As I explained in a previous blog post, I am not going to participate in Fedora’s Google Summer of Code presence this coming year. If Fedora is going to participate, some of you folks need to start organizing right away. In particular, Fedora’s GSoC team needs some people to work as program administrators, or “admins”. […]
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05-Jan-11Onion marmalade recipe first draft
31-Dec-10I decided to make-up an onion marmalade recipe without doing any research. Knowing the final result would still have an onion-y flavor, I figured on complementing it with other flavors that would let it be a sweet+savory topping for a nice hearty bread, quickbread, scrambled eggs, biscuit, steamed vegetables, even a plain grain such as […]
Folks: For this coming year, if Fedora chooses to participate in the Google Summer of Code (and I think we should), I have decided that I am not going to be involved. This is not complete abandonment. In fact, this blog post is the first of potentially several that can be part of a package […]
Larry and Drew got talking on #lindependence about the idea of holding a regular hour-long Linux event at a local coffee shop, and they pulled me in to the idea. The event is styled on the Ubuntu Hour concept. In discussing it, Larry really wanted to emphasize a distro-agnostic viewpoint. I like Larry’s approach. First, […]
First fall textbook sprint
05-Nov-10This Monday 8 November from 1600 to 2200 UTC we’ll be having the first writing sprint for the next version of the Practical Open Source Software Exploration textbook. Anyone interested in helping or watching should meet in #teachingopensource on irc.freenode.net (webchat interface.) You can attend all, some, or none of the sprint. I’ve been […]
Anyone interested in helping us setup, run, and use the Four Seasons of Code (FSoC) tool for the upcoming Fedora Students Contributing session? FSoC is a web-based tool for administering a student contributing program — handling proposals, commenting, automatic reminders, and so forth. There is a running instance to look at, and we could get […]
One of the response’s I got to from the call for writers for the Practical Open Source Software Exploration textbook was an offer of an excellent content source, Terry Hancock’s book Achieving Impossible Things With Free Culture and Commons-Based Enterprise. This is a great example of a longer work that the Practical OSS Exploration textbook […]
Big weekend in Utah
05-Oct-10It’s the last day flurry around here as we get ready for Utah Open Source Conference (UTOSC) this weekend. On Wednesday, my girls and Larry and his girl are catching a train in Emeryville, CA. It’s a 19 hour journey to Salt Lake City, which seems long but is only 7 more hours each way […]
Hey! Do you want to help us write the next version of the first textbook that teaches open source participation? We need writers, editors, reviewers, and researchers to find or create content on: Testing code in FOSS communities. Working in open communities. Different types of open source community cultures. Open communities and diversity. Licensing FOSSÂ […]
Exchanging seeds
21-Sep-10This is a post to gather some ideas around an article for opensource.com on seed exchanges. We’ll use this post and the comments to keep track of the article ideas. Think of this as a pre-pre-pre-draft — like the whiteboard/corkboard of ideas in a newsroom. The modern seed exchange movement has a lot of history […]