Kevin's musings

Fudcon 2011 will be coming up next weekend. I’m looking forward to it, and hope to see lots of Fedora folks I talk with on irc and on mailing lists, as well as new folks I haven’t met yet.

A few things I would like to try and get done while there:

• I’d like to try and sort out what will happen with spins in f15. The spins SIG is pretty much defunct, so we need to either setup a new better way to manage spins, or drop them, or something else. This is going to be tough, but I think Fudcon is just the place to hash it out.
• I’d like to do a lot of listening to others. Since I serve on many Fedora committees and groups I’d like to hear from Fedora Developers and users: What can we do better? Do you have ideas on something, but you don’t know how to approach it? What can we change or adjust to make YOU happier and have more fun with Fedora?
• I’d like to sit down with any EPEL folks (and perhaps we could grab a website person or two) and revamp the EPEL wiki pages. They are old, outdated and hard to find things in. We need to draw up a whiteboard plan for what they should look like, implement that and nuke the old pages. I hope there are some EPEL and websites folks interested in helping me on this…
• It would be good to get together with the other IRC support folks who are able to attend and perhaps do a talk on “Supporting other Fedora users”. I’m not sure I have time for slides, etc, but perhaps others in the group do, or we could ad-hoc it.
• The governance and future directions talks will be very interesting. Our structure is a bit confusing and has grown over time. Perhaps this is a good chance to revamp FESCo, FAMSCo, Board or setup a new way to run fedora for the next 15 releases.
• I look forward to hearing about the current progress of things like AutoQA, Abrt, and lots of other tools we use/want to use moving forward.

All in all it looks like it will be a great Fudcon. Hope to see everyone there!

EDITED: fixed the title. Sheesh. Stupid typos. ;(

This weekend seems to be the confluence of (at least) 3 great events:

1. bazcamp
2. Software freedom day
3. Talk like a pirate day

I intend to participate in all 3 if possible. Bazcamp is always a good time, should be heading out there tomorrow and hopefully help setup and grab the same spot we have had the last few years (it works out well). Good folks, food and place to hang out. Saturday is software freedom day and we should be hanging out at bazcamp and working on free software, what could be finer? Sunday we can set sail for home.

I’m back from a trip I took out to tacoma to go to a graduation. Sorry for missing out on the first of the Fedora IRC Town Halls. If you are a Fedora contributor, do read the Elections Questionnaire and the logs of the Town hall meetings and remember to go and Vote

Some general notes from my trip:

• The Droid phone worked very nicely and was quite handy. Being able to get directions, find nearest services, check irc/IM, text house sitters, and play audio were all great. Coverage was very impressive as well
• Wandering around the coast of oergon was great. I just wish we had more time to visit Fedora folks while we were up there.
• This American Life is excellent for listening to on long drives. Please support them.
• South Park Seafood and Grill is an excellent place in Portland. Local, fresh food, great service, yummy desserts.
• The Van Gogh in the Portland art museum was lovely. It’s really amazing to me how much cooler great paintings are in real life than they are in just pictures of them on the net. The lighting, the texture, the way it looks from different angles and distances all make it well worth going to see these things in real life.
• Spokane is a interesting city. I had no idea about the falls and such there.

All in all a fun trip, although it’s good to be home. I’ll probibly post pictures here or somewhere soon…