We take it as very important to expose your task list, undone and unassigned and everything. That is, if your goal is to do things the open source way, which you can do regardless of what domain you are in. Marketing? Yep. Documentation? Yep. An example I saw today is in this bug report, where […]
Category Archives: Community
Some old faces, some new faces talking about how the same-old, same-old building sustainable community in Fedora leads to new innovation and new fun stuff for people to play with in this video on Fedora 12. Another new thing here, I think this is the first time our entire Community Architecture team was in one […]
Fedora Board townhall results – 20091202
02-Dec-09V O T E Today (02 Dec 2009) I moderated the townhall on IRC for the Fedora Board candidates. Full details are available on the Fedora elections page. The meeting log is available, and here is the list of questions we went over. A few follow-up questions were chimed in the stream of discussion, so […]
A Twitter discussion thread (a) (b, c, d) made me want to i) lay out a definition for sustainable open source engineering, ii) provide some examples you may not have thought of, and iii) find out who else is doing a good job at it (or trying to, at the very least!) Sustainable open source […]
How to become a docs contributor – video
13-Nov-09This Wednesday I was helping Mel with the POSSE class in Singapore. Basically, I covered what open source content in Fedora does (technical docs, process docs, community self-knowledge docs), the common tools and styles we try to propagate, and then walked the class through how to contribute to the release notes. The exercise was focused […]
Just a quick response to “Top Open Source technical writers on the Web”. First, I’m sure the intention was well-meant. Thanks for trying to uplift open source technical writers. Second, I put in a comment response on the blog entry, which was more self-serving than helpful: Not sure what the metrics used are … but […]
Hey, marketeers, look over here!
09-Nov-09The Fedora Marketing project is an intentionally open marketing effort. It is getting some stride in showing how a volunteer contributor community can do marketing amongst the most popular Linux distribution family (Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and friendly rebuilds). Fedora Marketing is finding a way to work with, instead of against or in ignorance […]
Five reasons I love working at Red Hat
01-Nov-09I picked five because then I wouldn’t be at this all day, but it’s clearly a lot more than that. And I’m sure I know people have “reasons they hate”, and they are welcome to go somewhere they love more than they hate, I’m sure, yes. These are the sort of things I find myself […]
I’ve a little story I want to share with you. I’m telling it because it’s about the larger discussion of who you are and why you are drawn to one Linux distro over another. Or one music style over another. And so on. It’s also about the differences between Fedora and Ubuntu, both in terms […]
Subtle circles of oppression
05-Sep-09One of the tricks (or facts?) of oppression is that those who are oppressed most often turn on each other rather than the person or symbol of the oppression. When the youngest in a family has received abuse or even just ‘rules’ shuttled down from the parents, that youngest turns to the family dog or […]