diff --git a/LDP/ldpwn/20040721.xml b/LDP/ldpwn/20040721.xml index 6c12932b..990836f1 100644 --- a/LDP/ldpwn/20040721.xml +++ b/LDP/ldpwn/20040721.xml @@ -5,9 +5,9 @@
2004 - 28-29 + 28 & 29 The Linux Documentation Project - 2004-07-14 + 2004-07-21 The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ -David Horton's LPI Certification Self-Study Guide was accepted for review. This work is intended as a quick and most of all inexpensive method for experienced Linux users to prepare for the Linux rofessional Institute certification exams. This is no introductionary guide, i.e. not for beginners. Rather, it is a collection of practice questions related to the exam objectives over at the LPI web site. +David Horton's LPI Certification Self-Study Guide was accepted for review. This work is intended as a quick and most of all inexpensive method for experienced Linux users to prepare for the Linux professional Institute certification exams. This is no introductory guide, i.e. not for beginners. Rather, it is a collection of practice questions related to the exam objectives over at the LPI web site. Tor Slettnes submitted his Spam Filtering for Mail Exchangers HOWTO. Originally designed for a specific setup with Exim, he managed to filter out the information that is useful in any mail environment, and published it in this document. @@ -25,22 +25,6 @@ - - -New document proposals - - - -. - -. - -. - - - - - Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides @@ -52,7 +36,7 @@ Howard Shane added info for the 2.6 kernels in v1.1 of his Scanner HOWTO, as well as information about the libusb package. Avi Alkalay encourages people to translate his Time Precision HOWTO; v1.0.7 has minor corrections and rephrasings. -Machtelt Garrels updated the Bash Guide for Beginners to have consistent markup; v1.3 is more userfriendly for the blind and a tracer image was added to track usage on the TLDP mirror sites. A tracer was also added to v1.15 of the Introduction to Linux - A hands on Guide, and textobjects were added to all images. Wrong links in the glossary section were corrected and a couple of other items were clarified. +Machtelt Garrels updated the Bash Guide for Beginners to have consistent markup; v1.3 is more user-friendly for the blind and a tracer image was added to track usage on the TLDP mirror sites. A tracer was also added to v1.15 of the Introduction to Linux - A hands on Guide, and textobjects were added to all images. Wrong links in the glossary section were corrected and a couple of other items were clarified. Mendel Cooper sent in a new version of his Advanced Bash Scripting Guide, featuring updates, corrections and new examples. Manoj Warrier, main author of the Scientific Computing with GNU/Linux HOWTO provided us with an update containing additional links and more evaluations of distributions. @@ -73,7 +57,7 @@ Mirrors: new mirror sites and changes in existing sites -Mary L. Kuss announced that the UK Mirror Service will be transformed into the JISC Mirror Service during summer holidays. Eduserv, the new responsables, have a brief synopsis of the changes here. +Mary L. Kuss announced that the UK Mirror Service will be transformed into the JISC Mirror Service during summer holidays. Eduserv, the new responsibles, have a brief synopsis of the changes here. David Gonzalez changed the URL of his Columbian mirror http://www.skynetbbs.org/LDP/ to . New mirror sites: @@ -100,7 +84,7 @@ LSM Meeting in Bordeaux -You could meet some of our staff at the Libre SOftware Meeting in Bordeaux, which was held from the 6th to the 10th of July. The first pictures are floating in, including mad Canadians supporting the European resistance to software patents. This is Emma Jane, possibly jealous that she didn't go to Brussels to get herself such a nice yellow T-shirt ;-) +You could meet some of our staff at the Libre Software Meeting in Bordeaux, which was held from the 6th to the 10th of July. The first pictures are floating in, including mad Canadians supporting the European resistance to software patents. This is Emma Jane, possibly jealous that she didn't go to Brussels to get herself such a nice yellow T-shirt ;-) @@ -115,25 +99,25 @@ -Discussion topic title 1: +The LDP and trudac.org -Discussion topic 1 body. +discuss@en.tldp.org has seen a very interesting discussion about the various issues involved in co-operation between the active French HOWTO translation effort and The LDP. The discussion also petered out into another thread about licensing issues. -Discussion topic title 2: +Wiki for The LDP -Discussion topic 2 body. +Machtelt Garrels initiated a discussion for changing The LDP volunteer list. A discussion about maintaining the list ensued, and people went on to discuss the issues in using a Wiki for some parts of The LDP website. -Discussion topic title 3: +Feedback on proposals -Discussion topic 3 body. +Saqib Ali suggested the use of a blog for collecting feedback on proposed documents. He set up http://tools.tldp.org/blog/ for the same and listed several XML editors. Emma Jane Hogbin indicated that the process outlined in the LDP Author Guide was sufficient for proposals and was in favor of 'canning' the blog.