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Planet Fedora

Back after a long hiatus, 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

FrOSCon 2011

Up and coming is FrOSCon 2011, which will be held in Sankt Augustin, Germany on the 20th and 21st of next month. Sirko Kemter has announced that he will be holding two workshops in the Frog Labs (for kids) focusing on using Inkscape ^[1].

Fedora Community

Alejandro Perez blogged about the last training meeting for some new translators and packagers^[2] who will, respectively, start packaging and translating for Fedora 16 and the wiki.

Cătălin Feştilă wrote on how the Fedora HCL for laptops was in need of revamping^[3], and how it would be advantageous to the community to publish a current one.

Fabian Affolter reflected on his past experiences as an ambassador for the Fedora Project^[4], and what he felt were his accomplishments in the past 5 years.

General

Juan "Nushio" Rodriguez expressed his concern^[5] over the functionality of Gnome 3's fallback mode and the future of the Gnome shell in general.

Valent Turkovic shared an article ^[6] about how he helped to integrate Fedora (in this case, Fusion Linux) with Windows XP in his local public library.

Lennart Poettering added part II of his series systemd for Developers ^[7]. This installment focuses on “adding socket activation to real-life software”.

Shakthi Kannan wrote about ^[8]attending the 'Essential Abstractions in GCC' workshop at IIT Bombay and detailed his experience there.

The BoxGrinder Team blogged^[9] on their attempts to stability test BoxGrinder, as well as the process they went through to set up their integration tests.

[1] ttp://karl-tux-stadt.de/ktuxs/?p=3257

[2] ttp://msvslinux1.blogspot.com/2011/07/bst-escuelita-fedora.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/RWHT+(moving+to+linux)

[3] ttp://catalin-festila.blogspot.com/2011/07/fedora-and-laptops-only-brief-look.html

[4] ttp://fabian-affolter.ch/blog/index.php/5-years-as-an-ambassador

[5] ttp://k3rnel.net/2011/07/03/why-gnome-3s-fallback-mode-sucks/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-gnome-3s-fallback-mode-sucks

[6] ttp://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/index.php/archives/fedora-in-public-libraries/

[7] ttp://0pointer.de/blog/projects/socket-activation2.html

[8] ttp://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/grc/gcc-workshop-11/

