Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
Category: <span>Travel</span>

The next big things, 2017 edition.

Along with several people on the Fedora Engineering team, I recently attended the DevConf.cz 2017 event. The conference has grown into an amazingly successful gathering of open source developers. Most attendees live in Europe but there were some from every continent. The coverage spanned all the big open source buzz-generating technologies. Session topics …

Travels, 2016.

I realized that some folks around the Fedora community may wonder why they don’t see me around as often this week and next week. I’m still alive and well, but I’m traveling in the Czech Republic. I’m currently in Brno for some Red Hat departmental meetings. Following that, I’ll be attending …

Flock 2015 thoughts.

Getting started at Flock Like everyone on the Fedora Engineering team, I was in Rochester for the Flock conference last week. After several flight delays on our direct flight from DCA to Rochester, Justin Forbes, Ricky Elrod, and I finally arrived a little after 9:00pm — about four hours late. Thankfully Josh Boyer came to pick …

Outage.

As you might have seen, the Red Hat Summit is happening this week. As usual, I’m here volunteering on the staff, helping with training, the booth, manual labor, and whatever else I can do to assist our awesome event gurus. I love seeing and meeting customers and partners at this event, so …

Design Team FAD 2015.

I’m here in Westford over the weekend with other members of the Fedora Design Team for their Fedora activity day. I traveled up to chilly Boston on Thursday midday, so I could assist by transporting people from the airport to our hotel in Westford. On Friday, we convened in the …

Flock Day 4.

Here’s a summary of Saturday’s activity at Flock 2014 where I participated or attended. I also have blog entries for Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3. The constant stream of late nights was really getting to me. Didn’t arrive at the venue until about 9:15am. I skipped the first …

Flock Day 3.

Here’s a summary of Friday’s activity at Flock 2014 where I participated or attended. I also have blog entries for Day 1 and Day 2. Didn’t make it up quite so early today, due to not turning in until about 2:30am the previous night. I got to the school basically …