Announcements
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3].
Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam
Fedora 12 (Constantine) related announcements are as follows:
Fedora Board IRC Public meeting
"The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Thursday, September 10, 2009, at 1600 UTC on IRC Freenode.", announced[1]
Fedora Project Leader Paul W. Frields. For this meeting, the public was invited to join the IRC channels #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation and #fedora-board-questions to discuss topics and to post questions. While inviting everyone, Paul also expressed, "The Board may reserve some time at the top of the hour to cover any agenda items as
appropriate."
Help with Fedora Research
Greg DeKoenigsberg, Senior Community Architect at Red Hat, and ex-Fedora founding Chair announced [1] , "we're looking for Fedora contributors who are willing to do one of two things:
1. Participate in an email interview with our Duke professors; or 2. Participate in a short phone interview (about 20 minutes) with our Duke professors."
Greg also explored about the participation of contributors. He expressed, "It's a simple thing that could be hugely valuable in the long run. We've got something special in Fedora, and the world wants to understand how it works. Your experiences matter." All the interested participant are requested to response to Greg DeKoenigsberg via email, please.
New entry of Build F12 collection packages for all language translators' review and correction
Noriko Mizumoto on development announcement had announced[1], "Build F12 collection packages for all language translators' review and correction". Meanwhile, he also mentioned, "Please notice that amazingly F12 has been translated into 52 language with more than 40% completion so far, and the percentage as well the number of languages are aggressively growing."[2][3]
FUDCon Toronto 2009 update!
"Here's an update on the upcoming FUDCon in Toronto, being held December 5-7. Before the details, I want to give some special thanks and recognition to Chris Tyler of Seneca College in Toronto for his continued, invaluable assistance in setting up FUDCon. His help made it possible to establish a lot of these logistics while we were also preparing for Fedora presence at the Red Hat Summit last week. Thanks Chris!", widely announced[1] by Paul W. Frields.
The FUDCon[2] wiki page is chock full of details. Here is the major highlights of the announcement:
HELP US PLAN! [3] GENERAL SCHEDULE[4] PRE-REGISTRATION[5] LODGING [6] TECHNICAL SESSIONS [7] FUDPUB[8] HACKFESTS[9]
"More information will be forthcoming as it develops!", says Paul.
- ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-September/msg00003.html
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009
- ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009#Pre-registration
- ↑ http://bit.ly/fudcon-hgi-toronto-2009
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009#Technical_sessions
- ↑ http://daveandbusters.com
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009#Hackfests
Upcoming Events
Mark your agenda with the following 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]
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2009.29
- ↑ 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_3
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2009.29_4