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A swing, a miss, and a homerun – CLS day one

28-Jul-09

A whole first day and whole event full of observations, rich moments, and lots and lots and lots of value.  What else can you expect when you get together 200+ self-identified community organizer types?  People are active, engaged, energetic, enthusiastic, approachable and approaching, and fully responsible.  During the event, and now following, I did my [...]

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Fedora and OSCON and you?

14-Jul-09

We’re getting ready to represent Fedora at OSCON next week and are curious if you are coming?  Wondering if you’ve thought about representing Fedora yourself? The expo is Wed. 22 July and Thu. 23 July, opening at 10 am both days. Although the Fedora Ambassador presence worldwide is large and strong, not exactly the same [...]

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Community Leadership Summit jelling – wiki up, attendees list grows

13-Jun-09

On Friday I had a good chat with Jono Bacon, who dreamed up the Community Leadership Summit, and Mel Chua, community leader from OLPC and Sugar who is interning with my team this summer.  Unsurprisingly, Jono has a lot of stuff sewn up and ready to go, including venue courtesy of O’Reilly. New and useful: [...]

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Presenting ‘Participate or Die’ at CommunityOne Monday 01 June

01-Jun-09

If you, your friends, colleagues, business associates, or just about anyone who needs … Support for how and why to invest resources in open source A cluebat about why your organization should participate in upstream projects … then send them to Esplanade 302 for my 11:50 am session this Monday 01 June, the first day [...]

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‘How to Build Applications Linux Distributions Will Package’ from PyCon

28-May-09

This video of Toshio Kuratomi’s talk at PyCon 2009 does an excellent job of explaining why developers really want to think about and solve for packaging.  I’m adding it to the list of useful bits under Why should ISVs care? on the ISV special interest group page.  Thanks Toshio!

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New face in meaningful Linux shows, and a reportlet on OpenPrinting

25-May-09

(Back from nose to the grindstone, Spring at home is busy and end-of-quarter targets I’ve been working on for Red Hat are nearing completion. Appears that blogging and tracking email lists has fallen a bit to the wayside.) From Wednesday 08 April to Friday 10 April, I was in fabulous and mildly-rainy San Francisco to [...]

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‘Participate or Die’ presentation from LinuxFest Northwest

06-May-09

Running a little late posting these because I wanted to produce a nice set of speaker notes, and they didn’t exist before I gave the talk at LinuxFest Northwest. In addition, there were some slides that were missing from the presentation (my bad!), which had me going to a Web browser during the talk and [...]

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Remix in the mountains – talking Fedora at FeltonLUG

13-Apr-09

On Saturday 04 April I gave a version of the ‘Fedora Remix’ talk at FeltonLUG.  The Fedora Remix talk covers what remixes and spins are and why to care, then dives in to using all the tools available (`livecd-creator`, `livecd-iso-to-*`,` liveusb-creator`, `pungi`, and `revisor`.)  I used a local `yum` repository of Fedora 10 base, using [...]

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More uses for `fedora-business-cards`

08-Apr-09

Originally I was ambivalent about the full-bleed backside of the Fedora business card. I think of the backside of a business card as the secondary value, a space to write something useful for a recipient. I went so far as to get a small order of the cards with a blank backside just for that. [...]

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Intersections — “Open source lifestyle: classroom to career and beyond” from FOSSLC (was OSBootCamp)

06-Apr-09

In the Fedora Ambassador gig, at nearly every event there is an opportunity to get a view of the intersection of Fedora, open source, and the many backgrounds, experiences, and questions of other people at the event. Take last Fall’s OSBootCamp as an example.  This series of no-cost events was put on by an organization [...]

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