As usual, when I get back from a big conference and trip, my mind is full processing everything that happened, and my life is full recovering from the effects of the travel. Instead of a full report right here and now, I’m going to give a quick highlight of the latter part of July 2010. […]
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OSCON and CLS 2010 highlights
31-Jul-10The season is clipping right along for Fedora Summer Coding. Â The projects are set and running, and we’re approaching the mid-term evaluation period 05 to 12 July. A quick look at the numbers: 15 students and projects. 20 primary mentors, with 15+ more general mentors (includes mentoring the mentors) Three funding sources (two from Red […]
Rebecca Fernandez wrote this article, “Build an authentic, valuable online community“. In the comments Jason Hibbets pointed out that PJ at Groklaw had picked up Rebecca’s request for help in filling out the empty parts of The Open Source Way dealing with healthy community interaction, especially trolls and other poisonous people. Thus we got “What […]
Summer rolling in Fedora Summer Coding
07-Jun-10The best part of Fedora Summer Coding 2010 has begun: students are working on their projects with mentors and related communities. Â Although some of it may happen on the program discussion list, most of that work should be in those related communities. Â We’ll start seeing student and mentor blog posts on the Fedora Planet, and […]
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Party_F13_Bay_Area If you are going, see you there. Tomorrow morning I’ll get some goodies from Larry Cafiero up in Felton, and our media selection is going to be hand burned DVDs and CDs. Doubt we have any labels, so a Fedora sticker and a permanent ink pen it is … I’ll bring a few ISOs […]
This Thursday, 27 May, I am going to be closing out a day of awesome talks in an online seminar called Open Your World Forum. This is a production from opensource.com, and if the quality of the line-up this time is any indication, the producers have some great talent at drawing together a wide range […]
Working on the next evolution of my talk “Being a Catalyst in Communities – The science behind the open source way” for Open Source Bridge next week in Portland. It was originally given as a SCALE 8X keynote, and it’s mostly me representing Red Hat. I’m busy reworking the slides based on feedback I got […]
Death to the postmortem, long live …
18-May-10Every release cycle in Fedora I see folks use the term postmortem to refer to discussions after the release that focus on analysing what happened during the release, with a focus on fixing mistakes and repeating successes. This is a neologism borrowed from domains such as business. Humans are wordy people, and the effects of […]
In the vein of other great “how to help in FOSS projects” emails, presentations, and so forth, the Fedora developer list saw another one from Richard ‘hughsie’ Hughes, titled “Sending a sensible email“. It begins: There appears to be a trend on this list where a random user just posts an inflammatory email with “ACME […]
Although a bit late in the game, we decided to move our POSSE forward by a day. This is to keep us from running against the July 4th weekend. We cooked up a poster and information packet you can read, use, and pass around. It’s mainly about getting people to the main POSSE Cali page, […]