Reposting from http://fedoramagazine.org/?p=1231, for those of you who prefer email to the web. :)
Fedora is big project, and it’s hard to follow it all. This new Fedora Magazine feature will highlight interesting happenings in five different areas every week. It won’t be comprehensive news coverage — just quick summaries and links to each. So, here we go for March 18th, 2014:
Flock 2014 registration and talk proposals open -----------------------------------------------
In case you missed the article in Fedora Magazine a few days ago… don’t miss it. The website at http://flocktofedora.org/, and the talk proposal deadline is coming up fast: April 3rd, 2014.
Fedora 21 feature planning in progress --------------------------------------
Looking to do something new for Fedora 21? The initial schedule is set and many changes are already accepted by FESCo. Submission deadline is April 8th, 2014. If you have something to add, find out how at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Policy.
Ambassadors discuss inactive memberships ----------------------------------------
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2014-March/022263.html
Interesting discussion on Fedora Ambassadors mailing list about a process for marking the memberships of people who aren’t actively participating as inactive. Looks like there’s wide support for the low-overhead, non-punitive proposal (which allows easy reactivation).
KDE talks about Fedora Products -------------------------------
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/2014-March/013196.html
Another interesting discussion: KDE SIG is working on a proposal for “Fedora Plasma”, a desktop product focused at educational and scientific use. FESCo and the Fedora Advisory Board have previously approved the governance and PRDs for Cloud, Server, and Workstation (the latter of which recently elected to use Gnome as the base). It will be interesting to see how this all fits together.
Planning for new Fedora web design ----------------------------------
The Fedora Websites and Design teams are working on refreshed websites in support of Fedora.next. I’m cheating a bit because some this is more than a week old, but it’s all still in progress. This includes an ambitious plan for a new community hub, although initial work focuses on updating the Get Fedora “brochure” site.
Endnote ------- So that’s it for this week. If something didn’t make the list and you think it should have, that probably just means I missed it, not that it wasn’t important. Please drop me a line and we’ll make this better next time.
Bonus mailing list questions! -----------------------------
Is it helpful to post this here? If so, is full text important, or is posting a link to the web site fine? Would it be helpful to post it to other lists as well or instead? What about repurposing the defunct "news" mailing list for just this purpose?
On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 16:50 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
Flock 2014 registration and talk proposals open
In case you missed the article in Fedora Magazine a few days ago… don’t miss it. The website at http://flocktofedora.org/, and the talk proposal deadline is coming up fast: April 3rd, 2014.
Is someone going to fix the TLS certificate? https://register.flocktofedora.org is trying to use a certificate that is only valid for rhcloud.com .
If Red Hat and Fedora can't manage to get TLS ducks in a row when using cloud hosting, how are RH's customers and Fedora's users going to do it...
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 06:09:09PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 16:50 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: Is someone going to fix the TLS certificate? https://register.flocktofedora.org is trying to use a certificate that is only valid for rhcloud.com .
https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/149
If Red Hat and Fedora can't manage to get TLS ducks in a row when using cloud hosting, how are RH's customers and Fedora's users going to do it...
+1
On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 16:50 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
Is it helpful to post this here? If so, is full text important, or is posting a link to the web site fine? Would it be helpful to post it to other lists as well or instead? What about repurposing the defunct "news" mailing list for just this purpose?
One benefit of posting it on devel@ rather than news@ is that people notice it. I had never even heard of Fedora Magazine before.
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 09:38:27PM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
One benefit of posting it on devel@ rather than news@ is that people notice it. I had never even heard of Fedora Magazine before.
I'm not surprised -- we have communications gaps across the whole project. This effort is my small attempt at making that better (and, hopefully, not just adding yet another thing).
Not coincidentally, this is also a goal of the new "community hub" web site initiative I mention in the article. :)
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Bonus mailing list questions!
Is it helpful to post this here? If so, is full text important, or is posting a link to the web site fine? Would it be helpful to post it to other lists as well or instead? What about repurposing the defunct "news" mailing list for just this purpose?
Thanks for posting about magazine here!
I like the fact that info about Fedora magazine is posted here. While I knew about Fedora magazine, I do not always remember to check it. It would be very nice if links are also included. It would make it easier to go to specific articles.
Mukundan.
