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Starting a miniconf fad at LCA 2011
I’ve submitted a miniconf for LCA to be run as a FAD in the vein of a mini FUDCon type event Wiki Page for signing up and being invollved As I list in the wiki the goals are Explain Features coming in Fedora 15. Explain how Fedora and The community works, Show how someone can…
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The middle of FISL
Day 1 of the exhibition floor of FISL had us very busy at first giving out lots of media. we quickly changed tactics to make sure we had enough to get us through the 3 days, plan 1 was to not just give them out but to engage folks, and give them out then, We…
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FISL 2010 the start
Following on from FUDCon in Chile, Toshio and I flew to Porto Alegre for FISL 11, this is my 3rd time in Brasil for FISL. the conference is a big thing here. and it continually reinforces to me the need to have documents and support in languages other than English. So many people in South…
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FUDCon santaigo Day 2
<![CDATA[ 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…
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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…
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What is it?
So while walking through the Iowa state Campus today we kept seeing these little animals, clint kept saying look a squirell. What we actually saw was chipmunks. Another totally awesome thing we did see was the Virtual Reality Applications Center that they have here. They are doing some awesome amazing 3d and haptics work that…
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FAD NA 2010 Day 1
after a 5 hour drive yesterday from home to Ames, IA. I met up with John and Larry, Max flew in shortly after. We ate some local BBQ for tea. then went played some pool and had lots of fedora conversation. After John thoughly beat us all, Max and I chatted while i preppared the…
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Fedora 12 SPARC beta
I have pushed a fedora 12 beta sparc tree the master mirror, you can find one close to you Here under /releases/test/12-Beta/sparc/ the tree is pretty much complete. there are a few broken deps that need resolving. Partitioning is fragile. it mostly works however sometimes you will be best off to do manual partitioning in…
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Getting EPEL ready for EL-6
So its that time of the RHEL release cycle that we are starting to work on getting EPEL in shape for it, The first step is to prepare for mass branching, that will happen this Friday, 7th of May. if you have a packge that you do no want branched for EL-6 that has a…
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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…