While it’s great to see all the enthusiasm and noise from FUDCon, I am sadly observing it all from a far distance … along with 99.9% of the rest of the Fedora Project. I had to cancel my plans to be there in Tempe, AZ this weekend, as well as an earlier this week in-person […]
Category Archives: Fedora
FUDCon from far afield
30-Jan-11Today is the Community Leadership Summit West (CLS West) in Daly City. I had to cancel attending today, which meant I was able to put the mantle of talking about The Open Source Way (book and methodology) to my main-man Mark Terranova. I met Mark at the first CLS in 2009, we’ve become fast friends, […]
A few years back I switched away from a GUI email client for work and back to ‘mutt’. While ‘mutt’ can handle doing an IMAP connection directly, I wanted to gain from the speed and portability of having fully local folders. (This is more feasible, I think, since encrypting hard drives became so much easier; […]
FAIFcast thoughts
06-Jan-11Finally got myself to listen to a “Free as in Freedom” oggcast (aka “faifcast”), specifically the newest episode 0x06. (I’m not a big audiocast listener normally, to really make it worthwhile I have to be actually listening, and I don’t have a lot of deadtime in my day where my brain is unoccupied such as […]
Time to start Fedora GSoC work
05-Jan-11As I explained in a previous blog post, I am not going to participate in Fedora’s Google Summer of Code presence this coming year. If Fedora is going to participate, some of you folks need to start organizing right away. In particular, Fedora’s GSoC team needs some people to work as program administrators, or “admins”. […]
Onion marmalade recipe first draft
31-Dec-10I decided to make-up an onion marmalade recipe without doing any research. Knowing the final result would still have an onion-y flavor, I figured on complementing it with other flavors that would let it be a sweet+savory topping for a nice hearty bread, quickbread, scrambled eggs, biscuit, steamed vegetables, even a plain grain such as […]
Folks: For this coming year, if Fedora chooses to participate in the Google Summer of Code (and I think we should), I have decided that I am not going to be involved. This is not complete abandonment. In fact, this blog post is the first of potentially several that can be part of a package […]
Larry and Drew got talking on #lindependence about the idea of holding a regular hour-long Linux event at a local coffee shop, and they pulled me in to the idea. The event is styled on the Ubuntu Hour concept. In discussing it, Larry really wanted to emphasize a distro-agnostic viewpoint. I like Larry’s approach. First, […]
First fall textbook sprint
05-Nov-10This Monday 8 November from 1600 to 2200 UTC we’ll be having the first writing sprint for the next version of the Practical Open Source Software Exploration textbook. Anyone interested in helping or watching should meet in #teachingopensource on irc.freenode.net (webchat interface.) You can attend all, some, or none of the sprint. 🙂 I’ve been […]
Anyone interested in helping us setup, run, and use the Four Seasons of Code (FSoC) tool for the upcoming Fedora Students Contributing session? FSoC is a web-based tool for administering a student contributing program — handling proposals, commenting, automatic reminders, and so forth. There is a running instance to look at, and we could get […]