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Fedora Summer Coding continues

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Fedora Project and JBoss.org were not accepted by Google as an umbrella mentoring organization for their Summer of Code this year.  We’ve been involved since the beginning with many successes. This year we decided to embrace the umbrella organization that Google stitched together from separate JBoss.org and Fedora Project applications a few years ago and [...]

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New skin, new list

Friday, February 26, 2010

Put up a new look for The Open Source Way tonight.  Graphic came from Red Hat Design and I like it.  Figured I would just put it up and try it on for size; see what opinions arise.
Also another milestone tonight, I broke open the new mailing list and sent some random messages.  I have [...]

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First keynote – crush or trash at #SCALE8x?

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

This past Saturday I gave my first keynote at the eighth Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE 8x), and I was pretty pleased with the results.  Informal survey says I crushed it, but you can take a look yourself below.  (Part 1 and Part 2)
Overall, the keynote went great.  No real glitches and I survived the [...]

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Improving the FLOSS legal landscape

Monday, February 22, 2010

At the close of SCALE 8x I caught a presentation by my colleague Richard Fontana, who was talking on Improving the Open Source Legal System.  Richard’s proposal is to consider FLOSS licensing and legal landscape as its own international legal system.  This is instead of how we do it now, which is to try mapping [...]

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Blowing open the doors to contributions

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

A few key pieces just fell in place and now we can easily open The Open Source Way for contributions.

All the legal bits passed muster, and the new contribution policy explains the rules.  It’s simple enough – by contributing, you agree to put your contributions under the CC BY SA 3.0 Unported.  Read the policy [...]

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Five fast minutes on The Open Source Way – Ignite at CLSWest

Monday, February 15, 2010

In January 2010 I participated in an Ignite session at the Community Leadership Summit West.  CLS West is a subset of the annual CLS, to be held this year again near OSCON in Portland, OR on 17 and 18 July 2010.
This talk is in O’Reilly’s Ignite format, which is 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 [...]

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Man fix dryer, ugh

Saturday, February 13, 2010

When something breaks at my house, everyone turns to look at me.
Not to accuse me of breaking it, although often enough … but in expectation that I’ll fix it.  Computer to clothes dryer, apparently, I have the tools and skills.
Of course, I really don’t.  What I have in the family is the most experience in [...]

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Config tweaks on TheOpenSourceWay.org

Friday, February 5, 2010

Thanks to folks for finding and pointing out the configuration problems on TheOpenSourceWay.org.  I’ve still got a BIND configuration to work out, I’ll be haunting #rhel this weekend looking for help.
To get permissions to edit the wiki, I have put a human in the way (currently just me).  I’m working on getting up [...]

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Cranking up to SCALE 8x

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

This is going to be one wickedly fantastic Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) 8x.
Our Fedora presence is growing, both in depth of roots in the area and the scope of what we are trying to do.  A local Fedora Ambassador is organizing the Fedora Project expo presence.  There are a few stalwart Fedora community members [...]

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Community handbook – The Open Source Way

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Introducing a community book written by a community.
http://www.TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki (read and participate)
http://www.TheOpenSourceWay.org/book (HTML, HTML single page, PDF)
This is a handbook for creating and nurturing communities of contributors.  It was originally thought of as a cookbook to provide recipes for enacting community the open source way.  It is released under the Creative Commons BY SA 3.0 Unported [...]

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