Fedora 12 Talking Points 是供 Fedora 大使在宣传活动中参考使用的内容。文档的位置在 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talking_points ，列出了新版本中应当着重强调的改进和亮点。Fedora 大使 Mel Chua 表示， Fedora 大使需要向不同的对象介绍 Fedora 12，这份文档为此提供了一些指导。文档的主要内容如下：

* 1 桌面用户 o 1.1 PackageKit 命令行和浏览器插件 o 1.2 NetworkManager 改进 o 1.3 新一代 Ogg Theora 视频 o 1.4 更快的下载和更新(xz in rpm, presto with deltarpm) * 2 系统维护 o 2.1 libguestfs o 2.2 虚拟化进展 * 3 开发者 o 3.1 SystemTap 的 Eclipse 插件和功能更新 o 3.2 NetBeans 6.7.1

(更多内容有待补充，参见 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12/FeatureList )

1. 技术
* NetworkManager – 连接共享
* PackageKit – 新的开发阶段的开始，将加入大量新功能。支持搜索编码解码器(codec)。将支持搜索字体，搜索必要/推荐的应用程序等等。
* Plymouth/快速启动 – 过去 RHGB 比较慢，也很复杂。现在内核支持 mode setting，启动过程可以更美观，实现更简单。目前 ATI 显卡的 Plymouth 过渡效果最好，但是其他显卡也在不断改善。
* RPM 4.6 – 多年以来首次对 RPM 升级，修正大量错误，提供新功能，例如更大的 软件包，更好的错误处理和语法检查，支持 LZMA 压缩。
* 虚拟化 – 改进虚拟系统的远程安装与管理，存储准备(storage provisioning)。使大量使用虚拟化的组织可以实现中心化、自动化管理和托管。
* 应用(Appliance)工具 – AOS (Appliance OS) 和 ACT (Appliance 创建工具)，以及新的 “FEDORA REMIX” 标识一起，为 OEM，开发者和 ISV 提供了制作衍生版的基础。利用这些好用的、文档齐全的工具，用户可以将自己的技术与 Fedora 丰富的开源内容结合，构建自己的第三方应用。Fedora Remix 标识明确了 Fedora Project 的地位和重要作用。更多信息请访问 Thincrust 站点。
* SecTool 安全工具 – 检测系统的问题。SecTool 包含一系列测试，支持文本和图形界面，允许扩展你自己的测试。
其他特性见 Fedora 10 特性列表。

2. 亮点
* “Solar” 主题 – 熔融的蓝色星球蕴意无限的能量。主题由社区的美工组创建。
* GNOME 2.24，包含 GTD 工具 time tracker，更好的 deskbar，支持简洁列表和 tab 的 Nautilus 文件管理器，全新的 Ekiga 3.0 SIP 视讯软件。
* KDE 4.1.2，包含 KDE-PIM，改进的 Dophin 文件管理起和 Konqueror 浏览器，改善了窗口混合，使用 OpenStreetMap 的地球仪程序。
* 无失真的音频(Glitch-free)，由 PulseAudio 系统实现(需要内核和硬件支持)。PulseAudio 经过改进，延迟更少，响应更快，但是消耗更少能源(更少地唤醒 CPU)。

3. 社区
* 现在加入 Fedora 与加入任何一个社会化网站一样简单。点击 http://join.fedoraproject.org/ ，开始向 Fedora 做出贡献，改变这个世界！Fedora Project 大致有以下的方向：翻译，文档，美工，基础设施，打包，网站。
* 由于加入 Fedora 的过程得以简化，过去 8 个月内，我们的成员从 2000 名达到了 15000 名。成员拥有一个 SSH 帐号和免费的网页空间，还可以编辑 Fedora Project Wiki。

4. Fedora 中文用户组
* irc://irc.freenode/#fedora-cn 每周五 20:00 的聚会恢复举行。
* fedora-cn 邮件列表流量保持健康状态。
* http://bbs.fedora-zh.org FZUG 论坛成立，是 Activity 制度的第一个成果。
* http://news.fedora-zh.org Fuzzy! News 新闻站成立。
* 正在试行 Content 工作队列制度，为 bbs, news 和 wiki 输送内容。

