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Idea: Fedora in Library
by Chitlesh GOORAH 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Hello everyone, I think im going to write a lot lol. Ok an Ubuntu marketing agent told me about their idea of having Ubuntu in Libraries. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuInLibraries No, its not about installing Ubuntu in the computers but to lend Open source cds to their subscribed users. Actually they copied it from Openoffice. http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/11838/Open%20Sour… Personally its a wonderful idea because having CDS in libraries will affect the complete newbies mind set of fear towards linux. Considering the fact that librairies is a body of trust. This is mostly an activity done by the lug. Of course if we ambassadors provide enough materials/translation to. Im eager to do it right away in Strasbourg. But comparing to another distros like ubuntu,suse,etc they already have enough materials in their pocket. Example, live cds. I prefer to wait for Fedora to catch up with materials. Let's take for example, Fedora. If a lug happens to realise this project. Among other distros we will only have handouts and Fedora DVDs. Meanwhile students or anyone will prefer to give a try to live cds, leaving Fedora behind. Saying that this particular live distro is based on Fedora isn't enough for the complete newbies. It would rather be useless. If someone tried the "official" fedora LIVE cd if he/she likes it he/she can easily get the install DVD for free for their local lug or lug ambassador or from the library directly. Some testimonials: http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/04/04/16/1923248.shtml?tid=137&tid=185&… http://slashdot.org/articles/03/12/15/193231.shtml?tid=146&tid=149&tid=99 Since in the last 3 meetings (see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Schedule ) we didn't really progress in Emails, funds, Schwag because we are waiting for additional info. I suggest we talk and plan about this idea. I know ambassadors from India or Brazil will have alot to say :)) I know we (majority)ambassadors we only popped in during meetings hours, talk and talk. This sounds like acting. Its time to move A55 :) for REAL action. Chitlesh GOORAH -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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[Fwd: fisl7.0: sua proposta de palestra (141)]
by Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 :-) - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: fisl7.0: sua proposta de palestra (141) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:43:54 -0200 (BRST) From: temario(a)softwarelivre.org To: rodrigopadula(a)projetofedora.org (English version below) Olá Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira, Temos o prazer de informá-lo(a) de que a sua proposta de palestra para o fisl7.0, "PROJETO FEDORA BRASIL", foi aceita para apresentação no evento. É necessário que você confirme a sua participação *até o próximo dia 06 de fevereiro*, através do "Canto dos palestrantes": https://fisl.softwarelivre.org/7.0/papers/speaker/ Lá você pode também conferir as avaliações da(s) suas propostas e comentários dos avaliadores, que podem contribuir para melhorar sua apresentação, resumo, ou apenas te dar um retorno dos avaliadores com relação ao seu trabalho. Os critérios utilizados para a avaliação podem ser encontrados em: http://twiki.softwarelivre.org/bin/view/Fisl7/Classifica%e7%e3oDasPropostas. Os membros da comissão avaliadora estão listados em: http://twiki.softwarelivre.org/bin/view/Fisl7/Comiss%e3oDeAvaliadores Adotamos uma política de evitar mais de uma palestra da mesma pessoa, de forma a dar oportunidade a mais palestrantes. Assim, se você submeteu mais de uma proposta, é possível que alguma delas tenha sido recusada mesmo tendo argumento de classificação maior que o mínimo para aprovação na trilha correspondente. Entraremos em contato daqui a mais alguns dias com informaçõe úteis aos palestrantes. Saudações, - -- Comitê de Programa 7º Fórum Internacional Software Livre 19, 20, 21 e 22 de Abril de 2006 Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/7.0/ - ------------------------------------------- English version - ------------------------------------------- Hi Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira, We're pleased to inform you that your lecture proposal for fisl7.0, with title "PROJETO FEDORA BRASIL", was accepted for presentation in the event. It's necessary that you confirm your attendance *until next February 6th*, through the "Speakers' corner": https://fisl.softwarelivre.org/7.0/papers/speaker/ There you can also check your proposals' reviews and comments from reviewers, which can help you to improve the presentation, abstract, or just give you a feedback from reviewers about your work. The criteria used for the review can be found at: http://twiki.softwarelivre.org/bin/view/Fisl7/Classifica%e7%e3oDasPropostas. (sorry, for now it's Portuguese only, so if you have any doubt please get in touch). Members of the reviews comission are listed at: http://twiki.softwarelivre.org/bin/view/Fisl7/Comiss%e3oDeAvaliadores We've adopted a policy of avoiding more than a lecture per person, trying to give opportunity to more people. This way, if you have submitted more than one lecture proposal, it's possible that one or more of them have been rejected even with a classification argument greater than the minimum needed to be accpted in its corresponding track. We'll get in touch in a few days with useful information for speakers. Best wishes, - -- Program Comitee 7th Internacional Free Software Forum 19th to 22nd, April 2006 Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/7.0/ - -- +================================================+ RODRIGO PADULA DE OLIVEIRA (o- BACHAREL EM SISTEMAS DE INFORMAÇÃO //\ FACULDADE METODISTA GRANBERY - FMG V_/_ PostgreSQL - PHP - Java - Fedora +================================================+ Embaixador do Fedora no Brasil http://www.projetofedora.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD33sOPg3HAC1vlg4RAkUgAKCooFWPKQPUh3LmWOovWbCjRrHnIQCaA/BN qZ1CJap+hz/IpAisZGlkkqI= =3tYh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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What's New in Fedora Core 5 Test2 (LWN): Some comments
by Rahul Sundaram 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

