We are happy to welcome our new sponsored Fedora Ambassador in February:

• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jcarlosgarcia mentored by lbazan
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Galoget mentored by dbruno
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Lautb1ru  mentored by kaio
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Anishjp mentored by cmpahar
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Hagr182 mentored by lbazan

Mon Mar 11 02:53:08 2013 | Accounts: 624 | Inactive: 81 (12.98%)

Cheers,

herlo

We are happy to welcome our new sponsored Fedora Ambassador in January:

• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Psylocke mentored by azneita
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kaptk2 mentored by herlo
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Danniel mentored by dbruno
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Surfistawagner mentored by dbruno
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jamielinux mentored by eischmann

Fedora Ambassador Statistics

Cheers,

herlo

Yes, the announcement is behind this month. Moving into a new home will do that to you!

Here’s a list with links to the videos (all of them are on youtube):

• FUDCon Session Pitches
• Robyn’s ‘World Famous State of Fedora’ Talk
• ARM to primary
• ARM Building Exercises
• Overhauling the Fedora release model
• State of Fedora security
• An intro to the new Fedora 18 installer
• Ansible (config command control and rpc)
• The Blocker and NTH Process
• Secure Linux Containers
• Fedora Spins and Formulas
• Pulp (Repository management, yum, puppet, others) – Part 1
• Pulp (Repository management, yum, puppet, others) – Part 2
• FedMsg
• Micro-web framework, unit tests, web-app maintainability
• FEL, a little intro to the electronic world with Fedora

Enjoy,

herlo

We are happy to welcome our new sponsored Fedora Ambassador in December:

• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jltodea mentored by lbazan

Fedora Ambassador Statistics

Cheers,

herlo

While I was there, I had another agenda item, creating a HOWTO for enabling a GPG SmartCard for use with SSH. Of course, the SmartCard can be used for both encryption and signing as well.

After finishing that HOWTO, I was talking about it with a few people within Fedora, and there seemed to be quite a bit of interest. It turns out there was quite a bit of interest, so I’ve decided to do a hackfest on Saturday at FUDCon to help move people over to GPG SmartCards. This is also going to be quite nice in that there will be a GPG key signing event after this hackfest.

Come Prepared – Equipment Required

It’s important you come prepared! If you have ever had interest in this sort of thing, there’s time to get equipment for the hackfest. Here’s what you need:

• SmartCard Reader, any will do. I recommend the Gemalto USB Shell Token V2 from kernelconcepts.de.
• An OpenPGP SmartCard. Several vendors have them. I recommend the OpenPGP SmartCard V2 from kernelconcepts.de.

Both pieces are required. Order ASAP, it takes about 10 days to ship. Consider even shipping to the FUDCon hotel if you are concerned or late. I know Petra will work hard to deliver them as fast as possible.

Doing a Little Prep Work

If you get your Token and SmartCard before FUDCon Lawrence and have a few spare minutes, feel free to read through my HOWTO. If you get through it, come to the hackfest and help others who might not have had time.

Cheers,

herlo

GoOSe Linux 6.0 Beta Release Candidate 5 (RC5) is now available for testing. Visit http://get.gooseproject.org/ to obtain the download.

Once you arrive at the above link, the downloads are under /releases/6.0/Beta-RC5/GoOSe/<arch>/.

The GoOSe Project is always interested in feedback around its project. Please feel free to drop us a line about this release.

Comments/Questions:

• Send us an email goose-linux@googlegroups.com
• Contact us on irc.freenode.net at #gooseproject
• Leave a comment on this blog post

Issues with GoOSe 6.0

If you find yourself having trouble installing, using or managing GoOSe Linux, please let us know. The best way is to file issues at our main project site on github, but we’re happy to have the information in any of the ways listed above.

Testing can be done by anyone. Please feel free to check our new testing wiki page for information on what tests need to be run and which have already passed. If you have interest in helping us test, thank you, thank you, thank you for the help!

GoOSe Beta-RC5 will be available for 1 week from today. At such time the GoOSe team will decide whether it will be the first Golden GoOSe release. This will be based upon feedback provided, so please do tell us what you think!

Cheers,

herlo

Once you arrive at the above link, the downloads are under /releases/6.0/Beta-RC4/GoOSe/<arch>/.

The GoOSe Project is always interested in feedback around its project. Please feel free to drop us a line about this release.

Comments/Questions:

• Send us an email goose-linux@googlegroups.com
• Contact us on irc.freenode.net at #gooseproject
• Leave a comment on this blog post

Issues with GoOSe 6.0

If you find yourself having trouble installing, using or managing GoOSe Linux, please let us know. The best way is to file issues at our main project site on github, but we’re happy to have the information in any of the ways listed above.

GoOSe Beta-RC4 will be available for 2 weeks from today. At such time the GoOSe team will decide whether it will be the first Golden GoOSe release. This will be based upon feedback provided, so please do tell us what you think!

Cheers,

herlo

We are happy to welcome our new sponsored Fedora Ambassadors in November:

• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mhayden mentored by herlo
• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Nsglynn mentored by fab
• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Juranir mentored by dbruno
• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Edtomasa mentored by azneita
• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Cardero mentored by lbazan
• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mayorgalinux mentored by lbazan

Fedora Ambassador Statistics

Sun Dec 2 10:19:18 2012 | Approved: 616 | Inactive: 82 | % inactive: 13.31

Cheers,

Herlo

• Installed and configured totpcgi authentication on the staging environment. This performs the verification from the clients. There will be several servers doing authentication to prevent a single point of failure.
• Installed and configured pam_url on each staging client with the intent of connecting to the authentication servers.
• Enabled yubikey as an alternate second factor.
• Reviewed RPMs for pam_url and totpcgi (and a few others to help along the way)
• Setup the totpcgi provisioning web page for google authenticator
• Fixed fun bugs in pam_url
• Wrote documentation on how to setup authentication.

A few things were accomplished that were not part of the goals, but good stuff nonetheless:

• Enjoyed some awesome tapas at Buku (a restaurant is at the base of the Red Hat Tower)
• Found the open source cow
• Documented the setup of the OpenPGP SmartCard with gpg-agent and GNOME 3
• Watched Seth Vidal do some Beastie Boys!
• Enjoyed some yummy dinner at Gravy (thanks to Ruth Suehle and Red Hat)
• Discussed some ideas for FUDCon Lawrence and the future of FUDCons

While I didn’t participate in all of the above activities, I was definitely involved in many of them. It turns out, everyone there was fairly involved at the FAD. It was fun to watch everyone come together to solve this issue. Everyone seemed to have a good sense of satisfaction accomplishing the goals.

Cheers,

herlo

One of the perks I’ve been able to work out will be to attend the Fedora Activity Day this week in Raleigh, where we’ll be working on two-factor authentication among other things. This has been something I’ve recently set up at LF and am hopefully going to be involved in getting this working for Fedora as well.

Additionally, I have been working on getting a GPG SmartCard token working to accommodate ssh authentication. I think Fedora is going to be using Yubikeys, but I thought it might be cool to show this off as an alternative.

Anyway, it should be a fun week and very busy as well. Watch for more reports here about our progress.

Cheers,

Herlo