Some thoughts around community sets and the pyramid of community involvement. There are many kinds of communities, particularly around technology: People who use a technology People who like a technology People who advocate for a technology People who enable others to use a technology People who contribute to improve a technology When we talk about […]
Category Archives: Red Hat
Community sets
14-Apr-09If you happen to be a user of Apache Hadoop, or want to use Cloudera‘s cloud software, it is available as an RPM from the company’s website. Oh, with a long set of installation instructions that include extracting RPMs from Sun’s Java 6 installer. I thought, wouldn’t it be nice if you could just do […]
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 […]
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 […]
Board break
04-Nov-08With people writing about running for the Fedora Project Board, I want to take the chance to say I am not running for election this time. My Red Hat-appointed seat of the last 18 months expires with this election. My interest is in seeing some new blood working on the Board. I haven’t been spending […]
Relate to this!
22-Sep-08Not like I plot out my career. For real. I follow my instincts, heart, and then my head, so I’m less good at metrics and more good at, “It feels right.” The goal is similar, though — find a good spot where I can generate the most value for the shareholders, make the most difference […]
Travelogue — Summit bound
18-Jun-08Some memes surround activities as does fog by the Bay. Flying over the Sierra, Lake Tahoe about to slip below, it’s the kind of time where a disconnected writer is tempted to journal even without a blog client. This infamous travelogue. That’s right, a plain text editor (/usr/bin/emacs for me) is all between me and […]
EPEL duple at the Red Hat Summit
14-Apr-08Super excited that both Michael Stahnke’s talk and my EPEL talk got accepted for the 2008 Red Hat Summit. You may notice that I matched the style of my page to Michael’s. This reflects the EPEL talks that are a duple, that is, two parts made to fit together into a more meaningful whole, such […]
In his great answer the secret to Red Hat’s success, Donald Rosenberg really, really, really understands the balance of Red Hat, Fedora, and CentOS. (digg that article if you dug it.) What made me bounce in my seat was this insight: … Red Hat … did not abandon the little people. Instead, they found their […]