Hi LWN has a look at Fedora Core Test 2 written by Ladislav Bodnar of distrowatch fame. It is a expanded view of distrowatch's weekly comments on Fedora Core Test 2. http://lwn.net/Articles/167316/ A few comments for more information. The switch to a prolonged development cycle for Fedora Core 5 was specific to this release to accommodate major changes within the infrastructure such as the Anaconda changes. Anaconda, the defacto standard among Linux installers has gone into a major "interface surgery" in the words of Bodnar who has questioned the need for such a change. The need for such a change arises to accommodate many of the important new developments the project has brought forward. The switch to yum instead of up2date within Fedora, the formation of Fedora Extras as a complimentary default repository with over two thousand packages etc needed not just a interface change but a core Anaconda revamp in the form of a yum backend. Better consistency of distribution upgrades and planned ability of Anaconda to use Fedora Extras and possibly any custom repository during installation time is a fairly major advantage. The streamlining of the interface is complimentary to this in my opinion. Now why is the new applications such as Beagle, F-spot and Tomboy mentioned in the release announcement but not Mono specifically?. I believe the applications and the functionality improvements they bring into the release is much more important the underlying language it is written under which is why the inclusion of Mono is mentioned in the release notes but not in the release announcement. The review is generally positive in note of other changes such as as the new security improvements(fstack-porter) written by Red Hat developer which was originally part of Fedora Core 4 and backported into the Fedora GCC compiler and now made upstream on the GCC 4.1 as the system compiler for Fedora Core 5. The new look and feel, GNOME 2.14, Firefox 1.5, Openoffice.org 1.01 Pup, package updater are some of the core positive things noted in the review. A few known issues are also mentioned. Kudos to everyone involved in this release. -- Rahul Fedora Bug Triaging - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers

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Kadischi Screenshots in osdir.com
by Chitlesh GOORAH 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

Hello everyone, My screenshots of Kadischi has been accepted by Chris Haney of osdir.com Here is the link : http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=551&slide=1&title=k… Chitlesh Goorah -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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Fedora Events or Not?
by Chitlesh GOORAH 29 Jan '06

29 Jan '06

Hello, there, Ive been adding some events to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents till Ive found ----- Enter events that have an assigned Ambassador in the table below, trying to stick to the ascending chronological order. After the event has passed, please move it to the Fedora Events Archive ----- Well, these events that Im adding don't have assigned ambassadors. Should I stop adding events? Maybe If I add these events someone might say, "Wow, I didnt know that in my locality there is a linux event. Ill definitely participate for Fedora" :) So should I break the rule or paste it here in the list and wait for someone to grab an event? Chitlesh GOORAH ps: table's width is severely over 100% -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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Event: Strasbourg (date partly finalised)
by Chitlesh GOORAH 26 Jan '06

26 Jan '06

Hai there, I have good news and maybe bad news. Its Still fresh. First as long awaited here in Strasbourg, France there will be an "open source" day http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/jl4/index on the 23-25 June 2006. This event will be intended as I mentioned in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents to promote open source softwares and linux. If somebody is motivated to make a conference about fedora, do inform me. Hence you will become the guest of our lug. We ( the lug members ) are looking forward to invite lecturers and to pay their journey and hotel too. This needs to be confirmed. The money required to host the lecturers will be from either paid entrance or companies paying for the booth. to rent a booth for fedora, we have to pay. Price will be communicated later. There are also talks about free booth for associations. But nothing yet confirmed. Its possible to sell Fedora t-shirts or other goodies for fund raising. But in this case, we must rent a booth for Fedora. Now comes the "maybe" bad news: this scheduled date for the event interfere badly with two of MY private life things: 1. I have already booked two tickets (my gf and I) to Mauritius. 2. my contract with the hostel ends in the beginning of June and somebody will be occupying my actual room. so meanwhile send your comments, queries or any other proposals :) regards, Chitlesh GOORAH -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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My desktop OS: Fedora Core 3: Feedback
by Rahul Sundaram 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

