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Announcements

In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3].

Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam

  1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/
  2. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events

Fedora 12 (Constantine) Alpha Release

The breaking news of the week was "the Fedora 12 (Constantine) Alpha release" [1] on Tue, 25 Aug 2009. "What's an Alpha release? The Alpha release contains all the features of Fedora 12 in a form that anyone can help test.", says Fedora Release Engineering team leader Jesse Keating. On her brief announcement[2], she mentioned about the beta version of F12[3], the due date of the final release of Fedora 12, the top features for end users (i.e.: Better webcam support, Empathy as default IM client, GNOME 2.27.90 beta and KDE 4.3,Network Manager Mobile Broadband, Better Free Video Codec, PackageKit improvements, PulseAudio improvements, Better power management, etc [4]), and the release notes for further queries[5].

  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease
  2. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-August/msg00009.html
  3. ↑ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/
  4. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12/FeatureList
  5. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Alpha_release_notes

Fedora 12 early branch now available

"For those of you that wish to separate Fedora 12 stabalization work from future development, we are now ready to process branch requests for F-12." says Jesse Keating on Fedora development announcement[1]. To request a branch, please continue to use the cvsadmin request method[2].

  1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg00010.html
  2. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CVSAdminProcedure

Red Hat/Fedora/JBoss Developer conference in Brno, Czech Republic

Red Hat Brno office is organizing an open conference at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic on September 10th and 11th[1]. Radek Vokál, Engineering Manager - Base Operating Systems Brno, has noted on his announcement, "Conference is bringing presentations and hackfest sessions/hands-on labs for skilled users, admins, Linux and Java developers. The list of presentations has several interesting topics, mostly covered be people directly involved in upstream development." While talking about the plan, he has said, "The plan is to base this event on the great success we had with FUDCon last year." The JBoss session will be focused on Portal, secure JEE programming etc at the conference. Please visit the wiki for more details about the conference[2].

  1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-August/msg00010.html
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DeveloperConference2009

Upcoming Events

Please, consider attending or volunteering at an event near you!

  • North America (NA)[1]
  • Central & South America (LATAM)[2]
  • Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
  • India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4][5]
  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2009.29
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2009.29_2
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2009.29_3
  4. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_4
  5. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2009.29_4
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