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FUDcon Day 1

Wow, today was quite a busy day! I had a tight schedule but got a lot done. I headed into the conference a little early with Spot and Paul. BTW, Paul really proved he has got some serious artistic chops with the session signs he made! I took a photo survey of the signage as …

LinuxTag Day 1

I started my day off with a delicious breakfast of strawberries. There are fresh strawberry booths at various U-Bahn stations in Berlin. So delicious!! Here we are waiting for the train to Messe Berlin, you can see Spot, Greg, Yakov, and Max here: The Fedora booth looks really fantastic! We have some very nice Dell …

Berlin Day 0

St. Colmcille brought me from Boston to Dublin. Dublin’s terminal A isn’t great. In fact, I only found one functional power outlet, and it conveniently spanned the entrance of the ladies’ room. I arrived at 5 AM and fought to stay awake as to not miss my flight! St. Ibar took me from Dublin to …

So you're looking for a hosting provider?

You may have noticed me flailing about on Identi.ca/Twitter/Facebook about trying to find a mail hosting provider. My mail hosting story is very long and drama-filled: A long time ago I relied on Gmail. Then, a not-very-nice person broke into my account and took it over. This was a problem since all my university mail, …

What does "paintain" mean?

A couple people have asked me what paintain means. Well, it’s a verb you can use to describe the maintenance of a package that is a pain-in-the-you-know-where to maintain. 🙂 Hopefully Fedora Community helps take away at least some of the pain of maintaining these packages.

No more paintain.

As I’ve blogged about before, in the past few months I’ve been working a lot on Fedora Community with John Palmieri, Luke Macken, and Spot Callaway. Fedora Community currently focuses on making all you Fedora package maintainers out there even more super awesome (hard to do considering where we’re starting from 🙂 ) and later …