route
needs to add another 15 minutes to their planned commute.
I'm planning to go to Central Square and take the 47 bus across the river
instead. Or if the weather is nice, just walk from there.
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nt Fedora that we don't have.
There was, in Fedora Legacy. But there turned out to be too little interest.
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synergy to our advantage, not create a competing event.
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On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:38:39AM -0500, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> Well, then, we should announce the summer FUDCon now, since we know it'll
> be in Boston in conjunction with the Red Hat Summit.
Yes, totally we should. Give me a minute here though. :)
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row with their Ts dotted and Is crossed (or something like that) at
least two months in advance. Preferably three or more.
Since we already know the basic release schedule that far in advance, this
really shouldn't be impossible.
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On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 01:52:57PM -0700, Karsten Wade wrote:
> FUDCon a bigger and better thing is worth it. Imagine if $someone were
> doing all the logistics and all we have to do is fill the whiteboard on
> the day of the talks? :)
Yeah, that was Pam Andrews. :)
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Boston.
A virtual extension sounds interesting, but we'd need people very, very
interested in doing the work to make it happen.
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dora.info/about/history.shtml>
Predates Fedora, even Warren's original Fedora repository. Basically, both
projects were using the name in their own little worlds for several years
before either became a big deal.
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haps this is the key difference between the slogan to computer-savvy
English speakers and translated.
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r free of [monetary]
> cost). In Spanish there is no way to confuse "libre" with "free" (of
In English, "freedom" alwys applies to the liberty-related senses of the
word, not to cost-free.
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suffer the nuances of English, but
> that may only mean having a different wording with the same sentiment in
> other languages.
One implication is: Featuring freedom today, featuring something else
tomorrow. Like a feature at the movies. :)
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ctually, it doesn't translate badly into other languages, or badly into
non-jargon English. It just loses the kick.
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oubling. But I'm pretty
comfortable with saying that Fedora's *core* market is technophiles. If we
want it to be something else, we need to change some of Fedora's key design
decisions -- particularly, the upgrade-yearly lifespan.
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special meaning. And I think it's particularly that special meaning in the
slogan that's resonating with people.
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s. The Jeep Grand Cherokee is freedom. Nike is freedom.
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Rock and roll is freedom. Truth is freedom. Education is freedom. Feminine
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r Bells And
Whistles." Or worse, "Freedom: A Feature Sort Of Like SELinux, Which
Everybody Turns Off When It Comes Time To Do Anything Useful."
But "Freedom is the Essence" doesn't have the same resonance.
And "Freedom: Not Just a Feature!" takes to
the law to protect freedom too. I'm too
tired to be really witty right now but maybe someone else can pick up from
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:)
Well, I was skeptical about the whole barcamp thing last time and that
totally worked, so I'll defer to you here. Bring on the circus!
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On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 06:15:30PM -0400, Markus McLaughlin wrote:
> The next major FUDcon should also be a media event because the XO Laptop
Kind of hard to get anything done at the FUDcon if it's also a circus....
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On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 05:52:39PM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> What do you think about designing an official FUDcon logo to be used at
> FUDcons all over the world?
In favor. If you can work my picture into it, so much the better. *grin*
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 02:31:49PM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> 2) When someone asks "What is Fedora" what is our official answer?
Apparently, "my t-shirt is!".
Um.
Sorry.
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're aware, given that it starts with:
While this story is a historical illustration of the danger of software
patents, these particular patents are now no longer a concern (see
footnote below). For details of our website policies regarding GIFs, see
our web guidelines.
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> A parrot has not been decided as a mascot nor have we even decided that
> e need a mascot at all. Your comment on it seems premature.
Although this brings up an important point -- parrots have a lifespan of
decades
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t know what else
> needs to be done.
Can we also make them click "I wouldn't be installing this distribution if I
didn't want to upgrade it at least every other release, now would I?"
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first thought too.
Actually, it's my second thought. My first thought is: we need a mascot?
What are we, a breakfast cereal?
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On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:59:17PM -0300, Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira wrote:
> Hi Guys!
> Read this:
> http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/1340237
Or, really, really, really, don't.
(It's the ESR "hey everybody look at me" letter again.)
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On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:35:01AM +0100, Giuseppe Pignataro wrote:
> 1) My first idea is to create a site like linuxcounter for people that use
> Fedora.
> I believe that this idea is good for two reason.
[...]
See: <http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/>
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nk Alan Cox's short answer was the best. Beyond that, there's not much
to say.
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Are you seriously asking if Debian includes the Linux kernel, the Apache web
server, MySQL, or any of Perl, PHP, or Python?
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to the point, back *from*)
CentOS are in order
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ild.
