Bonjour à tous,

L'équipe de Galette est heureuse de vous faire part de la sortie de Galette 0.63 !

Pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas encore le projet, Galette (qui signifie Gestionnaire d'Adhérents en Ligne Extrêmement Tarabiscoté mais Tellement Efficace) est un projet libre sous licence GPL de gestion d'adhérents à destination des associations.

La liste des modifications pour cette nouvelle version est la suivante :

• Ajout de la gestion de transactions,
• Ajout de la gestion de champs dynamiques, pour ajouter des champs supplémentaires, ainsi que la possibilité de traduire les libellés de ces champs,
• Les adhérents peuvent désormais s'inscrire eux-mêmes,
• Utilisation du moteur de templates Smarty, pour lequel la ré-écriture de toutes les pages html au format XHTML a été nécessaire,
• Passage de ADODB 4.7.1 à 4.9.2
• Utilisation de gettext pour les traductions
• Ajout de la traduction en Espagnol (la traduction n'est pas encore terminée)
• Possibilité d'envoyer un logo personnalisé,
• Ainsi que de nombreuses corrections de bogues.

Le programme d'installation livré permet la mise à jour depuis une version antérieure de Galette, la mise à jour en est fortement simplifiée.

Vous pouvez récupérer la dernière version à l'adresse : http://download.gna.org/galette/galette-0.63.tgz

Et voici quelques liens qui pourraient vous être utiles :

• le site officiel de Galette
• la foire aux questions
• la documentation d'installation
• la documentation de mise à jour

En cas de problème, vous pouvez rapporter les bogues via l'interface de Gna!

Si le projet vous intéresse, n'hésitez pas à rejoindre l'équipe de développement de Galette.

Un grand merci à toute l'équipe sans laquelle cette version n'aurait pas pu voir le jour, ainsi qu'à Tuxfamily (hébergement du site) et Gna! (dépôt du code source, interface de gestion des bogues et tâches, liste de discussions). Merci également à toutes les personnes qui ont testé et re-testé cette version et permis de corriger certains problèmes qui avaient échappé à l'attention de l'équipe

La gentille équipe de développement de Galette.

Hello everybody,

The Galette Team is glad to announce the release of Galette 0.63!

For those who don't know Galette yet, it is a Project to manage the members of your association. Galette is a Free software, licensed under the GPL licence. In French, Galette means Extremely Sophisticated but so Efficient On-Line Membership Manager (in French, a "Galette" is a sort of cake, usually French people eats the "Galette des rois" for the Epiphany).

Here are the updates for the new version:

• Added transaction management,
• Added dynamic fields management, to add more fields and to translate their labels easily,
• Members can now self subscribe to your association,
• Use of the Smarty template engine, for which the rewriting of all the html pages as compliant XHTML was necessary,
• Update ADODB 4.7.1 to 4.9.2,
• Use of gettext for translations,
• Added Spanish translation (the translation is not yet over),
• It is now possible to upload a personal logo,
• So much bugs corrections.

The packaged installation program allows you to update your previous Galette version. The update is then much more easy to achieved.

You can now download the latest version from: http://download.gna.org/galette/galette-0.63.tgz

Here are some links that may be uselful:

• official Galette website
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Galette's install howto
• Galette's update howto

In case of problem, you can report bugs through the Gna! interface.

If you are interested in the projet, feel free to join Galette's development team!

I would like to thank all the development team, who made this 0.63 version possible, and I would like to thank Tuxfamily (web hosting service) as well as Gna! (source code repository, tasks, bugs and chat user interface). I also want to thank all the person who have tested this version again and again and which allowed us to correct some unexpected problems.

The very kind Galette Development Team.

Não faz muito tempo que lançaram o Fedora 10 e já está aberta a votação para a escolha do codinome do Fedora 11, infelizmente apenas os embaixadores do Fedora podem votar, mas parece que essa eleição vai ser bem disputada. Entre as opções há uma surpresa, o codinome "Brasília" está no meio, esse codinome foi sugerido pelo Tulio Macedo (Teseu). As opções são essas:

1 - Blarney

2 - Brasília

3 - Claypool

4 - Duchess

5 - Euryalus

6 - Indomitable

7 - Leonidas

8 - Zampone

Qual você acha que deve ser o codinome da próxima versão? Deixe um comentário.

