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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

25. December - 31 December

  • Best Wishes for 2007
  • eCUPS Updates
  • netlabs.org server news
    • The basic server setup is done, we are running FreeBSD 6.2 on this machine
    • Adrian started to configure the different services and preparing migration
    • Goal is to finish basic setup before 7th of January
  • UniAudio
    • Latest updates from ALSA started porting into UNIAUD
    • Still reserarch stage for SW multistreams
  • WarpVision
    • Various fixes
    • DVD menu under hard investigation
    • Musepack support added
  • DSS updates
    • The ShowImage and the SlideShow modules have been updated to version 1.7.1
    • Small update to better recognize errors due to having not enough free shared memory
    • Download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/dssaver/Modules
  • FM/2
  • kLIBC
  • Lucide
  • Voyager Documentation

18. December - 24 December

  • netlabs.org server news
  • UniAudio news
    • Started research of adding software mixing into UNIAUD32. This have to be fully transparent for old MMOS2 and new UNIAUD API applications
  • WarpVision news
    • Continue work under DVD menu, so no new features atm
  • QT3 Application
    • Paul Smedley ported Scribus to eComStation
    • Scribus is an open-source program for creating professional page layouts
    • It uses Cairo as a rendering engine
    • Please read the "Known Issues" on Pauls website
    • See: http://smedley.info/os2ports/scribus.html
  • Lucide

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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