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Conference Duathlon
A conference duathlon is what I’m going to experience in the next two weeks. I’m one of the organizers of GUADEC 2013, a GNOME conference which is held in our beloved city of Brno. And it’s not an easy one to organize. You have to have a legal entity to sell stuff (tickets, t-shirts, lunch tickets,…), set…
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Fedora EMEA Budget – Q1
At the beginning of the year, FAmSCo ratified changes in budget, approval, and reimbursement processes. One of the benefits is that we have control over the money Red Hat has given us for regional support. One of the changes was to start proper budgeting and track all expenses we’re doing. I’m a treasurer for EMEA…
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FAmSCo in F19 term
The last meeting of FAmSCo in Fedora 19 term took place on Monday. Let me show you how we worked in the term through several statistics: Time period: December 17th – June 24th Total number of meetings: 27 Total duration of meetings: 29 hours and 14 minutes Total number of discussed topics: 130 Number of…
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Where to run away from Google?
As many other open source believers, I was naive enough to believe that Google was somewhat better than other software giants. They have a quite loose relationship to open source. Many of their products are closed source and many have published source code, but are not really open (Android,…). But I believed that at least…
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Spring Season 2013
I haven’t written a blogpost for a while. It was mainly because I was too busy with all the events I organized or attended in the last three months. So here is a little recap: Feb 23-24 – DevConf.cz 2013 – this is an event that took weeks of my life. I was the head of…
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Fedora: Giving Up Product?
There is an interesting discussion going on in the Fedora Board and it gathers a lot of ideas. Some of them also say that we should give up defaults, or Fedora as an end product. I opposes such a direction and here is why: Giving Up Defaults Giving up defaults means giving up Linux newbies…
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Best Talks at DevConf.cz
There were almost 100 talks, labs, and workshops at Developer Conference 2013 in Brno. After the conference, we organizer a contest for best talks where attendees could vote for 3 favorite talks. And the results are… Bryn M. Reeves – Who moved my /usr?? – Staying sane in a changing world Lennart Poettering & Kai…
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FAm Budget and Governance Reform
We’ve entered the new fiscal year in which we’re facing a lot of changes and new things. No, I’m not talking about GNOME 4 or systemd 2 🙂 I mean changes in governance of Fedora Ambassadors. In FAmSCo, we worked on one of the biggest changes in how Fedora Ambassadors (and other contributors, too, because…
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Another distro popularity polls
Last summer, I published results of survey organized by the biggest Czech Linux portal where Fedora was the 3rd most popular Linux distribution. Today, the second biggest Czech Linux portal ABCLinuxu.cz published results of a very similar survey. Shares are slightly different, but Fedora was again the 3rd most popular distribution. The TOP10 is: Ubuntu…
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FOSDEM, F18 release party,…
Busy times. Just a week after I returned from my adventurous journey to FUDCon Lawrence, I had to get ready for FOSDEM 2013. The night before leaving for Brussels, I found out that no one was bringing equipment for the booth and swag. So I stuffed my suitcase with tablecloth, stickers, buttons, and a hundred…