Some months ago the Fedora Board decided on a ‘Vision statement’, a goal towards the Fedora project should strive in the long term. The vision statement states the following: The Fedora Project creates a world where free culture is welcoming and widespread, collaboration is commonplace, and people control their content and devices. I personally believe that this is  a good [...]

Whitespace [1], the hackerspace where I am a member of, turns one next month. [2] That’s why we want to invite everybody who is interested in technology, and/or trying new things to our space on 25 and 26 March. The call for papers is still open.. still in doubt? don’t hesitate! JUST DO IT! (R) Hope to see a lot [...]

Day 0 The FAD It’s starts to become a tradition, the FOSDEM FAD [1] on Friday at ‘A la mort subite’, the day before FOSDEM starts. I think we were with some 20 people, which was nice. During the fad also people from other projects, like GNOME joined us. This is something we totally promote. Fedora is more than Fedora [...]

Hi! Fosdem is around the corner, and I wanted to keep you up to date with some things. For the Fedora people, FOSDEM starts on Friday. On Friday, From 1pm till 6pm everyone is welcome in ‘A La Mort Subite’ for our yearly FAD. I think there are enough in EMEA that we can talk about. After the FAD we’ll [...]

hi, Tomorrow is the day of days   We will have another release event in Don Bosco Werken en Leren in Wilrijk, Antwerp. I can now announce the full schedule for tomorrow * Contribute or die (Bert Desmet) * RHEL 6 Feature Highlights (Frederic Hornain) * Fedora 14 Feature Highlights  (Bert Desmet) * Extending RHEL6 with RPMforge and ELRepo (Dag [...]

I’m most probably going to the open source conference in Amsterdam. Anyone else going by car? Maybe we can share a ride?

Yesterday, FAMSCO elected four new mentors for the Fedora Ambassador Program. I was elected, together with Pierros for the EMEA region. So if you want to become an ambassador, and you live in this region, or more specific, in the BeNeLux, don’t hesitate to contact me. You can of course still ask me other questions about the Fedora project too, [...]

Fedora 14 is released! what a happy day for all of us! Get is here To celebrate this, we’ll have a release event again in Belgium. Our schedule is ready (but I don’t promise it’s *fixed*, if you have something cool to talk about, please let me know so we can fit it in..) As this event is not only [...]

According to wikipedia, e Visa is the following: A visa (from the Latin charta visa, lit. “paper that has been seen”[1]) is an indication that a person is authorized to enter the territory for which it was “issued”, subject to permission of an immigration official at the time of actual entry. The authorization may be a document, but more commonly [...]