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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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Community Leadership Summit up on the westside

Thursday, January 7, 2010

CLS West is happening this Saturday 9 January at DeVry University in Daly City.  I’ll be there all day, talking about catalyzing and community and stuff, then giving an Ignite talk at a closed-door event.
This is a follow-up to the successful CLS that occurred before the last OSCON in San Jose.  The idea was born [...]

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Nurses most trusted profession in the US

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

A recent Gallup poll found that nurses remain the most trusted profession in their annual U.S. poll at 83% (“High/Very high” trust).  Closest behind the nurses are pharmacists/druggists at 66%, just a point above medical doctors at 65%.
Why am I reporting this?  The Gallup headline for their own results is, “U.S. Clergy, Bankers See New [...]

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Fedora Board townhall results – 20091202

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

V O T E
Today (02 Dec 2009) I moderated the townhall on IRC for the Fedora Board candidates.  Full details are available on the Fedora elections page.
The meeting log is available, and here is the list of questions we went over. A few follow-up questions were chimed in the stream of discussion, so you need [...]

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Five reasons I love working at Red Hat

Sunday, November 1, 2009

I picked five because then I wouldn’t be at this all day, but it’s clearly a lot more than that.  And I’m sure I know people have “reasons they hate”,  and they are welcome to go somewhere they love more than they hate, I’m sure, yes.
These are the sort of things I find myself microblogging [...]

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

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

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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Community Leadership Summit jelling – wiki up, attendees list grows

Saturday, June 13, 2009

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:

Event wiki.  [...]

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And I didn’t have to do a thing

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

This is the first Fedora release since … Fedora Core 3? … where I wasn’t buried up to my neck getting the documentation ready for release.
Paul and I have carried the Fedora Docs banner for a long time, but it became very obvious that we were standing in the way of progress by enabling other [...]

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Power from the people, power for the people

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

The evolution of Fedora as an entity of freedom has been an interesting experience.  For example, participation in the project wasn’t always as freely available as it is now.  Before Core merged with Extras in Fedora 7, the only way to contribute to the central part of the distro was via an employee of Red [...]

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Presenting ‘Participate or Die’ at CommunityOne Monday 01 June

Monday, June 1, 2009

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 of CommunityOne.  I’ll [...]

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