Yesterday I eschewed my normal practice of waking up at high noon to be bathed and fed peeled grapes by adoring odalisques, and rose instead at the coral-tinged onset of dawn to hit the road once again in service to the Linux community. Not as a speaker today, mind, but …
I’m going to start this post with a plug, but it’s worthy, I swear. Since some good friends of mine are watching our kids next weekend while my wife and I escape travel up to Massachusetts and New Hampshire to house hunt, I thought it’s only fair to plug a …
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 …