原文见 Talking points for F10

Technical

• NetworkManager – Connection sharing makes it possible for one Fedora system to become a collaboration hub for everyone. With a single wired or mobile broadband connection, and a few mouse clicks, the user can create a new wireless ad-hoc network on a separate wireless network interface, which other nearby machines can use for Internet access.
• PackageKit – PackageKit has taken the next step on its development roadmap, with the first in a series of features that will enhance the free software desktop experience. PackageKit can now use a set of dependency information provided in RPM packages to search for codecs for supported media. PackageKit uses the repository configuration on the host machine to determine search locations, and after authorization by the user, installs and plays the media. In the Fedora 11 timeframe and beyond, PackageKit will develop additional capabilities for installing fonts and applications in the same fashion. These changes will give Fedora users an experience that surpasses every other operating system thanks to the openness of free software.
• Plymouth/faster boot – Starting the legacy RHGB takes quite a bit of time, memory and disk activity. It requires numerous graphical user interface pieces to load just a few messages and a progress bar and slows down booting significantly. The kernel’s new mode setting capability makes it possible to speed up the boot process, and offer a pleasant visual experience with crossfading. The full beauty of the loader in its initial Fedora 10 release will be best appreciated by people with recent ATI video cards, but Plymouth is being actively improved to extend the experience for even more users.
• RPM 4.6 – The first major update to RPM in a number of years, this upgrade contains an enormous number of bug fixes, enhancements, and new features such as much larger package sizes, better error handling and syntax checking, and experimental handling of more tightly compressed LZMA payloads.
• Virtualization improvements – This release features substantial improvements in remote installation and management of virtual hosts, and enhancements to storage provisioning. These new features enable centralization, automation and delegation in environments that rely heavily on virtualization.
• Appliance tools – The Appliance OS (AOS) and the Appliance Creation Tool (ACT), combined with the new “FEDORA REMIX” mark, allow OEMs, developers, and ISVs to create new and exciting offerings using comfortable and well-documented Fedora tools as a baseline. Users can combine outside technologies with Fedora’s enormous universe of free and open source software to build innovative and useful appliances. The Fedora Remix mark allows appliance builders to credit and drive interest in the Fedora Project, which helps advance the infrastructure on which they base their creations. More information is available at the Thincrust site.
• SecTool – This release of Fedora includes a new security auditing system that you can use to detect problems on your system before they become an even bigger problem. SecTool comes with a variety of tests to run against your system in text or graphical modes to assess security, but it is also incredibly modular so you can write tests to accommodate your special needs.

Full list of technical features appears here.

[编辑] New Hotness

• “Solar” Theme – Created by the Fedora Artwork team, this fresh and exciting new look for Fedora generates as much buzz energy as the nuclear furnace of a blue supergiant star. As with Waves and other previous Fedora themes, Solar has been created with free and open source tools and sources by a partnership of artists and designers in the community.
• GNOME 2.24 – Refer to the GNOME 2.24 release notes for complete information. Among the highlights:
  • New applets like the time tracker and a more powerful deskbar
  • A compact list view and tabbed browser support in the Nautilus file manager
  • The all-new Ekiga 3.0 telephony and videoconferencing application, which is built to be presence-aware and a better way to reach people using voice-over-IP protocols such as SIP.
• KDE 4.1.2 – Refer to the KDE 4.1.2 release announcement and the original KDE 4.1 announcement for complete information. Highlights include:
  • Restored and integrated KDE-PIM for complete personal data organization
  • New features in the Dolphin file manager and Konqueror web browser
  • Improvements to the compositing window manager
  • A globe application that interfaces with OpenStreetMap
• Glitch-free audio – PulseAudio is a sound system that handles multiple sources and destinations including over networks. PulseAudio in Fedora 10 is now more responsive due to its new low-latency design, but also consumes less power.

[编辑] Community

• It’s now as easy to join Fedora as any social networking site. Just click to http://join.fedoraproject.org/ and become part of the free software movement that is changing the world. Thousands of people are already members of Fedora. Why not join, and use your account to get involved in free software through one of our many community-powered groups?
  • Translation – bring Fedora to communities in other languages
  • Documentation – write helpful guidance to help people get the most from Fedora
  • Artwork – make Fedora beautiful with art and design
  • Marketing and Ambassadors – help spread Fedora to your local community
  • Infrastructure – help run the systems that power the Fedora Project
  • Packaging – help keep software free and easy to use for everyone
  • Websites – help design and set up effective web presence for Fedora
• We’ve gone from under 2,000 to over 15,000 project members in the last 8 months, since making the joining process dead-simple on the web site.
  • Project members immediately get an SSH account and free web space, and can immediately help write or edit on our wiki.

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原文见 Re: [Ambassadors] Default home page template.

I created yesterday in 20min a little Idea – an Userpage
template with an infobox. It’s just a draft, just an idea, just a
suggestion.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Cassmodiah/Infobox

perhaps this would be a “better” template. What is your point of view?

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen aus dem schönen Hainzell
Simon Wesp

我(ugolini)希望看到来自 APAC 的提名，过去一年那里做了很多，包括 NA，一个有经验的，有能力的社区；LATAM，一个相当大的社区，做得不错；还有 EMEA，在建立有效的基础设施来管理人员和资源方面做出的努力。这是最简单不过的介绍，我希望可以说出各个本地社区的亮点，如果说错了还请纠正。

我认为这些社区需要强有力的支持。我相信新的 FAmSCo 会认真对待它们，但是所有 Ambassador 的广泛合作更为重要。

原文见 Call for Ambassadors (3)

According to the Nomination Page, there are actually 7 people who add their name (or have accepted the nomination someone else made).

I invite who hasn’t done it yet to think about his/her nomination: it’s really important to see a great participation in this electoral turnout.

