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[[User:Rrix|Ryan Rix]] created<ref>http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/free-as-in-freedom-babeeeeeh/</ref> a Fedora Lego USB stick. Neat.
[[User:Ardchoille42|Ian MacGregor]] revisited<ref>http://ardchoille42.blogspot.com/2010/06/revisiting-gnome-shell.html</ref> the Gnome 3 Shell. "I could go on and on about how impressed I am with gnome shell..." [[User:Mclasen|Matthias Clasen]] noted<ref>http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mclasen/2010/06/01/it-is-coming/</ref> that It IS Coming. "But GNOME consists of well over a hundred modules, so there is naturally a lot of work left. There are a number of things where you can help."


The Red Hat News office introduced<ref>http://press.redhat.com/2010/05/25/red-hat-expands-green-computing-features-in-red-hat-enterprise-linux-6/</ref> some of the "Green" Computing features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
On the design front, [[MairinDuffy|Máirín Duffy]] discuessed<ref>http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/post-f13-fedora-design-team-status-and-first-meeting/</ref> the importance of "an open and inclusive process" to the Design Team. "We want folks to use open formats and collaborate in an open way, using open source tools, sharing sources and working together rather than in competition. An ongoing goal for the team is to get greater community participation in creating artwork for Fedora." Máirín also announced<ref>http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/06/03/fedora-design-bounty-f13-feature-profiles/</ref> the Fedora Design Team Bi-weekly Bounty. "Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to polish up the design and layout of the Fedora 13 Feature Profiles print document."


[[GregDeK|Greg DeKoenigsberg]] started<ref>http://gregdekspeaks.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/the-edutainment-industry-patches-welcome/</ref> a project to build a collection of tiny browser-based open source educational games.
[[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]] looked<ref>http://blog.melchua.com/2010/06/04/the-history-of-the-soas-mirabelle-release-learning-from-the-past/</ref> back at the history of the Fedora and Sugar on a Stick releases to figure out where the project could go in the future.


[[User:Lmacken|Luke Macken]] warned<ref>http://lewk.org/blog/liveusb-creator-trojan.html</ref> that there is a trojan copy of liveusb-creator in the wild. Please use the official site<ref>https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/</ref> only.
[[User:Mso|Martin Sourada]] decided<ref>http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2010/06/midori-almost-feature-complete-for-me.html</ref> to use the Midori Webkit-based web browser. "So here're some highlights of what you can get with the latest and greatest stuff that's in Fedora 12 (and a bit of customizing)..."


[[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]] pointed out<ref>http://blog.melchua.com/2010/05/25/paul-frields-on-opensource-com/</ref> an interview with [[User:Pfrields|Paul W. Frields]] on opensource.com<ref>http://opensource.com/life/10/5/paul-frields-leadership-trust-fail-early-and-often</ref>. "I firmly believe that open source principles can help combat what I see as a growing problem: local apathy. Apathy comes from feeling you don’t have a voice or a way of making change, while open source makes the opposite possible… two important and connected tenets of the open source way are (1) not letting the possibility of failure get in the way of doing something potentially great, and (2) recognizing when you’ve failed so you can learn from it and move on."
[[JesusRodriguez|Jesus Rodriguez]] explained<ref>http://zeusville.wordpress.com/2010/06/04/copying-data-to-new-server/</ref> how to (and how not to) move a large volume of data from one system to another by physically removing one drive from an madadm RAID-1 array and putting it into another system.


[[User:Rjones|Richard W.M. Jones]] added<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/implementing-simple-bash-tab-completion-for-guestfish/</ref> shell tab-completion for <tt>guestfish</tt>.
[[User:Mmorsi|Mohammed Morsi]] announced<ref>http://mo.morsi.org/blog/node/316</ref> the release of "a Fedora 12 based appliance complete w/ a stack of rpms built against and related to Ruby 1.9.1."
 
