Yesterday was the second day of FUDCon Kuala Lumpur 2012 and the first day with scheduled talks. After the first day with barcamps I was curious to see how talks work out. We arrived at 9 and until 10, a lot more people arrived. And when I say a “lot I” mean a lot. People …
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FUDCon Kuala Lumpur Day 1
I got up a little later than planned because it turns out that I am pretty jet-lagged after traveling for more than 24 hours. Nevertheless I managed to have breakfast before we had to leave. In front of the hotel, a shuttle bus was already waiting and quickly brought us to the venue at UCTI. …
FUDCon Kuala Lumpur Day 0
After a pretty long journey to Kuala Lumpur I finally arrived and checked in at the hotel. I met Tuan and Izhar. We went to the venue at the UCTI. I was glad to see that Izhar had a lot of volunteers helping him and everybody was busy preparing stuff. We were not able to …
The new FAmSCo election guidelines
After months of – sometimes controversial – discussion I am happy to announce the new FAmSCo election guidelines. For those of you, who did not follow the discussion, here is a brief summary of the three most important changes: More continuity Instead of electing all seats once a year, we follow the example of the …
FUDCon Blacksburg To-Do list
FUDCon is over and we made quite some progress in various areas. However, there is still a lot of work to do, because we need to implement everything we brainstormed and discussed. Here’s my personal To-Do list: Document the new spins process in the wiki and implement it in Trac. Finalize my draft of the …
Board goals 2011 retrospective and what we can learn for the future
The Fedora Board had a meeting on Friday as part of FUDCon Blacksburg and one of the topics we dicussed were the strategic goals the board agreed on last year. The top three ranked ones were: Improve and simplify collaboration in the Fedora Community Improve and encourage high-quality communication in the Fedora Community It is …
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Priceless!
Flight to Milan and back:103 EUR Hotel in Milan: 145 EUR Hotdog costume on Ebay: 15 EUR Fun at FUDPub: priceless!
Looking back at FrOSCon 2011
Last weekend the 6th FrOSCon took place in St Augustin. Once again it was a nice event, but this time we tried something new: A Fedora Activity Day (FAD) as part of the conference. I arrived at St Augustin on Friday around 7 p.m.. A lot of people were already there and it was nice …
Linux New Media to ship thousands of Fedora DVDs
F15 Multiboot DVD with GNOME and KDE As some of you might know I started writing for the German Linux Magazin in April. I am now in the lucky position to know quite a few people at Linux New Media and one of them asked me if I had an idea for the DVD they …
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Video thumbnails in Thunar
As you might know thumbnails in Thunar are generated with tumbler. For obvious reasons the tumbler package in Fedora cannot include the tumbler-ffmpeg plugin. By popular demand I now rolled an add-on package called tumbler-freeworld. When installed, this is what it looks like: If you are a packager at RPM Fusion, please review the package. …