Yes, I’m sorry about that one too. But are you getting ready for the Southeast Linux Fest? It’s coming this Saturday — a superb gathering of Linux community members, speakers from a number of different projects (including Yr Humble Blogger doing the evening keynote), and all sorts of projects to …
As everyone knows by now, Microsoft is yet another in the huge roster of companies shedding jobs in 2009 — in the MS case, 5,000 of them, out of a total roster of about 95,000 employees. For a sense of perspective, that’s about twice the total number of employees at …
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 …
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 …
FUDCon news. Another sign that one shouldn’t spend a lot of time emailing large groups of people while on decongestants: //www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00000.html //www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00003.html //www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00004.html Long and short is, though, that FUDCon F11 is in full swing, and coming up January 9-11 in Boston. All the important details are on the wiki, …
I figured while I’m in a super-bloggy mood today I’d add this tidbit. Someone asked me a question about what might be missing from distributions like Fedora that would help it reach more users. This question isn’t new and I’ve given the subject a lot of thought over the last …
Yes, Fredericksburg, Virginia, has more than its share of nerds. Go FredLUG!
Here I am at the end of a few whirlwind days visiting our Neighbor to the North, O Canada! I’ve been visiting Toronto for both the 2008 Free Software and Open Source Symposium and the Ontario Linux Fest. My only travel difficulty thus far was the fact that I absent-mindedly …
Today I’m at the Red Hat Government Users and Developers Conference in Washington, D.C. As one would expect, the Ronald Reagan Trade Building has completely failed to deliver a working wireless connection without severely cracking the folds of my wallet. And of course I can’t live without connectivity, so here …
I’m still working out better organizational methods for my email. I tend to keep copies of publicly archived mailing lists. I do a lot of server-side filtering, and all my lists get filed into folders away from my Inbox. My Inbox only contains things sent directly to me. I have …