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24 November 2008

Re: FWN #153 status

On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:53:00 -0500, "Oisin Feeley"
<oisinfeeley@imapmail.org> said:
> Hi all,
>
> The following Beats are complete and edited:
>
> Developments
> Artwork
> SecurityAdvisories
>
> Pascal, Huzaifa I'm going to be out of the picture until late Monday
> morning. I'll stick around for about 1 hour after sending this email to
> see how we should handle this weeks issue.

OK, I see a couple of more beats have come in and they look excellent,
thank you. I'm going to start pulling together this weeks issue and
hopefully will have it out in an hour or so. Thanks again everyone for
this week's contributions.

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Re: excellent start

On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 10:58 -0600, john Abbott wrote:
> Congratulations to the Zimbabwe Ubuntu team on their launch party.
> With enthusiasm like that you will soon be a social / OSS centerpiece.
> With your permission I would like to include your news release in our
> next LUG newsletter in hopes that your enthusiasm is contagious!
>
> John Abbott, Chairman
> Bentsen Grove Resort - Linux Users Group
> Mission TX 78572

Hi John,

Thanks so much for your e-mail. Sorry for the delayed reply - I was away
for the weekend and have just returned.

We would be truly delighted for you to include our news release in your
LUG newsletter! Please feel free to re-distribute in any way you like.
Our aim is to let people know that Ubuntu, Linux and open source are
very much alive in this part of the world, so the more coverage we get,
the better.

I do hope the enthusiasm will rub off!

Regards,

Neil Coetzer
Team Contact
Ubuntu Zimbabwe LoCo


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Re: microblog accounts

Karsten Wade wrote:
>
> I grabbed and configured the two accounts. Currently the email is
> sent to me (no alerts configured to email, though); this is because
> I've failed in the past by setting a mailing list as the account,
> thereby sending password reset notices to the world.
>
> http://identi.ca/fedoranews
> http://twitter.com/fedoranews

I know this is minor but can you change the avatar used at identi.ca? It
seems they are so bad that can't cope with transparent PNGs and you have
to enforce a white background.

Another minor complaint: you set the homepage to
http://news.fedoraproject.org/ which is not working for me, I guess the
redirect is broken (AFAIK, that was supposed to redirect to fp.o/wiki/news/)

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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0969-03: Low CentOS 2 i386 tzdata enhancement update

The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded to the
centos mirror:

RHEA-2008:0969-03 tzdata enhancement update

Files available:
tzdata-2008i-1.el2_1.noarch.rpm

More details are available from the RedHat web site at
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh21as-errata.html

The easy way to make sure you are up to date with all the latest patches
is to run:
# yum update

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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0988-01: Important CentOS 2 i386 libxml2 security update

The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded to the
centos mirror:

RHSA-2008:0988-01 Important: libxml2 security update

Files available:
libxml2-2.4.19-12.ent.i386.rpm
libxml2-devel-2.4.19-12.ent.i386.rpm
libxml2-python-2.4.19-12.ent.i386.rpm

More details are available from the RedHat web site at
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh21as-errata.html

The easy way to make sure you are up to date with all the latest patches
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# yum update

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FWN #153 status

Hi all,

The following Beats are complete and edited:

Developments
Artwork
SecurityAdvisories

Pascal, Huzaifa I'm going to be out of the picture until late Monday
morning. I'll stick around for about 1 hour after sending this email to
see how we should handle this weeks issue.

Best wishes,
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Re: microblog accounts

On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:54:46 -0800, "Karsten Wade" <kwade@redhat.com>
said:
> Suggestion came across the desk to have Fedora News accounts for
> useful microblogging services, i.e., identi.ca and twitter.com.

[snip]

> I grabbed and configured the two accounts. Currently the email is
> sent to me (no alerts configured to email, though); this is because
> I've failed in the past by setting a mailing list as the account,
> thereby sending password reset notices to the world.
>
> http://identi.ca/fedoranews
> http://twitter.com/fedoranews
>
> From here, I think we should share the accounts as a group usage so
> that people working on Fedora News and Fedora Magazine have access to
> push *any* updates. Then we advertize the identi.ca link in FWN,
> etc. and see if people use it. :)

Probably Fedora Magazine should have its own account so that it's easier
to filter content to just the news, or news + other content.

>
> Any other ideas?

If we're looking at non-Free stuff then Tumblr[1] has an easily used API
and is a richer format than identi.ca/twitter.

If any of this is going to be done then it would be nice to have someone
take responsibility for it /before/ announcing any live feeds. E.g. the
Fedora Magazine feed appears to have solely #147 and #148 which makes it
look as though we've come to a stop. I'd prefer to have no RSS feed
rather than one which is advertised widely and then makes it look as
though we've fallen off the map, when in fact we're working hard to push
out an issue every week.

>
> Who all should have access to the account?

