[TriLUG] TriLUG MEETING REMINDER -- August 9, 2007 at Red Hat -- Fedora 7 from a contributor's perspective -- Max Spevack

[Matt Frye]

The August 2007 meeting of the Triangle Linux Users Group (Sponsored
by Red Hat, Inc. http://redhat.com/) will be held at 7pm, August 9, at
Red Hat on the Centennial Campus of North Carolina State University
(directions: http://www.redhat.com/about/contact/ww/americas/raleigh.html).

There will be a special announcement for TriLUG members at the
beginning of this meeting.

Our speakers will be Max Spevack and Greg DeKoenigsberg of the Fedora
Project and Red Hat, Inc.

The talk is on Fedora 7 from the perspective of a free software contributor:

1) How packages get into Fedora.  Who owns them, how they are built, etc.

2) The compose tools that actually create the distribution.  How they
work, how to contribute to them, and how to use them in order to spin
a
custom version of Fedora.  A demonstration will be in order!

3) Fedora's community perspective.  How we try to build community --
both technical and non-technical -- and how people can become involved
in Fedora.

Max Spevack is the current Fedora Project Leader.  He has been with
Red Hat since 2004, previously as the QA team lead for Red Hat
Network.  He has a BS in Computer Science.

Greg DeKoenigsberg is the community development manager for Red Hat.
He is a former leader and board member emeritus of the Fedora Project.
 He has been with Red Hat since 2001.  Many of the members of TriLUG
know him better as "Darlene".

There will also be a key signing arranged by Paul D. Boyle.  You can
find more information about signing parties at
http://linuxreviews.org/howtos/gnupg/signingparty/, and Gnu Privacy
Guard at http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/documentation/howtos.html.

For Ubuntu users wanting to participate in key signing:

If you already pretty much know what's going on, but you need to get
the metapackage that'll have everything to produce the nice strips...

http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/misc/signing-party

Or if you don't know what we've been talking about, but would like to
do encrypted mail, check out
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GnuPrivacyGuardHowto or see relevant
threads on the TriLUG mailing list.