• Classify the message you're sending out. Is it a critical message, a warning, or simple information? Is it hardware-related, security-related, long-running task related (task failed or task succeeded), do I need to take any action from it or is it not possible to take action from it?


• What should the user do to address the issue, if there is any action to be taken? Can you allow the user to say, "always treat this type of action this way without bugging me?"


• For each message classification, what is the most appropriate iconography needed for the message? Is there any special wording needed? Should it be displayed on a frequent basis? What basis? Or should it be displayed just once?


• Allow users to 'unsubscribe' from particular types of notification. But perhaps don't make it all or none (although I may want to opt-out of all messages from a particular app, I should be able to turn it off at a more fine-grained level.) In each alert dialog/notification bubble, allow users to one-click visit the notification preferences for that (or all?) applications so they can quiet it. Also, should there be both 'shut up now' and 'shut up forever' buttons? If not which should be more prominent?


• Alerts are going to the desktop, to the currently-logged in user. Are there users of the system who aren't logged in who would want to be kept notified of the alerts? Are there users logged in remotely who might want an alert on the shell? How do desktop notifications/alerts translate?


• How do you enable users to take action on alerts? What if there are many alerts from the same application? How do you consolidate them so that users can perform the same action on multiple alerts at once but in a well-informed manner (or at least as informed as the user wants to be)?


• When do you decide to alert a user vs. take action on their behalf without bugging them? To what level should the user be allowed to dictate this if they want more or less notification/control than provided by default?

Voici les toutes dernières actualités concernant le monde de l’Open Source et des Logiciels Libres. Au programme cette semaine : le piratage du SSL, Android sur des notebook et Wikipédia qui récolte de l’argent.

La news de la semaine concerne un groupe de hackers a réussit à venir à bout du protocol SSL. Ces derniers ont utilisés un cluster de 200 Playstation 3 et exploités une faille md5 pour délivrer de vrais certificats SSL. Source.



Les autres news en vrac :

• Le site wordpress-fr propose de télécharger gratuitement un mémento pour Wordpress. On y retrouve la liste des principales fonctions utilisées par le célèbre CMS. Cliquez ici pour télécharger la fiche.
  
  
• Des bidouilleurs ont réussit à installer Google Android sur un netbook. On s'attend donc à retrouver rapidement ce système d'exploitation sur des EeePC et autres mini-portables. La méthode pour y arrivertiens en une trentaine de commandes et elle est lisible ici.
  
  
• Wikipédia a ré-collecté 6 millions de dollars pour son fonctionnement. Ce projet à donc encore de beaux jours devant lui. Source.
  
  

planet.classpath.org moved servers and if done correctly nobody will notice (except for the new server having a totally sweet favicon ). But if you do happen to notice anything odd with the planet after the move, then please do yell and scream.

Those using Anjuta's Glade3 plugin in Fedora 9 (or GNOME 2.22) and Fedora 10 (or GNOME 2.24) must have found themselves with a frozen Anjuta on more than one occasion. Please update your glade3 package to glade3-3.4.5-2 for the fix. Since this was caused by due to a missing patch in the upstream Glade3 3.4.x releases this has likely affected other distributions too.

GNU Parted got itself the ability to probe Ext4 file systems. Here is the patch against the current Git master.

If you're interested in Multiseat, I invite you to join the mailing list and -- if you can make it -- the hackfest session at FUDCon F11.

Before FUDCon, I'm going to run a set of tests on the current X drivers with various card combinations (at least NVIDIAx2 and multilayer, plus ATIx2 if the equipment arrives in time).

