A whole first day and whole event full of observations, rich moments, and lots and lots and lots of value. What else can you expect when you get together 200+ self-identified community organizer types? People are active, engaged, energetic, enthusiastic, approachable and approaching, and fully responsible. During the event, and now following, I did my […]
Category Archives: Community
Today I was inspired to send the below email to fedora-docs-list; more details following the quoted email. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:07:24PM -0400, David Nalley wrote: > Simon passed me (and I just put up) the fedora specific Zikula modules: > > To get the source: > git clone git://git.fedorahosted.org/git/fedora-zikula.git > > Included […]
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: […]
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 […]
The evolution of Fedora as an entity of freedom has been an interesting experience. For example, participation in the project wasn’t always as freely available as it is now. Before Core merged with Extras in Fedora 7, the only way to contribute to the central part of the distro was via an employee of Red […]
If you, your friends, colleagues, business associates, or just about anyone who needs … Support for how and why to invest resources in open source A cluebat about why your organization should participate in upstream projects … then send them to Esplanade 302 for my 11:50 am session this Monday 01 June, the first day […]
(Back from nose to the grindstone, Spring at home is busy and end-of-quarter targets I’ve been working on for Red Hat are nearing completion. Appears that blogging and tracking email lists has fallen a bit to the wayside.) From Wednesday 08 April to Friday 10 April, I was in fabulous and mildly-rainy San Francisco to […]
Running a little late posting these because I wanted to produce a nice set of speaker notes, and they didn’t exist before I gave the talk at LinuxFest Northwest. In addition, there were some slides that were missing from the presentation (my bad!), which had me going to a Web browser during the talk and […]
Max is totally spot-on, and I only want to add a thing or two about community organizing, (After all, isn’t a little building and a little organizing what we do? I love the deep irony in the title “Community Manager”. Can you say, “Cat Herder”? How about, “Oxy Moron”?) Watching David Nalley be interviewed, he […]
Folks at the Linux Foundation have just posted a bunch of video from the 2009 Collaboration Summit, including our panel on 8 April, Measuring Community Contribution (Flash video 🙁 … but they do have a downloadable OGG!)Â Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier (OpenSUSE community manager) led the panel that included James Bottomly (Linux kernel SCSI maintainer etc.), […]