Details about an user from FAS

FAMA (Fedora Ambassadors Membership Administration) doesn't only take care about about metrics for the Ambassadors group but also for the membership process. In the past there was a need for simple tools to interact with the Fedora Account System to get details about unapproved members. The latest of those scripts is called fas-person.py. The functionality is similar to the supybot Fedora plugin (.fasinfo) expect that you can run it direct from the command line. It's useful for quick checks of FAS accounts if you know the FAS username.

[fab@laptop011 fama]$ python fas-person.py fab -g
ID                   : 100697
User                 : fab
Name                 : Fabian Affolter
Email                : fabian@bernewireless.net
Bugzilla Email       : fabian@bernewireless.net
Telephone            : +4179000007
IRC nick             : fabian_a
Timezone             : Europe/Zurich
Latitude             : 46.951081
Longitude            : 7.438637
Locale               : en
Status               : active
Privacy              : False
GPG key ID           : 36A4397F
Creation             : 2006-06-04
Last password change : 2009-03-01

Approved memberships:
- Fedora Documentation Project git/svn/cvs commit group
- Fedora Websites Team GIT Commit Group
- Security Spin
- Generic-logos Git Commit Group
- flightmode Git Commit Group
- Fedora Ambassador Project
- Fedora CLA Group
- Signed CLA Group
- Fedora Bugs Group
- Fedora Websites Team
- Fedora Documentation Project contributor group
- Translation CVS Commit Group
- l10n Commit Group
- Pyjigdo Git Commit Group
- Spin-kickstarts Git Commit Group
- Fedora Packager CVS Commit Group
- Fedora Translation Quick Start Guide Git Commit Group (ignore me)
- Fedora EMEA Board Members
- FAMA git Commit Group

Unapproved memberships:
-> There are no unapproved memberships.

I hope that I will find a better name for this script...

Fedora and LinuxDay 2010 Dornbirn

The Call for Papers for LinuxDay 2010 at Dornbirn, Austria is open now.

Wiki page : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxDay_Dornbirn_2010 Official web page : http://linuxday.at/

FreeNX und Fedora 13

Meinen Artikel zu Freenx im Fedorawiki, der die Installation und die Konfiguration beschreibt, war ziemlich veraltet. Nach der Aktualisierung sollte es möglich sein FreeNX unter Fedora 13 in Betrieb zu nehmen. Kommentar, Ergänzungen, Korrekturen und anderes ist ausdrücklich erwünscht.

fedoraproject.org unique visitors

More statistics : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics

FOSDEM 2011

The next FOSDEM will take place in February 2011 (6. + 7. February 2011) at Brussels. Some details are already available : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FOSDEM_2011 This post should encourage you to make an entry in your own agenda ;-)

FUDCon Zurich 2010

I will be there but only partially.

Fedora Events in Europe

There are some upcoming events in Europe (in or around Switzerland to be more precise) till the end of the year. FrOSCamp FrOSCamp is a multilingual two-day event taking place sometime on September 17-18 on the premises of the ETH Zurich in Switzerland that is completely free of charge. It's intended to be an exhibition, conference and hackfest featuring free and open source software as well as free content. While various people and projects will show, explain, demonstrate and develop further their works the event is free of any commercial offerings (save snacks and drinks). The event is open to any visitor but it's also strongly encouraged that projects take the chance and exchange ideas and experiences with other projects or hold the project's yearly meeting during the gathering. Wiki page : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FrOSCamp_2010_Zurich Official web page : http://wiki.froscamp.org/Welcome LinuxDay Dornbirn

LinuxDay is a small event in Austria near the Swiss, German, and Lichtenstein border with around 300 visitors. There are talks, a little fair ground, lightning talks, and often spontaneous short workshops.

