After we discovered, along with our pals from the Linux Foundation, that the Fedora Project didn’t have any one to represent Fedora on a community contributions panel at the Collaboration Summit, the right folks at LF got together with us and sorted out what we needed to do. I volunteered to represent Fedora, and got […]
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My favorite thing to hear from the mouth of Red Hat’s CEO Jim Whitehurst is (to paraphrase), “Red Hat is here to help customers becomes contributors to the projects that matter to them.” In that vein, I’ve made a few submissions of a talk/keynote, “Participate or Die“, including one to this year’s Red Hat Summit […]
Moodle as a killer K-12 app
06-Mar-09We talk about killer applications, the killer app, which are programs so good they change the nature of a situation. Email is long considered a general audience killer app, when you think about the impact it has had over the years. For educators, is Moodle the killer app? Sure looks like it. This is written […]
Stumbling around in the K-12 space
06-Mar-09This week I’m fulfilling a talk obligation that David Nalley and I set up last Fall, to talk about the advantages of bringing a culture of participation to the classroom. In particular, this is the Computer-Using Educators (CUE) conference, with teachers and technology coordinators from K-12 districts across the country. K-12 is short-hand for primary […]
Failure as the secret of success
28-Feb-09People get mad at the Fedora Project all the time because something important to them fails to work. “It used to work, it worked for a long time, and now it’s broken!” They look at an idea that we tried out, failed, and learned from, and don’t understand how we could let that get in […]
Hey Fedora contributors! Have you got a hot idea you are willing to mentor a student on for this coming Summer? Post it on the Summer coding project ideas for 2009 wiki page. That is our premier list for the Google Summer of Code 2009. For good advice, read this article of advice for mentoring […]
Free and open texbook FAIL
07-Feb-09An article this week (“Free College Texbooks: Fad or Fabulous?“) got me excited that truly free content might be making its way to a more mainstream use in education. The company, Flat World Knowledge, promotes their content as being, “Created by experts … enhanced by users … free to all,” and they appear to be […]
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 […]
ISV SIG pages receive love
09-Dec-08Did a little clean-up of the page contents and naming for the independent software vendors (ISV) special interest group (SIG) pages. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ISV_Special_Interest_Group https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:ISVs One of the goals I am pouring more personal resources in to is the recruitment and support of ISVs for getting packages in to Fedora. Now that the Fedora 11 schedule is […]
How is licensing fun?
23-Sep-08Because Spot in looking out for it. Aside from doing a fantastic job, he is brutally honest. He also has a great turn of phrase: “There’s probably a Perl script running that company now …” (No, I won’t say what company.) Thanks Spot for always being way out front on legal and licensing issues. Fedora […]