At the end of FUDCon Lawrence, one thing was obvious to me: Bar Camp style conferences were not working for Fedora. Attendance was dropping, we were seeing the same talks over and over again, and we were spending a large chunk of time just shuffling these same talks into a schedule. It was a sort of echo chamber, where the same people presented the ( Read more... )

Today, I said goodbye to Seth Vidal. Eunice, his partner, asked me to speak at his funeral, on behalf of those of us in the open source community. I've read a lot of fantastic remembrances in the last several days, and honestly, I'd tried and failed to write my own several times. The words just seemed incomplete, that they couldn't do him justice. ( Read more... )

The call for talks (and workshops/sprints/hackfests) for Flock 2013 is due to close on May 31, 2013. We've got some great submissions already, but we really would love some more ( Read more... )

Today was the day of "stuff I can't talk publicly about". Sorry ( Read more... )

For eight years, Fedora users and developers have gathered at an event named for them, the Fedora Users and Developers conference (FUDCon). But we’ve grown, and it’s time for a new approach: Flock ( Read more... )

* Fixed nightview in rawhide. Still not entirely sure how.
* Enabled a bunch of kernel bug triage CC aliases, with Toshio & Kevin's help
* Did internal manager paperwork stuff
* Pushed julian-voxforge new package updates
* Research possibilities for secret summit project
* More Flock sponsorship work

* Lots of meetings. LOTS.
* Created new libxdiff to try to eliminate bundling in git and libgit2. Not tested yet, ran out of time.

Feels like an unproductive day.

* Wrote my monthly internal team status report ( Read more... )

* MOAR Flock sponsor work ( Read more... )

Working from home today. More flock sponsorship stuff, Google is committed at the Gold level (hooray for Ruth ( Read more... )