until there was a solution that allowed it to run with the Nvidia binary driver (Fedora chose to ship with a pre-release of the X windows system which Nvidia refused to support and because the driver was binary Fedora couldn't simply fix the problems and ship anyway)."
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| [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00214.html
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| === Fedora Contributor Stories ===
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| Ricky Zhou suggested that it might be good to try to collect some of the stories of Fedora users talk about informally at FUDCon, as an effort to encourage new contributors to the Fedora Project, and suggested this could be a component of the various Fedora video efforts under discussion. This generated much discussion in support from several people. Jonathan Roberts mentioned [2] that efforts are underway to establish this based on WordPress MultiUser.
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| [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00225.html
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| === PackageKit Finds Sweet Spot ===
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| Rahul Sundaram forwarded [1] a posting about Fedora's PackageKit from Linux.com [2] and some history, current status, and future prospects behind the project from Richard Hughes, who developed PackageKit while interning at Red Hat and now maintains it.
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| [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00233.html
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| Jack Aboutbol shared [1] that he has been working on a new effort, Campus Ambassadors, "... something similar to what Mozilla does with the Firefox Campus Rep program--to have someone who can speak to the student body about Fedora and represent Fedora at relevant campus events." He plans to present the idea formally at a Community Architecture meeting next week in Raleigh. This generated a lot of positive interest to get involved from existing Fedora Ambassadors who are student members.
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| [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00255.html
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| Markus McLaughlin offered [1] that the community should create a Wordpress weblog for sharing a wide variety of Fedora news items. Nicu Buculei suggested [2] that FWN is likely to evolve in this direction, supporting RSS feeds, multimedia, etc., and invited others to contribute to the news beats that are open [3]. Clint Savage suggested [4] that these could be added to the Fedora TV channel [5] on Miro. Jonathon Roberts confirmed that audio can be added to Miro as well [6], and offered to make the audio from Paul Frields' talk from FUDCon.
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| [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00264.html
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| [2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00268.html
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| [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN
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| [4] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00274.html
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| [6] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00283.html
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Marketing
In this section, we cover the Fedora Marketing Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
Fedora 9 & KDE 4 review
Rahul Sundaram forwarded [1] a recent review of Fedora 9 with KDE 4 [2], which summarized, "[w]e recommend Fedora 9 and the KDE that comes with it, not to the average user, people switching to Fedora or to Linux itself for that matter, but to past Fedora and KDE users, that would like to play around with the latest and greatest to the Fedora Linux distribution."
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-July/msg00016.html
[2] http://www.inatux.com/blog
Acer's Linpus Linux Lite Features Fedora
Rahul Sundaram forwarded a review of Acer's new ultraportable, who's operating system is based on Fedora 8. The article notes, "Fedora has managed to avoid shabby deals with Microsoft and playing fast and loose with Kernel source code and the GPL. At last, a version of GNU/Linux on an ultra portable you can use with a clear conscience."
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-July/msg00020.html
[2] http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/acers_linpus_linux_lite_ultra_portable_laptop
FedoraTV is Ready To Go!
Jonathan Roberts announced [1] this week that the FedoraTV hosted site [2] is ready for further review and content submissions. He added, "Any FAS account holders can login, file a ticket with information about a video/audio they want to submit for the feed, and we can respond openly and hold any discussions about whether to include the file or not." Kushal Das responded [3], encouraging everyone to submit their Fedora-related screencasts, podcasts and other video to the new site.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-July/msg00017.html
[2] https://fedorahosted.org/fedoratv/
[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-July/msg00019.html
Software Freedom T-Shirts
Jayme Ayres announced [1] a new graphic design [2] for Software Freedom Day, inspired by discussions amongst Brazilian Fedora Ambassadors, and also pointed to the video produced after the recent Fórum Internacional Software Livre (FISL) meeting in Brazil that recently appeared in Red Hat Magazine [3], and the polo shirts also designed for the event [4]
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-July/msg00022.html
[2] http://jaymeayres.com/arquivos/tShirt-SFDay08.png
[3] http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/08/02/video-meet-the-fedora-ambassadors/
[4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/T-Shirt#FISL_9.0_-_Brasil
