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| === Tech Tidbits ===
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| [[WarrenTogami|Warren Togami]] announced[1] the creation of a new list for NSPluginWrapper. "NSPluginwrapper Development discussion with the goal of isolating issues and collaboratively working on solutions should go on this list. There was some interest from other Linux distributions and even Adobe to cooperate on the future of nspluginwrapper development[2]."
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| [1] http://wtogami.livejournal.com/28380.html
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| [2] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/nspluginwrapper-devel-list
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| [[JesusRodriguez|Jesus Rodriguez]] announced[3] the release of Spacewalk 0.2[4], the open-source upstream for Red Hat Satellite. There is a list of features, enhancements, bug fixes, and credits on Jesus' blog.
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| [3] http://zeusville.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/spacewalk-02/
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| [4] http://spacewalk.redhat.com/
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| [[GregDeK|Greg DeKoenigsberg]] helped[5] the OLPC folks recruit volunteers to be part of their growing infrastructure team. "OLPC builds a lot of packages. They are looking to set up and maintain an infrastructure that will allow them to meet their own unique packaging needs. They need a volunteer with a strong understanding of the Fedora packaging process -- one who either understands koji now, or can learn to understand it in fairly short order."
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| [5] http://gregdek.livejournal.com/35595.html
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| My favorite Planet post this week came[6] from Fedora Board member [[MattDomsch|Matt Domsch]], and it is worth people's time to read the entire post, to gain a lot of insight into how Fedora's mass rebuilds work, and what triggers them.
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| "One challenge to self-hosting a project the size of Fedora (now with about 6200 source packages) is dealing with the interdependencies between packages. When a major component, such as the compiler or an often-used library, upgrades to a new version, you should rebuild all packages that depend upon that major component, to ensure they continue to work. Often, simply re-compiling or re-linking each package using the updated compiler or library is all that is needed. In some cases though, applications which once built, no longer do - bitrot has set in."
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| [6] http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2008/09/19/use-the-source-luke.aspx
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| === Legal ===
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| [[TomCallaway|Tom Callaway]] wrote[1] 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.
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| Spot's entire post is worth reading, as is the commentary that follows it. Here is one excerpt:
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| "[The] goal was always to ensure that we could walk away with license terms from Mozilla that:
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| 1. Permitted Fedora to continue using the Firefox trademarks
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| 2. Clearly upheld the MPL as the valid software license terms for the Firefox binaries and source (not just for Fedora, but for everyone)
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| 3. Meet the criteria for Free Software
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| 4. Are presented to the user in a non-obtrusive, non-clickthrough agreement way"
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| [1] http://spot.livejournal.com/299409.html
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| [[AnthonyGreen|Anthony Green]] wrote[2] a post that referenced SGI's alteration[3] of its Free B license, which has long been a thorn in the side of various distros.
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| [2] http://spindazzle.org/greenblog/index.php?/archives/121-Thank-you,-SGI..html
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| [3] http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2008/september/opengl.html
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| === Events & Ambassadors ===
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| 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. [[BrianPowell|Brian Powell]] gave[1] an update on the organization, saying:
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| "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.
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| 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."
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| [1] http://blog.rhatters.org/2008/09/17/fadna-2008-update/
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| Additionally, [[KarstenWade|Karsten Wade]] wrote[2] 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.
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| "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."
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| [2] http://iquaid.org/2008/09/16/formula-for-making-distance-work/
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| [[DavidNalley|David Nalley]] wrote up[3] 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!
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| [3] http://www.nalley.sc/david/?p=96
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