Audio: My interview with Karsten Wade, Fedora's community gardener
I've been holding onto a bunch of audio since the SCALE 7x show in February, and it's way past time to start unleashing it. Rather than take an extra six months to start cutting the audio, I'm just going to post it here in its gory entirety.
Today I have my interview with Karsten Wade, whose official title is Fedora community gardener. See ... he's a gardener because he's growing community for the Fedora Project.
The community in Fedora is so friendly and inclusive, it makes me really want to give Fedora a try. I just might. I do have a test laptop running now (currently with Debian Lenny and encrypted LVM), and I have a DVD image of Fedora 11 that I should burn and get on there.
Everybody at the Fedora booth was extremely helpful (in start contrast to those at the Red Hat booth, who didn't want to answer even my most benign questions), open and eager to discuss Fedora from a technical as well as a community standpoint.
Anyhow, Karsten spoke with me a long time — this is 30+ minutes — and the whole experience at the Fedora booth left me energized about the distro. Much of what I wanted to know was how Fedora functions in regard to its relationship with Red Hat and the Fedora community. That sounds like a bit of a juggling act.
One thing seems certain: Fedora really wants community involvement, and it's not a geek pissing contest either. By that I mean even if you don't think you have anything to offer, you probably do, or the community will help you develop the skills you need to be an active contributor. That's the theory anyway.
Anyway, listen to the interview. I've run Fedora in the past, but not recently. As I say above, I'll be checking out F11 very soon.
Photo of Karsten Wade from Jim Gris' Flickr photostream
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