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Marketing to Fedora's Target Audience

I am thinking of Fedora in light of an article about Billy Mays on Copy Bloggler. “So how do you know if the product you’re currently selling or developing is great… and easy to sell? According to Billy Mays your… Continue Reading →

Addicted to Opining

Chris Brogan raises some interesting thoughts and questions in his post “Are We Addicted to Giving Our Own Opinions” The tools we use for social media have empowered us to be steady-flow commentators. Watch Twitter or Facebook during any event,… Continue Reading →

Our Fragile Existence

This Thursday is Thanksgiving, an official holiday in the the United States.  I am extra thankful this year.  It wasn’t so long ago that I felt more invincible.  Aging has a natural way of reducing that.  Potentially fatal accidents, more… Continue Reading →

Fedora Target Audience & Release Criteria

As the Fedora Board and larger community has discussed what we want our releases to be and who they are for–Target Audience–I’ve wondered more and more if a reworking of our Release Criteria could help make parts of our decision… Continue Reading →

Fedora Talk Activity Day

The Fedora Talk “activity day” was two full days packed with good discussions, learning more about Asterisk, sharing some good laughs, and getting a lot done.  Paul Frields did a great job coordinating the logistics for the event including our… Continue Reading →

More FedoraTalk And More Action

The long anticipated Fedora Talk Activity Day starts this Friday. If you have ideas or special needs for Fedora Talk, please update the use cases on the wiki.  See our overall plan for additional details. We’ve been doing as much… Continue Reading →

Add The Key For Signed Rawhide

Somewhere along the line the packages in rawhide (soon to be Fedora 12) became signed.  This is a good thing.  I don’t run a current rawhide box all the time so I’m probably the last one to know, but tonight… Continue Reading →

Resistance or Not

One of the things I love about working in the Fedora Project is the opportunity to blog.  In the beginning I thought blogging was for other people.  Then I realized I needed a place to talk about the things I… Continue Reading →

Fedora 12 is Full Steam Ahead

This is a little bit of a “fluff” post to satisfy those readers that are hitting my blog based on the title of a post in April 2009 (before the Fedora 12 Schedule was even finalized) who maybe disappointed by… Continue Reading →

Mapping the Fedora Project

In a previous post I mentioned my recent use of Freemind.  In this follow-up post I wanted to talk about what I’ve found and how I think we should move forward.  I couldn’t figure out a good way to attach… Continue Reading →

Mind Mapping With Freemind

Ever since first reading about mind mapping I’ve used mind maps often to help clarify my thinking.  Bringing clarity to complicated and unclear situations is satisfying to me.  I like mapping out the complexities of a problem without explicitly trying… Continue Reading →

Lunch Is Served

I confess to having no idea what I’m doing, but I’ve got to say it tastes great and doesn’t dirty any pans. I’ve been trying to eat less and eat healthier.  I’ve also been experimenting with eating a lighter meal… Continue Reading →

Fedora 12 Alpha Coming Soon

Things are coming together for the next release of Fedora–Fedora 12!  The Fedora 12 Alpha will be publicly available next Tuesday, August 25, 2009.  Admittedly the term “Public Availability” sounds funny in Fedora… it isn’t as if the bits have… Continue Reading →

Easyweb LCD and Keyboard Search

I’m looking for a new LCD wide screen monitor in the 22″ range.  Contrary to the current industry trend, the biggest monitor possible is not what I’m looking for.  More real estate for distractions is not really what I need…. Continue Reading →

Fedora 9 RIP

Yesterday all open Fedora 9 bugs were closed. Fedora 9 is officially end-of-life (EOL) and is no longer maintained.  No more updates will be shipped for it.  This ends the Fedora 11 Bugzilla Housekeeping process.  Thanks to everyone who helped… Continue Reading →

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