Monthly Archives: September 2008

Collaboration Tech

Dear Lazyweb: Can I have that as a CMS?

September 26, 2008 – 11:54 am

So I was following up on a talk I had seen at djangocon this year, and ran across this site by Cal Henderson – http://www.iamcal.com/

The interesting part about this site is that he has about 10-12 different elements on his front page sharing information about what was going on, etc. in his life.  I am interested in implementing something similar, but couldn’t find any reference to a cms that he might be using.

To give a little background, I’ve followed a few links off his site, including the one to the designer of the site, which also indicates no cms that they use either.  It seems I may be out of luck, but wondered if anyone else had seen a cms similar or that might be capable of such features without major modifications??

I’ve looked at drupal and joomla and am more interested in something a little more like concrete5 or django-cms, but haven’t settled on anything.  So LazyWeb, do you think you can help me?

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Ambassadors Community Fedora Tech

Fedora Ambassador Day – North America at Ohio LinuxFest 2008

September 24, 2008 – 11:45 pm

Get your name on the list for the Fedora Ambassador Day – North America, October 10-12, 2008.  It’s coming in just 2-1/2 weeks in Columbus, Ohio while we’re enjoying the Ohio LinuxFest.  The agenda is being formed, we’re planning a FADPub (maybe), and might even have some FAD – NA shirts to give away.

If you are coming to FADNA, please take a moment and sign up on the wiki page.  OLF doesn’t have any more rooms at the Drury, where some Ambassadors are staying, so many of us are staying a short while out of town at the Holiday Inn Express in Grove City.  If you haven’t reserved a room, they have pretty good rates, even cheaper than the Drury.

In addition, if you haven’t taken a moment to sign up to help at the Fedora booth, we would like to make a good impression there as well.

Many of us will be carpooling in each day and we’re working to reserve a room at the Holiday Inn Express for Sunday’s Meeting.

See you all at FADNA.  I am very excited to meet many of the North American Ambassadors at OLF.

Cheers,

Herlo

Im Going to FAD-NA

I'm Going to FAD-NA

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Ambassadors Community Fedora Tech

Happy Birthday Fedora

September 24, 2008 – 8:51 pm

5 years! w00t!

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FAD – NA Planning meeting tonight

September 15, 2008 – 9:58 am

Hi all,

Just another quick reminder that if you are an Ambassador in North America and are wanting to get your input in on what will happen at FAD – NA, come to the meeting tonight.  It will be at 20:00 EDT in #fedora-ambassadors on irc.freenode.net.

Previously, I stated that this was for North American Regional Ambassadors.  I was corrected recently that it could be for any Ambassador with interest, so please feel free to put your $.02.

Sorry for the confusion.

Cheers,

Herlo

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Community Conferences Fedora Guru Tech

Fedora Ambassador Day, North America

September 14, 2008 – 12:40 pm

Following up with our FAMNA meeting this week, the FAMNA regional ambassadors are meeting tomorrow night at 20:00 EDT in #fedora-ambassadors (irc.freenode.net) to discuss the agenda and events surrounding the Fedora Ambassador Day – North America.  I’m not sure if this is the first FAD – NA, but we’re definitely in a good resurgence with some good folks involved.

In commemoration of this exciting event, which will be held concurrently with the Ohio Linux Fest, October 10-12, I created a badge similar to the one created by Nicu Buculei for FAD EMEA.

I’m excited this looks as good as it does and will show pride for those Fedora Ambassadors in North America who will be joining us at OLF.

Cheers,

Herlo

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Community django Guru Tech UTOSC

Over the last few days

September 8, 2008 – 6:42 pm

Quite a bit has transpired this weekend.  Thought I had better get caught up on it before I forget.

Missing Teeth

My Son Shaun lost his fourth tooth this past week.  He was so excited about it, he called me as soon as it happened.  Unfortunately, I wasn’t there to experience it, but I’ve been assigned to be in LA three times in the next 3 months, plus one or two trips back to Utah should help.  I’m excited to head out and see his more holey head :)  I’m expecting some pictures to appear soon.

Djangocon 2008

On Friday, I left with a friend of mine, Seth House to Djangocon 2008, the first ever.  While I was happy to go, I wasn’t particularly excited that I would miss an entire day due to a clerical messup.  I learned quite a bit about Django and the community, I’m grateful I could go.

Django is a great framework and I’m excited to learn more about it this weekend.  I’m also grateful Google let me come back onto their campus (without incident this time, I might add), they are such great hosts.  I also got to meet Leslie Hawthorne and introduce myself, she seems pretty awesome even though I hollered at her while she was on the phone (oops, sorry Leslie).

First UTOSC Videos Released

Another great bit of news from UTOSC 2008.  The first evening keynote videos of Mac Newbold and Paul Frields have been released.  I’m excited and grateful to KnowledgeBlue and OpenSourceTV for their help with this project.  Things are rolling great on the video, thanks to Doran Barton and Nick Bauman at KnowledgeBlue for doing the video.

UTOSC Pictures keep piling up

Make sure to take a moment and have a look at the UTOS flickr group.  There’s tons of pictures there and maybe you are in one.  I’ve been tagging like crazy and hope to have them all done later this week.  I’d love to see more tags than what I’ve

A Goodbye

Also, today I found out one interesting thing, my friend Christer, who I referred to come work at Guru Labs, has left for another position.  I’m glad he’s happy and wish him luck.  Sounds like a great change for him and his family.

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