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

Events

Several Fedora Ambassadors posted about OpenExpo, in Switzerland. Joerg Simon posted[0] some pictures of the event, and Max Spevack and Sandro Mathys both[1] posted[2] their own trip reports.

[0] http://kitall.blogspot.com/2008/09/open-expo-winterthur-switzerland-2008.html

[1] http://spevack.livejournal.com/66777.html

[2] http://blog.sandro-mathys.ch/2008/09/27/openexpo-2008-zurich-in-winterthur-review/

Susmit Shannigrahi wrote[3] about the preparations for AXIS '08. "Fedora will have a 1.5 hour session on 26th for talk and 2 hour slot with a media lab for conducting workshops."

[3] http://susmit.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/we-are-leaving-for-axis08/

Finally, Clint Savage posted[4] about Fedora Ambassador Day North America, which will be taking place in parallel with Ohio Linux Fest in October.

[4] http://sexysexypenguins.com/2008/09/24/fadna-at-olf2008/

Tech Tidbits

We begin this section with Jonathan Roberts, and his[5] many[6] posts[7] about the Dell Mini and how it functions[8] with Fedora. Credit JonRob for being tough-minded enough to get the machine to work, despite sound and wireless problems. "I've gone ahead and created a wiki page documenting everything you need to do, as well as joined the Fedora Mini SIG. I've already got some packages waiting to be sorted that would be appropriate for the SIG, so I'll attach them to their tracker bug at some point in the near future."

[5] http://jonrob.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/dell-mini-inspiron-9/

[6] http://jonrob.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/dell-mini-inspiron-9-q-a/

[7] http://jonrob.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/final-mini-post/

[8] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Dell_Mini_Inspiron

Dimitris Glezos posted[9] about translations and release engineering. "There are more than 400 active Fedora translators contibuting in a lot of languages. Anaconda, the Fedora installer, is shipped to more than 60 languages (counting only those with a considerable completion percentage). The Fedora website speaks more than 20 languages. Considering that this is almost exclusively volunteer community work, I’d say our groups of translators are doing an amazing job."

[9] http://dimitris.glezos.com/weblog/2008/09/23/release-engineering-and-translations/

Lennart Poettering wrote[10] several[11] articles[12] about the Linux audio stack this week. His impetus: "At the Audio MC at the Linux Plumbers Conference one thing became very clear: it is very difficult for programmers to figure out which audio API to use for which purpose and which API not to use when doing audio programming on Linux."

[10] http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/guide-to-sound-apis.html

[11] http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-linux-audio-stack.html

[12] http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/guide-to-sound-apis-followup.html