Things I write for Planet FedoraProject consumption
In response to Max’s post about release names and artwork, I think we haven’t yet had a release where we started the naming process early enough, but we’re getting there. When we do, the call for names ought to be long enough for our amazing Artwork folks to bring to …
Today’s been a banner day full of free and open source software advocacy. This morning I had the great pleasure to present via teleconference to FOSSMeet in India about the Fedora Project. Things went swimmingly, and I had a number of great questions from the audience that were all about …
For those who aren’t subscribed to the watch list for the page, I’ve updated the FUDCon F10 page with information for the Summit hotels. There is a link there that will get you the prenegotiated (and deeply discounted) hotel rate for the FUDCon dates, or any portion thereof. Use the …
Fedora is being used in a hundred thousand interesting places out in the real world. At NASA to do analysis that makes future space exploration safer. In studies to improve development for children with Down’s Syndrome (trisomy 21). At Creative Commons, to promote open content discovery, creation, and remixing. Powering …
For the last couple of days I was at FOSE 2008, the biggest IT conference and expo for federal government. I went to help out at the Tux.org booth to promote free and open source software (and, of course, Fedora). I wanted to especially thank Nicholas Brenckle, who headed up …
I was recently invited to give a presentation to the FOSSMeet 2008 conference at the National Institute of Technology Calicut. The conference is happening this weekend, and looking at the user list for their site, I see a number of our contributors there, including Kushal Das and Tejas Dinkar. The …
In between bouts of fighting one of my broken systems at home, I’m trying to spend some time working on our Single Source Summary page on the wiki. In doing that, and in talking to some other people about the Fedora 9 Beta, I found out that some of our …
The other night, I gave a little explanation of the technical mumbo-jumbo behind SELinux, and how it works in Fedora to make your system more secure, to my wife. She then came back to me with the best non-geek explanation ever: “It’s like a valet key for your services.”
Having the North American FUDCon for F10 colocated with the Red Hat Summit in Boston has a number of great benefits that go along with it — lots of enterprise, SMB, and individuals gathered in one place for open source content; plenty of space for workgroups to form around discussing …
As my good friend Karsten pointed out, the deadline to sign up as a Google Summer of Code mentor is fast approaching — 31 March to be exact. Ideas are super, but ideas need people power behind them to help guide and monitor the summer coders in their efforts. Please …