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TechShop and Portland Spirit

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 →

Fedora 11 Rains Test Days

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 →

Getting Status

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 →

Fedora 12 is Next

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 →

OS Bridge Call For Papers Extended

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 →

The Wiki Is 14 Years Old

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 →

Come to Open Source Bridge

If you’ve been looking for an excuse to visit Portland, Oregon, look no further! I recently volunteered to help the Open Source Bridge marketing team with project management.  I’m not sure what all that will entail yet, but Rick Turoczy… Continue Reading →

Fedora 11 Feature Freeze Is On

It struck me today that as the Fedora Feature Wrangler I mostly focus on the things that are wrong or missing and then nag people until they get fixed. I just finished going over the list of Fedora 11 features… Continue Reading →

Fedora 11 Feature Bonanza

Thanks for the shout-out from Jef (which he tells me is short for Jeff) about the Fedora 11 feature list. Jef is definitely right that this is the largest feature list we have ever had.  Some of the media outlets… Continue Reading →

Disabling the Fedora 10 System Bell

I don’t enjoy hearing the internal speaker beep every time I perform an illegal action on the keyboard.  After failing to find anywhere to disable it–previously System/Preferences/Hardware/Sound took care of this–a series of searches on Google landed me at bugzilla… Continue Reading →

Fast Spaceless Backups

The title is slightly misleading, but it is true as long as the original source does not change.  I’ve also made a copy of an entire rawhide tree (~13G) in less than five seconds. I’ve been syncing rawhide trees at… Continue Reading →

Multiple Terminals in One Window

A week ago I discovered Terminator. It has mostly solved an ongoing frustration I’ve had with how to structure all my gnome-terminal windows.  A great getting started guide is here: http://maketecheasier.com/maximize-your-terminal-usage-with-terminator/2008/12/21. The only drawback I’ve found to it so far… Continue Reading →

FUDCon F11 and Bad Apples

Well it hasn’t been the FUDCon I planned.  For the first time ever I got sick on a work related trip.  Very strange for me because I rarely get sick.  I’m hoping it is a 24 hour thing that will… Continue Reading →

Fedora 8 RIP

Yesterday all open Fedora 8 bugs were closed. Fedora 8 is officially end-of-life (EOL) and is no longer maintained.  No more updates will be shipped for it.  This ends the bugzilla housekeeping for Fedora 10 release cycle.  Thanks to everyone… Continue Reading →

Benefits of Detailed Schedules

Last week FESCo approved the Fedora 11 schedule. The Fedora 11 milestones are posted. I am still planning to create detailed schedules in TaskJuggler for some of the Fedora teams.  A first look at the detailed schedule is here. I… Continue Reading →

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