I hope to see people from APAC, where I saw a lot of work done during the last year, from NA, an experienced community who demonstrated its capacities and abilities, from LATAM, that has created a really big community and has done a great work too, and from EMEA, who have worked so hard during the past year to set up a powerful infrastructure to manage resources and people.

I know it’s a really brief scheme, I hope to have underlined the core actions of each local community. BTW, feel free to tell me if I’m wrong, helping to carry on this discussion.

I think all this challenges, and others ones, require a powerfull and helpful hand. I’m sure next FAmSCo should take care deeply about these ones, but it’s necessary a wide participation from all ambassadors!

1. 不定期，在 fedora-ambassadors-list 召集，在 #fedora-meeting 举行。已确定的聚会见 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings

2. 每次 APAC 线上聚会时间一般为 3:00 UTC，折合北京时间 11:00am

3. #fedora-meeting 的时刻表见 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Commun…MeetingChannel，过去几次日志概要见 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambas…ngs/2008-09-07 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambass…ngs/2008-06-08 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambas…ngs/2008-04-19 等，其中 2008-09-07 原始日志见 http://markmail.org/message/65hwr7qwoaaps7k5

2008-11-16 update:
聚会摘要
* APAC Ambassador 聚会将定期举行，时间为每月第二个周日，#fedora-meeting, 3:00 GMT (北京时间 11:00am)
* chendra 介绍印尼的情况，包括 LUG, events 和线上活动
* hers 介绍中国大陆的情况，LUG 和线上活动
* rishi 提到尼泊尔的经费问题

聚会日志

原文见 Call for Ambassadors (2)

Yesterday I wrote about FAmSCo nomination period, now I want to talk about few aspects you may find interesting, hoping those could invite you adding your name.

During the last years, mainly during this one, we saw a constant, amazing,  growth of participation in our community: this helped us defining the core values behind Fedora and behind Ambassadors Project too.

1. Community matters

Fedora is people powered, without a big community, like ours, we couldn’t arrive where we are: community is become our principal brand value, it helped us differentiate from the other project.

In that way, Ambassadors Project is one of most clear expression of this: with our voice we go around the world promoting Fedora and creating a direct relation between Fedora and the rest of world.

2. Open processes and direct participation

I think this is one of the most interesting part of the project: it’s simple to join our community and starting working, but it’s really easy to join directly the decision making process. This helps not only to create a community based project but it makes possible to keep Fedora an evolving process, with a stable and reliable background.

Once again, Ambassadors Project is the clear expression of this one. I’m writing this post to let you know that it’s your time: you can join the challenge or, in a second time, cast your vote, but, in both cases you will directly decide where Ambassadors Project should go.

There are other Fedora core values: here I wanted to underline the two ones that are directly connected with ambassadors and with the crucial step we are facing. I hope those ones could help you taking the right decision but, stay sure, whatever you will decide (run for FAmSCo or not), you will be at the center of the project!

我邀请所有感兴趣的 Ambassador 参与提名，建立更好的 FAmSCo。我们有接近 600 名 Ambassador，来自世界各地。可以预见会有大量的提名。我希望任何人都不要错过，因为不会有失败者：的确，有人会落选。但是，每个人都可以提出对项目的见解和意见，没有人会忘掉它们！

FAmSCo 不仅用来互通有无，也涉及到制定 Ambassador 项目策略，社区管理(培训与协调)，以及为 Ambassador 改善条件的相关任务。需要重点指出 FAmSCo 在本地用户组(LUG)中的重要角色：FAmSCo 与地区的联系人保持关系，了解存在的问题和解决情况，协助本地用户组发展。

参与提名和选举时，你自己的 Ambassador 经历是最好的评判标准。 关于提名的更多信息，以及如果要提名自己，请访问 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/SteeringCommittee/Election/2008Nominations

原文见 FAmSCo Nomination Period – Call for Ambassadors

It’s my honor and pleasure to let you know FAmSCo nomination period is open until December 3rd.

I invite all the Ambassadors who want to face this amazing challenge to write their name and work creating a better FAmSCO.

It’s really important, with near-to-be 600 ambassadors (thanks to Fabian for the number), to see a big turnout, expecially if you consider we are coming from all over the World. I think everyone has to take care of this possibility, just because there will not be losers: yes, someone will be elected and someone else not, but EVERYONE will give their own perspectives and ideas for the project and, stay sure, nobody will forget this!

FAmSCo is not only the resource bridge, it also takes care of ambassadors policies making, community management (training and coordination) and all the tasks connected with the improvements of each ambassador exprience. BTW, it’s necessary to underline the important role it has in the organization of local groups: it is constantly in touch with Regional contacts to know what are the problems, the results and whatever could let FAmSCo working improving the local groups.

I think a blog post can’t tell you everything about FAmSCo and the reasons to be part of this important, necessary, Ambassadors’ tool.

I’m sure your Fedora “ambassadorial” experience will be the best criterion to think about your direct participation in FAmSCo elections, no doubt about it

For more info and to add your name see: fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/SteeringCommittee/Election/2008Nominations