kanarip

It seems that to convert Nikon Raw TIFF camera images (.nef anyone?) to anything other then that is to be done by a utility called ufraw, with help of another utility called dcraw. Luckily, both of these tools are already available in Fedora --as I expected.

Now, I do not know what these tools do or how they do what they do even though Lydia has tried to explain it to me. I think I have some sort of basic understanding but nothing more.

Lydia would like to be using the GIMP to convert her Forensic Science foo into very much different blabla once or twice or trice, all dependent on the ufraw plugin for the GIMP.

There we go, that's doable. I'll be working on that for her... During my vacation here ;-))

De nieuwe website waaraan ik werkte, voor de Nederlandse (en Nederlandstalige) Fedora community begint er goed uit te zien. Nu ja, niet perse goed, want hij staat nog op het standaard thema. Ik heb er echter een heel klein beetje inhoud aan gegeven en geprobeerd de boel een beetje in te delen, en zowaar neemt de Drupal site nog aardige vormen aan ook.

Neem een sneak preview, maak een account aan en als je geinteresseerd bent om ermee te spelen, laat me dan ook even je accountnaam weten! Is er iemand geinteresseerd in het aanmaken van een Fedora thema voor de site? Ik zou u graag aan boord willen hebben!

http://fedora-linux.kanarip.com/

Ook wil ik u attenderen op onze nieuwe mailing list, http://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-nl

Ik ben bezig Drupal te installeren en te configureren zodat de Nederlandse Fedora community aan de slag kan met het verzorgen van wat inhoud.

1 van de zaken waar ik nu mee bezig ben is het verzorgen van een Feed Aggregator, maar die moet dan natuurlijk wel alleen berichten in het Nederlands ophalen.

I've just come home from FUDCon in Boston last weekend. Well, actually I've been home for a day now, but I had to recover from 15 hours of flights and transfers, the warp thing wrt. timezone shifting and not having slept on the plane as much as I hoped to.

I had three main goals for this FUDCon:

Puppet

The Fedora Project Infrastructure team uses Puppet heavily, and I'm glad to have spent some time with Mike and Ricky going over some of the things that Puppet can do, and some of the things that the Fedora Infrastructure team wants it to do. I'll be making a continuous effort to help the Fedora Infrastructure use Puppet and improve their setup.

Spins Process

The Spins Process had to be set up just right, and finalized during this FUDCon. Everyone was there; the Board, Release Engineering, QA, users having submitted spins and users still needing to submit spins, Infrastructure and the Spins SIG leader -which is me. I'm glad we exchanged some of our concerns, our vision of how it was supposed to work and overall I'm glad we finally set up the process in a way everyone agreed with, and that I'm sure will work.

Comps

I planned a BarCamp session on comps because I had a few major concerns, and we ended up in a room with 4 of us talking about the different ways that we use comps now, where it is used, and where it is not, and how to implement these different things if we were to use comps for the purpose it was designed to be used in the first place. We found an option (or actually Jeremy Katz did), although I'm not entirely sure it is what I had in mind to begin with ;-) I'm curious to see how this will progress into actually implementing something and how it'll work out.

Hey,

has someone figured out a way to do the package ordering during compose of CD sets in Fedora 9, to not result in having a default install require all 6 or 7 CDs? I've been trying numerous things, such as:

- selecting @core and @base and all the dependencies, selecting all groups marked in comps as "default", then non-default (non-support) groups, then @*-support groups (and all their conditionals),
- anaconda-runtime's stock pkgorder
- any random number of selection sequences that turn out not to work anyway

I've been doing so using F9 stock with updated anaconda packages, F9 stock with genuine anaconda packages... and several other combinations I can't recall right now.

I'd almost think there is a bug here but I wouldn't know how to formulate it... Help in this area is very much appreciated!

It took a little while before I even considered to start blogging, but now I feel I'm ready to share both my rather boring as well as my most interesting experiences.

After all, although I already should have enough to blog about, I never started because I thought I would not have a single purpose in blogging or stick to a single subject. Surfing the net and viewing other blogs, I guess I learned that a blog doesn't necessarily needs to have a subject other then just "me", or actually doesn't need any subject at all ;-)

So, when did this idea of starting to blog get shape? Somewhere one the other side of the world (from where I normally live), during FUDCon 2007, time was re-invented. Now, who am I to not tell you that hours are old fashioned, and everything is being measured in 'blocks', nowadays.

"Huh?"

I'll elaborate; If you are in company (friendly company, btw), and you're planning on getting dinner in some restaurant, someone will bring up a rather nice restaurant which you should all try and is only 6 blocks away. So, rather then getting a cab or the T, since it's only 6 blocks, you'll all go by foot and end up on the other side of town, one hour later.

Other then that (we discussed on our way to the restaurant that we should all blog on this), FUDCon was a great experience! I got to meet a lot of people that I know from being the key people in the community, and they got to meet me too (although I doubt everyone remembers who I am ;-p). Anyway, we had some great sessions on Friday, of which I attended the "LiveCD", "EPEL", "F7 KDE Spin", "QEMU/KVM Virtualization" and "Single Sign-On", and had learned some very interesting information on all of these topics.

Luckily, the bar we went to afterwards had Heineken, and although it is not Heineken as we're used to it, but Heineken Export, it made me feel home to just have it around ;-)

The following two days were spent at the HackFest. You could get together and spend some time with other knowledgeable and interested people, to try and force a breakthrough on a certain subject, such as "Package Reviewing" (during which a lot of packages that were pending were build, reviewed and released), "Infrastructure" (there's always something going on in such a group, whether it concerns an issue such as needing some kind of single-signon, policies that need to be established, etc), "Documentation" (which primarily, I believe, made an effort to update all documentation to the newest releases), and of-course "LiveCD", which was lead by David Zeuthen, a Red Hat employee that developed 'pilgrim' as his tool to create a LiveCD for the OLPC project, and re-written it in Python to finally be released under the name "livecd-creator". As "livecd-creator" may become the primary tool used by the Fedora Unity Project to create their LiveSpins, I of course attended those sessions ;-)

During this HackFest you get to chat with the people who are involved, know better then you do so you can learn something, or want to have your feedback on something. You also get to kinda collaboratively hack the code of anything, and so we did ;-). We (e.g. Fedora Unity) are using pirut by Jeremy Katz, and pungi by Jesse Keating, and needed livecd-creator as an additional extra to get where we intended to go, and Jon Steffan and I got to spend the entire weekend fixing bugs and adding features.

All and all, I had a very good time! It was certainly worth the flight (or should I say going through U.S. Customs, because the flight was rather comfortable in comparison), and I got to meet the people I normally chat and email and gobby with.

Have fun!

Jeroen