| upcoming fudcons |
[May. 7th, 2008|02:00 pm] |
I wanted to take a moment to remind our community about the 3 FUDCons that are coming up in the next few months, and encourage people to sign up and attend.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon
May 30 -- a mini-FUDCon Berlin 2008, which takes place as a part of LinuxTag. LinuxTag itself runs from May 28 - May 31, and Fedora will have a strong presence there each day.
June 19-21 -- FUDCon Boston 2008, which will take place in conjunction with the Red Hat Summit. Please sign up on our wiki (follow the link above). This will be a 3 day event with hackfests, presentations, tutorials, etc. FUDCon Boston is 100% free to attend for anyone in the world.
September 2008 -- Still in the early planning phases, but we plan to hold a multi-day FUDCon in Prague sometime in September. Follow the link on the wiki if you would like to sign up and express your interest in attending. FUDCon Prague is 100% free to attend for anyone in the world.
I look forward to meeting some new members of our community at these events! |
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| libre graphics meeting |
[Apr. 25th, 2008|09:49 am] |
As a long time observer and advocate of Fedora's community-led artwork process, I've always got my ear open for ways that we can lend our support to activities in that vein.
The Libre Graphics Meeting in Poland is one such event. We wanted to send Nicu, since he's relatively close by, but he was unable to attend. Next time, Nicu!
We have decided to support Jon Phillips in his fund-raising campaign for the event.
One of my duties these days is as the unofficial CFO of Red Hat's Community Architecture team, and I'd definitely like to make sure that Fedora can send members of its Artwork team to a couple of the best events for that kind of work in the coming year. So let me know about it, folks! |
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| spamalot |
[Apr. 17th, 2008|01:53 am] |
Several things all came together, which gave me the opportunity to see Spamalot tonight.
1) Greg bought season tickets to Raleigh's "Broadway Series South".
2) Greg left for Brazil today.
3) Greg sits right next to me, which means that I get first dibs on these sorts of things.
Spamalot was exceptional -- it had all the best parts of Monty Python and the Holy Grail in it, several nods to other Monty Python sketches and songs, and did a very clever job of mocking a great number of famous Broadway musicals.
Even the playbill was full of easter eggs and material that had me laughing out loud -- come to find out from Wikipedia that it was written by Michael Palin.
Anyone who's a Monty Python fan should definitely go see Spamalot if they have a chance. I need to find the lyrics to all the songs, just because I know that there are probably a ton of jokes that I missed the first time around.
Brilliant, brilliant show. |
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| today's fudcon update |
[Apr. 16th, 2008|03:49 pm] |
As you all know, FUDCon Boston is coming up on June 19th, and it is running in parallel to the Red Hat Summit. FUDCon Boston is a 3 day event of hackfests, talks, presentations, and spending time in meatspace with your fellow Fedorans.
Here's something you might not know: everyone who pre-registers for FUDCon (which is free) will receive a badge. With this badge, you will be able to get into all of the Red Hat Summit talks that are part of the Open Source track.
Here are the talks in that track scheduled for Thursday and Friday:
Parallelization of Processors - Ulrich Drepper
Managing Updates and Upgrades - Michael Stahnke
Realtime Linux: Who, What, Where, When, and Why - Clark Williams
Fedora Packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Karsten Wade
Getting the Bits Out: Fedora Mirror Manager - Matt Domsch
Red Hat's Open Source Certificate System - Bob Lord
What's the Fuss About Fastboot and New Kernel Crash Dumping? - Vivek Goyal
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Sign up for FUDCon if you haven't already -- we had about 200 at FUDCon Raleigh back in January, and we'd like to set a new record in Boston. For those of you who live, work, or go to college in Boston, please spread the word to your Linux-minded friends.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConF10 |
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| apparently all i do is write email |
[Apr. 10th, 2008|03:39 pm] |
[spevack@localhost ~]$ history | awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head
358 fetchmail
250 alpine
65 ls
50 ssh
50 ps
50 cd
46 vim
40 sudo
23 cat
9 rm |
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| new fedora slogan |
[Apr. 8th, 2008|05:59 pm] |
"Don't hate; participate."
Credit for the slogan to Darlene.
UPDATE: Punctuation changed due to suggestion in the comments. |
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| release names and artwork |
[Apr. 8th, 2008|10:52 am] |
I enjoyed reading Nicu's post about some early brainstorming for Fedora 10, and it brings to mind something that I have been pondering for a while.
How do you maintain the tradition of a community-voted release name (with the continuity rules that we apply to the names) with the art team's need to not be constrained in their thinking?
