Here’s some great news regarding lodging for the upcoming FUDCon in Tempe. We’ve secured a much better rate at a competing hotel nearby. The rate is around 60% of what we were originally expecting. That means it just got a lot more affordable for everyone to travel to FUDCon! We’re …
My wife and I were in the market for new phones and decided we were going to spring for something brand new. We were even prepared to switch carriers for late breaking technology if required. I’d been an iPhone owner since around the time I started at Red Hat. (Yes, …
We have a FUDCon Planning issue tracker (Trac) that will help the organizational team for FUDCon Tempe 2011 stay on top of their to-do items. We are using the Trac to track our normal meeting agenda, and the meetings for FUDCon Tempe are held (at least for now) on Mondays …
Today Jared announced FUDCon Tempe 2011, which will be held January 29-31, 2011 — the next big North American FUDCon event. And as always, FUDCon is free and open to everyone to attend. Most importantly: the wiki page for FUDCon Tempe is now open for pre-registration! We’re offering a significant …
Dear Lazyweb: I’m trying out Emacs as an IRC client (via ERC) and realize that I could probably use some tuning to make it work well. I’m wondering whether anyone in the Fedora community has a set of scripts they use to do some of the following: Auto-login to several …
John Poelstra wrote in his blog about how objective criteria support sustainability in an open source project. It was insightful and I wanted to follow up about how that extends to process documentation as a whole. Lots of people talk about documentation as “that thing you do when you’re finished …
Today (Friday) I’ll be offline most of the day. My wife and I are taking advantage of the kids’ both being at camp so we can head down to Richmond. There’s a museum exhibit she wants to see and I would like to get out and enjoy some 100F summer …
I was excited to read all the reports from the recent FUDCon in Santiago, Chile, where many Fedora contributors gathered to share information, teach, and learn about Fedora and the Fedora Project. After being to many FUDCon events, I have to say that it’s one of the most energizing community …
Yesterday, Jared and I drove down to Raleigh. Jared starts Red Hat’s new hire orientation today, and this was a good opportunity for me to stop by the office and take care of a couple in-person tasks. Last night we had a wonderful dinner with Max at Taverna Agora — …
I just posted to the Fedora announce list to let the community know about the next Fedora Project Leader, Jared Smith, and about his upcoming appearances at FUDCon Santiago and FISL 11. I don’t have much to add here on my blog, since I said everything I wanted to in …