Fedora Weekly News 277

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1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 277

1.1 Announcements

1.1.1 Fedora Announcements

1.1.1.1 retiring blogs.fedoraproject.org on 2011-07-01

1.1.1.2 Appointment to the Fedora Board and reminder of upcoming elections

1.1.1.3 FUDCon APAC now open for bids

1.1.1.4 Elections: Notice of change in voting period and correction of

eligibility for the Board election

1.1.2 Fedora Development News

1.1.2.1 Reminder: Fedora Engineering Steering Committee election town

hall is today

1.1.2.2 Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

1.1.2.3 Outage: Upgrades/Reboots - 2011-05-31 18:00 UTC

1.1.3 Fedora Events

1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (June - August 2011)

1.1.3.2 Past Events

1.1.3.3 Additional information

1.2 Fedora In the News

1.2.1 Good times with Fedora Linux upgrades (ZDNet UK)

1.2.2 Fedora 15 (Lovelock) Released (ZDNet UK)

1.2.3 Fedora 15 – Bringing You The Latest In Linux

1.2.4 Linux Fans Say Fedora 15 Is Too Easy To Use

1.2.5 GNOME 3 on Fedora 15

1.2.6 Intel Sandy Bridge On Fedora 15 Is Decent (Phoronix.com)

1.2.7 Five must have Gnome shell extensions for Fedora 15

1.2.8 Guest session and user management on Fedora 15 (linuxbsdos.com)

1.2.9 Fedora 15 Xfce review (linuxbsdos.com)

1.2.10 Fedora (KDE) System Spotted Running Maya 3D on 'Doctor Who

Confidential'

1.2.11 Linux Mint 11 and Fedora 15: In One Week, Two Gems Debut

1.3 Translation

1.3.1 Translation Credit Loss Problem Resolved

1.3.2 Autotranslate Feature Disabled for Fedora Modules on Transifex

1.3.3 FPCA Signing on Transifex.net

1.3.4 Fedora Documentation and Websites missing for F15

1.3.5 New Members and Teams in FLP

1.4 Security Advisories

1.4.1 Fedora 15 Security Advisories

1.4.2 Fedora 14 Security Advisories

1.4.3 Fedora 13 Security Advisories

 

- Fedora Weekly News Issue 277 -

 

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 277[1] for the week ending June 1,

2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue.

 

This week's announcements from the Project include more details on the

decision to retire the Fedora blogs service, announcement of the

appointment of Guillermo Gomez to the Fedora Board, and a call for

FUDCon APAC hosting bids. In development news, announcement of a FESCo

election Town Hall, and some changes to the packaging guidelines this

week. Fedora In the News offers 11 new trade press and blogosphere

postings on Fedora 15, and Translation brings us up to date on that

team's activities, including a fix to the translator credit system,

Transifex-related notices, and new members and teams of the Fedora

Localization Project globally. Our issue rounds out with security

advisories for Fedora 13, 14 and 15 released this past week.

 

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