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

25. December - 31 December

 * Best Wishes for 2007
 * netlabs.org server news
 * UniAudio news
 * WarpVision news
 * FM/2
 * Refresh removable drive added
 * Some defects found and raised
 * See: http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2/timeline
 * kLIBC
 * A lot of cleanup
 * See: http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline
 * Lucide
 * Some small updates
 * See: http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide/timeline
 * Voyager Documentation
 * Some cleanup and some additions in CUA area
 * See: http://svn.netlabs.org/v_doc/timeline

18. December - 24 December

 * netlabs.org server news
 * UniAudio news
 * Started research of adding software mixing into UNIAUD32. This have to be fully transparent for old MMOS2 and new UNIAUD API applications
 * WarpVision news
 * Continue work under DVD menu, so no new features atm
 * QT3 Application
 * Paul Smedley ported Scribus to eComStation
 * Scribus is an open-source program for creating professional page layouts
 * It uses Cairo as a rendering engine
 * Please read the "Known Issues" on Pauls website
 * See: http://smedley.info/os2ports/scribus.html
 * Lucide
 * Czech NLS added
 * See: http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide/timeline

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.