1. Documents submitted for review

• David Horton's LPI Certification Self-Study Guide was accepted for review. This work is intended as a quick and most of all inexpensive method for experienced Linux users to prepare for the Linux professional Institute certification exams. This is no introductory guide, i.e. not for beginners. Rather, it is a collection of practice questions related to the exam objectives over at the LPI web site.
• Tor Slettnes submitted his Spam Filtering for Mail Exchangers HOWTO. Originally designed for a specific setup with Exim, he managed to filter out the information that is useful in any mail environment, and published it in this document.

2. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides

• The new release of the Linux/MIPS HOWTO by Ralf Bächle has updated info on related mailinglists and FTP sites, updated links and info about the Linux-VR project and other MIPS-based systems.
• Minor changes in the TrueType Fonts with XFree86 4.x mini-HOWTO v1.5 by Bartek Kostrzewa.
• Howard Shane added info for the 2.6 kernels in v1.1 of his Scanner HOWTO, as well as information about the libusb package.
• Avi Alkalay encourages people to translate his Time Precision HOWTO; v1.0.7 has minor corrections and rephrasings.
• Machtelt Garrels updated the Bash Guide for Beginners to have consistent markup; v1.3 is more user-friendly for the blind and a tracer image was added to track usage on the TLDP mirror sites. A tracer was also added to v1.15 of the Introduction to Linux - A hands on Guide, and textobjects were added to all images. Wrong links in the glossary section were corrected and a couple of other items were clarified.
• Mendel Cooper sent in a new version of his Advanced Bash Scripting Guide, featuring updates, corrections and new examples.
• Manoj Warrier, main author of the Scientific Computing with GNU/Linux HOWTO provided us with an update containing additional links and more evaluations of distributions.
• Emma Jane is proud to announce the French translation of the ACPI HOWTO. She is now also officially the author of the LDP Author Guide, in which she recently updated the info on how to use our CVS.
• We received v1.2 of the Debian Jigdo mini-HOWTO, by Peter Jay Salzman, which contains minor corrections.

3. News in The LDP world

• Mirrors: new mirror sites and changes in existing sites
  

  Mary L. Kuss announced that the UK Mirror Service will be transformed into the JISC Mirror Service during summer holidays. Eduserv, the new responsibles, have a brief synopsis of the changes here.

  David Gonzalez changed the URL of his Columbian mirror http://www.skynetbbs.org/LDP/ to http://www.tuxcafe.com/LDP/.

  New mirror sites:

  • http://mirror3.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/LDP by Stefan Strandberg, in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
  • http://ldp.indosite.co.id/ by Abdussalam Sukarta, Jakarta, Indonesia.
  • http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/ldp/ (IPv4 and v6) by Bernard Grymonpon, in Belgium.
  • http://www.yaksha.co.nz/ldp by Richard Mitchell, in Wellington, New Zealand.

  Mirror-maintainers: please note that you can replace the "LDP Site Sponsor" logo on the first page with your own.

• Check our progress
  

  Ever since the latest round of innovations at TLDP, things are moving. We'd like to put the In Progress Page in the spotlight this week. Here you can find a list of the documents that are proposed and currently being worked on, as well as a list of those that have already been accepted for review and that are undergoing a language or technical review.

  We are always looking for reviewers, and even if you are not the technical type of person, you can help in various ways. Interested in contributing? Mail Emma Jane or Tabatha, our Review Coordinators, they can tell you how you can make yourself useful.

• LSM Meeting in Bordeaux
  

  You could meet some of our staff at the Libre Software Meeting in Bordeaux, which was held from the 6th to the 10th of July. The first pictures are floating in, including mad Canadians supporting the European resistance to software patents. This is Emma Jane, possibly jealous that she didn't go to Brussels to get herself such a nice yellow T-shirt ;-)

4. Discussions on The LDP lists

• The LDP and traduc.org
  

  <discuss@en.tldp.org> has seen a very interesting discussion about the various issues involved in co-operation between the active French HOWTO translation effort and The LDP. The discussion also petered out into another thread about licensing issues.

• Wiki for The LDP
  

  Machtelt Garrels initiated a discussion for changing The LDP volunteer list. A discussion about maintaining the list ensued, and people went on to discuss the issues in using a Wiki for some parts of The LDP website.

• Feedback on proposals
  

  Saqib Ali suggested the use of a blog for collecting feedback on proposed documents. He set up http://tools.tldp.org/blog/ for the same and listed several XML editors. Emma Jane Hogbin indicated that the process outlined in the LDP Author Guide was sufficient for proposals and was in favor of 'canning' the blog.

5. HOWTO contribute to The LDP

The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) is working on developing free, high quality documentation for the GNU/Linux operating system. If you want to help TLDP, consider joining <discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org>.

Help us create this newsletter. We need volunteers who follow the community (mailing lists, newsgroups, web channels) and report events related to free software documentation. Write to us at <feedback@en.tldp.org>.

The LDP Weekly News is compiled and edited by Machtelt Garrels and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag with help from several other people.