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Aditi wants to spice up your mobile!
by Aditi Misra 26 Sep '10

26 Sep '10

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Class on 2010-09-30 at 01:00 UTC - Upcoming Fedora 14 features
by Kevin Fenzi 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

Greetings. I am going to plan to do 2 classes coming up: First, on 2010-09-30 (evening of the 29th in north america) at 01:00 UTC I will be doing a class going over the Fedora 14 feature list. Information about upcoming features and cool things to look forward to in this next Fedora release. Then, on 2010-10-03 at 18:00 UTC, I will doing a class on Web browsers and web tools in Fedora. There's many alternative web browsers and some handy web tools out there, this class will go over some of them and their features. I hope everyone can join me for these classes. kevin

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fedora 13
by randy romano 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

Just installed fedora 13 on my Dell Latitude D610 and wanted to say to the development team that it was a very pleasant experience. Everything works, and works well. I run mostly RHEL servers at work and am not accustom to the GUI interface. Configuring the wireless network was the most challenge; it took about 5 min to find the icon to enable the wireless. Once that was done I downloaded Google Chrome and ran the install. It needed a few rpm's, which was automatically downloaded during the install process. No problems. A+ work. Thanks^2 for a great experience PS. Thanks to Tech Republic for a write up on the new fedora 13 OS. Without the write-up, I wouldn't have consider fedora. Ubuntu and Mint are excellent Linux distros, but I prefer the Red Hat type distro.

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Distributed Collaboration Tools: followup from watercooler/classroom yesterday
by Mel Chua 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

(this is a followup to the class advertised at http://blog.melchua.com/2010/09/07/fedora-classroom-tuesday-sep-14-at-1600-…) Thanks to everyone who came yesterday! I was... honestly, stunned by how well it went. Lots of participation, lots of questions, lots of insight for me to digest in terms of how to teach these things better in the future. Here's the promised (first) followup email. As is common for so many of us, I immediately got hosed with life and work *right* after running yesterday's classroom session on distributed collaboration tools. BUT: the first rule of followup is "release early, release often." Get *something* out within 24 hours, no matter what it is - perfection can come later. Thanks to Zodbot, I can send this in just a few minutes because we've already got logs and minutes from the session: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-classroom/2010-09-14/basic_distribu… - so those of you looking for notes and for what happened (the full log is, imo, worth reading - lots of great questions in there) I'll be following up with a longer email on Thursday and individual pings for the folks who asked questions - feel free to shoot questions to the lists and/or my way. --Mel PS: Mike and Michal, can you ship this to the Red Hat lists you advertised on for the watercooler? Thanks!

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Fedora Classroom, Tuesday Sep 14 at 1600 UTC – Working with people who aren’t there: basic distributed collaboration tools
by Mel Chua 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

I just sent an announcement to Planets Fedora and TOS about this one (http://blog.melchua.com/2010/09/07/fedora-classroom-tuesday-sep-14-at-1600-…) but I'll repost a bit here for those who don't read Planet. This is meant to be a Classroom session for interested people who are not *yet* Fedora (or FOSS - this generalizes to other open source communities as well!) contributors and want to start seeing how, exactly, these thousands of people from all over the world work together. I'm trying to log it in a way that will make it usable for introducing these tools to students in the future. It's based on the 1st-day curriculum of POSSE, for those of you who've been through one. Feedback and comments and such welcome, and if Fedora Classroom people can help me get this into the right places on the wiki I'd be very grateful. :) Thanks! --Mel --------- I’ll be running a Fedora Classroom on basic distributed communication tools and practices on Tuesday, September 14, at 1600 UTC in #fedora-classroom on irc.freenode.net. These (open source, of course) tools aren’t coding-specific – in fact, our design, marketing, etc. teams use them as well – so anyone interested in distributed communties I’m going to assume basic knowledge of IRC, because that’s how the session is going to be taught, but if you’re interested in this and new to IRC let me know ahead of time and I’d be happy to help you get set up prior to the session. Topics covered: 1. Fedora Classroom – we have a channel (#fedora-classroom on freenode) set aside for learning experiences, so if someone needs to teach somebody else something in a structured way, they go there, and other people can then overhear it. This is where I will be teaching the session. 2. Running realtime meetings and synchronous conversations on IRC with zodbot – we have a logging bot that sits in the classroom channel (and in other channels for meetings). Using inline conversation tags like “#action” or “#topic” or “#agreed”, it produces meeting notes and full logs. Never take meeting notes again! Side note: log archives make for educational reading sometimes, because they’re the times in the channel that others deemed interesting enough to log. 3. Collaborative text editing with gobby and Etherpad – we’ll be using this to take notes on the classroom session being held in IRC. I like getting hands-on as early as possible when I’m teaching. :) 4. Sharing what you’ve done (asycnchronously) afterwards: For Fedora, this is a mailing list; you say things like “I’ll be teaching a packaging class on Tuesday” or “I taught packaging class on Tuesday, here are the logs.” Individual participants in that class (especially if it’s a multi-class experience) tend to blog their reflections to Planet. All these things promote accidental learning – the chances of someone who’s not already involved stumbling across these people thinking out loud about what they’re doing is very high, so learning groups tend to snowball into functionality very quickly, and people generally have a high degree of peripheral awareness as to what’s going on.

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