Sexy Sexy Penguins

Recently, I was laid off from Guru Labs. While I still think of them as a great company, I must forge on, looking for a new job. I really appreciate the 2.5 years I worked and all the friendships I made.  I also enjoyed the work and it reinforced my desire to share my love of free software with the world.

While I am a pretty solid Linux Admin, what I really think I’d be good at, is Project Management.  The problem being that I’ve little to no paid experience for such a thing.  The reason, however, that I believe I’d be a good fit for something like this is the fact that I’ve been in charge of the Utah Open Source Conference and it’s successful rise to the largest community conference in Utah.

Last year, we had a successful conference after a year of planning.  This year’s conference was much less work thanks to all the great volunteers, but it was still a big success, and a lot of work.  I’m excited to say that this is my pride and joy, and why I think I would be a good fit for a Project Manager.

In addition, I’m looking into starting my own business, the only problem there is the timing.  I’d like to launch it soon, but I don’t have enough capital to really get going anywhere.  However, I may still do this as I think the ideas I have would work well and could really benefit an open source community as well as small/medium sized tech businesses.  In fact, I have a meeting set up for tomorrow morning with someone who’s believed in me from the beginning on this endeavor.  I’m excited to try my hand as an employer.

I do want to mention that while this isn’t a plea to help get me a job, but rather some thoughts I needed to scribble down, I am actively looking for work.  If you have anything that might fit, here’s the latest version of my resume (in pdf form).

Guess we’ll see where the world takes me on this fun, fun ride I’ve been on for 30-some-odd years now.  And I guess that’s the point, I’m really enjoying this ride called life and so while it’s a bit of a stressful time, I’m grateful to accept these challenges.  I love solving problems, and this is just another small problem.

Tags: job hunting

Hi all,

Just a quick reminder that this Saturday and Sunday from 12:00 UTC until 16:00 UTC will be the Fedora Classroom sessions.  A few adjustments have been made to make things run smoother, but the sessions are still one hour, now with a 15 minute break in between.  If you are unfamiliar with IRC, there’s a helpful guide to get you started.

We still need volunteers to cover 3 sessions on Sunday.  If you have something to share, please sign up today.  The sessions can be as simple as you wish, the idea being we want to help users understand more about how Fedora works.  Maybe a session on the new features in Fedora 10?

Hope to see you all there.  I’ll be doing a class on ‘Creating Logical Volumes’ and I’m excited to do it!

Cheers,

Herlo

Tags: classroom, Fedora, irc

Recently, I announced a Fedora 10 release party here on my blog,  It turns out, that not only will it be a release party, with (hopefully) physical and electronic media available, but it will also be an installfest!!

SO BRING YOUR MACHINES AND GET THEM INSTALLED!

Victor Villa of the Utah PHP User Group (UPHPU) and a Utah Open Source Core Team Leader has offered his work as the location for the event.  It’s large, easy to find and best of all, centrally located in Draper, Utah.

We’ll have food, fun and probably even some prizes.  We’re working out the minor details but come on down and enjoy an evening of reverie with your Fedora friends!

Time to Fire It Up!

Clicking on the above poster will show the address and other details.

Here they are in print:

See you all there.

Cheers,

Herlo

Tags: Fedora, installfest, party, release

Get yours today.

Fedora 10 - Released

Available at mirrors everywhere.  Also via bittorrent ? and jigdo ?.

Freedom, Friends, Features, First!  That’s Fedora!

• Take the Tour
• Read the Release Notes
• Digg it

Cheers,

Herlo

Tags: f10, Fedora, release

The Utah Open Source Foundation “Mind Map”

After creating the Fedora Project Mind Map, I was better able to understand how UTOS was currently structured.  I was able to put together the main pieces pretty quickly, although it seems there are several gaps in my thought process still.  For that reason, I’m opening the UTOS structure up as well.  It might not have as many contributors, but I’d like to see the structure grow.

