Although I'll keep the account, this is my last blog post from my Live Journal account. It's a great service, and I appreciated the serendipity it has brought me. I'm consolidating my activities under one domain, iquaid.org. Ironically, it was the fact that my preferred nick 'quaid' was taken on Live Journal that led the invention of "i, quaid" ( Read more... )

When speaking in public, I have to make a conscious effort to slow down when I speak. Mostly I fail, but trying makes somewhat of a difference. Somewhere in the middle of making this video with Matt Domsch and Jack Aboutboul, I realized I was yammering at a parsec a second; I tried to slow down, but it was too late. Jack, at least, comes across ( Read more... )

Just curious what is going on with Ambassadors and Fedora friends, users, and developers out here on the West Coast?

Are there many of you? What would get you to come to LinuxWorld San Francisco to contribute to the Fedora presence? How about OSCON? SCALE?

This year the booth is better than ever (OGG video of the booth). We are co-operating ( Read more... )

Thanks to Thomas Chung, there is now an OGG version of the short walk-by of the Fedora-Creative Commons booth at LinuxWorld SF. Apropos that it is Thomas who helped, as I saw an older tutorial of his, which clued me in that I didn't have a good tool installed. :)

Creative Commons Live CD

A few weeks ago I got to hear about the CC Live Content CD we're presenting here at LinuxWorld. It is a Fedora-based distribution that includes tools for creating and sharing content. Lots of attention here at the booth. I got some video of the developer who put the Live CD together form a technical side, and I'm going ( Read more... )

Now is the time to weigh in on the next generation of the Fedora Documentation Publishing Platform. JonathanSteffan is running this as his Summer of Code project.

This opening thread and especially this new thread on fedora-docs-list are where the discussions are happening so far ( Read more... )

There is a lot of traffic in Fedora blogs these weeks about the upcoming elections for the Fedora Project Board (FPB) and the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo). As a newly about-to-be-inducted FPB member, and someone who runs an equivalent steering committee (FDSCo), I can help shed some light on the differences between the bodies ( Read more... )

Fact: I'm typically not an early adopter, except in the sense that my entire life is in early adopter mode. What I really mean is, although I exist in a world of visionaries creating new and returning old methodologies, I often wait for things to mature a bit before I commit to a change. Bit of a fogey in that way ( Read more... )

The hack with Mugshot is to create a new group, and use that to group feeds together. I guess I have a classical view of a group as "something you invite people to", and I suppose I _am_ inviting people to view this content, so it can be a grouping. Whatever.

It hasn't worked entirely right, yet anyway. I created a new group "I, Quaid", for ( Read more... )

Yes, my subject is quite certain that maybe possibly it could be the end of some of the squabbling and misunderstandings amongst Fedora's developers and packagers. Because I have so much trust in my fellow humans, I can say with something almost like sureness that we'll see this problem addressed ... in our lifetime ...

But anyway, Warren Togami ( Read more... )