Thanks to Will Woods and Seth Vidal, we now have the interview about PreUpgrade up on both Red Hat Magazine and the Fedora wiki. If you read it and enjoy it, feel free to give it a digg and help spread the word 
In an effort to help bump up Fedora’s marketing efforts another gear, I’m planning a barrage of e-mails to various podcasts inviting to arrange for interviews with various members of the Fedora Project. Ideally, before I start sending out these messages, I’d like a list of people who’d be interested in being interviewed on a podcast about their work and the project in general that I could point to and say “How about one of these awesome people?! Don’t think of it as just a chance to promote Fedora, but also as a chance for shameless self-promotion where you get to talk about how cool your own work is
So, if you’re either leading a Fedora sub-project or SIG, or are deeply involved in one from day to day and think you’d enjoy doing something like this, then I want to hear from you! Drop a comment on this post, or contact me at jonrob AT fedoraproject DOT org.
Wow, I’ve been on holiday for the last three weeks and it’s been awesome so far I still have almost two weeks of holiday left, but I’m going to have to start working a bit harder. This explains, however, the slowdown in interview production and the backlog I have now to get published!
The first one has gone up, and you may notice that it’s on Red Hat Magazine. The reason for this is that they were interested in the content, and I figured it would help increase exposure for the interviews, so agreed that we could co-publish them. This interview, with Jeremy Katz about live CDs in Fedora 9 has only gone up on RHM for now, but I’ll be putting it on the wiki shortly. The same rules apply though, and if you’d like to drop by Digg and vote for it, then feel free (or to submit it to any other news site you wish ).
Thanks to Jeremy for answering though, it is a great read and very interesting! My apologies also go out to those who are waiting for an interview they’ve already completed to get published too, but I promise they’ll all be done in a few weeks time. Also, thanks to Rodrigo, who published his first interview a few weeks ago and has a second ready to go!
In other, non-interview related news, I had a go at working on a few changes for fedoraproject.org, and once I’ve tidied up the changes I’ve made will post it to the websites’ list for feedback and to see if anybody actually wants to use it. You can see a screenshot of it running on my local system here. I’m still working away at getting news.fedoraproject.org set-up too, but I’m a little lost with it right now and just trying to figure out the best way forwards.
My final piece of news is that I’ve got a new computer I bought a MacBook, and the hardware really is well put together, feels far more sturdy than anything I’ve had in the past! I was torn between this and a Dell XPS, as I wanted a 13inch system: after fighting with proprietary wireless drivers and firmware, some parts of me wish that I’d got the Dell but a whole host of factors went against that (warranty options, delivery time etc). One of my favorite features is the Magsafe power adapter: I’ve had several laptops fail here and I hope that this will cause far less problems. Now though, I’ve got Fedora running on here and I will be updating the Fedora On Mactel wiki page with the latest information – some chipsets have changed since that was written.
We all know Max has stood down as Fedora Project Leader and that Paul has taken over. Despite them both having hugely busy schedules they sat down and answered a few questions I’d sent them. They talk about all sorts of cool stuff like their personal impressions of being FPL and the past, present and future of the project. Like always, read it here and digg it here
Thanks to both of you for your time
OK, another interview is up and this time it’s with Dan Williams about the improvements being made to NetworkManager in Fedora 9. Some of them are sounding awesome, like ad-hoc networking and multiple active devices
You can read it here, and if you enjoy it you can digg it here (I personally recommend the latter).
Thanks Dan!
I’ve slowed down a bit lately with the interviews, but hoping to begin picking up the pace again a bit. With that in mind, I’ve just published an interview with Rex, Kevin and Sebastien about KDE 4 and Fedora 9 You know the plan here, go, take a look at the interview and if you enjoy it give it a digg – if you do you’ll be forever in my good graces!
Thanks to everyone for taking part, and I hope you all enjoy it…
New interview up, this time with Thorsten Leemhuis and Hans de Goede about the RPM Fusion project. They’ve both been long time Fedora contributors and the work they’re doing with RPM Fusion is awesome – so thanks to both these guys for their time in doing this interview! You can find the interview here, and if you enjoy it please consider giving it a digg and help to spread the word
Now, back to trying to figure out where I’m going to live next year…
It’s exam week here at university and I probably should be revising right now, but instead I’ve decided to tidy up my website! While doing this I’ve moved my podcast bits to a new page and thought that I’d post about them quickly as people who read Planet Fedora might be interested in a couple of them at least.
I put them together last year (it was my gap year) and they include interviews with Richard Stallman, Jeremy Allison, Jeff Waugh and Mark Shuttleworth. There are more people who I interviewed but they’re perhaps of less interest to planet readers. The podcasts can now be found here.
I’ve also taken this as an opportunity to change the theme on my blog. Before I was using one I’d designed and made myself, but realised it was probably never going to get finished and there were huge amounts broken and inconsistent in it; instead I’ve downloaded a generic one called Hemingway which is quite pretty but I’m going to tweak it and maybe play with the colours a bit.
Woah, it’s the 18th of January 2008 – Fedora 9 Alpha is not even out yet but the first developer interview of the new year is! Thanks to Robin Norwood and Richard Hughes for giving me some of their time to talk about PackageKit, the super-cool cross-distribution package management solution that is already making things “suck-less” :p
You can find the interview at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews/PackageKit
And as always, if you enjoy it you can digg it at:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/PackageKit_re_invents_package_management
Happy new year to all, and my best wishes
Hey,
The IcedTea interview is now up and it's super cool talking about some really interesting stuff. Check it out at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews/ThomasFitzsimmons
and digg it at:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/IcedTea_free_Java_in_Fedora_8
Thanks Thomas!
