As a follow-up to my posts on the testing and releng lists I met today with James Laska, Jesse Keating, Bill Nottingham, Paul Frields to harness the power of Fedora Talk and Gobby to hammer out the Release Engineering and… Continue Reading →
The overall Fedora 12 schedule remains unchanged, but we are still working on tuning the individual sub-team schedules. We had a really fantastic meeting on Friday documenting the Design Schedule for Fedora 12. It was an open meeting, announced on… Continue Reading →
Before too much time escapes here is a post on Day Two of Open Source Bridge. As several others have noted, the talks at Open Source Bridge were consistently very good and covered a variety of open source topics. I… Continue Reading →
If you are experiencing the problem of not being able to set your sound as loud as you may have in previous releases here is the fix as described in bug 498747: $ su -c ‘yum install alsa-utils; alsamixer -c… Continue Reading →
Today was an excellent first day of Open Source Bridge Conference. The organizers reported approximately 400 pre-registered attendees and the room hosting the opening keynotes appeared to be close to full. Live streaming of the keynotes and some of the… Continue Reading →
This morning (7 AM local time) we had the Fedora 11 retrospective. I thought it went pretty well and people on the phone seemed to enjoy it. If you didn’t enjoy it or have ideas for making future retrospectives better… Continue Reading →
Thank you Paul! I am honored to accept an appointed seat on the Fedora Board and looking forward to the year ahead. Having served as the secretary to the Fedora board for roughly the past two years I’ve recorded a… Continue Reading →
I’ve been participating remotely in the Fedora Activity Day (FAD) in Raleigh, NC. The sound quality over Fedora Talk is extremely good calling in with a regular phone (with the exception of other people forgetting to mute), though it is… Continue Reading →
Fedora 11 is released tomorrow, June 9, 2009, and you can get it at http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora. On Friday I announced an upcoming retrospecitve for Fedora 11, happening on June 16, 2009. I’m hoping this gathering will be a collaborative brainstorming meeting… Continue Reading →
I learned about TechShop Portland at Lunch2.0 a couple weeks ago. It looks like other Fedorans are already on to this phenomenon. TechShop is a a do-it-yourself play ground for people that like to make stuff. They have equipment for… Continue Reading →
One of the best things to come out of the development cycle for Fedora 11 is a continuous stream of test days. James Laska with the help of Adam Williamson shows up every week to lead the charge–sometimes twice in… Continue Reading →
This video called Auto Tuning makes me laugh every time I watch it. And I’ve watched it several because because I’ve been “Blake” more times than I can remember. It is a hilarious illustration and reminder of how challenging some… Continue Reading →
Yes, I’m getting ahead of myself a little. The Fedora 11 beta was just released, but if you are already working on something for Fedora 12 that doesn’t mean you can’t tell the world about it now using the Fedora… Continue Reading →
Not only has the call for papers been extended, so has the early bird rate of $175 (approximately $1,000 less than OSCON). Here is a fun graph we can all relate to that shows paper submissions over time with the… Continue Reading →
I came across this article calling out the fourteenth birthday of the wiki. The first wiki was created by Ward Cunningham of Portland, Oregon. An interesting interview with Ward is on FLOSS weekly. I can’t imagine how a huge portion… Continue Reading →
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