Things I write for Planet FedoraProject consumption
Credit where due: Karsten Wade blogged about this in his usual prophetic fashion about a week ago. One of the problems with remixing Creative Commons (CC) licensed material that includes a Non-Commercial (NC) clause is that it can hurt downstream community members. People might have the mistaken impression that there …
What the realtors call “foot traffic” — visitors to our house, presumably with purchasing intent — has picked up significantly in the past few weeks. In the last two weeks, we’ve had about a half-dozen visits. The feedback from the agents, where they tell you everything about your house that …
I was tickled by this new notification format for updates that fix security errata: That’s one of the uses for the metadata that packagers can enter into Bodhi when entering updates into the testing repository (and later, the stable one). PackageKit also gives you icons that let you know whether …
To remind everyone about FUDCon hotel registration — please visit the following link for hotel reservations: FUDCon F10 Hotels The link at that page will guarantee you the lowest rate at the hotel. If you make reservations at the Summit hotels outside this link, that will probably not happen. (These …
I was very pleased to make this announcement on Tuesday night: Harald Hoyer has been selected by Red Hat to fill one of the appointed seats opening on the Fedora Board. The Board and I are very excited to have someone from Red Hat’s Stuttgart office representing the European Red …
Seriously, my wife is really tired of keeping this place spotless. import realestate myHouse = realestate.House(mlsNumber) myHouse.sell() Hey, it worked in xkcd.
Spot on, Greg. We want all package maintainers to relate with the upstream providers, because that extends the work we do in Fedora to all Linux providers and consumers equally. Besides the fact that this is just good FOSS citizenship, it also contributes to fixing a huge meta-problem across the …
Francesco graciously points out some glaring omissions from my list of Italian Fedora Ambassadors, including Samuele Storari and Matteo Castellini. I’m overjoyed to hear this team is even bigger than I thought! I got the full names of everyone on the team from our list on the wiki, since I …
I sent some thoughts to fedora-announce-list tonight about the upcoming Fedora 9 release. An enormous and sincere thank you to all our contributors for making this such a great release. Just a little over eleven hours away… ?
It’s time for another post where I introduce you, Constant Reader, to another Fedora contributor you may not know personally, but who deserves some recognition. With this post, though, I’m actually naming a whole crew instead of just a single individual: the Fedora Ambassadors of Italy! I haven’t had the …