Este post que encontré a través del twitter de AngelVengador,  trata sobre la conclusión de un padre que “bromeó” en internet (twitter) que mataría a su hija, porque lo estaba hinchando después de un día muy agitado

A parte de toda la discusión sobre si el bromear respecto a un tema tan delicado es correcto o no (que casi todos los comentarios se remiten a eso), es importante notar que al publicar cosas en internet, no tenemos la misma libertad que cuando lo hacemos con amigos.

Las redes sociales son herramientas muy poderosas, pero de doble filo. Hoy mismo las usan para ver perfiles de personas, y buscar gente adecuada para trabajo, pero ya hoy en día pueden ser usadas para determinar comportamientos u otras cosas.

Asique, cuidado con lo que postean o dejan por internet, porque eventualmente, les puede rebotar de vuelta… ¡Y quizas lleguen los carabineros a tu casa!

Watch what you twitter, big sister is watching. « Spin Me I Pulsate.

O Projeto Fedora vem novamente convocar a comunidade para ajudar no processo de escolha do nome para a próxima release dessa distribuição, o Fedora 11.

De forma democrática, como é comum nesses processos de votação do projeto, o nome será escolhido após a apuração das notas oferecidas pela comunidade para cada nome que foi previamente sugerido também pela comunidade.

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Long time no post even though much happened. I had my right hand broken (actually only the ring finger, but that affected it’s neighbors and the whole hand was in plaster. But more to this later. I’ll write this post to summarize some things I wanted to write in the time since my last post but wasn’t really able to (writing continuous text without lots of typos is your enemy #2 with only your left hand - #1 is using any sort of email client since they need lots of changes between mouse and keyboard…unless you use a console based one or know _all_ shortcuts…I do neither).

I organized and conducted the FAD EMEA 2008 in November, together with the help of people like Andreas Rau and Max Spevack. I want to thank everyone who attended this event and made it a (in my eyes) huge success. It’s been a great chance to speak about important topics, see some new faces and have a good time together. Between all the work, we also had good (Chinese and Swiss) food - pretty much everyone loved the Raclette but many left the Vermicelle behind. I’m not sure if people were just stuffed or if they just didn’t like it. I’m sure it was worth the try and at least the table of the fellow Italian ambassadors made sure that their plates were empty to the last bit.

Unfortunately, I was stupid enough to fall down a stone stair on Friday evening during the FAD (i.e. just a few hours after it had begun). Andreas Rau left our working room just to fetch something…I think some cups. When he didn’t return for quite some time I started to wonder where he is or if something happened. So when I had a chance to sneak out (sorry wonderer that it was during your topic) I left the room to give Andi a call. Will it was still ringing on the other side, I made some steps in this and that direction - as I and many others always do in that situation. Unfortunately, the University of Basel does not feature automatic light activation and I was too lazy to look for a light switch because I saw no need for it. I figure I was mistaken in that thought. Taking 2-3 steps in that direction, I stepped onto nothing. Until my brain realized that this is a stair, it was too late to catch myself and so it came that I flew down the stairs (11 hard steps). I’m not sure if I passed out early on or if I have a blackout but between realizing that it’s a stair and getting up from the bottom I don’t remember anything (lucky me). Everything afterwards is a long story not worth telling in detail. I get up, got to a toilet, later called Andi to help me because I felt terrible and my nose wouldn’t stop bleeding, puzzled whether to go to the hospital or not (it’s now been after midnight), walked to the nearby hospital, got some x-ray done. Result: foot broken, finger broken, deep wound on the nose, experienced a major hit against my head. The fixed me up quickly in order to survive the weekend and told me to go to a hospital on Monday to see after my hand which might need an operation.

Next day, I continued with the normal FAD program which finished sometime Sunday afternoon. On Tuesday, I had an appointment with the doctor at the hospital. Monday the week after, I had my finger operated and 6 weeks later I was able to use my full hand again. Today, I hardly notice that I ever broke my foot or finger, where the latter is still a bit sensitive to big pressure.

