The Fedora Project has always been aimed at encouraging participation. Free/libre and open source software continues its forward momentum and increasing pace through the growth of community and contribution. And Fedora plays a large role in that motion, through our rapid release cycle, our dedication to working with upstream software …
Valent, First, if you have questions like this, it’s super-easy to get answers in more immediate and helpful forums. There’s the venerable but still well-populated fedora-list, the general user forum on IRC Freenode at #fedora, and the large community at Fedora Forum, all of which can help with general user …
If you weren’t able to attend the town halls, you missed out on seeing the FESCo and Board candidates answering questions from the community about their views on the Project, the distribution, and the future. However, all the sessions were logged and linked on our Elections wiki page. Thanks to …
With the election season underway in Fedora, our community’s been spending some quality time with FESCo candidates in the town hall meetings today. Tomorrow, the Board candidates will be available on IRC for your questions. I happen to be moderating the session at 1400 UTC (10:00am US/Eastern), and John Rose …
I had set aside so much of this weekend for catching up on work, but thanks to my server outage it ended up being devoted to data recovery and reconfiguration. However, it did remind me of three things that I often take for granted: Having an easy installer with just …
The interview I did with Randal Schwartz and Leo Laporte is now up at the Twit.tv site. The FLOSS Weekly show is a very enjoyable podcast with top-notch production quality and two great hosts. I highly recommend it, if you haven’t heard it before. Interestingly, Leo told me he is …
I got the bare minimum of service back online, including my weblog, from a catastrophic HDD failure yesterday. That really threw a monkey wrench into my workday, I’m sorry to say! But thanks to a couple wonderful people including James Laska and Aristeu Rozanski, I’m back in business. Over the …
[This post was supposed to be out yesterday, but somehow I managed to brush my touchpad the wrong way and… well, the dog ate my homework. Or WordPress did. Either way, sorry about the lateness of the hour, and all that. Revised now for more contemporary enjoyment. — Ed.] Yes, …
Fedora has been running IRC classes for some time in the #fedora-classroom channel on IRC Freenode. Classes are scheduled for this weekend, and they’re at a convenient time for people in the APAC (Asia/Pacific) region to hold informative sessions with Fedora contributors. The classroom “days” for both Saturday and Sunday …
Yes, it’s a little late because of some fumbling in the wake of a great event, but we have a survey available for the FUDCon that happened in Boston from January 9-11. In the case of this survey, there are a number of important data points we’re capturing, such as …