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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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Planning to Slip the Schedule

A discussion recently started on fedora-advisory-board list about the Fedora 11 schedule and turned to how much we have slipped in the past.  Admittedly it is kind of hard to say because we haven’t diligently tracked or reviewed our planned… Continue Reading →

Miserable Job

Have you ever had a job you did not like? This book–described as a page turner by one reviewer–is a fable illustrating what separates good jobs from bad ones. I think it also speaks clearly to the keys for success… Continue Reading →

Fedora 9 Build Your Own Schedule

As a follow up to a previous post, I have been working with people in each of the Fedora subgroups to collect more information about all that goes into making a Fedora release happen. This information is represented in one… Continue Reading →

Quality From More Than Milestones

One thing that could improve the Fedora project is a schedule showing durations–how long tasks take. When making decisions about when to release or freeze we do not currently have the ability to quickly calculate how long something will take…. Continue Reading →

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