LWCE Fedora Chat

Tammy Fox tfox at redhat.com
Fri Jan 23 07:05:48 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 05:57, leam wrote:
> Not bad for a Wednesday evening. Here's what I can remember at 0530 the 
> morning after.
> 
> Several illustrious Red Hat folks were there, most of whom I completely 
> missed their names. Apologies for any misspellings. Notable in his 
> passionate emphasis on Fedora Team structure, Tom "Spot" Calloway 
> carried a bit of the time without dominating or preaching. Well, a 
> little preaching but no Red Hat Bible thumping. Well....
> 
> Tom seems dedicated to spurring Red Hat into building a solid Fedora 
> Community Team *without* the complete dominance of Red Hat personell. 
> Mention this to Tom if you're interested.
> 
> Havoc Pennington shared his thoughts, and for those of us who don't 
> normally see the personality or hear of the issues that never make a 
> public appearence it was interesting. Didn't drop any bomb shells nor 
> slam anyone, but it *is* nice to know the amount of work and challenge 
> required to keep the ivory tower spiffy.
> 
> Michael Tiemann gave some honest answers to questions raised, even 
> showing some of the thought processes behind some decisions made by Red 
> Hat. His words carried the depth of conviction and he was there when Tom 
> was making his pitch for the Fedora Team. Since Red Hat owns that action 
> item, we can look for progress to be made. Assuming he doesn't keep 
> deleting Spots e-mail. Sorry, in joke. Nevermind.....
> 
> Various discussions were held, Eric Raymond showed up for a few minutes, 
> and we nattered about diverse opinions. It was great to see some people 
> who identified themselves as newbies or end users--I'm glad they feel 
> comfortable enough to join and everyone made them welcome. Michael T. 
> gets the award for 'longest single answer' though the guy behind me won 
> the 'simple question that stirred up the most debate'. :)
> 
> As the coffee hasn't kicked in I'll end before I blather. Others can 
> contribute their perceptions and probably give a better overall view.
> 
> And yes, Tammy Fox or someone willing to wear her name tag to a Fedora 
> meeting was there. She was receptive to prodding about the Fedora list 
> and should get more done when LWCE settles in the dust.
> 

Yes. That was really me. ;-) Sorry I was only able to answer a few
questions before I had to leave. I had another scheduled event at 7:30PM
that I couldn't be late for. I was impressed by the number of people who
showed up for the BOF. Thanks to everyone who came by my pod so far at
LW to talk about Fedora and/or the magazine. For those of you who didn't
read the press release, check out http://www.redhatmagazine.com/. Each
issue will contain information about Fedora as well as other practical
application information about Open Source software.

Tammy

> ciao!
> 
> leam
> 





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