Friends. Features. Freedom. First. Forever.
by Remy DeCausemaker
Fedorans,
When I packed up my entire life and moved to fair Rollywood this past
January to be closer to Red Hat Tower and dive head-first into this
role as the first ever Fedora Community Action and Impact Lead, it was
an absolute dream for me. Every day, I'm working with some of the most
talented, motivated, brilliant hackers, designers, and volunteers that
build and ship the operating system at the core of my digital
existence--not to mention much of the enterprises and infrastructure
around the world. The scale of problems, and the speed at which we are
solving them, is still absolutely mind-blowing to me.
I love my job.
I love my team.
I love the Fedora Community.
I love Red Hat.
Wholeheartedly.
Thank you, all of you.
Never did I imagine there would ever be another opportunity that could
sway me from this path, which I flipped my life upside down to
pursue... but then I got
the call...
Things are moving quickly, and I don't have all the details yet, but
it looks like I'm going to be the first ever Open Source Campaign
Manager for the next President of the United States, Hillary Clinton.
I have to be at campaign HQ in Brooklyn NY ready to hit the ground
running on Monday.
I will be spending my last 24 hours as a Red Hatter flipping my entire
life upside down, again, and I wanted to give the community one last
window to ping me with any outstanding business or questions, and
direct you to the appropriate channels thereafter.
After tomorrow, I'm going to be packing up and moving to Brooklyn to
work 8 days a week until roughly Thanksgiving ;)
In my absence, here is a list of points of contact for FCL business
(cc'd above,) until my replacement arrives.
For all things related to:
- Fedora Council, Matthew Miller: mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org
- Fedora Budget, Events, and ambassadors, Joe Brockmeier: jzb(a)redhat.com
- Fedora Engineering/Infrastructure, Paul Frields: pfrields(a)fedoraproject.org
- Community Operations/CommBlog/Mktg/Misc, the Community Operations
Team: commops(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
I know the timing is less than ideal, with Red Hat Summit next week,
and Flock in August, but, I believe this position will bring the most
visibility to the work and principles that Red Hat, Fedora, and the
FOSS community stand for.
I find strength, purpose, and peace in these words of George Bernard Shaw:
"...I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community,
and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
...Life is no "brief candle" for me. It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as
brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."
This is one of those "once in a lifetime" moments in our history, and
if the Free and Open Source Software Movement can be part of that,
then I'm willing to answer the call.
Happy Hacking,
--RemyD.
7 years, 10 months
[URGENT] GSoC Midterm Evaluations are now OPEN and will CLOSE in less
than one Week!
by Remy DeCausemaker
GSoC Students and Mentors,
The Midtem evaluation period has begun, and will close in less than a
week! The mentors have been checking in with eachother and it has come
to our collective attention that some of you are behind on your
planned work for the first half of the program.
If you haven't been checking in with your mentor, participating in IRC
discussions on a daily basis, and making obvious progress on your
goals and projects that is publicly visible in commit logs, and/or
public mailing lists, repositories, and issue trackers, we can draw no
other conclusion than you are not committing the requisite amount of
time to the program, resulting in a failing evaluation.
As an organizational admin, I know that each of you were selected
above other applicants for these highly competitive slots. The Fedora
Project cannot afford to give you a free pass for midterms, as it
could jeopardize the number of slots we will be awarded in the future
if we do not hold high standards, and avoid wasting the precious
resources that were so generously provided by our sponsoring
organization.
Each of you should absolutely check in with your mentors in the next
24 hours and make sure you know where you stand. The mentors will be
collectively evaluating each of you BY THE END OF THIS WEEK, so do not
delay.
For those of you who have been steadily making progress on your plan
of work, and participating actively on a daily basis, kudos to you!
Keep up the good work! If you know of or see other GSoC students that
need help, be there for eachother, build eachother up, and help keep
everyone productive and engaged. We're all in this together.
Good Luck, and Happy Hacking,
--RemyD.
--
Remy DeCausemaker
Fedora Community Lead & Council
<decause(a)redhat.com>
https://whatcanidoforfedora.org
7 years, 10 months
GSoC Weekly Update
by Bhagyashree Padalkar
Hi everyone ,
As decided in the #summer-coding channel, we decided to not have a weekly check-in meeting today due to the low numbers but instead have a mailing list update. It would be great if GSoC students could post to this thread with their updates over the past week :) A link to a blog post describing what you did or any specific issues you faced would be awesome but otherwise a simple write up about would do ! I know some of you have been doing some pretty exciting work over the summer and I look forward to knowing about other GSoC projects too :) Also, I know
I have said this before too but if you are facing any issues , don't forget to contact your mentors or people in the community !
Happy coding over the summers ,
Cheers,
Bee
7 years, 10 months
Summer Coding Weekly Meeting Recap - 2016-06-01
by Sachin S. Kamath
Meeting ended Wed Jun 1 16:20:53 2016 UTC. Information about MeetBot at
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Meeting summary
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* Roll Call (bee2502_, 15:36:12)
* Weekly Review meeting for GSOC 2016 students and mentors (bee2502_,
15:36:17)
* GSoC weekly recap (bee2502_, 15:38:49)
* Students discuss their projects and give a quick summary of what
they have worked on over the past week. (bee2502_, 15:39:36)
* skamath has been working on a stats tool to gather weekly
information on summer interns. My work can be found in Pagure. I
have written the basic documentation in the README file. I am
planning to add more features to it and hopefully, switch from
datagrepper to statscache this week (skamath, 15:42:00)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/gsoc-stats (skamath, 15:42:13)
* fhackdroid worked on integrating PMCI and pagure so that pagure has
its own CI, it is near to the first cut (fhackdroid, 15:43:02)
* Vivek Anand; Pagure; Making sure the config keys were working
correctly-keys like enable_tickets, enable_new_projects etc. link:
https://pagure.io/pagure/pull-request/1007 (vivek_, 15:44:10)
* Mathnerd314 worked on refactoring the pull code to make it easier to
work with (Mathnerd314, 15:46:04)
* ACTION: skamath talk to decause regarding Onboarding badges
(skamath, 15:50:17)
* skamath will be attending the next Commops Hack session to
understand the Onboarding steps better (skamath, 15:52:25)
* fhackdroid just sharing my experience I am just excited about
bringing CI to Pagure (fhackdroid, 15:57:18)
* ronith created a new repo for the kernel CMA patch, created area for
the crash kernel and is working on the linux kernel CMA patch
(skamath, 16:04:13)
* c0mrad3 is working on a new tool chain for docs (bee2502_,
16:11:50)
* LINK:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/dhanvi/asciidoctor-mallard/
(c0mrad3, 16:16:51)
* LINK: http://frostyx.cz/posts/copr-rubygems (c0mrad3, 16:18:50)
Meeting ended at 16:20:53 UTC.
Action Items
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* skamath talk to decause regarding Onboarding badges
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* decause
* skamath talk to decause regarding Onboarding badges
* skamath
* skamath talk to decause regarding Onboarding badges
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
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* bee2502_ (51)
* zodbot (18)
* c0mrad3 (15)
* vivek_ (12)
* fhackdroid (9)
* ronith (6)
* Mathnerd314 (3)
* sayan (1)
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Regards,
Sachin S. Kamath
7 years, 10 months
