Mon, 30 Nov 2009
Almost done renovating the office.
A couple of weeks back my co-workers were heard complaining about the renovations on there cubes. While that was happening i was in the midgst of renovations in my office. I work from home as a remottee. I tend to spend alot of time in my office here, between work and Fedora. its been kinda ugly for quite some time. I replaced the windows last year which made it comfortable, before the new windows it would be extremely cold in winter and unbearabley hot in summer. This year i installed some box seating, with storage built in. a new hardwood floor and fixed the water damaged gyprock due to some shoddy roofing work done before I brought my house. I still need to finish the trim and fix some minor issues, I would like to do a bigger built in desk/bookshelf. That will be one of next years jobs.
The view to my desk
The view from my desk, The box seating needs trimming, and I need some staples to finish the seat cushioning.
I decided wednesday night i needed to get it painted for the weekend, so off i went to lowes to pick out a colour, im really happy with my choice. the no VOC paint was excellent no paint smell at all. I got the floor down on Friday, and put the finishing touches in on saturday. Followed by a 1st birthday party sunday for Macy. I am amazed daily what she has learnt and achieved in one year.
Now onto a busy week. Macy's and my birthday today, my 9 year wedding anniversary on Wednesday and heading to FUDCon on Friday.
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Thu, 26 Jun 2008
Where is OLPC today
Where is OLPC today?
Building and Shipping 50,000 laptops a month. Each and every one of them running Fedora. so far there has been over 390,000 laptops shipped. Which im guessing is the largest single Fedora Install base. Thats kinda mind boggling to realise. Going forward over half a million will be shipped in the next couple of months
What can Fedora do here?
Make the suagr experience in Fedora better. We have Packaging guidelines. we have a ton of Activities. Lets get them into Fedora. Lets look at what packages OLPC forks, work out why, and work out how we can eliminate that need. switching from Fedora 7 to Fedora 9 we pulled in an extra 100 packages. That needs to be cut down. There are needs on the school server. If you can give a little time to help out and want to know what else you can do contact me. I really want OLPC and Fedora to work better together.
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Tue, 13 Nov 2007
My First Day At OLPC
So yesterday was my first day at OLPC. It went fairly well. Everyone was really nice. Got an XO for testing.
Got alot of tasks that need doing, It will certainly be a challange, a good one but a challange anyway.
Yesterday also marked the first day that you could buy yourself an XO. the have a "give one get one program" for $400 you can get your own and donate one you can get yours here.
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Tue, 06 Nov 2007
New Job
For those that dont know yet. Im changing jobs. I accepted an offer from OLPC, I will be their build system and release engineer person. I will be working remotely however I will be spending time in Boston, so any fedora people that want to catch up drop me a line. This is an opportunity that came my way entirely because of my work with fedora. So to everyone that works on Fedora thank you. I officially start on Nov 12.
What does this mean for fedora? Well for one, I plan to do everything I can in fedora. I will be spending more time on fedora. I will also be trying to build a community around OLPC. Hopefully much like mmcgrath has done with Fedora Infrastructure. I would like to enable people to build their own custom firmware for the XO. Mainly enabling the countries to be self sufficient. Take the pieces that are of intrest to them and make it work. Right now im just barely getting my toes wet and have yet to work out everything that will be involved. I will be posting as often as I can, making sure that everyone knows whats going on. It really is intresting to see how OLPC has taken the fedora base and added sugar on top of it. It is not your fathers fedora :).
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