How to create calendar with OpenOffice.org

Have you got yourself 2008 Calendar yet? No? No problem. We can create one with OpenOffice.org

First, get a OOo Macro called "Calendrier" by Charles Brunet from:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=87718&package_id=217442

Unzip it then install it using "Extension Manager" under Tools within oowriter.
http://tchung.fedorapeople.org/calendar/OOo_Calendar_01.png

Restart oowriter then you should see "Create Calendar" under Tools > Add-Ons
http://tchung.fedorapeople.org/calendar/OOo_Calendar_02.png

Here is the Fedora Calendar for January 2008 created with OpenOffice.org . :)
http://tchung.fedorapeople.org/calendar/OOo_Calendar_03.png

Happy New Year!

Fedora Weekly News Issue 113

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 113 for the week of December 10th.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue113

In Announcement, we have "Samba Security Updates For FC6", "GPG Keysigning at FUDCon"

In Planet Fedora, we have "Talks with Mark: RHM Video", "F8 on the
PS3", "Back from India: FOSS.in", "A good flip-flop: FUDCon Raleigh
2008", "Re-spinning Fedora" and "Succession Planning"

FWN will take two weeks off for Christmas and New Years Holidays. The
next issue will resume on January 7th 2008.

On behalf of Fedora News Team, Happy Holidays!

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 112

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 112 for the week of December 3rd.
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In Announcement, we have "FUDCon Raleigh 2008"

In Planet Fedora, we have "CentOS really does fill a gap", "Fedora 8
Re-Spin in the making", "FDSCo nominations underway", "Fedora update
metrics", "FAmSCo nominations/elections"

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 111

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 111 for the week of November 26th.
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In Planet Fedora, we have "Free Creative Commons 5th Bday DEC 15 in
San Francisco", "Testing Needed: mkinitrd bash-branch", "The plan for
Xen kernels in Fedora 9", "Zagreb of Croatia Reporting" and "Official:
FUDCon, Raleigh, January 11-13 2008"

In Marketing, we have "IcedTea interview"

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 110

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 110 for the week of November 12th.
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In Announcements, we have "Fedora Unity releases Fedora 8 Everything Spin".

In AskFedora, we have "GIMP 2.4.1 and Fedora 7", "Automatic Security Updates".

In PlanetFedora, we have "Seam running under IcedTea on Fedora 8",
"Fedora 8 on a MacBook (intel)", "Custom Kernel documentation updated"
and "First Torrent Movie".

To celebrate Thanksgiving Day[1], Fedora News Team will take the next
week off. Have a Safe Holiday!

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 109

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 109 for the week of November 5th.
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In Announcements, we have "Announcing the release of Fedora 8
(Werewolf)", "Fedora Unity releases Fedora 8 CD Sets", "rpm.livna.org
repositories for Fedora 8 (Werewolf) now available", "ATrpms for
Fedora 8; EOL for Fedora Core 6" and "Unofficial Fedora FAQ Updated
for Fedora 8!"

In Planet Fedora, we have "Lesser-Known Fedora Contributors", "Part
1-6, Report: LTSP Hackfest 2007", "motd-File for your machine",
"Fedora Electronic Lab 8 - Stable release", "Fedora Unity Spin
Report", "Fedora 8 Games Spin - Feedback Requested", "Fedora Media
Labels Howto", and "I am a Broken Record"

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 108

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 108 for the week of October 29th.
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In Announcements, we have "Fedora Core 6 End of Life"

In Planet Fedora, we have "Fedora 8 Release is on its Way Out",
"Fedora 8 Release Summary", "Upgrading from Rawhide to Final Release"
and "Codec Buddy Interview"

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 107

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 107 for the week of October 22nd.
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In PlanetFedora, we have "Fedora 8 - Blocker bugs status", "Fedora 8
ALSA kernel needs Testing", "Scary Haloween with Werewolves", and
"Projeto Fedora?"

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 106

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 106 for the week of October 15th.
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In AskFedora we have "Mobile Phone Internet Dialer" and "Just Thanks."

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 105

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 105 for the week of October 8th.
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In Announcements, we have "The Fedora Fonts SIG is open"

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 104

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 104 for the week of October 1st.
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In Announcements, we have "Announcing Fedora 8 Test 3 (7.92)!"

