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Planet Fedora

This is the Planet Fedora section, covering news from planet.fedoraproject.org[1], a collection of blogs from Fedora users spanning the globe.

Contributing Writer: Joel Braun

Events

FudCon Pune 2011

Kishan Goyal posted on his experience on day 2 at FudCon Pune^[1].

Joerg Simon posted pictures^[2] of the event.

Izhar Firdaus wrote about his experience^[3] at FudCon, as well as some thoughts on the atmosphere of the event.

Suchakra also blogged on Fudcon Pune^[4].

Kushal Das posted photos^[5] of the event to his blog.

Fedora Community

The release of Fedora 16 has been the main topic of the blogroll recently, and it's fair to say that it's being greeted with open arms by many of the users.

Juanjo Martinez blogged on his first impressions of F16, calling it an "impressive release"^[6].

General

Adam Williamson posted about ^[7]starting work on Fedora 17, and experimentation with the new kernel in a virtualized environment.

[1] ttp://kishangoyal.co.cc/post/12549697509/fudcon-pune-11-day-2

[2] ttp://kitall.blogspot.com/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011-travel-und-event.html

[3] ttp://blog.kagesenshi.org/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ShadowLogs%2FFedora+%28%3A%3A+Shadow+Logs%3A%3A+Fedora%29#!/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011.html

[4] ttp://suchakra.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/fudcon%e2%86%94funcon-pune-2011/

[5] ttp://kushaldas.in/2011/11/10/photoset-from-fudcon-pune-2011/

[6] ttp://engbblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/welcome-fedora-16/

[7] ttp://www.happyassassin.net/2011/11/10/stupid-fedora-tricks/

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 == Planet Fedora ==
-In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora<ref>http://planet.fedoraproject.org</ref> - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide.
+This is the Planet Fedora section, covering news from planet.fedoraproject.org[http://planet.fedoraproject.org], a collection of blogs from Fedora users spanning the globe.
-Contributing Writer: [[User:Abatkin|Adam Batkin]]
+Contributing Writer: [[User:Jbraun|Joel Braun]]
-<references/>
+=== Events ===
-=== General ===
+====FudCon Pune 2011====
+[[user:kishan|Kishan Goyal]] posted on his experience on day 2 at FudCon Pune<ref>http://kishangoyal.co.cc/post/12549697509/fudcon-pune-11-day-2</ref>.
-[[JoshBressers|Josh Bressers]] noted<ref>http://www.bress.net/blog/archives/157-Open-Source-Code-Quality.html</ref> that Coverity has scanned a number of Open Source projects for vulnerabilities for a third year running, and they are claiming "that there is a 16 percent reduction is flaws found". Josh noted that it is too early to draw conclusions on what this actually means for OSS.
+[[user:jsimon|Joerg Simon]] posted pictures<ref>http://kitall.blogspot.com/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011-travel-und-event.html</ref> of the event.
-[[MichaelTiemann|Michael Tiemann]] spoke<ref>http://opensource.org/node/471</ref> "at Open World Forum in Paris on the subject of open source and the digital (economic) recovery".
+[[user:izhar|Izhar Firdaus]] wrote about his experience<ref>http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ShadowLogs%2FFedora+%28%3A%3A+Shadow+Logs%3A%3A+Fedora%29#!/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011.html</ref> at FudCon, as well as some thoughts on the atmosphere of the event.
-[[JamesMorris|James Morris]] posted<ref>http://blog.namei.org/2009/09/29/portland-roundup/</ref> a roundup from the SELinux Developers Summit (which immediately preceded LinuxCon and the Linux Plumbers Conference) in Portland, Oregon. Mmm, donuts. [[DanielWalsh|Daniel Walsh]] presented<ref>http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/31888.html</ref> on "how sandbox -X works" at the conference. Daniel also mentioned<ref>http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/32430.html</ref> that Fedora 12 will include a command-line interface to <tt>polgengui</tt> (which "is a template based policy framework,  that ask the user a few questions, and then generate initial policy files to allow the policy writer to get started").
+[[user:suchakra|Suchakra]] also blogged on Fudcon Pune<ref>http://suchakra.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/fudcon%e2%86%94funcon-pune-2011/</ref>.
-[[User:Rjones|Richard W.M. Jones]] continued<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/graphical-virt-df/</ref>,<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/virt-uname/</ref> adding tools that can introspect virtual machines from a host system, this time a graphical <tt>df</tt> (<tt>virt-df</tt>), <tt>virt-uname</tt>, <tt>virt-update</tt> and <tt>virt-ping</tt>.
+[[user:kushal|Kushal Das]] posted photos<ref>http://kushaldas.in/2011/11/10/photoset-from-fudcon-pune-2011/</ref> of the event to his blog.
+===Fedora Community===
-[[User:Sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] talked<ref>http://mether.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/preventing-dependency-breakage/</ref><ref>http://mether.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/preventing-dependency-breakage-part-ii/</ref> about the problems, dangers, and potential preventions for dependency breakage (you know, when you run "yum update" and it tells you that it can't continue because 1 out of the 146 packages that need to be updated doesn't have all of its dependencies satisfied).
+The release of Fedora 16 has been the main topic of the blogroll recently, and it's fair to say that it's being greeted with open arms by many of the users.
-According to [[User:Mdomsch|Matt Domsch]], MirrorManager now<ref>http://domsch.com/blog/?p=100</ref> has the ability to automatically select a local Fedora mirror by netblock, ASN and a number of other factors.
+[[user:jjmartinez|Juanjo Martinez]] blogged on his first impressions of F16, calling it an "impressive release"<ref>http://engbblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/welcome-fedora-16/</ref>.
-[[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]] is working on a scholarship/fellowship program for middle to high school students and wants<ref>http://blog.melchua.com/2009/09/29/help-me-design-a-scholarship-or-two/</ref> your input.
+===General===
-Separately, Mel also asked<ref>http://blog.melchua.com/2009/10/01/how-can-we-make-it-easier-for-people-to-send-patches/</ref> "How can we make it easier for people to send patches?"
+[[User:adamwill|Adam Williamson]] posted about <ref>http://www.happyassassin.net/2011/11/10/stupid-fedora-tricks/</ref>starting work on Fedora 17, and experimentation with the new kernel in a virtualized environment.
-[[KonstantinRyabitsev|Konstantin Ryabitsev]] scripted<ref>http://blog.mricon.com/2009/09/different-smtp-relay-host-depending-on.html</ref> NetworkManager and Postfix to automatically select a different relay SMTP server, depending on what network the system has connected to.
-[[Peter Hutterer|Peter Hutterer]] announced<ref>http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/10/xi2-and-mpx-released.html</ref> that "MPX has been released as part of XI2 in the new X Server 1.7". I suppose this would be the first step in letting desktop Linux act like the iPhone UI.
-[[GregDeK|Greg DeKoenigsberg]] says<ref>http://gregdek.livejournal.com/55270.html</ref>: "If you live in the United States, go find your two senators and tell them that you support the Open College Textbook Act of 2009."
-[[TomCallaway|Tom Callaway]] was interviewed<ref>http://www.archive.org/details/Bioslevel-OLF2009LegalitiesOfFOSSTomCallawaymovh264480p302-2</ref> about "some of the intricacies of licensing and ensuring that a software package included in Fedora and Red Hat is actually verified to be open source." (Video)
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