announce September 2007

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Fedora-fr association was born !
by Thomas Canniot 29 Sep '07

29 Sep '07

Dear Fedora user, All the French Fedora Team is glad to announce you the creation of the association of the French speaking Fedora users. We will need your help to drive this project where all the users of Fedora are working for the same goal, the promotion of Fedora. Why an association ? * In order to promote Free software in general and the Fedora distribution in particular. This promotion will lead to the creation of support for the Fedora promotion, from simple flyers to CD/DVD for the installation of Fedora. * To support our website, one of the most important tool for the French community. * An association helps to increase the presence of the French community and gives more weight to his talk, indeed an association has more credibility in front of its partners, ie Fedora project, Red Hat or others. You should notice that the association has no link with the Fedora project itself or Red Hat. The project has been informed of the creation of the association but did not encourage it or support it in any way. What are the goals of the association ? * Promote free software around a central element: the GNU/Linux distribution Fedora. * Promote Fedora on different associations and events or meetings. * Create a network integrating users and developers of the Fedora GNU/Linux distribution. What are our resources ? * The French ambassador team, localized all around France, involved in different Linux User Group and other association. * The dues from our members. * The sell of goodies (T-shirts, mugs, hat...) should financially help to the association. Who is at the head of the association ? The member of the board are: President: Thomas Canniot (MrTom) Vice-president: Armel Kermorvant (armelk) Treasurer: Johan Cwiklinski (trashy) Secretary: Guillaume Kulakowski (llaumgui) Other members of the board: Maxime Carron (Pingoomax) Thierry Delmonte (Titax) Charles Vinchon (littlecharly) All are Fedora ambassador. Why becoming a member ? * Because you wish to be imply in the association's activities. * Because you wish to financially support the association to promote the distribution GNU/Linux Fedora and Free Software, without being actively involved in these actions. * Because you can become a member from 10 euros. Who can become a member ? The association accepts all French speaking people who wish to help the promotion of the Free software and the GNU/Linux distribution Fedora. How to become a member ? We invite you to have a look at the procedure described on the association's website http://asso.fedora-fr.org/Comment_devenir_membre How to do a simple donation ? If you wish to do a simple donation, you can have a look at the website http://ass.fedora-fr.org/Dons How to be involved in the Association actions ? One of the first goal of the association is to create support for the Fedora promotion during different the events and meetings. If you wish to be involved, actually there are several projects for which we are looking for help: * Small books presenting Fedora * Flyers * Posters * Stickers * Pens * Keyrings * ... We are also looking for partners to create Fedora CDs/DVDs. Where to find information about the association ? One website for all information, http://asso.fedora-fr.org All the team of Fedora-fr association is available to answer your questions and help you to lead your projects. Fedora-fr Team.

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Fedora Unity releases updated Fedora 7 Re-Spins.
by Robert 'Bob' Jensen 28 Sep '07

28 Sep '07

The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new ISO Re-Spins (DVD and CD Sets) of Fedora 7. These Re-Spin ISOs are based on Fedora 7 and all updates released as of September 12th, 2007. The ISO images are available for i386 and x86_64 architectures via jigdo starting Friday, September 28th, 2007. We have included CD Image sets for those in the Fedora community that do not have DVD drives or burners available. Fedora Unity has taken up the Re-Spin task to provide the community with the chance to install Fedora with recent updates already included. These updates might otherwise comprise more than 700MiB of downloads for a default install. This is a community project, for and by the community. You can contribute to the community by joining our test process. If you are interested in helping with the testing or mirroring efforts, please contact the Fedora Unity team. Contact information is available at http://fedoraunity.org/ or the #fedora-unity channel on the Freenode IRC Network (irc.freenode.net). Go to http://spins.fedoraunity.org/ to get the bits! To report bugs in the Re-Spins please use http://bugs.fedoraunity.org/ Fedora is a trademark of Red Hat, Inc. Robert 'Bob' Jensen Fedora Unity Founder bob(a)fedoraunity.org

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Cast your vote for the Fedora 8 Codename!
by Jesse Keating 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

We have two options for the Fedora 8 codename, and you get to help decide which we use! https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/vote.cgi is the URL to cast your vote. Log in with your Fedora Account name and password. As long as you belong to at least one group in the Fedora Account System, you can cast your vote. Voting will end and be tallied at Oct, 5, 23:59:59 UTC. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?

