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It is inarguable there is a lot of value that we humans get from meeting with people in person. For a free/open source software project, this is often cited as the glue that holds together people...

https://iquaid.org/2017/04/20/dangers-of-in-person-meetings-for-an-existing-community/

As a follow-up to last year’s literally-a-discussion-in-the-hallway about EPEL with a few dozen folks at FOSDEM 2015, we’re doing a round table discussion with some of the same people and sim...

https://iquaid.org/2016/01/26/epel-round-table-at-fosdem-2016/

Recently I’ve begun volunteering at Idea Fab Labs here in Santa Cruz, with two specific goals — expanding the space to include free/open source software ethos and hacking, and helping all the...

https://iquaid.org/2015/08/11/open-source-curriculum-at-idea-fab-labs/

Here’s an update on the CentOS Project Google Summer of Code for 2015 posted on the CentOS Seven blog: http://seven.centos.org/2015/06/centos-and-gsoc-2015-suddenly-come-seven-on-7/ This mig...

https://iquaid.org/2015/06/02/update-on-centos-gsoc-2015/

For the first time in-I-can’t-remember I didn’t submit a talk to SCALE, so it was with a different personal energy that I attended SCALE 13x on 19 to 22 February this year. Not having a do-or...

https://iquaid.org/2015/03/10/scale-13x-no-talking-all-walking-and-a-great-ally-skills-workshop/

Although some people in open source communities might not be aware of him, Paul Cormier holds a singular position in the open source world. This hinges on the detail that Red Hat is the longes...

https://iquaid.org/2014/11/26/and-now-a-few-words-from-paul-c/

If you are in Florida or in Orlando attending Fossetcon next week, come over to our next CentOS Dojo on Thursday 11 September (all day). “CentOS Dojos are a one day event that bring together...

https://iquaid.org/2014/09/05/centos-dojo-in-orlando-at-fossetcon-11-sep/

Many of us use consensus-style decision making in our free/open source projects such as Apache’s lazy consensus model, but often we have a practice or even a governance of having things end up ...

https://iquaid.org/2014/04/21/why-consensus-decision-making-is-better-for-open-source-projects/

On the eve of the Percona Live:  MySQL Conference and Expo (Monday 31 March 2014) I get to help run my first CentOS Dojo at the Santa Clara Convention Center. For this event, I’ll MC and ...

https://iquaid.org/2014/03/19/centos-dojo-santa-clara-31-march-before-mysql-conf/

We’re very excited over here to be attending the twelfth annual Southern California Linux Expo, aka SCALE 12x, on 21 to 23 February in likely-to-be-sunny Los Angeles. On Friday, I’m going to ...

https://iquaid.org/2014/02/19/scale-12x-centos-and-infrastructure-next/