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So, your professor has said those awful, fateful words: “You should have a project blog.” While all the cool kids are tweeting their thoughts, you’ve been shouldered with this ponderous blog; worse, you have no idea what to write in it, or who is going to read it. Fear not! This quick guide (written primarily for students . . . → Read More: the busy student’s guide to project blogging I’ve managed to do an initial packaging for Fedora of the toolchain that we use for programming the Arduino (see post with cool video). This is a big step—it means I’ve learned something about packaging, and it means we’re closer to being able to provide a really cool educational tool to the Fedora community. There’s still . . . → Read More: first package: lint free For some time, friends and I have been making a list of military pun names. Some of them are assigned to people already; some of them are not. Recently, we allowed royalty… we’ll see how that goes, though. Taken Major Disaster General Knowledge Colonel Panic Private Parts General Principle Corporal Punishment Seaman Stains Free General Consumption Major Contribution Major Corrections (or Major Revisions) General Direction General Discussion Major Distraction General Encouragement General Enough General . . . → Read More: not for general consumption… Building Mozilla Minefield took 60 minutes on my Fedora 11 VirtualBox VM. The VM lives on an external USB drive, so given the I/O and everything else, that’s not so bad.
By “not so bad” I mean “that’s rather slow,” but all things considered, it will make working with things this week far easier than running . . . → Read More: mozilla minefield One of the things that I clearly am too worried about is how I interact with open source community in a meaningful way and how that is reflected in my evaluation as a member of the faculty. I am evaluated on the excellence of my teaching and my research. At Allegheny, the former is considered more important, . . . → Read More: open source and the academy (first thoughts) Omer Kilic (twitter)is now a PhD student at the University of Kent; I had the pleasure of working with him while I was there doing my degree a few years back. (In fact, Omer’s excitement about embedded systems is part of the reason why I finally got over my own fears about real hardware and started . . . → Read More: parallel blinkenlights Packaging software takes a long time. Most of the afternoon and evening, my screen looked like this:
Now, I have a headache that won’t go away, and it still looks like this. I suspect it is a combination of things, so I’m probably going to crash out early and get up early to continue packaging. I’d love to . . . → Read More: packaging The firehose is tough to drink from. Dave showed us Planet Mozilla. Chris is showing us Planet Fedora. The volume of information available is huge. But, I’m particularly interested in the fact that students can quickly/easily begin joining a community on the periphery. Through IRC, mailing lists, and aggregators, students can get up to speed quickly on topics . . . → Read More: tracking community I haven’t collected many autographs in my life. In high school, my quartet had a chance to sing the Blackbird Medley with the Acoustix; they signed a CD for us. In grad school, I had the opportunity to meet Steve Jackson, and spent half-a-day geeking out over LEGO Mindstorms robots and giving him a tour of . . . → Read More: open source autographs
This week I’m in Raleigh, North Carolina. The majority of my time here will be spent at Red Hat HQ taking part in POSSE 2009. POSSE is a gathering of faculty and open source practitioners where we are learning about and practicing the skills necessary to take part in open source communities. Our goal is . . . → Read More: posse day one |
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