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

01. - 07. May

• EDM2 Updates
  • For some articles in the OS/2 API Documentation the formatting was improved
  • See: http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Special:Recentchanges
• WarpVision Build Instructions
  • If you want to compile WarpVision yourself, there are some helpful instructions available now
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/wvgui/wiki/WarpVisionBuildHowTo
• Added DWS 2006 presentations
  • Almost all Developers Workshop presentations are now available from the FTP Server (only one is missing)
  • See: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/events/DWS2006/presentations/
• QT3 Library News
  • Drag and Drop will be implemented before the RC 7 comes out
  • There are plans to create an official binary and runtime distribution for the QT3 on OS/2
  • Various small fixes
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/qt3/timeline

24. - 30. April

• UniAudio
  • some custom fixes and new ALSA fixes
  • no new binaries available yet
• WarpVision 1.0 available
  • WarpVision Version 1.0 is finally available
  • As usual, please read the INF file that comes with the distribution
  • Download WPI: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/wvgui/wvgui1.0GA.wpi
  • Download ZIP: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/wvgui/wvgui1.0GA.zip
• Cairo Version 1.1.2 released
  • A new version of the Cairo libraries is available for OS/2 and eComStation
  • Download binaries: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/Cairo/cairo-1.1.2-os2-dev.zip
  • Download sources: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/Cairo/cairo-1.1.2-os2-src-with-dependencies.zip
• WarpIn 1.0.10
  • Various bugs fixed
  • Homepage: http://warpin.netlabs.org/
  • Download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/warpin/warpin-1-0-10.exe
• FontLib Example in EDM2
  • more info needed
  • See: http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Ft2lib

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.