New Sponsor of Fedora Infrastructure
by Kevin Fenzi
Folks who access fedoraproject.org resources may have noticed in the
last week that things have become a bit faster. The reason for this is
simple: We have a new sponsor of Fedora Infrastructure!
I'd like to welcome Colocation America to the folks that provide Fedora
Infrastructure resources. In this case they have graciously donated to
us the use of a server in their Los Angles data center.
We have put this server to use as a proxy and application server, so if
you are going to any fedoraproject.org sites and you are in North
America you will likely be accessing us from there.
If you are in the market for a server, do take a look at their
offerings for Linux Dedicated Servers:
http://www.colocationamerica.com/dedicated-servers/linux-dedicated.htm
The support and administrative contacts there have been quick to
respond and have been quite knowledgeable. They support native IPv6
connectivity (which we are using as well). The can install Fedora 17 as
a base OS choice. Console access is available to help you with
re-installing or off line work, and so far the network has been very
solid.
Support us by supporting them!
See our sponsors page at: http://fedoraproject.org/sponsors for a full
list of sponsors.
kevin
11 years, 9 months
Outage of fedorahosted mailing lists and services
by Stephen John Smoogen
There will be an outage starting at 2012-07-26 16:00 UTC, which will
last approximately 2 hours.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run:
date -d '2012-07-26 16:00 UTC'
Reason for outage:
In order to grow the fedora hosted services we are moving the services
email lists to a new server. This will require an outage of about an
hour as we turn off old services.. sync data.. turn on new services.
Affected Services:
Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/
Unaffected Services:
Ask Fedora - http://ask.fedoraproject.org/
BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
GIT / Source Control
DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
Email system
Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/
Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/
Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/
Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
QA Services
Secondary Architectures
Smolt - http://smolts.org/
Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/
Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3401
Contact Information:
Please join #fedora-admin or #fedora-noc on irc.freenode.net or add
comments to the ticket for this outage above.
--
Stephen J Smoogen.
"Don't derail a useful feature for the 99% because you're not in it."
Linus Torvalds
"Years ago my mother used to say to me,... Elwood, you must be oh
so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I
recommend pleasant. You may quote me." —James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd
11 years, 10 months
Fedora Summer of Open Hardware and Fun Sweepstakes
by Tom Callaway
Today (at 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time), we're launching a sweepstakes
for our Fedora Contributors called the Fedora Summer of Open Hardware
and Fun! We wanted to do something nice to thank our Fedora community
for all that they do for Free Software and Content, and we thought that
giving away a lot of Open Hardware would be a great way to do that.
We're giving away 220 total hardware units, including:
* [50] OLPC XO 1.75 units
* [150] Raspberry Pi (B) units
* [20] Arduino Uno R3 (assembled) units + choice of shield (8 different
shields to choose from)
Unfortunately, we don't have enough hardware to give something to every
Fedora Contributor, so this is a sweepstakes, and sweepstakes come with
all sorts of rules and restrictions.
This sweepstakes is for Fedora Contributors (defined as users in the
Fedora Account System who have signed the FPCA and are in one additional
group). There are some geographic and age restrictions, the reason for
this is that it is extremely costly and time-consuming to determine
whether or not it is possible to run a sweepstakes in a given country.
Sweepstakes laws and regulations vary considerably from country to
country, and many countries have strict registration requirements and
fees associated with running sweepstakes. Other countries simply
prohibit sweepstakes entirely. As a result, we are only offering this
sweepstakes in countries where we know that the sweepstakes is lawful.
We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.
Also, please note that Red Hat employees are not allowed to enter the
sweepstakes.
To learn more, read the full sweepstakes rules, and to enter, please go to:
https://fedoraproject.org/openhw2012
(You can jump straight to the complete legal sweepstakes rules here:
https://fedoraproject.org/openhw2012/details )
*****
And now, a quick FAQ:
Q. Hey, it's not summer where I am!
A. That's not a question.
Q. Why does it say Summer when it isn't Summer where I am?
A. Just close your eyes and pretend it is Summer. Think of the warm
fuzzy feeling you'll get from winning one of these sweet prizes.
Q. Where did the money come from for this?
A. I'm going to assume you mean that in a specific way, not in the
"Daddy, where does money come from way". If you are really asking the
more generic question, just watch this video
(http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/kids/cartoons-tv-movies-kids/ch...).
For everyone else, the money for this sweepstakes came from a special
allocation from the Open Source and Standards group at Red Hat, and did
not take away from the normal Fedora community budget in any way.
Q. Why can't Red Hat employees enter? We contribute a lot to Fedora!
A. Because in the eyes of the law, it seems shady when a company runs a
sweepstakes and their employees end up winning.
Q. Why is there an age restriction on this?
A. Because it is a sweepstakes, and that's the law. It varies by region,
but our app is clever enough to adjust it accordingly.
Q. I am sad that my state/country/unincorporated region prevents me from
entering this sweepstakes. Is there anything you can do for me?
