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Articles about Fedora Linux. Fedora Linux is a free and Open Source Linux distribution. The Fedora Community is built around Four Foundations of Freedom, Friends, Features, First. Some articles are useful for users, but most are written with other Fedora Community contributors in mind.
Yesterday, Fedora contributor and CommOps team member Bee Padalkar published an article on her blog about measuring the impact of Fedora’s participation at the FOSDEM conference in Europe. Looking at FOSDEM In her analysis, Bee looked at people who scanned the FOSDEM badges for 2014, 2015, 2016. Leveraging tools like
Continue readingWhat is this? This post serves as the project proposal for me and my team’s Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Development “Community Architecture” project (shortened to CommArch)! In this project proposal, we take a preliminary look at the project we’re looking at analyzing, Tahrir, and the different criteria we
Continue readingI originally began drafting this post 900 miles away from my current location. It was an hour until the New Year and I was trying to put together a rough outline of the things that made 2015 such an incredible year for me. However, for reasons I don’t really know,
Continue readingThis article is a further addition to the series of blog posts for my Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Development course at RIT. For this week’s homework, we are tasked with finding an open source project, looking at known bugs or finding new ones, and submitting a bugfix. I
Continue readingThis article is part of an ongoing series about how to earn specific Fedora badges. Learn more about the Speak Up! badge! “Speak Up!”: What is it? The Speak Up! badge is categorized as a “Community Badge” and is defined in this Trac ticket. But what’s the real scoop behind
Continue readingThis article is part of an ongoing series about how to earn specific Fedora badges. Learn more about the Vacation badge! “Vacation”: What is it? The Vacation badge is categorized as a “Community Badge” and is defined in this Trac ticket. But what’s the real scoop behind the Science badge?
Continue readingThis article is part of an ongoing series about how to earn specific Fedora badges. Learn more about the Science badge! “Science”: What is it? The Science badge is categorized as a “Quality [Assurance] Badge” and is defined in this Trac ticket. But what’s the real scoop behind the Science
Continue readingToday, the Fedora Elections for December 2015 officially began at 00:00 UTC. The voting period will be open from now until December 14th, 2015, at 23:59 UTC. Fedora is a community-driven project, and voting is one of the greatest ways you can have an impact in how Fedora runs, either
Continue reading“Extra! Extra!”: What is it? The Extra! Extra! badge is categorized as a “Content Badge” and is defined in this Trac ticket. But what’s the real scoop behind the Extra! Extra! badge? In short, the Extra! Extra! badge is awarded to Fedora contributors that write an article for the Fedora
Continue readingMumble is back in Fedora The popular Voice Over IP (VoIP) program, Mumble, is being repackaged again for Fedora 22 and 23. Fedora contributor fedpop unretired the package from the Fedora Package Database and is working on getting it added to the stable repositories. Mumble is available for testing for
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