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

21. - 27. August

 * GBM plugin 1.20 for Lucide beta 2 or higher
 * The source code and make files were changed to adapt to new Lucide versions
 * bldlevel information was added
 * Download from hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=gbmos2plugins_lu120_moz120_bin
 * Homepage of GBM: http://heikon.home.tlink.de/

14. - 20. August

 * PSI Update Version 0.10-os2-b1
 * There is a list of changes in the Readme-OS2.txt file.
 * Download WPI: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qt3/psi/psi_0-10-os2-b1.wpi
 * Download ZIP: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qt3/psi/psi_0-10-os2-b1.zip
 * Requires Innotek runtime LIBC 0.6.1
 * ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.1-csd1.zip
 * Report problems: http://svn.netlabs.org/qt3/ticket/25
 * QT3 Update
 * mention updates to QT3 library that were performed for PSI
 * Everblue update
 * needs more info:
 * http://svn.netlabs.org/everblue/timeline
 * Odin update
 * Release version: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/odin/Daily/odin32bin-20060817-release-xp.zip
 * Debug version: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/odin/Daily/odin32bin-20060817-debug-xp.zip
 * For information: http://odin.netlabs.org/ or
 * Odin Netlab's Wiki page: http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Odin
 * Odin mailing list archive: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.odin.user
 * Updates:
 * user32: Added BroadcastSystemMessageA and BroadcastSystemMessageW
 * kernel32: workaround for calling SetCurrentDirectory only with driveletter. Windows changed not to the root.

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 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 following IMAP mailserver: mail dot netlabs dot org

For the start of a new newsletter a copy from the previous one can be made and then copy the new news into it, to make life easy :-) The easiest way to get the text is grabbing it from the webpage in normal view 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 it goes.

After the newsletter is sent the 'Netlabs bi-weekly newsletter' webpage has to be updated. (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.