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Combating Apathy in [Free and Open Source] Communities — Part 3
This article is a part of a three part series, if you haven’t read the first part and second part, you really should. How do we address this problem? Who does it? In other words, how do small to medium communities battle Apathy? In all honesty, I don’t have the answer for this question. If [...]
In: Community, Conferences, Fedora, Guru, LUGs, Life, Networking, Passion, Tech · Tagged with: 2010, apathy, Community, june, utos, UTOSC
Combating Apathy: How to Keep a [Free and Open Source] Community Alive
This June will mark the fourth anniversary of the creation of the Utah Open Source Foundation. In October, we will be hosting approximately 500 attendees at the fourth annual Utah Open Source Conference. What started out as a simple idea in my backyard in Springville, Utah has blossomed into something much larger, a community of [...]
In: Community, Fedora, Guru, LUGs, Life, Passion, Tech · Tagged with: 2010, apathy, Community, june, utos, UTOSC
FUDCon F13: Toronto, there are too many paths!
At the moment, I’m committed to heading up to the Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon) this December 5-7. And while it’s promising to be a blast with all of my Fedora friends, great hackfests, sessions and even a project I’ve decided to start working on. I have been looking at airfare, hotel and other [...]
In: Community, Conferences, Fedora, Life, Passion, Tech · Tagged with: f13, Fedora, fudbus, fudcon, toronto, travel
Software Freedom Day: What I’ll be Doing!
So tomorrow is Software Freedom Day. And because I’ve been a big slacker this year, I didn’t get the time to set up an event as I had hoped. However, because others in our community are awesome and didn’t want to see this day go completely to the Microsofties and non-free software folks, there’s going [...]
In: Community, Conferences, Fedora, Games, Life, Tech · Tagged with: 2009, boardgames, codecamp, Fedora, utah, utos
UTOSC 2009: Breakfast is served!
As part of my effort to help out folks coming in for the Utah Open Source Conference 2009, we have filled up our household with out-of-towners. However, when I asked my awesome sweetie , Jennifer, about food, she had this reply: 21:37 <herlo> did you say you were willing to cook breakfast for us during [...]
In: Ambassadors, Community, Conferences, Fedora, Guru, Life, News, Tech, UTOS, UTOSC · Tagged with: Community, friends, utos, UTOSC, utosc2009
A New Job and WordPress Plugins
Over the past little while, I’ve lost my job, hunted for (and found) a new job, consulted to fill in the gaps and a bunch of Fedora projects over Christmas. What did this entail? Well, sit back and relax and I’ll tell you! New Job Well my new job is setting up nicely as a [...]
In: Ambassadors, Community, Conferences, Fedora, Life, Tech, WordPress · Tagged with: esource, Fedora, fudcon, recording, streaming, WordPress
Looking for work is hard work
Recently, I was laid off from Guru Labs. While I still think of them as a great company, I must forge on, looking for a new job. I really appreciate the 2.5 years I worked and all the friendships I made. I also enjoyed the work and it reinforced my desire to share my love [...]
In: Fedora, Life, News, Passion, Tech · Tagged with: job hunting
