Things I write for Planet FedoraProject consumption
Kevin, Thanks for your thoughtful posting about being helpful in the Fedora support channels. I think among the keys to understanding what someone seeking help needs — let’s just call this person “Nathan” to make this blog post easier to read — are: Good listening skills Good empathizing skills Essentially, …
I love the fact that in addition to the millions of Fedora fans around the world, we also have in our community a very special group of hundreds upon hundreds of individuals known as Fedora Ambassadors. These contributors give of their free time to represent Fedora in schools, governments, businesses, …
David, thanks for the fine work on the new disk utilities in GNOME. You saved my hide, because I found that the hard disk in the machine my wife and kids use was getting pretty dodgy after 3.5+ years of running time. $45 and 320 brand-spanking new gigabytes later, everything’s …
Over the past year-and-some-change, I’ve spent quite a bit of time working with Red Hat Legal on the treatment of Fedora trademarks in our community. In particular, Pam Chestek, one of the very small handful people I work with who’s been at Red Hat for a shorter time than I, …
There have already been plenty of posts about all the good stuff that happened at FUDCon Toronto 2009, so just repeating the same details would seem like gilding the lily. Easily over 200 attendees as of Day 1, and we had other people showing up over the weekend, and students …
While at FUDCon, please make sure to let the community know what you’re doing! Blog posts are really helpful for spreading word out to Planet Fedora and other aggregators. Make sure to tag your posts as “Fedora” and “FUDCon” also. If your attendance is sponsored by the Fedora Project, you’re …
In just a few minutes, I’m leaving for the airport to catch a plane through Cincinnati to Toronto. I should touch down at YYZ at around 3:45pm, and hopefully I’ll be meeting some other Fedora friends at the airport and we’ll share a taxi to the hotel. Hopefully we should …
I just got back from my slightly extended Thanksgiving vacation yesterday, and there’s so much to talk about! Most importantly, this coming Saturday marks the start of FUDCon Toronto 2009. As everything is starting to settle into place, we’re having a planning wrap-up meeting this afternoon on IRC Freenode at …
OK, Fedora community in and around Boston, MA: We still have a need for some crash space for people who are flying to Boston to take the charter bus to FUDCon. Many of these valiant travelers are traveling on their own dime because FUDCon is just that great. Especially in …