I just posted to the Fedora announce list to let the community know about the next Fedora Project Leader, Jared Smith, and about his upcoming appearances at FUDCon Santiago and FISL 11. I don’t have much to add here on my blog, since I said everything I wanted to in …
In just a little while, I’m leaving my office to pack for my trip to the Red Hat Summit/JBoss World 2010. As you might imagine, there will be a Fedora booth at the show. And of course, we’re giving away plenty of goodies like Live USB keys containing Fedora 13 …
As some Fedora Project folks already know, this coming Monday is a US holiday, and it’s often celebrated with outings or travel, so you might not see some of your fellow Fedorans around that day. (Also, Red Hat is closed for that holiday, and I imagine many of the Red …
Red Hat in the United States celebrates the Friday before Easter Sunday as a holiday. So tomorrow, April 2nd, I expect that some USA-based Red Hat folks may choose to spend a little extra time with family, loved ones, pillows, bicycles, race cars, or other pastimes that might not have …
I’ve been the Fedora Project Leader for a little over two years now, and now that we’re rocketing (sorry!) toward my fifth release in that role, I’m interested in branching out into other ways of championing free and open source software at Red Hat. Before I do that, I want …
I flew up to Boston yesterday to be in Westford for a couple of days. As it turns out, John Poelstra is also in Westfrd this week for team meetings, so I met up with him and another coworker to ride out to Westford. I got to meet some other …
The Fedora Documentation team uses a fantastic tool called Publican for their documentation work. Publican allows people to turn DocBook XML source, a popular and fairly ubiquitous format, into beautiful renderings in HTML, PDF, ASCII, and even RPM. Publican was developed by Jeff Fearn, who works at Red Hat’s office …
On day 2, Chris Grams of New Kind and John Adams and Jonathan Opp of Red Hat joined us to talk about growing and strengthening Fedora brand. They talked to us about the 10-plus year work that has gone into building Red Hat’s brand, and helped us find the right …
I had a pretty uneventful drive from Fredericksburg to Raleigh, and arrived at the hotel with plenty of time to unwind. I met up with Henrik, Ben, and Neville at the lobby, and after a couple quick phone calls I rejoined them and we did a little catching up. It’s …
This morning, I’m doing an upgrade of my main workhorse laptop from Fedora 12 to what will soon be Fedora 13 Alpha. I may not be using the method that most people use for such an upgrade. Here’s how I’m doing it: I have a mirror of fedora/linux/development/13/x86_64/os on a …