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Fedora’s Love For Python Continues

May 5, 2016 / Brian Proffitt / 1 Comment

In this digital age, there is still some use for having messaging that is easy to distribute and consume. While it may seem quaint and old-fashioned, hard-copy content is a useful way to deliver information at events like conferences and meetups.

With that in mind, the Fedora Marketing team, in conjunction with members of the Fedora Python SIG, has put together a new Fedora Loves Python brochure, just in time for PyCon 2016.

What’s new in Python brochure

This is not the first time the Marketing team has put together something like this; the team designed and released a more retro-looking edition for Pycon 2013. The new edition of the brochure is consistent with the Fedora Project’s branding and design, and has been updated with some cool new facts, including:

DNF, the software installation and dependency tool within Fedora, is built with Python and supports Python 2 and 3.
Inkscape, GIMP, and Blender include Python support, so you can script all sorts of graphics plugins in Python.
Fedmsg, Bodhi, Koji, and the Fedora Account System are some of many Python-built apps within Fedora’s infrastructure.

Fedora’s relationship with Python is very close, and has been since 2003. The ease in which developers can work with Python tools like PyPy, PyDev, Winpdb, and GitPython (to name a few) makes Fedora a very useful platform for coders–and we are very happy to be able to show some of that off.

Be sure to look for Fedora at PyCon in Portland, Oregon next month, or visit the Python resources in this article, to learn more about using Fedora as your Python platform of choice!

Google Summer of Code 2016 (GSoC) and Fedora

Announcing Fedora Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Class of 2016

April 27, 2016 / Justin W. Flory / 3 Comments

On Friday, April 22nd, Google officially announced the participants for the 11th year of Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program. If you’re not familiar with Google Summer of Code, you can read more on the Community Blog. There were 1,205 accepted projects submitted for this year. Several open source organizations participated by offering projects for students to work on.

This year, Fedora was a participating organization. Alongside Fedora-specific projects, there were several other projects with Fedora, such as…

The applications were many and it was difficult to narrow them down. We are happy and confident with this year’s selection of participants.

Fedora G11n Translation Sprint for Fedora 24

Fedora translation sprint – 5 days, 50 members and 20+ thousand words

April 21, 2016 / pravins / 9 Comments

Starting on April 1st, the Fedora Globalization group ran a 5-day virtual translation sprint to focus on the translation of important GUI packages. During the 5 day sprint, 53 contributors translated 22,723 words over 18 different languages.

Time to test Fedora 24 internationalization

April 12, 2016 / pravins / Comments Off

Internationalization is process of making product in a way, so they can adapt to any regional languages with minimal change. Its time to make sure Fedora 24 supports writing and reading of all major languages (in corresponding script) in the world. We should also make sure all locales work perfectly as expected.

To make this happen Fedora QA and Language testing group have organized the i18n test day.

I18n has 3 important changes in Fedora 24 that need testing:

Glibc locale subpackaging
From era we are installing all available locales in Glibc irrespective of we use it or not. With this feature in place, now user can install only locales required by him. This is specifically very important in with respect to containers.
DNF langpacks
Langpacks installations is re-designed using language meta-packages langpacks-<langcode> and RPM weak dependencies (Supplements tag).
IBus fbterm enhancement for ibus 1.5
Update of ibus-fbterm to work with IBus 1.5. ibus-fbterm enables major features of ibus 1.5.

Other than above three features, we have to also make sure other important i18n applications work as expected.

How to participate:

Most of the information available on here. Feel free to ask a specific query either on #fedora-test-day or #fedora-g11n on Freenode.

Group of hackers who submitted their project to "Best in FOSS" at BrickHack 2016

A group of hackers that submitted their project to the "Best in FOSS" category.

BrickHack 2016 and Fedora: Event Report

April 12, 2016 / Justin W. Flory / 8 Comments

Over the weekend of March 5th – 6th, 2016, the Fedora Project sponsored BrickHack 2016. BrickHack 2016 is a hackathon event hosted at the Rochester Institute of Technology. What exactly is BrickHack? The organizers describe it as the following:

March 5-6 ignites a weekend devoted to 400 designers and coders sinking 24 hours into learning, building, and creating unique projects. Mentors and industry representatives will also join the fray to lend expertise and share wisdom. The event will take place in RIT’s Gordon Field House for a centralized, communal hacking experience. Expect food, swag, and timeless brick-laden memories.

