Due to my travel to this week’s Fedora Activity Day in Raleigh, and the marketing work around the release, I find myself a little strapped for time and with a lot of writing to do. Tomorrow I will probably be absent from most IRC and only addressing critical email so …
“C” also stands for “Community.” Why bring this up now? Because along with Leonidas roaring to life this week, we also have some other great news to share with our (little-“c”) community members: Fedora Community – the new collaboration site for Fedora contributors! Fedora Community is powered by Moksha, a …
Valent, First, if you have questions like this, it’s super-easy to get answers in more immediate and helpful forums. There’s the venerable but still well-populated fedora-list, the general user forum on IRC Freenode at #fedora, and the large community at Fedora Forum, all of which can help with general user …
If you weren’t able to attend the town halls, you missed out on seeing the FESCo and Board candidates answering questions from the community about their views on the Project, the distribution, and the future. However, all the sessions were logged and linked on our Elections wiki page. Thanks to …
The interview I did with Randal Schwartz and Leo Laporte is now up at the Twit.tv site. The FLOSS Weekly show is a very enjoyable podcast with top-notch production quality and two great hosts. I highly recommend it, if you haven’t heard it before. Interestingly, Leo told me he is …
Fedora has been running IRC classes for some time in the #fedora-classroom channel on IRC Freenode. Classes are scheduled for this weekend, and they’re at a convenient time for people in the APAC (Asia/Pacific) region to hold informative sessions with Fedora contributors. The classroom “days” for both Saturday and Sunday …
John, I’ve been silencing that beep in a less drastic way — I edit the file /etc/inputrc and uncomment the line for setting the bell style to none. I’m not sure if that quiets things down for every use case though.
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 …
In a little under a week, the combined Fedora elections will be held for the Board and other groups as well such as FESCo. Nominations are open through Wednesday, 3 December. You can visit the main elections page, which links to the group specific pages where you can nominate yourself …