In the time being at home (because I couldn’t properly do my $DAYJOB with only my left hand) I learnt to create SRPMs/RPMs and got some packages approved while others are still on their way to that point. Shortly before the accident, a friend of mine gave me a job advertisement from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) he found in a newspaper. The ad was titled ‘Red Hat Linux Specialist’ and sure caught my attention (and my friend’s before, since he knew I was looking for a linux engineering related job and that I live in the Red Hat / Fedora world). I didn’t exactly meet what was asked from a applicant to the job but decided to give it a try anyway. I didn’t have anything to lose, right? So I sent them a small letter, accompanied only by my curriculum vitae (CV). I was then invited to a job interview which turned out not too bad in my eyes. I have no professional work experience in the Linux field yet and as I mentioned I didn’t fulfill what they looked for in an applicant. But a huge plus were my connections in the Fedora and with that also Red Hat community as well as my private interest and activity in Fedora/Linux.

Some time passed, until I heard anything new from the ETHZ. I was then invited to a day in their offices in order to get to know the team, see how good we blend, exchange some knowledge and ideas, see the job I’m applying for and so on. I was told they’re doing the same with other applicant as well so I did not yet have the job but at least, I was in step #2. Well, that day was lots of fun and the I liked the job I was applying for even better after seeing better what it involved than before.

About two weeks later, I was invited to step #3 - the final step, actually. I figure that meant I was their choice #1 but I didn’t have the job at that time. It’s been similar to the first interview, but with a bit more details on the important things between an employer and an employee. It went well, similar to the first one and less than 24h later I had the job.

They told me, that they want me no matter whether my current employer lets me go earlier than the contract says or not which was great since there was a huge chance that he would but there was no guarantee for it at that time. I spoke to my employer at the same day (we had a meeting that day anyway) and we agreed on ending it at the end of January (instead of March).

Starting on February, I’ll be an employee of the ETHZ and be part of a Red Hat Linux team. I hope I can bring in some more Fedora things (like EPEL) and also give the community something back (maybe a Fedora install event or a FUDCon or something like that). Apparently, they’ll also send me to the yearly Red Hat Summit in the USA which I wanted to go to for such a long time already.

On another note, this also means that I’ll move from Bern to Zurich - as soon as I find a flat there that suits me and my wallet well.

As was just announced on the announcement mailing list*, the voting ballots for the Fedora 11 release name are now open. To vote, you just need to be a member of one non-CLA group in our Fedora Account System. Voting ends at 2359 UTC 2009-01-09, so get your vote in quickly! (There’s nothing wrong with campaigning for a name of your choice either, if you’re so inclined.)

The Fedora release name is sort of a fun Easter egg for the community. Ultimately, it’s simply a way that anyone who participates in Fedora can have a say in what we call the next release. For Fedora 10, that name was “Cambridge,” which incidentally was Red Hat engineering’s internal release name for the Red Hat Linux 10 product that never was. That release ultimately became Fedora Core 1, “Yarrow.”

All the names on the ballot were submitted by the community, run through a series of searches to identify probable trademark conflicts, and then approved by the Fedora Board and Red Hat’s legal department, which did a more thorough search for conflicts and risk identification. The entire submission process was recorded on the wiki, where you can find details on all the suggestions.

Each release name is linked to the previous release name, and that link must be different from the link that came before it. We try to keep the links non-obvious and (arguably) clever wherever possible. In the past, the links have become a little more generic, but given the fairly good slate of names that’s on the ballot this time, I hope that will be less of an issue going forward.

Thanks again to Nigel Jones for coordinating our election process and to everyone who submitted a name for consideration!

* Not on it? join here.

The Fedora 8 end-of-life is scheduled for this coming Wednesday. If you haven't made the switch to Fedora 9 or Fedora 10 yet, now is the time!

However, if you're using a Multiseat system, your options are limited, because Multiseat is not well supported iin F9/F10. We're working on improving the situation for Fedora 11. In the meantime, here are some suggestions for those stuck on F8:

• Use virtualization to limit your exposure to network security issues. Create a virtual machine running a newer version of Fedora, and have all outside connections (e.g., ssh, httpd) directed to the virtual machine. This permits you to continue running the Multiseat system on F8 while using updated versions of the network services packages.
• Fully update your system before Wednesday, and test thoroughly.

