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FADKL Jan 2012

2012-01-09T23:29:00.001+08:00

The Fedora Activity Day (FAD) is a regional event (either one-day or a multi-day) that allows Fedora contributors to gather together in order to work on specific tasks related to the Fedora Project. It is usually held in Barcamp format, and the activities ranges from simple introductory talks to a whole day of building new features for Fedora. Example activities includes:

Talks
Sprints/hackathons - coding session
Workshops
Discussion group - eg: planning on how to promote Fedora in Malaysia

But wait, what is Barcamp?
Barcamp is an open, participatory workshop-events, the content of which is provided by participants. Talks and sessions for each days are proposed by attendees , usually on-site, and all attendees are encouraged to present or facilitate a session.

Talk Submission
Any talks are accepted, as long as it meet one or several of these criteria.

Software is available in Fedora repositories
Software is known to be going to be available in Fedora repositories
Talk/session related to using / developing stuff on Fedora
Talk/session related to the Fedora community in general

Submit your session here or view submitted sessions here.

Registering
This event is free to attend and participate. If you are coming, please register here

Ubuntu launched online AppStore

2012-01-02T19:11:00.001+08:00

Just saw this news which was posted a few days ago: http://www.muktware.com/articles/3154/ubuntu-appstore-goes-online

Seems like Ubuntu also have follow suit in the online appstore concept

For Fedora or PackageKit-powered-distros users, AppRepo project might be of interest to you, which, coincidentally, launched a couple of weeks before the Ubuntu App Directory article above.

AppRepo is powered by PackageKit .catalog file, so it is quite distro agnostic. However at the moment our contributors are mainly Fedora users, so the applications at the moment only support Fedora.

If you want to help out, we could use some help in populating the AppRepo with more apps. We choose to not use automated import to make the AppRepo a bit 'human'. If it was not added by anyone, its probably not worth looking at. So if you think theres apps thats worth to be looked at, please, add them into AppRepo and give love to it by adding screenshots and nice descriptions.

Nonetheless we are planning on an automated listing of all packages in Fedora/RPMFusion with .desktop file which have yet to have an AppRepo entry、 to aid in populating.

We also just created a GoogleGroup here: http://groups.google.com/group/apprepo.

We also have a G+ page here: https://plus.google.com/104045247598512037795

AppRepo updates.

2011-12-26T15:34:00.003+08:00

Some updates I did on AppRepo throughout the weekend:

Use .catalog instead of browser plugin

Support multiple distributions

Use icon instead of lead image
Browse by category
Nicer templates
OpenID profile settings
Categorization using PackageKit Categories list
Screenshot gallery

Its now looking quite good, though would need a nicer search UI.

Credits to MavJS, and Exsanetol for helping me up to add some more contents into AppRepo.

Local behavior support for Dexterity

2011-12-26T14:47:00.001+08:00

Just created this: https://github.com/inigoconsulting/collective.localbehavior

Back in MyGOSSCon, Dylan Jay of Pretaweb mentioned about his discussion on getting rid of content type concept altogether and replace it with just Deco type.

It sounds to me a lot like having local behavior for Dexterity, where each content may have its own set of behaviors assigned. So you can just add a Dexterity content, and if suddenly you decide you want to add more fields or behaviors, just for that content, you can just assign the local behavior on it.

eg: you added a Page, but suddenly you think that this page should be an event. The main way to do this is to delete the page, and create an Event instead. But with local behavior, your can just assign an Event local behavior and the content will have the fields and viewlets needed to turn it into an event.

If you are interested in above, you might also be interested with this : http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/collective.miscbehaviors/

Fedora Activity Day KL January 2012

2011-12-25T14:18:00.001+08:00

Fedora Activity Day is BACK!!!,

Date: 21st January 2012, 10am-6pm
Location: UCTI/APIIT

Submit a session here: http://fedora.my/events/fadkl012012/++register-session
View submitted sessions here: http://fedora.my/events/fadkl012012/sessions
Register here: http://fedora.my/events/fadkl012012/++register

What is FAD?

The Fedora Activity Day (FAD) is a regional event (either one-day or a multi-day) that allows Fedora contributors to gather together in order to work on specific tasks related to the Fedora Project. It is usually held in Barcamp format, and the activities ranges from simple introductory talks to a whole day of building new features for Fedora. Example activities includes:

Talks
Sprints/hackathons - coding session
Workshops
Discussion group - eg: planning on how to promote Fedora in Malaysia

But wait, what is Barcamp?

Barcamp is an open, participatory workshop-events, the content of which is provided by participants. Talks and sessions for each days are proposed by attendees , usually on-site, and all attendees are encouraged to present or facilitate a session.
Talk Submission

Any talks are accepted, as long as it meet one or several of these criteria.

Software is available in Fedora repositories
Software is known to be going to be available in Fedora repositories
Talk/session related to using / developing stuff on Fedora
Talk/session related to the Fedora community in general

Submit your session here ( http://fedora.my/events/fadkl012012/++register-session ) or view submitted sessions here ( http://fedora.my/events/fadkl012012/++register )

Registering

This event is free to attend and participate. Register here: http://fedora.my/events/fadkl012012/++register

See you all there!!