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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 →

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 Fedora 9 is officially end-of-life (EOL) and is no longer maintained.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 →

Fedora 12 Release Engineering Schedule

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 →

Fedora 12 Scheduling

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 →

Open Source Bridge Day #2

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 →

Fedora 11 Sound Too Low

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 →

Open Source Bridge Day #1

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 →

Read All About the Fedora 11 Retrospective

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 →

Joining the Fedora Board

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 →

Unfreezable Rawhide

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 GA & Retrospective

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 →

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