Recently a thread was started on fedora-devel-list about the idea of dropping CD(split) media from the releases Fedora Project puts out. In the past when CD media was not available from Fedora Project those of us at Fedora Unity have picked up the need and produced the CD iso images, we did this for Fedora 7 and Fedora 8 releases. Some have concerns about the foot print that has to be transferred to the mirrors before the release can happen, it is not that the mirror admins are complaining. Some have concerns over the extra code needed in anaconda and createrepo that allow split media to work. All are valid concerns in my opinion. However if the anaconda team wants to drop or keep the code should be up to that project, same goes for createrepo or any other tool.

A few emails in the thread seem to suggest that Fedora Unity is the enemy because we are willing to create CD media to fill the gap. How can a person running for a seat on the Engineering Steering Committee get a vote from anyone in the community when they are against the community's freedom. It would seem that Kevin Kofler has done just that. From reading the emails he has suggested that locking out the community, in this case Fedora Unity, is a viable option. Kevin is a member and huge contributor to the Fedora community, what if there was an issue that would hinder the Fedora KDE SIG? Would he be so quick to suggest or agree with it? I know he would not. I sure hope I am reading Kevin's messages the wrong way, until this is clear he can count on not getting any of my votes.

Seth Vidal suggested a time out to the list as I was typing this. Out of respect for Seth's opinion I will be giving this a break for now.

My friend Jef told me about something the other day. I had to ask for a link today so I could share it with Fedora Marketing. Proof to me that Fedora's Community ROCKs pr0n star hard.

gQuigs' View:Fedora Beta Released.

I assume that gQuigs is an Ubuntu user, sure is great to have others acknowledge that Fedora Contributors contribute to all Linux distributions. 

Good Work Guys!

Bob

Living in a place called by some Minnesnowda you would think being born here I would be used to weather changes, yet I still find myself a bit off guard when winter is here. From Jan 1-Jan 30 we did not get over 0c in the entire month, many days were -15c or colder for the high temperature, we did come very close to -40 where all men are equal a couple days, Jan 31 has signalled the end of winter... 6c. I nearly had to break out my short pants and flip flops. Yes I am exaggerating that it is the end of winter but it sure felt like it today. I am actually looking forward to another two and a half months of snow after this little break from the frozen air and weather. 

I have been a member of my local LUG for over 9 years. We used the LUG as a way to learn, to get help from those with more experience. It has had hills and valleys over the years when it comes to participation. Could it be that Linux is just to easy for the average geek these days, they don't need help? After a period of inactivity we started having a monthly meetings a while ago, Just getting together lunch really, once upon a time we had 6 meetings and lunches a month. We are looking at getting topic meetings going like we had in the "old days," we talked about things like setting up MythTV, (heck the local big box store could not keep tuner cards on the shelves for about 6 months after that) ssh tunneling, setting up LDAP, VPNs, it was a lot of fun. Hope we can get back there.

I am blogging about this to get ideas from other LUGs to see how they keep members interested or how they have revived a DeadLUG.

Thanks, Bob