Mon, 19 Jul 2010
FUDCon santaigo Day 2
Day 2 of fudcon Santiago, I gave a second talk on Joining Fedora infrastructure. I went over the things that fedora infrastucture does and the services it offers to the community. I tried to stree the importance of paitence, being a self starter and picking one thing to start with. My slides can be found Here Please feel free to let me know if there are places for improvement or things you think I got wrong.
Chile is a very intersting place its a mixture of very old and very new. I like old building architecture and its nice to see that some of it has been preserved here. while some of it has been pulled down for new buildings to go up. Thanks to gotencool for taking lots of photos and posting them. He has the same camera as I do.
The people here are very welcoming and freindly. I wish i had learnt more Spanish before coming here, I am doing much better with the language than I did when first going to FISL 3 years ago. Ill see how i go with Portuegese next week. Toshio and Jared get to wrap up FUDCon at the end of day 3.
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Thu, 15 Jul 2010
FUDCon Chile day 1 world meet the new FPL
What do you do when you get a new FPL?
For those under a rock, we have a new FPL, his name is Jared Smith, Toshio and I flew down to FUDCon Santiago Jared who became a Red Hat employee on monday came down also. Due to the lovely airlines We all ended up with cancelled flights. Jared happened to get an extra delay and got in a little late today. FUDCon waited for him. He came in and rocked the opening speach in Spanish.
Following on from Jared i gave a talk on intro to rpm packaging. based very heavily on spots excellent talk on the same subject. It was well recieved, and was followed up with some excellent questions. Day 1 while off to a slow start finished well. now to make sure we get to dinner before 11pm tonight.
Toshio, Jared and I are all going FISL in Porto Alegre, Brasil after FUDCon, we should have lots of things to report on. and lots to learn as we go. Now that Jared is a Red Hat employee i have to find someone else at digium to bug about getting the kernel modules for their hardware upstream.
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Wed, 16 Jul 2008
Interview by Barton George
While at fudcon in Boston, I was interviewed by Barton George who is a linux community guy for Sun Microsystems He posted it today. So i thought id share it with the rest of the fedora world. His blog entry for it can be found here, its really weird to hear myself in the podcast, and to be interviewed for it. I feel like i'm just one of the guys who keeps the wheels turning and helping those doing the really cool stuff to make sure they have what they need. I'm generally a very quiet person. The only time i've not been quiet is when I played football, I was a middle linebacker for the Gold Coast Stingrays for many years, I was always a leader on the field and the loudest guy there, other than that ive always been a very quiet person. Ive generally shied away from any type of publicity. I really am glad that we have managed to get OpenJDK built for SPARC, and the achievements that Fedora has made over the last few years make me very proud to be part of the community.
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Tue, 01 Jul 2008
Dont upset the fearless leader
What should you never do at fudcon?
Upset the fearless leader
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Thu, 10 Jan 2008
2008 intresting start
So found out whats wrong with my car, The fuel pump went. I thought thats not to bad ill get it fixed and be on my way. Then they gave me the price $981 suffice to say a 1996 Camero is worth about $2K as a trade it also has a couple of minnor things to get fixed. So instead of fixing it i sold it as is. So now im carless. Which is not to bad. I had driven my car maybe 4 times in the last 2 months. of course it had a full tank of petrol. Ill see how we go as a one car family. If its ok then we will probably stay that way. If not ill hold out for a G8, gotta buy an Aussie car. I might buy a bike so i can ride to the gym.
Currently im sitting in Peoria airport waiting for my flight to Chicago, then on to Raleigh for fudcon. Im quite excited about fudcon I really want to get secondary archs up and running this weekend. I also want to get the rest of Fedora Directory server Reviewed and into Fedora. Passing though security was kinda humerous the security guy pulled aside one of my XO's. He asked for help from another security person. both of them with a paniced look said to me "What is this and how does it open" They had relieved looks on their faces when i opened it and showed them what it is. Both saying "I never would have worked out how to open it". Anyways my plane is now boarding.
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