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/
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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!