As an event sponsor, the Fedora Ambassadors of North America had a table for the event. The Ambassadors offered mentorship and assistance to BrickHack 2016 programmers, gave away some free Fedora swag, and offered an introduction to Linux, open source, and the community. This report is a recollection of some highlights from the event and also focuses on the impact we made as an event sponsor.

Fedora 24 Wallpapers: Vote now!

April 11, 2016 / Sirko Kemter / 6 Comments

Nearly two months ago, the submission phase for the Fedora 24 Supplemental Wallpapers were opened. Now, the submission phase is closed and the voting phase is now open. If you have a FAS account and are CLA+1 status, you can cast your vote in Nuancier.

This year’s wallpapers

We have 124 contributions from 92 different contributors. 70 badges for submissions were awarded. In case yours was not awarded, ping “gnokii” in #fedora-design on freenode. This is compared to 199 submissions and 157 approved ones, lesser as for Fedora 23, but this time there was a limit for the submissions. It resulted in higher quality of the submissions, as only five submissions had to be rejected.

Document Freedom Day 2016: Singapore

April 11, 2016 / woohuiren / 1 Comment

Document Freedom Day is a day where we celebrate and raise awareness of Open Standards. It is held annually, on the last Wednesday of March. However, this year, the Ambassadors in Singapore decided to celebrate it on 24 March, 2016.

Document Freedom Celebration

We held our celebrations at a local Hackerspace (courtesy of Robert Sim, a member of Hackerspace SG). The event included a talk on importance of Open Standards and a small cake and pizza party after. The event was posted up on Meetup and everyone was invited to join in the fun and to learn more about Open Standards. The turn-out rate was pretty good with around 10 to 15 folks joining us for the evening. Most of them had a strong background in various Linux distributions.

Engineers Singapore also helped to record our talk at the Hackerspace. Do check out the video if you weren’t able to join us.

After the talk, one of our Ambassadors did the honors of cutting the delicious looking Document Freedom cake. While we had our party, we had many wonderful and intriguing conversations about Open Source and Open Standards. Some even discussed Fedora’s upcoming release.

One of the questions raised was whether huge proprietary companies will bother about Open Standards. Many of the folks had different views on this topic – some held an optimistic view whilst others had a less optimistic one. The optimistic ones felt that if we put more pressure on these companies, they would follow the standards. Others felt that they only care about profits and if these companies followed Open Standards, they might make a loss.

Closing note

A huge thanks to everyone: Ambassadors, Hackerspace SG, Engineers SG, for making Document Freedom Day in Singapore a huge success. And for those who join us for the celebration, thank you for taking your time to drop by. We hope that you’ve learned something from this event and most importantly, we also hope that you had tons of fun with us! Looking forward to seeing all of you at the next event!

Fedora Stickers Sale: UnixStickers.com!

April 8, 2016 / Remy DeCausemaker / Comments Off

Stickers on sale at UnixStickers!

Fedora and Mozilla Activity Days in Prishtina, Kosovo

April 8, 2016 / Elio Qoshi / Comments Off

As part of Open Labs Hackerspace, I was invited to Prishtina, Kosovo by fellow hacktivist Ardian Haxha. I was asked to facilitate various sessions about Fedora and Mozilla. Furthermore, I was happy to design the artwork for the event too. This greatly aligned with my work at Mozilla Community Design and the Fedora Design Team. Ardian is a hard-working community member of FLOSSK. He was heavily involved in the organization of the past SFK conferences in the same city of Prishtina. He recently rediscovered the pleasure of working with the Fedora and Mozilla communities again, so he decided to organize the Fedora and Mozilla Activity Days in Prishtina on the 26th to 27th of March.

Call for Contributors: Fedora 24 Release Notes

April 7, 2016 / immanetize / 1 Comment

We’re well into the validation portion of the Fedora 24 release cycle. The Alpha release is out, freezes are in place, and we have release notes to write.

Contributing to release notes

Contribution to the release notes is coordinated via the wiki. The table on the wiki page shows folks that have volunteered to investigate and write about changes within some defined scopes. If there’s an asterisk next to a name, it’s because that person has not validated their participation for this cycle yet. The ‘beat’ is effectively unclaimed.