A. We feel sad that we have to exclude you. Much sadder than the time
that Tasha Yar got eaten by that sentient oil spill. Short of sending
you hardware, money, or other legal impossibilities, feel free to leave
a comment on this post with a suggestion on how we can make it up to
you. Also, feel free to mention your country. If there are hundreds of
people left out in the cold in Luxembourg, we might be able to do a
legal review and have it added for future sweepstakes eligibility (no
promises though).
Q. What about Fedora users?
A. We love you too, but we really wanted to give an extra-special thank
you to those Fedora Contributors who take that next step and help us
make Fedora better. You can become a contributor and be eligible when we
do something like this again, see: http://fedoraproject.org/join-fedora
Q. If I win, how will I get my hardware?
A. We'll ship it to you, on our dime. We'll ask the winners for that
information later.
Q. I can't decide which hardware I want, can I pick them all?
A. No. You need to pick one. Just one.
Q. Can I enter multiple times?
A. No. (Actually, I think the app will let you re-enter if you change
your mind, but only the latest entry will stick.)
Q. How do you choose the winners?
A. Completely at random from all valid entries.
Q. How did you get so many OLPC XO units?
A. The wonderful folks at laptop.org donated them for us to give away.
Q. How did you get so many Raspberry Pi units?
A. Black magic. Deep black magic.
Q. Why Arduino? It doesn't run Fedora Linux!
A. So what? It's open, its fun, and you can do all sorts of Open Source
geekery with it.
Q. Why didn't you choose to give away instead?
A. Our crack team of Fedora experts (okay, me, Robyn, and Ruth)
generated a list of hardware, then ranked them by coolness, cost, and
availability. Except for the awesome and well dressed folks at
Laptop.org, no one had any cool free hardware lying around (although, I
offered to put some old SPARC systems in the mix, which was vetoed), so
we ended up spending our money on the coolest things we could get the
most of at the least cost. We'd love to do this again, so feel free to
leave a comment here with your suggestions.
Q. Hey, I'm a hardware vendor and I want to work with you to give away
more awesome Open Hardware to Fedora people in the future, who do I
contact to help out?
A. Tom Callaway <spot(a)redhat.com>
Q. Anyone else you'd like to thank?
A. Why, how nice of you to ask. I'd also like to thank Ruth Suehle &
Robyn Bergeron for brainstorming, researching, and generally being
awesome to make this a reality. Luke Macken for writing the app code
(and making changes at the last possible minute). Mo Duffy for making it
simple, clean and beautiful to enter. The wonderful folks at Farnell,
Adafruit, Sparkfun, and Laptop.org for all of my export and ordering
related questions. Pam Chestek and Erin Dutton, for helping this
sweepstakes be fully blessed and legally awesome. Amy Ross, for
addressing our many export needs. Kevin Fenzi and the folks on the
Fedora Admin team for making sure we had this webapp running, and
sitting in the proper location (except for that brief minute where all
mainpage traffic was pointing at the webapp, whoopsy!). And of course,
Red Hat and OSAS for paying for it all.
~tom
==
Fedora Project
11 years, 10 months
Proposal request for ideas on naming Fedora releases.
by Eric Christensen
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The Fedora Board is soliciting ideas for how to name Fedora releases
from community members. Proposals should be sent to the Advisory
Board list[0][1] no later than 16:00 UTC on 25 July 2012. The
community is invited to discuss the proposals on the Advisory Board list.
[0] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
[1] advisory-board(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Thanks,
Eric "Sparks"
Fedora Board Member
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11 years, 10 months
Outage: Mass reboots/Updates outage - 2012-07-17 21:00 UTC
by Kevin Fenzi
Outage: Mass reboots/Updates outage - 2012-07-17 21:00 UTC
There will be an outage starting at 2012-07-17 21:00 UTC, which will
last approximately 2 hours.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run:
date -d '2012-07-17 21:00 UTC'
Reason for outage:
Servers are going to be upgraded and rebooted into new kernels.
During the outage window some services may be down for brief periods.
No single service should be affected for more than a few minutes.
Affected Services:
Ask Fedora - http://ask.fedoraproject.org/
BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
GIT / Source Control
Email system
Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/
Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/
Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/
Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
QA Services
Smolt - http://smolts.org/
Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/
Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
Unaffected Services:
DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/
Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
Secondary Architectures
Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3384
Contact Information:
Please join #fedora-admin or #fedora-noc on irc.freenode.net or add
comments to the ticket for this outage above.
11 years, 10 months
Please welcome Jaroslav Reznik as the new Fedora Program Manager
by Robyn Bergeron
Greetings!
I am incredibly happy to announce that Jaroslav Reznik is coming on as the new Fedora Program Manager. I will be working with him over the coming weeks to get him up to speed on the various aspects of the PM role, including creating and managing the schedule, feature wrangling, and generally moving us smoothly through the upcoming portions of the release cycle. His move over is effective immediately.
Many of you know Jaroslav from his contributions to the Fedora Community both as an Ambassador in EMEA, as well as his work as a Fedora Board member; his previous role within Red Hat was as part of the Base OS Development Team in the Brno office, working on Matahari and KDE, and I'm sure that his past experiences in development will be incredibly helpful to him as he takes on this role.
As I stated previously - his switch is officially on! So please give him a warm welcome. Congratulations, Jaroslav!
-Robyn
11 years, 10 months