Here’s a couple recent tidbits of great tidings for the Fedora community: Jeffrey Tadlock and Fabian Affolter, both Fedora Ambassadors, developed a superb one-sheet showing growth in the Ambassadors program. They’ve also put together a page on the wiki to do future tracking of these metrics. It’s amazing to see …
After FUDCon F9, we set up a survey to collect information on why people did or didn’t attend, and what made them decide the way they did. Unfortunately, the idea to do this came up after the conference had closed, and there was very little time to get the survey …
Currently I’m working as a remote employee, until we get our real estate sorted out and move up to New England. It’s a very new experience for me, since I’ve always worked in an office ever since I graduated from college/university in 1991. Working as a remote employee, though, has …
There are basically two major mailing lists in Fedora-land that primarily concern Board activities: the fedora-advisory-board (FAB) list and the fedora-board-list. The former is the place where the vast majority of discussion about high-level topics occurs. This list is open to everyone and is often used as a source of …
I got back from Raleigh last night, and promptly fell into bed exhausted. It was a low-sleep night Thursday thanks to a cocktail party thrown by the lovely Alex Maier. I enjoyed seeing all of you awesome Fedora and Red Hat folks who came to have a drink with the …
My daughter Evie, who will turn 7 in March, has a few favorite activities on her OLPC XO. Out of all of them, the one that tickles me most is that she loves wardriving. You heard me right. She will generally haul her XO anywhere she’s allowed, including in the …
Orientation at Red Hat started today. I had a great time meeting a bunch of new faces — in many cases, people I might not see again for a long while, if ever, since they are all going to different parts of the company. I was the one employee starting …
Normally I’m really good at meeting deadlines by a good margin. However, with all the excitement going on ’round these here parts with leaving the old job and getting the house ready for sale, time has been short recently. Nevertheless, I got my conference talk submitted this morning for OSCON …
Today marked the end of this stage of my career, as I left public service. Yesterday, friends threw me a going-away luncheon where I told them, among other things, this (the best recollection I have of what I said): It took a very special job offer from a very special …
The problem with my (otherwise totally rocking) Dell XPS M1330 I previously blogged about here, and earlier here, where the Dell MediaDirect application restored itself over the first several gigs of my hard disk, wiping out part of my LVM physical volume, is solved. To prevent the Dell MediaDirect from …