On the Friday of SCALE 8x we had a Fedora Activity Day (FAD) focused on getting ready for Google Summer of Code 2010.  As usual, we had people drop by to see what was going on, since “activity day” is an unclear bit of clubspeak.  (By clubspeak, I mean the language we use as insiders or as people well studied in a community.)

We kept a log (HTML log and HTML + plain text summary), had a plan, and completed the important bits.

Early the following week I did a crossdump for Mel Chua.  We are doing some work-swapping for a few weeks.  I’m helping get Fedora Insight to the next level (staging, ready for production), and Mel is working on the next stages of work the Summer Coding SIG needs.

Pay attention if you want to know more about Zikula, want to work with it, and can spend some time helping Fedora Infrastructure.  Especially if you can do design and know (enough) CSS.

Today I sat with my project manager glasses participating in an IRC work session on Fedora Insight.  The session, much of which was logged and summarized using the awesome zodbot and the meetbot module (plain text logs and summary.)  The logs were started a bit late, but include a summary followed by work on the internals of Zikula, it’s templating system, and making things that much better for the Fedora Insight move to production.

Put up a new look for The Open Source Way tonight.  Graphic came from Red Hat Design and I like it.  Figured I would just put it up and try it on for size; see what opinions arise.

Also another milestone tonight, I broke open the new mailing list and sent some random messages.  I have a lot trapped in my head, and getting it down and able to be organized in to tasks  is an important project goal.

Topics on this list, and the kind of things I’m going to begin writing about, include:

Z-Trip

Outkast

Rob Swift

@arnebab there are other reasons when fsf says gpl is impractical, and fdl is better for books than gpl- that's why it was written.

@arnebab so don't use cc, but don't exaggerate its drawbacks in a way that's misleading. leave it alone or be very specific about its limits

and the importance of copylefting data are smaller. not copylefting data doesn't produce much less data (unliike with software)