Wiki page : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxDay_Dornbirn_2010 Official web page : http://linuxday.at/ Those two events are looking for an event owner (aka a person who takes care of the Fedora presence/booth there). The event at Dornbirn is perfect for local ambassadors. Take your chance and become an event owner ;-)

Fedora Project Leader

Als Nachfolger von Paul W. Frields wurde Jared Smith als Fedora Project Leader bestimmt. Es ist interessant zu sehen, dass der neue FPL wieder kein Europärer ist, obwohl Europa einen wichtigen Teil innerhalb des Fedora-Ökosystem spielt. Trotzdem möchte ich Jarod alles gute Wünschen. P. S. FUDCon Zürich wäre ein guter Ort, um die europäische Community zu treffen ;-)

Bcfg2 1.1.0 RC3 for Fedora

The RC3 of Bcfg2 1.1.0 is available for Fedora Rawhide. For a test:

yum install --enablerepo=rawhide bcfg2-server bcfg2

Please report all issues.

cgit unter Fedora

http://fabian-affolter.ch/blog/index.php/title-2

Release Candidate 3 of Bcfg2 1.1.0

The Bcfg2 project made a new release candidate of the upcoming 1.1.0. Perhaps the RC will be available for Fedora soon, check the Fedora Buildsystem for details. Download : http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2/wiki/Download Mailing list : https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/bcfg-dev IRC : #bcfg2 on chat.freenode.net

python-dulwich

Some times ago Steve “Ashcrow” Milner posted on his blog about dulwich. Dulwich is a pure-Python implementation of the Git file formats and protocols. It seams that more and more projects are going to use dulwich in their tools. At the moment Dulwich is not in the Fedora Package Collection . Do you want to help to get it in? Check the review request.

Linuxwochen Vienna - Day 3

Around noon was the start of my talks. The first one was about Fedora 13 and its features. Kevin watched my back during that talk and helped me to answer the questions from the audience. One of the listeners was interested if it will be possible to install other distribution with boot.fedoraproject.org. boot.kernel.org (BKO) supports that feature. I think that it isn't our target to help people installing XYZ with the help of boot.fedoraproject.org that should BKO do. The Spin talk was right after the Fedora 13 talk. This talk showed what kind of Spins are available and how Spins can be made. For the future I think that this topic is more attractive for a workshop than a talk. Just listen how to do it is different that actually do it. The RPM packing workshop was placed right after the openSuSE Buildsystem workshop. There were 8 people in the audience. If the attendees not bring along their own hardware this causes problems because with Windows 7 you are not able to use rpmbuild. After the workshop Kevin answered some interesting questions about QA and the development in the Fedora world in general. Zoltan manned the booth almost alone for the whole day (Thanks again) because Kevin and I were engaged with the talks and the workshop. The appearance of Zoltan came during the awards show for the winners of the Linuxwochen quiz. We decided to donate your last Fedora t-shirt as a trophy and so he was in charge of giving over the t-shirt to the winner. I was lucky that the winner was slim and tall because this last t-shirt was in size m. For dinner we went to an Italian restaurant because I wasn't in the mood of eating potato salad again. The waiter used to work at Berne before he went to Vienna and because of that the time frame till we got a table was longer than in other restaurants. He talk about the famous "Bärengraben" and wanted to know how the new "Bärenpark" looks like. Summary: Duration 3 days (plus 2 days for traveling) Fedora Contributors: 3 Talks: 2 Workshops: 1 Kilometer to drive: 1746 (for me) Pictures: soon The Linuxwochen is an event that should be covered by local Austrian ambassadors . It's small and a good place to get in touch with other local groups.

Linuxwochen Vienna - Day 3

Around noon was the start of my talks. The first one was about Fedora 13 and its features. Kevin watched my back during that talk and helped me to answer the questions from the audience. One of the listeners was interested if it will be possible to install other distribution with boot.fedoraproject.org. boot.kernel.org (BKO) supports that feature. I think that it isn't our target to help people installing XYZ with the help of boot.fedoraproject.org that should BKO do. The Spin talk was right after the Fedora 13 talk. This talk showed what kind of Spins are available and how Spins can be made. For the future I think that this topic is more attractive for a workshop than a talk. Just listen how to do it is different that actually do it. The RPM packing workshop was placed right after the openSuSE Buildsystem workshop. There were 8 people in the audience. If the attendees not bring along their own hardware this causes problems because with Windows 7 you are not able to use rpmbuild. After the workshop Kevin answered some interesting questions about QA and the development in the Fedora world in general. Zoltan manned the booth almost alone for the whole day (Thanks again) because Kevin and I were engaged with the talks and the workshop. The appearance of Zoltan came during the awards show for the winners of the Linuxwochen quiz. We decided to donate your last Fedora t-shirt as a trophy and so he was in charge of giving over the t-shirt to the winner. I was lucky that the winner was slim and tall because this last t-shirt was in size m. For dinner we went to an Italian restaurant because I wasn't in the mood of eating potato salad again. The waiter used to work at Berne before he went to Vienna and because of that the time frame till we got a table was longer than in other restaurants. He talk about the famous "Bärengraben" and wanted to know how the new "Bärenpark" looks like. Summary: Duration 3 days (plus 2 days for traveling) Fedora Contributors: 3 Talks: 2 Workshops: 1 Kilometer to drive: 1746 (for me) Pictures: soon The Linuxwochen is an event that should be covered by local Austrian ambassadors . It's small and a good place to get in touch with other local groups.

