This blog entry has a double purpose: To help announce the opening of bids for FUDCon North America 2011 to be held this coming winter. To describe how this process was adopted, and where to get more information. * * * The Fedora Project holds a number of global Fedora …
Red Hat in the United States celebrates the Friday before Easter Sunday as a holiday. So tomorrow, April 2nd, I expect that some USA-based Red Hat folks may choose to spend a little extra time with family, loved ones, pillows, bicycles, race cars, or other pastimes that might not have …
Thanks to our Fedora Ambassadors for a special assist last week. We were asked to support Tux.org, a nonprofit umbrella group in the Washington DC area, and the Northern Virginia LUG (NoVaLUG) in their presence at FOSE, the USA’s biggest federal government IT show. Our Ambassadors came through with flying …
I wanted to give a special shout of thanks and gratitude to Sijis Aviles of Chicago, Illinois (USA) and Hiemanshu Sharma of Bangalore, India. They’ve been intimately involved with work on redesigning pieces of the Fedora websites. They’ve demonstrated an enormous amount of ambition, effort, persistence, elbow grease, patience, and …
I’ve been the Fedora Project Leader for a little over two years now, and now that we’re rocketing (sorry!) toward my fifth release in that role, I’m interested in branching out into other ways of championing free and open source software at Red Hat. Before I do that, I want …
I flew up to Boston yesterday to be in Westford for a couple of days. As it turns out, John Poelstra is also in Westfrd this week for team meetings, so I met up with him and another coworker to ride out to Westford. I got to meet some other …
The Fedora Documentation team uses a fantastic tool called Publican for their documentation work. Publican allows people to turn DocBook XML source, a popular and fairly ubiquitous format, into beautiful renderings in HTML, PDF, ASCII, and even RPM. Publican was developed by Jeff Fearn, who works at Red Hat’s office …
On day 2, Chris Grams of New Kind and John Adams and Jonathan Opp of Red Hat joined us to talk about growing and strengthening Fedora brand. They talked to us about the 10-plus year work that has gone into building Red Hat’s brand, and helped us find the right …
People have already posted about much of the goings-on from Day 1 of the Marketing FAD, such as the draft of our new, low-drag marketing plan, and our approach to spins, but I wanted to call out a specific area for people to notice. Back in the fall the board …
I had a pretty uneventful drive from Fredericksburg to Raleigh, and arrived at the hotel with plenty of time to unwind. I met up with Henrik, Ben, and Neville at the lobby, and after a couple quick phone calls I rejoined them and we did a little catching up. It’s …