Fedora Project Insider

User who follows Life: Infinity, Freedom and Voice.

After many problems, pain, blood and tears the hungarian community site for our small (but growing) community has settled – and it has built an baby website where we believe that our community will find their home. First steps are really hard, because we have to find more of our balance, and more people who could actively participate – contribute… I don’t know how the other communities has begun their first steps in Fedorian FOSS world, it would be nice to hear once of their success stories. Yeah, we would like to hear every story, and perhaps we could avoid the same or the similar mistakes – as others done.

I think this just an small gnome footstep, what we leave here on the net – but we want an better world, and an better community that adds new elements to our 4F principles. We have high hopes before of our community, and our site – as we talked about at our very first fedora round table meeting, and we feel that we’ll succeed. New events, contacts with many many people, teachers, schools, and more….. oh, and an small message to other small communities: we are ready to work together, if you need us – we will be there. Would be awesome to hold an event at Moscow, at Poland, or Bucharest – so if you are interested – contact me – and let’s plan and get ready to be done. Seriously. Tell us.

We know that not everything is perfect, even at our site – so – please, if you have advices, or wishes we gladly greet everyone at our IRC channel at Freenode #fedora-hu channel and there you could keep the contact.

I also would like to say again thank you to everyone who supporting us, specially to our board, to Jörg Simon, and to our admin who has created this drupal site namely Peter Borsa (FAS: Asrob), also to our ambassadors, who working hardly to keep the community together.

The current website adress is:

http://sysadmin.vinfo.hu/

Dear Fedorians!

The Insight team is looking for help, aid, we would like to grab more people for the development of the project called Fedora Insight[1].
But what is that Insight? Those who don’t know this project here is an short description:

Fedora Insight is a Drupal-based website that serves as a place to publish and share news, articles related to Fedora and Fedora marketing materials in various formats. Insight makes it easy for users, developers, and journalists — people who aren’t yet a part of the Fedora contributor community — to keep up with recent highlights without following a dozen different blogs and mailing lists.

We believe you can help us in Insight development. Currently we are looking for the following people:

1. Theme creator

Knows the combination of HTML, CSS and a little bit of PHP. To this you need only some Drupal theme docs [2][3] and you could successfully contribute, to be available an Drupal 7 theme for Insight. If you are interested, you’ll find our wiki [3] how can you make contact with us, and where you could find the Drupal theme (sample) files.

2. PHP (+Drupal) developer

If you know PHP, but would like to learn Drupal either, then you’re our perfect candidate.
Currently we have an actively maintained FAS auth module [4] for Drupal 6, what we would like to update to Drupal 7. Also we could provide an documentation [5] for this, what is available on drupal.org. We use the Feature module, what makes easy the development flow. More about this – check at [6] here.

3. Testers, Use case testers

It’s important, that we must test it out every piece of code, an we do it as we could. Sadly, sometimes some bugs are appearing when it’s unwanted, or it’s stays hidden, or we haven’t met. Therefore we appreciate anybody who could help to discover and report bugs. Tester can be anybody from the community, no need any special knowledge. We need also people who help to test out the mentioned FAS auth and Drupal 7 Mediawiki modules, the calendar module, and the site itself. All this can be done on our testing site [7]. But here pre-registration is required, because the FAS module has been temporarily disabled.

To be able help our work, please send an mail to our mailing list [8], with an short introduction that includes FAS, and the job that would like to help us. After this you’ll receive the necessary access rights, if the work needs that. (eg. like you would like to make an theme).

Also, you as a future important contributor of the project, we awaiting you – and everyone else online at Fudcon Blacksburg 2012, where we’ll put great emphasis to the calendar module [9], and we ask you to share any kind of idea, critics around it, or just contact with us through the IRC – at fedora-mktg channel. We gladly help your first steps.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Insight
[2] http://drupal.org/update/themes/6/7
[3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_work_on_the_Insight_theme
[4] http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=drupal6-authfas.git;a=summary
[5] http://drupal.org/update/modules/6/7
[6] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Insight_development_using_Features_module
[7] https://insight02.dev.fedoraproject.org
[8] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/logistics
[9] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Insight_use_cases_for_calendar

I have lately playing with QRCode, and fallen into my mind one thing. How cool could it be if we are using free code for reading QR codes with our integrated webcam – not just for scanning rebates/coupons/tickets with webcam online – else identifying, (log in to FAS) events handling (reading them with mobile to put your reminder), or anything else as enclosed to in standard QR code. I have looked through the net, and it seems that not only me is who has thoughts like that.

Take a look that pages [1], [2]. There is currently no such program module, or applet what connects webcams of mobile computers (netbooks eg.). But it seems that there are hope.

But mainly after I saw Mairín’s the redesign of our Fedora pages, then I could tell it would be cool to integrate next to the dates of our events, meetings – so if somebody wants could pick up with their phone the events, or more. Btw, I could feel that not just with that could be more organised, or synchronised…. Or simply an click to an file what inserts the event to our calendars, or thunderbird – would be nice I think… or even combined: Behind the QR code picture the user per click could download the dates, details what automatically inserts to the event handler…

[1] http://wensheng.com/camscan.php – Probe for scanning

[2] http://blog.wensheng.com/2009/10/poc-online-barcode-qrcode-scan-with.html – Blog about it