| linux tag, day 2.5 |
[May. 31st, 2007|08:53 am] |
9:00 AM on May 31st in Raleigh.
3:00 PM on May 31st in Berlin.
We're an hour away from release time, and there's a lot of buzz in the sysadmin channels on Fedora IRC. Poor Mike is supposed to give a talk about Fedora Mirroring that begins one hour after release time. I suggested to him that he put his laptop on the projector and just give a stream of consciousness of "here's what being a Fedora sysadmin is like 1 hour after a release".
My talk went well this morning. Here's the bottom line: everyone loves Revisor. I talk about the path Fedora has taken the last few years. People nod. I talk about custom spins, koji, pungi, livecd-creator. Everyone nods a bit more and clearly "gets the point". I do a walkthrough of Revisor on the big projector, and Jeroen gets swamped with a pile of enhancement and feature requests from people who are ready to become their own little cottage industry Fedora release engineers.
I have yet to talk to anyone -- excluding one reporter who started off the interview by explaining that she's a Windows user -- who wasn't excited about Fedora 7 after taking the time to understand what it's all about. That's always a pretty nice feeling.
I've had the pleasure of reading the "whimsical" release announcement that will hit fedora-announce-list at around 10:00. It's superb. Let's get through the day keeping the website up, and then y'all go have yourselves some moonshine. Here in Berlin, we'll mix it with some sort of schnitzel. |
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