It is once again my happy duty to help shepherd Fedora content to a better licensing position (as I did three years ago.) We previously moved Fedora documentation from the GNU FDL to the OPL, moving the wiki content to the OPL at the same time. This current relicensing is very important for the Fedora [...]
For a number of releases the bug triage team and others have maintained a common bugs page. The idea is to make it simpler for a Fedora user to know if i) a behavior they have seen is already recognized as a bug, and ii) what there is to do about it (if anything). It’s [...]
When I was studying some of the Fedora statistics recently I wanted to see them graphed out. The raw numbers weren’t speaking thoroughly to me, and when I started pushing them in to various types of charts, some interesting details revealed themselves. In particular, the one around edits to the Fedora wiki. The graphic shows [...]
Wow. It’s not just that the student-designed and -built OSWALD devices are innovative and cool (they are, and I saw the on-campus sweatshop to prove the student-built part.) The brilliance is the way the OSWALD is the linchpin in an OSU strategy that reinvents computer science teaching, while making room for disciplines outside of CS [...]
This weekend while I was at SCaLE 7x for Fedora, stumbling but progressing on the Fedora 10 User Guide at the Fedora Activity Day (FAD), virtual-FAD work was occurring in #fedora-docs. The team was busy getting at least the same amount of effort done on cleaning, organizing, and fixing the Docs wiki presence. We intend [...]
Adam Williamson made a blog post about Revising the QA Wiki Space and I have a few requests for them. (I tried to leave a comment on his blog, but comments are only for registered users, and registering never got me a password, so I’m doing this here. So I guess my first request is [...]
An article this week (“Free College Texbooks: Fad or Fabulous?“) got me excited that truly free content might be making its way to a more mainstream use in education. The company, Flat World Knowledge, promotes their content as being, “Created by experts … enhanced by users … free to all,” and they appear to be [...]
