As of this week’s plan, Richard Fontana and I are going to be at the Red Hat booth from 2 to 4 pm on Saturday 20 February at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) 8x. Being careful not to give legal advice, I think we’ll be there to have freeform discussions around: How and why […]
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Blowing open the doors to contributions
16-Feb-10A few key pieces just fell in place and now we can easily open The Open Source Way for contributions. All the legal bits passed muster, and the new contribution policy explains the rules. It’s simple enough – by contributing, you agree to put your contributions under the CC BY SA 3.0 Unported. Read the […]
In January 2010 I participated in an Ignite session at the Community Leadership Summit West. CLS West is a subset of the annual CLS, to be held this year again near OSCON in Portland, OR on 17 and 18 July 2010. This talk is in O’Reilly’s Ignite format, which is 20 slides that auto-advance every […]
Man fix dryer, ugh
13-Feb-10When something breaks at my house, everyone turns to look at me. Not to accuse me of breaking it, although often enough … but in expectation that I’ll fix it. Computer to clothes dryer, apparently, I have the tools and skills. Of course, I really don’t. What I have in the family is the most […]
I am licensing all of my blog content past, present, and ongoing under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (CC BY SA) free content license. This includes my content published by the excellent WordPress engine at iquaid.org, and my content at iquaid.livejournal.com (deprecated). This has been on my mind for a while, and in […]
Config tweaks on TheOpenSourceWay.org
05-Feb-10Thanks to folks for finding and pointing out the configuration problems on TheOpenSourceWay.org. I’ve still got a BIND configuration to work out, I’ll be haunting #rhel this weekend looking for help. 🙂 To get permissions to edit the wiki, I have put a human in the way (currently just me). I’m working on getting up […]
Cranking up to SCALE 8x
02-Feb-10This is going to be one wickedly fantastic Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) 8x. Our Fedora presence is growing, both in depth of roots in the area and the scope of what we are trying to do. A local Fedora Ambassador is organizing the Fedora Project expo presence. There are a few stalwart Fedora community […]
Community handbook – The Open Source Way
02-Feb-10Introducing a community book written by a community. http://www.TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki (read and participate) http://www.TheOpenSourceWay.org/book (HTML, HTML single page, PDF) This is a handbook for creating and nurturing communities of contributors. It was originally thought of as a cookbook to provide recipes for enacting community the open source way. It is released under the Creative Commons BY […]
Understanding opensource.com
28-Jan-10This week saw opensource.com kicked out of the nest and told to fly. I’ve been watching some of the discussion around it and have some comments about a bit of confusion some folks are having.  Please pass this along. What I see here is a new type of discussion … … one where our experiences […]
Contributor CV and recommendations
28-Jan-10Listening to a call about the cool stuff our Community Architecture team is doing with education (such as POSSE and opensource.com/education), I had an idea. Is it a simple idea? Yes. An elegant idea? So far. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Contributor_CVs It’s an opt-in system to track an individual’s contributions and recommendations from others within the Fedora Project community. […]