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Off-Planet? A recap of recent posts …

Seems I managed to get dropped from the Fedora Planet for a short time, perhaps I didn’t change my password in time and got my account disabled?

Because I’m the kind of neurotic writer who is sure no one is reading, and is terrified when he finds out it is totally true!, I figured a quick recap of my posts going back to the start of March should cover my tracks.  I’m not sure how long I was off-planet, better safe than sorry.  In reverse chronological order, so if you’ve seen those on the planet, you know you can stop.  (As if you are reading anyway, but that is another neurotic trip entirely …)

Community sets

Some thoughts around community sets and the pyramid of community involvement …

Remix in the mountains – talking Fedora at FeltonLUG

On Saturday 04 April I gave a version of the ‘Fedora Remix’ talk at FeltonLUG …

More uses for `fedora-business-cards`

Originally I was ambivalent about the full-bleed backside of the Fedora business card …

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

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 …

Dead tree irony

A school district in Texas has US$4.6 million in textbooks sitting in warehouses and school backrooms …

Igniting teacher passions; last observations from CUE 2009

The last day of CUE 2009 I was stuck by the pure awesomeness of one of the final presentations in the open source pavilion.  It was titled Intro and Demo Open Source (Free) Software Programs for Educators! (found 1/3rd of the way down the conference sessions page) …

Students, start your engines — Fedora and JBoss.org project discussion period for Google Summer of Code

As of now, the Fedora Project and JBoss.org are a co-joined mentoring organization for Google’s Summer of Code this year.  Sweet …

Apache Hadoop in Fedora? Let’s ask Cloudera

If you happen to be a user of Apache Hadoop, or want to use Cloudera’s cloud software, it is available as an RPM from the company’s website.  Oh, with a long set of installation instructions that include extracting RPMs from Sun’s Java 6 installer …

Panel on community contributions at Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit

After we discovered, along with our pals from the Linux Foundation, that the Fedora Project didn’t have any one to represent Fedora on a community contributions panel at the Collaboration Summit, the right folks at LF got together with us and sorted out what we needed to do …

Show ‘em how participation is done with a talk at the Red Hat Summit or JBoss World; deadline extended to 16 March

My favorite thing to hear from the mouth of Red Hat’s CEO Jim Whitehurst is (to paraphrase), “Red Hat is here to help customers becomes contributors to the projects that matter to them.” …

Moodle as a killer K-12 app

We talk about killer applications, the killer app, which are programs so good they change the nature of a situation.  Email is long considered a general audience killer app, when you think about the impact it has had over the years …

Stumbling around in the K-12 space

This week I’m fulfilling a talk obligation that David Nalley and I set up last Fall, to talk about the advantages of bringing a culture of participation to the classroom …

Failure as the secret of success

People get mad at the Fedora Project all the time because something important to them fails to work.  “It used to work, it worked for a long time, and now it’s broken!” …

(Updated post — URLs were unintentionally relative and not FQDNs, so they broke in the RSS feed and on Fedora Planet. D’oh!)