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

8. January - 14 January

 * New QT3 Applications
 * KDIFF
 * QDVDAuthor
 * needs more info
 * XWorkPlace Version 1.0.7
 * needs content
 * Some PathRewrite New
 * needs content
 * Temp Download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/ecsprw.wpi

1. January - 7 January

 * netlabs.org server news
 * UniAudio
 * latest ALSA tree updates
 * WarpVision
 * Fixed OGG/MKV/MOV embedded subtitles
 * DVD Menu experiments & investigations
 * kBuild
 * Various small updates
 * See: http://svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/timeline
 * kLIBC
 * Fixed build breaks
 * See: http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline
 * Lucide Updates
 * Unicode clipboard fixes
 * Work on loading password protected PDFs
 * http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide/timeline
 * NewView Updates
 * Various small updates
 * See: http://svn.netlabs.org/newview/timeline
 * Voyager
 * Quite a few code checkins in the NOM and desktop trees. New screenshot.
 * Updates to the Object Design document (PDF)

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 jafar dot hartnell dot edu
 * 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.