In Fedora 8, because Werewolf was chosen late in the cycle, the Infinity artwork was already developed. The release name and the release theme didn't have anything to do with one another. Same story for Moonshine, Zod, etc.
But in Fedora 9, we chose the release name early, and I worry that a lot of the art team's brainstorming and thought processes were constrained by trying to build a theme that matched up with the Sulphur name, which is really just an easter egg for developers.
The release name is meant to be a fun part of the development process -- it's more fun to refer to the project as Zod than as Fedora Core 6. In its current form, the release name is not meant to be the tone-setter for an entire release's art cycle.
If we want to tie the release name and the entire visual theme of the release together, that's fine, but then the process for selecting the release name has to become more serious, and less whimsical.
Oh, and +1 from me for a steampunk theme for Fedora 10.
The question to ask then becomes not "how do we get from Sulphur to $FOO?" but "how do we get from Sulphur to $BAR, where $BAR in some way has a connection to the early theme brainstorming that the art team is doing?". |
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| lazyweb, i need cheap usb keys |
[Apr. 3rd, 2008|04:59 pm] |
Ok, so here's the executive summary:
* We need 2 GB USB keys that we can install F9 on demand (and either give away or sell for a few bucks) at events worldwide.
* We need the USB keys to not suck, but I do not have the time (or quite frankly desire) to embark on some sort of major testing comparison shopping project and speed benchmarking endeavor.
* More than anything, we need them to be *cheap* because we can't spend much money on these things, especially if we give them away. I can't seem to find anything for less than about $18 per key, and that's still way too much, especially if we want to be able to give them away. In an ideal world, I'd pay like $5 per key, but maybe that's just crazy for a 2 GB key.
* We want to buy them in bulk. If we are happy with the quality and supplier, perhaps we will come back for a repeat order and customize them with the Fedora logo.
Anyone out there who has some advice, or who is actually is in the business of selling USB keys and would like the Fedora Project as a customer? |
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| red hat and fedora internships |
[Mar. 31st, 2008|03:18 pm] |
Red Hat has a bunch of summer internships currently open.
Similarly, there will be some Fedora internships available for folks as well, the details of which are still being worked out.
If there is anything in the first list that interests you, simply apply for the job through the website. If there is anything in the Fedora-specific list that interests you, your best bet for the moment is to get in touch with me directly (which a few people already have). |
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| fedora 9 beta |
[Mar. 24th, 2008|03:57 pm] |
My secondary laptop has been running Rawhide for a little while now, but today I upgraded my primary workstation to Fedora 9 Beta.
Transaction Summary
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Install 90 Package(s)
Update 806 Package(s)
Remove 1 Package(s)
Total download size: 772 M
It's looking great -- our entire engineering, packaging, QA, and release engineering communities continue to do absolutely tremendous work. Can't thank you all enough.
I have one question though -- on both my laptops, a Think Pad x41 and a Think Pad x60, GDM's screen by default is very dark, and I have to manually adjust the brightness. Has anyone else seen this? |
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| codeina |
[Mar. 19th, 2008|06:33 pm] |
Yaakov, your points about Codeina are well taken. Codeina did some things well, like the education about problematic patent formats, but other things could definitely have been better. For instance, it has always been a touchy political topic, and that has done no one any favors.
For what it's worth, I blame myself to some degree for Codenia's shortcomings. |
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| barrier to entry |
[Mar. 12th, 2008|05:46 pm] |
Earlier today I noted that there are 1,942 accounts in Fedora that have signed the CLA.
What I failed to mention in that post was that there were between 700-800 other accounts in the system that had selected user names but never signed the CLA.
That represents about 1 in 4 potential contributors who *begin* the process of getting a Fedora account but never *finish* the process.
Fortunately, this is something that the Fedora Board and Red Hat Legal are actively working to remedy. |
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| my first look at fas2 |
[Mar. 12th, 2008|10:57 am] |
Did a search for * in the account name.
Saved the resulting html.
Used grep to determine that there are 1,942 accounts with a signed Fedora CLA.
It will be interesting to repeat this monthly and track our growth. |
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| new fedora account system |
[Mar. 12th, 2008|10:10 am] |
Congratulations to Mike, Toshio, and the entire team on rolling out version 2 of the Fedora Accounts System. It looks great, it was (from my perspective) a seamless transition from the old account system, and I really enjoy seeing various pieces of our infrastructure all consolidating on TurboGears.
The Fedora Infrastructure team works exceptionally hard, and does more with its limited resources than most IT groups that are staffed with 2-3 times as many people, and that have 20 times the budget. |
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