We’re getting ready to represent Fedora at OSCON next week and are curious if you are coming? Wondering if you’ve thought about representing Fedora yourself? The expo is Wed. 22 July and Thu. 23 July, opening at 10 am both days. Although the Fedora Ambassador presence worldwide is large and strong, not exactly the same […]
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Fedora and OSCON and you?
14-Jul-09It is once again my happy duty to help shepherd Fedora content to a better licensing position (as I did three years ago.) We previously moved Fedora documentation from the GNU FDL to the OPL, moving the wiki content to the OPL at the same time. This current relicensing is very important for the Fedora […]
Truly free homeschool software
22-Jun-09Recently I’ve been seeing articles about homeschoolers using free software: Free homeschool software: Probably the best conjunction of words that a homeschooling parent has heard since they found out that their child is going to summer camp. Why shouldn’t it be? Getting more for less is as American as homeschooling itself. I’ve commented on several […]
This was the central question I reckon I carried away after talking with folks from Nexenta. They have an open source core, Nexenta.org, that uses an OpenSolaris kernel with ZFS and a rebuilt Debian non-GUI userspace. The combination provides network attached storage (NAS) with lots of potential as an open solution. What resonated most with […]
I want an ‘rpm2all’ tool
18-Jun-09The open source software companies (ISVs) that I’ve been talking with about Fedora have a common problem. Ironically they, as usual, are resolving this problem individually. Making an RPM that relies upon system packages is not seen as desirable, as it reduces their portability and focuses (in their minds) on one delivery platform — RPM-based […]
This morning I was looking at the usual awesome performance of RHT stock and glanced at the business article under the headlines section. Despite the article title being about another company, Red Hat must have been mentioned, so I gave it a look. In reading it, a number of inaccuracies and old school misconceptions leapt […]
For a number of releases the bug triage team and others have maintained a common bugs page. The idea is to make it simpler for a Fedora user to know if i) a behavior they have seen is already recognized as a bug, and ii) what there is to do about it (if anything). It’s […]
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: […]
Interesting open systems problem
10-Jun-09(This article arose from my sitting on an open source round table on Monday 08 June in Santa Clara, CA at ConnectivityWeek 2009. My slides with full speaker notes are available.) For those who’ve never heard of building automation systems (BAS) and the smart grid, you have my pardon to take a few minutes to […]
And I didn’t have to do a thing
10-Jun-09This 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 […]