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Fedora Project leader Paul W Frields talks with FLOSS Weekly
by Rahul Sundaram 09 Jun '09

09 Jun '09

Hi http://twit.tv/floss71 "Paul W. Frields of the Fedora Project, the free and open source arm of the Red Hat Linux distribution. Paul W. Frields is the Chairman of the Fedora Project Board, and an employee of Red Hat. He works on documentation, release notes, marketing, and was a founding member of the Fedora Project Board." Blog post from Paul at http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2481 Rahul

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Fedora 11 Release Announcement FINAL
by Eric Christensen 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Thanks to Jack and Paul for stepping up and really getting the release announcement[1] built. We, at Docs, have reviewed the final draft and think we are in consensus that it is complete. Please look over it and see if anything jumps out at you. If not, this is what we'd like to go with. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Announcement_for_F11 Thanks, Eric Docs Lead

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Media and Content for next week 6/1-6/8
by Jack Aboutboul 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

Hey All, Seeing as that we slipped another week, I don't think we should stop the barrage of podcast and interviews that are coming out. There are a few more topics that I think I can cover, and will present them here as a sort of schedule for next week. Again, for those of who are interested in doing a non-english podcast, there were some good ideas and I think we should move ahead with some of those. If you are seriously interested, please reply all to this email with a proposal and outline. I will not be around Friday to help, but will be back online on Sunday. Max, Paul and anyone else should be able to help you. Paul put together a great tutorial on how to record a podcast through fedora talk voip which can be found here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_make_a_podcast My proposed topics for print interview and/or podcast are as follows: Ext4 with Eric Sandeen Thunderbird 3 with Chris Aillon Fingerprint Auth with Bastein Nocera 20 Second Startup with Harald Hoyer Please let me know what you think of those and if interested in doing a non-english podcast. Thanks, Jack

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fedora_11s_best_five_features (Review)
by Frank Murphy 30 May '09

30 May '09

http://blogs.computerworld.com/fedora_11s_best_five_features -- msn: frankly3d skype: frankly3d Mailing-List Reply to: Mailing-List Still Learning, Unicode where possible

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Self-Introduction: Mel Chua
by Mel Chua 29 May '09

29 May '09

I'm Mel Chua*, and I'll be a Max-and-Greg CommArch minion[0] for a few months. I'm usually in Boston but will also be in Raleigh and San Fransisco at various points this summer. Among other things, I'm an open-source-in-education geek with an electrical & computer engineering background and quite a bit of history in the OLPC[1] and Sugar Labs[2] projects, which some of you here might know me from. Fedorawise, I'm still watching and learning and haven't yet jumped on particular projects, but one of my constant interests is learning how to spark up the open-source mentality in academia through working on stuff like http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE. Fedora is a great example of a learning ecosystem that's done way better than academic institutions at creating folks who can Make Real Stuff For Real people, so figuring out how that happens and how to spread the word of it is the first thing I'll be hurtling towards. Not sure exactly what that means yet, but I'll listen for a while and let you know. ;) Potentially useful skills - feel free to grab me on IRC (mchua) to do things in the impending release rush: * mediawiki ninja. I keep/make pages good-lookin', spam-free, well-linked, content-o-riffic, and push stuff that should be on the wiki, to the wiki. * documentation nerd. teach me something and I'll write it up so well you'll never have to teach it to anyone else again. * hackathon/event wrangling. I've run unconferences, hackathons, workshops, and most kinds of grassroots events you can think of, and can do it well enough to teach others. * breaking things. I used to be in QA, and my specialty is breaking things (technology and content) like a very creative newbie might. Point me towards something and I will get confused and tell you exactly why. [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mchua [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mchua [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mchua *only my parents call me Mallory. I also go by mchua on IRC.

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FEL on Opencores FOSS tools list
by Rangeen Basu 29 May '09

29 May '09

Hi I was going through the list which I got in today's newsletter and to my surprise I found FEL in the list along with some other FOSS EDA tools. Felt like sharing this news. http://opencores.org/?do=newsletter&2009=05#n5 -- Regards Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury Fedora Ambassador sherry151(a)gmail.com

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One minute Demo : Create an AMD2901 IC
by Chitlesh GOORAH 29 May '09

29 May '09

Hello there, It was requested some time ago how to give a small quick demo of a chip design flow. Below, _briefly_ I will show you how to do so in less than 1 minute. We will demonstrate a simplified version of the AMD 2901 integrated circuit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Am2900 You will need the example "alliance-run" coming with package "alliance-doc". == Preparation == # yum install alliance-doc Copy the example to a directory of your choice: $ cp -pr /usr/share/doc/alliance-doc-5.0/alliance-run/ . $ cd alliance-run Disable the design checker, this example is very old and the technology was updated since. $ sed -i "s|\$(DRUC|#(DRUC|" Makefile == Chip design == The behavioural model of the IC is described in the file amd2901_ctl.vbe. This file undergoes several stages to refine the area and timing of the design and finally converted into hardware. In this case, we are using a technology of 1 µm. However, we also ship 7 additional technologies up to a feature size of 0.13µm (under the name of pharosc). Compile the design (one minute): $ make View the schematic: $ make view_ctl_logic (you can also open the amd2901_chip.vst, and roam through the hierarchies) View the chip : $ make graal open amd2901_chip.ap http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/images/graal.png To view the pins etc, use the peek function and select the whole chip : http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/images/graalpeek.png To simulation the chip: $ make view_chip_simulation That's it you can use this small demo during your events :) Tip: you can set the main windows below other windows in order to have the small dialog boxes on top. Right click on the window decorator -> Advanced -> Keep below others Well that's it you have a simplified version of an AMD2901 IC. Keep regards, Chitlesh

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Fedora 11's best five features
by Rahul Sundaram 29 May '09

29 May '09

Hi http://blogs.computerworld.com/fedora_11s_best_five_features?page=1 "Whether you use Fedora on your servers or desktops, I highly recommend you give this new version a try. It's fast, it's solid, and it's up to date. It's really everything you could ask for from a do-it-all Linux distribution." Rahul

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Marketing Meeting 2009-05-26 IRC Log
by Steven Moix 26 May '09

26 May '09

Here is the log for this week's meeting: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Marketing_meeting_2009-05-26 Steven

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Meeting Today 2009.05.26 @ 20.00UTC
by Jack Aboutboul 26 May '09

26 May '09

Hey All, We will be having out regularly scheduled marketing meeting today, May 26th 2009 at 20.00 UTC. That's 4 Eastern, 1 Pacific. The meeting will be taking place in #fedora-meeting. On the agenda is the things we need to have done for release day next week and their status, things to do on release day and post-release day discussion. See you all there, Jack

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