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== Planet Fedora ==
== Planet Fedora ==


In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora<ref>http://planet.fedoraproject.org</ref> - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. This edition covers highlights from the past three weeks.
This is the Planet Fedora section, covering news from planet.fedoraproject.org[http://planet.fedoraproject.org], a collection of blogs from Fedora users spanning the globe.  


Contributing Writer: [[User:Abatkin|Adam Batkin]]
Contributing Writer: [[User:Jbraun|Joel Braun]]


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=== Events ===


=== General ===
====FudCon Pune 2011====
[[user:kishan|Kishan Goyal]] posted on his experience on day 2 at FudCon Pune<ref>http://kishangoyal.co.cc/post/12549697509/fudcon-pune-11-day-2</ref>.


[[JanWildeboer|Jan Wildeboer]] pointed out<ref>http://jan.wildeboer.net/2010/03/competition-is-fine-if-facts-stay-facts/</ref> that "IBM has chosen KVM via Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to run their IBM Cloud", though it supports both RHEL and SuSE as guests.
[[user:jsimon|Joerg Simon]] posted pictures<ref>http://kitall.blogspot.com/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011-travel-und-event.html</ref> of the event.


[[User:Rjones|Richard W.M. Jones]] released<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/new-tool-virt-resize/</ref> a new tool, <tt>virt-resize</tt> to resize virtual machine disks and asked<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/quick-quiz-resizing-vms/</ref> "what features would you like to see?" for version 2.0? Rich also explained<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/guestfish-i-thats-inspector-not-interactive/</ref> how some of <tt>libguestfs</tt> and <tt>guestfish</tt> works.
[[user:izhar|Izhar Firdaus]] wrote about his experience<ref>http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ShadowLogs%2FFedora+%28%3A%3A+Shadow+Logs%3A%3A+Fedora%29#!/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011.html</ref> at FudCon, as well as some thoughts on the atmosphere of the event.


[[User:Sdz|Sebastian Dziallas]] announced<ref>http://sdziallas.com/blog/sebastian/2010/03/fedora-mini-has-a-mailing-list.html</ref> that there is now a Fedora Mini mailing list<ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/mini</ref> to discuss Fedora on platforms such as Sugar, Moblin and Maeon (MeeGo).
[[user:suchakra|Suchakra]] also blogged on Fudcon Pune<ref>http://suchakra.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/fudcon%e2%86%94funcon-pune-2011/</ref>.


The Red Hat JBoss team posted<ref>http://press.redhat.com/2010/03/24/jboss-enterprise-middleware-a-world-class-reference-architecture/</ref> an update on the status of JBoss Enterprise Middleware releases.
[[user:kushal|Kushal Das]] posted photos<ref>http://kushaldas.in/2011/11/10/photoset-from-fudcon-pune-2011/</ref> of the event to his blog.
===Fedora Community===


[[User:Threethirty|Justin O'Brien]] mentioned<ref>http://numberedhumanindustries.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/paul-frields-to-step-down-as-fedora-project-leader/</ref> that [[User:Pfrields|Paul W. Frields]] will be stepping down as Fedora Project Leader and that the election process will be coming up soon.
The release of Fedora 16 has been the main topic of the blogroll recently, and it's fair to say that it's being greeted with open arms by many of the users.


[[LuisVilla|Luis Villa]] stepped<ref>http://tieguy.org/blog/2010/03/25/patent-101/</ref> in to the mess of software patents and and their applicability to h264 and Ogg. "Let this be a friendly public service announcement: patent law says that anyone who uses a patent, not just the manufacturer or licensor of the patent-infringing good, can potentially be dragged into court on a charge of patent infringement." Luis followed-up<ref>http://tieguy.org/blog/2010/03/26/more-patent-101-and-some-patent-licensing-201-advanced-class/</ref> with some clarifications. "More patent lessons- first on submarine patents (basics!) and then on how patent pools are licensed. I don’t really want to continue this series, but the past few days have been a good reminder that there is a lot of misinformation out there around patents."
[[user:jjmartinez|Juanjo Martinez]] blogged on his first impressions of F16, calling it an "impressive release"<ref>http://engbblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/welcome-fedora-16/</ref>.


[[CaseyDahlin|Casey Dahlin]] suggested<ref>http://screwyouenterpriseedition.blogspot.com/2010/03/why-you-should-be-using-libnih.html</ref> that instead of using <tt>talloc</tt> (see [[FWN/Issue218#General|FWN Issue 218]]), <tt>libnih</tt> might be an even better alternative.
===General===


[[User:Kwade|Karsten Wade]] wrote<ref>http://iquaid.org/2010/03/28/a-better-way-to-use-wikipedia-in-the-classroom/</ref> about better ways to use Wikipedia in the classroom. "Where Wikipedia is a useful information source and starting place for deeper exploration beyond it’s reference-focused world, there is so much more that can be done with it to help teach the open source way.
[[User:adamwill|Adam Williamson]] posted about <ref>http://www.happyassassin.net/2011/11/10/stupid-fedora-tricks/</ref>starting work on Fedora 17, and experimentation with the new kernel in a virtualized environment.
In fact, you can teach all of the basics of joining a collaborative free and open source software community without ever getting more technical than how to get an account and edit a wiki page."


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Latest revision as of 06:21, 11 November 2011

Planet Fedora

This is the Planet Fedora section, covering news from planet.fedoraproject.org[1], a collection of blogs from Fedora users spanning the globe.

Contributing Writer: Joel Braun

Events

FudCon Pune 2011

Kishan Goyal posted on his experience on day 2 at FudCon Pune[1].

Joerg Simon posted pictures[2] of the event.

Izhar Firdaus wrote about his experience[3] at FudCon, as well as some thoughts on the atmosphere of the event.

Suchakra also blogged on Fudcon Pune[4].

Kushal Das posted photos[5] of the event to his blog.

Fedora Community

The release of Fedora 16 has been the main topic of the blogroll recently, and it's fair to say that it's being greeted with open arms by many of the users.

Juanjo Martinez blogged on his first impressions of F16, calling it an "impressive release"[6].

General

Adam Williamson posted about [7]starting work on Fedora 17, and experimentation with the new kernel in a virtualized environment.

  1. ↑ http://kishangoyal.co.cc/post/12549697509/fudcon-pune-11-day-2
  2. ↑ http://kitall.blogspot.com/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011-travel-und-event.html
  3. ↑ http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ShadowLogs%2FFedora+%28%3A%3A+Shadow+Logs%3A%3A+Fedora%29#!/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011.html
  4. ↑ http://suchakra.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/fudcon%e2%86%94funcon-pune-2011/
  5. ↑ http://kushaldas.in/2011/11/10/photoset-from-fudcon-pune-2011/
  6. ↑ http://engbblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/welcome-fedora-16/
  7. ↑ http://www.happyassassin.net/2011/11/10/stupid-fedora-tricks/
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