(I’m not ready for International Talk Like a Pirate day to be over, apparently, given the subject line.) Spot, in response to your insightful post, your experience at Atlanta Linux Fest seems a bit different from the many distribution-agnostic events that happen every year, like SELF, UTOSC, LinuxTag, and Ontario …
What a lovely day we had for our Software Freedom Day 2009 celebration. It was about 68F by the time we set up in the morning, and the weather would stay mostly sunny and 75F all afternoon. We set up our tables in the small courtyard in front of the …
Tomorrow I’ll be gearing up for Software Freedom Day here in my hometown, along with a bunch of dedicated friends from FredLUG. We’re going to have balloons, a free raffle for some swank gear, and stickers, temporary tattoos and CDs and DVDs of Fedora. We’ll also have bunched of copies …
Well, as everyone probably knows we’ve got coming up in December the North American edition of the always joyous Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon) in Toronto, Canada. And with that comes the somewhat less joyous task of figuring out how we can squeeze the maximum number of Fedora contributors …
Yes, there’s a big news update for FUDCon Toronto 2009, the upcoming Fedora Users and Developers Conference in Toronto from December 5-7 — check out all the details in the announcement. Pre-registration is already open on the wiki, where you can find loads of other information and maps as well. …
I meant to post this a few days ago and time got away from me here at the Summit: A quick shout out to Dimitris and our good friends at Indifex — looks like there’s yet another major project, Moblin, using Transifex for translation infrastructure. Nice going guys!
Tomorrow morning I’ll be heading down to the Richmond airport to head out for the world-renowned, forward-looking, future-proofing, often imitated, never equaled Red Hat Summit in Chicago. I’m giving a talk on Wednesday afternoon on how Fedora fits into the overall Linux development strategy at Red Hat. But I’ll also …
Today marks the Fedora 12 Alpha release, hot off the presses! You can pick up a copy to try all the latest technologies here: //fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease I’ve been running the Alpha version for about a week or so on one of my home machines. While there are some minor foibles here …
There’s a very nice story in the News & Observer about John McLean, the recipient of this year’s Fedora Scholarship. This award, we hope, will allow John not only to advance his studies — computer science and religion at Duke University starting this fall — but also to maintain a …
Today we announced FUDCon Toronto 2009, our North American event for this year. FUDCon, as always, is free and open for everyone to attend. This year some excellent contributors in Toronto stepped up to deliver a great location and some logistical support that will help us put on an awesome …