An article by Michael Geist, Facing up to Facebook fears, discusses the current trend in government and education to react negatively to Facebook and other social networking sites. The crux of Geist's argument is that these attempts to block social networking are misguided, miss opportunities for important social and civics lessons for all, and ( Read more... )

One blissful time I returned from a business trip, sat down, and did my travel expenses right away. One time. Every other time, I have procrastinated through to minor or major pain. Ouch. Why do I keep doing this to myself ( Read more... )

A few months ago, FWN writer/editor/do-it-all Thomas Chung, a founder of the venerable Fedora News, brought the production of Fedora Weekly News into the formal Fedora Project itself ( Read more... )

As Paul wrote about earlier, lots of content that has been lining up got published tonight:

• F7 Release Notes
  
• F7 Installation Guide
  

This release marks the first time that all content work was done in Fedora CVS (cvs.fedoraproject.org). Even with that switch in the middle, requiring translators to get new accounts and learn a few new processes, we ( Read more... )

Breathing new life into this URL:

http://fedoraproject.org

In anticipation of heavy server loads during the upcoming Fedora 7 release, we decided to post a series of lightweight, static HTML pages as the front of fedoraproject.org. Those pages quietly went live today ( Read more... )

... and life is a flamefest.

That is all.

(Post-script update -- sorry for the confusion, I was trying to make an inside joke for Red Hatters who read a recent love-a-thon flame-fest on an internal list about stuff that sucks. No worries about me! Thanks to mis amigos for their concern. Carry on ...)

Last night, just as we finished The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, my cell phone rang with an unknown number in the CallerID. Surprise! It was Dimitris Glezos, on his way up Highway 1 from San Diego and the Red Hat Summit 2007Of course I had a few minutes, so Dimitris and Alex put my house in their navigation system, and a few minutes later we were ( Read more... )

Last year at the Red Hat Summit 2006, we introduced the very rad Mugshot. Along with that, the Red Hat Summit 2006 Mugshot group was created. It was a cool thing at the next morning's keynote when people throughout the audience were using Mugshot and the new group to web swarm about the speaker and his topics ( Read more... )

Sweet recreation of the classic C64 font, by my friend Brian 'Beej' Hall:

http://beej.us/c64bdf/

It looks pretty good, even when displaying 'man 1 gcc'. (Beej wrote and maintains a pretty good network programming guide, as well as some others, when he's not busy making Nightcrawler dance.)

This week, Red Hat announced an updated strategy for JBoss around community interaction and the future development direction of JBoss middleware/SOA components. I think this is interesting for people inside and outside of Java communities, and its a direction I'm really happy to see ( Read more... )