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== Planet Fedora ==
== Planet Fedora ==


In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora - 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.  


http://planet.fedoraproject.org
Contributing Writer: [[User:Jbraun|Joel Braun]]


Contributing Writer: [[User:Abatkin|Adam Batkin]]
=== 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>.


[[DaveMalcolm|Dave Malcolm]] developed<ref>http://dmalcolm.livejournal.com/1301.html</ref>,<ref>http://dmalcolm.livejournal.com/1704.html</ref> a command line app called <code>show</code> that allows for access to various log files through an SQL-like interface. It supports aggregates and can handle Apache access logs, <code>/var/log/messages</code> and <code>/var/log/secure</code> and various others using backends from Augeas<ref>http://augeas.net/</ref> for configuration files like <code>/etc/passwd</code>.
[[user:jsimon|Joerg Simon]] posted pictures<ref>http://kitall.blogspot.com/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011-travel-und-event.html</ref> of the event.


[[User:Pfrields|Paul W. Frields]] explained<ref>http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1548</ref> how to convert virtual disk images between various formats using utilities from <code>qemu</code>.
[[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:Rakesh|Rakesh Pandit]] wrote<ref>http://rakesh.gnulinuxcentar.org/?p=131</ref> a "Report for National Institute of Technology Hamirpur Software Activity Workshop" describing an event where students were trained in software development using Free and Open Source Software.
[[user:suchakra|Suchakra]] also blogged on Fudcon Pune<ref>http://suchakra.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/fudcon%e2%86%94funcon-pune-2011/</ref>.


[[User:Nicubunu|Nicu Buceli]] announced<ref>http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/03/mission-accomplished-ocal-10k.html</ref> that the Open Clipart Library has reached its goal of 10,000 images.
[[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]] posted<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/size-of-rpm-dependencies/</ref> a visualization of RPM dependencies by size, as part of his quest to build a minimal Fedora installation. A later followup noted<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/size-of-rpm-dependencies-2/</ref> that very different results occur depending on how the dependencies are traversed (in this case, breadth-first traversal versus depth-first). He then released<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/rpm-dependency-size-viewer-now-available/</ref> a tool, <code>rpmdepsize</code><ref>http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/rpmdepsize/</ref> to allow users to generate their own dependency visualizations.
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.
 
[[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>.
 
===General===
 
[[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.


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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.