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Fedora is the best of ideas from your shower

This is Gavin King’s vision of Fedora:
Fedora has all the latest and greatest stuff that someone thought of in the shower in the morning and thought “this is the coolest thing ever”. [The] trouble is that you cannot support that for seven years. I think you mitigate the problem of a lot of crazy features […]

GSoC statistics snapshot

Do the numbers yourself from “The Fedora Project & JBoss.org” page, but here is my quick dump from what I’ve seen so far:

68 proposals, 45 mentors
12 accepted projects (student slots)

Approx 1 in 5 proposals rose to the top

25% of the accepted projects are about Transifex, which is a GSoC project from last year
16.7% are FUNC, […]

Seek ye students

In the middle of the Summer of Code proposals process and it’s been a mixed yet mostly good experience. We still have room for more proposals, so keep helping interested students and encourage them to get in a proposal for Fedora or JBoss.org. We’ll know at the beginning of next week […]

Summer coding 2008 with Fedora and JBoss.org

Just spotted the word that the combined projects of Fedora and JBoss.org are accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2008.
Fedora’s project ideas page is here, and JBoss.org’s is here.
This is the first year that the two organizations have worked together. This was partially at the direction of Google; with so […]

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 […]

Heading to JBoss World

About out the door to JBoss World, where I’ll be doing developer community work as the editor of Dev Fu, meaning lots of video and podcasts and audio capture and talking and hackathons and meeting and friend-making and even a party.
One goal for me is to see how the JBoss.org community aspects of this are, […]

Seam running under IcedTea on Fedora 8

Seam developer and fellow Red Hatter Pete Muir has posted about his adventures with getting Seam running on Fedora 8:
http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/SeamOnOpenJDK
Best thing about his adventure? Pete ran a “highly unscientific test” and found out that IcedTea outperformed other JDKs:
This piqued my interest, so I did a highly unscientific test and installed the Sun JDK […]