heise online news 31/01/2009

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Fedora Weekly News meeting summary 2009-01-30

Thanks to all who were able to attend today's FWN meeting. Transcript
is available at:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Meetings/2009-01-30

Summary:

Participants:

Adam Batkin
Nicu Buculei
Pascal Calarco
Oisin Feeley

1. Dormant beats

* we would like to find active writers for the Ambassadors, Marketing,
and Security Week beats, at a minimum
* Pascal will follow up with current Ambassador and Marketing writers,
and send a note out to the lists if they are not able to continue; Oisin
will ask David Nalley for suggestions for the Security Week beat, since
David is doing the Fedora updates beat each week

2. Formatting issues

* we thought it would be useful to investigate what MediaWiki
conventions were available, and create some wiki scratch space to try
these out, ie. <pkg> and other tagging
* Oisin and Pascal will reach out to the Docs folks to see if these are
documented, and work with them to possibly add these to the wiki
StyleGuide for others to use as well
* Pascal will update the FWN StyleGuide to indicate that person
references should ideally reference the appropriate User: wiki page, if
it exists. If it does not, we will use CamelCase references as a fallback
* Oisin and Pascal will submit a request for Design work from the Art
Team to help with a new wiki banner; also will consult with IanWeller
and Mo for other FWN wiki styling updates
* Oisin will update the FWN StyleGuide to direct writers to start using
the ref: cite module convention for links, which is much cleaner;
Editors will need to convert all numbered references to ref: beginning
with the next issue

3. Fedora Magazine

* Oisin and Pascal will contact Jonathon Roberts to discuss Fedora Magazine
* specifically: 1) investigate how to export from MediaWiki to e.g.
wordpress or whatever is the CMS du jour supported by infrastrucure; 2)
contact JonRob to ask what his plans are
* Adam Batkin indicated he can help out occasionally
* Pascal can devote some time to this also
* Nicu is happy to have his weekly webcomic syndicated in Fedora Magazine
* Nicu also suggested that the Art team was thinking about wallpaper
photos of the week, which could be incorporated into Fedora Magazine

* the meeting adjourned at 13:59 UTC.

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heise online news 30/01/2009

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Re: virt for 161

On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:21:46 -0800 (PST), "Dale Bewley"
<dlbewley@lib.ucdavis.edu> said:
> Hi all. I'm out of town with catch as catch can internet access. I have free time, but no internet. I may find some time online as late as sunday evening. Or not.
>
> If I do not mark the beat as complete by 9 EST, please feel free to take what is there. I will be traveling by that point.

Thanks Dale. Useful to know.

> /me ponders downloading the mailing list archives and "wiki editing" offline...

That's frequently what I do. The pain is that although it's nice to use
(e.g. mutt or Thunderbrid) to thread the message nicely for reading, it
becomes a pain to put in any http links to the online archives
afterwards. I don't suppose anyone has a neat solution for that?

Best,
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http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OisinFeeley

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Tokamak

Friends I would like to invite you all to show up at Tokamak, a KDE summit to discuss the future of Plasma. From day 6 to 9, at Porto (ISEP) Portugal. http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/Tokamak2 & http://tuxvermelho.blogspot.com/2009/01/tokamak-ii-no-porto.html

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virt for 161

Hi all. I'm out of town with catch as catch can internet access. I have free time, but no internet. I may find some time online as late as sunday evening. Or not.

If I do not mark the beat as complete by 9 EST, please feel free to take what is there. I will be traveling by that point.

/me ponders downloading the mailing list archives and "wiki editing" offline...
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Not sure if this is news.....

Not sure if this is news but... if you're looking for content...

http://joey.ubuntu-rocks.org/blog/2009/01/29/the-ubuntu-nokia-experiment/

:-)

Joey

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Re: Fedora News IRC meeting?

No problem, thanks Max!

- pascal

Max Spevack wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Dale Bewley wrote:
>
>>> So far we have the following confirmed for an IRC meeting on Friday,
>>> January 30 at 13:00-14:00 UTC:
>
> I'm going to have to send in my regrets for this meeting. I have a
> meeting with my boss directly following it, and I'm going to need the
> extra prep time.
>
> I'll backtrack and read over the logs. I'm sorry that I can't attend.
>
> --Max
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