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== Planet Fedora ==
== 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]]


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=== 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>.


[[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]] wondered<ref>http://blog.melchua.com/2010/06/19/partial-adventure-in-learning-about-message-threading/</ref> how e-mail message threading works and how Message IDs are generated.
[[user:jsimon|Joerg Simon]] posted pictures<ref>http://kitall.blogspot.com/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011-travel-und-event.html</ref> of the event.


The Red Hat Press Office mentioned<ref>http://press.redhat.com/2010/06/18/%E2%80%9Copen-your-world%E2%80%9D-opens-many-eyes-to-the-power-of-open-source/</ref> some of the happenings at the Opensource.com's "Open Your World, an online forum exploring how the open source ideals of participation, collaboration, community, transparency and meritocracy are applied beyond the technology industry."
[[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.


[[User:Skvidal|Seth Vidal]] suggested<ref>http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/yum-history-command-and-other-docs/</ref> that you should check out the features of yum's new (in F12/F13) "history" command.
[[user:suchakra|Suchakra]] also blogged on Fudcon Pune<ref>http://suchakra.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/fudcon%e2%86%94funcon-pune-2011/</ref>.


[[User:Reality|Luke Slater]] discussed<ref>http://dinosaur-os.com/post/719778908</ref> how to handle Fedora's microblogging accounts and different languages and cultures. "This is a post in response to the discussions that have been going on in relation to what exactly we should do with the Fedora microblogging accounts and one of the subjects that I’m rather concerned about is how we’re going to deal with different languages and cultures."
[[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:Rjones|Richard W.M. Jones]] developed<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/concept-for-a-graphical-libguestfs-browser/</ref> a comcept for a graphical libguestfs browser using Lablgtk2 and OCaml.
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.


[[RobEscriva|Rob Escriva]] wrote<ref>http://robescriva.com/2010/06/16/bootstrapping-python-projects/</ref> about bootstrapping Python projects. "I'll be sharing how I use the standard library's doctest module, Georg Brandl's sphinx  package, Logilab's PyLint program and Ned Batchelder's coverage module to keep the number of inconsistencies and defects in both my code and documentation low."
[[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:Ardchoille42|Ian MacGregor]] had<ref>http://ardchoille42.blogspot.com/2010/06/nice-fallbacks.html</ref> some upgrade issues. "Just because xorg isn't working doesn't mean you can't get things done. Today I proved that you don't even need xorg to be able to surf the web, check email, download files, chat in IRC and have multiple windows open - though it's nice to have a working xorg. Keep some CLI apps installed and learn how to use the command line.. you never know when all of this may come in handy."
===General===


[[User:Sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] covered<ref>http://fedoranext.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/kyle-needs-more-alcohol/</ref> a few of the new features to be expected in Fedora 14.
[[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.
 
[[Peter Hutterer|Peter Hutterer]] summarized<ref>http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/06/incomplete-roundup-of-touchpad-features.html</ref> the touchpad features now available in xorg. Peter also explained<ref>http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/06/keyboard-configuration-its-complicated.html</ref> some of the common misconceptions and issues about keyboard input under X.
 
[[User:Herlo|Clint Savage]] continued<ref>http://sexysexypenguins.com/2010/06/15/combating-apathy-in-free-and-open-source-communities-part-3/</ref> the discussion of "Combating Apathy in [Free and Open Source] Communities".
 
[[User:Markmc|Mark McLoughlin]] announced<ref>http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2010/06/21/rest-api-for-rhev-m/</ref> a new REST API for the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. "The only current API for RHEV-M is a Windows Powershell plugin which provides a perfectly fine scripting interface for RHEV-M on Windows, but isn’t so easy to call remotely or to integrate with another application. By adding a REST API, we’re adding an integration interface which we hope everyone will find convenient to use."
 
[[User:Mso|Martin Sourada]] provided<ref>http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2010/06/f14-artwork-update.html</ref> an update on artwork for Fedora 14.
 
[[User:Heffer|Felix Kaechele]] explained<ref>http://fetzig.org/2010/06/13/vuvuzela-filter-using-fedora/</ref> how to filter out those annoying vuvuzelas using Fedora.
 
[[User:Kam|Kam Salisbury]] found<ref>http://sites.google.com/site/kamreefsalisbury/blog/cygwinworksonwindows7</ref> that Cygwin under Windows 7 has some minor networking issues. "Network communication also works, if you edit the Windows 7 firewall outbound rules to allow cygwin to communicate."
 
[[User:Overholt|Andrew Overholt]] announced<ref>http://overholt.ca/wp/?p=177</ref> the availability of Linux Tools 0.6 as part of the Helios Eclipse simultaneous release.


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Latest revision as of 06:21, 11 November 2011

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.