[9] ttp://boxgrinder.org/blog/2011/07/04/how-we-test-boxgrinder/

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 == 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.
+Back after a long hiatus, 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.
-We haven't had a regular Planet Fedora beat for about six weeks, so I thought I'd provide some coverage this week.  If anyone is interested in helping with the Planet Fedora beat, please let us know on the Fedora News Team list (news@lists.fedoraproject.org).
+Contributing Writer: [[User:Jbraun|Joel Braun]]
-Contributing Writer: [[User:pcalarco|Pascal Calarco]]
-<references/>
 === Events ===
-==== FUDCon Tempe 2011 ====
+==== FrOSCon 2011 ====
-There have been a lot of posts around FUDCon Tempe that took place two weeks ago. Here are the ones from the last few days.
-Chris Lalancette provided a couple posts<ref>http://clalance.blogspot.com/2011/02/fudcon-2011-day-1.html</ref><ref>http://clalance.blogspot.com/2011/02/fudcon-2011-day-2.html</ref> providing summaries of the sessions he attended, including talks on Asterisk Hacks, Matahari, GIMP as a Pro Photo Editing Tool, and more.
-[[User:Nushio| Juan Rodriguez]] blogged about the Fedora Trademarks session<ref>http://k3rnel.net/2011/02/08/fudcon-tempe-red-hat-talks-pt-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fudcon-tempe-red-hat-talks-pt-2</ref> and Red Hat Legal<ref>http://k3rnel.net/2011/02/07/fudcon-tempe-red-hat-legal-talks/</ref> discussion he attended, as well as Mel and Sebastian's "I'd like to continue hacking, but my hands hurt"<ref>http://k3rnel.net/2011/02/09/fudcon-tempe-id-like-to-continue-hacking-but-my-hands-really-hurt/</ref>.
-[[DaveMalcolm|Dave Malcolm]] posted<ref>http://dmalcolm.livejournal.com/5597.html</ref> about his talk on "Different species of Python"
-==== FOSDEM 2011 ====
+Up and coming is FrOSCon 2011, which will be held in Sankt Augustin, Germany on the 20th and 21st of next month. [[User:Gnokii|Sirko Kemter]] has announced that he will be holding two workshops in the Frog Labs (for kids) focusing on using Inkscape <ref>http://karl-tux-stadt.de/ktuxs/?p=3257</ref>.
-[[User:nicubunu|Nicu Buculei]] offered<ref>http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2011/02/after-fosdem-2011.html</ref> some photos from FOSDEM 2011, along with a full gallery<ref>http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/photos/fosdem2011/</ref> of all of his photos.
-==== Other Events ====
-Steve Gordon summarized<ref>http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/sgordon/2011/02/08/linux-conf-au-wrap-up/</ref> his and other activity at the Linux.conf.au that took place at the end of January, and pointed folks to more videos from the event<ref>http://linuxconfau.blip.tv/</ref>.
 === Fedora Community ===
-There has been a lot of discussion around whether Fedora is a distro for power users or for all.  Juan "Nushio" Rodriguez suggested<ref>http://k3rnel.net/2011/02/09/fedora-rally-for-sanity/</ref> that we should "be excellent to all", invoking some of Jared Smith's comments during the FUDCon Tempe State of Fedora address
+[[User:Aeperezt|Alejandro Perez]] blogged about the last training meeting for some new translators and packagers<ref>http://msvslinux1.blogspot.com/2011/07/bst-escuelita-fedora.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/RWHT+(moving+to+linux)</ref> who will, respectively, start packaging and translating for Fedora 16 and the wiki.
-Mairin Duffy suggested<ref>http://mairin.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/on-ownership/</ref> a "Fedora: You Make It" logo, which was seen as a positive perspective on who owns Fedora. [[User:Spot|Tom "Spot" Callaway]] offered<ref>http://spot.livejournal.com/316660.html</ref> that constructive criticism involves providing at least one suggested solution to a given problem.  Complaining for the sake of it is merely destructive.  Adam Miller suggested that we "Ask not what your distro can do for you, ask what we can do for our distro"<ref>http://pseudogen.blogspot.com/2011/02/ask-not-what-your-distro-can-do-for-you.html</ref> on move on with some real solutions.
+[[User:Mythcat|Cătălin Feştilă]] wrote on how the Fedora HCL for laptops was in need of revamping<ref>http://catalin-festila.blogspot.com/2011/07/fedora-and-laptops-only-brief-look.html</ref>, and how it would be advantageous to the community to publish a current one.
-[[User:kital|Joerg Simon]] suggested that we use the opportunity to spur more solutions building and improve communication across the community<ref>http://kitall.blogspot.com/2011/02/give-us-back-our-distro.html</ref>.
+[[User:fab|Fabian Affolter]] reflected on his past experiences as an ambassador for the Fedora Project<ref>http://fabian-affolter.ch/blog/index.php/5-years-as-an-ambassador</ref>, and what he felt were his accomplishments in the past 5 years.
 === General ===
-Xenode Systems reviewed<ref>http://xenodesystems.blogspot.com/2011/02/calyphrox-v50-lo-mejor-en-proxys-esta.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+XenodeSystemsBlog+%28Xenode+Systems+Blog%29</ref> Calyphrox Webproxy 5.0 and "Top 10 favorite applications in Fedora"<ref>http://xenodesystems.blogspot.com/2011/02/meme-mis-10-aplicaciones-favoritas-en.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+XenodeSystemsBlog+%28Xenode+Systems+Blog%29</ref>in their Spanish-language blog this week.
+[[User:Nushio|Juan "Nushio" Rodriguez]] expressed his concern<ref>http://k3rnel.net/2011/07/03/why-gnome-3s-fallback-mode-sucks/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-gnome-3s-fallback-mode-sucks</ref> over the functionality of Gnome 3's fallback mode and the future of the Gnome shell in general.
+[[user:Valent|Valent Turkovic]] shared an article <ref>http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/index.php/archives/fedora-in-public-libraries/</ref> about how he helped to integrate Fedora (in this case, Fusion Linux) with Windows XP in his local public library.
-Bert Desmet encouraged<ref>http://blog.bdesmet.be/2011/02/1year-whitespace-time-for-a-newline/</ref> more submissions and participation for next month's Whitespace hacker conf in Belgium.
+[[User:Lennart|Lennart Poettering]] added part II of his series ''systemd for Developers'' <ref>http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/socket-activation2.html</ref>. This installment focuses on “adding socket activation to real-life software”.
-Miroslav Grepl offered a three-part overview<ref>http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mgrepl/2011/02/07/playing-with-selinux-part-1/</ref><ref>http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mgrepl/2011/02/08/playing-with-selinux-part-2/</ref><ref>http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mgrepl/2011/02/08/playing-with-selinux-part-3/</ref> on his upcoming Developer2011<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DeveloperConference2011</ref> talk on "Playing with SELinux."
+[[User:Shakthimaan|Shakthi Kannan]] wrote about <ref>http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/grc/gcc-workshop-11/</ref>attending the 'Essential Abstractions in GCC' workshop at IIT Bombay and detailed his experience there.
-Chris Tyler updated<ref>http://blog.chris.tylers.info/index.php?/archives/244-PandaBoard-Building-Fedora-ARM.html</ref> us on activity at Seneca in building a multi-PandaBoard Fedora ARM farm with eventually 15 connected boards.
+The BoxGrinder Team blogged<ref>http://boxgrinder.org/blog/2011/07/04/how-we-test-boxgrinder/</ref> on their attempts to stability test BoxGrinder, as well as the process they went through to set up their integration tests.
-Andrew Overholt requested<ref>http://overholt.ca/wp/?p=201</ref> some help with backing up the history for the Eclipse Linux Tools activity as it moves from subversion to git, and several suggestions were offered.
-Truong Ahn Tuan announced<ref>http://blog.iwayvietnam.com/tuanta/2011/02/08/zimbra-7-is-generally-available/</ref> the general availability of Zimbra 7, including feature highlights and distro packaging.
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