We’ve set up for 75 rooms at the Marriott Boston Cambridge for FUDCon F11. I am waiting on the hotel group code, which should be coming very shortly from the hotel group sales coordinator. Once that happens, all the information will be on the wiki as soon as possible thereafter. …
We should have hotel information available very soon, which will be posted to the wiki and notifications made everywhere there’s free space. I wanted to ask people, even if they have already signed up for FUDCon, to revisit the page and make sure all the columns are filled out. I …
January 9-11, 2009. These are the dates when the North American Fedora community will gather in Boston, Massachusetts to host another in a long line of very successful, mostly self-organizing conferences where we gather to talk about hot new developments, assess and kick off work on the next release, and …
Here I am at the end of a few whirlwind days visiting our Neighbor to the North, O Canada! I’ve been visiting Toronto for both the 2008 Free Software and Open Source Symposium and the Ontario Linux Fest. My only travel difficulty thus far was the fact that I absent-mindedly …
“Can China have its own software?” one angry poster writes in response to Microsoft replacing their desktop view with a black screen and (presumably) an offer to buy completely unaffordable genuine Windows software. The answer is yes, yes you can. It’s called Fedora, and it’s free for everyone to use …
I’ve noted before in the pages of this blog that I’d be surprised if Warner Brothers didn’t succeed at screwing up Watchmen, the comic book miniseries widely regarded as the best ever created. For good reason, too — it’s heady stuff, layered and mindful of human frailty and foibles, even …
Wikimedia helpfully posted a FAQ to set the record straight about their recent server standardization. This is helpful, since a lot of people (including overzealous joinalists) were somehow under the impression that this was a sudden move that involved ripping out hundreds of installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS …
Today is the last day to pre-register for the upcoming Free Software and Open Source Symposium in Toronto next week. The conference will be taking “at the door” registrations, but you can save some money by doing it a bit early. Greg DeKoenigsberg, Jack Aboutboul, and I will all be …
Thanks to my friend Jesse for bringing this up last night at dinner. In the middle of all the market mayhem here in the US, did you know that we now have a Pirate Czar? (Yarrr!) All thanks to the Pro-IP bill signed into law on Monday. Another “triumph” for …
Yesterday I was scarce because after a weekend at Ohio Linux Fest it was time for a brief respite with my family. We went out to Belvedere Plantation for a day of fun in the sun during their Fall Harvest festival. (Quite a bit of sun, as a matter of …