Monthly Archives: June 2008

Fedora business cards

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I decided that we need a new business card design. Our current one just isn’t cutting it. Plus, I don’t think you need to be an ambassador to be allowed to have one.

I’ve printed a sheet off and I’ve taken pictures. Here they are:

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I’m going to fix the templates slightly and make them available soon, along with a Python script that’ll make it even easier to make your own.

Edit: There was a concern that allowing anyone to have a Fedora business card could cause trademark dilution. I didn’t make it clear enough that by “anyone”, I meant anyone who has cla_done in FAS.

Thanks again for all the comments. :)

Home

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I’ve reached home.

After three days of FUDCon, and two-and-a-half full days of travel, I’m bushed. Yesterday I spent the day at my grandparents’ house where my parents were also staying for the weekend.

I want to thank Max Spevack again for sponsoring my travel and expenses. I had a wonderful time. :)

Unfortunately, I did not get any pictures. Oh well…

Hello, Boston

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So I’ve made it to Boston. Woot!

I’m staying in the Anachronistic Hotel (read: Sheraton) where there’s no wireless Internet, and the wired Internet is $10 for 24 hours. However there’s a Starbucks on the first floor. Madness!

Met Max Spevack, Paul Frields, Karsten Wade (I think… I’m horrible with names) and quite a few others and went to go get food at a seafood place. (Another name I can’t remember. Damn, damn, damn!)

For the record: airplanes aren’t my thing.

Other than that, FUDCon starts tomorrow. I plan to work the Fedora booth and maybe talk some things over with Máirín about the usability testing stuff, and then do some massive amounts of user testing on Friday. I think our main subjects will be people who come by the Fedora booth — although don’t let that scare you away! We have a USB Key Creation Station. Because we can.

Fallout

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Some fallout of the DDOS Mozilla set themselves up, what with their setting a world record for Firefox 3 downloads in 24 hours:

Drupal: Unable to connect to database server

Mozilla has had some pretty horrible infrastructure problems today — but you can’t blame ‘em. Right now, about 5000 people are downloading Firefox 3 per *minute*.

Usability testing at FUDCon

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A while ago, I added a BarCamp session on usability testing to the proposed sessions list for FUDCon F10. I promptly put off doing anything about it until now, which was a bad idea. ;)

So, my idea is to have some random users/developers at FUDCon do some random usability tests based on what they are in the Fedora Community — a more seasoned user, a kernel developer, or just someone thinking about getting Fedora — and at the same time probably pull over some random people in #fedora and ask them to do the same thing, and report results on Saturday.

Comments? Questions? Suggestions? I’d love to hear what you think — and if you want to help out, that’s even better. :)

Decompressing excitement… OK, packing for FUDCon.

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Wheeeeeeee, I’m amazingly excited for FUDCon!

Tomorrow I’m going to pick up a good laptop from one of my friends. It’s a Pentium 4, as opposed to my eight-year-old Pentium 2 HP OmniBook 900. He says he doesn’t use it because it’s bulky. He’s silly. I’ll be taking my other laptop for fun, too.

Other than that, I’m just packing clothes, money, and necessities. Any other recommendations from those of you who have gone?