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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

8. January - 14 January

netlabs.org server news
- Server configuration is going well
- Initial SVN tests performed succesfully (among other things)
Developer Workshop 2007
- Is going to be held in the Netherlands on June 23 & 24.
- Location: Cultural Center Griffioen in Amsterdam
- See: http://www.vu.nl/Organisatie/index.cfm/home_subsection.cfm/subsectionid/9DB86C70-F9C7-4704-8C9D9ED46EEDB063
- Watch the wiki page for upcoming news: http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Developers_Workshop_2007
New QT3 Applications
- KDIFF3 0.9.91
  - KDiff3 is a program that:
  - Compares or merges two or three text input files or directories,
  - Shows the differences line by line and character by character (!),
  - Provides an automatic merge-facility,
  - An integrated editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts,
  - Supports Unicode, UTF-8 and other codecs, autodetection via byte-order-mark "BOM"
  - Supports KIO on KDE (allows accessing ftp, sftp, fish, smb etc.),
  - Printing of differences,
  - Manual alignment of lines,
  - Automatic merging of version control history ($Log$),
  - And has an intuitive graphical user interface.
  - See: http://smedley.info/os2ports
- QDVDAuthor 0.1.4
  - Get details from: http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net/
  - Get download from: http://smedley.info/os2ports
XWorkPlace Version 1.0.7
- Fixed: Window List size/position (Bug 903)
- Fixed: Bug 902 and 910
- Added: ADDWIDGETS and DELETEWIDGETS setup strings to the XCenter (Bug 906)
- Bug Tracker: http://xtracker.netlabs.org/
- Download: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=XWP-1-0-7
Some PathRewrite New
- needs content
- Temp Download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/ecsprw.wpi
Canabis
- EXPAT/77 added to build instructions
- XML support added
- Several improvements
- See: http://svn.netlabs.org/canabis/timeline
FM/2
- Ticket 60 and 61 fixed
- See: http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2/timeline
kBuild
- Some fixes
- See: http://svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/timeline
kLIBC
- Some fixes (I/O bugs, signals)
- See: http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline
NewView
- Various updates
- See: http://svn.netlabs.org/newview/timeline
UniAud
- ???
WarpVision
- ???

1. January - 7 January

UniAudio
- latest ALSA tree updates
WarpVision
- Fixed OGG/MKV/MOV embedded subtitles
- DVD Menu experiments & investigations
kBuild
- Various small updates
- See: http://svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/timeline
kLIBC
- Fixed build breaks
- See: http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline
Lucide Updates
- Unicode clipboard fixes
- Work on loading password protected PDFs
- http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide/timeline
NewView Updates
- Various small updates
- See: http://svn.netlabs.org/newview/timeline
Voyager
- Quite a few code checkins in the NOM and desktop trees. New screenshot.
- Updates to the Object Design document (PDF)

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.

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 ** Watch the wiki page for upcoming news: http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Developers_Workshop_2007
 * New QT3 Applications
-** KDIFF
+** KDIFF3 0.9.91
-** QDVDAuthor
+*** KDiff3 is a program that:
-** needs more info
+*** Compares or merges two or three text input files or directories,
+*** Shows the differences line by line and character by character (!),
+*** Provides an automatic merge-facility,
+*** An integrated editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts,
+*** Supports Unicode, UTF-8 and other codecs, autodetection via byte-order-mark "BOM"
+*** Supports KIO on KDE (allows accessing ftp, sftp, fish, smb etc.),
+*** Printing of differences,
+*** Manual alignment of lines,
+*** Automatic merging of version control history ($Log$),
+*** And has an intuitive graphical user interface.
+*** See: http://smedley.info/os2ports
+** QDVDAuthor 0.1.4
+*** Get details from: http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net/
+*** Get download from: http://smedley.info/os2ports
 * XWorkPlace Version 1.0.7
 ** Fixed: Window List size/position (Bug 903)