Hi I have just read your short review[1] on Fedora Core 3. Its rather remarkable timing to be trying out Fedora Core 3 now considering the fast release lifecycle of Fedora. It might be of interest to you that Fedora Core 3 has already transitioned into maintenance mode and to Fedora Legacy - community maintenance project, recently with the release of Fedora Core 5 test 2 as per our lifecycle policy (FC X goes into maintenance when FC Z test 2 is released). Refer to our FAQ - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAQ and especially http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle for more details. You reference to the network card does not include a model number. It seems from the comments though that what you have been downloading is the firmware of the driver which is not shipped in Fedora due to redistribution restrictions incompatible with Fedora licensing guidelines imposed by many of the wireless hardware manufacturers. The drivers usually are included in the upstream and Fedora kernel though. You have mentioned the issue of dependencies while installing software with RPM. RPM is not a typical end user tool. It is generally better to use yum to install software packages which also resolves the dependencies automatically. Yum also provides the ability to build plugins on top of it and is extensible and flexible. Many of the yum related additional features is available through yum-utils in Fedora Extras repository. This repository can be enabled manually using the instructions available in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras. Fedora Core 4 enables this repository by default which contains over two thousand applications in addition to Fedora Core. Looking forward to your review on future releases of Fedora. Refer to http://fedora.redhat.com/About/schedule/ for the project's public release schedule. Thank you for your interest in the Fedora Project. [1]http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/01/16/1659245&from=rss -- Rahul Fedora Bug Triaging - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers

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Re: fedoraproject.org membership.
by Kevin Verma 22 Jan '06

22 Jan '06

On 22 Jan 2006 21:05:20 +0530, Nadeem M. Khan <nadeem(a)nadlabz.net> wrote: > Dear Kevin, > > This is with respect to your posts to DubaiLUG about fedoraproject.org. > It seems you've added the LUG even though a majority of people are not > fedora/redhat users. > > Well, we have a LUG based in Navi Mumbai, called LinuxVadaPav. > Currently we are having 213 members - admins, students and OSS > enthusiasts. 95% of our members use RH and a good majority of them are > RHCEs. Although Mumbai has its own LUG (ILUG-BOM), ours is the first LUG > for Navi Mumbai. > > As a moderator and owner of the group, I would appreciate if you add our > group to your project as well. I'm sure our group can provide > enthusiastic ambassadors as well. > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linuxvadapav. > > Regards, > Nadeem Khan. > Dear Nadeem, The LUG listing at Fedora site is not a listing of LUGs which might be all Fedora users. Your LUG is now added to the list, not for it is a LUG having lots of Fedora users, but for it is a LUG :-) You might like to understand Fedora Project in more details and offer the same understanding to your LUG members. At Fedora Project we need more and more developers, testers and users. For any kind of contribution, joining us on one of relevant Fedora Project mailing list will be a good start. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors Cheers, Kevin Verma Ambassador Fedora Project, INDIA

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Introducing Fedora Ambassadors Program
by Kevin Verma 22 Jan '06

22 Jan '06

Dear Dr. Bentiba, It feels great to acknowledge your efforts to have established first Linux community not just at Sharjah but also at entire UAE. I still remember my visit to your LUG foundation and work place "Etisalat College of Engineering" during August, 2004. It was really nice to have found the most organized LUG room with plenty of workstations providing an ample opportunity to more practical orientations. First of all on behalf of Fedora Project I will like to welcome you to please have your LUG listed on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxUserGroups Secondly, At Fedora Project, we welcome you to please review Fedora Project and the Fedora Project Ambassador program in more details on the following URLs. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors http://www.redhat.com/magazine/014dec05/features/ambassadors/ While Fedora Ambassadors are expected to fulfil their aims in their territory, Fedora foundation supports the Ambassadors by shipping Free CDs and T-Shirts. With the help of Ambassadors in all the regions, having enough developers, testers and users helps define Fedora better and better Operating Systems, also your region achieve its localized requirements. Please let me know how you review above all, and if you'll be interested or if you can pass us some references of potential Ambassadors at Sharjah. Yours Sincerely, Kevin Verma Ambassador Fedora Project, INDIA

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Introducing Fedora Ambassadors Program
by Kevin Verma 22 Jan '06

22 Jan '06

John, I recall all your great efforts you have put into Dubai LUG from my last years experience at UAE. At Fedora Project, we welcome you to please review Fedora Project and the Fedora Project Ambassador program in more details on the following URLs. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors http://www.redhat.com/magazine/014dec05/features/ambassadors/ While Fedora Ambassadors are expected to fulfil their aims in their territory, Fedora foundation supports the Ambassadors by shipping Free CDs and T-Shirts. With the help of Ambassadors in all the regions, having enough developers, testers and users helps define Fedora better and better Operating Systems, also your region achieve its localized requirements. Please let me know how you review above all, and if you'll be interested or if you can pass us some references. Yours Sincerely, Kevin Verma Ambassador Fedora Project, INDIA

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