Catching the last of the low December sun’s afternoon heat out in the back 1/20th, I just finished casting a ballot for the Fedora Project Board elections. Some elections are spit-easy to vote in, and some are difficult. This Board election stirs several feelings in me. One is the pain of sorting through a list […]
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Elections can be painfully heartening
11-Dec-07In his great answer the secret to Red Hat’s success, Donald Rosenberg really, really, really understands the balance of Red Hat, Fedora, and CentOS. (digg that article if you dug it.) What made me bounce in my seat was this insight: … Red Hat … did not abandon the little people. Instead, they found their […]
Help lead Fedora?
04-Dec-07Have you ever thought that Fedora could use better leadership and direction? Or you like what you see and you want more of it? Been expressing your opinions and might have enough others who would vote for you? Nominate yourself for the Fedora Project Board, the elections are underway and voting opens this week. BTW, […]
(Catching up with this post, since I started it but didn’t complete it when we got back from Sutter’s Fort.) We returned to the 21st century on Wednesday 28 December, driving back with both girls and their good friend Mikaela. We stayed overnight on Monday at a homeschoolmate’s brother-in-law’s house in Sacramento. Thanks, Dylan! With […]
Showing tonight on home science theater
03-Dec-07Tonight I’m lining up these pages for some science video fun to watch with my girls. We’re looking for cool experiments to be inspired to try. Also, Malakai asked to see an old favorite we used to call “The Packet Movie” when she was three and four. http://www.krampf.com/ Robert Krampf’s really cool science videos Warriors […]
Off to Sutter’s Fort
26-Nov-07In a few hours I’m leaving with my daughters for a California History class trip to Sutter’s Fort, in old town Sacramento. The entire class are dressing in period costumes and acting as docents for the various exhibits all throughout the day on Tuesday. I’ll be playing “Owen Sumner”, who came to Sutter’s Fort in […]
Fedora feature process f-ing rocks
26-Nov-07Massive props to John Poelstra and FESCo for the creation and stewardship of the Fedora feature process. As a documenter, this initiative was pretty important to me. I wanted to see that our release overview/summary and full release notes actually talked about features that mattered and were real. Too often we found out about a […]
I highly appreciated all the points raised within this self-referential template: http://shunn.com/format/story.html In this digital world, we often forget why there are conventions for dead paper that are different than for computer screens.
Seam running under IcedTea on Fedora 8
18-Nov-07Seam developer and fellow Red Hatter Pete Muir has posted about his adventures with getting Seam running on Fedora 8: http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/SeamOnOpenJDK Best thing about his adventure? Pete ran a “highly unscientific test” and found out that IcedTea outperformed other JDKs: This piqued my interest, so I did a highly unscientific test and installed the Sun […]
Unstalling Fedora Docs
18-Nov-07We’ve gotten pretty good at community written release notes. A few more silly bugs for Fedora 8 than before (and my bad for not helping to make them better — this is the first release since FC4 where I didn’t edit the entire release notes before they went over for translation), but really nothing to […]