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

9. April - 15. April

• Sane2Twain
  • Alpha prototype of an open source twain dsm
  • This will enable programs like PMView and Maul Publisher to acquire images from your scanner
  • Requires a recent SANE build from Paul Smedley
  • For configuration and setting up a working environment a recent build of TAME/2 from Paul Smedley is needed as well
  • Download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/sanetwaina01.zip
  • SANE/TAME: http://smedley.info/sane.html
• FM/2
  • Drag and drop fixes
  • Check INI header
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2/timeline
• kBuild
  • Some interesting observations
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/timeline
• kLibC
  • Too much to mention!
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline
• NewView
  • Some fixes
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/newview/timeline
• Qt/3
  • DBCS input/output fixed
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/qt3/timeline
• Samba
  • Samba 3.0.25rc1 has been released.
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/samba
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/samba/timeline
• Voyager Desktop
  • Some license stuff for updates and a correction
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/v_desktop/timeline
• xATA
  • A fix to allow multi mode with more then 16 sectors
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/xata/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.