Fedora Project and JBoss.org were not accepted by Google as an umbrella mentoring organization for their Summer of Code this year. We’ve been involved since the beginning with many successes. This year we decided to embrace the umbrella organization that Google stitched together from separate JBoss.org and Fedora Project applications a few years ago and […]
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Fedora Summer Coding continues
18-Mar-10This post is a home for my notes and video links for a class I am co-teaching/assisting with today at AFE in Santa Cruz. The class is Art of Invention for kids in the age range of 8 to 11 (3rd to 5th grade), and last week was the first part of the electronics section. […]
Thinking on geeking
03-Mar-10There was an article in the San Jose Mercury News about my daughters and their friend. My eldest’s reactions to the article included specifying that it was her friend who self-identified as a geek and was OK with that ID. My daughter doesn’t self-identify that way, and her reaction got me thinking. As with other […]
Summer coding FAD
02-Mar-10On the Friday of SCALE 8x we had a Fedora Activity Day (FAD) focused on getting ready for Google Summer of Code 2010. As usual, we had people drop by to see what was going on, since “activity day” is an unclear bit of clubspeak. (By clubspeak, I mean the language we use as insiders […]
Pay attention if you want to know more about Zikula, want to work with it, and can spend some time helping Fedora Infrastructure. Especially if you can do design and know (enough) CSS. Today I sat with my project manager glasses participating in an IRC work session on Fedora Insight. The session, much of which […]
New skin, new list
26-Feb-10Put up a new look for The Open Source Way tonight. Graphic came from Red Hat Design and I like it. Figured I would just put it up and try it on for size; see what opinions arise. Also another milestone tonight, I broke open the new mailing list and sent some random messages. I […]
This past Saturday I gave my first keynote at the eighth Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE 8x), and I was pretty pleased with the results. Informal survey says I crushed it, but you can take a look yourself below. (Part 1 and Part 2) Overall, the keynote went great. No real glitches and I survived […]
Improving the FLOSS legal landscape
22-Feb-10At 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 […]
Finishing SCALE 8x with a *whew*
21-Feb-10From the big drive down, the FAD on Friday, through my keynote on Saturday, and the flurry of the event following that, I’m finishing off SCALE 8x with Richard Fontana’s talk on improving FOSS licensing. (Addendum, I was when I wrote that, but now it’s the next morning, epic drive home complete.) “I like the […]
Freed software
17-Feb-10In English we have a well-known confusion with the word/term “free”. It can refer either to something having no cost/price, or as a reference to essential matters of liberty. Words such as “freedom” might work, but are a bit much to say each team, and to me have the effect of hyperbole — big words […]