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Category Archives: FLOSS

Fluendo, Bastien, et al — I’m sorry fwiw

Since I can’t apologize for the Fedora Board, I’ll apologize and explain for myself. Despite feeling that we are doing the best we can for Fedora in this situation, I feel bad that we abused our relationship with Fluendo.
We once again are in the midst of making the same mistake we made for Fedora […]

How to fish for new contributors

One way … tell it like it is. Make it your mission. Be funny and poignant when you write about it:
http://exitcondition.alrubinger.com/2008/01/15/wanna-do-my-homework/
I just started reading Andrew Lee Rubinger’s blog, or maybe he just began blogging? Not sure, but he has a polished, funny, irreverent, and clean writing style. In particular, I […]

How to create the most popular Fedora sub-project

First, some caveats:

Popularity is measured by how many Fedora account system (FAS) members are in the FAS group
Overarching groups such as ‘cla_done’ and ‘cla_fedora’ don’t count, since nearly every member has one of those
The count here is done today (2008-02-15 2030 UTC); I mirrored a current snapshot here; note that the links on that page […]

Summer coding project ideas for Fedora

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SummerCoding/2008/Ideas
Summer in the Northern Hemisphere has been very busy the last few years since Google introduced its Summer of Code project. Folks are beginning to include the Southern Hemisphere. The Summer of Content from OLPC already plans to cover both Summers with two project rounds per year. Summer is a traditional time for […]

Open Source vs. open source

There is a saying, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay “Self-Reliance.” Ralph is 100% accurate — where the consistency is foolish it is not worth worrying about. (Unfortunately, I often hear this quote with the words “a foolish” dropped; at least, many people seem to […]

Accessibility is the cornerstone of science and open enquiry

Over the last few years, I’ve watched and worked with my wife as she has managed her chronic disease using the web as one of her tools. Recently I had a mental flash — a connection between her success with open enquiry of field-specific experts, how access to the originators of new science is […]