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Announcing Fedora 8 Test 2 (7.91)
by Jesse Keating 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

Batten down the hatches, Fedora 8 Test 2 spotted just over the port side bow! A veritable "sea" of choices await you in this release. First up is the "Fedora" installable 'choose your own adventure' style set of isos and trees for i386, x86_64, and ppc(64). Next up we have a variety of Live images: * Fedora Live (i686, x86_64, ppc) - A good general use Desktop live image. i686 even fits on a CD! * Fedora KDE Live (i686, x86_64) - A Desktop based on the KDE software suite. i686 even fits on a CD! * Fedora Developer Live (i686) - A Live image designed for software developers. * Fedora Electronic Lab (FEL) Live (i686) - A live image designed for engineers working on electronics. Fits on a CD! Remember that these Live images can be used on USB meida via the 'livecd-iso-to-disk' utility available in the livecd-tools package. Test 2 is for "beta" users. This is the time where we have more features in a "testable" state where the more people using them and the more feedback we get the better. So please help us make Fedora 8 as good as we can! Release Notes ============================= Work in progress release notes for this test release can be found in the Fedora wiki: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F8Test2/ReleaseNotes Road Map And Release Schedule ============================= This is the second test release of the Fedora 8 release, which is scheduled for November 8, 2007. For further information see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/ How to get it: ============= DVD and network installation are available. We also offer a few different varieties of installable Live media. http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora.html For those of you already running rawhide, all you need to do is yum update. You may already have packages newer than Test 2 installed. Bug reporting and tracking: ========================== The Release Engineering and QA teams keep track of bugs that are considered release blockers. You can see that list here: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/showdependencytree.cgi?id=F8Blocker In addition, a list of non-blocker bugs that should be fixed for Fedora 8 if possible can be found here: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/showdependencytree.cgi?id=F8Target Please check these lists before reporting new bugs! -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?

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Fedora-india mailing list
by Rahul Sundaram 11 Sep '07

11 Sep '07

Hi We now have a new mailing list available at http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india for communication and collaboration between a growing list of Indian contributors to the Fedora Project. We intend to use this mailing list for increasing and strengthening the existing contributors and contributions from India, mentoring, promoting Fedora, event coordination and regional help. If you are a contributor or interested in being one, be it Packaging, Documentation, L10N or anything else, join in and say Hi. If you are a end user interested in the discussions, you are welcome too. Rahul

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Fedora Rel-Eng Meeting Recap 2007-SEP-10
by John Poelstra 10 Sep '07

10 Sep '07

Recap and full IRC transcript found here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/Meetings/2007-sep-10 Please make corrections and clarifications to the wiki page. == News Update From F13 == * Test2 is on the way to mirrors * rawhide is now back to being rawhide unfrozen * minimal buildroots have been adjusted (util-linux-ng is back, perl(-devel) not listed) * have a list of names for F8--need to followup with legal * we should really go after the broken deps and upgrade paths a week or two before the test3 freeze * when are we supposed to turn off new packages for FC6? * FC6 gets shut down one month after F8, do we turn off new packages beforehand? * I'm working on the signing server stuff, and making good progress. I updated the Spec page for it and moved it into ReleaseEngineering/Projects/ space. * hope to have something reasonable for a code drop in a git module or something by the end of this week. Right now things like gpg key and passphrase are hardcoded so I don't want to commit that anywhere right now (: == Miscellaneous == * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Policy/EOL * The EOL policy is clearly stale/out-out-date, something FESCo should probably clarify/update. * Should we do freezes and and snapshots differently for F9 and beyond? * http://katzj.livejournal.com/405215.html == IRC Transcript ==

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