Re: Status of the picture book

2009-02-26 Thread William Cattey
I agree with Chuck. Although I was easily able to sign the model release I received at FudCon because it was releasing the image I gave, the Red Hat lawyers seem to want perpetual license to use all aspects of my likeness for marketing purposes, and MIT, my employer will not permit that.

Re: four f's poster designs

2008-10-23 Thread William Cattey
+1 You have a great eye and a great style, Mairin. -Bill William Cattey Linux Platform Coordinator MIT Information Services & Technology N42-040M, 617-253-0140, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://web.mit.edu/wdc/www/ On Oct 23, 2008, at 10:09 PM, Leigh Cantrell Day wrote: Mairin -- these

Re: The Education Strategy

2008-08-20 Thread William Cattey
Jack, Your scope and rationale make 100% good sense to me. I see the Campus Reps and RHH initiatives as places were MIT and Fedora can more fully engage. Well done! -Bill William Cattey Linux Platform Coordinator MIT Information Services & Technology N42-040M, 617-253-0140, [E

Re: Recruiting Students (Campus Ambassadors)

2008-07-01 Thread William Cattey
ost importantly, how can I show that it would be a valuable thing to try with low risk to the bureaucrats? Would I really get emails from students interested in participating in Linux support and development if I did nothing more than poster the campus? -Bill William Cattey

Re: dormant bugs and our perception

2008-01-02 Thread William Cattey
ldn't need posters. There are students calling in with problems and solutions all the time. I think the key is to get those 3-4 FTEs in at the triage level so that instead of turning away our seed corn, it begins to grow! -Bill ---- William Cattey Linux Platform Coordinator MIT I

Re: dormant bugs and our perception

2007-12-31 Thread William Cattey
cheat yourself out of useful information and forward progress on the code base. Bottom line: Every bug deserves 15 minutes of triage. The value produced is measurable and significant. -Bill William Cattey Linux Platform Coordinator MIT Information Services & Technology N42-

Re: Fedora more successful, developer-wise, than Ubuntu

2007-12-24 Thread William Cattey
this focus? -Bill William Cattey Linux Platform Coordinator MIT Information Services & Technology N42-040M, 617-253-0140, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://web.mit.edu/wdc/www/ On Dec 24, 2007, at 5:38 PM, Jon Stanley wrote: On Dec 24, 2007 4:19 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: Fedora more successful, developer-wise, than Ubuntu

2007-12-23 Thread William Cattey
ll build from the Fedora code base, not the less interesting, but more usable Debian/Ubuntu code base. -Bill William Cattey Linux Platform Coordinator MIT Information Services & Technology N42-040M, 617-253-0140, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://web.mit.edu/wdc/www/ On Dec 21, 2007, a

Re: Fedora Feature Overview

2007-10-24 Thread William Cattey
Yes! That focus looks like it's going to be very helpful to the understanding of people curious about F8 but who are coming to Fedora from the outside. -Bill ---- William Cattey Linux Platform Coordinator MIT Information Services & Technology N42-040M, 617-253-0140, [EMAIL

Re: Fedora Life Cycle

2007-10-22 Thread William Cattey
life cycle. The RHEL 5 driver update to get rid of the SATA timeouts on start-up won't ship till after the machine is gone at this rate. So, yes quarterly updates should, in theory solve the problem. In practice, they are necessary, but not sufficient. -Bill William Cattey Linux Platf

Re: Fedora Life Cycle

2007-10-22 Thread William Cattey
dates. Indeed if the problem is framed, "stability versus innovation" the two aspects are in conflict. My question is: How can use cases for hardware available now, requiring a few critical apps needing to be ported now be accommodated? Neither Enterprise nor Fedora fits well

Re: Promotion of Linux is one of many tasks for me!

2007-10-16 Thread William Cattey
ning across your excellent questions might mistake it as a very detailed way to put someone onto a marketing site. I'm sure that's not what you intended. You might want to see why clicking on the answers stopped working. -Bill William Cattey Linux Platform Coordinator MIT Inform

Re: New Meeting Minute Format

2007-10-15 Thread William Cattey
done! There are rather a lot of meetings for which that kind of transformation would be quite useful. Thanks for doing it, and making the translator into a program so others can make it happen easily. -Bill ---- William Cattey Linux Platform Coordinator MIT Information Services & Techno