FUDCon is being held at room 301/302/303 in the Hynes Center starting tomorrow at 10:00 a.m.. We’ve moved the opening an hour later so that we don’t force people also attending the Summit to choose between keynotes and hearing about our logistics. Remember that Jim Whitehurst will be coming by …
I read with great sadness that visual effects legend Stan Winston just passed away at the far too young age of 62. If you can name an amazing moment in visual effects in the movies, chances are he was either involved, did it before, or did something that showed it …
By the way, if your plans have changed and you can’t attend FUDCon, please take a moment to strike out your name on the attendee list. Don’t bother removing your name, since it’s also helpful for us to know who missed out this time around. Just use <s> and </s> …
Although we did our best to get enough power drops for the FUDCon conference space, it would be great if people would bring some power strips. We don’t want to create a daisy chain o’ doom, but with the power drops being those big industrial quad boxes, we’ll need to …
I’m currently trying to get my flight rearranged so that I can arrive at Boston on Tuesday instead of Wednesday, which should make it easier to get the last-minute FUDCon logistics handled. Since the next couple of days will be hectic, I wanted to give a brief overview of the …
I had an hour or two free this afternoon while we wait for a babysitter to arrive — I’m taking my wife to see the new Indiana Jones film. Grownup night out, woohoo! So I decided to play around a little with git-cvsimport. Naturally, right? The Docs team is looking …
Congratulations to our own Jeroen van Meeuwen! It was announced today that Jeroen is one of the recipients of Red Hat’s 2008 RHCE of the Year award. It’s really a treat to see someone from our community recognized, and his Fedora contributions highlighted in the award as well.
News flash: CSI to be entirely cast with morons. Because what could be better than trusting bedrock criminal investigative principles like the chain of evidence and scientific objectivity to COMPLETE IDIOTS?
Elections for the Fedora Board are set to commence on Friday, June 13th. The nominees have been recorded on the wiki page for nominations and all that remains is for the community to vote. The voting period will extend from 0001 UTC on 13 June until 2359 UTC on 22 …
The folks who are setting up the Red Hat Summit are providing badges for the people who preregister for FUDCon. They need to have a final list by Monday morning so they can get the printing in motion. Therefore we will close preregistration on Sunday night, 2359 UTC, 15 June …