Fedora Buzzwordy.
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On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 10:11:41PM +, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> choices will be made regarding whether or not to enable them. And if
> Fedora is to be about anything.. it should strive to be about informed
> choice.
For aquatic mammals.
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On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 12:13:36AM +0530, Tejas Dinkar wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 21:17 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > Well, here's the repo count for your example:
> > core
[snip everything]
> You Do know that you have just given about 5 repos.
No. Do you?
> co
dthirdparty-testing-source
That's 29 right there. Some not enabled, but the earlier poster said some
weren't.
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er working arrangement with derivative
> distributions is pretty important for Fedora. We have a number of Fedora
> derivatives out there that could be doing interesting modifications that
> we need to look at.
And we need to do a better job feeding back to Fedora. There's just
e+Extras
> packages then it can't use the logo. That's what I was trying to drive.
Ah, okay. And that makes perfect sense. :)
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ething takes a
_base_ of Fedora and builds on that base by adding additional packages is
some way not _based_ on Fedora?
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release package to
> avoid some potential confusion/snafus. It's something we could consider
> doing I guess.
Maybe a good idea to break the release notes out of the fedora-release
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On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 02:11:09PM -0500, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> Logo has been approved for use. Further updates soon.
Cool!
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*must* be changed in the clarified/additional
rules being worked on.
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Ds for Fedora Core. Had to identify that they CDs were
> for Fedora, rather than for CentOS or SUSE or something like that.
And, lawyers or nay, you can totally do that, no matter what the trademark
holder says, because it's functional, descriptive use.
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to deal with questions like the ones you're raising
> right now.
I think a common OEM case is: What if the CD included is stock Fedora, but
the installed system has been modified? I know of several vendors which
do this already, and are calling it "Fedora"
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at stated the drivers are not part of the
> distro DVD the customers will get, with instructions on how to get
> them and install them?
The trademark guidelines would apply again. But also, it would depend on the
licensing terms of the drivers, too.
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but rather
FUDCon/FUDConBoston2006.
Does anyone have a problem with that? Like, I mean, a problem with a
rational basis? :)
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", when actually what it has is additional huge rough
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meframe we're talking about, that won't be an issue.
But hey, this is off-topic. :)
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On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 09:07:26PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Hrm, good point. We are making some moves w/ Legacy, just not sure if
> it is that entertaining of a topic (;
Yeah, I think that's the problem. :)
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talk about
> re working @ Red Hat and the impending or just released FC5 and looking
> forward to FC6.
Or in a different direction, maybe something on Fedora Legacy?
(Which, by the way, I will talk to you about more after Thanksgiving.)
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leaving the
next important step of: who is going speak at this thing?
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yes, I think I did hear that. Got any schemes?
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help against that
horrible squealing feedback issue we had during the keynote. :)
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On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 03:48:16PM -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > We actually did pretty good video at the first FUDCon. Good tip -- maybe
> > worth a repeat performance.
> Is there going to be a pydance dance-off this year?
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I've already talked a little bit with Jack, and with people at BU -- hence
my post. :)
> Greg and I of course will be involved, but a larger team means we can
> get more stuff done.
> Consider this a call for action.
Yep!
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On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 07:48:31PM -0500, Alex Maier wrote:
> Hey folks,
Which folks?
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o last year's short trip on the Green B Line, or even walking.)
Since we'll have more advance planning this time around, we should be able
to accommodate more people -- probably around 180.
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to have to become initiated into the cult to be
> able to grasp it.
But why do you need to grasp it? You don't "grasp" the Nike logo; you just
instantly recognize it.
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and clear. For that
> reason, we will be quite conservative in the decisions we make abut what
> might infringe.
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n
> > afoul of the definition of "contributory infringement".
> So yumex must be escluded from fedora extras because it can import
> Repos? That can't be it.
No, but the default yumex configuration had to change so that it didn't list
optional third-party repo
hat are exposed, even if the complaint doesn't feel
fair at first to an insider. For example, the gripe about OpenOffice warning
that it's a beta version with no obvious explanation.
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On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 12:16:14AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > >http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems
> > But obviously they weren't answered for the review author. So there is a
> > problem in our getting the message out. What good is the wiki if its
ing our users?
Hmmm -- the default firefox bookmarks in uptates/testing/3 seem to still be
"Red Hat, Inc.", "Red Hat Network", "Red Hat Linux Documentation", etc.
Maybe the Fedora Wiki could be there instead?
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On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:16:07AM -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> Tell you what: starting in 2006, we'll call every event
> "FUDCon City Year."
> All right?
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UDCon III happening in San Francisco in August then?
> Or is this FUDCon IV?
I tell you, this numbering scheme leads to madness.
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