<![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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

A few fedora-packager releases ago, i added a utility to fedora-packager called fedora-cert. its intended as a utility to check that your cert is good and download a new one when needed. Ive not touted it since the verification of certificates is incomplete. pyOpenSSL doesnt have CRL support so i cant check to see if…

Im once again at FISL in Porto Alegre, Brasil. I feel much more comfortable here this year. I understand some portugese but not alot and speak very little. Communications this year are better. Also in attendance are Fedora ambassadors from other parts of Latin America, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Mexico, and elsewhere im likely forgetting now. there…

I thought is remind everyone that there is approximitly 2 days left to vote in the fedora elections going on right now. I honestly dont care if you vote for me or not, but i would really like for everyone to have there say in who they think will help guide fedora forward during the…