Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
Author: <span>Paul Frields</span>

Events FAD 2010.

I attended the Events FAD 2010 that happened this past weekend, along with Mel Chua, David Nalley, Clint Savage, Jon Stanley, Dennis Gilmore, Steven Parrish, Chris Tyler, and Max Spevack. I arrived on Thursday evening, in time to catch Max and Greg at the office and say hi. Most of …

Road dogging, no. 14.

In about an hour or so, I’ll be getting on the road for Red Hat HQ in Raleigh, to meet up with other Fedora contributors for the Events Fedora Activity Day. We have an agenda that includes planning Fedora events both at the macro and micro levels for this coming …

Goals and gold.

First, thanks to Greg for an excellent, thoughtful post on Fedora’s goals. I remember well — and I’m sure Greg does too — the FUDCon in Raleigh in January 2008 where members of the Fedora community sat down to try to distill “what Fedora stands for” into a powerful message. …

Warm fuzzies, no. 129.

One of the many little delights about working on a community project is the unexpected ways that friends around the globe might surprise you out of the blue. Late last week I received this little gem from the Czech Republic (sorry I didn’t have time to do any fancier GIMPing …

Restoring a voice.

To Ian’s post I can only say, “right on.” There’s an even deeper underlying concern for free software’s desire to have an unencumbered way to create content. It’s to restore the ability of people to use moving pictures as part of their voice in the processes around them. Codecs are …

Gource CTA.

So according to Michael and Greg, Gource is awesome. And it’s just waiting on a completed package review and sponsorship and then we’ll see it in the repositories. If you’re also of the opinion it’s awesome, and you are (or know) a Fedora packaging sponsor, check it out!

GNOME Shell tryout.

I’ve been using the GNOME Shell preview available in Fedora 12 this week and I’m really enjoying it. I was testing out some candidates for updates to the free drivers for my ATI Radeon HD4850 (and the stuff that went with them) already, and decided to see what happened when …