And from all the F8 Multiseat users: a special plea to the Pulseaudio folks to fix bug 462200 for F8 before EOL -- us Multiseat types particularly need Pulseaudio.

Took some nice vacation from IRC in the last week. Now back on track again. In the current todo list:

• Implementing the Jukebox ideas
• Work on more PyQt videos

Also found the third eye: Can you find me in that ?

If you could have a datacenter/lab/systems management tool that doesn't exist built for you (whoever you happen to be), what would it do?

Not just in terms of adding new features on an old one, but something entirely new and different?

I think we're a bit self-limited with the current model of Install/Config-Manage/Monitor (it's what's always been done) and am wondering what everyone's thoughts of the future of controlling large numbers of machines are. Make no assumptions, impose no limits (or PHB requirements), how would you want things to be to really shake things up? What still sucks today? Where could you go if you had technology to enable it? Is there a tool or program (or artificial intelligence [1]) that doesn't exist that you would like to use and possibly work on in the future? Something to join the modular Cobbler, Func, Puppet/cfengine/bcfg2/other family or maybe to go in a completely different direction? Ideally this would be something that could be started with a small prototype and grow over time with contributions as others see fit?

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Footnotes:

1. The Matrix on Blu-Ray is rather kick-ass and makes me disappointed with my lack of a neural interface all over again. [2]
2. I don't know Kung Fu, does Python count?

I've been thinking lately about what the positive impact of what I do is, beyond code. Ideally I think I want to be about encouraging cross-organizational collaboration to build new exciting and unpredictable things, and I think this is what OSS is really about (but not everyone realizes this). That all being said, part of the ways we encourage collaboration is not just in creating collaborative software projects, but spreading the message about what collaboration and free exchange of ideas can do. As much as said talk doesn't do much, it's not quite true. We can easily start and run a few projects ourselves -- but we can /talk/ a lot. Communication is important, and we can show people what we do with the few examples we have. So, yeah, collaboration, ideas...

I think, right now, we are NOT getting that message out to the academic sector enough. It's not just about software development methodology, but really it's a game changer -- if you want to call it the bazaar, fine, it's the bazaar. So, what am I getting at? We need to be encouraging new interactions that generate new, truly innovative things. Right now, I think a lot of what we see everywhere is still evolutionary, and small micro improvements on projects. An installer is still an installer, a desktop is still largely a desktop doing the same thing a desktop always did, a web browser is still a web browser. Zzzzz? We keep rewriting things, and that's not bad -- but the whole world is also rewriting things. I feel myself getting into this rut. What we really want is a LOT of new ideas on the table and to see what sticks. Not just ten of fifty ideas, but a thousand. Ten thousand. Colleges are a great places for this to happen in addition to industry (often industry has more pressures to release products and less time to try new things), but there are some things holding colleges back. For one, folks aren't encouraged to build longstanding projects that live beyond the assignments (or involve students across semesters) -- two, universities often try to own IP for things done on machines owned by the university. Both are not creating this huge interplay of ideas that I'd like to see. (Ideas breed with one another, genetic diversity of ideas is what we're going for).

What spawned this -- Slashdot had a blurb about how student inventions are increasingly being patented (for license fees) by universities. The Link says something about licensing an invention back to a student for $75k upfront + future royalties. What's the likelihood that the student can afford this? Are we building collaborative, nation-transforming innovative industries this way? (Moving from large industry to garage-startups?) Or are we just training replacable workers and not designers? What ideas are we producing that can multiply with each other?

