Thursday evening I had the pleasure of chatting with students at Seneca College in Toronto about Fedora and getting involved with open source. The students are in a program called LUX, a graduate certificate curriculum that is more about system administration and integration than programming per se. These students’ interest …
Russ Herrold has posted a really good article on key security, which I heartily recommend to the more security-conscious.
In case you hadn’t read the news, Fedora 8 and Fedora 9 updates are now available again through the mirrors. Read release engineer Jesse Keating’s announcement for more information on the new signing key, and a summary of what you need to do (answer: very little, thanks to a lot …
This has been an extraordinarily long and busy day, and other than a couple hours of breaks for lunch, dinner, bio, and munchkin bedtime rustlin’, I’ve been on the computer from 7am until 11pm. But before I left for the day I wanted to thank a trio of folks, Jens …
Don’t get too excited yet — we don’t have dates to announce yet, but we should have them fairly soon. One of the most important considerations in planning a FUDCon is making sure the facility will acommodate 100-200 Fedora hackers. You need a fairly robust network, ample seating for hackfests, …
This came up in conversation earlier this week and I didn’t want to forget outright to post it. If you’re sending links around for Fedora Project wiki pages, make sure you’re using the https: method (note the “s”). That helps people who are logged in — they’ll get the proper …
Apparently YouTube has one of Microsoft’s new commercials featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld. Was this really a $300 million advertising investment? I’ve watched it and frankly I don’t see how this is going to increase their relevance, reputation, brand awareness, or perceived value to anyone. Unless you really think …
The last day of UTOSC was Family Day, so by midday the conference was under invasion by munchkins! The XOs we brought were a big hit, and thanks to UTOSC having a “Try It” hands-on lab, I know that many children got their first glance at the XO and Sugar. …
My UTOSC Day 3 post is yet to come (later tonight or tomorrow). But I wanted to note in the meantime that this is a holiday weekend in the USA, so some folks might be a little harder to reach than usual. I’ll be flying back to Virginia tomorrow, but …
Friday was another fantastic day at the conference. Started the day with a true homestyle breakfast at Cracker Barrel with my friend Jared Smith and his friend Trevor. Then it was off to the conference to show off more Fedora and OLPC. I taught a session in the morning on …