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 10:12:34PM -0500, Mukundan Ragavan wrote:
I like the fact that info about Fedora magazine is posted here. While I knew about Fedora magazine, I do not always remember to check it. It would be very nice if links are also included. It would make it easier to go to specific articles.
I put a lot of links in the blog post, but extensive hyperlinks get messy quickly in text email. Next week, I'll format the text with footnote links markdown-style and we'll see how that looks.
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Reposting from http://fedoramagazine.org/?p=1231, for those of you who prefer email to the web. :)
Perhaps these should be syndicated to Planet Fedora, for those of us who don't mind the web? Actually, I swear I've seen Fedora Magazine posts there before, but this post definitely isn't there. :-(
-T.C.
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 08:31:06PM -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
Reposting from http://fedoramagazine.org/?p=1231, for those of you who prefer email to the web. :)
Perhaps these should be syndicated to Planet Fedora, for those of us who don't mind the web? Actually, I swear I've seen Fedora Magazine posts there before, but this post definitely isn't there. :-(
Good idea. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/147
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:34:41 -0400 Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 08:31:06PM -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
Reposting from http://fedoramagazine.org/?p=1231, for those of you who prefer email to the web. :)
Perhaps these should be syndicated to Planet Fedora, for those of us who don't mind the web? Actually, I swear I've seen Fedora Magazine posts there before, but this post definitely isn't there. :-(
Good idea. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/147
It was subscribed, but the feed url changed and the change wasn't reflected in the planet config. ;)
Fixed now.
kevin
On 18 March 2014 22:50, Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Reposting from http://fedoramagazine.org/?p=1231, for those of you who prefer email to the web. :)
Fedora is big project, and it’s hard to follow it all. This new Fedora Magazine feature will highlight interesting happenings in five different areas every week. It won’t be comprehensive news coverage — just quick summaries and links to each. So, here we go for March 18th, 2014:
Flock 2014 registration and talk proposals open
In case you missed the article in Fedora Magazine a few days ago… don’t miss it. The website at http://flocktofedora.org/, and the talk proposal deadline is coming up fast: April 3rd, 2014.
Fedora 21 feature planning in progress
Looking to do something new for Fedora 21? The initial schedule is set and many changes are already accepted by FESCo. Submission deadline is April 8th, 2014. If you have something to add, find out how at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Policy.
Ambassadors discuss inactive memberships
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2014-March/022263.html
Interesting discussion on Fedora Ambassadors mailing list about a process for marking the memberships of people who aren’t actively participating as inactive. Looks like there’s wide support for the low-overhead, non-punitive proposal (which allows easy reactivation).
KDE talks about Fedora Products
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/2014-March/013196.html
Another interesting discussion: KDE SIG is working on a proposal for “Fedora Plasma”, a desktop product focused at educational and scientific use. FESCo and the Fedora Advisory Board have previously approved the governance and PRDs for Cloud, Server, and Workstation (the latter of which recently elected to use Gnome as the base). It will be interesting to see how this all fits together.
Planning for new Fedora web design
The Fedora Websites and Design teams are working on refreshed websites in support of Fedora.next. I’m cheating a bit because some this is more than a week old, but it’s all still in progress. This includes an ambitious plan for a new community hub, although initial work focuses on updating the Get Fedora “brochure” site.
Endnote
So that’s it for this week. If something didn’t make the list and you think it should have, that probably just means I missed it, not that it wasn’t important. Please drop me a line and we’ll make this better next time.
Bonus mailing list questions!
[...]
Is it helpful to post this here?
Yes; for me at least as I didn't even know there was a Fedora magazine.
If so, is full text important, or is posting a link to the web site fine?
Full text is better, if someone doesn't click the link to the web page (maybe he/she is in a hurry, or can't be bothered :)), he can skim through the email, usually topics of interest catch one's eye. After all an email is an email, no point making it too short (nor too long of course).
Would it be helpful to post it to other lists as well or instead? What about repurposing the defunct "news" mailing list for just this purpose?
Ideally it should be to -dev and -users, some are only subscribed to one or the other.
I didn't know there was a news ML; but if an ML dies, then there were reasons for that, if those reasons haven't changed then there's no point trying to revive it. Just the occasional email (1 per month/week), doesn't need a separate ML IMHO.
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