A heads up to anyone interested in being a Summer coding mentor or a student, the fine folks at Google’s Open Source Program Office have updated the frequently asked questions for the 2009 Summer of Code: http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2009/faqs.html Read that before asking a bunch of questions on some mailing list!
Category Archives: Fedora
You may let go of your breath now, the wiki for the Google Summer of Code 2008 Mentor Summit is now available. (It took a little bit for all the mentors to have a chance to remove any content that was not intended for public view, since the original wiki had been mentors-only with people’s […]
Font rock
01-Feb-09Like most of people I can imagine, fonts meant only one thing to me for a long time — another option to mess around with in a word processor to make things look “good”. A few years ago I got on an internal Red Hat mailing list for design discussions, and one thing that kept […]
Leading from the comfort of my armchair
31-Jan-09One of my favorite things about writing this blog is that I get to talk about me. See, it’s right there in the name: “i, quaid.” If you don’t figure it’s all about me, you are just not paying attention. This week we went through the pleasurable experience of anointing the awesome Eric ‘Sparks’ Christensen […]
Lots of discussions about what to do with your PC speaker, I didn’t see anyone note that the CLI fix is described in the Fedora 10 Release Notes: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f10/en_US/What_is_the_Latest_on_the_Desktop.html#sn-Disabling_PC_speaker Not sure how to make this easier to find. Maybe a search for “fedora 10 pc speaker disable“? (Updated with fixed link/URL for the release note.)
Where are your FUDCon session notes?
16-Jan-09One (of the many) things I appreciated about the last Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit was the immediate availability of session notes on the wiki. For each session, people wrote a wiki page and linked to it from the main schedule. I may even have started this practice two years ago, when only the […]
While the wiki covers 90%+ of the content collaboration needs for Fedora, we continue to need a content management system (CMS) for the Docs Project. A CMS gives us workflow tools that makes it easy to turn any contributor in to a publisher, while ensuring the ongoing quality of the content throughout the lifecycle of […]
Finding content output from FUDCon F11
10-Jan-09The main schedule … http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:FUDConF11_BarCamp_schedule … has links to some pages, and hopefully people are adding more. Ideally they add [[Category:FUDConF11 BarCamp sessions]] to their page, too, so they get included in this page … http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:FUDConF11_BarCamp_sessions I’ve extracted promises from most of the video/audio crew to do uploads of whatever we can tonight, at the […]
This morning the first smile I had was when I looked back over my shoulder at the Boston Cambridge Marriott to see not only my own Fedora window sign, but the signs of many others. (There is a small cluster of folks on the 19th floor.) The signs are a small brilliancy that came from […]
The outside and inside of documentation, or, why aren’t you publishing on the Fedora wiki?
06-Jan-09You may have noticed there is a larger world of free software outside of Fedora than inside. The number of packages inside the Fedora Universe has really grown. You may have noticed there is a larger world of Fedora-specific how-to documentation outside of Fedora than inside. A really huge amount. You may notice that the […]