Now it’s finally official: a Fedora Scholarship. A while back, we started talking about ways to identify and cultivate young contributors to Fedora. We are starting to see more and more young people taking the opportunity to be full participants in the open source world. As part of our mission …
Last week my daughter, who’s seven, went for a regular eye check up. As a result, yesterday we went to order her first pair of prescription eyeglasses. Two, actually — we assume she’ll lose one, since she doesn’t have to wear them for reading. The optometrist told my wife, “Oh, …
So the week’s had you down? Yeah, me too. Just so you know how much I love you, though, I think you should sit down for a couple minutes and watch this. You’ll feel way better.
I’m starting to make some plans for the next Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon), to celebrate our 10th release and to jump-start development for Fedora 11. I have a couple self-imposed priorities to observe in putting together the schedule. The conference needs to happen soon after the release of …
I’ve been giving this topic some thought after discussions with John Poelstra. Right now, spin owners create a full feature page, and then run it through the feature process, except that the feature isn’t voted on by FESCo. After the Spins SIG makes sure it’s in proper working order, gets …
Someone just passed along this link to a decision in the Jacobsen v. Katzer case. I haven’t had time to read the whole thing yet, but the Court of Appeals vacated and remanded the case, meaning they found the District Court of N. California erred in declaring the Artistic License …
Spent all day at a conference at my old office — an outreach of sorts from Red Hat to do a technology briefing and information exchange. Best not to dwell on that right now, except to say that I came home an hour before dinner, caught up with John Poelstra …
I was happy to see in his latest blog entry that spot’s checking out fedora-list. It would be super if more Fedora luminaries were triaging that list from time to time. Certainly it takes some time, but the more people that are skimming it, the more chance that we can …
Given yesterday morning’s news, I was a little shocked to see this in today’s paper.
YouTube is starting come in really handy for local politics these days. Here’s a doozy from my neck of the woods. Apparently the fact that our county has the #1 business growth rate in Virginia must have nothing to do with the fact that this is one of the only …