http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SummerCoding/2008/Ideas Summer in the Northern Hemisphere has been very busy the last few years since Google introduced its Summer of Code project. Folks are beginning to include the Southern Hemisphere. The Summer of Content from OLPC already plans to cover both Summers with two project rounds per year. Summer is a traditional time for students […]
Category Archives: Fedora
Summer coding project ideas for Fedora
27-Jan-08WTF is the Fedora Project Board
26-Jan-08Pardon the epithet in this post’s title. I’ve been hearing this question for a long time, since before I sat on the Board, and ignoring it isn’t making it go away. So I give up already! I’ve now been on the Board long enough to be able to make a reasonable stab at explaining who, […]
Open Source vs. open source
22-Jan-08There is a saying, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay “Self-Reliance.” Ralph is 100% accurate — where the consistency is foolish it is not worth worrying about. (Unfortunately, I often hear this quote with the words “a foolish” dropped; at least, many people seem to think that […]
Mo’ better Fedora marketing
21-Jan-08This morning we had a productive teleconference about Fedora marketing. We’ve got a group of interested, motivated, passionate, and experienced marketeers at Red Hat who want to help Fedora marketing. The teleconf was a chance for us to do some ideating about how to introduce that group into Fedora as leaders and doers. A pause […]
FUDCon Flickr group
14-Jan-08If you’ve got pics to upload and use Flickr, this is the group to join for FUDCon pics.
Fedora marketing revitalization
13-Jan-08As a last hackfest item before my flight, we’re talking with Red Hat’s press/comms superstar Leigh Day about Fedora marketing. She is leading a mini-design thinking session with us around everything from our communications mechanism to how we handle event planning and execution. We’ll have to rely upon someone else here to transcribe our notes, […]
Wiki Gardening
11-Jan-08At today’s FUDCon hackfest we’re working on trimming, pruning, and replanting some parts of the Fedora wiki. The goal is to create a common way for project/content areas to present information so that users and contributors can learn common pathways. We’re making some templates for common landing pages that can be used by project or […]
Docs election
23-Dec-07Tomorrow is the last day to vote for Fedora Documentation Steering Committee members. So, what are you waiting for? Vote! If you’ve already voted, thanks!
Over the last few years, I’ve watched and worked with my wife as she has managed her chronic disease using the web as one of her tools. Recently I had a mental flash — a connection between her success with open enquiry of field-specific experts, how access to the originators of new science is a […]
Elections can be painfully heartening
11-Dec-07Catching the last of the low December sun’s afternoon heat out in the back 1/20th, I just finished casting a ballot for the Fedora Project Board elections. Some elections are spit-easy to vote in, and some are difficult. This Board election stirs several feelings in me. One is the pain of sorting through a list […]