OT: Security Guides?
by Jonathan Roberts
Hi all,
This is slightly OT, but I think you may well be the best list to
ask :)
I'm thinking about setting up my own server, but if I do decide to do
it, I plan to do it right. This means I want to make sure it's properly
configured and secure, and that it doesn't end up hosting some dodgy
content or relaying spam around the internet! Does anyone have any
suggestions for reading that I can do to help me in this quest?
I know people on this list have been working on a security guide, but
I'm not sure if it covers the topics I need or not. Any advice would be
really appreciated.
Jon
15 years, 8 months
Example wiki page
by David Nalley
I have a very rough page up detailing my perception of the elements
that make a page complete from a wiki gardening perspective.
Please keep in mind since there are no predecessors to this document a
lot of the content was made up on the fly.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Example_wiki_page
Please feel free to edit, change, comment, flame, or rewrite.
Thanks,
David Nalley
15 years, 8 months
self-introduction: Deon Lackey
by Ella Deon Lackey
Hi.
I am signing up for the fedora-docs group. My name is Ella Deon Lackey
(and I answer to Ella or Deon). I live north of Tulsa, Oklahoma (that's
Central Time in the US). I am a contract tech writer and freelance
writer; I work mainly with software and tech companies, although I
dabble in anything - alternative energy, home furnishings, HVAC. I've
been a professional writer for over six years.
My main goal for joining the group is to observe, get a new way of
approaching my work, forge some relationships with users and other
writers. It's easy to get insulated and to fall into a habit with
writing and with life in general. I want to branch out. The Fedora
Project encourages collaboration and interaction at every stage of a
project, and that's awesome.
I'm new to the Fedora Project (despite having used Fedora or Red Hat for
a few years), but I do have a lot of experience with two other Fedora
Projects, Fedora Directory Server and Dogtag Certificate System (check
them out at directory.fedoraproject.org and pki.fedoraproject.org). I
think I could help out with the SELinux and RPM documentation on the
task list, and I'm good for bug fixing and formatting changes.
I have basically no real programming experience; I'm what I call a
"practical user" of RHEL 4 and Fedora 8, meaning I poke around to
install and configure things and use it for regular business, but I'm
not adventurous about scripting things. I also have a lot of experience
with wikis, static web design (HTML and CSS), very limited graphic
design skills, and years of experience with DocBook XML and, to a lesser
extent, XSLT. For two years, I was a newspaper reporter, so I also have
experience writing articles and press releases, researching, conducting
interviews, copyediting, and biting my tongue.
I have no idea if I'm an excellent match for the project, although I
hope I have something to offer. I think there is a lot I can learn here.
pub 1024D/50464D8B 2008-08-21 Ella Lackey <deon(a)deonlackey.com>
Key fingerprint = 9723 C4FD 7D97 4169 CD62 92AE CD60 1321 5046 4D8B
sub 1024g/36683B94 2008-08-21
Thanks!
Deon Lackey
15 years, 8 months
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15 years, 8 months
Wiki Outage Notification - 2008-08-14 03:00 UTC & 2008-08-15 03:00 UTC
by Nigel Jones
There will be an outage starting at 2008-08-14 03:00 UTC, which will
last approximately 1 hour. A second outage is scheduled to start at
2008-08-15 03:00 UTC lasting approximately 30 minutes.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run:
date -d '2008-08-14 03:00 UTC'
date -d '2008-08-15 03:00 UTC'
Affected Services:
Fedora Project Wiki
Unaffected Services:
All Other Websites
CVS / Source Control
Buildsystem
Database
DNS
Mail
Torrent
Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/754
Reason for Outage:
We will be performing database changes to the wiki database to enable
searching by default for specific categories and to switch to the
internal authentication methods. We hope to be able to leave the wiki
Read Only during both outages.
Contact Information:
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email
to track the status of this outage.
Thanks,
Nigel Jones
15 years, 8 months
Seneca tech comms and Fedora Docs
by Karsten Wade
As one of the efforts in the Fedora/Seneca collaboration[1], the Fedora
Documentation project is working with a technical communications class
at Seneca College.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Seneca_College_tech_communicat...
This is an extension of the new Fedora collaboration, which is building
on the success Seneca College has had pairing with (primarily) the
Mozilla Foundation. The basic idea[2] came up in a session at
FUDCon[3]. After that, I met with Beth Agnew and Chris Tyler[4]. Beth
is coordinating on the Seneca College side. She has a vision for the
collaboration that fits very well with the way we do things in Fedora.
We can expect students to start appearing very soon after the class
starts this Fall.
Our tasks:
* Get a complete task list done
** Full specifications and requirements
* Make a list of willing mentors to work with students
For an example, I'm going to pick on Eric Christensen (Sparks):
1. Sparks completes a basic outline for the user and
administrator sections of the Security Guide, with full
consideration for existing content coming in from the Fedora
Deployment Guide.
2. Next he and other Security Guide writers create a stand-alone
task page with full details and assignments.
3. By keeping a goal on modular and sustainable work, there is
plenty to give students to work on in both wiki and XML, with
small and large writing/editing projects.
I'm really excited about this project. It is going to bring new and
passionate contributors, get multiple documents completed, and help us
hammer out modern processes where we are lacking. Goals and
philosophies between the Seneca College tech comms group and the Fedora
Project are highly similar. I had many "Yes!" moments talking with Beth
where she was describing how they do the writing class.
- Karsten
[1] There doesn't seem to be a canonical page on this project (yet).
http://lwn.net/Articles/283274/
http://www.linux.com/feature/140097
http://cdot.senecac.on.ca/
[2] http://iquaid.org/2008/04/10/looking-for-a-tech-writing-class-to-help/
[3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Seneca_Talk_FUDCon10
[4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Meeting_20080709_Seneca_techni...
--
Karsten Wade, Sr. Developer Community Mgr.
Dev Fu : http://developer.redhatmagazine.com
Fedora : http://quaid.fedorapeople.org
gpg key : AD0E0C41
15 years, 8 months