When I was back at State (by which I mean NCSU) several of us (students) had the same theory about this holding innovation back -- in the light of NCSU not getting royalties from SAS (the world's largest private software company and also the largest software company I know of that has a Yoda statue in their lobby), they are discouraging students from doing interesting things by owning rights to what they create. As a result, innovation is reduced. We didn't see why anyone would start a Google now, and as a result we were very leery of innovating inside of our class projects. We didn't, and I am pretty sure if we had been allowed to think about building businesses while we were around a huge crop of smart people we would have done some amazing things. Imagine if instead of busywork class assignments we were building new technology that people could really use. What if people were told instead of "here's an assignment to build an blackjack simulator" you instead get "here's your mission: find a way to solve the world's problems WRT ______".

Perhaps Universities should realize that folks like SAS give a LOT to the unversity in terms of donations, and also hire their graduates, which feeds the universities more than the patent royalties. As a result, while NCSU may be able to extract some revenue from a few startups, it also makes sure that innovation that can start outstanding companies and products is curtailed. There is also lost affiliation with the brand of the university -- for instance, everybody knows Google came out of Stanford. Heavy royalties probably would have prevented it's formation -- or even the formation of the idea.

The open source way of doing things would allow for free exchange of information and would understand that increasing the local economy and encouraging new ideas to flourish is more advantageous than controlling ideas and IP. Imagine the RTP economy without SAS, for instance. Now imagine three more SAS's that you don't have today, each with lots of perspective alumni donors working there and collaborating regularly with students. Which would you rather have? Which are you building?

Another point: funding. I had a LOT of time in college to learn things and do assignments. Most good OSS work today comes from paid developers working on a project of some kind or another for their company. One yields advantages people can share, but the university side is seemingly untapped aside from a few shining examples. In general, code developed is thrown away and not seen/used again, and usually it's just reimplementations of something someone did the previous semester. Everyone time to come up with crazy ideas and implement them then. How many did? Was it because they weren't told they could and the framework was just conceptually broken?

Thankfully I work where I can implement new ideas that I come up with -- but generally, for a lot of people, they usually have to implement ideas come up with by other people. For most folks, universities are were folks will have the most freedom. Let's encourage them to innovate and keep the rights to what they create, and trust that they'll do the right thing later. We might even have our flying cars by now.

Wouldn't it be amazing if instead of training tomorrow's coding labor force, we built 10,000 startups and incubate new ideas? Are there more ways we can spread OSS and this thought process (which seem naturally linked) amongst our educational system? Apple started out of a garage. The next game changer isn't going to come out of Redmond, either. Turn the kids free and see what they produce.

Of course, please work on the Three Laws before Skynet. Thanks :)

Unfortunately, this blog is just words -- we need to find new ways to create more decentralized communities for people to collaborate and share brainpower. How can we use what we know from things like Fedora to enable more people to freely create and share? And how to we tap universities and such when they are young and before they go to places that don't have the freedom to encourage as much innovation? Any ideas? We need to quadruple our efforts.

We're looking at Obama promises such as open government and moving things to be more democratic again. This is great. There's potentially a new wave of funding to creating green technology (also great). At the same time, we need to make software and invention more democratic and accessible to everyone. That would be a great role for all of us to help foster. The potential is a technological renaissance. I'm not in academics, but I see huge potential for their taking OSS (and the mentality behind it) to the next level. It's time.

We need our educational institutions to help that happen, and we have to help them see that potential.

Elyn got me this DVD for Christmas.  Aside from being a “spaghetti eastern” (har, har), it is a lovely meditation on the universal act of eating.

This is such an unusual film that I’ve been thinking a bit about what attracts me to it.  I like the joy and the quietness of it — I like happy endings and mundane, as opposed to extreme, conflict.  Also, I enjoy how very foreign it seems… I know zilch about Japan, and for all I know a truck-driving cowboy is some kind of icon there — but here he just seems bizarre.  And, I like the film’s digressions from the main story, which are entertaining but not excessively distracting.

This is a must-see.

Please test gnuradio-3.1.3-2.fc10 bugfix update.

* Fri Dec 19 2008 Marek Mahut <mma...@fedoraproject.org> - 3.1.3-2
- Upstream release 3.1.3
- Comedi support
- RHBZ#473928 Unowned directories