Linuxwochen Vienna - Day 2

It's nice that the hotel is not that far away from the "Altes Rathaus". So we can sleep longer. In the morning the workshop thing started with Inkscape and the room was pretty full. Probably workshops are the new way to attract people. At Vienna this definitely works. Just walking through an exhibition is only consuming but during a workshop you are able to learn something and actively hit your teeth in a specific topic. Just looking at a command line on a big screen is completely different that typing in commands and see what will happen. I'm curious how many people will attend the RPM packaging workshop on Saturday afternoon. We have had a long conversation with Daniel Seuffert from *BSD about the "free and open source operating system world". The conclusion was that it's good that OpenSolaris, Linux, and *BSD are living in parallel because this "competition" let focus all groups on their main target. But nobody knows what will happen with OpenSolaris.

Linuxwochen Vienna - Day 1

The location of the Linuxwochen is cool. Like a lot of other building in Vienna, the "Altes Rathaus" is a baroque building and the rooms are awesome. There is plenty of Gold and red carpets around. The "fair ground" or to be more precise the "fair room" is not that big. The area is 150 m^2 for five projects, five commercial booths, and a coffee bar. The event was not very crowded but that was not bad because this way we had had more time talk with the guys from openSuSE. Their table is next to us and we "shared" some visitors who were interested in RPM packaging and stuff like that. Kevin and his experience about RPM packaging was very useful. He also offered to assists me during the RPM packing workshop on Saturday. I can't wish a better partner for that topic than him. Unfortunately we will not be able to switch our time slot with the guys from openSuSE. To bad, so they will start with the workshop about their Buildsystem and later on we will speak about building packages. Plenty of people asked questions about the upcoming release of Fedora. And like at every event there were questions about the support of nonfree graphics cards. You know those names...During the afternoon a guys stopped at your booth. This guy haven't hear anything about Linux, and then he decided to participate in the free software world. We will see if he really open up an account in FAS.

Linuxwochen Vienna - Day 0

Driving from Switzerland to Vienna by car is a long trip. Of course, are there planes flying and trains rolling. After the outbreak of the Eyjafjalla and the ash in the air, I was happy that I didn't bought a plane ticket. I'm not in the mood to hang around at an airport for several days and to wait till the ash is gone. I like it more to sit behind a steering wheel, drive for 8 hours , and to know when I will be home or at my destination. At the moment there is no ash around but I think that this can change every time. I arrived at 6 p.m. and met Zoltan in our hotel room. He arrived during the day because his trip was a bit shorter than mine. Before dinner we went for a little sight-seeing by foot in the inner circle of Vienna. I have to say that Vienna is definitely the right place for people who are interested in Middle Ages and the architecture of that period in time. Unfortunately I wasn't able to eat a real "Wiener Schnitzel" because the Italian restaurant we have chosen didn't have that meal on the card. So I will try it again during my stay at Vienna.

Linuxwochen Wien 2010

The Fedora Project will be present at the Linuxwochen 2010 at Vienna. Location : Altes Rathaus, Wipplingerstraße 8, Vienna, Austria Date: 6. bis 8. Mail 2010 Want to join us there? Add a note to the organization page in the Fedora wiki.

Yum

Yum is able to do much more than just install packages. Take a look at the following page: http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumCommands

Smolt-Wiki

Die Hauptseite des Smolt-Wiki scheint sich ausserordentlich grosser Beliebtheit zu erfreuen...