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Fedora atomic job opening
Want to work on fedora in new and interesting ways? Red Hat is hiring a person to work on atomic in fedora. Full details can be found here, however the short summary is that you would work with me and the rest of the fedora releng team along with infrastructure on building new and better…
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FUDCon LATAM 2014
FUDCon LATAM started this morning in Managua Nicaragua. The turnout is great and there is a high level of anticipation of what is to come in the next few days. The organisers have done a really good job in planning. I for one am looking forward to seeing what is new in the Fedora world…
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Great turnout for FUDCon Latam
<![CDATA[ Underway is FUDCon LATAM The 2013 edition of FUDCon LATAM is underway, the host Cusco, Peru has done a fantastic job organising the event. There had to be at least 500 people at the opening event. There was 65 talks proposed, with the barcamp voting being an interesting experience. Cusco the host city is…
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Fedora 17 gcc-4.7 Mass rebuild
starting immediatly there is going to be a mass rebuild of rawhide for gcc-4.7 that landed yesterday. as approved by FESCo packagers will have just over a week, until Thursday Jan 12 to build packages themselves. After that date releng will kick off an automated mass rebuild of everything else. So please get building as…
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Genesi and customer Service
I got a smartbook from genesi a couple of weeks back. after about a week it accidently fell out of my bag. i had it sitting in an open pocket and when i adjusted my bag it fell, i was sad and contacted Genesi to see about buying a replacement case as all the plastic…
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Fedora 15 mass rebuild the first 24 hours
so the mass rebuild is 24 hours in we have completed ~45% of the builds and are at 365 packages failed to build the total number of builds in the mass rebuild is 10404 we are churning along nicely. i expect to complete the first pass sometime in the next 24 hours. so far i…
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witstech a81e tablet
Last week i got a witstech a81e tablet. It came installed with android 2.2. most of the documentation for it seems to be tied up in about half a dozen different forums. I really dislike forums so im not entirely happy about that but oh well. There is a project to get regular linux running…
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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…