Knowing vs Doing
In response to John Poelstra’s recent post on Knowing Vs Doing: I personally really like the “Knowing” side of things. I absorb a scary amount of things every day from the net. I read mailing lists, I...
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on re-installing things
Often over in the #fedora IRC channel, we have people who come in with some issue or problem who only spend a minute or two gathering information on it before asking: “Should I just re-install?”....
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communication breakdown
I’d like to take a few minutes to remind people of something that I think they all know, but might have not had in the front of their mind recently: Different types of communication have different...
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Nash and Burner on a walk
It was a very nice day out today. All the pups enjoyed their walk.
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EPEL wiki pages
After seeing this weeks Wiki Challenge from Max Spevack I took a look at the EPEL wiki pages. Sadly, I think I have looked at them too much, so it’s hard for me to tell if things need different...
View ArticleFedora elections coming up
Per Paul’s announcement on Elections, Fedora will be holding Elections for FESCo and the Fedora Board starting with nominations opening tomorrow. I am going to throw my hat back in the ring for FESCo...
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Fedora IRC Classroom cranking along…
After being quiet for a while, we have cranked the Fedora IRC classroom back up in the last week. First we had a great class from Joe Brockmeier on How to make life awesome for journalists. I was sadly...
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Ah… colorado in springtime
Yesterday, we had a sunny day. Almost 80 and we were thinking about getting the A/C working. Today? See for yourself…
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back from travels
I’m back from a trip I took out to tacoma to go to a graduation. Sorry for missing out on the first of the Fedora IRC Town Halls. If you are a Fedora contributor, do read the Elections Questionnaire...
View ArticleFedora 13 IRC release party!
Fedora 13 is just around the corner, coming out this coming tuesday (2010-05-25). I’d like to invite everyone to join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-social for a all day release party! Come by and...
View ArticleFedora 13 Xfce Spin…get it while it’s hot!
With the release of Fedora 13, the Xfce SIG is happy to release a new version of the Xfce spin. There were not a lot of vast changes in this cycle, but there were some nice tweaks and of course all the...
View Articleaccentuate the positive
There has been a fair bit of discussion in the past in the Fedora community about how to deal with people who are projecting a community that some don’t find welcoming enough or are sending out...
View ArticleHow much of an Open Source Gypsy are you?
A while back I was helping someone out over in the #fedora irc support channel. We managed to work on their issue and get it solved, but instead of enjoying their victory or working on another problem...
View ArticleBugzilla bugs and voting
A few folks were confused and dismayed to get an email today from bugzilla.redhat.com like: “Some or all of your votes have been removed from bug NNNNN. You had X votes on this bug, but X have been...
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Linux Desktops, Servers and the Future
Last night was the local Blug meeting, and as always it was a good and thought provoking talk. This month we had Bart Massey down from Portland talking about Linux history, where we are and where we...
View ArticleFedora IRC Class coming up tomorrow! (2010-09-14)
Just a quick note to let folks know about an IRC class that Mel Chua is going to be running in #fedora-classroom on irc.freenode.net tomorrow at 16:00 UTC. See Mel’s post for more details. I’m probibly...
View ArticleFESCo, features and systemd
One of the new exciting features that was tenatively planned for Fedora 14 was systemd, a new cool init replacement. In tuesday’s FESCo meeting, it was decided to defer this feature until Fedora 15....
View Articlebazcamp, software freedom day and talk like a pirate day
This weekend seems to be the confluence of (at least) 3 great events: bazcamp Software freedom day Talk like a pirate day I intend to participate in all 3 if possible. Bazcamp is always a good time,...
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