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

19. February - 25. February

• NewView
  • Various updates
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/newview/timeline
• Google Summer of Code
  • netlabs.org is currently looking into participating in the Google SoC
  • See: http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/SoC
• UniAud suggestions
  • Contribute your ideas on how to continue UniAud development
  • See: http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/UniAudio_Development
• WarpVision suggestions
  • Contribute your ideas on how to continue WarpVision development
  • See: http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/WarpVision_Development

12. February - 18. February

• AMPOS/2
  • Add link for new AMPOS/2 package and corrected a syntax error
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/ampos2/timeline
• FM/2
  • Some bugs and feature request added
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2/timeline
• kLIBC
  • Quite some updates and additions
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline
• NewView
  • Various updates
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/newview/timeline
• UniAud & WarpVision
  • What happened and how to continue?
  • See: http://blog.netlabs.org/?p=6
• DOSBox version 0.66 RC1
  • The release candidate of version 0.66 of DOSBox for OS/2 is available from CVS as of 2007/02/08.
  • Download:
    • Small version containing only the necessary files: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/dosbox_small_0_66_rc1.exe
    • Full version additionally including debugging binaries: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/dosbox_full_0_66_rc1.exe
    • Sources package: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/dosbox_sources_0_66_rc1.exe
• Updates to the The Config.sys Documentation Project
  • OS/2-eCS commands, RUN statements and DEVICE statements sections were updated
  • See: http://www.edm2.com/index.php/The_Config.sys_Documentation_Project/OS/2-eCS_Commands
  • See: http://www.edm2.com/index.php/The_Config.sys_Documentation_Project/RUN_Statements
  • See: http://www.edm2.com/index.php/The_Config.sys_Documentation_Project/DEVICE_Statements

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.