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 103

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 103 for the week of September
24th. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue103

In Announcements, "Cast your vote for the Fedora 8 Codename", "Fedora
Unity releases updated Fedora 7 Re-Spins".

After a month-long break, Fedora Weekly News is now back to our
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Fedora Weekly News Issue 102

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 102 for the week of August 20th.
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Here is a highlight of this week's report:

In Ask Fedora, we have "Cleaning Old Files and Packages" and "CD Split
For fedora 7."

In Daily Package, we have "Remind - GUI/Text reminder service",
"Gallery2 - Web photo gallery", "Audio Setting Persistence",
"Transmission - BitTorrent Client" and "BZFlag - Capture-the-flag in a
Tank."

FYI, Fedora Weekly News will take a summer break until September 21st.

Fedora Weekly News Issue 101

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 101 for the week of August 13th.
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Here is a highlight of this week's report:

In Ask Fedora, we have "Location For Menu Entries And Customization"
and "64-bit Java Plugin".

In Daily Package, we have "Fedora Daily Package Articles in Chinese",
"MediaWiki - Collaborative publishing", "RenRot - Rename and rotate
photos", "Wednesday Why: Logins and Sessions", "GKrellM - System
monitoring tool", "TaxiPilot - Drive a Space Taxi" and "Fedora Daily
Package Weekly Video Summary

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 100

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 100 for the week of August 6th,
2007. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue100

In this week, we have announcements on Virtual FudCon8, Announcing
Fedora 8 Test 1.

In Ask Fedora, we have a few good questions on Intel IP2200 Wireless
In Fedora 7, Distribution Upgrades And Peripherals, Yum Reverse
Dependency Removal.

In Daily Package, we have a few good reviews on Qcad - Simple 2D CAD
program, Gscan2pdf - Frontend for scanning utilities, Xephyr - New
nested X server and Really Slick Screensavers

To celebrate our 100th issue, one lucky winner will receive "Fedora 7
Bible" by Christopher Negus. See Extras Extras section for more
information.

Fedora Weekly News Issue 99

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 99 for the week of July 29th,
2007. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue99

In this week, we have announcements on Fedora 8 Test 1, Virtual FudCon
and our new column called AskFedora.

Speaking of AskFedora, we received several good questions including
License Issue, Backups and Problem with Pup.

In Developments, we have continuing discussions on CodecBuddy, Yum,
Kmods, RPM Roadmap, KDE4 Status and more.

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 98

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 98 for the week of July 22nd,
2007. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue98

In this week, we have great announcements for Extra Packages for
Enterprise Linux (EPEL), 3000 Fedora 7 Installations as well as FESCo
Election Results. Also we are launching a special section called 'Ask
Fedora' where you can ask questions to Fedora Project.

In Developmets, there are more than enough interesting discussions
including RPM Roadmap, Fedora Sound System, Desktop Menus, Licensing
and more. In Security Week, our Security Response Team reports a
dangerous Firefox Flaw. In Daily Package, you'll find reviews of
Fedora packages including Incron, eSpeak, Syslog, Seamonkey,
BSD-Games.

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 97

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 96

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 95

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 94

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 93

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 92

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 91

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 90

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 89

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 88

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'Play Ogg': FSF launches free audio format campaign

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA—Wednesday, May 16, 2007—The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today launched PlayOgg.org, a campaign to encourage use of the patent- and license-free standard Ogg Vorbis as an ethically, legally and technically superior audio alternative to the proprietary MP3 format.



Though the MP3 format has become very common, any time a distributor sells or gives away music encoded as an MP3, they are responsible for paying a fee to the owners of the MP3 patents. These patents are also an issue for developers writing software to work with MP3s. In contrast, the specification for Ogg Vorbis is in the public domain, so anyone can use the format or write software to use it without being dependent on a patent holder for permission.

Full news available from http://www.fsf.org/news/playogg.html

UPDATE: So where do you download music in Ogg Vorbis format?
I recommend http://www.jamendo.com/.

Fedora Weekly News Issue 87

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 86

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 85

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 83

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 82

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 82 for the week of April 1st through April 7th, 2007.

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 81

Fedora Weekly News Issue 81 is now available from fedoraproject.org!

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FreeMedia Program Donation

Good News, Fedora Free Media Program can now accept donation officially!

