FUDCon Kuala Lumpur Day 3

This morning I arrived back in Berlin and directly went from the airport to the office. Now I am home and about to summarize the last day of FUDCon Kuala Lumpur 2012. Just like the other days we started at 10 am, but this time not as many people were around as on Friday or …

FUDCon Kuala Lumpur Day 2

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 …

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 …

Announcing the Kolab Server 2.3.4

This time we had a short cycle and only a few updated packages, but I really wanted to get the 2.3.4 release out the door. It fixes not only the annoying build error that affected many people but also includes another fix for the Range header DoS vulnerability in the Apache webserver. Security updates apache: …