Ian Weller’s free software blog » self http://ianweller.org Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:46:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 SouthEast LinuxFest: Growth is a good thing http://ianweller.org/2010/06/15/southeast-linuxfest-growth-is-a-good-thing/ http://ianweller.org/2010/06/15/southeast-linuxfest-growth-is-a-good-thing/#comments Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:39:32 +0000 Ian Weller http://ianweller.org/?p=606 The first thing I noticed Saturday morning was that, in its second year, SouthEast LinuxFest has significant growth. Last year, there were enough booths for a single public space in a student union; this year, booth space was expanded to nearly every hallway used by SELF. I was amazed.

Hats off to the entire SELF team, especially David Nalley, the go-to guy for Fedora contributors by default, and Jeremy Sands, the speaker coordinator. Everybody did an amazing job at making the conference run very smoothly, all things considered. :)

Max and I drove down Friday morning to make it in time for a Docs/wiki hackfest. When I got there, we were talking about the main [[Docs Project]] wiki page; when we were done, we had reworked the join process for Docs. (Or, at least that’s what I can remember doing.)

After the speaker dinner that evening, Michael DeHaan and I skipped on the loud music party and went to go take pictures of Spartanburg. I got some interesting ones:

00128 00028 00076 00063 00152 00097 00087

Saturday I went to go see a couple talks and gave one of my own on the datanommer project. About half the people were Red Hat/Fedora people, which is fine, but the other half were people who I had not seen before. That’s good — somebody outside of Fedora is interested. That’s pretty much the whole point on presenting it outside of a FUDCon. ;)

On Sunday, we had FAD @ SELF, and I think we got a few new people interested in contributing back to Fedora. Awesome!

Overall, I think it was a good weekend, and I’ll be waiting for SELF next year. :)

]]> http://ianweller.org/2010/06/15/southeast-linuxfest-growth-is-a-good-thing/feed/ 3 SELF, day 0 http://ianweller.org/2009/06/13/self-day-0/ http://ianweller.org/2009/06/13/self-day-0/#comments Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:02:18 +0000 Ian Weller http://ianweller.org/?p=465 Too distracted to create cohesive paragraphs, so I’ll make randomish statements.

Landing in ATL was rough. Seriously—the pilot almost made me sick. But that’s Delta Connection for ya.

freedeb is an awesome person.

Going to Rockhopper’s after we got there was brilliant, whoever set that up.

Dave Yates: sorry about your steak. ;)

]]> http://ianweller.org/2009/06/13/self-day-0/feed/ 0 SELF, day -1 http://ianweller.org/2009/06/12/self-day-1/ http://ianweller.org/2009/06/12/self-day-1/#comments Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:44:52 +0000 Ian Weller http://ianweller.org/?p=461 I’m on a plane tomorrow, which means one thing: procrastinating packing and watching Airplane!

In other news, I’ll be at SELF. :)

Edit: I had a haircut. Don’t let me scare the crap out of you because of it. Thanks, The Management

]]> http://ianweller.org/2009/06/12/self-day-1/feed/ 3 SELF-reliance http://ianweller.org/2009/05/28/self-reliance/ http://ianweller.org/2009/05/28/self-reliance/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 17:10:18 +0000 Ian Weller http://ianweller.org/?p=457 So I’m all signed up and ready to go down to SELF. Excitement abound!

At SELF I will be unveiling my short hair to the free software world, and hopefully have the first draft(ish) of the new brand book done too.

Also the ticket from Wichita was really holy-crap-I-could-have-bought-it-myself cheap. That helped too. Yay, recession!

]]> http://ianweller.org/2009/05/28/self-reliance/feed/ 0