Archive for January, 2009
Fedora Activity Day @ SCaLE 7x: Two Exciting Sprints
Heading over to the Southern California Linux Exposition next month? If you said yes, you are in luck! The North American Fedora Ambassadors team has obtained a room for the first North American Fedora Activity Day @ SCaLE 7x! What is a FAD, you ask? Well, let’s try to explain. It is clear that while [...]
In: Ambassadors, Collaboration, Community, Conferences, Fedora, News, Tech · Tagged with: documentation, fad, Fedora, fonts, packaging, scale7x
SCaLE7x: A Conference for Families
Here’s a conversation I had regarding SCaLE’s policy toward bringing children. So this brings to my mind. What can we do to entertain children at a booth besides the OLPCs? herlo I asked a couple days back about kids at scale and pricing or whatever. I forgot to take #scale-chat of ignore, what is the rules [...]
In: Ambassadors, Community, Conferences, Fedora, Tech · Tagged with: Fedora, kids, scale7x
SCaLE 7x: I’m Presenting!!
Recently, I was informed that my presentation was approved for the 7th Southern California Linux Expo (or SCaLE 7x). I’m very excited to be presenting a topic I think will be not only fun, but valuable to many a Linux fan. I will say that this is my first foray into the conference circuit as [...]
In: Conferences, Fedora, Presentations, Tech · Tagged with: Fedora, remix, scale, scale7x
Teaching: University of Utah
Starting tomorrow night, I will officially be the instructor for the LPI 103 course at the University of Utah. This course uses the awesome Guru Labs courseware and teaches Network Administration and Security as well as Troubleshooting. I’m excited to get back into the swing of teaching. The course is 15 weeks long, 3 hours [...]
In: News, Passion, Tech · Tagged with: linux, teaching
FUDCon F11: Day 3
9:45am: Awake. Stare at the ceiling for a short while. Climb out of bed. Look out the window and discover the few inches of snow that has accumulated during the night. 10:15am: Finish packing my gear, wake Jennifer. 10:50am: Head down to the hotel lobby and drop off our bags at the bell desk. 10:55am: [...]
In: Ambassadors, Community, Conferences, Fedora, Tech · Tagged with: f11, Fedora, flying, fudcon
FUDCon F11: Day 2 (Part 2)
5:45pm: Paul ends his remarks and we depart to the hotel and FUDPub. I’m rather tired, not getting much sleep this weekend has worn me down. I tell Dave that I am going to go crash for an hour and he promptly calls me a wimp! 6:12pm: In hotel room, snuggled up to Jennifer. Still [...]
In: Ambassadors, Collaboration, Community, Conferences, Fedora, Passion, Tech · Tagged with: f11, Fedora, fudcon, fudpub, video
FUDCon F11: Day 2 (Part 1)
8:05am: Light flutters into the room. More likely, I notice it at this time, it’s probably been light for some time. Climb out of warm bed, boy am I tired. Today is the bar camp and I have audio recording to setup. 8:35am: Arrive at MIT for the FUDCon bar camp, grab a muffin, some [...]
In: Ambassadors, Collaboration, Community, Conferences, Fedora, Presentations, Tech · Tagged with: f11, Fedora, fudcon
FUDCon F11: Day 1
8:05am: Sleep is interrupted by brain doing mental exercises about the Fedora AmbassadorKit hackfest. Also interrupted by incredible urge to pee. 8:30am: Decided I was finally awake enough to write FUDCon F11: Day 0 post. 9:00am: Packed everything I needed (or thought I needed) into my backpack. This took incredibly long. 9:10am: Somewhere around this [...]
In: Ambassadors, Collaboration, Community, Conferences, Fedora, Tech · Tagged with: Ambassadors, f11, Fedora, fudcon
FUDCon F11: Not in Boston? Listen Live, Watch Videos After!
Starting tomorrow at approximately 10:00 am, streaming will (hopefully) commence on approximately 4-5 sessions. Most sessions will be recorded with cheap $7 microphones, but the most popular (as voted by FUDCon attendees) will be recorded with a mixer and wireless microphone. Streams will be available at http://stream.utos.org:8080, look for the links to be semi-descriptive. We [...]
In: Community, Conferences, Fedora, Tech · Tagged with: audio, f11, Fedora, fudcon, recording, streaming, video
FUDCon F11, Day 0
12:05am MST: The beginning of FUDCon for me. I hopped a plane (along with my girlfriend, Jennifer), from SLC to JFK. 6:00am EST (4:00am MST): Arrive at JFK, fairly uneventful flight, even though it was pretty full. Wandered around near our gate for 20 minutes or so. We then found the most uncomfortable spot on [...]
In: Ambassadors, Community, Conferences, Fedora · Tagged with: f11, Fedora, flying, fudcon