[[MairinDuffy|Máirín Duffy]] posted<ref>http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/fedora-13-lightscribe-labels/</ref> LightScribe CD/DVD labels for Fedora 13 discs.
 
[[User:Sdz|Sebastian Dziallas]] announced<ref>http://sdziallas.com/blog/sebastian/2010/05/mirabelles-they-are-there.html</ref> the availability of Sugar on a Stick v.3, Mirabelle.
 
[[User:Nicubunu|Nicu Buculei]] wrote<ref>http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2010/05/hyperspace-comic-tutorial.html</ref> an Inkscape tutorial on how to create a drawing look as if the viewer has gone into "hyperspace".
 
[[User:Otaylor|Owen Taylor]] measured<ref>http://blog.fishsoup.net/2010/05/26/measuring-gnome-shell-performance/</ref> the performance of the GNOME Shell. "One of the big goals of the GNOME 3 Shell is to use animation and visual effects for positive good. An animation explains to the user what the connection is between point A and point B. For this to work, the animation has to be smooth - it can't be a jerky sequence of disconnected frames. Performance matters."
 
[[User:Ardchoille42|Ian MacGregor]] offered<ref>http://ardchoille42.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-to-easier-reinstalls.html</ref> some tips (and scripts) for easier Linux reinstalls. Ian also shared<ref>http://ardchoille42.blogspot.com/2010/05/becoming-fedora-contributor.html</ref> what the experience was like becoming a Fedora contributor. "I became a Fedora contributor after experiencing what I felt was a highly polished distro and outstanding support from the Fedora user community...Becoming a Fedora contributor was easier than I expected."
 
[[Peter Hutterer|Peter Hutterer]] explained<ref>http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-to-enable-tapping-tap-to-click-on.html</ref> how to enable tap-to-click in GNOME. Additionally, Peter mentioned<ref>http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-evdev-middle-mouse-button-emulation.html</ref> that the next version of evdev (2.5) changes the default middle-mouse button emulation to be off.
 
[[BenjaminOtte|Benjamin Otte]] found<ref>http://blogs.gnome.org/otte/2010/05/31/youtube-out-of-the-box/</ref> that in Fedora 13, Youtube videos in WebM format will Just Work out-of-the-box.
 
[[User:Rjones|Richard W.M. Jones]] linked<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/supercomputing-superpowers-bbc-article/</ref> to a BBC article<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10187248.stm</ref> with a Flash treemap breakdown of the top 500 supercomputers in the world (hint: almost all of them run Linux).


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Planet Fedora

In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide.

Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin

General

Ian MacGregor revisited[1] the Gnome 3 Shell. "I could go on and on about how impressed I am with gnome shell..." Matthias Clasen noted[2] that It IS Coming. "But GNOME consists of well over a hundred modules, so there is naturally a lot of work left. There are a number of things where you can help."

On the design front, Máirín Duffy discuessed[3] the importance of "an open and inclusive process" to the Design Team. "We want folks to use open formats and collaborate in an open way, using open source tools, sharing sources and working together rather than in competition. An ongoing goal for the team is to get greater community participation in creating artwork for Fedora." Máirín also announced[4] the Fedora Design Team Bi-weekly Bounty. "Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to polish up the design and layout of the Fedora 13 Feature Profiles print document."

Mel Chua looked[5] back at the history of the Fedora and Sugar on a Stick releases to figure out where the project could go in the future.

Martin Sourada decided[6] to use the Midori Webkit-based web browser. "So here're some highlights of what you can get with the latest and greatest stuff that's in Fedora 12 (and a bit of customizing)..."

Jesus Rodriguez explained[7] how to (and how not to) move a large volume of data from one system to another by physically removing one drive from an madadm RAID-1 array and putting it into another system.

Mohammed Morsi announced[8] the release of "a Fedora 12 based appliance complete w/ a stack of rpms built against and related to Ruby 1.9.1."