Things I write for Planet FedoraProject consumption
As Joe has pointed out, the Linux Foundation is sponsoring a “We’re Linux” video contest, soliciting budding filmmakers for their take on Linux for the masses. As someone pointed out in an earlier comment here, a winning commercial is really going to have to stand out compared to IBM’s super-cool …
Thank you to the kind folks at Neowin, particularly Matthew Hopson, for the opportunity to do a lengthy Q & A with their community about Fedora. I was able to work in a couple not-so-sneaky plugs for the Fedora 11 Alpha that’s due next Tuesday, February 3. (That just happens …
John, I’ve been silencing that beep in a less drastic way — I edit the file /etc/inputrc and uncomment the line for setting the bell style to none. I’m not sure if that quiets things down for every use case though.
The great thing about the Fedora community is that when there’s work to be done, people roll up their sleeves and pitch in. That’s exactly what happened at our most recent Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon) in Boston a couple weeks ago, where volunteers banded together to provide audio …
Did you know there’s a set of trademark guidelines for the Fedora brand and mark? They’re getting less restrictive as we work through some details with Red Hat Legal. We’re trying to help our community spread the Fedora message without burdening them too much with legal hoops, like you’d find …
And it’s Leonidas. Thanks to everyone for participating in the naming process. As Jesse roared after the announcement, “This… is… FEDORAAAAAAA!”
A little late with the blogging, but dinner went overtime. ? BarCamp starts at 9:00am on Saturday, as listed on the wiki. We’ll have breakfast arriving sometime between 8:00 and 8:30. Breakfast consists of coffee, tea, juice, bagels, and pastry. We’ll start pitches at 9:00am, so please be on time. …
The Board will be meeting on IRC today at 1900 UTC / 2pm US Eastern time. You can find out how to join the conference on the Fedora wiki. This will be the last meeting of the current Fedora Board, and after the last appointed seat is set up this …
As was just announced on the announcement mailing list*, the voting ballots for the Fedora 11 release name are now open. To vote, you just need to be a member of one non-CLA group in our Fedora Account System. Voting ends at 2359 UTC 2009-01-09, so get your vote in …
The blog’s been pretty quiet for the last week because I took some time to just relax, spend time with family and friends, and enjoy the company’s holiday shutdown period. This has been a very eventful year for me and my family, including my moving from the public to the …