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

2. April - 8. April

• GenMAC
  • After some calls for sponsoring a T60 thinkpad could be bought to enable the development of the much wanted WiFi drivers for the new MiniPCI Express cards.
  • Thanks to all sponsors for making this possible!
• Doodle's Screen Saver
  • Version 1.7.5 is released
  • See: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dssaver_v175
  • See: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/dssaver_v175.exe
  • To be moved to ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/dssaver/dssaver_v175.exe
• Developers Workshop 2007
  • Tickets are available through the Mensys Online Shop
  • See: http://www.mensys.net/DeveloperWorkshop2007/
  • More Information: http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Developers_Workshop_2007
• FM/2
  • Various fixes and updates
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2/timeline
• kBuild
  • Various updates
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/timeline
• kLibC
  • Huge amount of updates!
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline
• NewView
  • Work done on string utils
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/newview/timeline
• Voyager Desktop
  • New array class NOMPtrArray
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/v_desktop/timeline
• Voyager NOM
  • Some fixes and updates
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/v_nom/timeline

26. March - 1. April

• FM/2
  • Many updates, also internally for WarpIn package
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2/timeline
• kBuild
  • Loads of updates again
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/timeline
• QT/3
  • Added initial DBCS support
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/qt3/timeline
• WarpIN 1.0.15
  • It is released. It fixes a few bugs and limitations discovered with version 1.0.14 and adds a couple of useful features.
  • See: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/archiver/warpin-1-0-15.zip
  • See: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/warpin/warpin-1-0-15.exe
• Voyager
  • IDL compiler completely rewritten. This will make life way easier when creating enhancements for NOM.
  • As usual some bug fixes.
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/v_desktop/timeline
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/v_nom/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.