Bert blogt

Yesterday we had our second Fedora release party. This time the event was held in Ghent, at our beloved hackerspace .

I arrived around 5.30pm, almost together with Vincent. He started out with placing the PXE boot server, and I went out hanging Fedora banners around the place, so people would find the venue in the labyrinth.

We expected some new people because the date of our event felt together with with the end of puppetcamp. But there were some regular Fedora attendees too. Around 8pm I asked Kris to order some pizzas via just-eat (he already has an account there). The regular hackerspace people were surprised we we ate 13 pizza’s.

After the food I gave a quick presentation about Fedora 13, without any real preparation. In the end I talked about:
* Fedora 13 one page release notes
* Fedora Spins
* FUDcon
I also want to thank Francesco Crippa for helping me with the talk.

After my talk Dag Wieers gave a lightning talk about his tool Dstat. In the end his talk lasted more than one hour. He showed us a nice demo of Dstat’s features. It was really cool because we weren’t even sure Dag would come.

After his talk it was time for some regular chit chat, and share some business cards

A big thank you to the hackerspace people and all visitors.

you can find pictures here.

With the release of Fedora 13 on may 26, we will be holding a small release party again. You are all invited at our Hackerspace in Ghent, Belgium.

There will be pizza!

Yesterday I went to the Ubuntu Developer Summit M, because it was held in Belgium, and I was interested in how uds worked (I picked some ideas up for our own Fudcon ) . That morning  Toshaan picked me up at Gent-Sint-Pieters. We arrived around 9am at the Dolce La Hulpe Hotel and Resort, Brussels, Belgium.

The day started off with an Introduction by Jono Bacon. After a quick search we know that bacon is also popular within Fedora! After Jono explained how UDS works Mark Shuttleworth gave his keynote.  (video) Mark talked about ubuntu light and about talking to upstream if there work is ready and blah blah. I totally disagree with him there, you should start talking to upstream before you do cong fu. During the day I learned that working with upstream comes from the community, in stead of from canonical. *sigh* Mark hinted that the next release date should be on 10 October 2010 (101010b = 42d).

First I went to the opening talk (round table) about Security. As a Fedora guy, I started promoting SELinux there, as a solution for some of there ‘problems’, but they were still quite sceptic about it. Next I went to the Configuration management tools and files. It was a really fascinating look at the current state of config file management via dpkg. something RPM does better.

At lunch I got to hang out with Elizabeth Krumbach and Martin Owens. We had some interesting discussions about the cultural differences in the Fedora and Ubuntu community. Of course we had to take a picture, and mr Martin thought it was funny to give me bunny ears. I’ll get him back!

After lunch there was a series of Plenaries, starting with Ivanka Majic presenting for The Design Team (video) where she discussed some of their user testing of Ubuntu 10.04 which they’ll be posting on the design blog soon. Next up was Thiago Macieira presenting on QT Roadmap / Overview (video) and then Rick Spencer on Application Developers and Maverick (video).

In the afternoon I went to some other talks.

I got one good idea from UDS that we could use during FUDcon too: round tables in the morning, get work then afterwards.

Maybe I’ll come over to UDS on Thursday or Friday too, but I’m not sure yet.