FWN/Beats/PlanetFedora

Planet Fedora

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

http://planet.fedoraproject.org

Contributing Writer: Max Spevack

Tech Tidbits

http://wtogami.livejournal.com/28380.html

http://zeusville.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/spacewalk-02/

http://kushaldas.in/2008/09/18/translation-filter-03-released/

http://iquaid.org/2008/09/17/your-assignment-for-the-upcoming-f10-beta-relnotes/

http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1174

http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2008/09/19/use-the-source-luke.aspx

http://gregdek.livejournal.com/36093.html

http://gregdek.livejournal.com/35595.html

Legal

Tom Callaway wrote a lengthy post about the Mozilla EULA controversy, which reared its head again this week in the context of Ubuntu and Mozilla. However, Fedora dealt with this problem several months ago, at the end of the Fedora 9 release cycle.

Spot's entire post is worth reading, as is the commentary that follows it. Here is one excerpt:

"[The] goal was always to ensure that we could walk away with license terms from Mozilla that:

1. Permitted Fedora to continue using the Firefox trademarks 2. Clearly upheld the MPL as the valid software license terms for the Firefox binaries and source (not just for Fedora, but for everyone) 3. Meet the criteria for Free Software 4. Are presented to the user in a non-obtrusive, non-clickthrough agreement way"

http://spot.livejournal.com/299409.html

Anthony Green wrote a post that referenced SGI altering its Free B license, which has long been a thorn in the side of various distros.

http://spindazzle.org/greenblog/index.php?/archives/121-Thank-you,-SGI..html

http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2008/september/opengl.html

Events & Ambassadors

The North American Fedora Ambassador Day is coming up at Ohio Linux Fest in October, and there were a few posts about it on Planet this week. Brian Powell gave an update on the organization, saying:

"There have been quite a few discussions and meetings recently in regards to FAD planning. There has been a lot of good progress and great ideas coming out of these. With time getting close, we are looking at finalizing the Agenda and Schedule for FADNA shortly.

If you are a North American Ambassador I would ask that you take a moment to look at what we have come up with so far and a 'tentative' schedule of events located at the FADNA2008 wiki page. If you have anything to add feel free to do so."

http://blog.rhatters.org/2008/09/17/fadna-2008-update/

Additionally, Karsten Wade wrote a post about strategies for handling remote meetings, and making a physical gathering of a small number of people into a larger meeting that remotees can attend and still get value out of, whether that attendance is via IRC, telephone, or something collaborative like gobby.

"Think about your sessions and how it can help to interact with the rest of us. I recommend a minimum of: live video feed, live audio feed, and IRC, Gobby, and wiki editing projected on the wall. We can also keep a VoIP conference room open, but my instinct is to limit the flow on the incoming voices by subject matter. Beyond that recommendation, a live IRC and wiki-based abd/or Gobby note taking with many laptops in the in-person session is the bare bones, with regular usage of talk.fedoraproject.org."

http://iquaid.org/2008/09/16/formula-for-making-distance-work/

David Nalley wrote up a trip report for Linux Demo Day in Charleston, SC. "About 60 people showed up. Charleston’s LUG is relatively new, and this was their first event. They seemed very pleased. I handed about 30 LiveCDs out and talked with a number of Fedora. In addition I spoke to 2-3 people who were intrigued with contributing to Fedora in one way or another. I’ll be following up with these individuals." This is a great example of an event -- low cost, but high touch!

http://www.nalley.sc/david/?p=96