Gianluca Varisco

Yesterday was a very productive day: I entirely spent the morning cleaning out F9 bugs in our bugzilla instance and setting up my new development (rawhide) KVM-based virtual machine. I had a lot of interesting discussions about all the fields covered by The Fedora Project (marketing, ambassadors, development, etc.) with a lot of Fedora contributors.

Talks attended:

• Jan Hutar - Test packages sanity for Fedora

Jan explained how to test packages sanity in Fedora (keeping in mind our official packaging guidelines) and which are the tools that can make our job easier. He’s working on rpmfluff, a lightweight way of building RPMs, and sabotaging them so they are broken in controlled ways.

• Harald Hoyer, Thomas Woerner, Nils Philippsen - DBus/PolicyKit privilege separation (config tools)

Fedora Ambassadors and Marketing thoughts

We went out for dinner with the whole Italian delegation came here (Francesco Crippa, Luca Foppiano, Marco Mornati, Simone Pucci) and Max as special guest: it was great! Following Greg DeKoenigsberg’s advices, our Fedora official taster, I ordered pork cutlet with mushroom gravy!
We discussed about our future goals and activities as Italian ambassadors and how we can improve the process required to become a contributor.

Back to the hotel we had the chance to continue our discussion with Jeroen van Meeuwen and other Fedora Ambassadors about how we could let a company be involved in The Fedora Project with some kind of sponsorship program: I think we will have to arrange a proposal to be discussed with our NPO (No-profit Organization), Fedora Emea e.V. We will try to have it READY in time for the next Fedora Ambassadors Day (FAD) that will be held in November in Basel (Switzerland).