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia/Donation

Here is the message approved by Max:

Your support makes all the difference in improving the Fedora Free Media Program. We use donated funds to pay expenses for mailing materials and postage to ship media.

Donations are handled through Paypal. You're free to donate any amount you like. Please use the Paypal donation address freemedia@fedoraproject.org

We received two donations already within a week. :)

New Notebook

For last few months, I've been thinking about getting myself a new notebook.
After reading some suggestions from Warren's Blog, I've decided to go after a notebook with Intel 950 video and ipw3945 wireless.

After comparing pricing and features on various models, I ended up getting this one from local Costo. The price? Would you believe it only cost me $1199? Similar spec and feature with more popular brand name would've cost me way over $2000.

Anyway, here is a screenshot of running x86_64 version of Fedora Core 6 with resolution 1280x800. I had to use 915resolution from Fedora Extras to get the optimum resolution.

Hackergotchi Image

Thanks to Nicu Buculei, I got my own Hackergotchi image today.

Also thank you Seth Vidal for uploading it to Fedora Planet.

Fedora 7 CD/DVD Label

Thanks to Diana Fong, I've decided to test print Fedora 7 CD/DVD Label directly onto inkjet printable CD/DVD on my EPSON Stylus Photo R300 from Fedora Core 6.

After some searching, I've learned gimp-print and gimp-print-plugin does not support "Print to CD" option from gimp and I had to install gutenprint and gutenprint-plugin from extras and extras-development repositories.

Now, I can print a nice Fedora 7 CD/DVD label from Fedora Core 6 to my inkjet printer. Here is the result. The first attempt was 360 dpi which produced a poor quality. Soon I've discovered gutenprint can produce up to 2880 dpi. The result was astonishing!

Ambassadors Report - SCALE5X

Here is my report on SCALE5X[1] - Fifth Annual Southern California Linux
Expo. According to recent announcement[2], there were over 1000 attendees
in this year's event. Close to 70 exhibitors[3] including Non-Profit
Organizations, Commercial Vendors and User Groups. This is my second year
participation for Fedora Project[4] and I feel this year is much improved
and crowded event than previous year. Also I was told this is the first
time Red Hat[5]'s participation to this event.

Our booth was manned by myself alone this year since I could not find
any help or volunteers. Although a nice folk from CACert Booth (right
behind our booth) was very helpful and even offered me to cover our
booth while I need to take a short break. Also I would like to give
special thanks to Jeff Carlson from SCALE staff who checked on me
everyday if I need anything.

This year, we've decided to accept contributions for Fedora Core 6
DVDs (x86, x86_64 and ppc) which was Max Spevack's idea. We accepted
$1 for each DVD and $5 for custom built Fedora Updates DVD and Live
CD. There were several people who just made donation without taking
any media. We also offered a Drawing of Free Fedora T-Shirts for
those contributed for media but most of them just wanted to order on
the spot to support Fedora Project and Fedora Free Media Program[6]
which all proceeds will go to this program.

Overall, I had a great time even though I suffered a minor backache
and lost my voice. Here are some photos[7] I took. The last photo is
me in our booth sitting alone thinking how can we get booth babes, I
mean more volunteers just like Google booth which was right next to
our booth. :)

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/SCALE5X
[2] http://mail.socallinuxexpo.com/pipermail/scale-announce/../000041.html
[3] http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale5x/exhibitions.php
[4] http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale5x/exhibitions/fedora.php
[5] http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale5x/exhibitions/redhat.php
[6] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia
[7] http://fedoranews.org/tchung/scale5x/
--
Thomas Chung
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

Fedora LiveCD On-Demand Service

I thought it would be fun to offer this type of free service to Fedora Community who needs a customized and personalized LiveCD.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-livecd-list/2007-January/msg00103.html

This is an experiment may or may not interest in public but who knows.

Here is an idea. You put your baby photo as a default wallpaper in your personalized LiveCD and give everyone in your baby shower or surprize your mom with personalized LiveCD with her photo as a default wallpaper on her birthday. :)

Anyone interested in?

UPDATE
Here is my own Personalized LiveCD - Thomas Chung edition. :)
http://fedoranews.org/tchung/livecd/personal/

Fedora Free Media Program - January 2007

Fedora Free Media Program request forms are now open.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia

We'll accept 150 requests for this month.
Happy New Year Everyone!