Netlabs News

This page will be used to gather news about netlabs.org and it's projects.

If you are looking for the bi-weekly newsletter, please go here: Netlabs_bi_weekly_newsletter

10. - 16. April

 * Odin
 * New odin release.
 * Check changelog for updates.
 * See: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/odin/Daily/
 * Cairo Stuff
 * The presentation on Cairo from the Developers Workshop 2006 is available now
 * Some Cairo examples are also available
 * Presentation: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/events/DWS2006/presentations/ProgrammingCairo-dws06.pdf
 * Cairo Examples: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/Cairo/cairo-1.0.4-os2-dev.zip
 * Everblue Update
 * A current build of Everblue is available for people to play with
 * This is intended for developers, not for normal end users
 * Download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/eb20060414.zip

Guidelines for mail gathering and bi-weekly processing
This is intended to be a procedure on how to create the bi-weekly newsletter, so that multiple people are able to do it, in case of others are away.

The news is gathered on a weekly basis. Sources for news are various. We know the following:
 * #netlabs channel, just connect and see what comes by
 * http://news.netlabs.org/
 * various SVN timelines for the projects that are already in SVN (needs to be listed explicitly?

There is a mail id on netlabs for mailing out the newsletter to various contacts. The mail id is: news at netlabs dot org It uses the folling IMAP mailserver: mail dot netlabs dot org

For a start of a new newsletter you can copy from the previous one and copy the new news in it, to make life easy :-) The easiest way to get the text is grabbing it from the webpage in normal mode. Check the text a second time, and align it a bit. Address it with BCC to the following addresses:
 * martin at os2world dot com
 * stevew at hartnell dot cc dot ca dot us
 * submit at os2voice dot org
 * webmaster at ecomstation dot com
 * webredactie at os2-gg dot nl
 * ktk at netlabs dot org
 * j dot van dot der dot heide at hccnet dot nl
 * os2info at gmx dot net

Don't forget the subject line with the next number and of you go.

After the newsletter is sent you have to update the 'Netlabs bi weekly newsletter' webpage (http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Netlabs_bi_weekly_newsletter). Just copy the news on top of the others and add a heading.

Then the draft version of the bi-weekly page can be emptied and the heading for the next week can be added.

That is basicly the process of the bi-weekly newsletter.