Notes In The Margin » tech

I’m about to head out for a few events again, and I’m in the process of planning several other events. First, I’ll be in Berlin for FOSS Backstage , Berlin Buzzwords , and the Apache EU ...

https://drbacchus.com/upcoming-events-june-and-beyond/

Event Report, ApacheCon North America 2017 May 15-19, 2017 (This is an abridged version of the report I sent to my manager.) Last week I attended ApacheCon North America in Miami. I am the confer...

https://drbacchus.com/event-report-apachecon-north-america-2017-miami/

Event report: Red Hat Summit, OpenStack Summit May 1-5, 2017 and May 8-11, 2017 During the first two weeks of May, I attended Red Hat Summit, followed by OpenStack Summit. Since both events were...

https://drbacchus.com/event-report-red-hat-summit-openstack-summit/

Last week I took some long-postponed vacation time and missed Stormy’s blogging prompt. But this particular question needs answering. What does a community manager do? Whenever people ask me wh...

https://drbacchus.com/what-does-a-community-manager-do/

I recently sent a report to project management containing some numbers that purport to describe the status of the RDO project. I got a long and thoughtful response from one of the managers – we...

https://drbacchus.com/open-source-stats-but-what-do-the-numbers-mean/

Last weekend at FOSDEM I gave my “Write A Better Manual” talk. I got a question afterwards that I’ve never actually received before: We’ve done such a great job of attracting new members ...

https://drbacchus.com/too-many-beginners/

I was recently asked to write something about the project that I work on – RDO – and one of the questions that was asked was: A healthy project has a visible lead(s). Who is the project lead(...

https://drbacchus.com/project-leader/

I discovered a few days ago, quite by accident, that the Cacti project is still quite alive and well. I don’t know why I thought it wasn’t. I thought it would be kind of cool to set it up to...

https://drbacchus.com/cacti-and-the-asus-rt%E2%80%91n66u/

This weekend I set up my new Raspberry Pi with the RetroPie distribution, using the instructions and parts list from LifeHacker. I’ve been eyeing it for a while, and just hadn’t gotten around...

https://drbacchus.com/retropie/

I’ve been reading some things about Sensordrone – the first commercially available functional Tricorder … sort of. It’s a multi-sensor device that communicates with your phone via bluetoo...

https://drbacchus.com/sensordrone/