Tags: imfoss, mind map, organization, utos, UTOSC, vym

And I am already running Fedora 10.  It’s stable, powerful and most of all, built from free software!  Also, I’m in charge of creating the Media for North America this release.  We’ve already pre-purchased x86 live media and plan to produce similar amounts of x86_64 live CDs as well as both x86 and x86_64 install DVDs.  It’s exciting because they should be to my house by early to mid-December!  Distribution plans are commencing as well, so keep your ear to the ground.

Mark Your Calendars

I’m organizing a Fedora 10 release party, with a usb creation station, installfest and all that jazz.  It will probably be held on December 6.  There are a couple possible locations currently being discussed.  More details to come in the near future.

Cheers,

Herlo

Tags: Fedora, installfest, party, release

Recently, I’ve been plagued with trying to come up with an organizational model for the Utah Open Source Foundation and it’s relationship to the Utah Open Source Conference.  This is in addition to the new Non-Profit structure we’re building.

To that end, I created a very shabby hierarchical structure which I passed around a week ago at the Core Team after conference dinner.  It went over okay, but people had a lot of questions about how the structure was organized and what not.

Organizing My Thoughts is Hard!

I didn’t know what exactly to do.  As it is, I’ve never been an integral part of an organization before like this one.  Nor have I ever created organizational charts that were very well done.  I don’t think that’s going to change anytime soon.  But, something amazing did happen in the span between last Friday and today, that was VYM, or View Your Mind.

When a “Mind Map” was first suggested to me by my buddy Doran Barton, I thought “well, I’ll look into that later”.  However, the more I kept trying to cram jobs into places they didn’t go, the more I got frustrated that there wasn’t a good application to accommodate the structure I was trying to build.

VYM is an application that helps get your thoughts out onto a structure.  It lets you move it around quickly and easily and even associate pictures and notes where applicable.  The problem for me was understanding how to use VYM in an environment I already knew and UTOS was not the right place!

The Fedora Project “Mind Map”

It turns out that a lot of people always wonder how the Fedora Project is structured, where the pieces go and who, what, where and how the project is put together.  Because I could at least see all the pieces, I decided that would be a good place to start.  While it’s not complete by any means, I present to you the Fedora Project VYM “Mind Map”.  From VYM, one can create pdf, png and other output sources, so I created a pdf as well

Contribute!

I’d like to see the Fedora Community take this up and add many pieces to it as it grows and builds into something more than I could make.  It’s fairly simple to add pieces as well.  You can create separate maps which can be integrated into the larger map.  Or, since the format is a zip file (essentially) with an xml definition file, I believe patches could work.

Cheers,

Herlo

Tags: Fedora, structure, utos, UTOSC

In just under 3 hours, I’ll be giving my presentation on SELinux Basics.  There are many other great presentations today as well.  The schedule is available at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/IRC/Classroom

Come by #fedora-classroom irc channel (on irc.freenode.net) today at 20:00 UTC (3:00pm EST for the timezone challenged)

Cheers,

Herlo

Tags: classroom, educate, Fedora, irc, learn

As of this afternoon, between myself and Steven Moix, it appears that almost all of the Fedora 10 Tour will be ready for the upcoming release.  Check it out for yourself, we’re only missing the release summary which should be written very soon.

Also, I should note that the countdown has already started:

Also, F10 Preview came out yesterday during the election so nobody probably noticed.  Get yours today!

Cheers,

Herlo

Tags: f10, Fedora, prerelease, tour

Obviously, my distro is Fedora, but for those of you who might choose something else, let’s play along.

This meme comes from Valent Turkovic’s blog post a few days ago, so I thought I’d share mine.

$ su -c 'yum install nautilus-open-terminal'

This enables me to right click on the desktop and click ‘Open in Terminal’. This is much better than choosing ‘Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal’, which in my opinion is a big pain in the ass!

While it used to open in the user’s home directory, now it opens in their Desktop.  Not sure of the benefit for that, but I’m glad it’s still around.

Cheers,

Herlo

Tags: Fedora, first thing to do, tips