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
  • Now in SVN: http://svn.netlabs.org/everblue
• WPS-Wizard
  • Added to SVN/Trac: http://svn.netlabs.org/wps-wizard

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 folling IMAP mailserver: mail dot netlabs dot org

For the start of a new newsletter a copy from the previous one can be made 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 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.