Whoever is going to guarantee to do the monotonous, weekly task of
ensuring that the updates flow out week-after-week.

> Any better idea on what to do for email? (E.g., is there a privately
> archived address FWN uses at all?)

If there is a privately archived address then it's been lost in the
mists of time along with the Feedburner stuff that I helped ThomasChung
set up. I guess I could email him and ask.

[1] http://www.tumblr.com

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Re: Developer News

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Vid Ayer <vid@svaksha.com> wrote:
> Folks
>
> What do you think ? Please discuss and I can ask folks to follow the
> thread here.

It depends on the focus. If its communicate mainly with developers,
the wiki is fine.

But if it's to keep the whole community up to date, working with the
news team would be much better. The Fridge supports categories (there
is one already for MOTU and we can create others if needed) and we can
create URLs for specific categories (for example,
fridge.ubuntu.com/developers). The articles can also be cross-posted
to the planet. Screenshots can be uploaded or linked with regular
HTML.

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Re: microblog accounts

2008/11/23 Karsten Wade <kwade@redhat.com>:
> Suggestion came across the desk to have Fedora News accounts for
> useful microblogging services, i.e., identi.ca and twitter.com.
>
> Naturally, we prefer identi.ca, but there are a few good reasons to
> grab the twitter.com name as well. For example, identi.ca for this
> account is now configured to copy updates to twitter.com. That way we
> can use the identi.ca/fedoranews account exclusively for ...
>
> * Ongoing Fedora news updates
> * News flashes projected on walls at FUDCon and other events
> * All the other stuff people use these tools for :)
>
> ... while using just the open source, open content tooling directly,
> but supporting our Twitter using friends at the same time.
>
> I grabbed and configured the two accounts. Currently the email is
> sent to me (no alerts configured to email, though); this is because
> I've failed in the past by setting a mailing list as the account,
> thereby sending password reset notices to the world.
>
> http://identi.ca/fedoranews
> http://twitter.com/fedoranews
>
> From here, I think we should share the accounts as a group usage so
> that people working on Fedora News and Fedora Magazine have access to
> push *any* updates. Then we advertize the identi.ca link in FWN,
> etc. and see if people use it. :)
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Who all should have access to the account?
>
> Any better idea on what to do for email? (E.g., is there a privately
> archived address FWN uses at all?)
>
> - Karsten
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Ohhh that's a great idea - if for no other reason than
twitter/identi.ca squatting is becoming rampant.

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microblog accounts

Suggestion came across the desk to have Fedora News accounts for
useful microblogging services, i.e., identi.ca and twitter.com.

Naturally, we prefer identi.ca, but there are a few good reasons to
grab the twitter.com name as well. For example, identi.ca for this
account is now configured to copy updates to twitter.com. That way we
can use the identi.ca/fedoranews account exclusively for ...

* Ongoing Fedora news updates
* News flashes projected on walls at FUDCon and other events
* All the other stuff people use these tools for :)

... while using just the open source, open content tooling directly,
but supporting our Twitter using friends at the same time.

I grabbed and configured the two accounts. Currently the email is
sent to me (no alerts configured to email, though); this is because
I've failed in the past by setting a mailing list as the account,
thereby sending password reset notices to the world.

http://identi.ca/fedoranews
http://twitter.com/fedoranews

From here, I think we should share the accounts as a group usage so
that people working on Fedora News and Fedora Magazine have access to
push *any* updates. Then we advertize the identi.ca link in FWN,
etc. and see if people use it. :)

Any other ideas?

Who all should have access to the account?

Any better idea on what to do for email? (E.g., is there a privately
archived address FWN uses at all?)

- Karsten
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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0978 Critical CentOS 4 i386 firefox security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0978 Critical
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0978.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors:

i386:
firefox-3.0.4-1.el4.centos.i386.rpm
nss-3.12.1.1-3.el4.centos.i386.rpm
nss-devel-3.12.1.1-3.el4.centos.i386.rpm

src:
firefox-3.0.4-1.el4.centos.src.rpm
nss-3.12.1.1-3.el4.centos.src.rpm


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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0978 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 firefox security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0978 Critical
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0978.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors:

x86_64:
firefox-3.0.4-1.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm
nss-3.12.1.1-3.el4.centos.i386.rpm
nss-3.12.1.1-3.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm
nss-devel-3.12.1.1-3.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm

src:
firefox-3.0.4-1.el4.centos.src.rpm
nss-3.12.1.1-3.el4.centos.src.rpm


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excellent start

Congratulations to the Zimbabwe Ubuntu team on their launch party.  With enthusiasm like that you will soon be a social / OSS centerpiece.  With your permission I would like to include your news release in our next LUG newsletter in hopes that your enthusiasm is contagious!

John Abbott, Chairman
Bentsen Grove Resort - Linux Users Group
Mission TX 78572